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Re:The First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years on Saturday September 19, 2026 @01:54PM (#49768695)
"Also found in Whoppers From burger king"

Still needs some work!

This is the reason closed environments (e.g., space vehicles, submursibles, rebreathers) have CO2 scrubbers.
Re:I Ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @04:39PM (#47695954)
The picture with the black seats in on a train and the one with the green seats is on a plane.
Yes, it is.

No ads or previews to skip before each episode. Skip button seems to appear at different times.

No waiting for the skip button for recaps or intros. Sometimes they decide not to appear. If you jump 10s, sometimes they don't appear. Most pirated shows are appropriately bookmarked.

No waiting for the "next episode" button to appear. Sometimes they decide not to appear. If you jump 10s, sometimes they don't appear.

Some services make it harder than it should be to get to the episode/season list.

Must use their player. Usually means controls and subtitles appear on top of video. Screen dimmed on pause. Wack-a-mole controls.

That's not even counting the "few outliers" that I seem to encounter frustratingly often.

From the article "Google said it is giving itself until 2029 to prepare for this event."

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/safety-secu...

To get an idea of the crazy workload some of these controllers are experiencing, the beginning of this video has an untrimmed 1-minute excerpt of ATC communications for Newark approach. Even the rest of the video, which has some editing, has no silences removed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKjBCEubtBI

Re:HIV Life Cycle – animated and narrated [video] on Friday May 17, 2024 @10:45PM (#40396143)
Several universities and organizations have labs dedicated to producing these kind of videos, but 12 years ago the BBC made a good documentary aimed at a general audience on how adenoviruses attack a human and how the body defends against it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01nln7d

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8kj9c6

Air Canada is going to get a lot of publicity over an $812 judgement in a provincial small claims court.
"In an argument that appeared to flabbergast a small claims adjudicator in British Columbia, the airline attempted to distance itself from its own chatbot's bad advice by claiming the online tool was "a separate legal entity that is responsible for its own actions."

"This is a remarkable submission," Civil Resolution Tribunal (CRT) member Christopher Rivers wrote.""

From https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/air-canada-c...

The province of Ontario in Canada is planning major refurbishments and expansions to their nuclear power generation. They want to nearly double the capacity of what is already the largest nuclear generating station in the world.
Re:Anon Boeing engineer reveals why the 737 door blew off on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @07:03PM (#39111767)
Chris Brady has a video explaining it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FcyvFfHsjQ

Hah, 'chromium' was not a useful search term when checking if this was a repost.
Finding lead and now chromium in apple sauce that has poisoned hundreds in the US supports suspicion that lead chromate is the source. Lead chromate is frequently used in "economically motivated adulteration" of spices, notably cinnamon and tumeric.
The 4 bolts are there to restrain vertical motion of the door which I presume would not involve large forces. They are meant to keep the door on the 4 cylindrical posts and it is those posts take the pressure differential forces on the door and keep it from blowing out. They are way beefier than the bolts and I believe they are still intact on the accident plane.
The 4 restraining nuts and bolts on the door have a cotter pin like mechanism to prevent them from loosening. If assembled correctly they cannot loosen unless the pin fails.
Re:Venus is not Earth’s closest neighbor on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @11:24AM (#36059416)
Didn't work out so well for Branson.
Re:Internet drama in Canada on Friday May 27, 2022 @12:33PM (#31531511)
Considering things from the mobile perspective (but largely true for internet too):

> Yes, most of it is empty and unserviced

Well, that's the key, isn't it. Look at the highly optimistic coverage maps from the companies and you'll see how little of Canada is covered. Actual coverage is significantly poorer than those coverage maps indicate outside urban areas.

> but building a national network costs the same amount no matter how many users it has

These "national" networks are a few paltry routes across the country and in no way compare to the national networks of other countries.

The most obvious counter to the apologists' landmass argument is the provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan where mobile rates were half that of the rest of Canada despite having lower population densities than most of the other territories. They both had robust state-owned companies that competed with the big 3 (likely soon to be big 2) and all 4 profitably operated at these lower rates. In a very controversial move, the state-owned company in Manitoba (MTS) was privatised in 1996 and bought out by one of the big 3 in 2017. A few years later the rates in Manitoba rose to match the rest of the country. This highlights the real reason for expensive mobile in Canada.

Re:MS Windows Defender and DeCSS on Thursday July 22, 2021 @12:41AM (#27915435)
Yes, if true, this would invalidate the "heuristics error on exe" argument.
Re:MS Windows Defender and DeCSS on Thursday July 22, 2021 @12:12AM (#27915249)
His comment in /r/sysadmin:

"Setting a Windows Defender exception to the folder does not prevent the quarantine from occurring. I re-ran this test three times trying exceptions and even the entire NAS drive as on the excluded list."

Windows Defender is overriding the user whitelist?

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