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Re:AT&T’s Abandoned Microwave Tower Network (2017) on Saturday October 09, 2021 @08:08PM (#28814515)
I used to live in an area served by what was then GTE and they had antennas like this. I have not seen anything listing GTE’s equivalent infrastructure. Does anything exist for that?
They started carrying gunpods at the time. Missiles of the era were inaccurate and finicky.
Not to mention the AIM-4 was originally designed to shoot down Soviet bombers and not for dogfighting.
Whatever happened to the other openbsd fork, bitrig?
I don’t know about the current version, but macOS has been certified as UNIX in the past.
Darknet Diaries episode 39 covers quite a bit about Daniel. He also used to call in to the PLA Phone Show under the pseudonym “Skunkworks”, and talk about dissolving bodies and vocal cords.
Re:NSA Blimp Spied in the United States on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @09:25AM (#14193262)
These look like the TARS blimps or DEA blimps used for border surveillance and trying to catch drug smugglers.
Re:Things I Won’t Work With: Peroxide Peroxides (2014) on Friday August 05, 2016 @08:56AM (#12231890)
For me, hydroflouric acid.
Re:Affiliate links on Reddit on Saturday May 28, 2016 @10:56AM (#11791841)
Why not try to resurrect k5?
Re:HP to cut 25-30k jobs on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @02:27PM (#10228711)
Maybe Alcatel can swoop in and buy them up.
Re:Theo de Raadt on Plan 9 licensing (2003) on Thursday July 30, 2015 @12:06PM (#9975935)
Alcatel, Alcatel not Nokia bought Lucent.
Re:Wolfram Language on Friday May 15, 2015 @09:49PM (#9554702)
"A New Kind of Science" was like that.
Re:The Anti-Drone Drone on Monday May 04, 2015 @06:51AM (#9485362)
Toner wars, right?
Re:Mosh – a robust, responsive replacement for SSH on Thursday January 22, 2015 @07:49AM (#8928861)
Does it support any sort of port forwarding, not just X11?
Re:Why Perl Didn't Win on Sunday January 18, 2015 @08:17AM (#8907432)
That said, the saving grace for Tcl were things like Expect and Tk. I don't think I ever used it for anything else....
Re:Why Perl Didn't Win on Sunday January 18, 2015 @07:59AM (#8907407)
The irony here, then, is that Perl 5 took the object system that Python had in 1995 as an example to emulate.
Re:America’s Toughest, Ugliest Warplane on Sunday December 07, 2014 @09:24AM (#8712230)
The last time an all service airframe was designed, McNamara was Secretary of Defense, and the F-111 was born. The Navy decided to pass on it.
Re:Unicode Text Converter on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @07:42AM (#8629660)
I get 𝑼𝒏𝒊𝒄𝒐...
Re:WhatsApp Co-Founder Donates $1M to FreeBSD Foundation on Monday November 17, 2014 @07:24PM (#8621734)
Don't forget the PlayStation 3 and 4.
Re:Scientists have located an algal virus that attacks human DNA on Saturday November 15, 2014 @01:46AM (#8611064)
Actually, Illumina's $1000-genome machine is 10 machines, and the way you get the $1000 genome cost is by running around 18000 samples thru in a year.... And when the bioinformatics folks talk about a '$1000 genome', they actually mean the cost of reagents.
Re:1 in 4 Americans 25-54 Not Working on Friday September 26, 2014 @02:35PM (#8374106)
Does this count stay at home parents in the 1 in 4 figure?
You never know, maybe they will be sacked after these layoffs are taken care of. One place I worked at, two managers were each told to select one of their underlings for layoffs. After they made their selections, the managers were then laid off.
Re:Hy, a Lisp that compiles to Python on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @06:58AM (#7217155)
Ages ago, there used to be a python-lisp hybrid called e7. I wonder if that provided any inspiration.
Re:Installing VLC Media Player voids your speaker warranty on Monday February 10, 2014 @07:57AM (#7210712)
Is this true of the Latitude series of laptops? Or just the XPS? I would think the Commercial grade hardware would be a bit tougher.
Did they not already abandon one DRM scheme many many years ago, with DRM-ed pdfs? I remember Acrobat versions 5-8 or somewhere in that range of versions having DRM, with a few vendors using it, then dropping it around '06.
I used to use Google's Notebook up until it ended, and switched over to using a combination of ubernote and basket notes.
I've heard similar stories of soviet soldiers in Afghanistan in the 80's draining the hydraulic fluid from their armored vehicles because it was ethanol, and drinking it...
Re:Why I'm switching back to Firefox on Monday March 11, 2013 @07:51AM (#5356111)
Recently, it seems Chrome is saving history online between browsers on different machines. This has freaked me out to the point where I'm moving back to using Firefox.
Re:The Perl Renaissance on Saturday February 16, 2013 @12:06PM (#5232114)
Nobody really seems to get that right.
Re:Video games and sleep loss on Monday December 03, 2012 @06:31AM (#4864942)
My next question is, how well does this compare to watching television before going to bed. Research shows that to be detrimental to sleep quality as well. I'd almost like to see a study with participants watching a screen of light before sleeping and measuring the quality of their sleep...

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