Posts by ScrappyLaptop2 28 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Dec 2019
Bill Nelson turned the launch of the Next Generation Space Telescope* into a Christian invocation, so you'll excuse me if I don't put much weight behind anything he says.
*He also made the false declaration that James Webb wasn't part of the 1950's and 60's investigation and persecution/prosecution of government workers who happened to be gay, aka the Lavender Scare when it's clear he very much was.
"The name originated in the 1940s, when sailors in the U.S. Navy would refer to mini-burgers as "sliders" because of their extreme greasiness. In just one or two bites, the burger would just slide right down! The slider was first created at White Castle, a popular American fast food chain restaurant."
And according to my dad, said burgers continued their entire journey in the same manner.
PNGs and JPGs are also "just series of numbers". However, given when the White Castles system was put in place, I'm going to guess it stored far less than everyone seems to be assuming. More likely (but not certain) it was only scanning maybe seven points of data for each fingerprint, hashing those & storing them. The hash was then used to unlock things & was likely no more complex than a PIN. No image of the actual fingerprint was stored and the whole thing probably sat inside a mostly standalone vendor supplied turnkey P4 or maybe Core 2 Duo box similar to the cardkey systems of the era.
First "app" under Science and Experiments is...
"49ers EDU Digital Playbook
The 49ers EDU Digital Playbook is an interactive educational resource, designed to further the 49ers Foundation goals of harnessing football to educate and empower Bay Area Youth."
It's all about the San Francisco 49's & football. Not exactly "science" as I remember it...
"So who starts a building refurb and insists (and gets their way) that each relevant service group (IT, Telecom, Security, Facilities, and the departments moving into the refurbished building) interact only with the "person in charge"?"
A: Several highly siloed companies I've worked for. None still exist, btw...
I believe the OP called the view a latticework - that may indicate they were indeed used in the correct orientation, with each brick upright as it would be in a wall. The only way I can see that working though, due to their negligible tensile (vs compression) strength is if each row was nestled between I-beams. Such an arrangement would indeed be "leaky" to a flood from above.
We like corporations the best here in the United States, at least if you look at our laws and consider who they benefit most. And the bigger the corporation, the better we like them, because they tend to have more lobbyists, and more lobbyists means a more profitable Congress. Microsoft is a big corporation, and contracts with at least 24 lobbying firms.
Same cumbersome cables to connect the Pi, same...everything. Probably a lower quality screen.
It was a satisfying repurposing of a newly surplused item when they showed up on eBay en mass, but turned out to be little more than a fun weekend project. There simply wasn't a practical use case until the R-Pi nano W came along. Even then, it was just a laptop. I ended up using mine for lugging out to headless servers in broom closets, IIR, but even that required an additional video adapter dongle.
There was that one issue with one of the power-good signal lines that required the most minor of hacks, but yeah - pretty much the same exact thing.
(also, welcome to the American legal system where nothing is truly law until the Supreme Court rules on it a few decades later)
"After Mats Järlström lost an initial legal challenge in 2014, a federal judge in January this year ruled Oregon's rules prohibiting people from representing themselves as engineers without a professional license from the state are unconstitutional."
from: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/21/traffic_lights_changed/
California's 16 border inspection station are manned by the State Dept of Food and Agriculture, not by Federal DHS. They were put in place to protect crops - and thus, the state's economy - from threats such as (originally, IIR) the Mediterranean Fruit Fly and have remained fairly true to that purpose by inspecting vehicles coming into the state. Especially commercial vehicles.
https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/plant/pe/ExteriorExclusion/borders.html
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