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A Canadian friend of mine lives in B.C. and told me that, "80% of Canadians live within x miles of the U.S. border.... We call it 'huddled up to the stove'".

none, as long as i get my work done.

Today's news is saying that the vehicle failed to stop at the end of the run and went off the lakebed.

WGU?

Elected by Electoral votes rather than majority votes:

Trump, G.W. Bush, B. Harrison, R.B. Hayes, and J.Q. Adams.

Adams was elected by the House after an electoral tie.

No one will believe me, but I had this feature on a BBS I wrote back in about 1986 or 1987. I cannot prove it because the code no longer exists. I had a problem user that kept posting junk to the forum. I deleted things for a while and then thought of this as a solution. It seemed to work. The user never knew that no one else could see those posts.

In 1962 when Grumman was awarded the contract for the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM), Thomas Kelly was promoted to be the lead engineer. He was 32 or 33.

He was 40 when Apollo 11 landed on the moon.

There's an episode of "From the Earth to the Moon" called "Spider" that focuses on Thomas Kelly. Highly recommended.

Is this correct? SA, or Selective Availability (an intentional degradation of accuracy) was turned off in May of 2000. This allowed existing civilian C/A code GPS receivers to generate better solutions immediately. It did not involve any keys or release of keys. I've never seen any "released keys" and have never heard of this. When did this happen?

A while back this was talked about on a podcast - can't remember which one, and they said it took 1 photo per second. I'm not sure if they were being truthful or just saying it for illustration.

WGU

Cool! I can't wait to show a colleague at work - he worked at Smith Engineering back in the day for Jay and Ed Smith. He worked on a few games for the Vectrex.

Yes! Abend, lol.

Aw man, I'm with you on that one. Turbo Pascal was incredible. Delphi 3, 5, and 7 were incredible too!

70's and 80's here. Big fast printers. I know, who does massive code listings or memory dumps anymore? I feel that if I had one, I'd be using it all of the time, though.

Agree. I was screaming inside my head the whole time, "Where is it?" IMO, this article is very poorly written.

Just a personal memory... Years ago, I worked on a job out at Mojave flight test area. One of the F-4 pilots was a man named Dick Lawyer. I got to know him a little bit, the job was completed, and I moved on. Years later I heard that he died. It was then that I read about his participation in the MOL program. I was floored. He never, ever talked about it or had any hint of it in his office. Cool guy with a good sense of humor. I would have loved to talk to him about MOL in detail.

I don't know how you can classify that as "worst case exposure".

"The Truth about Chernobyl" by Grigori Medvedev is good IMO.

And it wasn't a "shuttle".

I have a friend that is a professional diver and he says he was told from his gas supplier that there is no helium shortage. According to that guy, one of the places helium comes from is natural gas wells, and we have a lot of them.

So what's the truth?

Just don't use biometrics to unlock your phone. It seems silly to me to discuss ways to disable the biometrics on-demand.

It still reduces to something you can be compelled to produce (your finger) vs. something you must remember (your passphrase). Now, you might end up spending time in jail to help your memory, so there's that to think about too.

I'll stick with the passcode. It places the ball into my court automatically.

I feel that I should mention that his son is Richard "Lord British" Garriott, also an astronaut.

You didn't even read the article?

I don't believe that is what "throw up a clyster" means. If you google it, that particular phrasing is not uncommon to this story. To me, from context (I have no special knowledge), "throw up a clyster" means to mix a clyster, not regurgitate it.

I'm hoping that's USD $100,000 and not USD $100.00(0)

Scrum. No thanks.

I introduced a friend of mine to WordJazz in 1983 or 1984 and he liked it so much that he kept in touch with Ken. His number wasn't hard to find, and if you called it and heard the "Hello?", you were instantly certain that you hadn't misdialed.

He called Ken every once in awhile and they mostly talked about the Blackhawks / Blues rivalry. The last time he spoke to Ken (around August of 2018) he called me afterwards. He said, "Ken seemed confused a bit and didn't really want to be on the phone".

My friend called me at midnight the other night and said, "Ken is dead."

That's all he had to say and I knew who he was talking about. I know he'll be missed around here.

Check out ultibo.org It is Pascal, not C, but runs down on bare metal.

This is great

This is great. The same author also wrote insect, which is cool, too. https://github.com/sharkdp/insect