Lots of folks on the time-nuts mailing list have GPS-based systems to maintain not only precision time, but also precision frequency standards, and many of them saw and recorded this one.

Here's the top 25 captured by my SSH honeypot so far this year as count [account/password]:
2132 [root/root]
2110 [root/admin]
2107 [root/123456]
2107 [root/1234]
2104 [root/password]
2102 [root/root123]
2102 [root/12345]
2101 [root/p@ssw0rd]
2101 [root/123]
2098 [root/1]
2091 [root/test]
1907 [root/wubao]
1905 [root/!q@w]
1905 [root/jiamima]
1905 [root/!@]
1900 [root/idc!@]
1900 [root/!]
1899 [root/!qaz@wsx]
1899 [root/admin!@]
203 [root/superuser]
203 [root/public]
203 [root/power]
203 [root/calvin]
203 [root/alpine]
203 [root/admin123]

Around 400k ssh login attempts so far in 2016, mostly from China.
If someone could explain "wubao" and "jiamima" I would greatly appreciate it!

Does anyone remember home cordless phones moving off the 902 - 928 MHz band to 2.4 GHz a decade or more ago, to escape all the garbage filling that chunk of spectrum?

Amateur radio operators have that band (33cm) as a secondary allocation -- and can run up to 1500 Watts. Ha-Lo? Good-Bye! It's also primary to ISM (Industrial, Scientific, Medical) equipment. Still a lot of cordless phones, baby monitors, wireless audio and video extenders.

And that's the home of the "new" Ha-Lo devices... Oh, the strategies .AH uses will help some, but they'll still be susceptible to all the other crap already operating on that band. And remember, FCC Part 15 means they have to put up with whatever's out there.

If anything, they're hoping most of that crap has aged out of existence. There's still a lot out there. Oh, it's also ITU region 2 only -- the Americas. No sales in Europe, and no (legal anyway) sales in China, Japan, etc.

AI's aren't going to replace lawyers in the near term, particularly in discovery - doc production work, but for a different reason.

Why bring in an expensive machine when you can get a swarm of peons for really cheap, and throw them away when you're done?

In most large cities in the country, there are way too many lawyers (yeah, insert favorite joke here), with more being hatched every year. When a big case comes up, or any legal matter requiring a lot of gruntwork, such as going through tons of documents, a lot of law firms hire throw-away lawyers for some times as little as $20 an hour -- and for most of these, they have more folks looking for work than they need. Why would you go with an AI in a situation like that? They're too expensive (at this time), and if the docs are in printed form (which is how the other side will present them to the other side's life as difficult as possible), the docs have to be handled, bates stamped, scanned, and then analyzed. Why not hire a roomful of out of work lawyers $20 an hour to do that, with a few more at a higher rate (say, $30) to do spot check and general QA, eventually feeding to that high priced ($125 an hour) law firm paralegal. And dump them when the task is done.

(Disclosure: I passed the California bar in 1990 and have been through this ratshit. People that save every email they've ever received or sent make a lot of money for law firms handling discovery. Please, don't save all that shit unless it's really needed and useful?)

--because the FAA says the database will be searchable, so all the info you enter will be available to anybody that wants it.

How long until folks start getting all sorts of exciting offers based on their registrations?

See, isn't that a whole lot better than OPM? Go ahead and enter that credit card number...

--cover the ornamental, nonfunctional aspects of a design. Think fins on a car, or the flare of the fenders -- again, ornamental and nonfunctional. There's a set of early design patents on the patterns produced by one manufacturer's water fountains.

Design patents on icons and UI elements go back twenty years or more. Early on they were sort of an arms-race among companies with GUIs (disclosure: I'm a patent attorney and filed quite a few design patents for icons over a period of a few years).

Seeing how they cover, once again, ornamental and nonfunctional aspects of a design, getting sued on a UI design patent practically means someone has done something really stupid, like copying the elements of someone's UI design.

Come on, draw your own slider! Use squares instead of circles at the ends! Do something original! Or be ready to argue that the aspects of the element you copied are functional, and not ornamental.

I"m not a fan of patent litigation, but to get nailed on design patents usually means it's pretty close copying.

Look at the track for N404KR on that day (2015/12/02) -- it spent hours circling over the area. It's a Cessna 182T, so a smaller payload capability, but slower with more loiter time over a tighter area.

And it's registered out of a P.O. box in Virginia, along with many similar companies and aircraft.

Nothing suspicious here, move along citizen...

Amazon already decamped it's UAV/drone research to Canada.

Who's next? Bureaucratic red tape and regulation can only hurt.

Please, read Dava Sobel's book, Longitude, about the trials and travails of Harrison -- it's a tremendous read. And if you ever get to the Royal Observatory in Greenwich (England), look at the Harrison models, they are amazing.

This is a guy who was a Maker -- self taught and more.

To start with, I have to dedicate a PC to Windows 10 in order to do Windows development for my Pi 2?

Or, I can continue to run Raspbian (Debian) on the Pi and host development on the Pi, or do cross-development on other Linux hosts or my Mac.

I know the overhead/footprint Raspbian imposes, and I know how to carve out the bits I don't need.

How do I do that with Windows 10?

Easy! Stick to Raspbian!

Oh, I realize I won't have access to the latest development tools like Visual Studio, .NET APIs, viruses, trojans, and whatnot infesting on the Windows 10 ecosystem.
Thanks, I'll stick with Raspbian on the Pi, and not having to support a separate Windows 10 box as well.

Tell people that instead of saying "in the cloud" they say "on somebody else's computer" and see how that goes--

"We store the company's most important information on somebody else's computer"

"We control access to that data by storing it on somebody else's computer"

"We back up all our mission-critical information to somebody else's computer"

"Our data is secure because we store it on somebody else's computer"

Doesn't sound so good, eh?

Gee, an Apple product did this in the 90's, compressing memory segments assigned to processes not currently executing.
(see, for example, https://www.usenix.org/legacy/...)

The same product was Apple's first to use pre-emptive multitasking,

The product? Newton.

the linked document is the publication copy, not the issued patent. the issued patent is as cited above, which issued on June 9.

on first blush the claims seem pretty limited to speed/acceleration and location/speed.

I'd bet there's a continuation in the works on this one, going for broader claims.

https://op-webtools.web.cern.c...

Live on the web -- this is a summary page, with much more available

Ah, before HP did memristors, they also worked on FERAM -- that program continued with Agilent.

HP/Agilent are quite good at these breakthrough technologies -- do a search for the Champagne Optical Switch -- that was another one that was going to take over the world.

But they have had some successes -- the FBAR filter/diplexer was (and still is) a big deal, in the news recently as some individuals were arrested for trying to set up an offshore source...

FERAM (and the phase change stuff) have been the technology of the decade -- for a couple of decades now.

One of the issues with FERAM is some of the dopants needed are considered contaminants by most folks, which makes it difficult to use someone else's fab... You want to run WHAT through my fab???