The 2D glasses sound like something I might actually use. I mean, the theory is sound.

The fish lips flavored iPhone bumber is definitely useless. I prefer a padded case.

You can get down into the hundreds of nanoseconds accuracy with GPS. Radio clocks aren't that good, WWVB is only accurate to a millisecond or so in good propagation conditions. Shortwave is even less predictable. Still, good enough for "household" use.

I live in California, and my WWVB signal is marginal, so my radio clocks only sync up onc a week or so. Still, they are accurate to within a fraction of a second. I can get still better with NTP.

"Active shooter" is police jargon for a Columbine-type situation.

The opposite isn't "passive shooter", but the term signifies (at least in some jurisdictions) a situation in which immediate action needs to be taken, rather than, say, waiting to call out the SWAT team.

No, the real version will say "shooter at BUILDING NAME/INTERSECTION, looking for INSERT NAME HERE".

Really, I'd rather have a well-designed nuclear reactor under my house than a rapidly spinning contraption with 50 kW of stored kinetic energy.

Unless I could train my cats to spin it up somehow.

- what *is* the ICAO airport code for the USS Barry?

Oops meant 1110. That's more serious. Considering it takes me an average of 7865.349 msec to plug in my charger, still a fair trade..

Hm, trade off 110 msec of my life wasted each time I restart an app vs. 3 days standby time with Wifi and Bluetooth on. Touch choice.

Huh? Base 13-in MBP is only $200 more, comes with 4G instead of 2G and SD reader, slightly smaller and weighs a few g less.

If you bring MB up to 4G, only $100 difference.

Back when there were "remove this result" X's in search results about experts-exchange, I checked them and now on my dashboard (https://www.google.com/dashboard/?pli=1), there are Search Wiki notes showing "removed results" for the site.

I think these results are specific to my account, but by whatever mechanism, I don't get as much crap form experts-exchange in my search results as I used to.

They have changed every link on the site. You will need to authenticate, but most of the pages that were not total cruft are still there. Don't expect to find any 4.1.3 documentation. nd I am not sure Googlewill be able to spider the new site.

I concur, it took us over two months to get parts for some 6440 and 6240 blades that are only about two years old, but now EOLed. A 6240 died in production a few weeks ago, it took them several days to get a replacement.

And the online store is down this week, and no one knows when it will be back up. They are changing all the part numbers, as far as I can tell. FFS!!

Software seems to be in a little bit better shape, if you know the right people to call. But I expect they will shed the hardware business at some point.

This could only go two ways:

1) Occasional replenishment of the Martian explorer supply, which would probably result in a slower drift toward a new species.

2) Martian hillbillies.

And, being a ham operator, I would have noticed by now if the Smart Meter that was installed at my house was causing any interference, and it's not.

Now, the bills every month for 8888 kWh are starting to look a little suspicious....

Someone correct me if I am wrong, but the PG&E meter readers that show up in my neighborhood in the E Bay do not look like they have cushy union jobs. They drive their own cars, and do not have uniforms besides an safety vest. To me these are clues that they are "contracted out".

The real reason PG&E wants real time metering is so they can charge more at the peaks and less at the off peaks. These paranoid tinfoil hat loons are just keeping off-peak electricity (like you would use to charge your electric car) expensive for everyone, and keeping peak-hour air conditioning electricity cheap for their constituency.