Nanobots.

I've run into this before as a DirecTV installer. Had biscuits and tea with a very nice East European family after I performed the install, which can be sometimes more invasive than a police search, they don't drill holes in your outside walls often or tear your media center apart. I saw that it was expected and they went to a lot of work to provide a nice sit & chat time. It took about 15 minutes of trying to understand very bad English, smile, nod, and make-nice, but it seemed very important to them. It was a bit odd at the time since I had a trainee with me (maybe the best lesson she learned) but ten years later and I still recall it with a warm heart. I see why you decided on this path.

I'm an atheist with a very Catholic upbringing. I'm very glad that I've had the service and humility of the Church teachings (and very awesome parents) to show me how to love my fellow humans. I try to be as warm and inviting to any that enter my home, or anyone that I meet day to day. Not that I'm always great at that, but I'm trying.

It's nice to know there are others out there doing the same.

Never mind, upon further Googling it seems that they are shutting down the Yakima Research Facility. (Or as the locals called it, the ball bearing plant.)

http://q13fox.com/2013/04/04/n...

In a 2002 interview with the Newhouse News Service, Bamford said the Yakima facility obtained about 2 million intercepts per hour at that time.

NRO listening post. Except there is no one around to see it.

46.682162, -120.356564

Yeah, we had a yahoo like that drive by our computer shop each day. Would crash all the systems including the phones. Until one of our service techs, Ken, 6'10, 350 lbs caught the yahoo at the stop light and yanked that lin-e-ar right out of his pick-um-up truck, put it under his tire and said, "drive." Last problem we had with said yahoo.

Oh, and the FCC doesn't really like them yahoos either, and will fine the fuck out of them, given the chance.

73s, good buddy.

Hey, I've met a few RJ45s that thought they were permanent. You know the ones, thick snag guard and clip side positioned where you need a lock pick set just to release it.

I love on-line support chats. HP is really good at this (okay, I'm a business customer with a few hundred desktops and a rack of servers, YMMV.) Chat allows me to cut-n-paste serial numbers or diag info directly to them. It allows me to get other work done while support is processing the request, and I'm sure it allows support to work other cases when I have to dig for info.

The main thing is that I don't have to work through understanding the accent of a non-native speaker. The support folks are often bright and knowledgeable but my internal wiring doesn't always make the translation the first try. This gets old quickly for both ends of the conversation.

Or just an LM339 comparator chip and a cap or two for hysteresis.

Sure, until display tech gets so cheap that even dollar store duct tape has moving ads on it. Good luck then, brother!

Exactly. The car doesn't even know what a person is other than maybe "that other system that sometimes moves the car."

Exactly. There is fuck else to do in the Tri-Cities but farm, and if you don't speak Spanish, you can't get hired for even that. Without the cleanup Richland and Kennewick will look like Pasco. It's not a cleanup, it's a jobs program to keep Doc Hastings in the 4th.

I'm doing the same thing for work builds now. Because the Boeing and Airbus catalogs require IE8 or less I've taken the E off of the taskbar and put Firefox in with an adblocker. They have to click on the desktop icon that will take them to the exact site. Our GPO only lets IE visit the sites that we have vetted, and most of those are password protected sites to other vendors and manufacturers.

Since rolling out that image I've had quite a few cow-orkers ask how to adblock at home. I'm only too glad to show them.

Or is this site supported by the Bandwidth Pixies?

At one point, yes. I was one of them. I worked at an ISP and we gave Rob Malda a Pentium Linux box (slackware, IIRC) to host images.slashdot.org when his T1 started getting full. We gave Slashdot free hosting and bandwidth for about 2-3 years, until he moved on to other servers.

Please keep us updated on that. I never did the facebook thing, could see where it was going.

Let's burn it!