you ask if you need to use blue, nails, screws or bolts to secure your feet to the floor.

You can tell the worth of an argument by the one arguing it. In this case, it is clear evidence that spam filters should b mandatory.

They might be separate cities, but there is very little not-a-city between them.

Yeah, that's probably my point. But, also, yes, I may have it wrong. Maybe if I explain it, it will get clear in my mind.
At the moment, it is hard to get funds into the bitcoin economy, but relatively easy to sell out. So available cash to buy coin is scarce. Therefore cash is currently expensive, so flipping it around, according to this reasoning, coins are currently undervalued.
So, yes, I'm wrong, and it should rise, all things being equal and predictable. Mea Culpa.

I would expect that it will rise on the news - it usually does - but this story broke a few days ago, and, yes, now I remember it, it did rise.

Medium term, though, it may well push it back down. Part of the price at the moment is because they are difficult to buy, so there is a premium. If it becomes easier, then the price may fall.

So, I predict temporary instability, on top of the usual long term instability. And yet I still think it, or a tweaked successor, will succeed. Am I not loopy?

We did it, here in Australia. It required spending one of the new dollar coins on a piece of plastic to convert the dollar note slot into two coin containers. If you had an old register, it already had a couple of empty coin containers that used to hold 1 and 2 cent coins.
Ditch the penny, and 5c (nickel?), get yourself a few shiny new $1 and $2 coins, and join the sane world, peoples!

Water is really heavy and really expensive to move large distances, or lift up relatively small amounts.

I'm sure most people look at a map and say "Lakes at the top, river at the bottom, water flows from top to bottom, so no problem." Here in Australia, people are always nattering on about moving water from the tropical north to the termperate south as if it is all so very easy and cheap!

All we are going to do about it is shoot the climate scientists for not doing enough to warn us.

"Welcome to the paid technical support line for the WizardWidget project. This services support fees will support the development of this project."

Then go on to point the caller to the free support options: the project's community forums, mailing lists or irc channels. Then try to sell your paid support.

If you put a page printed in fine print in landscape, then a lot of text would be legible if put through a strip shredder. Even a cross cut shredder might not be enough to prevent the release of useable data in that case.

So the problem is a cheap strip shredder somewhere in a police station, and someone treating the shredded paper thoughtlessly.
(Not that this story might not be false, but it also could be true.)

Traveled to 12km west of Mt Carbine. No cloud problems - a very small, light cloud moved across the face of the during totality, just to made things interesting. Not many pictures, as I was more interested in seeing it.

You've got to see it.

From what I read, Sony decided to save pennies by not having a rtc, and relying on the ota signals. So no ota clock signals, no clock, no work.

The reason for MS's failure in that field was clear to all. Even it the poor company it shared, it still stood out as a crock.

Basically, the story is that:
It is debugging code left in a development build, that happens to be used by many persons as nightlies.
It does not write to a file. It is debug information written to a ring buffer in RAM. You would need to have an app installed with permission on the logs, or connect a cable in debug mode and trace the log to even get these messages.
It was found in a code review, and removed.

So much a non-issue that it is a wonder that Ars even reported it. Seems Ars misread a mailing list heads-up. We are waiting for Ars to publish the correction to their article.

Apart from hand-editing every page, or or just normalizing the life out of them, there is no way. If you had the paper before you, it would look like that. No amount of lighting will remove what is on the page.
And you can't simply subtract the back of the page from the front. The amount of soak-through is dependant on the fibres of the paper!

What you are calling back-scan is print-through, partially related to the book being 350 years old, and the ink bleeding through the paper over the centuries.
You can be sure that they have done everything they could to reduce it, but that is what the pages look like now.

What annoys me, however, is that they have not opened up and scanned all the folded-over plates. The signature image, that of the flea, is only visible in the shadow of that print-through!
Unless I am missing something in the google books interface!