Probably local MS employees being forced to get a hand stamp by a physical visit to that MS store to get their paychecks. Thus MS can point to at least one store with a high foot traffic.

What if the preference (or requirement) for doing this on the passenger side is due to the physical location of some wiring or other device that is susceptible to some kind of electronic signal or noise conduction into other circuitry that ends up causing the unlock?

The article says the pictures are from before the reaction (by heating), and after showing various reaction products, including ones not expected. The AFM is too slow to capture the bond rearrangements.

Doh, here is the link to the PDF itself.

Here is the article at physics.aps.org with a link to the (free) PDF about the experiment.

when I fire up the gas turbine after using the undoubtedly noisy props to do a vertical take off. I'm sure I'd hate the noise too.

When I was proofreading on DP, all rounds of proofreading involved examining the scanned images and comparing it to the OCR text and making corrections. The later rounds of proofreading involved increasing attention to various details of correctness and formatting. All of this was done directly in the DP web interface. I didn't see any mention of the use of captchas in the OCR process.

It is obvious, I think. Mr Lynch will continue to destroy iPhones. He will have a squad of Apple goons, who will invade peoples homes to destroy any iPhone older than two years old, so that people will be forced to buy new iPhones to keep the revenue stream up. They tested this concept out with the iPhone prototype debacles, and found that the local police would be willing to look the other way when Constitutional rights were being violated.

While it might be a fitting way for Tom to go, I'd hate to be the one to do that blending, talk about gory. Sounds like the chipper scene in Fargo.

Just be sure that the "under desk" part doesn't just refer to a place where it can be stored while not in use.

Perhaps you should switch to using Bing, then your query responses might match up with what Microsoft wants? :-)

Once terraformed Mars Needs Women

The NCAR Mass Store (tape archive) had an expiration period attribute (units of days) on the bitfiles. The default, if not specified was 30 days, which effectively made it a temporary file. Expiration periods of 31 days or more were considered more permanent, and the owners would receive email two weeks and one week before the projected expiration date arrived. Expiration processing was run each Sunday, and the bitfiles were moved into the trash, from which they could be recovered for another 30 days before they were permanently deleted. This was in the mid-eighties.

You can do a direct conversion SDR with a suitable speedy DSP, or even a fast CPU at HF.

I've always thought a piano-style chording keyboard for the desk would be nice, having musical training. In the past, I've not seen any that caught my fancy. I do have an older Twiddler, but that version didn't appear to be quite usable for me due to a restriction on the modifier keys that could be generated.