I wonder if any of them live in Rhodes?

> Yet in the spot where they know a superfast (interstellar) meteor exploded after entry, from tracking data.

Although if it had been moving as fast as he claims, it would have been effectively vaporised. More likely the tracking data was inaccurate and it did not enter at interstellar velocities.

Of course it was using loads of data, it's a SOCKS proxy! :)

Overly complex tax system is deliberately overly complex.

Everything I read about the US tax system makes me think "they found a way to make it even worse?". Where I live we have PAYE, the tax office tells my employer how much tax I should pay, and my employer pays it, and I get the net of my salary. That's 99% of my interactions with the tax system right there.

There was the "SuperDisk LS-120" which was a 3.5" 'floptical' disk that held 120MB of data, and the drive was backwards compatible with a standard 3.5" floppy. Not that you could fit 1.5GB on that.

You would only need one DVD though (they can hold 4.7GB), and if the data was text, it might compress down small enough to fit on a single 650MB CD-R. (Compression ratios of 70% are easily achievable with text).

It's way more than I'd spend, but at least it sounds like they're being realistic about how much it will take to design a new phone, (mostly) from scratch.

I've got a Pixel 6a, and the fingerprint reader works about as well as it does on all the other devices I have with fingerprint readers. That is to say, it works fine most of the time, but if my fingers are very cold, or very warm (and sweaty), they just don't scan properly.

I'm almost impressed. I've made my own share of 'mess-ups', but I've never screwed something up so badly it made international news.

The difference in this case is that the blockchain is a public list of every transaction. If any other kind of currency was used, investigators would have to piece all that information together from different sources. With bitcoin, it's all right in front of them.
I guess it's not really a new investigative technique, it's more that they don't have to use any investigative techniques to get a lot of information.

The AMD FX-8350 was a socket AM3+ chip, and practically all of those motherboards have UEFI

If you moved to the UK then you could use UTC as local time (GMT) for half the year.

If you care that much about calc, Microsoft open sourced it a few years ago, so you can just download the code from github and compile your own version: https://github.com/microsoft/c...

Hey now, don't forget about Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Fuck-face Johnson claiming (lying) that the NHS would get £350M extra.

I'd never heard of KiwiFarms before today, but judging solely from the people who've turned up to defend it, that's no great loss.

Glad to see I wasn't the only person who thought of this as well.

(Ninjam was written by Justin Frankel, the original author of Winamp).