Er... I was a co-Investigator on Voyager; the "photos" we are familiar with were actually from an old-fashioned vidicon tube (well, there are two: one narrow-angle and one wide-angle). It took the system 48 seconds to acquire a single monochrome slow-scan image, at 800x800 quasi-pixels. To generate the colour pictures we all know and love, colour filters (red, green, blue) were moved in front of the lens, then three sequential images were taken over the course of (at least) 144 seconds (i.e., 3 times 48 seconds). These were combined back at Earth into a single colour image.

(And between the time the (monochrome) images were acquired and the time that they were transmitted they stored on board... on the DTR -- an actual, physical Digital Tape Recorder.)

Yes, rampant inflation creates jobs.

Fuck off with those data points.

I voted for no one and am glad.

The police can't "trace ballistics" of jack shit. That whole concept is a bunch of pseudo-science woo. At best it might be able to correlate a bullet having been fired from a particular model of gun. The idea that a bullet can be reliably traced to a particular gun is fantasy. Even when a particular gun model can be identified with ballistic tests those tests can't reliably differentiate between two individual guns of the same model.

The only way ballistic pattern matching might ever work is if a particular gun had a defect that left a specific telltale on a bullet. Even then you'd need to identify how likely that defect would be in the population of that model gun or manufacturer.

Most police forensics tests are pseudo-science with ballistic analysis being one of the worst and least statistically sound.

The whole concept of "ghost guns" is absolutely filled with cop math. Regular guns with the serial number filed off get lumped into "ghost guns" as do ones with home-milled lowers. The danger of 3D printed guns effectively zero. If this bill was in any way trying to deter the construction of illegal guns it would try controlling mills and drill presses rather than 3D printers.

Good public transportation is always empty in Chicago, and it is always a city bus clogging up streets for my Uber.

Public transportation, even if on time, takes 150-300% longer than a car.

It keeps people poor by allowing them to live 90 minutes each way from work instead of making their bosses have to pay them better to afford to live closer.

I've been uses Name.com and Google Domains for years. The recent sale of Google Domains to SquareSpace incentivized me to look for alternatives. The advise I got mainly came down to Namecheap and Porkbun.

I moved some domains from Google to Namecheap and it went fairly easily except for one which was a total pain in the ass which required intervention from an online support specialist, and even then it sucked.

I moved some others to Porkbun and it was as smooth as glass. I moved the rest of my Google domains over and have started migrating my Name.com domains over there as well, due to it becoming so pricey.

How I spend my money IS expression and government in the US isn't allowed to censor me.

My freedom of speech = freedom to spend how I want to spend my savings.

You are aware that Facebook and prior Twitter took orders from the standing administration, correct?

Where in California are you?

When you turn shoplifters over to the cops and press charges, how often are the cases taken to trial?

How many repeat offenders do you turn over to the cops?

I stopped going to conference (post-pandemic) in San Fran due to crime and filth.

I go to MORE conferences than ever now, but non in San Fran, and 100% of that reason is crime and filth.

It's not a WSJ thing, it's a filthy street and high crime problem in SFO problem, period.

I have the orders product name:

the Asus GTFO

The new Freenet is written in Rust.

lol - same thing with pilots ;)

Thank you!