I am hoping that these gizmos are bought and used by local governments/states to keep ditches weed-free. Guess it's too much to ask humans not to throw their smoked butts out windows which then start fires.

I was thinking of the SCSI controller and drives using the "master" and "slave" term, totally forgot about IDE. For scsi, they could use host and client for the terminology. For ide, have always primary to refer to the main drive and secondary for the second, as that particular technology only supported 2 devices per cable, unlike scsi with their 7 devices on one internal cable.

What SpaceX needs to do is build the items in the USA, not build a "factory" that designs things.

What is the point of buying bitcoin when it isn't exactly legal currency?

I was just thinking that the wing nuts have always been around. Fidonet, usenet and the other nets we read back then, including CompuServe, there was always a lot of garbage we had to sift through. Social media these days seems to be highlighting the garbage.

I heard that the Vogon's built a giant wall around this solar system. No doubt to keep illegal aliens from entering, or us from escaping.

In the old days of PC's that used memory chips, if graphics memory was used on the mainboard instead of regular dram, the pc was very fast.

The introduction of the ram drive helped those old PC's performance versus the hard drive but the cost was quite steep.

These days, solid state drives helped to speed up PC's running all these huge code line software. The addition of using ddr5 (graphics memory) makes me wonder why it took so long to figure that out.

That day isn't mentioned on my calendar, mine says First Day of Fall and people fell over, a lot.

Why use electric cars, use horse and buggy. That's even green with almost free fertilizer. Californian's should start putting in hitching posts, put their power lines underground, and stop building freeways. ðY

>>The only way to maintain any control over 10 like this is to...

Use Linux.

I suspect that with the climate warming up as it is, deadly pathogens will appear quicker than the past "every few decades" - I recall a talk I had with a tropical disease doctor in 1990 about this very issue. Environmental warming and human activities in tropical areas would bring about plagues humanity hasn't seen in centuries. And with so many people living in close quarters (cities) it would be a disaster.

This thought isn't from 2006, back in the late 1980's, a disaster orientated working group made mention of a massive human die-off. Ten percent was not the number mentioned.

"Freedom of speech does not permit someone to make a false statement about another person that could damage his or her reputation. This applies to the spoken word, which is called slander, as well as libel, which is defamation in print." [https://www.brighthubeducation.com/social-studies-help/104990-limitations-on-american-freedom-of-speech/]

And from June 17, 2019:
"Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote on behalf of the majority that, while the First Amendment's free speech clause applies to "state actors" or governmental entities, the network is a private entity, not a state actor: "Providing some kind of forum for speech is not an activity that only governmental entities have traditionally performed," the decision reads. "Therefore, a private entity who provides a forum for speech is not transformed by that fact alone into a state actor." "
[https://psmag.com/news/a-supreme-courts-decision-could-have-implications-for-social-media-free-speech]

I wondered last June (2019) if someone on a social media site would ignite this debate, should have known.

"As a fun exercise, how many unemployment supplement checks at $600/week would it take to buy such a machine?"

You could lease essentially a workstation build like Linus has for less than $600/month.

So could UVC lamps be placed in front of an air handler and "sterilize" the air of COVID-19 before it gets to the HEPA filters?