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Comment Thought I recognized this - From 1983! (Score 4, Interesting) 49

Hardly a new concept. I'm looking at a Swedish electronics magazine from 1983 here (yes, they used to come already printed, on paper!)

There's an ad for miniature piezoelectric fans, no moving parts. The smaller version is 71 x 17 x 71 mm, so perhaps a bit larger than what's available today.

Remember that it was already a commercial product by then, and back in 1983 in Sweden the market was always far behind what was available in the USA, seeing how there wasn't really a huge free international market etc.

Submission + - Scrums are cancer

RUs1729 writes: Interesting discussion at devops.com (https://devops.com/scrum-cancer-linux-6-5-richixbw) in which the case is made that scrums are worse than useless. Let fireworks begin.

Submission + - IRS can't find millions of sensitive tax records: watchdog (thehill.com)

An anonymous reader writes: The Infernal Revenue Service (IRS) cannot locate thousands of microfilm cartridges containing millions of sensitive individual and business tax account records, according to a watchdog report.

The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration said in a report released on August 8 that the IRS cannot account for microfilm cartridges — which contain backups of tax records as required under federal law — from fiscal 2010 that were originally stored at a processing center in Fresno, Calif.

The cartridges were meant to be among other records that were shipped to another processing center in Kansas City, Mo., last February after the California location closed.

The watchdog also found seven empty boxes, which could hold up to 168 cartridges total, at the Ogden Tax Processing Center in Utah. Ogden personnel did not know where the missing cartridges were.

More than 4,000 cartridges containing business tax account information from fiscal 2018 and 4,500 cartridges containing individual tax account information from fiscal 2019 also could not be accounted for at the Kansas City facility, according to the report.

Submission + - Linux on a Commodore 64 (github.com)

johnwbyrd writes: Onno Kortman has taken semu, a minimal RISC-V emulator, and cross-compiled it with llvm-mos, an LLVM port to the MOS 6502 processor, in order to run Linux on the Commodore 64. Kortman writes: "The screenshots took VICE a couple hours in 'warp mode' to generate. So, as is, a real C64 should be able to boot Linux within a week or so."

Comment Re: Aliens? (Score 1) 293

if you don't know this, then you have completely failed to grasp the implications of the *scale* of space, which involves distances so mind-boggling that almost nobody knows how to think about them.

Indeed! You may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

Comment Re:I don't see the problem. (Score 4, Interesting) 667

The plane was 10km up. It wasn't shot down by something bought for $50,000 from Bob's Quality Used Implements of Death and Destruction and delivered to you by a courier van. The suspected weapon system requires at minimum one tank sized tracked launcher vehicle, and for full capability it requires three such vehicles. This is way out of Bob the arms dealer's league. Although I'm pretty much guessing here, the missile alone I expect would cost over a million dollars to manufacture.

You mean something like http://www.mortarinvestments.e...

Comment Slow news day? (Score 1, Informative) 55

What kind of non-story is that? One link points to some guy writing about how some other guys went to study waves at different locations. It doesn't say anything about how they did it, or has any technical information. The other link is a PDF scanned from a paper from 1982. Slow day when you have 32 year old news?

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