My reading of the article was that the primary goal was not to locate deliberately hidden material (although they might have aspirations to that in the future) but to pinpoint scattered or lost material. Their example being cleanup after Fukushima - using their detector to more quickly find concentrations of escaped material to clean up.

From your experience with detection systems, do you think that a real-world environment (town with buildings, or trees in to country) would also effectively frustrate any detection they might attempt? Or could that be allowed for in the calculations?

The summary makes it look like Microsoft is just adding or just about to add the feature. It was released in 19.08 (August 2019) - maybe earlier if you’re not on long term support versions.

And of course Lotus Notes had the feature for a long time before, along with quite a lot of other calendaring apps.

In my opinion, back to back virtual meetings are far less stressful than back to back physical meetings. Having meetings end with enough time to clear out of the room, be able to be polite to the next room users, and to get to the next meeting on time is very valuable. I’m not sure a calendaring feature is really needed to do this, but it does set expectations early.

I think you have confused fission and fusion. Fusion is the one 10 years or so from commercialisation - fission is the one in active commercial use all round the world - and formerly at Fukushima.

Your very quote says pop-up. Which (usually) means if you pop it back down it physically can’t see you. So not only in the article, but actually in your quote!

Ok, to answer my own question: I have found a video of the draw, they were not drawn in order, the draw order was 8 5 9 7 6 (10)

On the other hand, the draw video was clearly a computer rendering, not an actual physical machine with balls in it. A physical machine for a ball-based lottery, one of those ones made of glass/perspex has (almost) nowhere to hide any potential fraud. Displaying a fake one is I suppose meant to build excitement and make it feel like a game rather than just a set of numbers, but opens the system up to question when things like this happen....

Were they drawn in that order, or are they re-ordered for publishing? If they were drawn in sequential order as well, the odds of getting that _permutation_ are much smaller than the combination calculation given. This doesn't affect your chance of winning, because order is only relevant for the powerball number, but changes the chance that somthing is wrong in the system....

Also, from a human point of view, ordering the numbers (if that's what happened) creates a perception that they are fake because we instinctively understand that the permutation is so unlikely (50P5*20)= 1 in 5,085,024,000 vs (50C5*20)= 1 in 42,375,200

Not quite- Bentley is what’s left of the RR car making company. RR make jet engines. When the car company was sold the name rights didn’t go with it (and the purchaser failed to notice!). The RR name rights for cars were then sold by the jet engine maker to BMW.

So one company has the name and another the heritage. I’m not sure which one constitutes a ‘bastion’....

I don’t know what part of the world you live in, but ‘Asian’ means different sets of countries (subsets of continental Asia) depending on where you are. For example in England it would include Pakistan, India, and Afghanistan; but in Australia and New Zealand it would include China, Japan, Singapore and Korea.

So if you say “Asians were better prepared” to a Aus/NZ audience they will think of Singapore’s SARS readiness work, existing isolation hospitals and pandemic protocols and nod their heads. If you said the same to a UK audience they will think of the current high case numbers in India and wonder what you are thinking!

Microwave turntables are supposed to reverse. On most microwaves this is a design point. It means that after you stop something and start again for the next part of cooking it’s going the other way and is intended to avoid uneven heating. (Source: my microwave’s manual). I don’t know how effective that really is,..

I'm not sure that ltimate success necessarally depends on integration into multiple aircraft types - you could imagine a highly successful technology that only powered, say, light aircraft, or only agricultural planes, or only large commercial aircraft, It would still be successful and useful even if there were classes of aircraft that it wasn't suitable for.

It can’t be a Zero Knowledge encryption system to store the password. The entire point of a Zero Knowledge system is that the password is not stored or transmitted, nor is it recoverable at the remote end.

Most Zero Knowledge protocols that I know of are time-bound as well so you can’t just generate the token for a given use and dispose of the password. Besides, it’s a password manager, people will want the passwords back!

Supporting ECC memory may not be the same as actually doing error correction. Modern ECC memory just has an extra bit per byte to store the code used for correcting errors. The memory controller actually does the calculation and comparison work to implement the error correction. One can get motherboards that will work with ECC memory by ignoring the extra bits.

Of course your $50 board might really implement error correction - but it would pay to make sure before you shell out extra for ECC memory...

On iOS at least. And it does it for DuckDuckGo as well. Probably all the built in search engine selections. In some ways I like it as it’s easier than trying to decode a URL with +s and & codes in it. It only shows that way for your configured search engine, not if you visit another.

Bits of code don’t need a swap file or partition to swap. As they are read-only the system can (and does) just dump them, and re-read from the original file if required.

This is important because it can be a reason for terrible performance on systems with no swap space configured. The system’s only kind of swap available is to drop executable code pages which it may then have to immediately re-load if they weren’t actually cold. This causes the disk to thrash, and performance declines suddenly and dramatically. The same system with some swap space would still have had performance degrade, of course, but typically more gradually, and with some more time for the user or operator to find and fix the issue.

My current car has sonar. That’s what feeds the beeps to tell me I’m about to back into a lamppost. :-).