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sandbagger writes:
With the US president insisting on Canada joining the America on bended knee, the Great White North must reconsider its defence spending. This is including spending on the F-35.
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sandbagger writes:
Ooota Goota, Solo? A rare screening of the original 1977 Star Wars movie — complete with Han shooting first — will be shown at a theater in London this summer.
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sandbagger writes:
The third James Bond novel was published this day in 1955. The thriller Moonraker is from a long-ago era with a villain that makes no sense today — A rocket-building technocrat who is actually a secret Nazi working for the Russians.
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Researchers have officially classified the mesentery—a structure in the digestive system—as a distinct human organ.
Previously thought to be a fragmented and insignificant part of the abdominal cavity, new research reveals that the mesentery is actually a continuous structure that plays a crucial role in holding the intestines in place. It is called the mesentery.
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sandbagger writes:
Travelling for international meetings or even joining a call with Canadian counterparts has become impossible for some U.S. government scientists, under new directives since U.S. President Donald Trump took office.
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sandbagger writes:
North America's oldest organization for technical writers has gone belly up.
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sandbagger writes:
Remember when you could go to your local mall and get electronics components? You used to be able to at Radio Shack. Some kind souls have been digitizing decades of catalogues to commemorate a now-vanished era.
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sandbagger writes:
A custom NAND module PCB design has been made allowing proof of concept upgrade of Mac Studio RAM using off-the-shelf storage modules. Woo-hoo!Link to Original Source
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sandbagger writes:
Have you ever wondered if it's true you can instantly get malware? In this video, a person connects an XP instance directly to the internet with no firewall to see just how fast it gets compromised by malware, rootkits, malicious services and new user accounts. The answer — fast!
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Early termination fees are “a bit like heroin for Adobe,” according to an Adobe executive quoted in the FTC’s newly unredacted complaint against the company for allegedly hiding fees and making it too hard to cancel Creative Cloud. “There is absolutely no way to kill off ETF or talk about it more obviously” in the order flow without “taking a big business hit,” this executive said.
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A biography of Jazz trumpeter Chet Baker, weird images, a worm.exe, random images, encrypted files, a gift a dad in Thailand had made for his two-and-a-half-year-old son, and much more could be found when investigating corrupt WinAmp files. Who knew?
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sandbagger writes:
The Ford Comuta, an experimental electric vehicle designed in 1967 at the Ford Dunton Technical Centre, was primarily targeted at the British market. Despite Ford President Arjay Miller’s prediction that cars like the Comuta could be available within five to ten years, the next electric Ford, the 1998 Ranger EV, arrived much later. Only two Comutas were made, with one now housed at the Science Museum in London.
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sandbagger writes:
Predating even Toy Story, ReBoot was the first 3D animated television show. The master tapes have been located in storage but the hardware needed to play the 1990s-era media has yet to be located.
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sandbagger writes:
The end of the long dash: CBC stops broadcasting the official 1 p.m. time signal. Now that everyone is carrying around GPS synchronized smart phones or smart watches needing to sync via a radio tone is outdated but a smart and simple way to get everyone across the six time-zone country to synchronize their mechanical clocks and watches.
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sandbagger writes:
The US-led coalition had more firepower, more equipment, and more money. But it was the Taliban that gained most from technological progress.
