Forum: Tales From the Crypt(o)
2022-06-23, 12:12
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Replies: 297
Views: 113,551
DUCKDUCKGO's anti-Chrome TV commercial
Here in the new.S.of.A, Duckduckgo has been running a commercial on TV that skewers Chrome's lack of privacy
featuring a song by 80s rock group "The Police" that is quite nifty.
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Forum: Lounge
2022-06-18, 00:54
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Replies: 379
Views: 47,099
Watergate "burglars" break-in
On June 17, 1972 police arrested 5 "burglars" who had broken into the Democratic National Committee Headquarters in the Watergate building. Investigators were able to connect the cash found on the...
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Forum: storm5510
2022-06-13, 13:56
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Replies: 29
Views: 662
What infuriates me are interviews you see on...
What infuriates me are interviews you see on local AND national TV in which a reporter shoves a mic into someone's face at a gas station when they're refueling their gas guzzling beast vehicle and...
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Forum: Lounge
2022-06-07, 13:21
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Replies: 379
Views: 47,099
Access to contraceptives
57 years ago, the supreme court ruled 7-2 striking down a Connecticut law restricting access to contraceptives.
Do you think the anti-abortion people are going to just declare victory, pack up...
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Forum: Soap Box
2022-05-31, 01:22
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Replies: 972
Views: 92,899
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Forum: Soap Box
2022-05-30, 23:12
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Replies: 972
Views: 92,899
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Forum: Soap Box
2022-05-30, 12:34
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Replies: 972
Views: 92,899
A thought not based on any testimony:
Why did...
A thought not based on any testimony:
Why did the teacher prop the back door open?
I bet the teacher went outside to have a smoke then all hell broke loose.
I have worked in numerous places in...
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Forum: Soap Box
2022-05-27, 00:46
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Replies: 972
Views: 92,899
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Forum: Soap Box
2022-05-26, 14:34
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Replies: 972
Views: 92,899
WRT Uvalde,
These are not verified yet:
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WRT Uvalde,
These are not verified yet:
It seems that the gunman was confronted by several armed officers, including a "resource officer" inside the school, before he started shooting...
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Forum: Soap Box
2022-05-25, 18:44
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Replies: 972
Views: 92,899
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Forum: Lounge
2022-05-24, 17:42
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Replies: 379
Views: 47,099
IBM's Deep Blue beats Gary Kasparov
25 years ago, on May 11. 1997, a match of man vs machine started when IBM's Deep Blue beat GrandMaster and World Chess Champion Gary Kasparov. The match was actually quite close. Kasparov took the...
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Forum: Soap Box
2022-05-19, 13:05
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Replies: 107
Views: 13,631
I have also been recently reading and hearing...
I have also been recently reading and hearing about domesticated animal methane production. Most of the literature I saw was focused on dairy cows and beef cattle. Interestingly, for those animals,...
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Forum: Factoring
2022-05-17, 23:19
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Replies: 84
Views: 2,695
already done: Primecoin
There was something like this done a while ago that found Cunningham chains.
In fact, I think they found some big chains.
It never got enough interest to reach critical mass.
It seems pretty...
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Forum: GPU Computing
2022-05-12, 13:31
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Replies: 7
Views: 757
Tesla boards usually require different Nvidia...
Tesla boards usually require different Nvidia video drivers than consumer boards.
This usually prevents any mixing boards within the same machine..
Heat and power issues could be a problem.
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Forum: Soap Box
2022-05-03, 17:14
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Replies: 386
Views: 18,278
These days take whatever humor ypu csn get.
I was listening to some military analysis yesterday and I heard this:
Prior to this year, Russia was reckoned to have the second best military, just behind the U.S.
Now, they are reckoned to...
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Forum: Lounge
2022-05-02, 11:42
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Replies: 4,467
Views: 422,166
1st human bird flu case reported
And only the second one ever. It doesn't look too bad, tho ( I hope ).
https://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/news/20220429/cdc-first-human-case-h5-bird-flu-us
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Forum: Soap Box
2022-04-29, 23:12
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Replies: 386
Views: 18,278
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Forum: Lounge
2022-04-27, 16:15
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Replies: 4,467
Views: 422,166
Big solar storms in 2025 ??
There seems to be a fair amount of chatter about 2025 being a solar storm peak that might have dire consequences for anything electronic. It's not the usual nut jobs spinning end-of-times baloney but...
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Forum: Lounge
2022-04-27, 14:46
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Replies: 379
Views: 47,099
41 years ago, Xerox introduced the Star/8010...
41 years ago, Xerox introduced the Star/8010 system.
It was based on the Xerox Alto, which was not sold but used internally and by a few universities.
It introduced many of the technologies...
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Forum: Science & Technology
2022-04-25, 19:52
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Replies: 3,003
Views: 314,231
Scientists at CERN restarted the Large Hadron...
Scientists at CERN restarted the Large Hadron Collider this last weekend after a 3 year
period of doing maintenance and adding upgrades.
https://www.space.com/large-hadron-collider-restarts-run-3
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Forum: Lounge
2022-04-23, 19:13
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Replies: 1,936
Views: 226,536
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Forum: Lounge
2022-04-23, 16:00
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Replies: 379
Views: 47,099
A little late but ...
50 years ago on...
A little late but ...
50 years ago on February 21, 1972, President Richard Nixon landed in the people's Republic of China aboard Air Force One. This dramatically changed the geopolitical map...
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Forum: Lounge
2022-04-18, 16:02
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Replies: 1,393
Views: 116,856
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Forum: Soap Box
2022-04-17, 19:11
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Replies: 386
Views: 18,278
Meanwhile, back on the economic front ....
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Meanwhile, back on the economic front ....
We may see what good economic sanctions do ( or not ) in the coming few weeks.
Several sites I peruse and also some finance oriented TV news shows have...
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Forum: Soap Box
2022-04-09, 12:32
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Replies: 386
Views: 18,278
The Russians keep raising the bar on what it...
The Russians keep raising the bar on what it means to be a soulless, conscienceless war criminal.
While watching the news last evening ( thurs, apr 8 ) the lead story was about rockets fired at...
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