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Crabs in the Chesapeake Bay are the same. About 80% of tidal segments there are contaminated with PCB's and heavy metals. Regulators describe them as "impairments", and recommend not eating them more than once per month. Cod
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Mobile is a deliberately second-class platform, in many cases to prevent closing an obtrusive window to serve an advertisement, or to provoke an inadvertent click on an ad. Many ads with malware simply don't present if the platform is
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> I had served as a field supervisor over a counterintelligence squad in the Washington Field Office. Counter-intel has a shelf life of around three months in the DC area. It isn't like there weren't multiple opportunities for
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Storage over copper used to be sub optimal but not necessarily due to the cable. UDP QUIC is much closer to wire speed. so 10 GB copper and 10 GB fiber are probably the same, but 40+ GB fiber is quite common now.
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I've totally sat through one of these "dry run" VP presentations before they do it before an exec audience. "All the metrics and dashboards are green". Next day: Layoffs and reapply for your job, also introducing Do
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It could be sold as an "as-is", intended for knockdown/ demolition and replacement, or removal. That's why the 20% minimum open space requirements for new homes.
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Given that your ISP is monitoring your DNS, is wifi motion (usage is probably as valuable) really that bad?
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Yes, absolutely. This is mostly a legal/enforcement decision. If you avoid Russian authorities, they avoid you. Also Russia is nowhere near as fertile ground as the US. There are plenty of low paid entry level office workers in the US
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Tetraethyllead was introduced into gasoline in 1922, and lasted about 70 years. The effect would have been greater after WW2 due to there were more cars and a larger population with greater desire for mobility and closer proximity to cars.
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IBM was big on Rexx when OS/2 2.x was released in ~1993. "IBM also once engaged in a technology transfer with Commodore, licensing Amiga technology for OS/2 2.0 and above, in exchange for the REXX scripting language. This mea
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Imagine toiling all those years to make J* products usable, only to have Larry Ellison bigfoot everything.
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> why the US thought that it'd be a good idea to vet social media accounts for visa applications. The catalyst was the campus takeovers by people wearing masks and causing disruption for months. That was a gift for the Republicans,
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Lake of the Woods in northeastern Minnesota is probably nice two months per year. It's where Moosylvania is located, and there are Canadians for neighbors. Wikipedia says "conditions are said to be harsh and unpleasant.". ht
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I thought the "hardened images" were a step in the right direction. It's a pain to have to deal with vulnerabilities on ephemeral short-lived containers/instances. Having something hyper up to date is welcome. https:&#x
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Prisons are ancient history. The latest chapter is the tough on crime states have glorious high speed pursuits. All those Challengers blasting away at 140 mph in the breakdown lane, rollover 10-50 pits, suspects at gunpoint, now published i
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Sudan exports about one ton of gold per week to the UAE. That's how the conflict is funded. Even the most modern country (South Africa) is an economic basket case. 42% unemployment. Stealing from the electric utility costs hundreds of
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Microsoft's problem is they still make products. Meta creates $70 billion net profit per year and they don't create much and have minimal overhead.
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There were also a caravan of trucks removing large amounts of items before the raid. There are estimates Iran has 600 kg of enriched uranium. One kg of uranium is about the size as a kg of gold, or the size of a phone. So they probably remo
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I'm not paying for something that is more annoying on mobile than on a notebook or desktop. You want money you should learn how to interact with humans.
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The product is a vehicle. Governments are looking for an assurance. That comes from the reputation of the system integrators/contractors. That said, Birmingham UK turned a £38 million Oracle Financials project into a £90 million failu
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1985 Kinko's had a bank of Macs available for anyone to use. I used to go there late thinking it would be less busy but they were usually in use all the time.
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> The way you know this is that there are no record highs or lows in 1788 or even 1828. This is not specific to weather, although one interesting example would be California in November 1861 - January 1862. Most people think of the gold
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Your credit score can decrease if you pay off your credit card balance or pay it down too quickly. For example, paying off the last $10k on a home loan. The score is also a reflection of your value to them as a paying customer. How much mon
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He was only describing hardware that was available at the time in businesses. Around that same time, Digital had a product called Pathworks that was very popular. All the PC's used standard unshielded twisted pair Ethernet. It wasn&#x2
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Why end it? Ukraine is the most successful proxy war in the history of war. Ukraine has destroyed much of Russian ground forces and armor, and eliminated the only advantage that Russia did have, which was artillery. Now artillery accounts f
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On the Beach (1959). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Beach_(1959_film)
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Most government positions could use almost anything. The reason many places use Windows is familiarity and cost of government licenses. Also note that modern services may have a term, for example Microsoft has licenses based on a six-year c
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The map shows a location of a line of deliberately scuttled ships to block the harbor between Rose Island and Battery Park. Most of the ships were salvaged, the Endeavour was not.
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The weather is nice, and there are public services. No-one wants to be homeless in Bakersfield. It is expensive for people with money. Remember that 25% of unauthorized immigrants live in California, mostly in the south. Last year, Californ
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> rarely is it the actual cost of the home that’s the problem. It used to be rare. But LA managed to make $700,000 the minimum cost for housing someone. That is a studio or one bedroom, without laundry. That is why LA City and LA County

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