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by chiph 2y ago
Many X-Rays (MRIs, CT scans, etc.) are read and interpreted by doctors who are remote. There are firms who that's all they do - provide a way to connect radiologists and hospitals, and handle the usual business back-end work of billing
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by chiph 2y ago
Depends on what the policy (contract) says. But there's a good argument that your security vendor is inside the wall of trust at a business, and so not an external risk.
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by chiph 2y ago
Not just California - The Alamo in San Antonio is surrounded by cheap tourist stores. It was run by the Daughters of the Republic of Texas for years and they did a great job but didn't have any influence over the zoning around the Miss
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by chiph 2y ago
From what I recall from the 1970's, we paid a monthly charge for each line (number), phone rental (each), and then long-distance calls were itemized. If you had two phones in your home for the same line, you'd be charged an additi
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by chiph 2y ago
Kryoflux had special drives for preservation but I don't see them in their store anymore. So no, sorry.
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by chiph 2y ago
For archiving a very old floppy, you don't want to touch the surface if you can help it to avoid causing any additional wear.
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by chiph 2y ago
I was surprised to read that they filled their hole with old carbide drill bit tips and J-B Weld (a two-part epoxy). I was expecting it to be welded closed.
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by chiph 2y ago
OS/2's HPFS also had alternate data streams, called Extended Attributes. You'd make two calls to DosQueryFileInfo() - the first time to get the size of any EAs so you could allocate a buffer, then call it again to read the co
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by chiph 2y ago
Still legal in sixteen states! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AzAFqrxfeY
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by chiph 2y ago
Not when you're on a metered connection, or on a high latency one. Don't make your customers pay for your sloppy habits is a good policy to have.
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by chiph 2y ago
Recently some parts of a Crew Dragon landed in western North Carolina. The largest piece found so far is about the size of a car hood (~2.3 square meters) (insert joke about strange American measurement units here), and appears to mostly be
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by chiph 2y ago
I bought a 1040ST not long after they came out in 1986. I got the system unit, the color monitor, a mouse, GEM/TOS disks, and that was it for about $1500. Software titles were scarce but I was eventually able to pick up the Megamax C
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by chiph 2y ago
To prevent this from happening in the future, I would give the inspectors the right to immediately close a bridge when it got to be this bad. If the owner forcibly reopened it, they would lose any insurance coverage on it (be totally liable
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by chiph 2y ago
IN the US, we started off with the CONELRAD system in 1951, then the Emergency Broadcast System in 1963, then the Emergency Alert System in 1997. Most people today know of the Wireless Emergency Alert System created in 2007 which supplemen
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by chiph 2y ago
Dad did not land at Normandy, but he was wounded during the Battle of the Bulge. He was hit by a ricochet in the neck. A relatively minor wound that if the bullet had hit him a little further to the left, would have killed him. He never saw
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by chiph 2y ago
My rule of thumb is that the smaller the car, or the faster the car - the brighter the color should be. The first criteria is related to safety - being seen by larger vehicles is important to not being hit by them. And the second criteria
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by chiph 2y ago
> With these private companies I get access to all this data for free. These companies are already receiving government data for free. And then enriching it with private weather station data (and ads). So your taxes are already funding s
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by chiph 2y ago
The number of flight hours goes way up once you have to factor in all the combinations of pylon-mounted ordnance on something like an A-10 or F-16. Your jamming system might work fine with a missile mounted, but not with a JDAM at the same
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by chiph 2y ago
Often the crew don't have visas for the country where the ship was abandoned. So they can't transit from the port to the nearest airport and then home unless Customs/Immigration agree to allow it. They also usually haven&#x27
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by chiph 2y ago
This is why when the USS Nautilus became the first submarine to transit the arctic entirely underwater, traveling from the Pacific to the Atlantic via the North Pole, it was such an important event in the Cold War. It gave credibility to th
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by chiph 2y ago
I regard this as dealing with differing amounts of annoyance. Fraudulent credit card charge? Pffft - it will get taken care of with maybe two phone calls. Fraudulent debit card charge that leaves me with $8.31 in the bank? Getting up ther
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by chiph 2y ago
UV exposure can certainly cause this, but what about their train washing systems? They commonly have large rotating plastic brushes and if grit gets caught up in the brush it's going to sand anything with a lower Mohs hardness. Los Ang
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by chiph 2y ago
Riven is why I got a CD drive (Plextor) that used caddys rather than a tray. I knew that I was going to be swapping discs fairly often and the caddy gave them more protection. Every time I went to a new island, it was a furious sorting of c
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by chiph 2y ago
Obviously not an expert, but I wonder if they run a higher voltage in order to give them some margin from frequency dropping too far below 60 Hz (caused by generators slowing down) during high load periods?
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by chiph 2y ago
My local power company (in the USA) is known for running slightly higher voltage than the spec. In the past I have seen 127V - and wrote a letter complaining about it. Which probably got me on their list of annoying customers... Currently
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by chiph 2y ago
Those periods of "Ma"[0] really make the film for me, and their absence was a big part of of why I didn't like the 2017 Scarlett Johanssen version (I walked out of the theater I was so disappointed). They give you time to thi
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by chiph 2y ago
What about the PSAT and SAT prep books? They are tests only (with answers at the end of the chapter) and don't teach the techniques, but I found that my math skills got better just by doing more of it.
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by chiph 2y ago
I miss Windows Phone. It was fast, did what I needed, and was easy to use one-handed. The Nokia hardware was good (especially the camera, for the time), except the plastic case & screen collected scratches like crazy. I would have had n
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by chiph 2y ago
Anyone who has played Eve Online is familiar with this process. Gain membership, become a valued contributor to the corp, then betray it for profit.
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by chiph 2y ago
Could this be a problem in the Sabre code, from the early 1960's? (pre-Y2k updates). American and Sabre separated their businesses in 2000, but some code might be in use. American Airlines developed Sabre in conjunction with IBM. The p

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