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by daddylonglegs 8y ago
There is also RS Components - the RS / Farnell rivalry (or duopoly) is the big one for low volume electronic components in the UK. RS do have trade counters in a couple of dozen industrial estates around the country but I think they ar
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by daddylonglegs 8y ago
I feel that narrowly defining politics as it's negative aspects is dangerous because it leaves us (English speakers) without a word for the necessary processes of organising ourselves and resolving differences between more than two peo
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by daddylonglegs 8y ago
Close to where I am the ISIS [1] neutron source [2] notoriously used a lot of second hand stuff when it was built. It is a tremendously successful science facility despite the fact that some parts date from the 1950s [3] [4]. I was told tha
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Bank’s software chief jailed after withdrawing US$1m in ‘free’ cash from ATMs(scmp.com)
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by daddylonglegs 8y ago
Last year there were reports that the Tesla/Panasonic batteries in the Tesla Model 3 contained much less cobalt and that this was a significant competitive advantage for Tesla. Does anyone know if the enabling technology is Tesla'
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by daddylonglegs 8y ago
I was told that the mafia in the US lost a lot of business with the rise of credit cards but I can't find a source for that. Some researchers say that people turn to payday loans not only because they don't have access to bank loa
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by daddylonglegs 8y ago
In England and Wales there are Employment Tribunals. These are run by a government appointed judges in an informal manner that should let people represent themselves. They include a conciliation service. There are time limits on when a clai
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by daddylonglegs 8y ago
They wouldn't need the PCB designer. They would need to suborn (employees of) the PCB manufacturer and the assembly house. These will be supplied with the PCB layout (in Gerber or ODB format, for making the PCB) and the bill of materia
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by daddylonglegs 8y ago
Does anyone have experience of using Bitmark, either as a customer or as manufacturer? It seems to be a public ledger for individual units of a product for handling warranty and returns. Andrew Huang, who is involved, describes the system a
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by daddylonglegs 8y ago
A nitpick, this would aimed at eliminating complete species rather than sub-species. There are thousands of species of mosquito, a handful of those species account for almost all transmission of mosquito-borne, human diseases. Almost all ec
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A story of Maplin Electronics, a failed tech retailer (UK)(theregister.co.uk)
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by daddylonglegs 8y ago
>This was basically all done over UAW's dead body. It's not like process engineers working at the big three in the 80s didn't want to do those things. They were aware of what industry best practices were as any competent p
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by daddylonglegs 8y ago
The 'normal' process is that a cell starts with it's permanent DNA in the nucleus. Part of the DNA [1] is transcribed to a string of RNA, this RNA is translated to a protein. There is an encoding where the sequence of base pa
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by daddylonglegs 8y ago
I agree. I would argue that Microsoft have the worst of all worlds because on the one hand they share their code with intelligence agencies (including the FSB!) who seem to me to be inclined towards hoarding vulnerabilities for attack rathe
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by daddylonglegs 8y ago
Microsoft shares it's code with quite a few companies and governments: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/default.aspx https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-opens-source-code-
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by daddylonglegs 8y ago
Previous attacks by this Magecart group did go through third parties: https://www.riskiq.com/blog/labs/magecart-ticketmaster-breac... I think the underlying problems are the same either way. In all these attacks t
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by daddylonglegs 8y ago
There are microwave links across Europe: https://sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com/2016/01/26/hft-in-the-b... There are apparently shortwave links across the Atlantic: https://sniperinmahwah.wordpress.c
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by daddylonglegs 8y ago
Note that the Argentinians started the war with only five air-launched Exocet missiles in stock and with those they took out an air defence destroyer and a very important supply ship. The Argentinians deployed two submarines. The Royal Navy