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I have done forensic reconstruction of UNIX files. The directory node list is erased/lost, but the raw data remains on disk. This assumes the data has a sequential structure. The article didnt say whether this was the model data or th
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Lots of free doughnuts.
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Or the movie. Who should play Lichtenstein?
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Structured transactions dont have an amount threshold. Former Speaker of the House Hastert got jail for sub-threshold transactions.
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Those were dark money used in crime. These havent been used in crime, yet.
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DOJ says they'll be returned to previous owners.
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Plus the first money line on the IRS 1040 this year asks if you made any crypto transaction. IRS found a golden goose.
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Still DNA may be superior to retaining written human records on just about every other media, save stone and metal. Especially longer than recent magnetic media.
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That could dovetail with the pandemic demographic contractions where births have declined 25% during the pandemic. This is compounded by the fertile generationX is smaller than normal. And immigration has been politically reduced. This coul
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The oldest MIT hack I just looked up online is dates 1926. It means an elaborate practical joke. Often it is redecorating some part of MIT campus in a clever way. Occasionally it extends to rivals like Harvard and CalTech. I perpetrated a f
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Whittier is Anchorage's "port" where where cruise ships stop. There are shops inport. You can take day trips to Anchorage or overnight to Denali National Park. Whittier has other boats too forbwhale andbglacier tours, fishing
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If "conviction" is a standard, then 95% of the culprits dont need to worry. Less than 5% of disturbers are fined according FAA news releases. Much fewer are criminally convicted. (FAA cant do criminal convictions because it has to
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PBS has a couple of series on wildlife photography technology (on Wed evenings before NOVA). One series uses attachable cameras optimized for land-sea-air creatures. Another series puts cameras inside of robo-creatures of the target species
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"Where's my red stapler?"
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Lots of cities have astronomy clubs. These clubs have observing nights and meetings.
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The Chinese complain Starlink sats come "too close" to their TianGong-3 Space Station. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/dec/28/china-compla... Its not clear whether this was during depl
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The Event Horizon Telescope "imaged" two black hole structures down to 10 microarcsecond resolution. The create synthetic apertures from radio telescope pairs separated as much as 8,000 miles and operating up to 450 GigaHertz. (Sy
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For people growing up in the 1900s, the local library served a similar function of releasing one from suffocating local life into the wonders of the wide world.
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Similar to HTML: a lot of early evolution in the early releases. Then a long wait for version 5. Version 4 had a lot of neat stuff like math typesetting. Html balkanized during the commercial browser wars. Tim made a valiant effort to hold
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Since I was at Stanford then, I downloaded it on sunet.
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Sounds like a cult :-)
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A sad thing is the FDA dragged its feet on approving the covid vaccine for all age groups, taking 14 months. And vaccine makers/CDC had hard data vaccination would cut the 10,000 weekly death toll by 85%. Here they approve a costly dru
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15% increase, way over inflation. Pre-medicare people have the impression medicare is cheap. But I pay $615 a month because I make more than $91,000 a year, which triggers an income surcharge. My premiums increased $784 (whole year) since l
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Zoroastrism isnt strongly into conversion, which in fact is prohibited in India. But there are a growing number of secularized descendants who return to the old centers to learn the old knowledge. There was a story on such in major magazine
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This was done long ago. I forget the name, but there was a browser that only rendered the text parts. It was useful on slow modems or text-only screens.
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That there is a cosmic speed limit may imply one unit of space per one unit of time. Nothing faster.
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Normally Tsunami algorithms start calculating/warning when there is M7 or higher. As an "airquake" the registered magnitude is negligible.
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DESI is just one of the super-mapping scopes to come online in late 2010s-early 2020s. There GAIA about 3/4 through its program to map the positions and movement of 2 billion stars (2%) in the Milky Way. And the Roman telescope will re
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"The spice must flow" has this historic antecedent. At times pepper's taste, preservative, alleged health value and price was off the scale, not unlike Dune spice.
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1) Once mainframe electronic computers started to be routinely manufactured computing jobs became engineering jobs which were primarily male. 2) When I was at Stanford and MIT in the 1970s, there was a debate whether Computer Science was a

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