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by ptha 9y ago
From the wikipedia article: The entire game uses only 97,280 bytes of disk space. In contrast, most contemporary first-person shooters fill one or more CDs or DVDs. According to the developers, .kkrieger itself would take up around 200–300
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by ptha 9y ago
I use Authy: https://www.authy.com/ Now I'm wondering are there similar security concerns here as with Google Authenticator?
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by ptha 10y ago
There are reports of dogs repeatedly licking the toxic cane toads in Australia. Some are speculating the dogs are "addicted" to the "high" from a non-fatal dose of the toxin the toads excrete in their sweat. http:/
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by ptha 10y ago
This was the Phoebus Cartel where the major light-bulb manufacturers all agreed to do this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel But I guess in the end the free market did bring about it's demise, when Sca
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by ptha 10y ago
Methane is a much worse greenhouse gas than C02 https://blogs.princeton.edu/research/2014/03/26/a-more-poten...
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by ptha 10y ago
This was affecting air pollution, from 2nd and 3rd paragraph: India’s National Green Tribunal (NGT) introduced the ban following complaints of illegal burning of plastic and other waste at three local rubbish dumps. The ban took effect on
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by ptha 10y ago
Hard to believe the Soviets were using vacuum tubes instead of transistors In hindsight, the MiG 25, which the West had been so worried about, turned out to be a ‘paper tiger’. Its massive radar was years behind US models because instead o
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by ptha 10y ago
2 that I've given and reread myself a few times would be: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
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by ptha 10y ago
Fishing trawlers are more likely to cause damage: By far the most common problems, however—accounting for about 60 percent of cut cable incidents—are dropped anchors and fishing nets . The cables are on sea charts so this can be avoided, b
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by ptha 10y ago
After many years of dumping radioactive material and accidents equivalent to several Chernobyls, the locals just wish to be left alone to live in “peace”. They are happy in their fenced-in paradise. because of the privileges they receive
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'The graveyard of the Earth': inside City 40, Russia's deadly nuclear secret(theguardian.com)
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by ptha 10y ago
The last line of the article was quite interesting: President Katsuhiko Ochi continues to inspire employees to make new designs and hull forms that cannot be copied by other companies.
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by ptha 10y ago
Apparently SpaceX call it a hover-slam , for a detailed explanation: http://space.stackexchange.com/questions/10307/what-is-a-sui...
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by ptha 10y ago
I'll have to re-read "George's Marvellous Medicine", that was my first Roald Dahl book. My dad bought it for me on a journey across the Irish Sea on a holiday trip. He bought my sister "The Magic Finger", which
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Biomaterials breakthrough as injured horse Beyoncé returns to showjumping(siliconrepublic.com)
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Beagle 2: most detailed images yet of lost Mars lander revealed(theguardian.com)
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by ptha 11y ago
Apparently dead forests release less carbon into the atmosphere than expected: "Overall, we discovered that after a tree die-off, the loss of carbon in the soil results less from increased respiration by microbes but more from the fac
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by ptha 11y ago
I wasn't aware of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLC_media_player#Legality Harks back to people not being aware that making copies of CDs for private (fair) use is illegal https://en.wikipedia.org
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by ptha 11y ago
Mentioned in the article is the passive bug the Soviets used for covert listening in the US embassy in Moscow. Impressive technology for 1945: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_%28listening_device%...
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by ptha 11y ago
Unfortunately he didn't have a lot of time before the engines flamed out: At 11:49, flight attendant Andreas Prodromou entered the cockpit and sat down in the captain's seat, having remained conscious by using a portable oxygen s
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by ptha 11y ago
While SoundCloud brought in €17.35m ($15.37m) in 2014, it lost a total of €39.14m ($44.19m). Employee wages during that period also increased 42.5% to €17.9m, meaning that the average wage per employee for that year totalled €79,980 Seems
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by ptha 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coywolf
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by ptha 11y ago
She sleeps badly, plagued with nightmares about the American government. She reads Cory Doctorow’s Homeland and re-reads 1984, finding too many parallels with her own life. , the psychological aspect is very troubling. A government state d
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by ptha 11y ago
I'm just flabbergasted at how much the UK has spent on the operation: Last October, Scotland Yard said it would no longer station officers outside the Ecuador embassy following an operation which it said had cost £12.6m. But it said &
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by ptha 11y ago
In August 2014, the Government Pension Fund controlled assets were valued at approximately US$884 billion (equal to US$173,000 per capita) which is about 174% of Norway's current GDP. It is the largest sovereign wealth fund in the wor
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by ptha 11y ago
Phil Kennedy continuing the grand but dangerous tradition of self-experimentation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-experimentation - From the Chemistry section Until recently, it was common practice among synthetic
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by ptha 11y ago
Apparently the button erases tape when pushed for two seconds, provided the airplane is on the ground and the parking brake handle is on. http://www.a320homecockpit.de/downloads/a320flightdeckdocume...
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by ptha 11y ago
Branch can't meet with other senior U.S. intelligence leaders to discuss sensitive operations, or hear updates from his staff about secret missions or projects. It can be a chore just to set foot in colleagues' offices; in keepin
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by ptha 11y ago
Similarly the Egyptians used honey in wound dressings. "We now know that honey actually contains substantial amounts of hydrogen peroxide which can kill bacteria". Also "moldy bread was used in China, Greece, Serbia, Egypt an
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by ptha 11y ago
From the article, it appears adoption of PTC has been hampered by Amtrak developing it's own system, funding issues and slow approval from the FCC: "In much of Asia and Europe, engineers are protected by a technology known in the

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