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by spingsprong 12y ago
Gah, not done morse code in years. This is so difficult
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by spingsprong 12y ago
I've been checking various websites I go on that are completely fine for kids. It's amazing what's getting blocked. One example according to that website is, TalkTalk blocks " http://www.writingexcuses.com&#x2F
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by spingsprong 12y ago
Those rocks suffered a gigantic impact, a long period in the vacuum of space being bombarded by radiation, then a fiery re-entry. I don't know for sure, but wouldn't that be a pretty effective way of sterilising rock?
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by spingsprong 12y ago
Replicators can't replicate everything. Many episodes have had characters complaining about replicated food not tasting as good as the real thing. And many episodes have star ship crews trying to obtain Dilithium. So obviously some thi
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by spingsprong 12y ago
It has a fatality rate of UP TO 80-90%. Some outbreaks it's been as low as 35% and the current outbreak in west Africa has a 65% fatality rate. Ebola isn't super contagious. Way, way more people die from the flu every single year
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by spingsprong 12y ago
Or thinking about it more, get ready to downvote this too, governments are more likely do the exact opposite. Want to cause a revolution against a dictator? Talk to the social networking sites, see if you can increase unrest. We already kno
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by spingsprong 12y ago
" Because it has attracted low-quality answers, posting an answer now requires 10 reputation on this site. " I really don't get the stack exchange group of websites. Some of those answers are outstandingly amazing.
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by spingsprong 12y ago
So now when the citizens are angry, the government can have a talk with Facebook, to see if they can settle the nation down a tad. Not creepy at all, nope.
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by spingsprong 12y ago
Sure, if by similar you mean completely different. If a group did attack a military convoy with a remote controlled IED, it wouldn't be an act of terrorism. Terrorism is the indiscriminate targeting of civilians. A remote controlled IE
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by spingsprong 12y ago
Just out of curiosity, why doesn't Gimp cut it in your books?
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Interview with Rob Northern, about 1980/90s copy protection(zakalwe.fi)
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New chemical iris for tiny phone cameras(bbc.co.uk)
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by spingsprong 12y ago
Will somebody here please make a video hosting website to replace YouTube.
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by spingsprong 12y ago
I suspect something much more mundane. Politicians love to shout about their successes. Only, this government hasn't really got any to shout about, so they're falling back to the old standby that all governments do in situations l
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by spingsprong 12y ago
Quick book search on google gives lots of examples of "zero day" going back to the 19th century
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by spingsprong 12y ago
As I understand it, these types of batteries are not rechargeable. They would need to be taken back to a factory and be recycled. I'd like to know how energy efficient the recycling stage would be. I've not seen that information a
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by spingsprong 12y ago
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ministry-of-d...
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by spingsprong 12y ago
How about a murderer who says they'll kill again if they get out?
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by spingsprong 12y ago
It said I was from New Zealand. I've never been to New Zealand in my life.
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by spingsprong 12y ago
I wonder if that can be somehow simulated and still give the benefit. A game where you get to dominate and boss about other characters maybe?
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by spingsprong 12y ago
There's some evidence helmets might increase the chance of breaking your neck, due to the added weight and leverage. Its an interesting subject, with evidence both for and against helmets increasing safety. The TRC Podcast covered the
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English: A Stress-Timed Language(youtube.com)
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Blasts of Ultrasound Could Get Needed Drugs Into the Brain(spectrum.ieee.org)
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Avoiding Squirrels and Other Things Google’s Robot Car Can’t Do(wired.com)
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by spingsprong 12y ago
Nope, not ironic. But if your aim is to increase people's health, you're going to do a better job using accurate information. The initial studies showing anti-oxidants have health benefits have struggled to be replicated, and new
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by spingsprong 12y ago
Just to pick on a tiny part of that post, consuming anti-oxidants hasn't been reliably shown to have any health benefits. If consuming anti-oxidants has any effect, it's not necessarily a positive one, since the body uses oxidatio
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Husband gives wife a piece of his lung with the help of a 3-D printer(japantoday.com)
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by spingsprong 12y ago
Technical requests are usually handled by different people than catering and hospitality requests. The people in charge catering and hospitality would not be expected to read the technical requests to do with electronic and sound systems, a
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by spingsprong 12y ago
An episode of the TRC podcast covered this, and came to a different conclusion than snopes. http://www.trcpodcast.com/trc-219-can-men-and-women-be-frien...
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by spingsprong 12y ago
I saw a video on television about a decade ago, a fly had landed on a computer monitor, and was following the mouse pointer around the screen.

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