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Provided no critical electrical or fuel lines are pierced in the process

The wings on a plane are the fuel tanks.

Structurally the damage is survivable. It looks similar to bird strikes. The difference is a bird strike is a blob of meat and blood hitting the plane. A drone strike would include lots of spark-inducing metal parts and volatile battery intruding into the fuel tank. The engines have some fire extinguishing capability (a small tank holding fire retardant). But fuel leaking from a wing catching fire would stay on fire until either the all the fuel drained out of the wing, or the plane reached the ground.

More importantly, it doesn't even work with 90% of the world's smartphones

I don't know how you define working, because I personally don't think iTunes works on any devices. Even most Apple fanboys say iTunes sucks, but if you really want Apple on your android phone, it is there.

temps measured in cores have been going up and down for at least 450,000 years, maybe 1.5 million years. https://www.google.com/imgres?...

But I don't want to spend 8 hours on my commute.

Here you go: the heart of the great garbage patch on Google Maps. Here's a bunch of photos from Scripps Institute as well. The plastic is about 8 square meters per square kilometer of ocean, being about 0.0008% waste by area, or about 0.0000005% by mass assuming it's all concentrated in the top meter of water.

This product doesn't actually solve any of the real problems associated with open plan offices, which essentially makes this product all but useless in the real world. The word for these types of products is Chindogu, and there is an incredible variety of similarly useless products, easily discoverable for those who're familiar with the proper search term.

The only real question is, did Panasonic knowingly engage in designing a Chindogu product, or were they duped into marketing this particular example of the art form, outside of the limits of its traditional (predominantly Japanese) target audience?

Confirmation of gweihir's statement.

Also, if you want to see whether there are any libssh libraries on your machine, you can find out where shared libraries are typically installed, and you should see an openssh directory rather than libssh directories or libraries. Or you can grep for libssh from the root directory.

Confirmation of gweihir's statement.

Also, if you want to see whether there are any libssh libraries on your machine, you can find out where shared libraries are typically installed, and you should see an openssh directory rather than libssh directories or libraries. Or you can grep for libssh from the root directory.

Well, tell you what. Since you do not know where they are made at, lets google for it
I think that will correct your reality.
The simple fact is, that you have to have the machines and other chips to make these. And how many locations have them? America, Germany, UK, Canada, Israel and above all, China.

Wow. Just wow. Wasn't that algorithm retired over a year ago? What's your real name after that delayed reset? Botty McOuttaDate Bot?

Nah, we have probably 6 more years of Democrats being the unhinged "crazy, violent mob" party - as they continue to LOSE.

Imagine how bad it's going to be when Facebook, Twitter, and Google finally stop covering for the racism and hate coming from Democrat stalwarts like Louis "Jews are termites" Farrakhan and the general population gets to see just how corrosively divisive and violent all the Marxist "intersectional" and "critical race theory" "IMA BIGGA VICTUM DEN YOUZ!" utter BULLSHIT really is.

Chengdu weather: Of the 8 days shown, 5 are cloudy. No illumination from space then.

that solves the GUI problem that every-version-has-a-change-somehow. How? Because the "helper" still wants to help so they rearrange the GUI to look/be "better" for next time. And then they do it again. And AGAIN.

Here's a good example of a UX change screwing things up.

Google News used to offer a control in settings where you could disable various sections you weren't interested in; as a tech person, perhaps you're not interested in sports, for instance. Well, you could turn that/those section(s) off, saving the bandwidth wasted by them shoving something in your face you have zero interest in, and saving you scrolling time and mild annoyance. It was entirely a good thing.

Comes the "new" Google news, the UI is redesigned, and... yep. Capability is gone. Simplified to the lowest common denominator into a less functional version of itself. But hey, they're quite proud of the new "look."

The best thing you can do with a UX designer is take them out and leave them in a deep forest with a book of fabric samples, but without a compass. They'll starve. :)

"It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway."

They probably meant spray-tan, which does nothing.

Yes it does. It gives you a temporary tan that lasts until your next shower.

Here's proof that it works

Apparently they did this before (over half a decade ago) and flip-flopped on it:
https://productforums.google.c...
https://www.lifehacker.com.au/...

is the main proponent of what Hawking was talking about. Jesus, for example, said that afflictions were caused not by diseases but by what they say. The implication that if you're suffering from a disease you must have blasphemed. There's lots of other examples if you research Prosperity Gospel

The trouble with the Christian Bible is that it was never meant to be read by laypersons. So it's chock full of inconsistencies. You can find something in it to support literally any point of view. Want to be a good person? Bible will tell you how. Want slavery? There's a verse for that. Want to advance human civilization through learning? Check. Want a reason to commit Genocide? Bible's got you covered.

I'm not saying we should go back to the days when people couldn't read the bible unless they were a church leader (Scientology, I'm lookin' at you). But what this does mean is that it doesn't matter how carefully you read the text. The Bible doesn't make a starting point for a viable society. Which is why the US has such a clear separation of Church and State. Because it's too hard to agree on how to read a religion.

is the main proponent of what Hawking was talking about. Jesus, for example, said that afflictions were caused not by diseases but by what they say. The implication that if you're suffering from a disease you must have blasphemed. There's lots of other examples if you research Prosperity Gospel

The trouble with the Christian Bible is that it was never meant to be read by laypersons. So it's chock full of inconsistencies. You can find something in it to support literally any point of view. Want to be a good person? Bible will tell you how. Want slavery? There's a verse for that. Want to advance human civilization through learning? Check. Want a reason to commit Genocide? Bible's got you covered.

I'm not saying we should go back to the days when people couldn't read the bible unless they were a church leader (Scientology, I'm lookin' at you). But what this does mean is that it doesn't matter how carefully you read the text. The Bible doesn't make a starting point for a viable society. Which is why the US has such a clear separation of Church and State. Because it's too hard to agree on how to read a religion.

In Europe Google has some of the strongest privacy controls of any major service. Way better than Facebook and Microsoft, for example. From what I read it's not too dissimilar in the US. You can go here to see the available controls: https://myaccount.google.com/p...

In Europe Google Analytics is used to stalk users as they move from website to website the same as any other country. Browser signals that indicate user preference not to be stalked are summarily ignored by these services owned and operated by a company with "the strongest privacy controls".

Strongest privacy controls = requires you to create an account to manage the fate of SOME of the data they take from you regardless so for sure everything you do can most defiantly be tracked on an individual account holder basis.

So while it is possible that Google will abandon all that stuff for the Chinese market it's not certain, and perhaps we should at least see what they are proposing/doing first.

If they did launch with even half those privacy controls it would be a huge deal for the Chinese market, making privacy a thing that people think and care about.

Chinese people don't think and care about privacy unless Google provides it. Good luck getting anyone to believe what you are selling.

In China the domestic platforms already do all that and more. For example WePay is pretty much the universal way to pay for stuff now, even random street vendors accept it right up to luxury hotels. Of course all the search and social media platforms monitor and allow the government full access. So the situation with regards to privacy is already dire.

In Europe Google has some of the strongest privacy controls of any major service. Way better than Facebook and Microsoft, for example. From what I read it's not too dissimilar in the US. You can go here to see the available controls: https://myaccount.google.com/p...

So while it is possible that Google will abandon all that stuff for the Chinese market it's not certain, and perhaps we should at least see what they are proposing/doing first. If they did launch with even half those privacy controls it would be a huge deal for the Chinese market, making privacy a thing that people think and care about.

It is not specifically Vanguard. Index funds in general tend to have low fees. My Fidelity account charges $5 because I am not using a managed fund. Note a comparison of FUSEX and FFTHX. The follow the same general trend, but one pulls away from the other. That is the difference in brokerage fees. Scroll out five years to see the difference that it makes.

She didn't lie, the results are out. Shes 1/32 to 1/512 Native American. ... Depending on how you read the results.

DNA counselors sounds like a terrible idea. I don't trust them to get it right for right reasons or wrong reasons.

Bullshit.

She "consultant shopped" until she found a shill willing to pimp himself out and give her the answer she wanted.

Instead of finding a recognized geneology expert, she used a non-expert who was on the Harvard faculty with her. Why not use a real genealogist?

Why did Harvard drop mention of a Native American faculty member when Fauxcahontas's lies were exposed?

Why did Fauxcahontas herself claim that she knew she was Native American only because of her "high cheekbones" if she wasn't lying to Harvard in order to get ahead?

Why won't Fauxcahontas answer questions about whether or not she's ever used other DNA services if she didn't go "DNA shopping"?

If you cannot install a different keyboard (SwiftKey) it is better to get a dumb phone.

So, are these other media lying? Germany continues to add new coal plants. This will increase their reliance on fossil fuel and CO2 emissions when wind/solar are down.
Ad to that, Germany and other European nations have burned out much of their easy access coal due to burning for MILLENNIUMS and is moving to lignite which will only make things worse.

record the double slit experiment and find out what is really going on.

All of the electrons have a happy face with a tongue sicking out as they pass thru either/both/neither slits.

Link I like #2 personally.

She's got a bill currently languishing in committee that would be a big hit to the revolving door of "become senator/become lobbyist".

Again though, you have to put the kinds of folks in power who will support it. Right now that appears to be the Justice Democrats. If it's not, we need to vote them out. But they at least a) refuse corporate PAC money, b) support laws like Liz Warren's that make it illegal to lobby after serving in Congress and c) have a populist, pro-consumer, pro-worker platform.

One thing you will never do is get rid of big government. The rich and powerful like it that way, and if you try to solve the problem by eliminating the strong central government the wealthy will just build those power structures on their own and without your input. The only solution is to take part in the system and make it what you want it to be.

Those guys really take copyrights seriously.

Anyone remember when the Doobies were on What's Happening and Rerun was caught taping their concert?

Patrick Simmons: I thought you guys were our friends

Michael McDonald: How could you guys do this to us?
.... ... ...
Dwayne: Are we gonna go to jail?

John Hartman: Man, how do I know? What would you do if you were in our shoes?

Rerun: Well, I'd just send us home and laugh it off.

Bobby La Kind: It's not funny!

Yeah, it's serious business.

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And since I've already wandered a bit off topic, this is my favorite concert-taping story:

back in 81, robert fripp was doing his first frippertronic
tour and was playing at the u. of pennsylvania in philly...we knew we had to
tape it, but knowing how quirky fripp is on this issue and the small size of
the venue, we had to resort to unconventional means...so we went to a medical
supply house, rented a wheelchair, taped the mics to the arm rests, and had my
buddy sitting in the thing with a blanket covering the deck...fripp, who was
tuning up and checking his decks, graciously requested that our suddenly
wheelchair bound buddy be placed right in front of him...at the end of a nice
60 minute set, and after fripp takes his bows, my buddy, who was being fed
margaritas via a straw the whole time, starts screaming: "fripp healed me...i
feel my legs...hallelujah...fripp is god", jumps outta the chair and runs
outta the place...pandemonium ensues of course, and fripp is flabergasted...the
story does not end though...next day, fripp is doing promo signing at a record
store, and i walk in with a j-card and ask him to sign it for the guy he had
healed yesterday, becuz the tape of the gig would be incomplete without it...
needless to say, fripp went ballistic, spewing obscenities left and right...
i had a good laugh...

https://groups.google.com/foru...

Yes, but the situation is a little more shady than that. It's not really 438 people, it's 438 third-party applications and therefore 438 organisations. How many people behind those organisations ?
Furthermore, it appears that Google only keeps the log of the third-party API access for two weeks. Given the time window of this vulnerability, it seems quite misleading to go out and say that there is no evidence that this was used.
I agree with you that the information leaked seems pretty benign. Therefore, they should have had no problems in disclosing the vulnerability... And furthermore, the phone book example you gave is interesting, because it seems that combining the information available within it with the information potentially leaked would give a good basis for identity theft. So, I do not know if this should be considered so benign.

The pinnacle of 8-bit home computers was actually the BBC Micro, which had a superb OS and BASIC (including a 2-pass 6502 assembler that the C64 could only dream of) and an excellent disk drive system that wasn't slower than tape (hint: the C64 disk system was a complete dog).

There are plenty of BBC Micro emulators out there, but you might find the most convenient one to be on Android: Beebdroid.

Perhaps it is because as they continue to transition towards selling subscriptions to their software and the like, it doesn't hurt them to join, especially if it means that they get free use of all of the IBM patents that might be useful in expanding into other service areas without having to worry about litigation. Perhaps these companies are waking up to the fact that the billion dollar lawsuits over technology patents drag on for years, often to a point where the technology isn't even relevant and that the only people who actually get anything after the smoke clears are the lawyers. Those are two easy guesses, but not necessarily good.

After doing some additional reading, I'm not even sure if the summary is correct. If you look at the OIN website it just talks about Linux. The do have a list of all of their owned patents which does include some that were developed by Microsoft. Perhaps they tossed a few out there as a show of goodwill, but I'm not certain that this gives every member royalty-free licenses to all of Microsoft's (or other member companies) patents.

If my wife gets this phone she can reply "no" to all my texts without even having to read them.

Who needs "AI"?

https://play.google.com/store/...

AI will help Identify when to respond with a no- and when I'm trying to trick it by asking the question as a negative and respond with a yes.

Example:

Is it OK if I hang out with my ex having drinks tonight:
AI: NO.

Do you mind if I hang out with my ex having drinks tonight:
AI: YES.

If my wife gets this phone she can reply "no" to all my texts without even having to read them.

Who needs "AI"?

https://play.google.com/store/...

...and of course it still doesn't work for people with G suite accounts (no calendar access).

Or just use your TV's remote: Chromecast TV Remote Support and What is CEC

Where are you getting your numbers?
i5 with 8/128 is 999
keyboard is 199
pen is 99
for a grand total of 1297

I'm geting my $US from here:
https://store.google.com/produ...

So what? Still significantly more than an iPad Pro system with DOUBLE the Flash Storage.

anything is possible with an endless supply of expendable labor.

Where are you getting your numbers?
i5 with 8/128 is 999
keyboard is 199
pen is 99
for a grand total of 1297

I'm geting my $US from here:
https://store.google.com/produ...

Hi this is Lenny!

Except that certificate pinning is being deprecated in Chrome:

• https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/blink-dev/he9tr7p3rZ8/eNMwKPmUBAAJ
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=779166

Certification Authority Authorization (CAA) seems to be the replacement for preventing misissuance.

https://support.google.com/acc...

Based on what evidence?

Mine. And my mobile provider's. As previously mentioned, different countries, different cultures.. Here, mobile subscriptions are really cheap, one of mine costs 5 EUR a month and you have free unlimited voice minutes to all landlines with very few exceptions, and thousands of international minutes, etc(*). So yes, people do call back most times because it costs them nothing. If I call someone and they don't answer, they call back almost without exception. The culture here is usually: texting is for things that can wait, phone calls are for things that can't wait, so if you have a missed call, you call back. Not all people do that, of course, but most do.

Now, when my mobile provider starts issuing warnings about this type of scam calls, you realize it's a problem and that people indeed do call back. Otherwise it wouldn't be an issue, would it?

(*) Google Translate of the original page: https://translate.google.com/t...

It's the only way for change to happen.

They have things called education and learning. And you don't have to go back 200 years. "Gay marriage" was socially unacceptable (by more than half the populous), only 10 year ago, in the USA. And forget about it in the middle east.

If you think old people are inherently backwards and shouldn't vote, then you're RAGINGLY ageist.

Consider how many resources it takes to raise a surgeon from birth through all that schooling, to actually performing surgery by (on average) age 36.8. And then they retire by 65. Hopefully. Physical skills decline with age and there are papers about this. 37 years to pop a surgeon, for 27 years of actually doing the job. If that. Imagine if Einstein and Bohr were still alive. Enrico Fermi, Oppenheimer, Richard Feynman.... ok, Feynman went a little nuts at the end. But the point stands that death sucks. It's a tragedy and loss for society.

I can't help but view anyone arguing in favor of death as some sort of monster. Seriously? Pro-Death?

https://cloud.google.com/secur...

Actually, Google's cloud products seem to support HIPAA compliance now, so long as the customer holds up their end of the bargain.

Operation Northwoods never happened. You apparently missed the word proposed, so let me help. (One wonders whether such a scheme would be rejected by the current inhabitant of the White House as it was by JFK, but that's neither here nor there.)

"9-11 was an inside job!"? Pffft.

ExecSummary: You got nothin'.

right here.

There's also numerous emoluments clause violations that are so blatant that the question isn't "Is he guilty" it's "have be abandoned the rule of law". You can google them, it's not hard.

As for Trump himself, that's coming. We're taking down the most powerful man on earth. One who gave billions of dollars to the 1% who would like very much for that gravy train to continue. You can't just throw together a case overnight. He'll ignore the impeachment and the current SCOTUS will let it slide.

Go read up on Nixon. It took a while to bring the pain.

Part of the problem is you that you have morons claiming "ad blocking is unethical.

*facepalm*

So closing my eyes is fine but if I use technology to do the same thing all of it sudden it becomes "ethical" ??? WTF !

I use ad-blocking to SPEED up MY browsing experience and not load images + cookies from 30+ different websites.

I didn't think I would need to post every news story available on the internet about this.

Here's from the San Francisco CBS outlet https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal....

Here's a google search

https://www.google.com/search?...

Similar enough to https://patents.google.com/pat... and only because I'd previous built one (and dismantled it) from Meccano in 1991 and tried to patent it (rejected) after thinking the world needs more wind power :-(

Grow up.

I have - I believe in innocent until proven guilty.

Our society, however, is regressing into believing that certain kinds of allegations must mean that the accused is guilty unless proved innocent.

It matters very much what you think is credible, and how you determine that.

Nintendo's version of Xtreme Beach Volleyball, with only the female Nintendo characters such as Princess Peach, Princess Daisy, Rosalina, Zelda, Samus... eh... yeah, they don't have enough.

Well shit, that took all of 30 seconds. https://support.google.com/pix...

Yeah, this info doesn't explain why you can't hear your phone when there's a case specifically designed for this phone on it. Turns out it's because the type of speaker system is actually using the surface of the phone as a soundboard. The only reason I found that was to read a tear down article. (In other words, TFM didn't have the info necessary.)