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  1. I had a company iPad unlocked - was a bit drawn out and annoying.
    Employee left under a cloud as it were and had "forgotten" the password, so it's on my desk.
    Seems Apple somehow put me into consumer not corporate, that's what they blamed it on.
    I had supplied all the proof of ownership all that stuff and it didn't get resolved, I did get pretty narky on the phone at the end of it all.
    Really was a PITA though.. real time waster.

  2. The Powers That Be.. on Cringely Predicts: Professional Drivers With Drone Landing Platforms (cringely.com) · · Score: 1

    So how in F do these drones fly legally?

    Here in the Land-of-Oz a certain department (CASA) mandates where you can fly your favorite muti-rotor-copter.
    There's even an App for it. Trust me, it's bloody restrictive as to where one can take off as "they" fret over real helicopters getting struck.
    Got a helipad within 5 klicks? Forget it. Flying over private property - no way! Just as a couple of examples.

  3. Re:Still using TextWrangler on BBEdit Returns To the Mac App Store (barebones.com) · · Score: 1

    > I'm still using the free TextWrangler from Bare Bones.

    Yep, me too on High Sierra 10.13.6 - I also quite like BlueFish but I usually run that on my Mac under an X session off of a Debian box.

  4. Re:Juul is a pusher to children on San Francisco Moves To Ban E-Cigarettes Until Health Effects Known (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    > I was quite surprised that I couldn't find any proof that nicotine is harmful.

    You gotta be kidding me! Ever heard of LD50? That's Leathal Dose 50%, which means 50% of test subjects die.

    Good ol' Wikipedia quote:
    0.5–1.0 mg/kg can be a lethal dosage for adult humans, and 0.1 mg/kg for children.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... or http://www.inchem.org/document...

  5. Re: Juul is a pusher to children on San Francisco Moves To Ban E-Cigarettes Until Health Effects Known (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    > Thats apparently a UK/Europe thing and apparently they do it in Canada also.

    Yeah, people do that here in Australia as well, makes me wanna puke!

  6. More Where That Came From on Radioactive Particles From Huge Solar Storm Found In Greenland (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Well we missed a bullet in 2012 - more where that came from!

  7. cat /etc/hosts | grep face
    # localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
    127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com
    127.0.0.1 facebook.com
    127.0.0.1 login.facebook.com
    127.0.0.1 www.login.facebook.com
    127.0.0.1 static.ak.connect.facebook.com
    127.0.0.1 connect.facebook.net
    127.0.0.1 www.connect.facebook.net
    127.0.0.1 apps.facebook.com
    ::1 www.facebook.com
    ::1 facebook.com
    ::1 login.facebook.com
    ::1 www.login.facebook.com
    ::1 static.ak.connect.facebook.com
    ::1 connect.facebook.net
    ::1 www.connect.facebook.net
    ::1 apps.facebook.com
    127.0.0.1 facebook.com
    127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com
    127.0.0.1 connect.facebook.com
    127.0.0.1 developers.facebook.com
    127.0.0.1 ads.interfacelift.com
    127.0.0.1 ads.ak.facebook.com.edgesuite.net


    I've probably missed a few.

  8. > I haven't seen any reports of a repeat of the South Australian Blackout of 2016. [wikipedia.org] I guess there has been some sort of technological improvement since then.

    CL above states "strong winds" - guess you'd call a tornado that as that's what happened - 26 transmission towers went down if I remember. Typically what causes problems are all the air-cons switching on in the arvo, happened down in Victoria the other day.

    Predicted top of 41degC here today, apparently the hottest week (this last week) in the last 10 years. Minimum of 29.6degC last night just before dawn.

    Bugga all rain as well. All trends are generally following Global Warming predictions - gad I wish they *were* wrong :-/ Guess it's something like shitting in one's own nest.

  9. > An electromagnetic coil is circumferentially positioned around the coating such that when the coil is activated
    > with a pulsed current, a non-linear vibration is induced, enabling room temperature superconductivity.

    So two circuits, which is super conductive? The inner London Scale layer I presume.

    If the outer layer is not super conductive then heat leak will occur.