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Kent Sharkey wrote: If you look really closely, you won't see Bob waving
I see him, I see him! He's holding up a sign: "Marc, you haven't published any articles in a loooong while!"
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Get off that e-bike and get typing! Dance, monkey, dance!
(For the throttle, there might be a cut-off button? I know I have one on mine that disables the throttle. No idea why though.)
TTFN - Kent
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Quanta magazine article: a world seven times heavier than Jupiter that orbits a star nearly 400 light-years away.
Marc Clifton wrote: He's holding up a sign: "Marc, you haven't published any articles in a loooong while!"
You're doing pretty well, for someone who is at least 800 years old... 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Ransomware groups want to make as much money as possible - that means they're going after more varied targets. They did want to replace Windows
I was going to go with "Jeux sans fronteires", but perhaps that's too obtuse?
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Or "Hackers Without Borders" 
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In draft proposals published this week, European regulators are planning to force phone manufacturers to supply at least 15 different parts to professional repairers for five years after a device first goes on sale. Consumers will also get guaranteed access to replacement batteries, displays, chargers, back covers, and even SIM / memory card trays for five years. My flip-phone says thank you
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A game designer has sparked controversy after submitting an image created by an AI text-to-image generator to a state art competition and taking home first prize. Then they came for the artists and I did nothing as I needed something for my wall
It hides a nasty stain that's lying there
It's a pretty neat picture (IMO)
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Quote: One user said, “We’re watching the death of artistry unfold right before our eyes,” while another bemoaned that artwork was now “slop produced as cheaply and quickly as possible to be consumed in bursts of a few microseconds as it glides by on the infinite feed.”
LOL. How anthrocentric. I also think it's pretty good. If AI can do this, another AI should be able to generate an endless supply of those joke submissions that get accepted by woke journals. The goal should be for an entire issue to contain nothing but such articles.
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Some of Japan's Ministers of State think that it's time to move forward. But I can keep my 8-tracks?
Do they even come with desktops anymore?
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Do our missile launch systems still use 8" floppy's?
Hmmm[^]
Quote: The US Air Force is currently looking at a replacement for SACCS, not least because it takes a long time to train newer engineers on how to use the older tech.
Oh dear. I wonder if they ever did. Maybe they switched to 3.5" disks? 
[edit]
I should have read the article more carefully:
Quote: Apparently, the switch happened back in June [2019], according to Lt. Col. Jason Rossi, commander of the Air Force’s 595th Strategic Communications Squadron.
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Marc Clifton wrote: Do our missile launch systems still use 8" floppy's?
They switched when the lobbyist for the 8" disk manufacturers finally died of extreme old age.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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WORM devices have the advantage that they are write-once, which means that they are useful for recording evidence - any tampering is immediately evident. This, I assume, is one of the reasons why they have not switched before this.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Yes, this came up in my news feed too. Different article
Why Japan’s war on disks could prove to be another flop | Japan | The Guardian
Quote: Quote: Floppy disks, too, have their champions.
The disks “almost never broke or lost data”, Yoichi Ono, an official in Tokyo’s Meguro ward, told Nikkei Asia last year when the local government decided to phase out floppies and other physical storage data.
Seriously? I clearly recall the countless occasions when floppies had tracks gouged out by the drive head, making recovery truly impossible.
Never mind floppies and CDs, I'll celebrate when they do away with fax machines and the countless paper forms needed in just about any government procedure.
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Indivara wrote: I'll celebrate when they do away with fax machines and the countless paper forms needed in just about any government procedure.
I second that... totally. And I am not in Japan.
Looks like it is a global issue 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Microsoft launched a resource web page for Java developers, described as a one-stop shop for tools and resources that enable Java jocks to productively code, deploy and scale their apps. "As if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror"
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Ransomware attacks pose a major cybersecurity threat - but there's action that can be taken to stop the cyber criminals from making you their next victim. Step 0: Write check Step 1: Sign check Step 2: Mail check
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You missed:
Step -1: Learn to spell "cheque" correctly.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Or:
Step -1 (USians only): redefine the spelling of "cheque" as "check". 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I had written it correctly at first, but changed it for the ‘Mercans in the audience.
I can’t win, or even come close. 
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I can’t win, or even come close.
The three laws of Infernal dynamics:
- You can't win
- You can't break even
- You can't quit the game
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Say, are checkques  still in common use around the world?
I haven't seen one in this country (Norway) for at least twenty years. According to Bank of Norway, thirteen years ago, a total of 400,000 were cashed - one per 12,5 person a year. I guess at least 95% were between business partners; you never saw them among common people at that time. Six years later, in 2015, the usage had dropped to one fourth, one checkque a year per 50 Norwegians, accounting for 0.02% of bank transactions (by value, I couldn't find the percentage by transaction count; I guess that would be even lower). Today? I don't know if the service exists at all any more!
If you today try to pay by sjekk (Norwegian spelling) at your local Norwegian supermarket, I guess that the young guy at the checkout would have to call the store manager asking how to handle it. No one under thirty knows what a sjekk is, and how it is used.
Sure Norway has been in the frontline introducing electronic services, in banking and other functions. Yet, 20+ years after we abandoned sjekker in daily life, I was expecting other industrialized countries to have gone electronic, too. Am I wrong in my assmumption?
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We do use them occasionally in Israel, but the overwhelming majority of fund transfers are performed electronically.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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All of Africa and Indonesia have converted to electronic devices that you must rent, for your convenience 
I do not know if it is legal tender everywhere and it prolly isn't; I seen stores here refuse them.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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AFAIK, cheques aren't legal tender, but they are (were) accepted as payment in most of the world. They are an acknowledgement of a debt, and an instruction to the bank to pay this debt.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Which is prolly why stores can refuse them.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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