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Cueball is evaluating movies onIMDb(theInternet Movie Database), based on how many people would need to bevaccinated for COVID-19, in order for them to follow the CDC's most recent guidelines. The guidelines tell how fully vaccinated people should act (at time of posting). The evaluation ...
Extended release charge cable Electronics manufacturers support standards to reduce time to fully recharge, e.g. QualcommQuick Chargestandard. This is a reference to"extended release" medication. Some phones have a setting to charge slower than normal so that if plugged in at bedtime it will be ...
A couple weeks ago,xkcdran this funny comic: Randall Monroe, the creator of xkcd, suggested that if YouTube commenters had to listen to their comments read back to them aloud, it might lead to better discussion on YouTube. Some Googlers thought that was a pretty fun suggestion, sothey di...
The title text broadens this criticism to all forms of romance. Randall appears to be stating that it is possible to love someone even if your relationship with that person doesn't conform to the impossibly high standards of "true love" thatour culture so highly exalts. In fact, healthy rel...
real keyboards (and I think is still supported in MS Word). There was a time when a clever hacker could use this and the DOS prompt to create a executable by COPY CON FOO.COM - which would fit nicely with the text "use this power wisely". But maybe I am reading too much into it...
Many pubs have trivia nights, where patrons form teams and compete to answer questions about a range of topics. The typical goal for trivia games is that they be challenging, yet possible, and so questions with answers that are too difficult or too easy generally make for a poor game. In...
implying that Black Hat's fundamental disregard for normal standards of human behavior make more sense if he is, in fact, not human. Of course, it's equally valid to conclude that Black Hat is simply lying to mess with the people around him, which would be fully in character for him. ...
which has been ignored by most of the computer-using world. Also he may actually believe it is the better standard that should have been more widely used. DCI, short forDigital Cinema Initiatives, is a collaboration of several major film studios to establish standards for the security and prop...
Hairy, representingRandall, has just woken up at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, andPonytailmentions he must be still jet lagged (possibly from a recent trip). Hairy thendenies much too specificallythat he has actually been up to some late-night Wikipedia browsing and reading aboutmaritime disaster...