In 1927 copyright duration was 28 years with a 28 year renewal for a total of 56 years. In 1978 congress stretched the renewal to give a total of 75 years and then in 1998 they stretched it again to give a total of 95 years.

I suspect it means the U.S. has it solved with something that isn't a missile. A laser or something else.

Show me the NASA launch that didn't have a person "on loan" from the military. NASA has never been civilian. It's full of people on loan from the various military branches.

USB floppy drives are still readily available. This isn't for the USB driver it's for the driver used by motherboards with a header.

A Western Digital NAS box and a roku work fine for me. No need to pay for a plex license nor for any additional hardware. I don't have all of my DVDs on there yet, but it's easier to put the DVD on the WD box and watch it than to carry the DVD around the house.

They already charge more for Engineering degrees. It's called "lab fees" rather than tuition. Another good one is "Engineering major surcharge" that I had to pay.

The temperature in Helsinki is below freezing and isn't expected to get above freezing even during the daytime highs for at least a week. That's close enough to winter for me, no matter what the divide the year into four equal seasons says.

The two original stories are in the public domain in the US. Here are Project Gutenberg links.

Armageddonâ"2419 A.D.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gutenberg.org%2Feboo...

and

The Airlords of Han
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gutenberg.org%2Feboo...

Of course no where in the stories was the name Buck Rogers used. That name didn't start until the comic strip.

About time.

Iowa has more roads than you would believe. Every mile on the mile except where pre-existing towns or rivers made it impossible there is a little gravel agricultural road.

Maybe because it's a parody? I've not watched this movie and don't intent to, but a parody is allowed to use however much of the original work it wants to.

The fire phone is currently $189 for an unlocked phone and it includes a year of prime. That means free shipping for a year no matter what platform you order on as well as free video and music streaming for a year.

By "pissed" I mean we would charge them with the costs of removing all of the hardware from the field and doing the board reworks. You don't get these kinds of guarantees at the hobby level, but you do at the higher end. We've never had to do it for "clones" but we have for parts that didn't meet spec in other ways. I might be a little bit ticked at FTDI, but none of our stuff ever touches windows anyway.

We don't use any of the serial only chips, but on the higher end with JTAG and SPI the FTDI parts work great and aren't too expensive. If any "clone" chips get into our supply chain we would be very pissed at whoever did it. We specify actual FDTI parts for a reason. The "clones" have very hit or miss quality. We don't use them under windows either.

It's more likely they are running the traffic through and IDS/IPS rather than logging everything. It's also likely that well know banking sites are excluded and just passed through. It does use quite a lot of resources to scan the traffic after all.

IDS/IPS https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

Tabula has some cool tech. Their current chips aren't dense enough for what we wanted to do with them, but at 22nm they might be.