Amazon sells little plastic tools that are basically a specialized ruler for this measurement for around $12.

Just work fast and vary your steps or the sand worms will git ya.

Think of it as cover to prevent getting caught going to the strip club.

Your specimen is just a dumb cat.

I have to be particularly careful not touch the laser pointer keychain when I don't want to use it to play. The sound sets the cat into play mode that is annoying if there isn't actual play. My cat clearly anticipates the dot appearing based on seeing or hearing (mostly hearing) the laser pointer.

This matches my observations.

Though, you should note that you are talking about a spayed/neutered situation that may be quite different with a colony of sexually functioning cats.

You forgot:

11. Which will look best on my resume.

It's worded poorly.

The "periodic" part is the frequency at which they adjust the clocks to suit the Earth.

The Earth always has been, and always will be slowing it's rotation as long as it has a star to orbit and a moon orbiting it. Stuff happening on and inside the Earth can change the rate of rotation slowing.

I am skeptical that earthquakes have a periodic pattern tied to rotation, perhaps only as a secondary effect of geology changing (both earthquakes and rotation change due to tectonics.)

It's already dead.

I killed it with a HOSTS file.

It seems like dust could cause a "bounce error" too.

Put something with some vertical size in the right place and the circuit could be closed twice, with the particle acting like the fulcrum on a seesaw.

Unless Apple completely redesigned how those keys work, there is a plastic/rubber key over a spring of some kind (sometimes a rubber nipple) which presses a membrane with conductive material on one axis "across" through a second membrane with holes, that line up with a third membrane with "down" axis conductive stripes. They are quite simple really.

Rocking the membrane over the dust particle could cause two actual contacts, maybe even slower than "bounce error" checking would account for.

Opening the case and applying proper canned air to the keyboard edge where the membranes might be exposed could very well fix the problem.

What problem are you thinking they tried to solve?

An island is a very cost-effective method of incarceration. And it suits the primary goal of a prison: keep that idiot away from everybody else.

Unless you think the goal was "eugenically breed out criminal genes from the population" then your statement is completely stupid.

We don't use them because the islands are more valuable now, and the ideas about caring for prisoners have changed from what they were.

SD seems to have lost data. The user interface here looks like it did while they were still futzing with it after the purchase. They lost front end HTML and CSS / Script files it seems like.

Or, just guessed it.

If you tail spam blocker logs a few times, you figure out they are brute-forcing email addresses too.

There's nothing wrong with using the SSN to track who people are, that plus DOB avoids name collisions in data and lets everybody figure out who they are dealing with for sure. Which is a good thing.

There is A LOT wrong with using the SSN like a password that has to be secret to be useful. Unfortunately there isn't a substitute for it at this time.

We don't know who has the data yet. The OPM hack was probably chinese mob or chinese gov (like they are different) and "wreck some guy's credit by opening credit cards" wasn't the goal. (Strategic military and espionage was the goal.)

If something similar happened with Equifax, then the data will never come out and instead will be used against a certain select few people.

On the other hand, if it shows up on bittorrent or something, we'll get a fix to the SSN=password fuckup a lot faster.

I don't care much. My shit is already out there and I already get free monitoring from the Feds over the OPM hack. I check it once a week.

Pre-infect kidneys and liver with the bacteria beforehand and help prevent the chemo from causing other problems, or allow for higher dosages.

You are taking their word for when the breach started? LOLOLO ahaha ahaqhaa !! Aren't you cute.