Encounter #49: Chip's Quest for Freedom

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Artificial suns, unholy intersections, and Jonah the Lobster Diver. Show NotesMicrosoft will end Windows 10 support in 2025Further evidence that Windows 11 is around the corner? WBZ Begins 100 Year Celebration - Radio InkA hundred day celebration for a hundred years of broadcasting. Billy West - Wikipedia Humble & Fred - Wikipedia Fingerprinting and Six FlagsFact-checking Grumpy Old Bens yet again! Typically (universally?) a CCD photographs friction ridges directly. For LEA use, prints are stored as symmetric hashes (not the same as cryptographic hashing). Six-Flags "hashing" the fingerprints is meaningless. Only latent fingerprint images which are part of an ongoing investigation are actually retained as evidence. Fun fact: 59,866,563 civil, 78,926,734 criminal, 3,541,015 "individuals of special concern", and 14,210,822 OPM Fingerprints in NGI idFP repository (156,545,134 total). Illustration of friction ridge minutia sources. Symmetric hash functions for secure fingerprint biometric systems Man swallowed by whale by Cape Cod; MA lobster diver survives humpbackAnd it's not his first near-death experience. Virtua Hamster (SEGA 32X/Saturn) - Games That Weren'tFirst person hamtrail simulator for the 32X. He's got a jetpack! A JETPACK! The 88x31 GIF CollectionWelcome back to the 1990s. How did the odd size of 88x31 become a standard for a website 'button'? - Quora 86: Eighty Six 86: Eighty Six Part 2Looks like a second cour is already in the works, no sign of a release date yet. China turns on nuclear-powered 'artificial sun' (Update)I don't want to set the wooooorld on fire... China's Tokamak reactor. China breaks world record for 'artificial sun', unlimited energy soon? | TweakTownChina is moving towards creating unlimited clean energy by designing and building an artificial Sun here on Earth. "UNLIMITED POWAH!!!"

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