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New comment by floatin in "We've flown a radiation-blocking vest to the Moon and back, and it worked"

floatin — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:32:01 +0000

Could use empty plastic water tanks in the walls and have a satellite in orbit that already has the water onboard and they just transfer the water back to the satellite before returning to earth. Water blocks radiation very well it’s the reason we use pools of it to store fuel rods when they are not in reactors.

New comment by floatin in "CBP Directive 3340-049B: Border Search of Electronic Devices"

floatin — Mon, 25 May 2026 00:25:16 +0000

I just factory reset the phone or tablet and pull my data back down from cloud storage.just show up with the phone on the choose your language screen.

New comment by floatin in "FBI Wanted List: Fraudulent Remote IT Workers from DPRK"

floatin — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 05:16:15 +0000

I do IT support for onboarding remote hires for a call center we catch about 1-2 hires a day who are fraudulent. Most we catch by comparing the photos on their DL to the person who shows up on webcam for training. It’s unclear the motivation for the fraud. I don’t think they really have dug into that yet.

New comment by floatin in "Atomic time source failure at NIST Gaithersburg campus"

floatin — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 04:05:13 +0000

I wonder if it’s a response to this https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-accuses-us-cyber-b...

New comment by floatin in "Cassette tapes are making a comeback?"

floatin — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 05:31:32 +0000

Should be possible to store digital music on cassettes as well just like you would with a tape backup. Would probably increase both the quality and storage capacity of cassettes.

New comment by floatin in "Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ"

floatin — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 01:43:50 +0000

Will teach some friends how to side load this and tell them to each teach 2-3 friends.

New comment by floatin in "Trillions of gallons leak from aging drinking water systems"

floatin — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 01:52:34 +0000

I always thought this would be a good use for inexpensive flow meters with network/wireless connections. They would make it possible to find the points between which water is lost. Even in a home or large building have network capable meters should allow you to track the points in the plumbing where the leak is or at least the run of pipe containing it.

New comment by floatin in "Chronic stress spreads cancer"

floatin — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 12:09:25 +0000

Great another thing to worry about…

New comment by floatin in "Google removes some IAC browser extensions for 'policy violations'"

floatin — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 03:36:27 +0000

As a desktop support person I have removed so many of this companies toolbars and adware over the years all I can say is thank you.