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Aug 26, 2015
Xerox has apparently started region-encoding their toner cartridges. These are encoded so that a cartridge will only work in one part of the world. Region-encoding allows Xerox to sell the same printer…
Aug 25, 2015
Local Howard County blogger Duane St. Clair went on the stormwater management hike. There are no natural lakes in Maryland and when Columbia was built in the 1960s, three very small streams…
Aug 24, 2015
The New Yorker has a story on how the Mars500 crew kept themselves occupied. The Mars500 expedition placed six people in a capsule, here on Earth, for 500 days, to see how…
Aug 23, 2015
I did the bad thing and clicked the clickbait. It was for crazy movie credits, and I am sorry to everyone for increasing hit count for those guys. But one of the…
Aug 22, 2015
Rochester Institute of Technology student J.D. Harper has written a new master's thesis on how to retrofit structures in dense urban areas for greater flood resistance. Following Sandy's damage across the dense…
Aug 21, 2015
Radians are confusing. There are [latex] 2\pi[/latex] in a circle, and that's a lot harder to deal with than the 360 degrees. In fact, it's not even a whole number, and that…
Aug 19, 2015
There's been a battle raging in Wisconsin for a few years as the city of Waukesha asks for access to Lake Michigan for drinking water. The Great Lakes, surrounded by ten states…
Aug 18, 2015
I couldn't make it to the Mars One feasability debate at the Mars Society Convention, but IEEE Spectrum has a nice summary. While I still won't step into the question of feasibility,…
Aug 17, 2015
Over the weekend, I watched "The KGB, the Computer, and Me," a NOVA dramatization of Cliff Stoll's experience chasing down a 75 cent accounting error. I read the book, The Cuckoo's Egg,…
Aug 15, 2015
This morning, ChaseKBH and I are going down to the 18th Mars Society Convention. But back here on Earth, I have classes to prepare and problems to solve. I have posted the…
Aug 14, 2015
In about an hour, I will be giving my talk on governing a Mars colony. The slides are up on Slideshare for your perusal. Planning for Martian Polity from James Howard