Back 1700 years ago, when St. Nicholas lived, red was an expensive color, reserved for nobility and higher clerics. As Nicholas of Myra was a bishop, he is traditionally depicted in red bishop robes, which advertizing later turned into that red suit worn by fat Santa.

The Astronomy Picture of the Day. Don’t ask me where my system digs it from, though.

There are several problems if you want to interfere that communication.

First, you need to reverse engineer the protocol. For that you need to be able to log what nasa is sending and what they are receiving. Both has quite some problems, as the sending signal is tightly focused towards the spacecraft, so you probably have to find the actual dish and install a bug to read what they are sending. The NASA might object to that.

Second, you would need the hardware. Which is beyond the normal hobbyists budget.

And finally, you would have to be 100% spot on in your reverse engineering of the protocol or you’ll probably just brick that thing.

If you want to cause trouble, don’t bother with the cockpit doors. Windows and doors are much easier targets.

It is pure show. It might deter or maybe even catch the most stupid wannabe-terrorist, but tests have shown repeatedly that skilled people have no issues getting guns through without issues. All this while you can still build a bomb with stuff bought from the duty-free behind the TSA curtain.

“this scenario is highly unlikely to occur in real-world conditions, limiting it to individual bad actors knowingly violating laws and product warranties.”

From reading this article, it looks like they just accessed the JTAG or SWDIO connector and simply wrote a new software on that thingy. If they were stupid enough to expose this kind of connector, they probably were dumb enough not even to secure it against reading, so one could probably just reverse engineer. I think I could easily do that if I had access to such a thing and would set my mind to it. It is not different from what I do every day for a job - programming such embedded devices.

I’ve been in places where people with this kind of knowledge meet by the thousands. I would not call this “highly unlikely”.

You are technically correct, but for me, this counts.

Still, there is the rest of the world to be considered where health insurance actually deals with pharmaceutical companies and makes them sell their products with realistic prices.

A Cobra Mark III rotating on the screen as a green wireframe model on black background.

But since I switched back to manual brushing, my teeth problems went away. Using the electric ones, I had two appointments where my dental bridge across several teeth had to be taken out and things fixed under it. I had no issues with it before the electrical toothbrush, and have not have any more since I am back to manual brushing.

I have two, which I got as promo gift at an electronics fair, demonstrating some microcontroller features. Gotta change the batteries, though.

The Republican party.

If you don’t notice the difference, well, your loss. I take a nice Darjeeling or Assam over a British Zombie Tea any time.

There will always be people who overestimate the rewards and underestimate the risks of an undertaking.

Just look how some people still see the civil war as the “war of northern aggression”, and how they still treat so-called “heroes” of the south.

Maybe not eat. Most of them are old and probably way to tough to chew.

I hope that Europe will follow soon.

If they ever set up a GoFundMe to set up a memorial statue of the killer, just give a shout.

We would probably have to learn Chinese instead of English.

We visited an office, and the person guiding us around told us about one of the employees that “it is his first day” - we all misheard this as “it is his birthday”. And started to sing…