Daily Shaarli
December 12, 2020
As the vote counting for the 2020 Presidential Election continues, various facts suggest rampant frauds in Joe Biden’s votes. So does mathematics in terms of the votes from precincts.
Benford’s law or the first-digit law, is used to check if a set of numbers are naturally occurring or manually fabricated. It has been applied to detect the voting frauds in Iranian 2009 election and various other applications including forensic investigations.
Size isn’t everything with engines (there comes the point where they are too heavy), but engineering larger fans has led to improved performance. The Pratt & Whitney JT3D engines offered for the Boeing 707 for example have a fan diameter of just 130 centimeters. The largest engines today are over double this size.
GE9X – the biggest engine
The largest commercial jet engine offered to date is the General Electric GE9X engine. This has been designed for the new Boeing 777X. It is developed from the GE90 engine but has a larger fan and lighter construction. The GE9X holds the Guinness World Record for the highest recorded thrust, a huge 134,300 pounds. It is also 10% more fuel-efficient than its predecessor.
And for size, the front fan diameter is 340 centimeters. The total engine diameter is closer to four meters, making it wider than the fuselage of a Boeing 737. //
The Rolls-Royce Trent 900 was launched in 2003 for the A380. It is derived from (and is slightly larger than) the Trent 800 engine. It went on to be developed into the Trent 1000 for the Boeing 787, but this is a smaller engine.
The Trent 900 has a fan diameter of 295 centimeters. And it offers thrust of up to 81,000 pounds.
ABC reported that Blake worked on decoding the message using a University of Melbourne supercomputer called Spartan.
“During the year we tested, by trial and error, around 650,000 different reading directions through the cipher. This search turned up — more or less — nothing,” Blake said. “However, one of these searches uncovered a surprising combination of words: GAS CHAMBER. That such a macabre phase should pop up in a sea of noise warranted further attention.
“From this fragment, David, Jarl van Eycke and I reworked the key and corrected an error Zodiac made in his diagonal enumeration of the second vertical segment of the cipher.
“Jarl’s fantastic program, azdecrypt, was essential in this process,” Black said.
The San Francisco office of the FBI on Friday confirmed the group had cracked the coded message, and said the investigation into the half-century-old case was ongoing.
“The FBI is aware that a cipher attributed to the Zodiac Killer was recently solved by private citizens,” the FBI said in a statement posted on Twitter. “The Zodiac Killer terrorised multiple communities across Northern California, and even though decades have gone by, we continue to seek justice for the victims of these brutal crimes.”
No one was ever charged in the Zodiac case, and theories abound as to the killer’s real identity.
As we already maintain CloudLinux OS, we plan to release a free, open-sourced, community-driven, 1:1 binary compatible fork of RHEL® 8 (and future releases) in the Q1 of 2021. We will create a separate, totally free OS that is fully binary compatible with RHEL® 8 (and future versions). We will sponsor the development & maintenance of such OS. We will work on establishing a community around the OS, with the governing board from members of the community. //
If you are running CentOS 8 - we will release an OS very similar to CentOS 8 based on RHEL 8 stable. We will provide stable and well-tested updates until 2029 - completely free. You will be able to convert from CentOS 8 at any moment by running a single command that switches repositories & keys.
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The Pilgrims and emerging New Englanders made an additional contribution to the formation of the American ethos that is worth expanding upon, however: the daring, intrepid, and risk-taking qualities of those who settled in the northeast coast of what would become the United States. The resolve to pull up stakes and strike out into the perilous unknown — and the faith and fortitude to follow through on it — is an inspirational cultural debt we owe to the first early Pilgrims and New England settlers.
If instead of religious, freedom-seeking, young family units, arrivals on the northern shores of the future American coast had been the unwed, flighty, gold-seeking ruffians of the Jamestown variety, the America that followed would have been remarkably different.
The National Academies report links high-power microwaves to impacts on people through the Frey effect. The human head acts as a receiving antenna for microwaves in the low gigahertz frequency range. Pulses of microwaves in these frequencies can cause people to hear sounds, which is one of the symptoms reported by the affected U.S. personnel. Other symptoms Havana syndrome sufferers have reported include headaches, nausea, hearing loss, lightheadedness and cognitive issues.
I can't pretend this is good news for CentOS users, but I can offer some good news: CentOS might be dead, but it's far from your only option for a "rebuild" distro that's binary-compatible with RHEL. Let's take a look at a few of the most likely options below.
After an upgrade to Hogfather there are often problems with DokuWikis that are no longer reachable. Often this is caused by plugins or templates that have to be adapted.
Besides the possibility to deactivate these plugins manually by server intervention, there is also the DokuWiki Recovery Script. This script does some requirement checks and resets the DokuWiki as far as possible back to the default state.
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On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Dr. Larry Arnn, president of Hillsdale College, joins Political Editor John Daniel Davidson to discuss how the principles established during the founding of America and the Pilgrims’ arrival on the Mayflower in 1620 should be valued today.
“If you think of the unfolding of America, it’s all implicit in that set of arrangements,” Arnn explained. “The doctrine of equality is not in there, except implicitly, but powerfully implicitly, because they all have to sign it.”
The attempted erasure of these principles by movements such as the New York Times’ “1619 Project,” Arrn said, reinforces the value of them as well as Americans’ struggle for a free, equal nation for all.
“Our history has always been a struggle towards [equality] and we have long periods where we give up on this thing and try to do something easier. That’s where the tragedies come,” Arnn said. “And the contemporary tragedy is, now we’re gonna pick them by color, and advance some and, and debase others, to make it up for the wrongs done in the past. And we lose our individuality in that.”