NotAWorkNick

I meant more in terms of leaking PII ;)

Thanks for caring though, and hang in there :)

You are correct @idontknow.... I did omit some ellipses; My Bad.

Thank you for pointing it out (Unfortunately the edit window has closed otherwise I would add them :) )

Disclaimer: I'm about to disclose some personal information so will probably burn this nick shortly.

I am slowly going blind (long, boring story; only relevance to the topic is during a discussion with the eye-guy consultant he mentioned that he had had a close personal friend of his kill himself the day after a night out and that he (the consultant) wished that he had been able to somehow sense that his friend was so close to the edge....

I looked at him softly and with compassion and said to him that there was no way in hell that he would have ever known or be able to sense something like that because the serious ones don't broadcast their intentions (simply because they don't want to be stopped from doing it).

My heart bled reading this article but having grown up in a life of violence (early start in Africa, a bit of a chequered past led me in to the world of I.T. (machines are better than humans... they can tell you why they are sick, what part(s) are broken and then either report a (1) Fixed or a (2) Not Fixed... any how, that's how I wandered into IT field mixed in with some ex military stuff including a lay-over in Dubai that lasted for two-weeks... the bloke at Heathrow customs glanced at my transit stamps and asked me where the fuck I had been for two weeks (10 day gap in departure from place {x} to arrival at LHR ....

I looked him in the eye and said simply ..... 'Good god, my arms are tired from all that flapping and those head-winds were a bitch!'

He muttered something along the lines of "f*ing smart-arses", stamped my passport and waved me through.

Whole point of the above? I dunno but nick & karma points burnt telling it.

If you take nothing else away from this – Please know that you likely would have had no way of knowing so please don’t feel guilt…. They made a decision and it was one that you (the loved one grieving) would have been unlikely to have changed even if you had have known. At best, you would be likely to have simply delayed it for a while.

YMMV

Kudos to them - ya gotta give Credit where credit is due. It's good to see them take a second bite of the Apple.

(all extremely bad puns - its been a long day with an early start)

If the raw material for the smoke signal was cannabis bushes - would that qualify as a High frequency transmission?

“If it’s made out of electrical components then you should be able to scale it down to a microchip,” he says. “I think that’s where they’re going with this.”

Mind.Blown. This could be a very interesting development.

Which would be best for this - ASIC,FPGA,VLSI? Something else? for a rapid prototype setup?

Really?

Then your experience differs greatly from mine (EU based). My usual mix of 'fastest anycast' upstreams’ are reliably black-holing a lot of .ru domains right now

(Rightly or wrongly is a ‘nother question for a ‘nother day).

P.S, YMMV and obviously does :)