GreatAlbatross

Kinda like the BeltBox, but less brightly coloured.

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After a long day operating Hitachi heavy machinery, soothe your muscles with a Hitachi back massager.

“Noise floor? Don’t be silly, it’s analogue, there is no noise floor!”

It depends on the version of atmos.

Full fat cinema atmos can scale to (iirc) 512 channels. (Things may have changed since I last was involved!)

In that case, it’s a 7.1 bed, and all the other channels are effectively coordinates in the room, and the processor steers objects between them in real time, rather than having defined tracks.

Absolutely, modern construction is often about not using (/spending) more than the spec requires.

Basic wood will be lower grade because it doesn’t need to be. And it will be cheaper because of that.

C16/C24 will be stronger and less knotty, and will meet a higher spec, for a price.

OLPC’s latest trial in DIY education involved delivering Motorola Xoom tablets and solar chargers with custom software to two remote rural villages in Ethiopia where literacy rates are close to zero.

Dating is simple, just exist, meddle with their family, and be an extremely rich member of the aristocracy.

A dull butter knife covered in tomato ketchup.

$1.15/number/month, though that is still some cost.

You’re right, the cost would make it a huge filter for spam. But you could conceivably have 1000 accounts on a verified server for just over a grand.

It would set a higher bar for a bot, but SMS wouldn’t stop them.
There are SMS providers that will happily spin you up a number with one API call, then return any messages sent to them. The spam account could have a number, confirm the message, then delete the account faster than a human could solve a captcha.