Amazing - this story went from using soundwaves to put out wildfires ("Former NASA Engineers Create Ingenious Way To Save Homes From Wildfires Using Noise" ) to Experts are skeptical?

WTF, pick a side Slashdot - is Sonic fire suppression a practical solution to a problem or not?

Wait, I'm confused, I thought CO2 was bad (a so-called 'Greenhouse Gas'), are you really saying we need MORE CO2 for plants?

Please expand on your answer, thank you.

Maybe we could first focus on getting everyone access to clean, safe, drinking water?

Just a thought.

From the FACE act:

FTFY

If you want to claim it is somehow "not uncommon" (AKA "common") for right-wingers to harass Muslims at places of worship you really need to cite AT LEAST one specific instance, not a vague reference to an urban legend story with ZERO specifics...

As a reminder, they put on costumes (to hide their identity), assaulted the security guards, trespassed, likely did some damage, and likely interfered/interrupted some sort of religious service going on somewhere inside the building.

I don't think the Muslims in a mosque would be as compliant as you want them to be - I can't see them being very accepting of costumed individuals running into the building as some kind of "tik-tok" challenge...

Interfering with a persons religious services is a serious crime, see the FACE act.

What, exactly, are the 'cool kids' trying to draw attention to?

Go take a real good look at the FACE act - you know, the one that puts praying grandmothers standing outside abortion clinics in jail. It also applies to people interfering with a person in a religious service - it's what Don Lemon and a few others were charged with violating when they staged a protest inside a church.

The Feds can and should crack down on these 'pranksters' - it wouldn't be too hard to simply lick the doors behind them and keep them in the building till police arrive.

So all they need to do is simply replace every structure in California with concrete domes or eavesless steel buildings?

Wow, that shouldn't be a problem - thanks for such a simple answer! /smh

OK, so it can put out a burning bush or stove-top fire, but how, exactly will this be deployed in the case of another Palisades fire? As a reminder, in the Palisades fire it was abandoned before it was fully out (no one stayed behind to make sure the wildfire was out), then, hours later, acres were burning - a couple guys with fancy backpack sound machines aren't going to stop it, any more than a couple guys with garden hoses. (PS, water availability was also a factor in Palisades, no matter what 2028 Presidential candidate and part-time international knee-pad salesman) Gavin Newsom says...

Why would a bird fly thru a burning tree?

And still waiting for "The Year of the Linux Desktop"

Tandy negotiated a one-time fee for Level II Basic for the TRS-80 Model 1, as I understand the price was based on selling about 10,000 units - RS eventually solde a quarter-million TRS-80s. Quite a good deal for Radio Shack.

When has Microsoft denied buying 86-DOS from Seattle Computer Products?

I have been involved in the personal computer world since the late 70s, reading about S100 bus computers and CP/M, but I don't remember these "checksum" tools for entering programs, but I was much more in the TRS-80 world, not Commodore or Apple, maybe that's why? Anyway, what I do remember is one magazine (Kilobaud?) that put flexible 45 RPM vinyl records inside the magazine, and you would "play" the record on your turntable, connected to your cassette interface.

I also remember in the TRS-80 world there was a tradition of making "one line" programs - they got to be quite sophisticated but were really just "scrolling games" in most cases.

I remember typing a massive fruit fly genetics program into an Apple ][ one winter break as extra credit for my biology class - it was in Pascal and was an ungodly amount of typing...