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    Is my phone actually listening in on me?

    Although the keystroke detail is not in your browser's history, it is recorded on the server's logs and in any sniffers they may be running.
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    Why doesn't pressure depend on the shape of the container?

    Mark44 said: I didn't say that the pressure was the same throughout the liquid, I said that it spreads out throughout the liquid. I'm afraid you've misquoted me. I said, "the more liquid there is, the more room there is for the force to spread out" Again, you misrepresented what I said. I...
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    Why doesn't pressure depend on the shape of the container?

    The pressure spreads out throughout the liquid. The more liquid there is, the more force there is; but also, the more liquid there is, the more room there is for the force to spread out. So it always balances out no matter how much liquid you have. Because it spreads out throughout, it doesn't...
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    Is my phone actually listening in on me?

    There is also the psychological effect of selective attention, where things that are unusual tend to draw your attention more than ordinary things. So when you get a suggestion drop-down list that has items that are not related to what you've been talking about, you don't notice it. But when...
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    Is my phone actually listening in on me?

    There is also the psychological effect of selective attention, where things that are unusual tend to draw your attention more than ordinary things. So when you get a suggestion drop-down list that has items that are not related to what you've been talking about, you don't notice it. But when...
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    When did the specialization of science begin?

    All I know is that the more I learn, the less I know... It does seem to be increasing exponentially. No human could absorb all of it today, but in the future we will be able to -- or at least our AI descendants will be able to.
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    Is it possible to connect a Hall Effect Flow Sensor output to a PLC?

    Just pick the PLC that you are most comfortable with and if the available inputs on the PLC are not fast enough to handle the frequency of the sensor output, then run the signal through a frequency divider. It looks like at least one of those sensors is using a TTL output so you could configure...
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    Why do I keep finding more new rocks in my garden year after year?

    Oh. I guess comedians need to know their audience. My provincialism is more magnified on the internet... I wasn't aware of that etymology. Thanks for that tidbit. :smile:
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    Why do I keep finding more new rocks in my garden year after year?

    Too dry? Maybe I should have tacked a smiley on the end of it. Hint: What's a filbert?
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    Speed measurement -- Limitations to "instantaneous" measurements?

    There is a semantic issue here also. The dictionary definition of the noun "instant" can refer to a point in time. The adjective "instantaneous" usually describes something that happens, "Done occurring or acting without any perceptible duration of time..." However, the word "instant" is also an...
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    Why do I keep finding more new rocks in my garden year after year?

    Developing a mathematical model for the process has been non-trivial. Current geometric functional analyses don't use traditional Euclidean space, but instead use filbert space.
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    Minimum distance between two perpendicular moving vehicles

    If you read the question literally, the answer is obvious. But I don't think that's the answer they're looking for. Hint:
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    B What is the black that we see in the night sky?

    Also... The reason why we don't we a black sky during the day is because light from the Sun hits small molecules of nitrogen and oxygen in the atmosphere and gets scattered. This is called Rayleigh scattering. This is why the sky is blue during the day and black at night (when the atmosphere is...
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    B What is the black that we see in the night sky?

    Yes. All the things mentioned in the above replies plus: Stars that are so far away that their light has not reached us yet (since they began their fusion process), or anything beyond the distance of the visible universe (about 13.8 billion light years) -- that is before anything began to emit...
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    Comp Sci Rate of transmission in a wireless LAN

    Did you figure that out from my hints, or did you click the spoiler button?
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