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If they catch it they will confiscate it, no doubt. They're always taking my freaking lightbulbs. Whether or not they check the package is a game of roulette.

It's what makes copper IUD's possible :D

Putting laser diodes in series is the best option. If you run them in parallel you need resistors in series with each diode to limit the current, without the resistors you run the risk of one diode drawing more current than the others. In series they need (num diodes)*(voltage drop per diode)...

Bump.

Contact (1997) is one of my favorites. This gif of one scene has been going around the web quite a bit recently. More recently interstellar was amazing, felt like 2001 a space odyssey all over again.

Bump, one HeNe still for sale

Windows 10 is slow if you keep all the stock rubbish running, but if you slim it down it's definitely faster than previous OS's. If you care about battery life on mobile devices Cortana should be the first thing to go, followed by all live tiles. Then the horrifically un-optimized search...

Have to take a victory lap for the first ban though :na:

Welcome to the team :D

and we can always send our garbage back out to equalize the mass :D

Hey guys - las is a new member here (not a returning banned member) be nice. :p

There are a lot of PM's and reported posts behind the scenes of people crying foul, saying it's against the rules to leave neg rep (I wish I was joking) among other things. It's definitely not clear to people how the system can be used. If it stays there needs to be an agreement on it, and...

projector is sold, bump