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Worse the the Raspberry Pi drought; several places advertise one but no one can actually get them.

I don't think they're being made anymore.

Maybe this is the timeline that resulted from all the people who got theirs "fixing" things. Perhaps someone should've filtered those first orders a little more carefully.

> I don't think they're being made anymore.

They'll make them yesterday.

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The explanation I got when I worked there was that it was put in to help identify competitors that were blindly scraping our online catalog. There's a couple others if you keep digging.

Similar to the concept of "trap streets" on some maps: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street

When I worked with mailing lists, way back when; I always included my address under the name "J Random Dipesheet" or similar. We were generating "political" lists, but it was amazing how far afield those went, and the purposes they got used for.

I got dozens of everything AOL mailed, there for a while.

Must be the overclock edition.

An OEM flux capacitor is normally rated for 1.21 Gigawatts (not 121). Plutonium or fission material must be converted to electrical power in a separate unit, but direct atmospheric charging is a viable alternative.