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We haven't ever seen a cargo-only upper stage for the BFR

You mean something like this?

If by "not enough evidence to convict" you mean "zero physical evidence, zero corroboration from anyone the accuser claimed had first hand knowledge of the event, and zero evidence of any other kind other than the highly-inconsistent story given by the accuser herself at a hearing that she flew cross-country to despite previously demanding the entire US Senate grind to a halt for a week to accommodate her fear of flying", then yes.

This is literally just IRC with some graphics, and additional easy-to-use integrations.

9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

I can't believe I'm about to defend Slack right now. I mean, I set up a MatterMost server at work and some friends and I use Rocketchat hosted on a RasPi at home because I'm rather big on self-hosted or gtfo, but I think we, the Slashdotters, trivialize the value in the graphics and integrations.

Yes, I'm sure the majority of us would think nothing of typing sudo apt-get install ircd-hybrid on a VM somewhere and configuring it. Then, we have to get all the end users to standardize on an IRC client. Accounting isn't going to approve a hundred licenses of mIRC. So, Quassel it is, so that we can keep a single set of documentation on it for both Windows and OSX users. Now we need the mobile clients, so AndIRC for the Android folk, and...Mutter, for iOS? So really, it's three sets of documentation, which involve end users having to use "/join" and "/quit" commands. Permissions for OPs are interesting and a bit awkward, and I'm sure management just LOVES the idea of having to learn it...but they decide to do so.

Now, we deal with notification hell. Slack famously published their notification logic. How do you implement that in IRC? That's per-client, no concept of priority messages unless users are tagged, and no concept of groups except for joined rooms, meaning multiple join commands or per-user join scripts generated by IT. Also, no message threading or replying, and as much as we may well hate it, stickers and emojis aren't viable. More usefully, in-line message embedding is nonexistent, save for hyperlinks to URLs, meaning that uploading images to an image host is a requirement to share a picture. Similarly, chat history is not generally stored server side in a user-accessible manner, to say nothing of searching. Some clients will store the history client-side, which is fine until it starts using up measurable amounts of storage on the devices, or the user gets a new phone and the cache doesn't transfer.

Then, we deal with good ol' fashioned security concerns. Port 6667 is commonly blocked on public wi-fi locations, so running on a nonstandard port is a de facto requirement. The server needs to allow only authenticated users, which is a relatively uncommon config for most IRC servers I've frequented (which tend to just use nickserv to reserve usernames), and run everything over SSL.

That setup then becomes the foray of IT, to ensure it keeps working at perfect uptime, with nobody to call and yell at if there are any issues.

And that's just off the top of my head.

Yes, I 100% agree that Slack brings very little originality to the table, and has far less flexibility than IRC, which can indeed be accessed on everything from an iPhone XS to a Commodore 64, and everything in between. However, I submit that IRC had a 15-year head start to achieve the same level of professional use that Slack achieved since 2013. Sure, plenty of it is marketing, along with the fact that pretty screenshots make sense to nontechnical people in accounting and the C-suite...but the fact that the setup steps for everybody are "download app, enter e-mail/password, start chatting", on every device they are likely to use...I submit that they managed to find the pain points which prevented businesses from adopting IRC and then solved it in exchange for money.

Obligatory corrected XKCD. If they don't like being forced to abide by the First Amendment, they can always stop being the digital public square. Take your tired ass arguments out of here.

Obligatory response to shitty XKCD comic. Which fails to understand the basic functioning of these platforms, their use as a "public square" and "political soap box."

Remember, those platforms you've listed have billed themselves as the NEW public square. Guess what happens when you do that? It means the constitution starts applying. Rights and freedoms apply. Protection of speech applies.

http://imgur.com/WgSvnA5

Saved a link to that screenshot a while ago. Shows 1.5 Mbps to that address in the city limits of Seattle in the U District. I have several coworkers still on dial-up since they can't get even slow DSL that's reliable.

Simpsons quote.

Leaving the choice up to the Internet, or even just Netflix subscribers isn't going to result in the best storylines, or even the storylines that necessarily reflect what actual people want to see.

My favorite example of this is Imgur Let's play: Top comment decides what action Luke does next

Fuck yeah, Earth sandwich

https://i.imgur.com/LUbACUF.jp...

in discussing the role of "Han" their proposed definition ("shorthand for a character created by George Lucus") includes cover for having "shot second" which may be popular in "popular science-fiction," but is certainly not popular in technical discussions.

NERDS! ;)

i love to lay in my hammock and slowly sip Southern Comfort
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http://i.imgur.com/WakwIpH.png

Yeah, it seems like thermal throttling is a real thing https://imgur.com/OThPVWb pretty much across the board. Probably because without they would never achieve warranty as the devices would basically cook themselves to death.

Need new power test, how long do the devices run at full output before slowing done and then beyond that dying, simply overheating to death or shutdown (probably shutdown, again to preserve warranty but wait why should warranty be protected if the device is shutting down and not working or even when powering down, when they are selling maximum cpu output).

These test also should be conducted a higher room temperatures, something like 30 degrees C.

Actually, this is generally what happens to a project. It adopts a CoC or enough anonymous/SJW complaints are created, big contributors leave or are forced out, the project dies or slows because it is spending inane amounts of energy on political discussions rather than technical. It happened with NodeJS, Kubernetes, LLVM, Tor, Debian all of which are decent projects but kind of 'stuck' now that boards and bug lists are overrun by "complaints" rather than technical discussions.

I wondered if what you said is true? Here's a graph of LLVM contributions. I pulled it from github's llvm-mirror/llvm repo, and used github's "Insights > Contributions" tab to display the graph. Github claimed that the graph shows up to September 2018 -- that's contradicted by the labels and tickmarks. I wonder if github's graph-plotting routines don't get the label+tickmark positions quite right? I aimed to include roughly equal spans before and after the code of conduct to see if there's a clear effect.

https://i.imgur.com/fXorXyo.pn...

My conclusion? I don't see a clear signal. The graph seems to have roughly the same noise level and averages before and after, and a better narrative would be "there are sometimes huge sustained spikes of activity for reasons presumably related to the content of the work". (This is just from eyeballing it; I can't be bothered to put the numbers into a spreadsheet and do the calculations more carefully). If you say that LLVM is now dead, that's not supported by the data. If you say it's slowed, that's plausible (we'd need numbers), but the data says there hasn't been a major slowdown.

If you believe a different numerical analysis would be better, one that takes into account the quality of the contributions, then yes please I'd love for you to provide that! Or for you to provide equivalent graphs for the other projects you listed.

That's a fair question. As someone else pointed out here, ISRO is not a household name in the US and EU. Plenty of people know it, but most do not. That's why whenever we are covering a subject that is outside of the US and UK, we try to add some context. It's a very common practice. See for instance, this WSJ headline [link will take you to Imgur, a third-party image and video hosting service]. That said, I think it would have been better if the headline said India's Space Agency. I have made the change.

"They stopped being journalists and began being *cheerleaders*, and became people who had a conclusion that they reached, and then searched for facts to show that Hillary Clinton was an 92, 93, 99 point 9999 chance winner, of winning this campaign."

CNN caught red-handed planting debate questions. http://imgur.com/a/OMD6b#ed8AV... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

CNN cuts off congressman when he mentions Wikileaks with Clinton https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

30 second Video: Sheriff asks media not to report Oregon shooter's name, CNN ignores request and does it anyway, including publishing his social media comments. (Note: video was edited by uploader to censor CNN's publishing of the shooter's name)

Compilation of CNN & MSNBC Cutting Guests Mics to Protect Hillary Clinton https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Entire media endorsed Hillary https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C4...

CBS's John Dickerson: Donald Trump Didn't Ruin the Press's Reputation, We Did That Ourselves http://www.mediaite.com/online...

Uh, we deliberately didn't choose the corrupt criminal? Hillary lost?

SJWs are pretty evil, though, I'm with you there. Social justice is making conversations impossible. That's about the most anti-human thing I can think of.

That's the point, isn't it? Their ideal is that nobody talks back. Everybody bends the knee, and dissenters are sent to the gulag to face reeducation or death.

https://i.imgur.com/9nohQh4.jp...

The reprogrammable SIM card is "soldered onto the iPhone's motherboard directly

Apple has finally gone the way of their laptops which have everything bolted, soldered, then welded to the motherboard. No replaceable parts. If something breaks, oh well. Another $1,000 down the drain for the phone, or another $3,000 for an underpowered laptop.

Not sure how old this comic is, but it's about as on point as one can get.

You're assuming that the entire cost of the article is workers' wages. I think somebody might be skimming a bit off, just a little here and there.

If you look closely you can see a tiny little sliver at the right between the red and orange lines. https://i.stack.imgur.com/iCTu...

Patrick Stewart has already seen everything - https://imgur.com/r/hqrg/zqVBn...

I'm disappointed they didn't show the best picture from that party.

Idiot.

ONCE AND FOR ALL!

The standard is moderators of Twitter do whatever they like. This didn't warrant a ban either.

when he said this...

Static encryption keys are fine as long as you keep them secret and randomize the protocol. It's when you set about inventing key update protocols that it all goes to shit, Eh TLS?

when he said this...

> People might like to complain about how everything these days is about graphics over substance

And for good reason -- one of the problems with Form over Function is pointed out with this sarcastic FPS Map Design: 1990 vs 2016, ironically using Doom as a reference.

> Sometimes a good narrative is exactly what a game needs

Minor quibble. Technically, every game has narrative; the difference is that it isn't also obvious but narrative falls into two categories:

* Developer narrative -- fixed story, or branching story (e.g. Guardian Heroes), may or may not have cut-scenes
* User narrative -- sandbox games, old-school FPS like Doom; the user's decision of what to experience IS the narrative.

There is a reason that Minecraft is the number one best selling PC game of all time: User narrative

Minecraft, the digital Lego of this generation, is built upon 3 foundations:

* Survive
* Explore
* Build

The in-game story is whatever the player wants without all the bullshit of "Hurry-up-and-wait" unskippable cutscenes.

Looking at the top 5 PC game and tagging them we notice that you don't need cut-scenes in order to be successful.

1. Minecraft -- user narrative
2. PUBG -- user narrative
3. Diablo III -- dev narrative
4. WoW -- dev narrative
5. The Sims -- user narrative

Agree with everything else you said. Doom (2016) captures the essence of the original Doom.

Yes, as I have access to a multi-system hardware based console that provides compatible hardware (retro duo). Would be unfortunate if Nintendo were to make actual inroads on suppressing used, pre-always-on-drm, game sales.

This board is from a similar product ("retro trio", which also provides operation for Genesis/Master System), which is essentially the same concept. https://i.imgur.com/8B1lYQ0.jp...

This house here? the one that's three kilometres inland and 150 METRES above sea level?

Hmm...I wonder what he thinks is going to happen...

I, too, stand with Al Gore and the eco-sustainability of mansions! Down with "repug-licans"!

This house here? the one that's three kilometres inland and 150 METRES above sea level?

Hmm...I wonder what he thinks is going to happen...

Dead money is mostly an illusion

It really isn't, money "invested" in stocks is money just shuffling zeroes and ones between different banks. If you're going to try to tell me the market is efficient I'd laugh in your face. Try to at least be educated enough before participating in a discussion.

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

If you're going to tell me the bottom 80% can't use more money to do more productive things I'll laugh in your general direction.

US distribution of wealth

https://imgur.com/a/FShfb

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesa...

https://i.imgur.com/nnwVNui.png

Also on Arch Linux: not required for me, but I have it installed, but it's not a dependency for Firefox or Waterfox: https://i.imgur.com/2kZb1MI.pn...

Could you image what 12 years of OBAMA policy would look like?

Well, for one thing you'd still have net neutrality.

The "globalist Koch Brothers" would apparently be less rich too.

I suppose we would have never found out that Trump got his lawyer to pay off porn-stars he slept with.

The "Russians are in our systems" is a nice misdirect that hides what's really going on.

There's no evidence any votes were changed in the last election, but by making unsubstantiated claims and going from hackers to Russian hackers to state-sponsored Russian hackers they can gin up enough fear and outrage to justify censorship aimed at affecting the midterms.

For example, Facebook recently banned [conservative blogger and political candidate] Avi Yemini for ‘Hate Speech’, won't tell him why he was banned, and denied his appeal. (You can view the banned page here.)

Lots and lots and lots of conservative viewpoints are being purged online in the runup to the midterm elections, and really scary things are coming up in the news every day.

Two terms that frequently come up in discussion are "midterm meddling" and "street fight". The first refers to all the suppression of conservative viewpoints, the second refers to the mob-mentality of striking back at people who don't toe the Liberal line.

(For example, the judge in the Manafort case has received threats, and because the jury hasn't reached a verdict yet the MSM filed a motion to reveal the identities and home addresses of the jury members. Yikes!)

We live in a scary time, reminiscent of the run-up to nazi Germany.

Dissenting opinion is being suppressed, sometimes violently.

People get paid based on the value they produce

Just like those bank bailouts in 2008? Citigroup had an army of lawyers trying to scrub the internet of their internal documents saying the modern economy is a plutonomy (aka servers the oligarchy). So in a nation where the laws are bought and paid for. You are clueless.

Citigroup banks Plutonomy memo

US distribution of wealth

https://imgur.com/a/FShfb

Wealth in america

While I agree with you that the current artificial ignorance (A.I.) (*) that tries to pass for Artificial Intelligence is a joke -- nothing more then a glorified table lookup -- you're jumping the gun to say "no: intelligent computers will never happen". i.e. a.i. = Actual Intelligence.

THE fundamental problem is that Scientists don't know what the fuck consciousness is. Without a way to measure it you can't copy it (or create it.)

Let's pretend it is 100 years in the future, and we have ways to:

* Upload
* Download

consciousness. With the ability to "clone" consciousness we _actually_ would have a way to have an intelligent computer. But yeah, until we get to THAT point, we're (probably) barking up the wrong tree with "just throw hardware at it."

Second, you are ignoring bio-computing. If tomorrow's computers switched from using electricity to using chemistry, much the way a physical body does, then again, intelligent computers is within the realm of possibility.

The million dollar question is: How do we get there? I'm not aware of anyone knowing. If they do know, they sure as hell aren't saying -- and I can't blame them. Think of the implications: If we could clone human consciousness effectively death would be wiped out which I'm sure there are enough bad sci-fi writers out there who have discussed this before.

Your lament about the sorry state of software reminds me of that old Murphy's Computer Law joke:

Weinberg's Second Law: If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.

(*) Yes, A.I = artificial ignorance was intentional.

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Yes

https://i.imgur.com/aNhk8R6.jp...

> Look at Google's initial success

Indeed.

Look at all the shit Yahoo kept adding while Google focused on doing one thing well. Functionality beats Form.

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/r/minecraft has gone full SJW retard. It is "illegal" to discuss the history of epic builds on a Minecraft server if you mention the server name or city, such as 2b2t's Boedecken city

*facepalm*

slashdot needs to fix their html code for displaying polls. https://imgur.com/a/HnX1CYV

Another interesting feature of satellite view is that it shows the current cloud coverage, not just an old photo of the clouds. I just noticed that recently, but maybe it's been there for a while.

That... that is very cool.

https://i.imgur.com/6N275N2.pn...

Given that this is a Star Trek-related thread, here's something to enhance your last sentence (SFW).

What are you talking about? You can easily choose to use another desktop window manager (I use XFCE, there's LXDE, KDE and more), Pulseaudio isn't actually required (see this screenshot: nothing depends on it except the preference manager software and an emulator for ALSA only apps https://i.imgur.com/rIc6Ccx.pn...) and I can remove SystemD using this: https://systemd-free.artixlinu... but honestly Pulseaudio and SystemD have not given me problems, but if they did I know how to remove them. So why complain when you can fix it yourself easily?

You joking? The mainstream media that we know for a fact was colluding with the Democrats to throw the election for Hillary? We have hard proof; Wikileaks confirms. Freedom of the Press does not imply Honesty of the Press. The media tells only the story that confirms its own view, that in the end it was incapable of seeing an alternative outcome and of making a true risk assessment of the political variables - reaffirming the Hillary Clinton camp's own political myopia. This defines the parallel realities in which liberals, in their view of themselves, represent a morally superior character.

Here's CNN getting caught red-handed planting debate questions. http://imgur.com/a/OMD6b#ed8AV...

On June 16, 2014, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank published a column alleging that a peaceful Muslim was nearly verbally lynched by violent Islamophobes at a Heritage Foundation-hosted panel. What Milbank described was despicable. Unfortunately for Milbank and the Washington Post's credibility, someone filmed the event and posted the film on YouTube. Panel discussants, including Frank Gaffney and Brigitte Gabriel, made important points in a courteous manner. Saba Ahmed, the peaceful Muslim, is a "family friend" of a bombing plotter who expressed a specific desire to murder children. It soon became clear that Milbank was, as one blogger put it, "making stuff up."

CNN cuts off congressman when he mentions Wikileaks with Clinton.

Ex-CBS reporter's book reveals how liberal media protects Obama

Compilation of CNN & MSNBC Cutting Guests Mics to Protect Hillary Clinton

The entire media endorsed Hillary.

CBS's John Dickerson: http://www.mediaite.com/online...">Donald Trump Didn't Ruin the Press's Reputation, We Did That Ourselves.

Here's the media changing headlines to attack Trump on dozens of occasions.

Look at all these respected journalists express surprise, dismay, and a total lack of understanding that Hillary lost. They even admit it: "I genuinely do not understand America."

Journalists don't want the media to stop being partisans, they just want them to be *more effective* partisans! To be more effective at beating Trump. The assumptions and goals are the same - Trump is evil, he should be destroyed. It never occurs to the media or their "critics" that the media is not supposed to have any skin in the game...you can only "lose" if you are fighting an opponent...and THAT'S THE PROBLEM.

What bothers me the most about the media is that not only are they horribly prejudiced - they don't even seem to be able to recognize their prejudice. That's so bad.

You joking? The mainstream media that we know for a fact was colluding with the Democrats to throw the election for Hillary? We have hard proof; Wikileaks confirms. Freedom of the Press does not imply Honesty of the Press. The media tells only the story that confirms its own view, that in the end it was incapable of seeing an alternative outcome and of making a true risk assessment of the political variables - reaffirming the Hillary Clinton camp's own political myopia. This defines the parallel realities in which liberals, in their view of themselves, represent a morally superior character.

Here's CNN getting caught red-handed planting debate questions. http://imgur.com/a/OMD6b#ed8AV...

On June 16, 2014, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank published a column alleging that a peaceful Muslim was nearly verbally lynched by violent Islamophobes at a Heritage Foundation-hosted panel. What Milbank described was despicable. Unfortunately for Milbank and the Washington Post's credibility, someone filmed the event and posted the film on YouTube. Panel discussants, including Frank Gaffney and Brigitte Gabriel, made important points in a courteous manner. Saba Ahmed, the peaceful Muslim, is a "family friend" of a bombing plotter who expressed a specific desire to murder children. It soon became clear that Milbank was, as one blogger put it, "making stuff up."

CNN cuts off congressman when he mentions Wikileaks with Clinton.

Ex-CBS reporter's book reveals how liberal media protects Obama

Compilation of CNN & MSNBC Cutting Guests Mics to Protect Hillary Clinton

The entire media endorsed Hillary.

CBS's John Dickerson: http://www.mediaite.com/online...">Donald Trump Didn't Ruin the Press's Reputation, We Did That Ourselves.

Here's the media changing headlines to attack Trump on dozens of occasions.

Look at all these respected journalists express surprise, dismay, and a total lack of understanding that Hillary lost. They even admit it: "I genuinely do not understand America."

Journalists don't want the media to stop being partisans, they just want them to be *more effective* partisans! To be more effective at beating Trump. The assumptions and goals are the same - Trump is evil, he should be destroyed. It never occurs to the media or their "critics" that the media is not supposed to have any skin in the game...you can only "lose" if you are fighting an opponent...and THAT'S THE PROBLEM.

What bothers me the most about the media is that not only are they horribly prejudiced - they don't even seem to be able to recognize their prejudice. That's so bad.

https://i.imgur.com/saLFxyn.jp...

Quad Bayer is just the binning of a 2x2 region of sensors. It does not give you double the effective sensor size. They are using both long and short exposure to give more dynamic range. See the following diagram. https://i.imgur.com/rm1UKHj.pn...