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This is simply evidence of the incompetence of the Russian state itself. Roskosmos was re-nationalized in 2016, after experiencing quality control problems so severe they led to launch failures. This extends beyond Rogozin as director since he was deputy under Popovkin who also had problems with launches.

The problem is the structure of Russian culture, far beyond this incident being caused by just issue of management philosophy. Putin's culture is one of death, murder, and widespread terrorism directly conducted by Putin himself against the idea of human rights, and against Russia as enemy #1 with the rest of the world as enemy #2. Certainly the claims of sabotage will lead to Russia blaming every other country involved with the ISS.

This is still the truth, no matter how many Russian paid trolls with mod points try to hide it from general viewing.

It doesn’t take a paid shill to see your little rant has no connection to the topic here.

Putin is a bag of dicks, and connecting that to a manufacturing mistake on the ISS makes you a dick bag.

This is simply evidence of the incompetence of the Russian state itself. Roskosmos was re-nationalized in 2016, after experiencing quality control problems so severe they led to launch failures. This extends beyond Rogozin as director since he was deputy under Popovkin who also had problems with launches. The problem is the structure of Russian culture, far beyond this incident being caused by just issue of management philosophy. Putin's culture is one of death, murder, and widespread terrorism directly conducted by Putin himself against the idea of human rights, and against Russia as enemy #1 with the rest of the world as enemy #2. Certainly the claims of sabotage will lead to Russia blaming every other country involved with the ISS.

This is still the truth, no matter how many Russian paid trolls with mod points try to hide it from general viewing.

This is simply evidence of the incompetence of the Russian state itself. Roskosmos was re-nationalized in 2016, after experiencing quality control problems so severe they led to launch failures. This extends beyond Rogozin as director since he was deputy under Popovkin who also had problems with launches. The problem is the structure of Russian culture, far beyond this incident being caused by just issue of management philosophy. Putin's culture is one of death, murder, and widespread terrorism directly conducted by Putin himself against the idea of human rights, and against Russia as enemy #1 with the rest of the world as enemy #2. Certainly the claims of sabotage will lead to Russia blaming every other country involved with the ISS.

Notice that this failure was really due to Putin's culture of terrorism in Russia. His culture means it will be blamed on someone who will die, and then used against the ISS contributors in general.

This is simply evidence of the incompetence of the Russian state itself. Roskosmos was re-nationalized in 2016, after experiencing quality control problems so severe they led to launch failures. This extends beyond Rogozin as director since he was deputy under Popovkin who also had problems with launches.

The problem is the structure of Russian culture, far beyond this incident being caused by just issue of management philosophy. Putin's culture is one of death, murder, and widespread terrorism directly conducted by Putin himself against the idea of human rights, and against Russia as enemy #1 with the rest of the world as enemy #2. Certainly the claims of sabotage will lead to Russia blaming every other country involved with the ISS.

And yet in that story it doesn't mention what the actual university systems are getting or the total number of students that are full time, part time, in state, out state, or international. That is the information that is hard to come by. Also when these thing are reported usually slashing funding includes some part of not getting an increase. So if one could find the actual numbers for something like the University of Illinois system where $209 million was slashed from their budget you would likely find that 2015 spending isn't $209 million less than the 2014 spending, but instead is some amount less. I don't know what that amount would be something seeing something like the state would be providing $180 million to $190 million less over the 2014 amount wouldn't surprise me.

My point also wasn't to argue that states' spending on public college and university systems hasn't gone down as it has. My point was to point a reasonable question to ask which is how much is being spent on a per student basis by the state and then look to your non dodgy private colleges and see what they are charging and see if you can figure out why the private institution can get by without a massive per student subsidy. By non dodgy I don't mean the ones that advertise on cable TV or ones that are nationally accredited but real reputable ones. In Minnesota schools like St. Thomas, St. Olaf, Gustavus Adolphus are all good private schools that are well respected. They are more expensive the universities in the MNSCU system but are pretty damn close (or they were when I was in school) to the University of Minnesota Twin Cities but they weren't $10,000/year more. Also that $10,000/year number that I used was very generous as all I had was the total from the state and the total number of students. As the state wasn't subsidizing out of state, exception for states with reciprocity, or international students, and that figure also assumes that even a person taking one class a semester is also being subsidized that $10,000. So taking that into account the full time in state student total subsidy would likely be higher and probably much higher. I do question the use of money by state schools on sports stadiums the pay for coaches, the huge administrative overhead, and the waste on equipment. For example when I was at Mankato they had a computer lab open for all the students to use, so far so good. It had 300 machines in it of which 100 were replaced each year, again so far so good. Problem is that instead of buying the middle of the road machines, or buying low end ones they bought the top of the line machines with really good video cards, max ram, the biggest available hard drives, huge screens, top of the line Intel consumer processors. These weren't machines for doing simulations, games, or AI but machines used by the general student body for web browsing (static pages mostly), e-mail, and MS Word for papers. That is the kind of waste that needs to be curtailed and looked closer at.

If you haven't seen it before it's news. And, are book reviews news? Nope. Yes, this is news for nerds, but not all stuff that matters is news. If you don't like a topic, ignore it, there are lots more where they came from.

If you'd worded you comment like below you would have been modded up:

This isn't new, I saw it six months ago

http://courseweb.stthomas.edu/apthomas/SquishyCircuits/

+3 informative.

It makes no sense to word a comment is such a way that it's sure to be at a -1. If nobody is going to see it, why comment at all?

Now get off my lawn, kid. Sheesh.

way to post a recycle of a recycle of a recycled 6 month old article

http://courseweb.stthomas.edu/apthomas/SquishyCircuits/

would it kill you fucks to use google?

I just came across some Halo 3 concept art you're not going to like.

My speech recognition/voice interface professor* "reviewed" a device like this and he was ADAMANT that it WILL NOT TELL if you're lying. It may detect *stress* in your voice, but IT CANNOT TELL IF YOU'RE LYING.
I believe my prof as he is an expert, more so than I would claim to be (and I have an undergrad degree in Linguistics). Based on this, I'd guess that this device is going to be a MAJOR pain in the ass for those airport security folks. How many people would not be stressed by an airport screener asking them questions? How hard would it be for a terrorist to make several "dry runs" to get over skittishness and then attempt some random act of violence? In my mind, this looks like another pathetic attempt to make Amerikans think they're secure.
*Dr. Wayne Lea---> http://personal4.stthomas.edu/walea/

...people are teaching Art History using the movies too.

Besides how many more deaths might this cause then cell-phones, driving down the road typing up a document in one eye and driving with the other.

Well I don't know about you but I got the feeling this wasn't exactly something that was going to be out "tomorrow". By the time this product is common place enough for people to have a use for it per your example, we wont be driving cars any more. The cars will be flying us to our destination.

Something like this is more likely to be realized in the not-so-distant future.

It just shows that you can't believe that because there's somebody out there looking at the source that you'll always be safe. It's all too easy to download, compile, and install something without security concerns because you think that nobody will attempt to put backdoors in the software, or that even if they do try, somebody will catch it before you become a victim.