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ITS has an unusually large gamble involved, even by the standards of Musk's companies. Just to pick issue one of many: it's cryogenic composite tanks. Composites and cryogenics don't play well together; there have been attempts in the past, and they were failures. Musk is wanting to take us from "zero launch vehicles of any size using composite cryogenic tanks" to "by far the largest launch vehicle ever built, fully reusable up to a thousand times (for the booster), out of composites". That's a huge jump. ...

They're also working on insanely high pressure, full flow staged combustion engines with a rarely used propellant mix, used up to a thousand times each with low maintenance...

Ordinarily I'd agree with you. If we were talking about the usual suspects (NASA/Boeing/LockMart), they'd have a pile of paper at this stage and not much else.

But SpaceX has (had) a giant carbon fiber tank which they successfully burst tested to 2/3rds the design pressure back in November, then blew up testing with liquid nitrogen on February 17th 2017. (Judging by the pictures, it failed at the equatorial seam.)

They've built and tested a 1/3rd scale Raptor engine (which I presume you already knew, but other readers might not). It's the first full flow methane fueled rocket engine ever to be test fired, and only the second full flow design in history. (The first was Russia's RD-270, tested back in 1967.)

Having done those things is impressive enough, but the absurdly fantastic part is how rapidly they've done it. They were in Mississippi at the Stennis Space Center in late 2013 to refurbish and modify the E2 test stand to handle methane. Slashdot covered that. They were done with that process April 21st, 2014. Slashdot didn't notice that part. They used that test stand to validate their design and conducted the scale model test firing on September 26th, 2016, just 2 years, 5 months, and 5 days later. And it worked. They were so sure it would work, they didn't even bother with the customary 'burp' test to be sure it would ignite properly. That's a ridiculously rapid development process for any rocket motor, let alone for a design that's been done only once before in history and never for the fuel they selected. For comparison, development of the F-1 used on the Saturn V started in 1955 for the Air Force and it wasn't until 1965 that it underwent a successful test firing without destroying itself, after three years of self-destructive test firings.

SpaceX have definitely set themselves some very hard tasks, but their demonstrated ability to actually get to the test article stage, and from there to the production stage, and to do so quickly, is unmatched in modern times.

Right, in addition to walking slowly, there's also:
- 2.5 ounce candy-bar curls
- 10 second wind sprint to the vending machine
- holding your breath for 20 seconds while you down an entire liter of soda
- deadlifting crates of garbage energy bars

https://twitter.com/cdreimer/status/861287512802705408/

Maybe you should try walking you fat tub of shit.

https://twitter.com/cdreimer/status/858405712317210624

Pretty much just this: https://twitter.com/iamdevlope...

He posts to Slashdot in order to drive web traffic to his blog or self published book or some bullshit like that, and makes... $50/month from it.

I post here to have fun. It's the asshats who are making money for me.

So who is the fat, retarded dumpy asshole now? Creimer is of course. Don't forget bald and half blind, ya ugly prediabetic.

Bald and half-blind I'm not.

https://twitter.com/cdreimer/status/861287512802705408

To bad we don't have freedom after laughing. I'm facing jail time after laughing at Jeff Sessions.

She wasn't convicted for laughing. According to the foreperson of the jury, "She did not get convicted for laughing. It was her actions as she was being asked to leave". See

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeff-sessions-laugh-congressional-hearing_us_590929bbe4b05c39768420ef

And if you look at the following video, you will see that when she was asked to leave, she yelled and screamed and brought the hearing to complete standstill for over 10 seconds.

https://twitter.com/ryanjreilly/status/818837991217123328

And oh, by the way, she's a repeat offender. According to the following article, she was charged with a similar offense in 2007.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/05/code-pink-activist-convicted-laughing-sessions-170504001328276.html

Windows failed. Again.
https://twitter.com/taviso/sta...

Well America, you voted for this clown and gave support to his enablers

We (the plurality) voted for Clinton. By almost 3 million votes. Trump lost the vote of the citizens.

A very small group, specifically the electoral college, put Trump in there. The voters didn't. It's a technical win at best. What it isn't is an indication that he actually won the hearts and minds of the US population. He didn't. He still hasn't. There's no sign he ever will.

Trump thinks the electoral college is a bad thing. Unless he's changed his mind or something. In his head he won by a landslide....

Come on, Donald tell us what you really think about the electoral college.

Apparently "the loser one". Trump is clearly a smart guy. Well done USA for electing him. Dear Leader Putin is extremely grateful.

Well America, you voted for this clown and gave support to his enablers

We (the plurality) voted for Clinton. By almost 3 million votes. Trump lost the vote of the citizens.

A very small group, specifically the electoral college, put Trump in there. The voters didn't. It's a technical win at best. What it isn't is an indication that he actually won the hearts and minds of the US population. He didn't. He still hasn't. There's no sign he ever will.

Trump thinks the electoral college is a bad thing. Unless he's changed his mind or something. In his head he won by a landslide....

Come on, Donald tell us what you really think about the electoral college.

Apparently "the loser one". Trump is clearly a smart guy. Well done USA for electing him. Dear Leader Putin is extremely grateful.

Unfortunately not

Here's my favorite Trump quote (a tweet), issued in response to the Women's March on Washington: "[I] was under the impression that we just had an election! Why didn't these people vote?"

That applies here too. If the Internet were so important, than surely people would have voted against Republicans in November, so that Congress could move on treating Internet access as a utility. They didn't. If anything, people voted to make the Internet more expensive and limited. So why pester the FCC about this? You are telling the FCC to work directly against what the voters said they want.

There will be another election at the end of 2018. You can always re-classify Internet access then, if you've so radically changed your mind since 2016.

Maybe another way to look at this is: ELECTIONS ARE IMPORTANT, YOU FUCKWITS. Every other November, all you (yes, even you people here on Slashdot) treat the election a complete joke that will have no relevance in your life. This is the kind of government you get, when you don't take it seriously. SUCK IT.

Don't like the consequences? Then start fucking taking the fucking elections fucking seriously. Don't ever, ever let Republicans win anything again. (And if you're smart, you'll run the Democrats out of the country too, but you need to get their replacements lined up first.)

I would reply with a list of lies and falsehoods by Trump, but there is so many, so I will just give you a link to his twitter :
https://twitter.com/realDonald...
Careful, there is an occasional truth here and there (like Australia having better healthcare)

Get over yourself you fat clown.

You're confusing me with the wrong part of the circus. Try strong man.

https://twitter.com/cdreimer/status/861287512802705408

The Internet of Shit has been known to be insecure for a long time. Now there are people bricking these shitty devices which I do not object to because it's only possible due to neglect by the device maker.

Post as AC because I modded!
So, you also don't have any evidence!? (It's not that I support Le Pen or Macron, but blaming someone when you have proof)!
https://twitter.com/RussianEmb...

He was saying that Trump is so vile and disgusting that he must suck dicks like a degenerate.

He said nothing of the sort. He didn't even say that he does suck dicks, only that "the only thing [his] mouth is good for is being Vladimir Putin's cock holster".

Now did he say that this is all that gays' mouths are good for? No, just Trump. He didn't say that he was so bad that he must suck cock, but that it was all his mouth was good for - and the cock of the Russian president specifically. This is no way makes any statement about homosexuality in general.

And is it gay people who are attacking Colbert, or just conservatives out for blood? And do these same people also attack Trump for signing an order protecting freedom for opponents of gay marriage, or do their concern for lesbians and gays disappear when it comes to actual homophobic actions? No, they don't... which leads me to this:

There is a saying that it is very hard to be a liberal, because of all the stuff that you have to pretend that you don't know. It has, however, been a hilarious few days watching people like you pretend that you are having a hard time understanding why a group of people would be upset that their very identity itself is as a slur.

No, what is really funny is all the people who suddenly think that being homophobic is wrong, when the rest of the time that is their default position. The side of politics that rants against political correctness can twist themselves in knots to be politically correct about things that they don't believe at all simply because they can smell the blood in the water (or do you think that is offensive to sharks?). It is funny to see people like this random twit who complain about how Colbert is both homophobic and politically correct. Colbert must be so worried to lose a viewer who didn't like his show anyway!

Nah - as a Trump voter these numbers suck just as they did under the Obama administration.

It's just funny watching the Obama voters on here suddenly agree.

As an Obama voter (and someone who voted for Secretary Clinton), I think these numbers aren't so bad.

An unemployment rate of 4.4 percent isn't too bad, and recent data shows people that are re-entering the workforce was steady.

Unemployment rates that drop too much from where we are may cause inflation. I think the current rate could survive an increase of the minimum wage. But what do I know. I'm not an economist. I bow to the likes of Krugman ( https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.... https://twitter.com/paulkrugma... ) on things like this.

At least we didn't cozy up to the religious right, spawn the TEA partiers, and elect a cheeto.

You personally may not have... but I know more than a few Bernie fans who were so disillusioned that they voted for Trump in the end.

Heck, as I recall, the gal featured in this infamous tweet is one such person: https://twitter.com/emmaroller...

you walk 3mph during your workouts - super athlete.

https://twitter.com/cdreimer/status/858405712317210624

a guy making the same as an intro-level college graduate after 20 years of experience in an industry.

I don't have a high school diploma and I don't have university degree. I do have two associate degrees (A.A. in General Education and A.S. in Computer Programming) and no student loans. I deliberately went into IT Support because I enjoy the work. It's not fair to compare me to a recent college graduate with $100K in student loans and no expectations to pay them off in this lifetime.

rock bottom is having to plow through a bowl of prozac just to get through the day without jumping off the overpass because of your shitty life.

As I explained in a previous post, I've never taken anti-depressants. I don't need them because I don't let shitheads like you tear me down.

don't ever leave that prescription at home. you might kill someone driving.

I pay $140 per month to take the express bus to work. Traffic in Palo Alto is insane on the best of days.

good thing this is not a site for shitheads.

Please turn in your geek creds and don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.

How can an employed adult spend 12 hours on media? Either they don't work yet or they don't work any more!

Why don't you ask him?

Microsoft just needs to sell us a 3:2 small bezel normal-hinged laptop like they teased 3 years ago: https://twitter.com/sephr/stat...

The "have two snickers bars instead" comment was what is commonly known as sarcasm, pointing out that your energy bar consumption is as bad as, if not worse than, eating candy bars.

Are you the asshat who told me that I need a bowl of candy to stay on the treadmill? I didn't see a bowl candy at morning working at the gym.

https://twitter.com/cdreimer/status/858405712317210624

My ebooks are available at Amazon and Smashwords. You can also visit me at my author website, personal blog, YouTube and Twitter.

Then, go do something that keeps you active for at least an hour a day, and try to work in a half hour of weightlifting three or four days a week.

I want to get slimmer, not bigger.

Sitting on your ass in the basement waiting for scripts to run doesn't qualify [...]

My second-story office has a view that overlooks a roofline.

https://twitter.com/cdreimer/status/858056822648750080/photo/1

[...] no matter HOW long a walk it is to the vending machines.

Why would I buy food out of the vending machine? That's a waste of money.

You know, if you actually tried being good at your job and working hard, you might be able to make more than $25/hr at a real job [...]

With 10 paid federal holidays, 20 PTO (Paid Time Off) days, and an extra month of pay as a Christmas bonus last year, I'm making $30 per hour.

[...] and not have to find ways of scamming $50 a month in advertising revenues.

Asshats like yourself have been driving people to my personal blog (click the Homepage link above my comment), where they can visit my author website, author profiles at Amazon and Smashwords, and social media channels like YouTube and Twitter. For the extra ad revenues and ebook purchases for this month, I thank you. Keep up the good work!

My ebooks are available at Amazon and Smashwords. You can also visit me at my author website, personal blog, YouTube and Twitter.

My ebooks are available at Amazon and Smashwords. You can also visit me at my author website, personal blog, YouTube and Twitter.

So, when someone on CNN says there is a "Muslim ban," they know they're lying and that they're producing and spreading fake news.

Hey dumbass, your god emperror with no clothes literally just called it a ban himself:

First the Ninth Circuit rules against the ban & now it hits again on sanctuary cities-both ridiculous rulings. See you in the Supreme Court!

3:20 AM - 26 Apr 2017

Fake News!!!

God, you've chained yourself to a total fucking idiot, you guys were made for each other.
Tweedledee and sycophant.

This is the laptop. I'll admit, I can't really evaluate battery life as I never really use it unplugged for more than an hour or so. As one would expect, it will vary with workload and yes, I've had it nealy death after just over an hour, but I've also experienced the same with my 2014 rMBP; I've also never topped 5hr with that rMBP, but I've had that PC over 80% after an hour.

I use my laptop unplugged for at least 3 and sometimes as many as 7 hours at least once a week. Battery life is somewhat important in my use case. I'm curious how you have yours configured and what you run that you don't get at least 5 hours on battery. I have mine configured for power savings on battery, which means falling back to Intel graphics if possible.

Considering that it's pushing a much heavier GPU and higher resolution display, it really wouldn't surprise me if it didn't manage to win any awards for battery life. Lighter and faster than my rMBP, though, and I've noticed it runs a fair bit cooler as well.

It's pushing a significantly higher built in resolution than 2880x1800? (I've seen a few 3200x1800s but for all intents and purposes that is an equivalent load, 3800x2160 is generally far more expensive by the time you get comparable memory/disk hardware) What you're describing sounds impossible though - beefier GPU, higher resolutions and at least as fast as the MBP, but runs cooler and eats batteries? Something doesn't add up there.

I'm sorry for being off-topic, but we have some breaking news going on, I think. I'd submit it here myself, but Slashdot is all broken now and requires an account just to submit a story! It never used to be like that before, and there's no fucking way I'm creating yet another goddamn online account just to provide free content to Slashdot, of all sites.

Anyhoo...

I just saw this tweet about something called WikiTRIBUNE. I don't know exactly what it is, but it sounds like Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia might be involved?

The site says:

A new kind of news platform.

Wikitribune is a news platform that brings journalists and a community of volunteers together.

We want to make sure that you read fact-based articles that have a real impact in both local and global events. And that stories can be easily verified and improved.

I really don't know what to think about this. If the end result of Wikipedia is any indication of how this will turn out, I don't feel good about it. We already see a strong leftist bias throughout the mainstream media, as seen by the utter contempt and hatred they display toward President Trump. We also see a strong leftist bias throughout Wikipedia. So combine the two, and the only result I see is cherry-picked leftist news that appeals to those who are even more extreme leftists.

Interesting, something from Alienware, perhaps, or similar? How much does it weigh? I ask, because I did a rather thorough evaluation of top end laptops before buying the last one in early 2015, and one of my criteria was lugging it around. My second question is battery life? While I don't get 10 hours out of my MBP, I do get over 6. A brand new Lenovo upper tier business system I tried out lasted about 2 hours and weighed an extra pound.

This is the laptop. I'll admit, I can't really evaluate battery life as I never really use it unplugged for more than an hour or so. As one would expect, it will vary with workload and yes, I've had it nealy death after just over an hour, but I've also experienced the same with my 2014 rMBP; I've also never topped 5hr with that rMBP, but I've had that PC over 80% after an hour.

Considering that it's pushing a much heavier GPU and higher resolution display, it really wouldn't surprise me if it didn't manage to win any awards for battery life. Lighter and faster than my rMBP, though, and I've noticed it runs a fair bit cooler as well.

It's possible to own the domain yourself within Njalla. They are mention that on their Twitter https://twitter.com/njal_la/st...

Agreed. I'm still waiting for Microsoft to provide *technical* justification for their action. So far there has been none.

I discussed the situation with Woody Leonard and Gigabyte on Twitter, where I asked Gigabyte what their stance was. They very eloquently "dodged" it by simply stating "We'll continue to provide Windows 7 drivers {for Kaby Lake motherboards}". In other words: even motherboard manufacturers don't want to get involved in this situation. Nobody is taking a stand against it. Class-action honestly seems like the only viable course of action, otherwise abandoning Windows altogether and going with Linux or FreeBSD.

The reason I care: I've used an i7-2600K + Ivy Bridge (Z77) system for about 5 years now, using Windows 7 x64 SP1. In the past year a couple onboard components have failed (Atheros NIC, and at one point very weird issues with onboard sound), I've had very odd issues with its USB 3.0 ports, and some of the games I've begun to play really don't perform well on a 2nd-gen CPU. Rather than continuing exhaust PCI and PCIe slots, I felt it was time to buy a new MB + CPU + RAM and migrate/upgrade. At the time (Feburary 2017) 7th-gen Intel CPUs and Kaby Lake motherboards (Z270) were actually cheaper than 6th-gen / Skylake (Z170) by about US$50 or more: vendors jacked up prices of 6th-gen / Skylake stuff simply because they could. Economically it made no sense to buy 6th-gen or Skylake. I bought all the components (plus a new case + PSU), put the system together, and did burn-in tests (found bad RAM, which took another week to replace). At about that time I began installing W7, but not migrating to the system yet. A few days later, Microsoft pulled this shenanigan.

The timing couldn't have been worse. That new system I've bought has sat on my dining room table doing nothing but collecting dust since. I'm still using my Ivy Bridge workstation because I feel my options are limited (either accepting the atrocity that is Windows 10 and it's phone-home privacy invasion that can't be avoided 100% (maybe 80% at best), or switching to Linux or FreeBSD). I honestly feel like I just threw US$1000 in the toilet.

While Zeffy's workaround I understand, there are two major problems with it: 1) the next time Microsoft updates wuaueng.dll the workaround stops working (i.e. there is no sane way of managing this situation, instead becoming an indefinite cat-and-mouse situation), and 2) SFC /SCANNOW will certainly fail/flag this as a problem.

I would add accountability too. Linus gets a lot of flack for his often profane in-your-face leadership style, but he has managed to keep the Linux kernel going strong for decades now. He calls out the developers of bad code that break the development rules (principles, structure, behaviors, etc...) and will not accept those changes.

By the way, the Linux kernel is actually a fairly big codebase, which goes against what I have been saying about breaking up projects. It works for the Linux kernel because of Linus. Most software projects don't have the luxury of a manager with the kinds of technical skills and obsessions as Linus.

In fact, in many corporate environments, Linus would have been pushed out by people like this, people who put their non-technical agenda ahead of getting the job done.

https://twitter.com/nlfrank1 is her own tweets, http://www.uvic.ca/home/about/... is the press release from the university.

It's no surprise that The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is the best-selling game on the Nintendo Switch... But managing to sell more copies than consoles that can actually play it? That's what's happened in the U.S., amazingly -- Nintendo just announced that it sold 906,000 Switch consoles in March along with 925,000 copies of Breath of the Wild.

Many people around the world buy their games from US based online stores when that game is not readily available from their local game store... These sales will have been recorded as US sales, even if the product might have ultimately been shipped overseas.

The iPhone exhibited a similar phenomenon during 2007-2009 when it was not yet readily available around the world. Apple reported significantly higher US unit sales than AT&T was reporting new subscribers - even though the phone was network locked to AT&T in the US - that was because many iPhones were being purchased in the US for use on other (often overseas) networks (after being jailbroken).

A recruiter called yesterday about wanting to "octane my particular skill set" for a job.

https://twitter.com/cdreimer/status/852671049942446081

First, someone's personal life is their business. We are supposed to be building code, not snooping.

Second, he was doxxed. Fruit of the poison tree.

Third, maybe most importantly, who cares what you have to say about Gorean philosophy. They are BDSM addicts who play too much D&D.

Fourth, someone was genuinely hurt by seeing this doxxed screenshot. Let's not forget the victim.

https://twitter.com/DrupalScar... ... with that in mind, we can't do something to keep the two separated? It's a HUGE community. Take him off session selection if you want. Chase him out - we can do better than that. We're supposed to be innovators. Find a better way.

United are causing a PR nightmare here. There is not enough they can pay twitter to make them take United's side. Just censoring twitter would be pointless given how the mainstream media and every other website is crucifying United.

If we look at the deleted tweet it's clearly using an Indiana Jones clip. Possibly this one. Tagging @IndianaJones (An official studio account) may simply have caused an overzealous account admin to see it and make a copyright complaint.

United are causing a PR nightmare here. There is not enough they can pay twitter to make them take United's side. Just censoring twitter would be pointless given how the mainstream media and every other website is crucifying United.

If we look at the deleted tweet it's clearly using an Indiana Jones clip. Possibly this one. Tagging @IndianaJones (An official studio account) may simply have caused an overzealous account admin to see it and make a copyright complaint.

I've been saving the stream of "united" tweets since Apr 10 15:32. At this point I have close to 4 million tweets saved and over 700MB of data. I may have the deleted tweets, but definitely not if they don't have the word united in them.

I think some users may be confused. I can see in the data that @Jay_Beecher's earliest tweet about united was April 10th 18:12, which seems to be the one he is thinking was deleted. But that tweet is here. If he thinks its gone because he is looking at his normal tweet timeline, then he doesn't understand how Twitter's interface works. It doesn't show tweets that start with an @. Other people I checked (TalkIBC, iknowimbitter, seem to be equally confused.

Based on the data I have, I don't think Twitter deleted any tweets.

Here's your citation: https://twitter.com/

"also you are banned for using the right pronouns and for blaspheming our Prophet (pbuh)."

Shit, I created a new business account this morning and got banned for uploading a profile pic (no funny business, just my business logo). It was tagged as "suspicious activity". I tried to reactive it but my business phone number (which I've had for 13 years now) is "unsupported" for a phone call or SMS to confirm.

I had the account open for, I think two minutes before getting banned. So, really, pronoun use and blasphemy must just be if you're not trying hard enough. Be a real rebel and complete your account profile!

I can't imagine how much fun it is to interface with their backend if this is the way the frontend works.

Well, it's in their terms of service. But then an AC probably knows squat about the legalities of it.

https://twitter.com/tos

https://support.twitter.com/ar...

Well, it's in their terms of service. But then an AC probably knows squat about the legalities of it.

https://twitter.com/tos

https://support.twitter.com/ar...

Fuck you msmash (and /. editors) and fuck you Kerry Flynn of mashable for making me hunt.

https://blog.twitter.com/2017/building-the-future-of-the-twitter-api-platform/aA

Even adding a phone number doesn't work. I tried adding my landline to the add_phone form today. But instead of Twitter reading out the verification code through text-to-speech the way my bank does, it produced a message "There was an error sending a text to that phone number. Please try again."

Yeah, you should totally trust someone who runs Randi Harper's industry blacklist of "problematic" people in tech. Problematic... like White people. Or Male Identifying Penis Carrying Humanoids. Or the more than three quarters of the US who didn't want to follow the faux-left Clintonites down the drain.

Hell, the "they/them" madeup bullshit pronouns on his twitter profile is enough to stop paying attention to him, but the fact that he joined in on or even spearheaded the Jacob Applebaum lynch mob which was later proven to be a hoax created by 3 white knights who refused to even ask the supposed "victims" (who rejected it outright) they decided to speak on behalf of is enough: https://twitter.com/isislovecr...

(Personal rule: Someone who claims to have made up bullshit pronouns is male. Since gender is a social construct and men and women have equal rights, this is not transphobic because gender doesn't matter, right?)

Also, what's the "insanely high" bar for C? Knowing how to code? Yes, yes. Very problematic. Why would you want to require people to know how to code to contribute source code to a browser that millions rely on to keep themselves safe from being killed to actually know how to... contribute source code.

The biases of Twitter can be quite easily seen by looking at the "Safety Council", tasked with keeping Twitter free of undesireables.

( https://about.twitter.com/safe... )

Furthermore, it is quite telling that Twitter punished notorious troll and agitator Milo Yiannopoulos by removing his verified tag. Why would they do that if the tag was only there to assert that the account was in fact verified as belonging to the real Milo Yiannopoulos?

Supposedly it was :
https://twitter.com/FioraAeter...
http://x86.renejeschke.de/html...

Writes to memory which bypass the cache hierarchy totally and are very much processor implementation specific in their speeds.