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Budget Satellite

Posted by michael on from the take-notes-iridium dept.

codejunkie writes: "Check out this story from the Baltimore Sun. Apparently the middies were laughed at when they proposed a budget satellite for 50K. Boeing said it couldn't be done and gave them 250K. Well now they can build five more because the smart minds on the bay have built one."

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  1. Five more? by Grelli · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    "proposed a budget satellite for 50K. Boeing said it couldn't be done and gave them 250K. Well now they can build five more because the smart minds on the bay have built one."

    OK, so you build one satallite for $50,000, that leaves you with $200,000.... how do you build five more $50,000 satallites with $200,000?

  2. Another bug by Modus+Nonsens · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sometimes clicking on comments brings me back to the first page.

  3. Re:"Native" Americans: An absurd liberal myth: by cyberdonny · · Score: 2, Offtopic
    > You do realize your ip address is linked to this post, right? So even if you hide behind the "Anonymous Coward", people can still track you down and slice your scalp off.

    Yes, but, unless you are Slashdot personnel, or unless you post from the same IP and happen to have mod-points, there is no way you can read that stored IP address.

    • Slashdot personnel won't reveal or abuse the IP address, at least not for a troll as lame as this one. Heck, they didn't do it during the Anne Tomlinson fiasko, where they would have had much stronger motives...
    • So, that leaves possibility 2 (Same IP & mod points). However, this one is extremely unlikely, unless the troller is a colleague of yours, working behind the same NAT or proxy, or a user of the same ISP, and you got allocated his IP.
    • Oh, I forgot a third possibility: you yourself may be the troll, making it trivial for you to find out the IP address...