what does it matter you stupid mother fuckers whether the guy's wearing a towel wrapped around his head or around his dick, eh? hey, downgrade me another set of appointed modpoints, PLEASE -- the 15 A DAY was a little too fucking annoying and after my last racist comment, the 5 A DAY is still just annoying in an entirely new way.
i'd prefer NO FUCKING MODERATION POINTS PER DAY. THANKS.
fucking jerk off sons of bitches. instead of trying to "improve" slashdot why don't you work on improving your own country out of a state of more or less complete and absolute academic dishonesty? how about work on your government so it's not bribery from towel wrapped head to towel wrapped dick you short, greasy mother fuckers?
this site is getting fucking pathetic, man. i bet if i keep up this put-on tirade of racist bullshit for long enough you'll sack my fucking account because you're weak spined, arrogant, stupid, dishonest wannabe crackers. sorry you weren't born in the appalachians but apparently you can still marry your sister or daughter in the united states so hey you still have opportunities to catch up with the elegant east coast lifestyle. become a real "blue blood" and fuck both your mother and your sister at once.
what was this fucking article about? putting an entirely new layer of cookies actually on the fucking backbone of the internet?
wow, you've got to be fucking kidding me. who came up with this fucking bullshit, the guy who falsely claimed to invent the microwave or the guy who actually believes he has the right to sell the golden gate bridge?
so let me ask, which server has to play "user" at any given time? i mean, if you make it completely ambiguous which server is user and which is host -- in terms of the cookie you follow me -- then it's not a security protocol. at all. it's fucking bullshit. it's over-complicating something. claiming that it improves security would somewhere implicate a tautology. security is already well defined and it does not entail complete transparency and freely flowing bidirectional information. firewalls exist for a reason. jesus i think i just sprouted a second, baby-sized dick. it has an actual dick diaper on it. there's a rattle sticking out of my ear. what the actual fuck.
you see that, you fuck around with these new third-world slashdot owners long enough and they just sick the magic juju on your ass.
fucking anti-headline bullshit. when is this site going to get liquidated and put us all out of our miseries?
Right? Like something he says while he's slicking his hair back in front of everybody who's sitting down to enjoy dinner.
"Dinner? With you losers?" *slick* "No way, losers. That was Old Glenn. This--" *slick* "Is New Glenn. And New Glenn's goin' out to get New Glenn's dick wet. Not like you losers who are sittin' here to get their mouths dry on all this dry overcooked food. Overcooked?" *slick* "Not New Glenn. That was Old Glenn. Peace out you loser bitches."
i mean, sure, yeah, you can destroy anything from the device itself, to the usb port it's in, to the usb interface controller. who knows, okay let's so you can set the entire machine on fire and vaporize it in an instant and whoosh disappear from the building, end of mission. mission successful. asset destroyed.
okay so the next morning they open up shop, see the vaporized computer, and replace it because hello redundancy.
they not only replace the redundant hardware and all the redundant data stored on it, even while the machine was down some other machine was carrying its burden because again redundancy. sorry to be redundant but redundancy.
way to "test" the system.
then you wake up the next morning and overnight the local librarians were showing video tape to the cops of you plugging something at exactly the time it stopped working, and then you jet out like you've seen a ghost. or maybe you're real brave and destroyed some college property like a real professional hollyhackerwood. nice going so you're giggling into your mug full of cheerios (sick life hack yo) and down comes your front door and somebody shoots you in the heart because (1) hackers don't have quite bad enough image yet, it needs to get way iller up in hackland (2) they thought the coffee mug was a gun sorry you had to go that way my hacker compadre.
"how the internet's ubiquitous presence is having long term consequences" could also be on dead trees and have even more of an impact in its message -- just not reaching the right crowd. OR IS IT
i think it's a matter of information gaps, not necessarily that the information isn't there but that it's not in a handy ready to transmit form and it hasn't all been collated into one spot outside of some NSA operation.
basically ISPs serve their customers. their work is downstream. all of their customer data is relevant downstream. well, unless they're selling names and addresses to advertisers.
so sure the ISPs know where all their customers are, but the other ISPs don't. and there's no central repository of this private business information for others to glean from. unless we're talking about several ISPs that are all operated by the same umbrella corporation for the sake of avoiding public accusations of market monopoly.
now let's consider how you're going to find all the ISPs of some other country. sure, in the united states all ISPs register with the FCC. there's not necessarily an analog in every other country, especially when we start getting down to countries that should be undeveloped but ran ahead and screwed their shit up by developing some things too fast and other things too slowly. countries where basically you can see something like a beautiful 100,000 luxury bus dropping off the side of a mountain because there's nothing but some mud clinging to the side of a mountain and somebody felt that was a road. or you see something like a team of guys trying to get a backhoe off a truck by lowering it down on its own arm because they can't afford a mother. fucking. ramp. it's literally one of history's oldest tools and here they have a hydraulic shovel and a diesel engine truck and they don't have a fucking ramp. so somewhere out there is an ISP that doesn't even have to have a license to pay a guy with one towel around his dick and another around his head to go out also without a license and climb a pole using a rope and almost get electrocuted while hanging cat-5 from a wooden pole using carpentry staples. unless the third world we're talking about is a united state trailer park in which case the registry they're using is probably the sex offender registry.
There are varying levels of ethical boundary. There are codes and there are guidelines. If you go against an ethical code you'll be seen as amoral. If you go against an ethical guideline you'll be asked for your wallet.
Now you should look at the good General's speech in this article. He says that these are ethical "considerations". That places them firmly in the realm of guidelines, not coda. This means that when the time comes, when it comes down to whether or not there are terrible ramifications to building an "unstoppable terminator", the people in charge will more or less give it some thought. Sorry if I have to explain this to anyone; it's just how the distribution of legitimized power works. You draw thin lines and thick heavy ones.
The second thing in the General's speech is the use of "fine line". This is a funny turn of speech in the military, in general. Because a fine line refers to a very scrutable detail. A line that clearly demarcates one side from another. But war-making is not about staying on the side of a line, it's about moving a line and advancing it towards a goal. The "thin lines" are dross, and the heavy ones represent stopping power.
well i noticed some of the more productive types who have actually gotten demonitized like philip difranco don't mind at all.
phil questions the "why" of his being cited as "not friendly for advertising" but he doesn't care because he doesn't suckle the teats of this fucked up advertising driven economic nightmare. when it comes down to it, phil sells merchandise and his popularity increases by word of mouth. he's not concerned because youtube has become his storefront, not his customer.
on the other hand plenty of really stupid "gamer" culture cretins are crying over losing their pacifiers. wah, wah, go get a job you stupid slackers. get the hell off my lawn and by the way, on your way out, get your fucking advertisements off my lawn, too, and take your entire security-compromising shit for brains pyramid scheme with you. fucking losers!
meanwhile, what do i, personally, have to say about all this?
Oh. Well I'm glad I'm wrong. Because otherwise it looked pretty bad for SpaceX. They would look completely cavalier. I mean, I've read the history of rocketry. I find the formation of JPL and work done by John Parsons on the first JATO particularly interesting, even wrote a final on it. I know that the whole entire field of rocketry, so far from perfection and probably remaining that way for many decades into the future, is more or less insanely cavalier. But we've come to expect some sensibility and aeronautics has become a highly ethical field.
Journalism on the other hand.
I had read the original, incorrect version and had closed it while writing this. Then I bother to read other comments here, leading me back to twitter to see what's being said about re-use, leading me back to the article which is *totally different*.
Isn't it part of journalistic ethics to issue clear retractions explaining the error that was made and offering corrected information? Instead NPR just deletes the offending reporting and goes on like nothing's wrong, completely confusing the fuck out of everybody with their inept approach to journalism.
That's fine. National Public Radio is only good at one thing and that's geopolitical propaganda. They really should just stay stupid and shut up until the CIA or Biden needs them to join New York Times in reporting the billionth Russian troop being staged on the border of Ukraine.
I should have known that if NPR wasn't reporting "the Russians just blew up SpaceX and Facebook", then they were probably reporting from a position deeply embedded up their own asshole.
My apologies for OP being completely irrelevant. After all, this is corporate America and space mining is the only non-murderous future the resource goblins are riding on at the moment. If no clearly actionable mistake was made during this launch then there's absolutely no need to be cautious at all. Quick, let's now get the re-used rocket, crowdfund $uckerberg's public to build another scheme to overutilize the marginalized, and do exactly what I described in my post because bottom line. There would be nothing wrong with doing so because everybody has already been through the scare of believing that's exactly what happened, so they'll all be totally prepared in case it actually does.
I have read statements that the rocket's first stage had been one of those successfully used before and returned to Earth.
And also, that this was the first time they had tested a first stage that was being re-used like that.
Correct me if I'm wrong but those indicate that SpaceX haven't even made sure they can go through with this whole re-use plan by at least sending the same rocket stages up more than once.
Another person pointed out to me that one of the first stages (perhaps this same one) suffered some damage when landing on the target on a previous mission.
So we could even possibly be talking about re-use of damaged parts.
So that would mean this US$200M (not a small number by any means but in the space and satellite industry not a particularly large one, either) satellite payload was attached to a rocket that is launching from a more or less completely experimental stage.
I say this because if they haven't even gone through a proof-of-concept of this whole reusable rocket thing, then it's still experimental.
And not only that, the payload is attached to this rocket during the first ever static test firing of a reused first stage. In other words during a completely experimental moment.
Correct me if I'm wrong but that's kind of fucked up. Especially when you consider that now, the entire satellite industry is rocking back on its heels. A company's entire future is at stake. Investors are fleeing. Space engineers are saying that this is going to push space exploration itself back 1-2 years just in terms of loss of investments and confidence alone.
All of this is foreseeable. You can look at the whole set up and say, "if this rocket explodes and this satellite is destroyed, SpaceX is going to be fucking over the entire space industry. Not just the satellite industry. Not just the Falcon program. The entire space industry."
And to find out that it was somehow green-lit in Elon Musk's world of high pressure corporate decision making and, um, investor confidence, to go ahead and kill two birds with one stone and perform this first-ever completely experimental test while the expensive new "everything's riding on this" payload is sitting on top of the rocket... (?)
I mean, can corporate greed get any fucking sicker?
What if that was a group of human beings in a capsule, dying, because it was the first ever time a successfully re-entered life support system was green lit? And some fucking insulation was burned but passed inspection. And there's an electrical fire and life support fails. And three people die.
There's this thing called ethics in engineering. I had to take a course in it. It's actually considered very important by any truly solid engineer. And it doesn't always take the loss of human life to call a company's ethics into question.
There was a very clear, very blatant sense of calculable corporate risk, and corporate bottom line, and corporate corner cutting in this entire fucking situation.
And where is the blame going to be placed? I love it. Hour one what we're told is an anomaly on the pad. Yeah, okay, an anomaly. Why not? That fits the description of literally everything under the sun if we're all sane human beings and have every reason to believe that SpaceX did not purposefully intend for this to happen. Then yeah, fucking aye, yes "anomaly" is a good word for it.
But the problem is, there's a fucking anomaly in the experiment, too: that this equipment has not been tested to be sure it can perform as expected but it's being treated like it's the holy grail.
That's really not proper. It doesn't seem quite ethical, if you ask me.
Now I'm just waiting for New York Times to blame it on the Russians.
i always end the definition with the opening bracket so that there is absolutely no fucking way it goes missing. if it's not at the end of the line it hasn't been entered.
and then i usually close bracket in the exact same indentation as the code it's closing. this way when you're looking at a huge set of subroutines and starting to wonder where this or that set of lines was defined, you just find the closing bracket and follow the line up until your vision literally collides with the definition. ta-da, no missing the definition.
otherwise you can look up and actually miss the definition if you're skimming too fast, and maybe end up with the bracketed definition before it in the same indentation.
honestly i'd prefer if lines indented past 3 spaces were indented using some delimiter and integer.
i hate backspacing over numerous tabs and the more indented your code gets the more you're working with a falling apart mountain of tabs. sure, code manager, blah blah, what ever. the only reason we're talking about this is because enough of us are manually maintaining our code through traditional key bindings.
i prefer spaces only because i don't want to store tabs and deal with different editors treating tabs different ways. especially if they are 'smart' editors and are going to take those tabs to mean something other than 'get out of my sight and go sit with your friends.'
but column selecting and backspacing spaces gets to be just as tedious. hell, moreso. it's 3-8 times as many keypresses. (3 for me, _thanks_!!!)
and most editors don't seem to get it goldilocks-just-right when it comes to assuming what i want when i'm starting a new line or removing an indentation. most of them either try too hard or force me into a weird hybrid of styles. i still haven't found an editor for windows that i can force to behave according to the style i came up with years ago and still prefer to use today, and i have tried some pretty configurable editors.
what i would really like is a standard that just says 'the indentation of this line is this many space', just have an integer and delimiter and hide them from view. i want the option to backspace all of it away without the behaviour being both tied to (parsing) and part of (outputting) the space and tab characters. especially if i decide to use a tab or several space in an unorthodox comment space.
i think it would be a lot easier for most editors to handle during their 'smart' indenting behaviour, as well. and there is already a notable standard for this in the old ansi terminal code definition. i'm always up for revitalizing the use and even advancement of that old shit.
I really get tired of the whole modern age skeptic culture. Yeah, I get it that in order to learn and master science you kind of have to get interested in it. And yeah I get it that having some dummies to shoot down helps you improve your aim. But the universe isn't all dummies, and not all experimental scientists are dummies either.
At any rate, skepticism in our culture is so profoundly ingrained that even when you see people accepting a new theory they are still finding a way to shoot it down to keep themselves comfortable.
You wouldn't actually use a set of these things to push a fucking rocket around space, morons. You would put a set of these things around an axis like a chinese fire wheel, and allow their greater than 100% efficiency to spin them around the axis producing a limitless energy production in the zero gravity.
Then you would harness the power they're generating and do something like fire an incredibly silly, impossibly powerful laser and ride the equal and opposite reaction to quickly achieving absurd speeds.
And it's also worth noting that the article is slightly wrong about something: the emdrive demonstration of thrust has already been performed by a group of scientists within NASA, many months ago. The rigor of the experiment was questioned though. Meanwhile there have always been a handful of scientists in NASA -- not even connected to the experiment -- who have been fully faithful in the concept and fairly confident that further experimentation would bear out even further positive results. So it's not like this has been treated as purely 100% heretical by the entire NASA community as the article appears to claim.
On the other hand, pseudo-intellectual armchair skeptics just love to dog pile on this topic. Can't wait to see their dopey, stupid faces melt when they get their come-uppance (which from the sound of it comes any minute now.)
Also, it was right around the time I was born that the world started gettin' so very interestin' for so very many people.
So it's pretty clear from all available scientific data that I'm pretty much "it". I'm all there is to anything important in life: your life, your wife's life, hell even the lives of the several Presidents that have been elected since I was born. You kind of all owe it to me and my shit. Otherwise your shit would be boring. Trust me: it would be. I can tell because every day I look at your shit and I go, "boring. Fucking fuck's sake it's so boring I'm about to cry."
So I happen to be an expert on this.
Now, now, don't everybody scramble to try and suck my dick at once. You'll just get in the way of the ladies and if you do that I won't be able to see which ones I want to drop kick down my mountain of pure gold and memory modules.
Memory modules are still as good as diamonds right?
Well shucks I wasn't sure when or even how I was going to let the rest of you in on this, but when I saw how well you took this news about the industrial revolution being solely responsible for heating the planet, I decided now was the best time to break it to you.
What if the shadow brokers didn't hack and steal NSA code, but simply had some part in writing the code to begin with and perhaps what they're selling is unrefined prototypes?
Frankly I have no reason to believe that the shadow brokers and the equation group are even separate entities. If equation group are as good as they are supposed to be, then it makes more sense that for some reason equation group are playing a game with the public. (I highly doubt they'd try and play a game with the NSA.)
I have also seen that the NSA has been trying to make itself somewhat more transparent and useful to the public in the last eight years. Not exactly taking strides but there have definitely been gestures. Perhaps this is the only way they know how to release tools to the public while avoiding accountability under a government that doesn't comprehend the benefits of transparency or educating the masses in cyber security. It would also explain how federally held bitcoins have been trickling into the shadow brokers' wallet.
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what does it matter you stupid mother fuckers whether the guy's wearing a towel wrapped around his head or around his dick, eh? hey, downgrade me another set of appointed modpoints, PLEASE -- the 15 A DAY was a little too fucking annoying and after my last racist comment, the 5 A DAY is still just annoying in an entirely new way.
i'd prefer NO FUCKING MODERATION POINTS PER DAY. THANKS.
fucking jerk off sons of bitches. instead of trying to "improve" slashdot why don't you work on improving your own country out of a state of more or less complete and absolute academic dishonesty? how about work on your government so it's not bribery from towel wrapped head to towel wrapped dick you short, greasy mother fuckers?
this site is getting fucking pathetic, man. i bet if i keep up this put-on tirade of racist bullshit for long enough you'll sack my fucking account because you're weak spined, arrogant, stupid, dishonest wannabe crackers. sorry you weren't born in the appalachians but apparently you can still marry your sister or daughter in the united states so hey you still have opportunities to catch up with the elegant east coast lifestyle. become a real "blue blood" and fuck both your mother and your sister at once.
what was this fucking article about? putting an entirely new layer of cookies actually on the fucking backbone of the internet?
wow, you've got to be fucking kidding me. who came up with this fucking bullshit, the guy who falsely claimed to invent the microwave or the guy who actually believes he has the right to sell the golden gate bridge?
so let me ask, which server has to play "user" at any given time? i mean, if you make it completely ambiguous which server is user and which is host -- in terms of the cookie you follow me -- then it's not a security protocol. at all. it's fucking bullshit. it's over-complicating something. claiming that it improves security would somewhere implicate a tautology. security is already well defined and it does not entail complete transparency and freely flowing bidirectional information. firewalls exist for a reason. jesus i think i just sprouted a second, baby-sized dick. it has an actual dick diaper on it. there's a rattle sticking out of my ear. what the actual fuck.
you see that, you fuck around with these new third-world slashdot owners long enough and they just sick the magic juju on your ass.
fucking anti-headline bullshit. when is this site going to get liquidated and put us all out of our miseries?
Right? Like something he says while he's slicking his hair back in front of everybody who's sitting down to enjoy dinner.
"Dinner? With you losers?" *slick* "No way, losers. That was Old Glenn. This--" *slick* "Is New Glenn. And New Glenn's goin' out to get New Glenn's dick wet. Not like you losers who are sittin' here to get their mouths dry on all this dry overcooked food. Overcooked?" *slick* "Not New Glenn. That was Old Glenn. Peace out you loser bitches."
i mean, sure, yeah, you can destroy anything from the device itself, to the usb port it's in, to the usb interface controller. who knows, okay let's so you can set the entire machine on fire and vaporize it in an instant and whoosh disappear from the building, end of mission. mission successful. asset destroyed.
okay so the next morning they open up shop, see the vaporized computer, and replace it because hello redundancy.
they not only replace the redundant hardware and all the redundant data stored on it, even while the machine was down some other machine was carrying its burden because again redundancy. sorry to be redundant but redundancy.
way to "test" the system.
then you wake up the next morning and overnight the local librarians were showing video tape to the cops of you plugging something at exactly the time it stopped working, and then you jet out like you've seen a ghost. or maybe you're real brave and destroyed some college property like a real professional hollyhackerwood. nice going so you're giggling into your mug full of cheerios (sick life hack yo) and down comes your front door and somebody shoots you in the heart because (1) hackers don't have quite bad enough image yet, it needs to get way iller up in hackland (2) they thought the coffee mug was a gun sorry you had to go that way my hacker compadre.
but you kind of brought it down on yourself.
hmm.
"how the internet's ubiquitous presence is having long term consequences" could also be on dead trees and have even more of an impact in its message -- just not reaching the right crowd. OR IS IT
i think it's a matter of information gaps, not necessarily that the information isn't there but that it's not in a handy ready to transmit form and it hasn't all been collated into one spot outside of some NSA operation.
basically ISPs serve their customers. their work is downstream. all of their customer data is relevant downstream. well, unless they're selling names and addresses to advertisers.
so sure the ISPs know where all their customers are, but the other ISPs don't. and there's no central repository of this private business information for others to glean from. unless we're talking about several ISPs that are all operated by the same umbrella corporation for the sake of avoiding public accusations of market monopoly.
now let's consider how you're going to find all the ISPs of some other country. sure, in the united states all ISPs register with the FCC. there's not necessarily an analog in every other country, especially when we start getting down to countries that should be undeveloped but ran ahead and screwed their shit up by developing some things too fast and other things too slowly. countries where basically you can see something like a beautiful 100,000 luxury bus dropping off the side of a mountain because there's nothing but some mud clinging to the side of a mountain and somebody felt that was a road. or you see something like a team of guys trying to get a backhoe off a truck by lowering it down on its own arm because they can't afford a mother. fucking. ramp. it's literally one of history's oldest tools and here they have a hydraulic shovel and a diesel engine truck and they don't have a fucking ramp. so somewhere out there is an ISP that doesn't even have to have a license to pay a guy with one towel around his dick and another around his head to go out also without a license and climb a pole using a rope and almost get electrocuted while hanging cat-5 from a wooden pole using carpentry staples. unless the third world we're talking about is a united state trailer park in which case the registry they're using is probably the sex offender registry.
let's play a game, 'who really made'.
here's our two contestants.
our first contestant plays video games and yells statements of questionable sanity.
our second contestant has a logo (ting), and puts it on merchandise (ting).
and we have a winner.
omfg
i can't believe after this many years of apple routinely doing this, people have still not caught on
talk about fucking retarded
like, listen to you, you actually sound like you've been sitting on the fence about this for a hell of a long time
never mind. i just realized you're probably deployed here as a polling system for apple to gauge how many more years they can effectively do this.
There are varying levels of ethical boundary. There are codes and there are guidelines. If you go against an ethical code you'll be seen as amoral. If you go against an ethical guideline you'll be asked for your wallet.
Now you should look at the good General's speech in this article. He says that these are ethical "considerations". That places them firmly in the realm of guidelines, not coda. This means that when the time comes, when it comes down to whether or not there are terrible ramifications to building an "unstoppable terminator", the people in charge will more or less give it some thought. Sorry if I have to explain this to anyone; it's just how the distribution of legitimized power works. You draw thin lines and thick heavy ones.
The second thing in the General's speech is the use of "fine line". This is a funny turn of speech in the military, in general. Because a fine line refers to a very scrutable detail. A line that clearly demarcates one side from another. But war-making is not about staying on the side of a line, it's about moving a line and advancing it towards a goal. The "thin lines" are dross, and the heavy ones represent stopping power.
yes, it is. and to help you, friend, and clarify one of the points you were on the fence of making:
the force that oppose the SJWs make merchandise.
just remember, it's not always 100% of the time "have v have-not"
quite often, it really boils down to "make v make-not"
#makersftw
*grips own face, pulls downward, with ever increasing force while reading this*
*croaking*
read what i fucking wrote before replying please
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well i noticed some of the more productive types who have actually gotten demonitized like philip difranco don't mind at all.
phil questions the "why" of his being cited as "not friendly for advertising" but he doesn't care because he doesn't suckle the teats of this fucked up advertising driven economic nightmare. when it comes down to it, phil sells merchandise and his popularity increases by word of mouth. he's not concerned because youtube has become his storefront, not his customer.
on the other hand plenty of really stupid "gamer" culture cretins are crying over losing their pacifiers. wah, wah, go get a job you stupid slackers. get the hell off my lawn and by the way, on your way out, get your fucking advertisements off my lawn, too, and take your entire security-compromising shit for brains pyramid scheme with you. fucking losers!
meanwhile, what do i, personally, have to say about all this?
DEMONitization!
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the phrase is "intrinsically safe"
Oh. Well I'm glad I'm wrong. Because otherwise it looked pretty bad for SpaceX. They would look completely cavalier. I mean, I've read the history of rocketry. I find the formation of JPL and work done by John Parsons on the first JATO particularly interesting, even wrote a final on it. I know that the whole entire field of rocketry, so far from perfection and probably remaining that way for many decades into the future, is more or less insanely cavalier. But we've come to expect some sensibility and aeronautics has become a highly ethical field.
Journalism on the other hand.
I had read the original, incorrect version and had closed it while writing this. Then I bother to read other comments here, leading me back to twitter to see what's being said about re-use, leading me back to the article which is *totally different*.
Isn't it part of journalistic ethics to issue clear retractions explaining the error that was made and offering corrected information? Instead NPR just deletes the offending reporting and goes on like nothing's wrong, completely confusing the fuck out of everybody with their inept approach to journalism.
That's fine. National Public Radio is only good at one thing and that's geopolitical propaganda. They really should just stay stupid and shut up until the CIA or Biden needs them to join New York Times in reporting the billionth Russian troop being staged on the border of Ukraine.
I should have known that if NPR wasn't reporting "the Russians just blew up SpaceX and Facebook", then they were probably reporting from a position deeply embedded up their own asshole.
My apologies for OP being completely irrelevant. After all, this is corporate America and space mining is the only non-murderous future the resource goblins are riding on at the moment. If no clearly actionable mistake was made during this launch then there's absolutely no need to be cautious at all. Quick, let's now get the re-used rocket, crowdfund $uckerberg's public to build another scheme to overutilize the marginalized, and do exactly what I described in my post because bottom line. There would be nothing wrong with doing so because everybody has already been through the scare of believing that's exactly what happened, so they'll all be totally prepared in case it actually does.
Fuckin aye!
Pfft.
Tell that to SpaceX so maybe they won't corner cut themselves into oblivion before they get a person to the ISS.
I have read statements that the rocket's first stage had been one of those successfully used before and returned to Earth.
And also, that this was the first time they had tested a first stage that was being re-used like that.
Correct me if I'm wrong but those indicate that SpaceX haven't even made sure they can go through with this whole re-use plan by at least sending the same rocket stages up more than once.
Another person pointed out to me that one of the first stages (perhaps this same one) suffered some damage when landing on the target on a previous mission.
So we could even possibly be talking about re-use of damaged parts.
So that would mean this US$200M (not a small number by any means but in the space and satellite industry not a particularly large one, either) satellite payload was attached to a rocket that is launching from a more or less completely experimental stage.
I say this because if they haven't even gone through a proof-of-concept of this whole reusable rocket thing, then it's still experimental.
And not only that, the payload is attached to this rocket during the first ever static test firing of a reused first stage. In other words during a completely experimental moment.
Correct me if I'm wrong but that's kind of fucked up. Especially when you consider that now, the entire satellite industry is rocking back on its heels. A company's entire future is at stake. Investors are fleeing. Space engineers are saying that this is going to push space exploration itself back 1-2 years just in terms of loss of investments and confidence alone.
All of this is foreseeable. You can look at the whole set up and say, "if this rocket explodes and this satellite is destroyed, SpaceX is going to be fucking over the entire space industry. Not just the satellite industry. Not just the Falcon program. The entire space industry."
And to find out that it was somehow green-lit in Elon Musk's world of high pressure corporate decision making and, um, investor confidence, to go ahead and kill two birds with one stone and perform this first-ever completely experimental test while the expensive new "everything's riding on this" payload is sitting on top of the rocket... (?)
I mean, can corporate greed get any fucking sicker?
What if that was a group of human beings in a capsule, dying, because it was the first ever time a successfully re-entered life support system was green lit? And some fucking insulation was burned but passed inspection. And there's an electrical fire and life support fails. And three people die.
There's this thing called ethics in engineering. I had to take a course in it. It's actually considered very important by any truly solid engineer. And it doesn't always take the loss of human life to call a company's ethics into question.
There was a very clear, very blatant sense of calculable corporate risk, and corporate bottom line, and corporate corner cutting in this entire fucking situation.
And where is the blame going to be placed? I love it. Hour one what we're told is an anomaly on the pad. Yeah, okay, an anomaly. Why not? That fits the description of literally everything under the sun if we're all sane human beings and have every reason to believe that SpaceX did not purposefully intend for this to happen. Then yeah, fucking aye, yes "anomaly" is a good word for it.
But the problem is, there's a fucking anomaly in the experiment, too: that this equipment has not been tested to be sure it can perform as expected but it's being treated like it's the holy grail.
That's really not proper. It doesn't seem quite ethical, if you ask me.
Now I'm just waiting for New York Times to blame it on the Russians.
Fucking ridiculous.
i always end the definition with the opening bracket so that there is absolutely no fucking way it goes missing. if it's not at the end of the line it hasn't been entered.
and then i usually close bracket in the exact same indentation as the code it's closing. this way when you're looking at a huge set of subroutines and starting to wonder where this or that set of lines was defined, you just find the closing bracket and follow the line up until your vision literally collides with the definition. ta-da, no missing the definition.
otherwise you can look up and actually miss the definition if you're skimming too fast, and maybe end up with the bracketed definition before it in the same indentation.
honestly i'd prefer if lines indented past 3 spaces were indented using some delimiter and integer.
i hate backspacing over numerous tabs and the more indented your code gets the more you're working with a falling apart mountain of tabs. sure, code manager, blah blah, what ever. the only reason we're talking about this is because enough of us are manually maintaining our code through traditional key bindings.
i prefer spaces only because i don't want to store tabs and deal with different editors treating tabs different ways. especially if they are 'smart' editors and are going to take those tabs to mean something other than 'get out of my sight and go sit with your friends.'
but column selecting and backspacing spaces gets to be just as tedious. hell, moreso. it's 3-8 times as many keypresses. (3 for me, _thanks_!!!)
and most editors don't seem to get it goldilocks-just-right when it comes to assuming what i want when i'm starting a new line or removing an indentation. most of them either try too hard or force me into a weird hybrid of styles. i still haven't found an editor for windows that i can force to behave according to the style i came up with years ago and still prefer to use today, and i have tried some pretty configurable editors.
what i would really like is a standard that just says 'the indentation of this line is this many space', just have an integer and delimiter and hide them from view. i want the option to backspace all of it away without the behaviour being both tied to (parsing) and part of (outputting) the space and tab characters. especially if i decide to use a tab or several space in an unorthodox comment space.
i think it would be a lot easier for most editors to handle during their 'smart' indenting behaviour, as well. and there is already a notable standard for this in the old ansi terminal code definition. i'm always up for revitalizing the use and even advancement of that old shit.
i was really expecting the argument to go,
"well, look at how much damn code is amassing through the collective efforts of all of us dumbasses.
"well considering how enormous the collective code base is getting,
"NOW how do you feel about using three times as much character data in your whitespace, HUH?!"
but instead it was just an enormous poll.
(i'm disappointed because it seemed like it would be an interesting debate.)
eggs-fucking-zachary
I really get tired of the whole modern age skeptic culture. Yeah, I get it that in order to learn and master science you kind of have to get interested in it. And yeah I get it that having some dummies to shoot down helps you improve your aim. But the universe isn't all dummies, and not all experimental scientists are dummies either.
At any rate, skepticism in our culture is so profoundly ingrained that even when you see people accepting a new theory they are still finding a way to shoot it down to keep themselves comfortable.
You wouldn't actually use a set of these things to push a fucking rocket around space, morons. You would put a set of these things around an axis like a chinese fire wheel, and allow their greater than 100% efficiency to spin them around the axis producing a limitless energy production in the zero gravity.
Then you would harness the power they're generating and do something like fire an incredibly silly, impossibly powerful laser and ride the equal and opposite reaction to quickly achieving absurd speeds.
Exactly.
And it's also worth noting that the article is slightly wrong about something: the emdrive demonstration of thrust has already been performed by a group of scientists within NASA, many months ago. The rigor of the experiment was questioned though. Meanwhile there have always been a handful of scientists in NASA -- not even connected to the experiment -- who have been fully faithful in the concept and fairly confident that further experimentation would bear out even further positive results. So it's not like this has been treated as purely 100% heretical by the entire NASA community as the article appears to claim.
On the other hand, pseudo-intellectual armchair skeptics just love to dog pile on this topic. Can't wait to see their dopey, stupid faces melt when they get their come-uppance (which from the sound of it comes any minute now.)
Yep.
Also, it was right around the time I was born that the world started gettin' so very interestin' for so very many people.
So it's pretty clear from all available scientific data that I'm pretty much "it". I'm all there is to anything important in life: your life, your wife's life, hell even the lives of the several Presidents that have been elected since I was born. You kind of all owe it to me and my shit. Otherwise your shit would be boring. Trust me: it would be. I can tell because every day I look at your shit and I go, "boring. Fucking fuck's sake it's so boring I'm about to cry."
So I happen to be an expert on this.
Now, now, don't everybody scramble to try and suck my dick at once. You'll just get in the way of the ladies and if you do that I won't be able to see which ones I want to drop kick down my mountain of pure gold and memory modules.
Memory modules are still as good as diamonds right?
Well shucks I wasn't sure when or even how I was going to let the rest of you in on this, but when I saw how well you took this news about the industrial revolution being solely responsible for heating the planet, I decided now was the best time to break it to you.
What if the shadow brokers didn't hack and steal NSA code, but simply had some part in writing the code to begin with and perhaps what they're selling is unrefined prototypes?
Frankly I have no reason to believe that the shadow brokers and the equation group are even separate entities. If equation group are as good as they are supposed to be, then it makes more sense that for some reason equation group are playing a game with the public. (I highly doubt they'd try and play a game with the NSA.)
I have also seen that the NSA has been trying to make itself somewhat more transparent and useful to the public in the last eight years. Not exactly taking strides but there have definitely been gestures. Perhaps this is the only way they know how to release tools to the public while avoiding accountability under a government that doesn't comprehend the benefits of transparency or educating the masses in cyber security. It would also explain how federally held bitcoins have been trickling into the shadow brokers' wallet.
Just sayin'.
See, I just *knew* that deactivating my facebook this week would pay off almost immediately.