I imagine you could put a Sputnik-like payload into space for a few hundred thousand dollars
If it was that easy, everyone would be doing it. Do you know what it costs the revolutionarily cheap SpaceX to build and launch a Falcon-1? Your guess is out by a couple of orders of magnitude.
Ladies and gentlemen of the board, as you know this mighty corporation is under constant attacks by Dr Evil, SMERSH, the KGB and the Illuminati. I am now at liberty to reveal to you that we have been contacted by the Secret Service, sworn to secrecy, and issued with specially secured, James Bond laptops. Now there's only a few of these super-elite systems to go around, and only the most important people can be allowed the privilege of one of the Super Secure Laptops. So, I'll leave the room now, and you can draw lots to see which of you will have to put up with one of the standard, normal, Windows-based laptops... and who merits inclusion on the Hyper Secure System Program, and gets a 007 laptop.
I dunno, doesn't look so bad to me (and that's AAPL vs the NASDAQ over the last year; the latest 24h doesn't look so bad either.) Though Google != Bloomberg or Reuters, so those are old prices by now.
How would you feel if you were the owner or a shareholder of one of companies so prominently set to fail?
If you're still invested in stock at this point then you're toast already (unless you're trying to come in at the bottom but peaked too early, or you're investing over three or four decades, in which case your exposure to any one company should be pretty small.)
Wishful thinking I'm afraid. Although I'm rather surprised that Checkpoint being comprehensively pwned and having the VPN-1 source hawked on Full Disclosure didn't pick up more press attention.
Yeah, let's all stop talking about it. We all know what we think, right? None of us going to be suddenly struck by a word or phrase from someone on the "other side", and realise that we are in fact all one, though religion politics power and militarism conspire to keep us killing each other, or into realising that the other people are humans too who don't automatically deserve to die. God forbid that a handful of banner ad clickthroughs might result from attempts to think and communicate about the horrible shit that happens in the world.
Victimhood? The Palestinians are playing the professional victim here.
Judging from the pictures and other reports from the ground I've seen, they're the most convincing method actors I've ever seen. That kid in the pics Mahmoud Abbas was showing on the BBC news the other night looked just like he'd been blown to pieces! Seriously, *amazing* special effects, really.
Seconded. I suspect we'll find we didn't realise what we had. I never read his blog and had no idea who he was IRL; it's interesting to see he had real actual accomplishments and genuine achievements beyond getting some stories posted on Slashdot, something I doubt any of the trolls here will ever be able to say.
RIP. And I hope some explains the phenomena of the "no gutter too low" subset of Slashdot trolls so in evidence here, and on other obituary stories, to the family before they see them.
Most of that's relayed via MRO and Mars Odyssey. As others have remarked elsewhere, the drips and drops of data from MER is lost in the firehose from MRO. (Ever pulled a JP2 of HiRISE data? Those things are VAST. Here's a random example.) Incidentally the IAS quick-viewer is the third useful client-side Java application ever written, according to this book I just made up.
Nonsense. Dr Evil can't script a Mozilla extension to instantiate and execute random code he's given it. Let me save you the time and search the CVE for exploitable bugs in ActiveX controls:
if a engine, or even a few, fail on the falcon 9, it can still complete its mission,
That's not entirely true, is it? It's only true for failure modes where the lost engine just shuts down. If a pressure pipe lets go or propellant leaks or, well, any of the hundreds of other failure modes that lead to a very big bang and bright light in the sky, the entire vehicle's toast, just as with more conventional designs.
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Two of the last three Soyuz vehicles returning from the ISS have done recently exactly the same thing. See eg. http://www.russianspaceweb.com/iss_soyuztma11.html . Pictures of the landing site; click through for the full res images. Check the large area of burnt grass - it set a pretty big fire when it landed - the significant distance between the hole in the ground and where the capsule fetched up -- that's how far it *bounced*; and especially the heavily charred front end of the capsule and the burnt-through thruster fairing. This happened in April 2008.
If it was that easy, everyone would be doing it. Do you know what it costs the revolutionarily cheap SpaceX to build and launch a Falcon-1? Your guess is out by a couple of orders of magnitude.
Ladies and gentlemen of the board, as you know this mighty corporation is under constant attacks by Dr Evil, SMERSH, the KGB and the Illuminati. I am now at liberty to reveal to you that we have been contacted by the Secret Service, sworn to secrecy, and issued with specially secured, James Bond laptops. Now there's only a few of these super-elite systems to go around, and only the most important people can be allowed the privilege of one of the Super Secure Laptops. So, I'll leave the room now, and you can draw lots to see which of you will have to put up with one of the standard, normal, Windows-based laptops... and who merits inclusion on the Hyper Secure System Program, and gets a 007 laptop.
See these scars? Nimda. See this funny dent in my leg? NT4 SP5... this piece was so true it hurts.
I dunno, doesn't look so bad to me (and that's AAPL vs the NASDAQ over the last year; the latest 24h doesn't look so bad either.) Though Google != Bloomberg or Reuters, so those are old prices by now.
If you're still invested in stock at this point then you're toast already (unless you're trying to come in at the bottom but peaked too early, or you're investing over three or four decades, in which case your exposure to any one company should be pretty small.)
Sun? I'll take that bet. I'd be more surprised if they /weren't/ involved a takeover (hostile or not) by this time next year.
Clam's a death trap.
Wishful thinking I'm afraid. Although I'm rather surprised that Checkpoint being comprehensively pwned and having the VPN-1 source hawked on Full Disclosure didn't pick up more press attention.
When youre on the street,
When evening falls so hard
We will point and laugh...
(With apologies to Simon & Garfunkel.)
Mod parent back up, pls. It's not a troll, just something that a lot of people won't agree with. There is a difference, remember...
Non-Zionists believe Israel has no right to exist
Utter bollocks.
Yeah, let's all stop talking about it. We all know what we think, right? None of us going to be suddenly struck by a word or phrase from someone on the "other side", and realise that we are in fact all one, though religion politics power and militarism conspire to keep us killing each other, or into realising that the other people are humans too who don't automatically deserve to die. God forbid that a handful of banner ad clickthroughs might result from attempts to think and communicate about the horrible shit that happens in the world.
No, it goes:
Israel: <intense, ten days of round-the-clock barrage of artillery shells, H.E., white phosphorus, and assault rifle fire>
Hamas: Silence! I keeeel you!
Judging from the pictures and other reports from the ground I've seen, they're the most convincing method actors I've ever seen. That kid in the pics Mahmoud Abbas was showing on the BBC news the other night looked just like he'd been blown to pieces! Seriously, *amazing* special effects, really.
Seconded. I suspect we'll find we didn't realise what we had. I never read his blog and had no idea who he was IRL; it's interesting to see he had real actual accomplishments and genuine achievements beyond getting some stories posted on Slashdot, something I doubt any of the trolls here will ever be able to say. RIP. And I hope some explains the phenomena of the "no gutter too low" subset of Slashdot trolls so in evidence here, and on other obituary stories, to the family before they see them.
I don't get why this is news?
Because Microsoft have never laid people off before. NEVER.
I have to ask...why?
Who cares, man? Just sit back and enjoy the show!
This was bollocks when you posted it on BoingBoing, and it's bollocks here.
How does it go again? Denial, anger, bargaining,..?
Most of that's relayed via MRO and Mars Odyssey. As others have remarked elsewhere, the drips and drops of data from MER is lost in the firehose from MRO. (Ever pulled a JP2 of HiRISE data? Those things are VAST. Here's a random example.) Incidentally the IAS quick-viewer is the third useful client-side Java application ever written, according to this book I just made up.
Nonsense. Dr Evil can't script a Mozilla extension to instantiate and execute random code he's given it. Let me save you the time and search the CVE for exploitable bugs in ActiveX controls:
There are 627 CVE entries or candidates that match your search.
if a engine, or even a few, fail on the falcon 9, it can still complete its mission,
That's not entirely true, is it? It's only true for failure modes where the lost engine just shuts down. If a pressure pipe lets go or propellant leaks or, well, any of the hundreds of other failure modes that lead to a very big bang and bright light in the sky, the entire vehicle's toast, just as with more conventional designs.
There are plenty of how-tos and tutorial videos on the net. Er, or so my friends tell me.
Brilliant story, thanks for the link.