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  1. Bear in mind at the extremely low pressure @ 190 miles (You'd need a space suite) 3000C is not as sweltering as it sounds

  2. Re:Becaue you aren't offering to do the work. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Explain 'Don't Improve My Software Syndrome' Or DIMSS? · · Score: 1

    In my experience the only time suggestions from end users elicit that kind of response is when the suggestion for something totally alien to what the project is designed for like somebody asking Ferrari to add a tow-bar option so that I can hitch up my trailer.

  3. Re:It has its uses on Ask Slashdot: Do You Like Functional Programming? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Religious wars over programming techniques and methodologies are for pedantic fools.

    Us Pastafarians would disagree! We prefer to write Spaghetti Code :D

  4. 1. Write pointless App

    2. Get bought out by M$

    3. Get paid to rewrite pointless App for M$

    4. Profit

  5. Last Post on Physicists Observe 'Negative Mass' (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'll get my coat

  6. Wow somebody is suing someone else in America on Bose Headphones Secretly Collected User Data, Lawsuit Reveals (fortune.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Wake me when there's a verdict

  7. Re:Apollo? No Chinese mythology gods? on Baidu Announces New Open Platform To Help Speed Up Development of Self-Driving Cars (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    I think they just want to appeal to a more western market

  8. To quote Kevin Bloody Wilson on Facebook Owns Four Out of the Five Most Downloaded Apps Worldwide (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    DILIGAF

  9. Re:Stop with the self-driving cars already! on Baidu Announces New Open Platform To Help Speed Up Development of Self-Driving Cars (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Love how you've spun that out as leftist when it will largely be the unions who try to fight against self driving cars, buses, trucks and trains.

  10. You can't blame Korolyev for that though the mission failed over 2 years after Korolyev's death and most of the faults were in systems that had been redesigned after his death. Many of those redesigns were reverted back to Korolyev's original and are still there on Soyuz capsules to this day. The loss of all three Cosmonauts in Soyus 11 was again due to a redesigned element of the space craft. If you take those two out of the equation Soyuz has an excellent track record if you keep them in the equation Soyuz is on a par with NASA on safety (Remembering that the Nedelin Disaster was an experimental ICBM and nothing to do with Korolyev or Soyuz)

  11. Re:Oh hell yeah! on Air Force Converts F-16 Jets Into Wingman Drones (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder how much you could realistically lighten a F-16 with a drone conversion.

    Surely the Rebels should do this! Have you seen how fat some of their fighter pilots are?

  12. Re:Microsoft on Microsoft Kills Off Security Bulletins (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Why does Microsoft hate its user base so much?

    Really, if this isn't one of the most anti-user things they've done (besides Windows 10) then I don't know what is.

    It seems like every week they find a new way to say "Fuck you!" to their users.

    They are playing the copy cat game and aping Apple. But surely if you want to talk about a corporation that hates it's user base surely Oracle is the big fish & M$, Apple and the rest are just minnows.

  13. Re:Who cares....its almost summer rerun time anywa on TV's Golden Age Is Anything But, Say Writers Preparing To Strike (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry but Dr Who? It's a BBC (UK) show largely written by British Writers working in the UK how is an American Writers Strike going to affect it?

  14. Re:Google is not your fucking friend on Google Ruins the Assistant's Shopping List, Turns It Into a Big Google Express Ad (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If it was genuinely useful Google would have abandoned it by now

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  16. Re:God I hope this works on Chrome Now Uses Scroll Anchoring To Prevent Those Annoying Page Jumps (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    About the only time I ever click on an advert is because the page jumped and moved the advert to where the link I was just clicking on was. This will be a good fix if it works.

  17. They are lucky it's only COBOL I work at a university and we still rely on shit that's written in ADA

  18. Re:Reusable - like the shuttle? on SpaceX Makes Aerospace History With Successful Launch, Landing of a Used Rocket (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the clarification

  19. Biased towards liberals? on 'Verified' Is Now a Derogatory Term on Twitter (theoutline.com) · · Score: 0

    There is also the perception that Twitter, a California company, is biased toward liberals.

    The only people twitter is biased towards are the Trolls which form the main stay of it's business

  20. Re:Reusable - like the shuttle? on SpaceX Makes Aerospace History With Successful Launch, Landing of a Used Rocket (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    "But they skimped on the maintenance, allowing tiles to get loose. Over time they loosened and fell off, resulting in major catastrophe."

    Neither crash was caused by tiles falling off the Shuttle.

    Challenger was caused the SRB's manufacturer cutting corners meaning that the O-Ring didn't function properly at low tempretures.

    Columbia was caused by Insulation falling off the main fuel tank during launch and damaging the heat shield on one of the wings. This was largely because regulations required them to use a more environmentally insulation on the fuel tank which couldn't maintain the same structural integrity of the previous insulation. To quote Kermit the Frog "It isn't easy being green"

  21. Ironically they were trying to evolve their Pokemon

  22. Re:This comment section: petty envious Americans on The Guardian Interviews Valentina Tereshkova, the First Woman In Space (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I was just waiting for someone to link her to the Trump Campaign. If it makes them feel any better it wasn't particularly the Russians they were racing at the start of the space race anyway. Most of the early victories were blagged by Chief Engineer Sergei Pavlovich Koroljev. The political elites in Russia were pretty oblivious to what was going on and actually pretty derisive of the Russian side of the space race.

  23. Re:That won't end well on Oracle Hires Global Specialists To Explore Feasibility of Buying Accenture · · Score: 1

    Just for once the only change in end user experience from an Oracle buyout will be the size of the bill. Normally they have to downgrade features to match their own shitty offerings, however, Accenture is already there.

  24. It was like 10 million voices cried out and were suddenly silenced

  25. It doesn't help that when you join the Windows Insider program it's almost impossible to leave without Re-Installing