does this mean his company can reverse engineer the rocket and sell the design to the highest bidder?
Are you asking if he can reverse-engineer an entire Saturn V rocket because he recovered a used and damaged engine that was sitting on the bottom of the ocean for 44 years? Do you understand how large a Saturn V is? Here is a component view of the Saturn V. That's not even a blueprint, not even close, it just shows where selected components are in the rocket. Look all the way at the bottom, at those engines, that's what he recovered. Why would you think he could reverse-engineer the rest of the rocket because he has an engine that has been corroding for 44 years?
I think that's part of Elon Musk's plan. He's marketing to a niche segment at first, in small quantities and high prices, to get the technology right. I read a story that he's looking to produce a $30k range car in the near future (it might be the X, I'm not sure about the price of that). He's starting niche and expanding his base from there, and I think that's the right approach for a technology seen as unproven. By the time it hits mass-market, people won't be able to claim that his technology is unproven.
I wonder how Microsoft's marketing people feel about having to cut a check to a guy who calls himself "happyurine" for the service of posting non-sequitor spam on Slashdot.
The project was shelved in favor of making users open all external PDF's on a virtual server that was hardened and re-imaged every evening to prevent any malicious code from running rampant. That's the simplest solution.
I'm not going to argue whether or not that's the simplest solution, but it makes me shake my head to think that Adobe has screwed up PDF so much that we need to put them in jail now to open them.
To be fair, anyone willing to take advice from a geek, who lives in his basement in a bathrobe, probably deserves the end result.
Linus "lives in his basement" now, too? Does he also have a neckbeard, Cheetos stains, and empty cans of Mountain Dew littering his room? Just because he said he was currently wearing a bathrobe doesn't turn the guy into some stereotypical geek loser. He's a better programmer than most of us will ever be, I think he's earned plenty of respect and doesn't need to be called out because he works from home while wearing whatever clothing he wants to wear. That's what you deserve to get flamed for, not for pointing out that Linus has a big ego (which he does) or doesn't want to live a corporate life (which he doesn't).
Who cares, let them do whatever they want. They can file as many suits as they want and, each time, a jury will be able to decide if Apple is the group that is ultimately responsible for some guy who got himself addicted to porn. While he's at it, he can sue Ford for allowing him to drive to the convenience store to buy beer and fuel his alcohol addiction, because that is obviously Ford's fault since they don't ship their cars with a mode that makes the car unable to drive to the convenience store to buy beer.
A Slashdot story isn't a single link. It's a block of text that may contain 0 or more links. It's not like reddit or Fark where you're posting a link to a single article, and that's about it. They could write code to scan all summaries for all links and log each of them, but it's not as simple as it would be with something like Fark.
The Maersk EEE class ships can hold roughly 18,000 20-foot containers. Do you think it is practical to weigh all of them?
Of course it is. They all have to get loaded by crane, so the crane can weigh them all. The crane also knows where it puts the containers, so once the load is complete then the port can spit out a map showing the location and weight of each container (and charge the shipping line for the report, if they want it). It doesn't matter if the ship holds 1,000 containers or 100,000.
One would think they'd weigh the container themselves and charge accordingly
One would think the cranes used to load the containers would automatically weigh them, and report that total to the ship. The port could even charge for that service, once loaded the ship receives a layout map of the load with the individual weights and everything.
that Amazon will issue an apology saying the inadvertently sent the data to their servers
I don't know how many horses you have left to wager, but it would be pretty stupid of Amazon to say that when the entire purpose of the extension is to send Amazon information about what you're looking at so that they can show their price. It's the specific purpose of the extension.
Polls show that most people think Snowden was a criminal
No they don't, they show that a majority of the people who have an opinion now think that what he did was wrong (earlier, the majority supported him). However, almost 30% of respondents had no opinion. Apathy is killing this country, no one gives a shit about their rights until they experience a very direct and negative impact on themselves personally. Even if people think the government is spying on them, almost a third don't give a shit until they have to deal with actual consequences.
i have a skydrive account provided by my school i am at a loss though as to how microsoft would image my hd it being linux and skydrive only being aceesed via web page on vm
Was it really necessary for him to specify the Skydrive Client application, or did you just want to mention that you run Linux? Regardless, seeing how you're a student, please direct yourself to the English department and ask them to teach you about capitalization and punctuation.
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Yeah, right. There was no sarcasm in the post I responded to. Some people are legitimately clueless.
The fact that it could be used in an ICBM makes it a munition.
But seriously, why would anyone put a B-1 in an ICBM?
Why would he have to reverse engineer it? The designs are property of the United States citizenry.
You can even find them on microfilm at the Marshall Space Flight Center.
does this mean his company can reverse engineer the rocket and sell the design to the highest bidder?
Are you asking if he can reverse-engineer an entire Saturn V rocket because he recovered a used and damaged engine that was sitting on the bottom of the ocean for 44 years? Do you understand how large a Saturn V is? Here is a component view of the Saturn V. That's not even a blueprint, not even close, it just shows where selected components are in the rocket. Look all the way at the bottom, at those engines, that's what he recovered. Why would you think he could reverse-engineer the rest of the rocket because he has an engine that has been corroding for 44 years?
I wonder about this:
One million servers equals ... power consumption of 2.6TWh annually, or the amount of power that would be used by 230,000 homes in the U.S.
So 1 home uses as much power as 4 servers? Are we talking about super high-powered servers, or really low-powered homes?
It seems that the only reason they are selling is that it's a $7500 tax write off for the rich.
You think the major reason why someone would buy a $105k car is for a $7500 writeoff? Where did you get your economics degree?
I think that's part of Elon Musk's plan. He's marketing to a niche segment at first, in small quantities and high prices, to get the technology right. I read a story that he's looking to produce a $30k range car in the near future (it might be the X, I'm not sure about the price of that). He's starting niche and expanding his base from there, and I think that's the right approach for a technology seen as unproven. By the time it hits mass-market, people won't be able to claim that his technology is unproven.
I wonder how Microsoft's marketing people feel about having to cut a check to a guy who calls himself "happyurine" for the service of posting non-sequitor spam on Slashdot.
Sumatra PDF used to be light, a mere 800 KB, I just installed the latest version, a whopping 3.6 MB.
Considering the size of Acrobat Reader, calling Sumatra "whopping" at 3.6MB sounds like a pretty good compliment.
The project was shelved in favor of making users open all external PDF's on a virtual server that was hardened and re-imaged every evening to prevent any malicious code from running rampant. That's the simplest solution.
I'm not going to argue whether or not that's the simplest solution, but it makes me shake my head to think that Adobe has screwed up PDF so much that we need to put them in jail now to open them.
That's a clever solution, instead of trying to convert it just print it to a file. I wonder if that would also remove form elements.
Doesn't matter how good of a programmer he is if he's a dick.
That's not true at all. Plenty of brilliant influential people are assholes. Steve Jobs is an obvious example.
To be fair, anyone willing to take advice from a geek, who lives in his basement in a bathrobe, probably deserves the end result.
Linus "lives in his basement" now, too? Does he also have a neckbeard, Cheetos stains, and empty cans of Mountain Dew littering his room? Just because he said he was currently wearing a bathrobe doesn't turn the guy into some stereotypical geek loser. He's a better programmer than most of us will ever be, I think he's earned plenty of respect and doesn't need to be called out because he works from home while wearing whatever clothing he wants to wear. That's what you deserve to get flamed for, not for pointing out that Linus has a big ego (which he does) or doesn't want to live a corporate life (which he doesn't).
Computers don't download porn; people download porn.
Strictly speaking, the computer does download the porn. The person just tells the computer to do it.
Who cares, let them do whatever they want. They can file as many suits as they want and, each time, a jury will be able to decide if Apple is the group that is ultimately responsible for some guy who got himself addicted to porn. While he's at it, he can sue Ford for allowing him to drive to the convenience store to buy beer and fuel his alcohol addiction, because that is obviously Ford's fault since they don't ship their cars with a mode that makes the car unable to drive to the convenience store to buy beer.
A Slashdot story isn't a single link. It's a block of text that may contain 0 or more links. It's not like reddit or Fark where you're posting a link to a single article, and that's about it. They could write code to scan all summaries for all links and log each of them, but it's not as simple as it would be with something like Fark.
The Maersk EEE class ships can hold roughly 18,000 20-foot containers. Do you think it is practical to weigh all of them?
Of course it is. They all have to get loaded by crane, so the crane can weigh them all. The crane also knows where it puts the containers, so once the load is complete then the port can spit out a map showing the location and weight of each container (and charge the shipping line for the report, if they want it). It doesn't matter if the ship holds 1,000 containers or 100,000.
One would think they'd weigh the container themselves and charge accordingly
One would think the cranes used to load the containers would automatically weigh them, and report that total to the ship. The port could even charge for that service, once loaded the ship receives a layout map of the load with the individual weights and everything.
that Amazon will issue an apology saying the inadvertently sent the data to their servers
I don't know how many horses you have left to wager, but it would be pretty stupid of Amazon to say that when the entire purpose of the extension is to send Amazon information about what you're looking at so that they can show their price. It's the specific purpose of the extension.
That's right, it's exactly like that. Except not at all.
Desktop computers are never going to "go away", not as long as they remain the most powerful way to play games.
Polls show that most people think Snowden was a criminal
No they don't, they show that a majority of the people who have an opinion now think that what he did was wrong (earlier, the majority supported him). However, almost 30% of respondents had no opinion. Apathy is killing this country, no one gives a shit about their rights until they experience a very direct and negative impact on themselves personally. Even if people think the government is spying on them, almost a third don't give a shit until they have to deal with actual consequences.
i have a skydrive account provided by my school i am at a loss though as to how microsoft would image my hd it being linux and skydrive only being aceesed via web page on vm
Was it really necessary for him to specify the Skydrive Client application, or did you just want to mention that you run Linux? Regardless, seeing how you're a student, please direct yourself to the English department and ask them to teach you about capitalization and punctuation.
And you want to use a heavy-weight JavaScript library
Heavy-weight? No, I didn't say anything about the Javascript needing to be heavy-weight.
Should we be *shocked* that they would also want to tap Skype phone calls?
Should we be shocked that they would want to? No, not really. Should we be shocked that they actively are, without a warrant? Sort of, yeah.