There are a few complexities to work out, such as the -270 degrees Celsius requirement to stop the light.
Isn't that around what CERN keeps the thermostat on its air conditioning set at?
Yea it was, but in order to drum up more web-hits they connected the thermostat up to their website using an Arduino. So far no one seems to have noticed but I have the link around here some place if anyone wants it.
Is it a bad sign for my sanity that, when I read this in the RSS feed as "Former Soviet Republic of Georgia To Become I..." my first thought was "Former Soviet Republic of Georgia To Become Iowa"?
I'm very sorry but you have a brain tumor, and it's terminal so smoke if you got'em...
I have to bow to his awesome ability to spin the facts. He's saying "how about we won't do what we signed the contract to do, but still get the money..." and three different people post to say "sure, that sounds reasonable."
A normally government contracts works like this...
Contractor: We will build x and do y for 100 million! Government: Great that's a really low bid, your hired!...Time passes... Contractor: We had problems, the new cost is 150 million. Government: Well, these things happen, no problem carry on......Time passes... Contractor: OK well it's done but it doesn't do Y yet. Government: Well we really sort of need it to do Y. Contractor: Sure we understand, but it will cost another 100 Million? Government: Well... alright then.....Time passes.. Contractor: Alright done, but well it does do Y but sometimes it also does X? Government: Ah well screw it, works good enough! Here's a bonus!
So you see if this company can get everything that was to be done in 3 flights done in just 2 then that's a shockingly good thing. If you haven't noticed we have a nice shiny space station and no damn way to get people up to it without Russia's help. It would, kind-of be nice to have a private entity available you know... If SpaceX can figure out ways to save money and "everyones" time while providing the same service why should we punish them for that? They can make extra money, that's OK for a business to do, as long as the job gets done properly and the business is on the hook for any fuck up.
But you're right NASA does have the right to force them to do all 3 even if the third is pointless. But honestly what the hell is the point and how is it going to encourage cost cutting and cheaper rates in the future? How will that build a good business relationship with SpaceX?
If you hire me to install a network and I tell you it will take 3 days and it only takes 2 are you going to make me sit on my ass that third day? Well I guess you probably would but if I ever did business with you again in the future, unlikely, I'd ream your ass.
The Falcon-9 is about to get 50% more expensive. Musk has just proposed to NASA that Space-X will fly only two demonstration flights of Falcon-9, instead of three... but he still wants to be paid for all three.
I read TFA you linked and you make it sound all evil. If they can prove everything in two flights (three if you count the first launch) then good for them, they should get paid for not fucking up. I guess you'd rather just waste everyones time having an extra flight instead of moving forward and getting shit done. I'd rather move forward and start suppling the station instead of flying by it a few times and waving...
I seriously wonder whether I should purchase a few crate-sized Farady cages in preparation, and ensure I have non-magnetic backups of everything.
You could build your own cheaply but it won't protect you from the power fluctuations, loss of communications and looting(tm)... Not to mention high energy particles chewing up your ipad and dna if it was a really real problem and not mostly bullshit...
What they would like is a way to get rid of the event horizon so that they can see what goes on behind it
I'll save you the trouble and expense.. The answer is Cthulhu and creeping madness... That's what's behind the event horizon and that's what goes on there...
so her Night Elf can dance for him when he gets the urge to "party".
You damn kids today with your pix-elated dancing elf's and party questing. Makes me sick... In my day, we didn't have massive-multi-player role playing games and we liked it that way. The smell of sweaty cheese-puff encrusted card board, the feeling of those cold hard dice in your own two hands, facing your opponent face to face like a real man, and the glory, the glory of crushing him with that perfect magic missile combo attack... You damn kids have no honor and no respect for the the rules of combat. You all are just a bunch of bloody peasant farming on my land with all that clicking on your damn mices... GET OFF MY LAWN damnit!
Pretty funny, but this is slasdot you know. Ex-girlfriend doesn't mean what you think it means.
He's never 'physically' meet this girl or for that matter even 'talked' to her on the phone or even seen her on a webcam. He's only chatted with her in IRC and email, probably for a few years, until he realized that he could never really leave his basement to meet her let alone have sex with another human being.
Plus everyone knows that she's are really he's on-line unless they are underage... There are no exceptions... NONE!
Get off your computer, and get a life. And I'm not talking about levelling up your mage. Go to a coffee shop and talk to a stranger or go out and take a walk. PLEASE.
But but I'm only about 72 hours or so away from reaching level 87 and maybe even winning the game although nobody really knows for sure.
I still object to logging my internet searches because of the Zombie threat.
Clearly you don't understand the threat to our nation that the zombie horde truly represents. If you did, then you'd understand why my modest surveillance proposal is so important to ensure the continued safety to our way of life and to protect that of our children's and their children's from the zombie Apocalypse.
Now lets discuss your feelings on my new Anti-Raptor legislation. You do agree that "they" are truly dangerous right?
Class president? I was wondering which Senate seat he was elected to.
I didn't want to be rude and prevent him from stroking his ego by telling us all about how he overcome adversity to become the ______ elected to _______ before becoming ________ over at _________.
Trying to work on my social skills and make friends...
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There are a few complexities to work out, such as the -270 degrees Celsius requirement to stop the light.
Isn't that around what CERN keeps the thermostat on its air conditioning set at?
Yea it was, but in order to drum up more web-hits they connected the thermostat up to their website using an Arduino. So far no one seems to have noticed but I have the link around here some place if anyone wants it.
Why not just lump all of the taxation into one revenue stream, eliminate the substantial costs of collecting and administering multiple streams.
Because then people might start to realize just how much of their money goes to prop-up 'big government (tm).
Is it a bad sign for my sanity that, when I read this in the RSS feed as "Former Soviet Republic of Georgia To Become I..." my first thought was "Former Soviet Republic of Georgia To Become Iowa"?
I'm very sorry but you have a brain tumor, and it's terminal so smoke if you got'em...
Hmm...if only there was some way to discover which websites the owner of credit card 522491029930293023 visits...
Just ask the ISP for the list of sites for the owner of CC 522491029930293023, name Robert Waken who lives at 37 New Wood Ln, 27721.
P.S. I was making something of a joke in the previous message but never-mind....
Slashdot offers HTTPS to subscribers.
Yeah they have to have your credit card and address on file for national security reasons.
I have to bow to his awesome ability to spin the facts. He's saying "how about we won't do what we signed the contract to do, but still get the money..." and three different people post to say "sure, that sounds reasonable."
A normally government contracts works like this...
Contractor: We will build x and do y for 100 million! ...Time passes... ...Time passes... ...Time passes..
Government: Great that's a really low bid, your hired!
Contractor: We had problems, the new cost is 150 million.
Government: Well, these things happen, no problem carry on...
Contractor: OK well it's done but it doesn't do Y yet.
Government: Well we really sort of need it to do Y.
Contractor: Sure we understand, but it will cost another 100 Million?
Government: Well... alright then..
Contractor: Alright done, but well it does do Y but sometimes it also does X?
Government: Ah well screw it, works good enough! Here's a bonus!
So you see if this company can get everything that was to be done in 3 flights done in just 2 then that's a shockingly good thing. If you haven't noticed we have a nice shiny space station and no damn way to get people up to it without Russia's help. It would, kind-of be nice to have a private entity available you know... If SpaceX can figure out ways to save money and "everyones" time while providing the same service why should we punish them for that? They can make extra money, that's OK for a business to do, as long as the job gets done properly and the business is on the hook for any fuck up.
But you're right NASA does have the right to force them to do all 3 even if the third is pointless. But honestly what the hell is the point and how is it going to encourage cost cutting and cheaper rates in the future? How will that build a good business relationship with SpaceX?
If you hire me to install a network and I tell you it will take 3 days and it only takes 2 are you going to make me sit on my ass that third day? Well I guess you probably would but if I ever did business with you again in the future, unlikely, I'd ream your ass.
I'm guessing cargo spaceships don't have life support systems.
That's ok, I'll bring my own...
The Falcon-9 is about to get 50% more expensive.
Musk has just proposed to NASA that Space-X will fly only two demonstration flights of Falcon-9, instead of three... but he still wants to be paid for all three.
I read TFA you linked and you make it sound all evil. If they can prove everything in two flights (three if you count the first launch) then good for them, they should get paid for not fucking up. I guess you'd rather just waste everyones time having an extra flight instead of moving forward and getting shit done. I'd rather move forward and start suppling the station instead of flying by it a few times and waving...
Ares = manrated, Falcon = cargo. As simple as that.
It's not if people are willing to sign a wavier and climb on-board the "cargo" version....
I predict this debate will take more than one hundred years and exceed over 9000 posts before we have the correct question...
If I wanted to orchestrate a fraudulent election due to machine error/tampering, I'd have it elect the least qualified person in the world to office.
So basically, the same person who would have won to begin with... I fall to follow your plan to edumacate the sheeple...
I seriously wonder whether I should purchase a few crate-sized Farady cages in preparation, and ensure I have non-magnetic backups of everything.
You could build your own cheaply but it won't protect you from the power fluctuations, loss of communications and looting(tm)... Not to mention high energy particles chewing up your ipad and dna if it was a really real problem and not mostly bullshit...
What they would like is a way to get rid of the event horizon so that they can see what goes on behind it
I'll save you the trouble and expense.. The answer is Cthulhu and creeping madness... That's what's behind the event horizon and that's what goes on there...
You've been warned.
it turns out that the analysis is incomplete and the actual workaround Google suggested is easily circumvented.
Wait... didn't Microsoft just admit that the workaround can be circcumvented? WTF that's a zero day disclosure!
I was playing around with PhitFinder and I totally accidentally made it forward to slashdot.
I sew what u did ther... Now Bobby, what did we teach you about that sort of thinking? http://xkcd.com/327/
Note: Anyone wanting to do any phishing or click fraud should probably hurry up before someone perm redirects the site to goatse...
so her Night Elf can dance for him when he gets the urge to "party".
You damn kids today with your pix-elated dancing elf's and party questing. Makes me sick... In my day, we didn't have massive-multi-player role playing games and we liked it that way. The smell of sweaty cheese-puff encrusted card board, the feeling of those cold hard dice in your own two hands, facing your opponent face to face like a real man, and the glory, the glory of crushing him with that perfect magic missile combo attack... You damn kids have no honor and no respect for the the rules of combat. You all are just a bunch of bloody peasant farming on my land with all that clicking on your damn mices... GET OFF MY LAWN damnit!
I won't let THEM win lover.....
Pretty funny, but this is slasdot you know. Ex-girlfriend doesn't mean what you think it means.
He's never 'physically' meet this girl or for that matter even 'talked' to her on the phone or even seen her on a webcam. He's only chatted with her in IRC and email, probably for a few years, until he realized that he could never really leave his basement to meet her let alone have sex with another human being.
Plus everyone knows that she's are really he's on-line unless they are underage... There are no exceptions... NONE!
Some people pay yahoo money for email service... So they can remove the yahoo ad or have pop access...
Get off your computer, and get a life. And I'm not talking about levelling up your mage. Go to a coffee shop and talk to a stranger or go out and take a walk. PLEASE.
But but I'm only about 72 hours or so away from reaching level 87 and maybe even winning the game although nobody really knows for sure.
I still object to logging my internet searches because of the Zombie threat.
Clearly you don't understand the threat to our nation that the zombie horde truly represents. If you did, then you'd understand why my modest surveillance proposal is so important to ensure the continued safety to our way of life and to protect that of our children's and their children's from the zombie Apocalypse.
Now lets discuss your feelings on my new Anti-Raptor legislation. You do agree that "they" are truly dangerous right?
Clearly you aren't thinking of the children.
Well I AM...
DoH!
That's like saying Satan is not evil because there's also Cthulhu.
Cthulhu is not evil... He's just misunderstood...
Here! Have a Taco, they are deliriously delicious, although a tad non-euclidean.
You have also a burning coal mine in the US that has forced at least one town, Centralia, PA to be more or less abandoned.
NO! the town you're thinking of was called Silent Hill, duh... ;-)
Class president? I was wondering which Senate seat he was elected to.
I didn't want to be rude and prevent him from stroking his ego by telling us all about how he overcome adversity to become the ______ elected to _______ before becoming ________ over at _________.
Trying to work on my social skills and make friends...
Flash isn't completely dead for video on the web. I wonder if Hulu and Adobe are in cahoots?
Perhaps but I really don't think so....
Flash will not die until all of those web developers that use it finally die off..