So long as this gets proper oversight by the legislature and the judiciary, I'm completely cool with this. Letting some program look at my bank statements is a very, very small price to pay to make life harder for Islamist scum trying to kill me, or Chinese scum trying to steal all my work.
I am not the only person out there who would prefer a little more security, so long as TPTB are overseen, and deal robustly with our enemies.
Any hardship we endure by cutting off these liars, thieves and crooks should be considered penance for being stupid enough to trust them in the first place.
Letting the 1% fatten themselves on trade with China, is like cutting our own collective throats.
Fuck China. They allow NK to keep hassling the world. Luckily, karma's a bitch, and when the whole edifice comes crashing down, guess whose problem all those refugees are? Not South Korea, no thanks to the DMZ.
Explanation. Microsoft are disloyal, money grubbing sellout who would give those Communists a long, leisurely blowjob if they thought they could make a few bucks out of it. No doubt Microsoft are happy to do anything to keep the Chinese happy.
Google have higher standards, and to their credit, have told the commies to fuck off in the past.
This is why the dictators are all whiny and butthurt now. Because Google won't let them have their own way and oppress China and the world.
I think this story is a dumb move by the Slashdot editors.
Because it's blatantly political, and absolutely guaranteed to bring out the birchbagger right-wing extremists and immature Ayn Rand fans, and they're going to clash head-on with the liberals.
I expect a mountain of right-wing trolls mouthing snarl words like 'leftist' 'communist' 'socialist' 'climate change' 'chemtrails' 'gold standard' etc, and then for everyone to start flaming away while the trolls ride off into the sunset laughing.
SpaceX has said that Dragon hardware from COTS missions will be refurbished for DragonLab missions. I'd be interested in seeing if refurbishing actually results in significant cost savings or not (I'm not a mechanical engineer, but I guess it depends on how much value is tied up in parts, versus labor).
Looking forward to SpaceX making these flights "routine" (or at least as routine as spaceflight gets), and then scale up -- they've been having issues raising their production and launch rate up until now.
Europe's far worse than the US, in terms of competitiveness. They don't have the stupid right-wing political blinkers of the States, so when push comes to shove, they will improve out of sight, as Germany has in the last 10 years.
We have rightwing scum trying to turn the US (a First World country) into Brazil (a Third World country), and in their mindless greed and limitless stupidity, they'll force the US to the bottom, and then discover that the country has none of the ingredients required to be successful.
Free marketeers are the worst traitors, because they would sell our entire civilization down the river (to the Chinese especially) for a little bit of short term profit.
Wake me when American military hackers are targeting Chinese civilians.
What's probably happened, is that they got all butthurt at being found out for the criminal hacking and economic espionage, went rummaging through their logs, found a ping sweep from some US IP and said "we're morally equivalent to you, we get hacked too".
The Red Chinese *still* come across as idiots and piss-weak Third World losers. That hasn't changed in the slightest.
If the fat cats in the executive C-suite get too greedy and keep hammering down salaries, then it's definitely coming.
I would expect highly intelligent, poorly paid people to organise even faster than blue-collar workers. It will happen if the kleptocrat business class gets greedy enough.
Third world missile bait got invaded because they hated the West, attacked them, thinking their stupid monkey god would help them, got mauled, and went crying to mommy because they were a victim of karm/their own stupidity and hubris/starting a fight they couldn't finish.
The stupid, evil Third World paki trash getting shredded by American drones are getting killed because they have it coming, and richly deserve their fate. Don't like it? Bitch to your stupid monkey god next Friday, and stop starting fights you can't finish.
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Libertoon basement dweller nerdrage is hilarious.
You don't have privacy anyway.
So long as this gets proper oversight by the legislature and the judiciary, I'm completely cool with this. Letting some program look at my bank statements is a very, very small price to pay to make life harder for Islamist scum trying to kill me, or Chinese scum trying to steal all my work.
I am not the only person out there who would prefer a little more security, so long as TPTB are overseen, and deal robustly with our enemies.
Fuck China.
Any hardship we endure by cutting off these liars, thieves and crooks should be considered penance for being stupid enough to trust them in the first place.
Letting the 1% fatten themselves on trade with China, is like cutting our own collective throats.
Null-route China (and all our other enemies for that matter) at a national level. Pull the plug on them.
We'll see how fucking smart they think they are then.
Maybe the US will kick the absolute living shit out of some other random Third World country to make an example out of them.
Say, if the mad mullahs of Tehran get too uppity.
Fuck China. They allow NK to keep hassling the world. Luckily, karma's a bitch, and when the whole edifice comes crashing down, guess whose problem all those refugees are? Not South Korea, no thanks to the DMZ.
China deserves North Korea.
It'll be interesting to see how the reflexive, knee-jerk Elon haters spin this one
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Explanation. Microsoft are disloyal, money grubbing sellout who would give those Communists a long, leisurely blowjob if they thought they could make a few bucks out of it. No doubt Microsoft are happy to do anything to keep the Chinese happy.
Google have higher standards, and to their credit, have told the commies to fuck off in the past.
This is why the dictators are all whiny and butthurt now. Because Google won't let them have their own way and oppress China and the world.
Insightful... wish I could spend my mod points voting you up!
I think this story is a dumb move by the Slashdot editors.
Because it's blatantly political, and absolutely guaranteed to bring out the birchbagger right-wing extremists and immature Ayn Rand fans, and they're going to clash head-on with the liberals.
I expect a mountain of right-wing trolls mouthing snarl words like 'leftist' 'communist' 'socialist' 'climate change' 'chemtrails' 'gold standard' etc, and then for everyone to start flaming away while the trolls ride off into the sunset laughing.
What an utter waste of time and energy.
They've just opened the gates of hell on themselves.
It's not going to end well for them; but if other peoples' pain is funny, this will be hilarious to watch.
NASA only ordered new hardware for COTS missions.
SpaceX has said that Dragon hardware from COTS missions will be refurbished for DragonLab missions. I'd be interested in seeing if refurbishing actually results in significant cost savings or not (I'm not a mechanical engineer, but I guess it depends on how much value is tied up in parts, versus labor).
Downmass is an important capability nobody else can do (much of)
Looking forward to SpaceX making these flights "routine" (or at least as routine as spaceflight gets), and then scale up -- they've been having issues raising their production and launch rate up until now.
Europe's far worse than the US, in terms of competitiveness. They don't have the stupid right-wing political blinkers of the States, so when push comes to shove, they will improve out of sight, as Germany has in the last 10 years.
We have rightwing scum trying to turn the US (a First World country) into Brazil (a Third World country), and in their mindless greed and limitless stupidity, they'll force the US to the bottom, and then discover that the country has none of the ingredients required to be successful.
Free marketeers are the worst traitors, because they would sell our entire civilization down the river (to the Chinese especially) for a little bit of short term profit.
Political crap.
Europe is an engineering and manufacturing powerhouse. They've got unions coming out of their asses.
Given that big drones are being used for surveillance and ground attack of lightly armoured, unsophisticated Third World targets, no contest.
Wake me when American military hackers are targeting Chinese civilians.
What's probably happened, is that they got all butthurt at being found out for the criminal hacking and economic espionage, went rummaging through their logs, found a ping sweep from some US IP and said "we're morally equivalent to you, we get hacked too".
The Red Chinese *still* come across as idiots and piss-weak Third World losers. That hasn't changed in the slightest.
Where did you learn how to spell, Timothy? This is getting embarrassing.
Looks like a rebranded version of cold fusion, from the same frothing, foaming-at-the-mouth fraudsters, weirdos and cranks.
Slashdot editors and commentors are so credulous.
If the fat cats in the executive C-suite get too greedy and keep hammering down salaries, then it's definitely coming.
I would expect highly intelligent, poorly paid people to organise even faster than blue-collar workers. It will happen if the kleptocrat business class gets greedy enough.
Third world missile bait got invaded because they hated the West, attacked them, thinking their stupid monkey god would help them, got mauled, and went crying to mommy because they were a victim of karm/their own stupidity and hubris/starting a fight they couldn't finish.
The stupid, evil Third World paki trash getting shredded by American drones are getting killed because they have it coming, and richly deserve their fate. Don't like it? Bitch to your stupid monkey god next Friday, and stop starting fights you can't finish.
In the video on their website, Mark Shuttleworth bears a striking resemblance to Steve Jobs.
I thought that was pretty amazing.
Westerners invented drawing and quartering. To punish traitors, mostly.
Nowadays, we just declare them enemy combatants and fry them with Hellfire. I'm happy with that. Everyone hates traitors.