Elkins-Tanton calculates that the iron in 16 Psyche would be worth $10,000 quadrillion ($10 quintillion).
Yes, the ten pounds of iron they'll be able to transport back will cost that because of the enormous cost of the space mission to retrieve it.
But it will be worth it because of the awful iron shortage we're suffering through.
Yes, I'll pay for a movie in one of the common streaming services for $10-$20 per movie.
Assuming you mean "purchase the ability to stream whenever I like on an ongoing basis".
Whereas my willingness to pay for a rental (streamable for 48 hours) tops out at maybe $3.
ZDNet adds:... And while the likelihood that the company is doing anything nefarious with users' information is frankly unlikely...
This quote is a case of somebody writing something to just fit a grammatical template, rather than thinking about what they're writing. Substantiate that wild speculation, ZDNet, or turn in your beard-stroking license asap.
It's really a lot like having a low/. user number. It gains some respect and whatever but it doesn't really mean much.
Of course that's what someone in the 800k range would say. Down here in the 300k range, we're feeling no pain. Except for those stuck-up 100k range-ers, they really boil my potato.
If they paid branding consultants millions to come up with "Altaba", somebody deserves to be beaten black and blue with a briefcase, including the consultants.
It's actually a remarkable word, in that it *feels* like it's a palindrome but isn't, and simultaneously is an anagram of "A tabla". Hats off to the marketing genii.
[Cold Fusion and Star-in-a-jar] are as different as gay and straight sex.
Your answer makes me feel like I'm watching Star Trek and they just got to the part where they offer an overly-simple metaphor that "clarifies" something highly complicated or nuanced. As illustrated by this Futurama episode that spotlights StarTrek:
Fry: Usually on the show, they came up with a complicated plan, then explained it with a simple analogy. Leela: Hmmm... If we can re-route engine power through the primary weapons and configure them to Melllvar's frequency, that should overload his electro-quantum structure. Bender: Like putting too much air in a balloon! Fry: Of course! It's all so simple! ... Leela: It's not working! He's gaining strength from our weapons! Fry: Like a balloon, when... something bad happens!
"What really bothers me is that the people of NSA, these folks who take paltry government salaries to protect this nation, are made to look like they are doing something wrong," the former NSA Director added. "They are doing exactly what our nation has asked them to do to protect us. They are the heroes."
Let's make a deal: I'll make it clear I don't want your flavor of so-called heroism, and you can quit what you're doing and stop feeling put-upon and self-righteous.
But you're so addicted to your "hero" narrative that you'll never step away from the spy cams. Pricks. Can you at least mute your press conference drivel?
If there's a difference between "Star in a jar" and "Cold Fusion", then I cannot for the life of me tell what it would be. The summary very strangely doesn't clarify at all, instead simply to contrast SIAJ to Fission. If they're hoping we won't notice that this sounds exactly like cold fusion, they're going to be disappointed. The whole approach makes me think this is marketing-heavy rather than science-heavy, which bodes very poorly for their actual progress.
I'm very opposed to such a registry, but it seems silly to ask companies whether they'd "build it" when a small team of two or three people could easily slap postgress and a web interface together. Whatever fraction of the US population are Muslims can't be much... 20 million? Twice that? Doesn't matter, it's easily in the capacity of a free database and some elementary web programming, esp for a site that's not offering lots of complicated choice paths and won't be visited repeatedly by any given person. Seems to me like approaching Boeing and asking them if they'd be willing to build a go-cart... even if every company says No, it doesn't make building it prohibitive in the slightest.
Let's encrypt (LE) runs some kind of agent that does some voodoo to automatically renew certs on a quarterly basis.... If certs want to be free why not just let them be free without requiring these weird agents and piecemeal expiry periods? What's the point in that?
Stray thought: if they renew every 3 months as you describe, I wonder if that's intended to be a substitute for the cert-revocation abilities that come with CAs?
Just to be clear: I was responding to a comment about HTTPS-Everywhere, which -- although stewarded by EFF the way Lets Encrypt is -- is a totally different thing. The first is a browser plugin that attemps HTTPS by default, the second is a cert-issuing program.
I don't have a position on LE, and indeed your post suggests you may have researched it more than I as I'm not acquainted with the description of its inner workings that you give. I'm not saying that I therefor condone thinking LE is confusing or wrong-headed, just that I don't have a position on it at the moment.
I call bullshit on you. The EFF's HTTPS-Everywhere is not "malarkey".
I don't know if you're trying to imply that HTTPS-Everywhere forces people to use HTTPS (it doesn't) and that therefor more people are self-signing certs which is would somehow be bad (it isn't)... I can only guess, because your post reads like buzzword bingo, and seems quite intent on undermining confidence in encrypting.
In a second, more technical, blogpost published that same day, Facebook's Martin Luis Gomez and Andrew Cox acknowledged the failure in passing. "Our first flight lasted three times longer than the minimum mission length, so we were able to gather data on how the structure and autopilot responded under a range of real-world conditions to help verify these predictions," they wrote.
I read that three times trying to figure out whether the "in passing" mention of failure was so subtle that I was missing it. Nope, the editors simply left out the actually relevant quote:
“We are still analysing the results of the extended test, including a structural failure we experienced just before landing. We hope to share more details on this and other structural tests in the future,” Cox and Gomez added.
If everybody took the approach that [they make their] own decisions about these issues, then it would be very hard to have an organized government or any kind of national security system.
The "if I let everyone do xyz then it wouldn't work, and I'm therefor never allowing ANY xyz" argument is a classic strawman.
If everybody in the world became mayor of a town then we'd starve to death because nobody would be producing food... YET we selectively allow people to become mayor all the time.
Snowden did not make arbitrary decisions about something mundane to make a buck... he made a very careful, thoughtful decision, expressly for the public good and NOT for any kind of personal profit (in fact it has cost him dearly, even if he were to get pardoned today, which apparently he won't). Shame on Obama for sound-biting it as though pardoning Snowden would lead to a public clamor for all people who make any decision about anything.
How is this not in their interest? Why should Google give two shits about what Nexus users want, especially as far as having a bloatware-free phone?
Because they don't want to drive more people to alternative roms.
This is no different from everyone bitching and complaining about Windows 10... the customers aren't going to go anywhere, they're just going to complain and then bend over.
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Elkins-Tanton calculates that the iron in 16 Psyche would be worth $10,000 quadrillion ($10 quintillion).
Yes, the ten pounds of iron they'll be able to transport back will cost that because of the enormous cost of the space mission to retrieve it. But it will be worth it because of the awful iron shortage we're suffering through.
I don't understand the logic behind pardoning Manning but not Snowden.
Amen. Heck, I don't understand pardoning Nixon and not Manning, Snowden, and a whole bunch of other people.
Yes, I'll pay for a movie in one of the common streaming services for $10-$20 per movie.
Assuming you mean "purchase the ability to stream whenever I like on an ongoing basis". Whereas my willingness to pay for a rental (streamable for 48 hours) tops out at maybe $3.
ZDNet adds: ... And while the likelihood that the company is doing anything nefarious with users' information is frankly unlikely ...
This quote is a case of somebody writing something to just fit a grammatical template, rather than thinking about what they're writing. Substantiate that wild speculation, ZDNet, or turn in your beard-stroking license asap.
Carmack's on the phone, he'd like a date with you.
It's really a lot like having a low /. user number. It gains some respect and whatever but it doesn't really mean much.
Of course that's what someone in the 800k range would say. Down here in the 300k range, we're feeling no pain. Except for those stuck-up 100k range-ers, they really boil my potato.
I! Cannot! Help! But! Remember! The! Many! Billions! Microsoft! Was! Willing! To! Shell! Out! For! Yahoo!.
Shatner? Is that you?
If they paid branding consultants millions to come up with "Altaba", somebody deserves to be beaten black and blue with a briefcase, including the consultants.
It's actually a remarkable word, in that it *feels* like it's a palindrome but isn't, and simultaneously is an anagram of "A tabla". Hats off to the marketing genii.
... I thought they already were robots.
[Cold Fusion and Star-in-a-jar] are as different as gay and straight sex.
Your answer makes me feel like I'm watching Star Trek and they just got to the part where they offer an overly-simple metaphor that "clarifies" something highly complicated or nuanced. As illustrated by this Futurama episode that spotlights StarTrek:
...
Fry: Usually on the show, they came up with a complicated plan, then explained it with a simple analogy.
Leela: Hmmm... If we can re-route engine power through the primary weapons and configure them to Melllvar's frequency, that should overload his electro-quantum structure.
Bender: Like putting too much air in a balloon!
Fry: Of course! It's all so simple!
Leela: It's not working! He's gaining strength from our weapons!
Fry: Like a balloon, when... something bad happens!
"What really bothers me is that the people of NSA, these folks who take paltry government salaries to protect this nation, are made to look like they are doing something wrong," the former NSA Director added. "They are doing exactly what our nation has asked them to do to protect us. They are the heroes."
Let's make a deal: I'll make it clear I don't want your flavor of so-called heroism, and you can quit what you're doing and stop feeling put-upon and self-righteous.
But you're so addicted to your "hero" narrative that you'll never step away from the spy cams. Pricks. Can you at least mute your press conference drivel?
If there's a difference between "Star in a jar" and "Cold Fusion", then I cannot for the life of me tell what it would be. The summary very strangely doesn't clarify at all, instead simply to contrast SIAJ to Fission. If they're hoping we won't notice that this sounds exactly like cold fusion, they're going to be disappointed. The whole approach makes me think this is marketing-heavy rather than science-heavy, which bodes very poorly for their actual progress.
I'm very opposed to such a registry, but it seems silly to ask companies whether they'd "build it" when a small team of two or three people could easily slap postgress and a web interface together. Whatever fraction of the US population are Muslims can't be much... 20 million? Twice that? Doesn't matter, it's easily in the capacity of a free database and some elementary web programming, esp for a site that's not offering lots of complicated choice paths and won't be visited repeatedly by any given person. Seems to me like approaching Boeing and asking them if they'd be willing to build a go-cart... even if every company says No, it doesn't make building it prohibitive in the slightest.
Let's encrypt (LE) runs some kind of agent that does some voodoo to automatically renew certs on a quarterly basis.... If certs want to be free why not just let them be free without requiring these weird agents and piecemeal expiry periods? What's the point in that?
Stray thought: if they renew every 3 months as you describe, I wonder if that's intended to be a substitute for the cert-revocation abilities that come with CAs?
Just to be clear: I was responding to a comment about HTTPS-Everywhere, which -- although stewarded by EFF the way Lets Encrypt is -- is a totally different thing. The first is a browser plugin that attemps HTTPS by default, the second is a cert-issuing program.
I don't have a position on LE, and indeed your post suggests you may have researched it more than I as I'm not acquainted with the description of its inner workings that you give. I'm not saying that I therefor condone thinking LE is confusing or wrong-headed, just that I don't have a position on it at the moment.
Trump will soon have the power and authority to launch a Preemptive Nuclear Strike and you are worried about the misuse of the WEA's Text Messages?!
Trump will soon have the power to incarcerate you at a whim, and you are worried that he might try to fuck your wife?!?
And with all this HTTPS everywhere malarkey
I call bullshit on you. The EFF's HTTPS-Everywhere is not "malarkey".
I don't know if you're trying to imply that HTTPS-Everywhere forces people to use HTTPS (it doesn't) and that therefor more people are self-signing certs which is would somehow be bad (it isn't)... I can only guess, because your post reads like buzzword bingo, and seems quite intent on undermining confidence in encrypting.
bull SHIT, brother.
Not only are carbon and silicon both extremely abundant in Earth's crust - they're also very similar in their chemical make-up.
But for a cosmic flip of the coin, we could all be silicon-based beings, and our women could have carbon implants.
In a second, more technical, blogpost published that same day, Facebook's Martin Luis Gomez and Andrew Cox acknowledged the failure in passing. "Our first flight lasted three times longer than the minimum mission length, so we were able to gather data on how the structure and autopilot responded under a range of real-world conditions to help verify these predictions," they wrote.
I read that three times trying to figure out whether the "in passing" mention of failure was so subtle that I was missing it. Nope, the editors simply left out the actually relevant quote:
“We are still analysing the results of the extended test, including a structural failure we experienced just before landing. We hope to share more details on this and other structural tests in the future,” Cox and Gomez added.
If everybody took the approach that [they make their] own decisions about these issues, then it would be very hard to have an organized government or any kind of national security system.
The "if I let everyone do xyz then it wouldn't work, and I'm therefor never allowing ANY xyz" argument is a classic strawman.
If everybody in the world became mayor of a town then we'd starve to death because nobody would be producing food... YET we selectively allow people to become mayor all the time.
Snowden did not make arbitrary decisions about something mundane to make a buck... he made a very careful, thoughtful decision, expressly for the public good and NOT for any kind of personal profit (in fact it has cost him dearly, even if he were to get pardoned today, which apparently he won't). Shame on Obama for sound-biting it as though pardoning Snowden would lead to a public clamor for all people who make any decision about anything.
Elon Musk's Mars Colony Would Have a Horde of Mining Robots
Good, because it sure as hell won't have any humans.
Negative Media Coverage of Autonomous Vehicles Could be 'Killing people'
Whereas sending people to Mars, that won't kill anyone. If anything it will result in a baby surplus.
How is this not in their interest? Why should Google give two shits about what Nexus users want, especially as far as having a bloatware-free phone?
Because they don't want to drive more people to alternative roms.
This is no different from everyone bitching and complaining about Windows 10... the customers aren't going to go anywhere, they're just going to complain and then bend over.
Speak for yourself, ankle-grabber.
They should have released Pokemon Go as a board game and called it a day.
the gas flows through a series of 3D-printed pneumatic chambers that link the octobot's eight arms; their flexing propels it through water.
Kif from Futurama has no bones, but is supported by a system of fluid filled bladders. This sounds right in his wheelhouse.