The next Falcon? They've not had a single real-life launch yet. I'm the first to admit they've got an impressive looking vehicle, though, and they're actually some really smart people over there. Who knows, maybe they'll get a 100% success record (or will be able to cope with two or three lost vehicles early in the program.)
Incidentally you'll notice they've built a traditional rocket in order to get to 27000mph, rather than a plastic aeroplane to reach Mach 2.5 going straight up and straight back down. Anyone got an number for the cost of a Falcon launch, comapred to say a Delta heavy, Ariane or Soyuz?
What's wrong with that? If you did know/suspect your product could reasonably be expected to hurt someone, and you don't do anything about it, you SHOULD go to jail (or have a honking fine imposed on you, or whatever.)
(Where the line gets drawn for definitions of "reasonable", how litigious your local society is, the sizeof() damages awarded and suchlike are merely implementation details.)
My employer (who I'm not going to name, there are lots of products and services in this market) sells an email archiving service for places where it's a legal requirement - eg everywhere SarbOx and/or HIPAA apply, and that's just the US market), or where the risk of legal action that can't be easily defended is judged too great to just accept. I personally pull corporate mail onto my Linux laptop with IMAP (yes, I KNOW how lucky I am to work somewhere not completely tied up with red rape and obstructive policies and/or admins...) and I then dump that to a local backup device at home. (Yes it's encrypted, and yes doing so is probably a breach of some corporate policy or other, but the day my employer gets the right to audit my bedroom is the day I quit.)
Ohhhh... sending your executives to prison... I can think of a few who'd be improved by a five stretch. Especially if they were locked up with a big stack of books about security.
You can't; if it was a copyright issue, (a) they'd be laughed out of court, but (b) they could in theory try to make it apply to teams located in any country that's signed the Berne Convention. Which they're not. It's just the Americans they're pulling this bullshit on.
I assert that it's too little, too late. If Solaris had been freed in the early part of the century, it might have made some headway against Linux. As it is, it'll be stripped of anything useful and portable and will be as irrelevant as HP/UX or OpenVMS for all but locked-in legacy users.
I live in the west of England, so our climate is generally cool with a lot of cloudy days. We got solar water-heating panels put in the roof a couple of years back; it cost approx £6000, we get free hot water ~ nine months of the year (they absorb IR, so they work when it's cloudy... a vital feature for us!) They should pay for themselves in another 7 years.
The problem with enthusiast wind generation is that power scales exponentially with the size of the turbine blades. Hence the attractiveness of offshore windfarms, as honking great beast turbines don't spoil people's view.
The person who asked Slashdot said they had a wife and kids. [patiently] yes, I know. My point is: sucks to be him, then. Or, in the form of a different punchline to a different joke: don't do that, then. Or: I don't know, but I wouldn't start from here.
The amazing thing is that only the Bush junta could be simultaneously dumb enough to make a cock-up of this magnitude conceivable, but also evil enough to make the conspiracy theory version plausible as well, thus short-circuiting Occam's second cousin (cock-up over conspiracy, to which interpretation I myself preferentially cleave.)
How do you know you're talking to a man?
How do you know he's heterosexual?
How do you know he has a family?
Anyway, you don't mean "family", you mean "kids". My parents are my only family, and they can support themselves quite well without me, thanks.
FWIW, I chose not to breed purely because I value my freedom to do what I want with my life, and because I wanted to never be trapped in a hellish existence of the sort you describe. *shudder*
If you're in the US and take a look around at what is happening to the economy, you're more likely to be out on the ledge on the 19th floor at this point.
"The major problem - one of the major problems, for here are several - one of the many major problems with governing people is that of who you get to do it - or rather, who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarise: it is a well-known and much-lamented fact that those people most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarise the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarise the summary of the summary: People Are A Problem." -- Douglas Adams, "Hitch-Hiker's Guide"
At the time, they were clearly freedom fighters, but by today's standards, they're terrorists. Consider -- they don't wear uniforms, they're a guerilla group fighting the established state, and they blow shit up (and kill Federation people, both military and civilian, usually without warning.) However they don't try to terrorise the public.
Actually a lot of B7 was shot on my home world of Tha Vorest o' Dean, something that was used to entice me into believing the moving down here aged 10 would be a Good Idea. (It wasn't... which had dawned on me within a couple of years, when half my school were given pudding bowl haircuts and 40s style clothing to be extras for Singing Detective. They looked much smarter that way...
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Incidentally you'll notice they've built a traditional rocket in order to get to 27000mph, rather than a plastic aeroplane to reach Mach 2.5 going straight up and straight back down. Anyone got an number for the cost of a Falcon launch, comapred to say a Delta heavy, Ariane or Soyuz?
How do you know there are any more than than 200 people? Let's see how many of them walk away from the deposit after the first accident.
Right, it looks the part; what could possibly go wrong?
Do please explain how you quantify the probability of your single-DES VPN being compromised. I'm all ears. ("Well, none of us are perfect, D.M.!")
What's wrong with that? If you did know/suspect your product could reasonably be expected to hurt someone, and you don't do anything about it, you SHOULD go to jail (or have a honking fine imposed on you, or whatever.)
(Where the line gets drawn for definitions of "reasonable", how litigious your local society is, the sizeof() damages awarded and suchlike are merely implementation details.)
this is what happens when the government pokes its nose into regulating business
...they are held accountable if they break the law? That's a win, right?
You are very right.
My employer (who I'm not going to name, there are lots of products and services in this market) sells an email archiving service for places where it's a legal requirement - eg everywhere SarbOx and/or HIPAA apply, and that's just the US market), or where the risk of legal action that can't be easily defended is judged too great to just accept. I personally pull corporate mail onto my Linux laptop with IMAP (yes, I KNOW how lucky I am to work somewhere not completely tied up with red rape and obstructive policies and/or admins...) and I then dump that to a local backup device at home. (Yes it's encrypted, and yes doing so is probably a breach of some corporate policy or other, but the day my employer gets the right to audit my bedroom is the day I quit.)
Ohhhh... sending your executives to prison... I can think of a few who'd be improved by a five stretch. Especially if they were locked up with a big stack of books about security.
You can't; if it was a copyright issue, (a) they'd be laughed out of court, but (b) they could in theory try to make it apply to teams located in any country that's signed the Berne Convention. Which they're not. It's just the Americans they're pulling this bullshit on.
There's a difference?
(n/t)
I assert that it's too little, too late. If Solaris had been freed in the early part of the century, it might have made some headway against Linux. As it is, it'll be stripped of anything useful and portable and will be as irrelevant as HP/UX or OpenVMS for all but locked-in legacy users.
The problem with enthusiast wind generation is that power scales exponentially with the size of the turbine blades. Hence the attractiveness of offshore windfarms, as honking great beast turbines don't spoil people's view.
China's no more communist than Tony Blair's a socialist.
The amazing thing is that only the Bush junta could be simultaneously dumb enough to make a cock-up of this magnitude conceivable, but also evil enough to make the conspiracy theory version plausible as well, thus short-circuiting Occam's second cousin (cock-up over conspiracy, to which interpretation I myself preferentially cleave.)
I'm just grateful he's not n3td3v.
FWIW, I chose not to breed purely because I value my freedom to do what I want with my life, and because I wanted to never be trapped in a hellish existence of the sort you describe. *shudder*
Are they good eating?
If you're in the US and take a look around at what is happening to the economy, you're more likely to be out on the ledge on the 19th floor at this point.
"The major problem - one of the major problems, for here are several - one of the many major problems with governing people is that of who you get to do it - or rather, who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarise: it is a well-known and much-lamented fact that those people most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarise the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarise the summary of the summary: People Are A Problem." -- Douglas Adams, "Hitch-Hiker's Guide"
At the time, they were clearly freedom fighters, but by today's standards, they're terrorists. Consider -- they don't wear uniforms, they're a guerilla group fighting the established state, and they blow shit up (and kill Federation people, both military and civilian, usually without warning.) However they don't try to terrorise the public.
Actually a lot of B7 was shot on my home world of Tha Vorest o' Dean, something that was used to entice me into believing the moving down here aged 10 would be a Good Idea. (It wasn't... which had dawned on me within a couple of years, when half my school were given pudding bowl haircuts and 40s style clothing to be extras for Singing Detective. They looked much smarter that way...
Sorry to break this to you, but $20,000 doesn't buy more than ten or fifteen minutes' broadcast-quality TV.
Jenna Stannis, played by Sally Knyvette. In the immortal words of Austin Powers: "Yeaaahhhh, Baaaaaaaaaby!!"