...and knowing Musk, would probably invoke maritime salvage law & refurbish Hubble ITSELF as a commercial venture if NASA couldn't/wouldn't do it.
This is key. The Hubble has immense value. Even if Musk wouldn't get mountains of accolades just for fixing it, the ROI for doing so on his own nickel would more than pay for itself as long as it doesn't suffer another failure.
This is the same thing my Congressman did when NN got slammed. He put on a good front like he was fighting to get it back even though he knew it wasn't going to happen. Gives them a chance to look like they're working for the people. If our opinion actually meant something they'd let us vote on these things at the national level when enough dissent is registered to trigger that kind of vote (which clearly the backlash from NN would have).
Answered my own question. The new launch vehicle will have a proposed payload to LEO of 165t with additional features above and beyond those of Falcon9 and Falcon Heavy. Details from wikipedia available here.".
The flight of the Falcon Heavy likely bodes well for SpaceX's next rocket, the much larger Big Falcon Rocket (or BFR), now being designed at the company's Hawthorne, California-based headquarters. This booster will use 31 engines, four more than the Falcon Heavy. But it will also use larger, more powerful engines. The proposed Raptor engine has 380,000 pounds of thrust at sea level, compared to 190,000 pounds of thrust for the Merlin 1-D engine.
Does anyone know what this means relative to the lift capacity of this new rocket they're working on? The Falcon Heavy was already a huge leap over the competition and this doubles the thrust with a few more engines (understanding that some of that thrust is going to come at the cost of carrying additional fuel too).
You may be misunderstanding. I'm suggesting the possibility they don't want it protected at all - That they're potentially as wooed by the telecoms as the other side, but in order to garner public favor they're putting on a nice show. It's kind of like when someone offers to help you move when they already know you paid movers or it's happening on a day they'll be out of town.
But part of me thinks they have no intention of getting that last vote and this is just a song and dance so they can generate good will and use it later for leverage without ever having actually done something (ie. "Hey, remember in 2018 when we tried to fix NN but the Republicans stopped us..."). I really hope I'm wrong, but...
Companies shouldn't even keep track of race or gender of their employees, there is no legitimate reason to keep that information, and it is only ever useful for discriminatory practices.
It's important if you want to make sure there aren't any racial/gender hiring trends occurring below you. If a particular demographic suddenly started joining or departing your company it might indicate the hiring/management should be audited.
I must be missing something. I assume everyone involved is working toward strengthening the currency as a whole and not trying to undermine it's success. With that goal in mind it would seem coming to terms over it's future would make a lot more sense than segmenting it's user base.
More complicated but in a service like this you have to replace the "product" every so often anyway. Far better to let the lazy folks pay for them with their deposits instead of replacing them with your own capital. Further, every umbrella in service (even if it's kept) is free advertising for your company.
To be fair, this would have happened either way. Maybe (and this is a big maybe) that it would be found out so far down the line a lot less people would be affected, but odds are that someone would have found it anyway. Also, if you think the Chinese and other nations with big cyber divisions aren't sitting on their own vulnerabilities I think you're kidding yourself.
Expecting a tech company to support a product that is past it's end-of-life for free is like not getting an extended warranty on your car and then getting mad because the guy who did is getting his car fixed instead of you. Seriously, why is this even a conversation?
In a business where someone can be simply appointed this isn't an issue. But in a democratic process these people have to be marketable, and boatloads of confidence in ones job/abilities seems to be the best way to accomplish that.
There is probably a conscientious developer that wanted to work on this the day it was discovered but the company thought the cheaper track was to bury it, and now he's probably going to be fired and implicated as the reason the bug existed, or worse, wasn't patched.
This is a great initiative and I applaud Bill Gates and the rest for spearheading this, but I can't help but feel like this is giving government and industry and an easy way out of doing what they should have been doing themselves already.
My assessment is their goal is two-pronged. The first is to amass the majority of this market and get even more people to embrace cloud password storage. Secondly, at some point in the future they will roll out a paid "premium" service that will help offset the costs they've been absorbing and move them into profitability. Given the expected low per-user cost I suspect it would have to be a *very* enticing service as to lure enough subscribers to move them into the black. Not sure what they could offer that would be *that* good.
I don't entirely disagree with you, but I also think his "panties are in a wad" because while the media may have been skewed both for and against him, in this case it's at the expense of peoples lives, not just his ledger numbers.
Seriously, at what point does gross negligence become criminal? That's the real question. Even if it doesn't, as someone who works in a classified environment I can tell you that if I did this, I would be fired, lose my clearance, and most certainly never be granted another. I find this whole charade pretty upsetting.
I'll be curious to see this, but I hope they do a better job with the filler material than Battle Bots did. The matches were actually really good, but pretty much everything between them was a complete joke. Even the guy who counted down the match start was was over-the-top corny with his weird amalgamation of ring-side boxing presenter and the voice at the match start for Mortal Combat.
The sum total of my intellectual property is a somewhat popular Warcraft UI and a few websites (so basically, jack shit), and even I have that data spread across a few different backup mediums. If I had anything even remotely as valuable to fans as pretty much ANYTHING Roddenberry made I'd probably have it in multiple safety deposit boxes in different timezones. How could he let that happen?
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...and knowing Musk, would probably invoke maritime salvage law & refurbish Hubble ITSELF as a commercial venture if NASA couldn't/wouldn't do it.
This is key. The Hubble has immense value. Even if Musk wouldn't get mountains of accolades just for fixing it, the ROI for doing so on his own nickel would more than pay for itself as long as it doesn't suffer another failure.
This is the same thing my Congressman did when NN got slammed. He put on a good front like he was fighting to get it back even though he knew it wasn't going to happen. Gives them a chance to look like they're working for the people. If our opinion actually meant something they'd let us vote on these things at the national level when enough dissent is registered to trigger that kind of vote (which clearly the backlash from NN would have).
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Answered my own question. The new launch vehicle will have a proposed payload to LEO of 165t with additional features above and beyond those of Falcon9 and Falcon Heavy. Details from wikipedia available here.".
The flight of the Falcon Heavy likely bodes well for SpaceX's next rocket, the much larger Big Falcon Rocket (or BFR), now being designed at the company's Hawthorne, California-based headquarters. This booster will use 31 engines, four more than the Falcon Heavy. But it will also use larger, more powerful engines. The proposed Raptor engine has 380,000 pounds of thrust at sea level, compared to 190,000 pounds of thrust for the Merlin 1-D engine.
Does anyone know what this means relative to the lift capacity of this new rocket they're working on? The Falcon Heavy was already a huge leap over the competition and this doubles the thrust with a few more engines (understanding that some of that thrust is going to come at the cost of carrying additional fuel too).
You may be misunderstanding. I'm suggesting the possibility they don't want it protected at all - That they're potentially as wooed by the telecoms as the other side, but in order to garner public favor they're putting on a nice show. It's kind of like when someone offers to help you move when they already know you paid movers or it's happening on a day they'll be out of town.
But part of me thinks they have no intention of getting that last vote and this is just a song and dance so they can generate good will and use it later for leverage without ever having actually done something (ie. "Hey, remember in 2018 when we tried to fix NN but the Republicans stopped us..."). I really hope I'm wrong, but...
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Seems like they used a rather legit way of paying a ransom to get him to sweep it under the rug. At least, that's how it appears to me.
Companies shouldn't even keep track of race or gender of their employees, there is no legitimate reason to keep that information, and it is only ever useful for discriminatory practices.
It's important if you want to make sure there aren't any racial/gender hiring trends occurring below you. If a particular demographic suddenly started joining or departing your company it might indicate the hiring/management should be audited.
I must be missing something. I assume everyone involved is working toward strengthening the currency as a whole and not trying to undermine it's success. With that goal in mind it would seem coming to terms over it's future would make a lot more sense than segmenting it's user base.
The entire game is basically the same thing as what he did.
More complicated but in a service like this you have to replace the "product" every so often anyway. Far better to let the lazy folks pay for them with their deposits instead of replacing them with your own capital. Further, every umbrella in service (even if it's kept) is free advertising for your company.
The secrets will always get out.
To be fair, this would have happened either way. Maybe (and this is a big maybe) that it would be found out so far down the line a lot less people would be affected, but odds are that someone would have found it anyway. Also, if you think the Chinese and other nations with big cyber divisions aren't sitting on their own vulnerabilities I think you're kidding yourself.
Expecting a tech company to support a product that is past it's end-of-life for free is like not getting an extended warranty on your car and then getting mad because the guy who did is getting his car fixed instead of you. Seriously, why is this even a conversation?
In a business where someone can be simply appointed this isn't an issue. But in a democratic process these people have to be marketable, and boatloads of confidence in ones job/abilities seems to be the best way to accomplish that.
There is probably a conscientious developer that wanted to work on this the day it was discovered but the company thought the cheaper track was to bury it, and now he's probably going to be fired and implicated as the reason the bug existed, or worse, wasn't patched.
This is a great initiative and I applaud Bill Gates and the rest for spearheading this, but I can't help but feel like this is giving government and industry and an easy way out of doing what they should have been doing themselves already.
This guy Kerbals.
My assessment is their goal is two-pronged. The first is to amass the majority of this market and get even more people to embrace cloud password storage. Secondly, at some point in the future they will roll out a paid "premium" service that will help offset the costs they've been absorbing and move them into profitability. Given the expected low per-user cost I suspect it would have to be a *very* enticing service as to lure enough subscribers to move them into the black. Not sure what they could offer that would be *that* good.
I don't entirely disagree with you, but I also think his "panties are in a wad" because while the media may have been skewed both for and against him, in this case it's at the expense of peoples lives, not just his ledger numbers.
Will give you the best of both worlds.
Seriously, at what point does gross negligence become criminal? That's the real question. Even if it doesn't, as someone who works in a classified environment I can tell you that if I did this, I would be fired, lose my clearance, and most certainly never be granted another. I find this whole charade pretty upsetting.
Neil Degrasse Tyson is already working on having this soon-to-be planet declassified.
I'll be curious to see this, but I hope they do a better job with the filler material than Battle Bots did. The matches were actually really good, but pretty much everything between them was a complete joke. Even the guy who counted down the match start was was over-the-top corny with his weird amalgamation of ring-side boxing presenter and the voice at the match start for Mortal Combat.
The sum total of my intellectual property is a somewhat popular Warcraft UI and a few websites (so basically, jack shit), and even I have that data spread across a few different backup mediums. If I had anything even remotely as valuable to fans as pretty much ANYTHING Roddenberry made I'd probably have it in multiple safety deposit boxes in different timezones. How could he let that happen?