If it were me with the concern, I would have sent a serious letter to slashdot, and then I would have made a post showing my concerns. This has gotten way out of hand.
It's rather clear that./ doesn't care or is chosing to ignore the problem: see here, this isn't new.
"For god's sake, how did it come to this, anyway?!? 30 years in and the STS program is still considered an experimental program with experimental vehicles."
Because the shuttle, while a marvel of science*, is a bloated compromise of the original idea that tries to be a jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none.
There's some interesing facts on the history of the design and selection of the shuttle in the CAIB report (vol 1) - check it out.
*your opinion/definition of 'marvel' could be different from my own in this context.
"If we can understand that failure and it was a known failure that we expected...then we might very well be willing to go fly with three of four sensors, there's good flight rationale behind it."
Well, I'd say that sounds more reasonable than the "unexplained anomaly" that they thought was 'acceptable' on a criticality-1 item (I presume).
Right. I don't understand why the slashdot editors waste their time typing extra unnecessary letters in the title; they could've just written it as "Stallman Unimpressed". Period.
This is the same thing Metallica did in its early days to get known, and it worked.
Of course, now that they're rich, they call doing this 'being a criminal' and that it destoys the chance of new talent (or by extension, shows) being recognized and being able to survive, when the opposite is clearly true.
"...being marked as spam by AOLs automated spam filtering engine"... because someone reported it as spam to begin with. This is the person the poster was referring to.
"If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today"
So let's make sure the industry grinds to a complete stanstill and patent everything under the sun
Slashdot Mirror
No, YOU suck!
go to sorbaralaw.com, or to lawyers directly (both of which would show up as coming from slashdot in their referrer log).
It always worries me when community-contributed sites start getting commercial. I wouldn't want to see another Gracenote happening.
You forgot
3) Government profits, all others lose.
Extra time had to be put in to do the underwater simulations on the ground to make sure the whole exercise wasn't pointless.
It's rather clear that
Do cease and desist orders have any legal teeth? Or is it simply "This is a threat - stop doing this or else" type nastygram?
If it has legal merit, then I see no problem with UT doing the blocking. If it hasn't, then I guess that's the reason for the case.
Maybe GW Bush can buy a ticket for his plan to return to the moon
And he can stay there too. Permanently.
I've used VIPBackup.com myself, but really as a 'secondary' backup, and not as much for 'corporate' stuff either.
porn.slashdot.org
They can't affort to try that kind of thing again, both in terms of risk, and public relations
NASA is under a microscope now; if they even so much a stumble stepping off stairs, it'll be in the media.
"For god's sake, how did it come to this, anyway?!? 30 years in and the STS program is still considered an experimental program with experimental vehicles." Because the shuttle, while a marvel of science*, is a bloated compromise of the original idea that tries to be a jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none. There's some interesing facts on the history of the design and selection of the shuttle in the CAIB report (vol 1) - check it out. *your opinion/definition of 'marvel' could be different from my own in this context.
"If we can understand that failure and it was a known failure that we expected...then we might very well be willing to go fly with three of four sensors, there's good flight rationale behind it."
Well, I'd say that sounds more reasonable than the "unexplained anomaly" that they thought was 'acceptable' on a criticality-1 item (I presume).
Why the hell do the media (ie. slashdot) even acknowledge the existence of this obvious flamebait that calls himself "Dvorak"??
All this guy does is talk out of his ass, simply to attract attention to himself and his "writings".
And yes, I do know he talks out of his ass; I heard an audio interview with him once.
All it was is him farting for 10 minutes.
...before the year 3000?
You could always ask the 'What If' machine...
You tell me; why did it take you 54 minutes to come up with the answer?
So, if it takes 12 minutes for a system to get infected, how much money do you spend at the end of the week in new systems?
or perhaps... overlooked?
Anyways - "accidental"? yeah, right!
Right. I don't understand why the slashdot editors waste their time typing extra unnecessary letters in the title; they could've just written it as "Stallman Unimpressed". Period.
Pick one up on eBay - they're cheap.
Score: -2, clueless troll proving he's an idiot
Of course, now that they're rich, they call doing this 'being a criminal' and that it destoys the chance of new talent (or by extension, shows) being recognized and being able to survive, when the opposite is clearly true.
"...being marked as spam by AOLs automated spam filtering engine" ... because someone reported it as spam to begin with. This is the person the poster was referring to.
"Or perhaps not calling it Star Trek for two years didn't help?"
How do you figure that? The opening title clearly says "StarTrek: Enterprise"
"If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today"
So let's make sure the industry grinds to a complete stanstill and patent everything under the sun
yeah, thanks billy boy!