It's not twice the fuel. It takes most of the fuel to get to speed. At that point the booster is SIGNIFICANTLY lighter, so it takes (again with that word) SIGNIFICANTLY LESS fuel to slow down, and then to land.

Going to space vs getting to orbit

Multiple reasons why somebody would target these servers (BTW: I was at the talk. Their video is at http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?... . )

Anyways, IMHO, reasons:
1) As a gateway into the hospital so you can pwn servers to DDOS others
2) As a gateway into medical records so you can better phish, or possibly blackmail your targets

I'm seeing tons of attacks coming from China and Hong Kong ( http://longtail.it.marist.edu/... ), but only Level 3 seems to be doing anything about blocking them http://www.lightreading.com/se... Even though they'll never be able to block all the attacks, the backbone providers could at least slow them down.

For what it's worth, http://longtail.it.marist.edu/... shows a significant drop off of attacks from China yesterday (Thursday) and today (Friday). FYI: Longtail is an ssh brute force analysis program with 11 ssh honeypots live today. I've been getting almost 300,000 attempts per day, but only got about 75,000 yesterday, and 88,000 (so far) today.

So how long until http://longtail.it.marist.edu/ starts seeing and categorizing SSH Brute Force attacks from Cuba?

So how do you know if you had an error if you return "0" for a divide by 0 error? Now you have a whole 'nother set of problems to code around.

Without knowing any of the gory details, I have to wonder if this could have been caught by the network team monitoring and characterizing the inbound/outbound traffic and watching for anomalies.

I have an ssh honeypot analyzer at longtail.it.marist.edu at Marist College and it shows that the second most popular account after root is "admin", and that the most common account/password tried is ubnt/ubnt.

Anybody who's been paying attention knows that default passwords on home routers are high on the bad guy's list of accounts to hack.

been there, done that. Mega Shark vs. Mecha Shark https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

A) It should only update bash

B) Also run yum -y update bash

C) This has been discussed for years, and the general consensous has always been it's better to not patch their systems (allthough I disagree with that. If you left your system open, you're just asking for somebody else to patch it for you, IMHO)

Prior art on the idea here (DC-X ) --> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M... and here (VTVL) -->http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VTVL

It's not bad planning, it's that the mission was to deliver goods. NOT deliver goods AND recover the booster.

better spoilers at http://www.themoviespoiler.com/Spoilers/darkknightrises.html

Spoiler alert: The alien bursts out of Batman's chest and kills Bane as his first victim :-)