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Comment Should have caught this in acceptance testing (Score 1) 215

What a terrible, tragic story, If anything useful can be learned from this, maybe it's don't let your users get themselves in a bad situation they can't get out of. Obviously the implementation of this varies between software and statues. I try to design with the idea that if something stupid can be done, it will be done. As far as I know my users have not been more stupid than me emulating them. I don't think the designer is at fault here (occupancy was not intended), but a little forethought could have prevented this from happening.

Comment We all know what that means... (Score 1) 260

Translation: "We don't want to use any more of the money we were given to build out broadband to actually build out broadband." I can sort of see their point, why throw more money down the hole of improving customer experience, when you can just not do that and the regulators won't do anything? A 50/10 connection might work for some people now, but it will be inadequate for more people in the future. If they're using typical industry methods, most connections on these lines probably aren't even getting the 50/10 speeds claimed.

Comment Well, there are interesting aspects (Score 2) 48

So in summary, we've only identified most of the species of bacteria that were brought up to the ISS, and now we've found some of the not-yet-studied-but-still-fairly-ordinary species there. So what might be interesting would be to determine if they got there from a horticultural experiment (i.e. did bacteria from an experiment spread all over the ISS) or did they ride there on a person? Is the distribution of bacteria similar to that found on similar surfaces on Earth? Are the conditions on the ISS (i.e. temperature, temperature profile, humidity, radiation, gravity, etc.) helping or hurting the growth of these species vs on Earth? So while the headline is a bit sensationalistic, there is some real validity to this report.

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