Reading comprehension fail. Rambling missive ignored after first sentence.

Thank you for that rock lyric to our favorite rock.

Yah, same here. I thought "hey, I don't mind providing a bit of monetization for them to bring Slashdot into my living room", but I experienced the same issues as you. So, off it goes.

"If it flies like a drone, hovers like a drone and looks like a drone.... Shoot it!"

"You're a fool". Perhaps true, but not an "arrogant fool", as you.

"Even at 500' he'll still have time..." to auto-rotate into a fire.

Yes. Pluto is classified as a dwarf planet.

That's what I want to know!

Signed, S. Platyfish

Some nice subtle snarks there, but yeah. 50-60 years seems like a long time for "the preliminary reconnaissance of the solar system", but hey, yeah. Historically it's not really out of line with how it has happened in the past.

I believe short buses, in honor of this conversation.

Stupid law. I've lived for a while in places that had that law. Annoying. Inefficient.

Well played.

No big systems go into production that don't have a slew of bugs...of not working according to the intent of the programmers (and analysts, managers and stakeholders).

Apparently it was intended at one time, then discarded. I've done that with logic in programs, too (you make a mass substitution and miss a thing or two, etc).

So a lingering bug from a discarded architecture: what do you think the boss would have to say when you explain to him that "the bug must remain because that was the intent of one of the original, long-gone programmers"?

A buggy paragraph in a 2400 page text. Hmm. Actually, few systems go into production that big that don't have a slew of bugs...of not working according to the intent of the programmers.

A closed cycle. Very efficient.