No surprise to me.

It is a terrible, mind numbingly boring job that is essentially a career killer in the Air Force. Not to mention the fact that the likelihood of them actually having to do what they train for is very low and if they do have to do what they trained for it basically means they are helping end life on this planet as we know it.

I completely understand why they would not be motivated to excel on the exams and/or might smoke a little grass.

I wonder what their Russian counterparts' moral is like.

Could very well be router or firewall logs that saw the packets as they passed out of wherever the compromised server was.

As if they are not going to just find some other way to structure their compensation packages to make it appear to be under the cap.

I am sure there are at least a dozen ways they will be able to make as much as they possibly can and never have it run in to any restrictions like the proposed law in Switzerland. If worse comes to worse they can probably use off shore companies to have the executives get paid in a country that doesn't have these sorts of restrictions.

It is nice to put the executives on notice that it would be good for everyone if pay rates were not so disparate, but really the law will make zero difference.

Oh I see. Strange I didn't see any other commercial and I do not block ads on slashdot.

I felt the same way. But really it is because they are not making clear they are basically an amateur serious rocketry hobby group. More professional than just hobbyists because their goal is manned missions, but not a for profit commercial company.

That makes it a lot more cool with me. Their name and their descriptions (the English ones I mean) just make them sound too commercial without some background and explanation.

I think you guys would do well to emphasize you are a non-profit, amateur group.

It looks at a glance like you are trying to do stuff commercially and so are judged based on that impression.

People would end up with a totally different impression if they understood this is basically a very advanced hobby for you and your team.

And I do not mean to say you are amateurs, just that you are not a for profit commercial enterprise. There is probably a good English word for what is between those two but I can't think of it.

I am assuming this is the same Copenhagen Suborbitals that was asking /. for legal advice recently:

Ask Slashdot: Legal Advice Or Loopholes Needed For Manned Space Program

That did not instill confidence in me.

Stop spreading lies or being ignorant or both.

Obama has done nothing related to gun control in his years in office except make it easier for people to own whatever type of firearm they want.

He has signed legislation allowing guns in National Parks and on Amtrack trains.

He signed legislation that makes concealed carry permits valid in one state valid in all states.

He has never pushed an "assault" weapons ban or even restrictions on large capacity magazines.

His justice department has never challenged any of the numerous state level laws that have increased gun rights (Arizona, Louisiana, Mississippi, Wyoming, Texas, North Dakota, etc.) or any of the stand-your-ground laws.

He is one of the most pro-gun Presidents in recent times and yet right wing delusionals (and firearm business interests) still trot out he is trying to take away guns.

He also has the kill your colleague if they don't follow an order thing wrong.

All those missiles can be controlled from another launch facility, so if one of the missileers doesn't want to turn their key, control of their silos is just assumed by another launch facility and their missiles are launched anyway.

The sidearms were for defense of the facility, not to use on fellow officers is my understanding.

Also do not forget that we know some color printers and copiers are encoding traceable information in the pages they print. I thought more than just color printers did that, but I can't find a reference.

I would err on the safe side and assume the practice has expanded since first discovered.

https://www.eff.org/issues/printers

The main problem with that little investigation is that it failed to submit the paper to any non open access publications for comparison. Failing to do that means it doesn't really indicate anything specifically about open access journals since we do not know that non open access journals would have done any better.

It also points out that in science, publication in a peer reviewed journal of any sort is really just the first step. Once published it gets reviewed by the world at large and people can reproduce or fail to reproduce the results. The process takes years.

It is also better in the sense that the individual units represent a wider range of temperature.

So you can actually tell the difference between say... 15C and 16C but there really is little meaningful difference between say 71F and 72F.

I can live without any of the rest of the metric system, but for temperature, it is significantly more useful.

It is a common confusion in English.

Historic means a very important, significant event happened.

Historical means just anything that happened in the past.

So really, you would say: "Something happened. It's now history. Therefor it's historical."