Is it near poor and/or brown poor people? We've pretty much shown we really don't give much of a fuck about those people.

So what happens when someone walks up with a laptop running linux?

No, No, No. Nope, nope, no no no no no! NO! No.

Someone somewhere right now is writing an extension to iOS that implements duress codes.

Type in XXXX for a password: get access to your regular phone
Tppe in YYYY for a password: get access to something that *looks* like your phone, but all the information is bullshit. The numbers are all just faked numbers based on your area code and dialing pattern, but with entirely different times/dates.

Text messages are a mishmash of hyper generic "Hey, we need milk", "Don't forget to give mom a call, it's her birthday", yada yada yada.

Type in ZZZZ for a password: Put up a fake desktop but nuke the phone.

That's an interesting insight.

It's been clear for a long time that GitHub didn't have a sustainable business model. The question now is how does this change GitHub? Suddenly being owned by MS isn't going to fix their "giving away services for free" business model and MS isn't exactly known for it's altruism.

I imagine that in the near future, you're going to see functionality stripped from the free GitHub and moved into tiered services that cost money.

This might include stuff ilke Paywalling the collaborative features and tiering out the fancier parts... Tier 1 only has groups, Tier 2 has groups and Kanban boards, etc. Putting strict limits on this size of free repos, etc.

Let's not forget exactly how long it took before Skype stopped having a linux client.

I hope they never call me to help them assess risk. You bring up a good point... the "Propellant loading begins" I should have bracketed because it's a whole set of steps, some of which results in oxidizer being vented. Purging nitrogen, loading helium, loading crypo RP-1, loading cryo oxygen, etc.

Now from a layman's point of view to me it seems much more dangerous to have people and equipment all over the scaffolding while the vehicle is venting oxidizer.

Since we're arguing this whole process is dangerous... Let's limit the number of people in danger... The people in the DragonRider capsule have a means to get the hell out of Dodge if shit goes wrong... the poor saps on the crew access gantry are simply fucked.

Yes, there are valid concerns regarding densified propellants. Can those be mitigated, to a degree. SpaceX has now multiple years of handling densified propellants... However, just stating that they've done it a certain way because, well they've done it a certain way.

Let's think this out.

Scenario 1. Vehicle is dry. Astronauts and Techs ride up the elevator and get Astronauts situated the vehicle. Technicians then leave the pad. Abort system is verified and enabled. Propellant loading begins.

Scenario 2. Vehicle is loaded and oxidizer boil off is occuring, which means the Astronauts and support staff will be riding up an elevator next to a loaded rocket, plus the strong back will have be supplementing the vehicle so it's going to have a substantial amount of cryogenically cooled oxygen in it as well. Now, once the crew is loaded, the technicians need to safely get down the elevator and away while boil off and supplemental loading is occuring

Which of these scenarios seem more likely to be a recipe for disaster?

I called this a hit piece because this is looks from the outside like SpaceX is being forced to jump over much higher hurdles than ULA.

Yeah, driving around I've seen all these different but somewhat identical electric semi's and I've been all confused as to who was making them... oh wait... Neither of these companies are actually producing an actual vehicle.

This sounds like trolling of the worst and banal kind.

I can't imagine in my wildest shitty dreams that any satellite is running Windows 95.
One could argue that satellite are running operating systems that were developed in the same era as W95.
So exactly what radiation hardened CPU would be running W95?

Satellites are running realtime hardened operating systems (such as vxworks or rodos) that have very well defined modes of operation. Literally nothing I said in that last sentence would apply to windows 95.

Now granted, could some of these operating systems harbor vulnerabilities? Sure. Could these vulnerabilities be exploited to cause mayhem? Sure.

I can't wait until *everything* is a smart speaker, then the fun really begins..

1. Have a speaker just quietly mumbling (I'd have it quietly reading the Necronomicon) but when it senses someone coming into the room have it go "shh, quiet!" and stop talking. Multiple devices would have their own "shh's" randomly offset the couple of milliseconds.

2. Quiet creepy giggling, also while people are out of the room sometimes while in the room.

3. Have Alexa get a strange stutter with tonal changes and snarls.

The fun could go on and on.

We just need the galactic key to unlock it... really easy.

The two divas?

Trump might watch this and get ideas. "Little intelligence" is in fact a dangerous thing.

You misunderstand the actual power of the FCC. Their threats are NOT empty. They have the power to levy fines, have right of entry powers, etc. They don't give a fly fuck about two CB channels cross talking... but fuck with spectrum that's being used by a commercial or governmental entity and they'll drop a fucking hammer on your head.

I was once involved with a college radio station and due to an equipment malfunction (our attenuator failed) we were accidentally transmitting at a much higher power than we should have... the FCC showed up at a campus, exercised their right of entry, disconnected our receiver and then changed the locks. Needless to say, it was a fluckercluck.