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Comment Re:Isn't Open Source always "off the clock"? (Score 3, Insightful) 582

I think you're missing a key difference. I can stop working on my pet project at any time I want (just like I can choose to stop flying RC planes if I want). If I choose to spend 80 hours a week writing software I enjoy doing for free - great. But if an employer is going to dictate how I'm going to spend my "free time", they're going to pay me for it.

Comment Re:It depends.. (Score 1) 495

I worked on software at a very large mortgage bank doing parsing of 3270 connections ("green screens") that had several thousand users. We had to rely heavily on field positions using X,Y coordinates. 10/06/03 was when they switched to 10-digit loan numbers from 7-digit ones... Care to guess what happens when you add 3 characters to a screen with 0 room available? More interestingly is what happens when you don't have access to the testing systems before the change goes live. We got a phone call or two that morning...
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No Space Porn (For Now) 260

With the entry to sub-orbital flight, and even orbital flight, becoming ever so slightly easier, the obvious thought of space porn kicks in. Who wouldn't want to see two or more people going at it like rabbits in a weightless environment (or at least trying to go at it like rabbits in a weightless environment)? Sadly, Virgin Galactic has turned down a $1 million offer to do just that. The offer was made by an unidentified party who was willing to put the money up front to do a space porn movie. Considering that a flight aboard VG costs $200,000 for a two-hour flight, $1 million doesn't seem too bad. Though how much you could actually do and perform in two hours is debatable. And what if one or more of the actors gets sick?

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