You are aware that mentally ill people and drug addicts are always going to spend whatever cash they are given, and remain homeless, right?

Ad you realize that poverty is defined as a certain percentage of the population at the bottom end of the bell curve, right? It's not like someone has fixed the problem by, say:

#define IMPOVERISHED_INCOME ((MINIMUM_WAGE * 40 * 52) -1)

so we can just throw money at it to make it go away, right?

And you're aware that basic health care is already fixed, and was before the ACA, sincethe hospitals are legally required to treat you if you present at the ER, right?

And you realize that we ALREADY spend enough on government corruption, right? WTH do you want to spend MORE?

The DC-X is a better example, since it doesn't require a runway, it could also be used as a lunar lander and return vehicle. The companies for both got eaten by Boeing.

The single biggest reason is can you see some rich person buying a used one, like John Travolta bought a used 707, and deciding to take a planeload of ceramic coated rebar to orbit and drop it on peoples heads at 22,000 MPH? Cheap access to orbit by private individuals is not in the best interests of those currently in power.

That said, it'd be nice if the owners of the patents on the bell-less rocket nozzle linear aerospike engine would throw their patents open for Armadillo, SpaceX, and the rest; rocket engine bell are *heavy* plus there's the cooling system weight as well.

This is patently ridiculous!

In the RFID chip, we write the numbers much, much smaller than the WW2 tattoos!

Doctor: "Sorry, Mr. PolygamousRanchKid, but your urine is a bit cloudy; I'd like to run a couple more tests..."

So; it was a move to HTTPS...

http://grahamcluley.com/2015/0...

Did they bother to fix heartbleed and POODLE while they were in there, or are they using an old stack, and it's still perfectly posible to implement the attack with a single additional step? In other words is this a "We must take some action!" fix, or is it a "We must take effective action!" fix?

Tort reform to reduce insurance liability for the manufacturers so that you aren't paying for "accidentally kill someone / fail to save someone ho was beyond saving" insurance in the price of the device for litigious people grieving for their dead loved one a whole lot more than their dead loved one's life is actually worth, compared to the number of people who could be saved were the devices cheaper.

Also, the insurance companies get paid 3 times on each device:

(1) The manufacturer's liability insurance

(2) The emergency responders malpractice and/or liability insurance

(3) For you to go to the hospital afterwards

Seems kinda wrong to pay an AIG member company 3 times for the same thing, doesn't it?

If you can't add without a calculator 33 and 84 in your head and get an answer instantly, then you are fucked up.

If you have to think about it at all, then your education has been wrong.

There is value to pages and pages of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division work. And in not being able to access a calculator to do it.

Yes, the IoT is coming... as soon as IPv6 is fully deployed with stateless autoconfiguration so we'll have network addresses for all the things.

I hear both Verizon and Comcast are really happy about the idea of offering routable addresses for everyone, without finding some way to monetize it.

Primarily? Because it won't pass the testing without a lot of work. In particular, there are negative assertion tests on header files (some things are not allowed to be dragged into the namespace, and the header are promiscuous). There's also a whole bunch of testing having to do with full and almost-full devices. There are also signal issues and process group membership issues. For example, you can "escape" an exclusion group on Linux by setting your default group to one of your other groups; Linux overwrites the membership in cr_groups[0] as a synonym for cr_gid, and doesn't handle POSIX saved IDs quite right, either (Neither do the BSDs, so this isn't a Linux-only problem).

Last time I attempted to run the test suit on Linux as a lark, there were about 20K failures (mostly tests not compiling because of it bailing out over the header file issues. There are also some parts of the system that have been subsumed by systemd; this isn't intrinsically a problem on its own, so long as the system *also* supports flat config files as an addendum, at least for some aspects of logging.

Also, getting the UUCP to work over USB serial dongles is likely to be something of a bear, unless you make the HDB modifications for handling the "rung indicate" as a notification to take the shared file lock on the callout device so the getty's don't start trying to chat with each other.

Finally, there some considerable legal/licensing issues for the trademark.

Thank fricking God it requires developer mode.

That is all. A number of us fricking killed ourselves to make sure the thing would notify you when someone had futzed with your machine, and it'd be a terrible shame if 3 minutes and a screwdriver could trojan your machine.

Mac OS X *is* UNIX. It's certified. Wake me up when Linux passes conformance testing.

PS: We even put UUCP on the damn thing to pass the tests; it's definitely UNIX, so feel free to spin up your own NetNews node on your MacBook Air.

2 years in prison, a million $ fine, and no actual SWAT teams involved?

And now... 3... 2... 1...

(1) Find a journalist you don't like who has linked to a vulnerable site they don't control
(2) Replace the content at the link target with illegally obtained material about someone powerful
(3) Sit back and watch how well the new SWATting works!

Journalistic shield laws anyone? The new first amendment-resistant law enforcement looks like we need something to replace the old antibiotics...

Their funny definition of "walk" is designed to go with their funny definition of "bio-inpired".

Most businesses use this same example:

"No one wants to switch from a Windows XP system to a Windows [inset non-XP Windows here] if their files or programs are not 100% guaranteed to work."