Russia was broke through the entire Cold War and was more than happy to let their citizens starve to push their space and millitary programs and they still beat the US in the space race in every respect (excluding landing a man on the moon). They saw the price tag and said "forget that", we already have First Sattelite, First Man/Woman in space, first Man/Woman in orbit, first manned space station, furthest distance driven on the moon/mars (until VERY RECENTLY actually, only in the last two years were those records broken). Russia also has the most reliable manned spaceflight program by a wide margin. Russia does space better and for less money.

They made a formal announcement that they'll be disconnecting from the US half of the ISS at the end of 2013 after approximately 10 years of talking about it. And now they're courting the Chinese, the Japanese and the ESA to go in with them on their own ISS, leaving the ISS with... The US and South Korea.
 
It's not a rumor, it's "when". They have a webcam setup showing construction of their new spaceport built to support the "new" spacestation in it's new orbit. They plan on doing their first launch by the end of the year.

Most computers these days don't come with a restore disc, let alone a disc drive.
 
Nowadays they have a compressed restore image on the drive that occupies between four and twenty GB as a restore option, which likely comes with the crapware ready to spring in to action(!).

Or you could be Cartagena, which has absolutely zero city planning, and a failed public transit system that was still born (transit stations are overgrown with weeds, etc, built but never opened). Compare to Bogota and Medellin which have thriving public transit systems and well laid out cities. All three cities were established at the same time, only two were truly successful and became world class livable cities.

They still have to match orbital velocity on the same ecliptic, even at 0.1c they would show up from a long ways away. There's no "stealth" in space, plain and simple. Spaceships produce too much everything, heat, radiation, gas etc.
 
Orbital insertion would be pretty obvious as well, even at the L1 behind the moon we would notice them coming in.

Driving through the gulf coast from Houston to Miami was a real eye-opener for me. I've been to 20+ countries and the closest thing I can compare their standard of living is to rural Peru.

I got a warning message in Spanish when I took out money from the ATM in Cartagena, Colombia (Caribbean edge of northern South America). Since my money came out ok I didn't pay it much attention. My buddy who spoke Spanish, however, was pretty amused.
 
He said,
"Did you see that warning message," "Yeah?" "That warning message is telling you your card only has a magnetic stripe, and no secure chip-and-pin system which is really insecure and you should ask your bank to upgrade it for you. This is the same system the Europeans use. Fuckin' Colombia's banks, in South America is a decade ahead of the United States banking system when it comes to technology. Typical."

Jumping on this thread, if you want a dungeon generatore, check out the Libtcod library, it's been ported to Python, C++, C#, and very recently TypeScript (i.e. Javascript#)
 
  http://roguecentral.org/doryen/
  https://github.com/jice-nospam/yendor.ts
 
Here's an example from 2011: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZkDOx4W3zs

Yes, both at the same time, perhaps uBlock is intercepting one before it has a chance to run on Adblock? This is consistent behavior.

That's interesting you say they pick up the same stuff, I have both running and Adblock picks up 2 items on this slashdot comment page, while uBlock picks up 3. I made sure I'm blocking everything on both with no whitelisted items.
 
I am using the Adblock chrome extension from getadblock.com, there are several extensions marketed as "Adblock", maybe we are using different extensions.

Adblock, Flashblock, uBlock, Ghostery all pick up slightly different items to block which combined do a pretty good job of breaking things like Facebook (whitelisted) and news sites with embedded non-youtube videos. I just don't watch embedded videos anymore, the article is typically better anyways.
 
Now that Youtube is HTML5 by default for 99.99% of their videos you can safely enable flashblock for 100% of all sites, the only one I have whitelisted anymore is Pandora because they're stuck in 2007.

Thank you. I had to google for more info on MPEG-DASH; kind of surprised to have never heard of it before on Slashdot before today.

Some of those sound familiar, I'm just recalling what's useful to me now, I took that class about 15 years ago so it's pretty fuzzy without prompting. We did advanced data structures, pseudo code and learned assembly and to some extent converting that into binary. I don't think we ever played around with databases though, we had to pay the student price of $50 for a Borland C compiler. We did write a couple of pieces of data entry software that saved off to csv and spent some time building a GUI with the Carnegie Mellon graphics library from the time.

I'm really glad I took a year and a half of programming in high school. From what I've been told by my buddies who went in to full time programming, our program was particularly good and two full years in high school was equivalent to the first three years of college level programming. Which, it turns out, is about 95% of what's required for typical business programming.
 
Anyways, what I meant to say, was that we spent about 3 weeks on boolean logic. As in, really drilled it in to us Karate Kid style. Then worked on for, if then else and do while loops for about six months. The boolean logic's really helped me with electronics and sorting through complex life issues (not everything is black and white but a lot of it can be broken down as such for analysis) and the deep knowledge of loops helps me identify and troubleshoot problems and offer up solutions to the programmer which if we have the source code, gets us a turnaround in under an hour usually. That kind of logical thought process puts me head and shoulders above my peers in troubleshooting and I end up getting called in to solve "the tough ones".
 
I don't want to be a computer scientist for my whole life, but programming let me look at events in history as a teenager, cause and effect, in a whole new light that the traditional "hypothesis and experiment" scientific method wasn't as easily applicable.

We didn't have video bloggers with millions of elementary, middle school and high school fans in the mid-90's. How adults in their 30's use youtube (tutorials, entertainment) is completely different than how the 9-21 year old group uses youtube. It's pretty much black and white. Things like yogscast (only example I can think of) bring in millions and millions of dollars each year for a staff of just a few. Rooster Teeth could not have existed in the mid-90s. Most people didn't have the bandwidth and/or patience to use video on the web back then. Now children spend more time on youtube than TV (or that tipping point is coming soon)