Just as long as they don't do what we do here which is:

1: Take your CMMI processes

2: Sprinkle with Agile jargon

3: Call it scrum

The project strategy seems to consist of when it fails blame it on Agile.

Yeah like NASA has such a great success rate (Apollo 1, Challenger, Columbia). Bearing in mind the Soyuz and Progress are pretty much based on 1960's designs actually they’ve got a fantastic success record one which NASA should be envious. Not that the Soviets have never lost anyone but let’s face it they haven’t stopped sending people into space since Gagarin whereas NASA has a lot of big Gaps.

He's very lucky his mistress isn't working for the GRU/ISIS/al-qaeda or he'd be looking at oh wait he'd probably still get off with a slapped wrist

It's not low income housing it's the Used Future :D

I thought they just sent their kids off to boarding school anyway

Moderation gone mad? It is a frickin LAYZZZER after all

I think the problem is available surface area to aim the laser at. In order to generate enough force to slow a satelite down over a year you'd probably need to focus enough power at it that it would melt in short order anyway. HTH

Makes me squeamish about customs being able to order cavity searches of children

So what was thought to be a blue planet is actually slightly reddish? Wouldn’t it be cooler if we could say the New Horizons Probe is travelling so fast it’s encountering the Doppler Effect :)

Over here in the UK children from the age of 7 are being taught coding in school. This will of course suck everrything that's cool about coding out of coding for ever.

Massive increase in the scope nearly doubled the size of the thing however its still being launched by the same vehicle (Saturn V)

Sorry but the OP states it's over budget and overdue. Well if you look at the original budget & deadline yes this is correct, however, subsequently the scope of the project has been massively increased which consequently increased the budget and time scale. Its not due to fly until 2018 and has still cost less than the Hubble.

Basically the article doesn't give enough detail. It doesn't say whether the strings were created using the base string objects in Java/Python or using the much more efficient stringbuilder objects. The former would be horrendously slow. Also what was the base setup of the machines being tested on how much memory did they have? did their disk controllers have built in cache? What kind of disks were used.

If they are being arseholes on this kind of level surely the FTC should get involved the way the did when MS were being arseholes.

The difference between MS & Apple is MS just want your money Apple seem to want your soul too.

That couple I saw in a graveyard on World of Warcraft. Pretty sure that was a cyber incident!