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!

He's lucky he limited himself to one session. Imagine if he'd tried to performance test it with a DDOS attack the dude could have died 50,000 times and some wanker on facebook would still be complaining about the latency and not enough kittens

But then where will I get my blue screen from

Doubt they'd be stupid enough to build the browser into the operating system since they got fined billions for doing that with IE and Windows98 and the authorities which imposed those fines will be watching like hawks. No doubt tho they'll still pull stunts like redirecting www.google.com to bing if you forget to put http:/// infront of it.

Wow mines 90% penis enlargement spam I just want to know how they know I need it :D

Surely this is due to congresses new open door policy!

Nahh they were hijacked by the cargo cult who's ransom demands of cigarettes and Hershey bars have fallen on deaf ears because their radio is just an empty cardboard box with some knobs drawn on it.

Computer: Would you like to play "Total Thermo Nuclear War"?

Meh: sure

Sadly this will never happen but if we introduce real penalties for internet trolling the internet might just grow up.

Nah! Show a reporter how to do it he'll then use it to spy on Celebs, Missing persons and murder victims just like they do with Voice Mail!

I'm just saying after a year in the control group I'd have been ready to end it all :)