Wouldn't have turned out so bad. The dragon passenger capsule will have an escape system with extra rockets on the sides that would blast it away from the exploding rocket. According to SpaceX, passengers would have survived the recent explosion just fine.

Exactly, if you can reset your account password by "talking to a human", all the Fed has to do is talk to that same human.

This is just because they probably had too many Apple users call them with "I lost my password, can you reset it? Recovery key? What's that?".

Since there are probably ten times as many of those, compared to the number of people who actually care about security, it makes sense for them to dumb down the system. Keeps the majority of their users happy. And the Fed, to boot.

Hey, and I even know his moth... I mean... my mother's maiden name!

How can someone prohibit someone from using one of their products in a particular, non-commercial way (a private test flight)? If I wanted to cross the channel with a dozen kitchen blenders and a really long extension cord, surely that's my decision? Siemens can say that the motor is not designed to be flown over water, and then, if a crash occurs, they can say "see, we told you it wasn't fit for that purpose, we take no responsibility". But preventing the flight from taking place? What allows them to do that?

I thought we were talking about nuclear power, why did you switch the subject to coal?

The blockchain is already close to 40 GB in size, and now people want to store all sorts of other data (or metadata) in it. I can see this getting out of hand rather quickly.

Miners won't be able to store the entire chain anymore, so only a few archival nodes will still have it. Just how secure and accessible will your metadata be then?

They did not force any competitors to raise their prices. Anybody was free to offer their book for a lower price, as long as they offered the same low price on the iBookStore.

It sure will be attractive compared to the new drachma.

Yes, you can. It's called derivatives. Sell silver you don't have, buy gold that nobody has, eat your heart out. They can send the price pretty much anywhere they like.

Neither do I, as long as they remain consistent and let 0 times 0 generate a random number.

I don't mind as long as they remain consistent and define multiplication of 0 times 0 to be a random number.

The plus doesn't work very well anymore, half the result pages simply don't contain the word. They seem to use this as an indication that that word is slightly more important but not actually required. Which can be quite infuriating when you are searching for a specific site you know contains that word.

Well, for example, if you get something like

Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '-[UINavigationController setList:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x6a33840'

You can search for "Terminating app due to uncaught exception" NSInvalidArgumentException "unrecognized selector sent to instance"

(In this case, the search actually does appear to work correctly)

Usually, just copying and pasting some static part of the error message is quite helpful since others will have pasted the exact same words in some help forum.

That usually does improve things, but not always. I often still get results as if I hadn't used any quotes at all, even though exact matches do exist and are displayed further down. And even a "+" in front of a word often gives sites that don't contain the word at all. Tip for Google, if someone writes "+" in front of a word, that really really really means that they really really want that word to actually appear on the page. Really. I'd rather get no results at all than a bunch of sites that don't contain the word.

Nah, they just rolled out a big flat poster on the supposed lander site. Can't tell the difference from orbit.