It "shouldn't be a problem" if you buy a "decent printer" where "decent printer" is defined as "some hypothetical printer which works with whichever of the dozens of Linux forks you happen to be using" and which is almost certainly not documented.

There. Fixed that for you.

It's easier to remember this stuff, when you recall that what actually happened was that NeXT acquired Apple for a negative four hundred million dollars ($US -400 million).

An American physicist named Gerard K. O'Neill explored ways to boot strap an in-space economy and the notion is sometimes referred to as The High Frontier. A permanent presence in space, and an in-space industrial economy would be useful for many things.

Your post was thoughtful, unlike TFA. The only thing you missed was the perfect opportunity to recommend that all Slashdot overlords, submitters, moderators, and participants equip themselves with the following ignorance reduction module (aka an excellent book):

Innumeracy - Mathematical Illiteracy Consequences by John Allen Paulos .

Fortunately, NASA isn't the only potential customer.

SpaceX and NASA are studying the possibility of a 150 ton payload class heavy lift launcher, based on SpaceX Falcon technology. NASA Studies Scaled-Up Falcon, Merlin

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This is an April Fools joke, right? It's so hard to tell, it maps to neatly into the long Slashdot decline...

Translation: In a desperate bid to remain relevant, Slashdot makes it even easier for people {idiots} to annoy you. Bye-bye, Slashdot. It was a good run.

It sounds to me like Nokia has no clue what they are going to do.

Oh, they know all right. They're getting their synergies leveraged by Microsoft. Over and over again. For money.

Every agency is responsible for securing their own infrastructure. NIST only provides only guidance.

If history is any guide, the Apple replacement project is likely to be released as an open source project, under a BSD style license.

My understanding is that the Obama administration's re-direction came during the middle of a fiscal year. The work described in the article was already under contract when that re-direction occurred. Best case, NASA may have had a choice between allowing the contract to continue, or canceling the contract, which would also cost money. More likely, this program was in the budget as a line item, in which case it probably requires an act of Congress (in the literal sense) to cancel the program mid-year.

The Orion capsule is intended to be the baseline for both missions.

There is no "September" iPad. That whole line of rumor was created by accident, by Mr. Gruber speculating idly that Apple might want to sync up iPad's annual release cycle with the iPod, in the fall, coupled with his apparently inside information that this spring wouldn't bring a "Retina Display" to the iPad. (This is reasonable speculation based on the notion that, given current iOS, they would need to make a Retina Display on an even multiple of the current pixel density or force developers to support yet another screen type, implying a minium 2x density, and the available mobile GPU designs couldn't handle that. Lion based iOS might alter that assumption, allowing, say, a 1.5x higher pixel density by this fall.) In any case, they're clearly working to beef up the GPU in the iPad, but it will be a while yet before they can power a Retina Display and GPU in the same energy budget. Don't expect that until next spring, at the earliest.