The dregs can downmod this all they want, you've inspired me. That's exactly what I'm talking about.

You're talking about two very well documented design/engineering failures, I'm talking about a maintenance perspective. Maintainers do not design the aircraft, they perform work on aircraft assigned to them. The guy that changes the tire, replaces the tiles or changes a light bulb has no say in what type of O-Ring is used or the application of foam on the external fuel tank.

I fail to see where my praising of the workers around makes me a NASA apologist. My statement tha there is no amount of planning/engineering/contingencies that will allow for recovery may have been interpreted by you as being apologetic to a design flaw. I'm sorry that I didn't get my style manual out to write my post on /.

Thank you.

this is my worst nightmare: something that I performed work on malfunctions and lives are lost. Mishaps occur. Sometimes, it is preventable. Sometimes, there is no amount of planning/engineering/contingencies that will allow for recovery. The amount of second-guessing and contemplation of "what could I have done?" can't be described in a number that I know of.

An earlier comment talked about remaining stoic at mission/launch control. It's the same for the knuckle-draggers on the ground as well. If anything, those directly involved with the launch have the hardest job. I personally don't think that I could have handled something like this the way that they did, so for that, I salute them and only hope that I can be half as awesome as they were on that day.

Apparently in Soviet Russia, spam blocks death.

Mortals beware.

Who would have ever thought that Spam would save a life?

I don't acknowledge the existence of . . . what were you talking about again? :-)

Very true. Perhaps I should have elaborated that portable console-derived gaming units tend to be of the pocket-size variety.

It's great and all, but the thing looks HUGE. How can you call it portable if you can't even fit it into a pocket? Even the largest smartphones tend to fit in a pocket (the only one I've seen personally that you can't is the one I keep seeing at Best Buy manufactured by Dell, even that might be able to fit).

Also, we're getting rid of the XMB? The interface presented looks a lot like the one from that fruit company.

And there is more than one type of cop in the world. Some go after murderers, some go after embezzlers and some go after cybercriminals.

Unfortunately they all get funneled through the same overworked legal system. So, even if there are separate people doing the investigating and arresting, the paperwork goes through the same channels amd the cases are heard by the same judges. Meanwhile, the perps are held in the same prisons, further taxing the system. It's all the same.

I'd say remove. They aren't censoring the search, they're just removing it from the autocomplete queue. Alarmist alarmism is alarming.

I bet the Bittorent guys are F'ing pissed right now. It sucks that a great technology like Bittorrent immediately gets the spotlight on it's seedier uses as opposed to the really good ones (like legitimate releases of software that take the load off of individual servers).

/in before the google hate?

of my gaming childhood was playing some of the second-rate graphic adventure games that usually came in the giant 10-15-20 CD packs of software, or the CDs that were usually included with new PCs. You'd have your standard Grolier's Multimedia Encyclopedia, productivity software and whatnot. Then you'd have some FMV gems like MegaRace. However, the ones I really remember are the Tsunami graphic adventure games, notably Police Quest clone Blue Force.

I was very disappointed to see just a small name drop for Full Throttle (and then even only mentioning the cancelled sequel). I understand Tim Schafer is know for a more milestone game, but FT was definitey one of the best of that genre IMO. Seeing the screens from Deja Vu and Maniac Mansion made me smile as well. That Phantasmagoria was mentioned made me chuckle. One of my friends bought the game and had to give it up due to parental issues. I remember getting that massive 7-CD wallet that the game came with and slowly working my way through it.

Link is blocked at work/Link was slashdotted at home, mind summarizing what he did that was cheating?