Yes and no. We may not be able to see the aliens right now, but you can't argue that we aren't getting more and more details. 2045 is still quite a while away, technologically speaking, and it's not unreasonable to think we'll have even better telescopes and measuring equipment by then.

That's funny, because I watched this TED talk, where the guy explicitly states his teacher-free environment boosted a rural Indian school class to biochemistry levels well beyond the most prestigious private school in the country.

https://www.ted.com/talks/suga...

One would assume at least some of the Slashdot crowd has been to college and knows what a scientific paper is and how research and experiments are conducted, but clearly a college education isn't enough these days.

Aren't these chips covered in Intels new thermal insulation paste? Maybe it's just insulating a bit too well?

Why do these mega corporations keep storing credit card information insecurely? Are they required by law to be stupid?

The guy was paralyzed enough to not be able to do any work on a computer in 2011, and yet he doesn't die until 3 years later. I know that Christianity runs strong in the blood of American politics and that this prevents assisted suicide from ever becoming a thing over there, but God damn it. That has got to fucking suck. Dibs on that not happening to me.

Just give me that damn mind control device already and let's be done with it.

Why the redundancy? Post must be longer than 100 characters?

Really? I wouldn't exactly say USA has a good track record of protecting peoples free speech. Is your phone encrypted when you pass a checkpoint? You go to jail. Is your laptop encrypted when you pass a checkpoint? You go to jail. Have you googled pipe bombs or vacuum cleaners? You go to jail. Have you blown the whistle on your governments criminal activities? You get to be chased halfway across the planet and go to jail if you're caught. If you do anything your government doesn't like you're labelled a terrorist and, you guessed it, you go to jail.

If anything I'd say that the USA is one of the least free countries in the world, ranking alongside places like Niger and Congo. Not to mention it's the only 21st century country where slavery is still permitted. Slavery you say, why Abe did away with that! No he didn't. Just look at your jails. They're full of slaves working for pennies, and if they refuse they go to isolation.

Prosecution will just mention that FISA court, and woopsydaisy it's suddenly all legal, because terrorism.

I see. Well I suppose I'll just go perform rootine maintenance on these servers over here...

Is it certified to be impenetrable by human stupidity?

Ah I must've overlooked that detail in my rage.

I remember when computers used to fill an entire football field! Now look at this, the powerhouse of the world, the biggest monstrosity on the scale, coming up at what, 8 racks?

You can use your Puppet/Chef tool to generate DSC information for Server 2012+. Was it hard 10 years ago? Sure. These days? Not so much. There's just the problem that Linux admins are so inherently afraid of Windows that they'd never dare keep up with what's going on with it, out of fear of being rejected by their *NIX peers, and Windows people have a disturbing tendency to stop learning as soon as they figure out they can open up GUI interfaces.