Who wants to pay $200 for a 5400 rpm 1TB drive?

Is this guy assuming we will eventually eliminate all of the thousands of nuclear weapons we currently have? What in the world does the poster mean by "on hand"?

The article's title is "Should nuclear devices be used to stop asteroids?". Makes me wonder if the submitter read TFA.

The article itself is kind of dumb. It talks about rethinking the Outer Space Treaty that bans nuclear weapons in space. If there was a global threat on the way, the time it would take to arm and configure a rocket to send the weapon to the asteroid would be insignificant. If the asteroid is close enough that something sitting in, say, geostationary orbit could touch it, we would all be dead. In fact, if the threat was any closer than a year from impact, no amount of nuclear weapons is going to help us, and we have no rockets capable of reaching an asteroid that far away.

The article writer is naive when it comes to orbital mechanics, the staggering kinetic energy of a significant asteroid, and that these guys actually have a chance at getting all nuclear weapons banned.

Everything is a security/convenience consideration.

KeePass is more secure than LastPass, if you are careful with how you store your database.
Having your passwords as similar but reasonably strong password is more convenient, but less secure.
Setting your password to 12345, is even more convenient but... idiots and luggage...

I think it would be prudent to still have a password change/reset policy if you are using something like LastPass. If the individual sites get hacked your account is still compromised.

There will never be a Delta IV Orion with humans on it. Even ULA is planning to sunset Delta and Atlas for a new rocket to replace these. Probably will somehow manage to make it even more expensive for taxpayers and a way to keep retired Air Force colonels employed.

This would still be cheaper than paying Boeing to do the launches.

The sidewalk technology I want to see are automatic tire deflators on cars that park on the sidewalk.

"Upload scanned PDF"

I would say this is more of a step to the side than a step forward. Though when I cosigned a student loan for my brother they were fine with me uploading a cell phone snap of my paystub as proof. I have neither a scanner nor a printer, and have no plans for either.

I worked at a company pre-tech bubble and pre-mortgage bubble. We were working on electronic vendor management, but a related project at another vendor was working on doing fully digital signing. It was mostly a disaster because the client (Freddie) simply wanted everything to work like it used to, including all the paper bullshit.

In the end they scrapped that part of the project, and scrapped all the "money saving" parts of our project. Freddie and the banks simply did not care about saving money, since it was all being passed on to the buyer anyhow. Hell, they didn't even care if the appraisals said the property were worth what the loan was for. Early 2000's were the wild west of the mortgage industry. I got out before the crash, but I was not surprised it happened.

Just looked up that Sabertooth motherboard. Damn, that thing is a work of art.

I always though it was the 98% of bad lawyers give the 2% of good ones a bad name. :)

A lot of companies work this way.

Also, when raises come around, managers are given a fixed pool of money to give out, and told to shrug and say the company has hit hard times when people ask to be compensated.

I seem to recall a 10 year anniversary post on that some number of years ago? Even that must have been, what 2009?

Fuck it, don't tell me, I don't want to think about it.

And most politicians are lawyers too, so good luck getting any laws passed that are harder on abusive lawyers.