News Flash: ESA and NASA fly similar Earth-observation missions ALL THE TIME.

Odds are good, if NASA is doing it, so is ESA. And they collaborate on mission plans, and share data.

Earth observation is one area of very good international cooperation. Since, after all, it's just one Earth.

No such luck. There are some things so vile that not even a grue would eat them. Comcast is #1 on that list.

We can hope they fall into a pit.

"Any not explicitly forbidden by law is permitted" is a keystone of freedom.

Are you saying freedom is bad because bad people abuse it? Why do you hate freedom so much?

Don't say that he's hypocritical,
Say rather that he's apolitical.
"once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
That's not my department," says Wernher von Braun.

--Tom Lehrer, "Wernher von Braun"

For the purposes of environmental remote sensing, there's no difference between cameras and antennas (radiometers); they just image different parts of the EM spectrum. We've had microwave "cameras" on climate and weather satellites since 1972

It's a snowclone.

"If you install linux, the X win!"

"X" is the bogeyman of the day. Historical examples include Communists, kiddy porn users, Terrorists, Anarchists, Freemasons, Jacobites, and immigrants.

The last I looked, the state of remote-sensing algorithms for limb profiling (i.e., looking through the layer of the Earth's atmosphere over the limb of the planet from your orbital position) is something between bad and "are you kidding?".

I wonder what kind of secret sauce these Young Turks have that NASA and NOAA doesn't?

Or, if you're using a Pentium, 19.95 year ago. Or 20.03. Something like that.

Close enough.

I imagine that could certainly be a line quality problem: a random scavenger trying to recycle your phone line while you're trying to use it.

Umm... what are the head/cylinder/track counts for a Samsung 840 SSD? Also, is it fast enough for "Interleave=2", or will I have to leave interleave set to 3?

Terrible tech support, Samsung. I just can't find this critical information on your website at all!

Have you try to read the article?

Hmmm... "http://slashdot.org".

You must be new here.

I thought the included (pre-installed) Microsoft Windows Defender (or Windows Security Essentials) was already good enough.

That, plus not installing every stupid piece of malware-studded "freeware" I come across and being a bit conservative in my browsing, has always been enough since Windows 7.

Windows after 7 also has a built-in software firewall, so wouldn't seem like you'd need one of those either.

I just can't picture needing anything beyond that.

And WTF does a serial port (which may be physically protected) have jack-shit to do with the Internet?

I could be imagining things, but I seem to recall a time in the far-off and glorious past when Slashdot summaries weren't incomplete to the point of being actively misleading.

I am still patiently waiting for Netflix to follow through on a TRS-80 version.

Don't anthropomorphize beer.

It doesn't like it.