Yes it was, and it's especially sad since that's two resupply missions to ISS in a row that have failed, with two launch platform failures they faces some very tough choices since the solid waste module fills up to reserve levels on July 20th and will be completely full by September 5th.

Oh, and on a personal note it reminded me a lot of the loss of Challenger, when I saw the white shooting stars it brought back that day from my childhood in vivid detail.

Smart carriers don't want you to check bags, the hold is much more valuable carrying freight and freight doesn't require the army of workers that checked bags do.

They even changed it for classic.slashdot.org, wrtf?

Individual end users have never received settlement free peering, only major networks. The big guys occasionally kicked L3 and Cogent because they tended to have more providers than consumers on their network since they weren't part of the last mile club, but otherwise things work fairly well. Demanding that every end network be able to perform settlement free peering is insane and will lead to nothing but trouble. The biggest problem is that this kind of thing fuels an appearance that the big telcos were right and that the FCC rules are overbearing, which is unfortunate since they're just trying to rein in the worst excesses and abuses of the companies that hold hostage the future of our information based economy.

HDHomeRun just did a kickstarter for a new DVR/live app platform that will work with the Prime (though it won't allow restricted content to be recorded). It's my understanding that other than technical glitches almost all providers just leave things on copy freely unless it's a premium channel like HBO.

You need a cablecard compatible tuner from Ceton, Hauppauge, or HDHomeRun.

There's FiredTV launcher, an alternative home/launcher for the FireTV line that shows sideloaded apps.

At least as an Amazon Prime member I want a FireTV stick with Kodi on it as I want access to all the Prime Instant content (the Kodi addon for this sucks completely) but also access to my local DVR content through Kodi since the FireTV doesn't do DLNA. Plex is the only other alternative and I find the interface sucks and it's really big about pushing their pay channels instead of getting me to my own content.

Uh, 50% of BMI fees go to the songwriters which is a good bit more than the labels give them.

Many motherboards have gone to all solid state caps for reliability and performance reasons, those will have little problem with aging. Tin whiskers with RoHS solder is probably a bigger concern, though my understanding is that industry has managed to mostly stop their formation with newer solder and flux formulations (the problem of course would be to make sure that your components were made with a modern solder, and not the cheapest thing available to the outsourced manufacturing firm)

Luckily ATX has been the power standard for so long that if you build/order your PCs with standard supplies that it will be no issue to find replacements, there are literally billions of them out there at this point.

anyway no one has come close to "trying".

Unfamiliar with Iridium I see. Interestingly SpaceX has the contract to launch the next generation Iridium constellation which this proposal will directly compete with.

I just did 18 months of Pandora for $45, that's a LOT cheaper than the Apple family plan (my wife uses my Pandora account with her own playlists)

40 mile full electric range typical for current model, 2016 model due this fall is supposed to up that to 50 as well as raise power and fuel economy while dropping the premium fuel requirement. If it was a bit bigger and has an AWD option it would be a serious contender for my next car.

Asshole, the money is going to pay my salary. You don't get to know how I spend it.