Its the same here in Melbourne with taxi licenses and newsagent licenses. To sell newspapers you needed to front up with 200 kAUD for the license. Unfortunately the newsagent licenses are worth next to nothing now and a lot of people got burned.

SpaceX are trying to do this with a barely throttlable ascent engine pushing a very light first stage. It can't hover before landing because thrust is too high. It has to steer by rotating the entire vehicle, which puts tight constraints on the landing timeline. I doubt that reliable landings can be achieved with this configuration. They may get one in 4. Something like that.

You can't write an infinite loop in python its too slow.

My kindle knows when I press the screen to go to the next page. When I connect it to the internet, it will pass this information to amazon. If I never connect it, the author presumably doesn't get paid.

Who buys a coffee table book for a kindle?

According to TFA they could hook this up to anybody. It was just that epilepsy patients were having invasive surgery done anyway.

Its been raised as an issue with radar trackers where the radar and the tracker have their own time sources and they slew at different rates. The tracker gets upset and drops tracks where the timestamp from the radar seems to jump by a second.

Its about 1 billion times better than minified js.

The system the schools use will bypass users security settings. How else do facebook make so much money off their users?

Privacy settings make no difference if the schools can go in as root.

Unless something comes along which he couldn't do at Apple.

Looks like a drone with a guy standing on top. It must chew through LiPo batteries.

I bought a cheap tablet for 35 AUD from officeworks. The normal price was 45 AUD but this device was pink (for kids) and had been returned. I took it home, and when I experimented with the gallery I found selfies taken by a child. I ran the factory reset but the pictures were still there so I just deleted the photos.

He was quite well regarded by Clarke and Heinlein, but definitiely not in the same rank as them when it came to writing. He could churn out money making words though.

Any idea who wrote it?