Oh, so you must know what the future holds, then!

Also, I notice that you are a coward, and don't really believe what you're saying, since you left it unattributed.

HAHAHAHA NASA ADVANCED QUALITY CONTROL HAHAHAHAHA

They might know what all the problems are, but if they don't fix them, that knowledge is worthless. Both the problems with the shuttle that killed people were known problems. It's probably best to leave NASA out of this discussion, because they murder people.

Why?

Why?

You simply make bald assertions and then do not support them. How did you get up-modded for this? I must know your secret.

A dictionary is only a couple of clicks away. You're no longer doubting, but you did, or you wouldn't have asked for evidence, unless you're a superasshole.

Right, so therefore...

So did his. And yet it was abusive.

Applying rules inflexibly leads to abuse. That's not doing one's job, which in the case of a public figure is to serve the needs of the public.

Well, you haven't met me, but for some reason I wake up stupid early every day. This morning it was 2am. Yesterday it was 3. It doesn't really seem to correlate to when I go to bed, so I have to go to bed early. I went to bed at 8 last night. If I'd gone to bed at 11 I'd probably still have woken up at 2.

I guess I should take up baking. I'll have to move out of this little bumfuck town, however, which can barely keep one local bakery open four days a week.

OpenBSD's malloc implementation is noticeably slower than anyone else's. It is, however, more likely to make certain categories of memory management error crash the program (rather than leaving it in a state where an attacker might be able to exploit the bug). Unfortunately, most modern exploit techniques don't rely on the invariants that OpenBSD's malloc() breaks, so you end up paying the performance cost without getting much by way of security gain (unless your attacker is a script kiddie who is using 5-year-old scripts).

Amazing. You must live in NYC. Because in SF, you go to the station on a bus which is late, a train turns up eventually, and you get to work late.

it is completely horrible, but it's not very horrible. it only kills a few dozen people each year. that's not very high on the modern horrible scale. something has to kill a whole bunch of people before we give a half a shit.

They haven't 'embraced LLVM/Clang', they still ship GCC 4.2.1 or GCC 3.3.6 (depending on the architecture) and compile the base system with it. They ship LLVM/Clang as packages (ports).

it's the legal H1-Bs taking for jobs I used to have a shot at that I'm worried about. I don't plan on taking Pablo's place at the meatpacking plant, but I sorta had my eye on of of those cakewalk DB admin jobs that now go exclusively to H1-Bs.

Average household income in the US is $69,821. Google it. You pay $70k/yr in income tax? You're doing pretty well for yourself. Also your accountant sucks. That said, why the hell don't you stop asking why you pay so much in taxes and start asking why you're not getting anything for it? I got news for you, it's not Pablo's $20/mo free internet. Maybe it's all those swank tax shelters you aren't rich enough to qualify for?

I am in Queensland, Australia and having daylight saving would be a good thing. Firstly it would mean Sydney and Melbourne wouldn't be an hour ahead. And secondly it would mean more daylight in the evening (meaning less use of all forms of artificial lighting) and less daylight in the morning (so you dont get woken up by the 4am sunrise and then have to get back to sleep again like I was this morning)

It also means more time after work for people to swim in pools and beaches and engage in other outdoor activities.
And it means people aren't traveling in the dark so much when comming back from work or from those activities.

Yes it might cause issues with it being hotter at different times of the day than it is now but that's why Willis Carrier invented air conditioning :)

I've been an adult for decades, and I've never met anybody who is not a mother-in-law that regularly goes to bed at 9pm.

The earlier you go to bed, the *less* of a problem it is. But most people go to bed somewhere around midnight or a little before. Having the sun come up before 4:30am in much of the country would just be silly, IMO.

The Viking version was the sunstone, which was not much bigger than an old-fashioned pocket watch.

A dark satellite made from an ultrablack material or using a stealthy topology simply isn't going to be seen. By anyone.

Ion engines are slow, but they don't give off any tell-tale glare.

The southern hemisphere has very little in the way of monitoring - a satellite traversing any great circle other than equatorial will be difficult-to-impossible to track.

This is not a likely threat, on a scale from one to ten, the seriousness is sqrt(-1). Nonetheless, it's not zero.