Almost certainly the case on three grounds.

(1) Getting a serious fusion effort off the ground is fabulously expensive. Even if you have some kind of whizbang micro-reactor concept you need a small army of physicists, engineers and highly skilled fabricators. People who don't come cheap.

(2) Running out of cash is what most startups do.

(3) They probably didn't have as much cash as "everyone knows they have", for the simple reason that the best way to convince someone to give you the mountain of cash you need is to make them thing you've as good as got it from someone else.

From TFA "Tri Alpha’s 23-meter-long device..."
Won't fit into my car damn it.

I told ya you should have got the hatchback.

When the question instead became, "we're going to put things into space for $50M - how are we going to do that?" a whole new engineering methodology unfolded.

If NASA never existed, do you think there would be any private space exploration today, much less "putting something in space for $50M"? You think there would have been nuclear energy in the 20th century without a Manhattan Project?

It's easy for a company to pretend they hit a home run when they start the inning on third base.

That's on my list of things to do for my Audi. Apparently the system has support for fobs, and I have instructions for coding them, but I don't actually have any fobs. So I have to go through the same process. It's an old car though, so it wasn't expensive either... just leaky.

The mechanics I've talked to say pretty much all the 4.2 liter Audis they've seen have been leaky... story of my life with bored-out versions. The 7.3 Ford is the same way.

I want my money back, Slashdot!

Powershell's approach is more verbose, but it's also a little more readable

I beg to differ. I really, really beg to differ.

long.verbose.commands.that.grab.objects.are.impossible.to.read.

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BMO

For that matter, another good parallel between the Paul family and fascism is in the wikipedia entry on Benito Moussolini:

Going on...

What, when the polyfuses on their motherboard flip and they don't get to use their USB ports for a while? I have yet to have smoke come out of anything I brought home except when I deserved it, putting way too much power into some speakers once.

Rand Paul made just enough noise to make it seem like something good was happening, and disappears into the Sunday morning talk shows.

Meanwhile, the handful of legislators who have been working to oppose the Patriot Act are left dangling by that skeevy SOB.

All those slashdotters who were going all RAND JESUS! should take this as a lesson. The man is a shit-sodden self-promoter. He gives absolutely no fucks about what powers the NSA has. He's just desperate to get the BitCoin vote. Maybe score some contributors off the Silk Road customers.

Here is the full list of House members who voted against the Patriot Act

Democratic Caucus:

Tammy Baldwin (WI-02) Thomas Barrett (WI-05) Earl Blumenauer (OR-03) David Bonior (MI-10) Rick Boucher (VA-09) Sherrod Brown (OH-13) Mike Capuano (MA-08) Eva Clayton (NC-01) John Conyers (MI-14) William Coyne (PA-14) Elijah Cummings (MD-07) Danny Davis (IL-07) Pete DeFazio (OR-04) Diana DeGette (CO-01) John Dingell (MI-16) Sam Farr (CA-17) Bob Filner (CA-50) Barney Frank (MA-04) Alcee Hastings (FL-23) Earl Hilliard (AL-07) Mike Honda (CA-15) Jesse Jackson (IL-02) Sheila Jackson-Lee (TX-18) Eddie Johnson (TX-30) Stephanie Jones (OH-11) Dennis Kucinich (OH-10) Barbara Lee (CA-09) John Lewis (GA-05) Jim McDermott (WA-07) James McGovern (MA-03) Cynthia McKinney (GA-04) Carrie Meek (FL-17) George Miller (CA-07) Patsy Mink (HI-02) Allan Mollohan (WV-01) Jerry Nadler (NY-08) James Oberstar (MN-08) David Obey (WI-07) John Olver (MA-01) Major Owens (NY-11) Ed Pastor (AZ-02) Donald Payne (NJ-10)
Collin Peterson (MN-07) Nick Rahall (WV-03) Lynn Rivers (MI-13) Bobby Rush (IL-01) Martin Sabo (MN-05) Loretta Sanchez (CA-46) Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
Jan Schakowsky (IL-09) Bobby Scott (VA-03) Jose Serrano (NY-16) Pete Stark (CA-13) Bennie Thompson (MS-02) John Tierney (MA-06) Mark Udall (CO-02)
Tom Udall (NM-03) Nydia Velazquez (NY-12) Peter Visclosky (IN-01) Maxine Waters (CA-35) Diane Watson (CA-32) Mel Watt (NC-12) Lynn Woolsey (CA-06)
David Wu (OR-01)

Republicans
Bob Ney (OH-18) Butch Otter (ID-01) Ron Paul (TX-14)

Here is the full list of Senators who voted against the Patriot Act:

Democratic Caucus

Russ Feingold (D-WI)

Only one person voted against the Patriot Act as a congressman AND as a senator, and that's Independant Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.

Did you at least laugh right in their face?

This doesn't compete with PuTTY, probably: odds are it will be a console-mode ssh binary just like what cygwin users have already but without a dependency on cygwin, and a server just like what cygwin users have already but with NT auth (incl. AD) rather than /etc/passwd authentication which maps to local SIDs. PuTTY does have a command-line client, but nobody is paying for that. They're paying (if they pay at all) for the interface.

buh?

windows$ ps -aef
    UID PID PPID TTY STIME COMMAND
cyg_serv 2588 1 ? May 29 /usr/bin/cygrunsrv
cyg_serv 2672 2588 ? May 29 /usr/sbin/sshd
cyg_serv 7016 2672 ? 18:46:49 /usr/sbin/sshd
  user 8108 7016 pty0 18:46:52 /usr/bin/bash
  user 6536 8108 pty0 18:46:58 /usr/bin/ps
 
debian$ ps -aef | egrep '(sshd|bash)'
root 13792 1 0 Apr24 ? 00:00:06 /usr/sbin/sshd
root 19995 13792 0 18:48 ? 00:00:00 sshd: user [priv]
user 19997 19995 0 18:48 ? 00:00:00 sshd: user@pts/0
user 19998 19997 0 18:48 pts/0 00:00:00 -bash
user 20131 19998 0 18:50 pts/0 00:00:00 egrep (sshd|bash)

So uh, what's the difference? Looks like all cygwin is missing is proper authentication. AFAIK it maps UIDs to SIDs, but yes, is missing AD support.

I've been doing that for so long I've actually given Chameleon money (for Xoftware.) No, wait. Except the last time I actually wanted to do it was years ago, because it's been years since I had any Unix-specific machines. Now it's just PC Unix. I just threw away my last Unix machines, a POWER1 and an Indy R4400SC@200MHz. It wasn't worth dusting them off.

Uh what? I use it all the time between Windows and Unix, Windows and Android... it works fine. If there are any problems, they are abstracted away by the client and/or server and I don't notice them at all.

Almost. They need SSH compatibility to be managed by Linux boxes, yet with proper NT authentication instead of the band-aid which is Cygwin.