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Comment Re:SpaceX (Score 1) 73

http://www.spacex.com/falcon9
500 tons of rocket.
Let's say it's all fuel (90%+ is).

It's RP1/LOX.
You need 2.5:1 liquid oxygen to RP1.

1980s NASA was paying $.08/kg for LOX. Let's say $.20 now.
And $.20 per kg for RP1 - at most 100% over spot oil price.
$1/kg is reasonable.

Making the average cost per launch for 150 tons of RP1 and 350 tons of LOX about $150K+$70K = $220K.
The quoted price is $56M - or the fuel cost is under half a percent.

Comment And in some cases, you get to do this. (Score -1) 177

If I own the device, and the network, then this sort of action may in fact be legally required in some cases.
It's certainly often permitted - if the user is explicitly informed first, and they do not own in any manner the device.

(I am not referring to contract phones, but to employer provided devices)

Comment You don't have to have google apps in your droid. (Score 4, Informative) 163

http://www.jolla.com/ - for example - is one example of a vendor selling a phone that can run android apps - on top of 'normal' linux - without preinstalling the normal google play market. (because they can't - as what they are doing in making the linux side more open means it's not vanilla android anymore)

Comment And importantly is your code standards compliant? (Score 4, Informative) 148

Though the code behaves differently with, and without optimisation, and does not work on the new compiler whereas it did on the old,
this does not mean it is a bug in the compiler.

GCC, Clang, acc, armcc, icc, msvc, open64, pathcc, suncc, ti, windriver, xlc all do varying optimisations that vary across version, and
that rely on exact compliance with the C standard. If your code is violating this standard, it risks breaking on upgrade.

http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/10/29/2150211/how-your-compiler-can-compromise-application-security
http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~xi/papers/stack-sosp13.pdf
Click on the PDF, and scroll to page 4 for a nice table of optimisations vs compiler and optimisation level.

_All_ modern compilers do this as part of optimisation.

GCC 4.2.1 for example, with -o0 (least optimisation) will eliminate if(p+100p)

This doesn't on first glance seem insane code to check if a buffer will overflow if you put some data into it. However the C standard says that an overflowed
  pointer is undefined, and this means the compiler is free to assume that it never occurs, and it can safely omit the result of the test.

Comment Re:Really??? (Score 1) 266

Fraud - as defined in those numbers - is not 'We assessed this person, and had enough proof to criminally convict them'.
It is 'on the balance of probabilities' the person intentionally mislead on their application, and we have stopped their benefit, and they have failed to prove we are wrong'.
Even if you assume that 'claimant error' was 100% malicious,- you still only get to about 1.5%.

The 30% figure is due to:
People getting better (people did not stay on IB forever and some will improve around their assessment for ESA).
Significant changes in the criteria.

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