Oh, I think that they understood the concept very well. It's not exactly new; the Romans used it as did the Greeks in a few cases.

Get off my lawn, sonny.

(Thinks tattoos can be ugly or beautiful, just like the people wearing them.)

Here you go.

4-digit UID, just over 40, no tats but I've thought about it. I've never considered anything massive like a sleeve before because I don't think it'd look good on me, but I couldn't care less if other people have them.

Outside of Portland, what percentage of the population has full sleeve tattoos? 1 in 10,000, maybe? I'm not asking to be funny; except for in very certain cities, those are almost unseen. Even working in San Francisco I see very, very few. Oh, there are lots of smaller tattoos, but sleeves are unusual.

I'll bet more people are sensitive to the materials used to make the watch than are unable to use it because of their ink. That's not Apple's fault or a flaw in the watch, though: no one product can be useful to everyone.

While it is possible that someone might manage such a thing, I'd still find it insane.

You didn't really think I was serious, did you? I was just pointing out that if you're going to be foolish enough to build in a deadman switch, having it go off right after you leave is going to tell everybody exactly who's responsible. I won't say that I can't imagine anybody who reads /. would be stupid enough to do something like that, but I'd hope that if they were, they'd at least have enough sense to include a reasonable time delay.

Better yet is a deadman switch with a several month time delay. That way, disaster doesn't strike until you've been gone long enough that people won't connect you to it, even though you were responsible for the programs that are now giving them trouble.

Bruce, it is at vandenberg. The launch vehicle is already there, and has been tanked 1 already.
In addition, it is only using 3 engines, not all 9. As such, it is thought that it was a converted grasshopper.

The launch pad abort was supposed to have happened long ago, and then I had heard Feb, and then april and now a NET of May 5th.

As to the delays, yeah, most, if not all, was caused by spaceX focusing on getting their launch rate way up, along with the 2 failed landings. But, in light of NASA's dicking around with SpaceX and giving preference to Boeing to the point that SpaceX can not go to the ISS until Boeing has done so, you really can not blame them.
I will say that if Soyuz fails (sad thought since that implies loss of life), then SpaceX's dragon 2 will no doubt be moved up in priority since it is by far the closest.

Progress is a variant of soyuz and soyuz is human rated. So this failure on progress raises concerns for soyuz.

The same would be true if spacex had a significant failure on one of the cargo dragon flights or indeed on any falcon 9 launch.

The maxq test is supposed to be June 7th.

In fact, as musk says that if we do not lose somebody, it means we are not pushing enough.

I would have to say that spacex is already manned quality. Even their F9 was designed with numerous sensors and the ability to shut down an engine or more while completing the mission. All that remains is PROVING dragon's ability to abort.

Round power connectors are crap. The jacks stretch and stop making proper contact in no time. Apple used to use them back in the PowerBook days, and on the PB 145, I broke at least three cables and at least two or three jacks on the back of the device over the course of three or four years.

What in the everloving god do you DO to your laptops? I just polled the guys around me and in a collective 30 years spanning thousands and thousands of machines we came up with TWO machines that needed repair due to power port problems.

Opposite direction.