I think they mean "the sun is too close [a star] for its optics [to handle the light intensity]"

I think they meant "the sun is too close [a star] for its optics [to handle the light intensity]"

FYI they belly-flopped the plane, the nose was actually pointing up the whole time they were falling.

Wait, you were in an office not lit with horrible fluorescent strip lighting?

I still can't decipher where exactly this malware is on OSX, I suppose it's just sitting harmlessly in the browser's cache?

As another comparison an average grain of salt contains around 1.2x10^18 atoms verses this simulation's 5.5x10^11 particles. (source)

Or even the more catchy "Feds shut down Tor-based narcotics store"

They keep the air pressure in ISS higher than they do on an airliner. Pressure in ISS is equivalent to sea level pressure while an airliner is only pressurised to the equivalent of 8,000 ft.

I can't think of any reason to do this (other than an elaborate April fools), to make these servers available to the internet they will need to either connect to ground infrastructure somewhere directly or rely on a wireless service provider (cellular or satellite).

If they're relying on a wireless internet provider they could just shut access to the servers off, if it's connected to ground infrastructure (which would of course need to go through 3rd party internet providers as well) then access can just be cut off from there instead. They may as well, if using miniature low cost servers, just create small self powered self contained servers that can be hidden at multiple locations.

Or, are they suggested that to access The Pirate Bay you will now need your own dish antenna to contact the server drones directly? :)

The Amiga never had a big FOSS scene, it was always much more centred around small time commercial and indie devs, with little open source and virtually no first party support. Who would have open sourced Amiga OS? Commodore? The people who paid for the IP after Commodore went bust? Not really sure what use the source would be anyway as it was very tied to the hardware architecture.

Most FOSS enthusiasts were on other platforms or started their own (Aros etc.), if someone had wanted a free TCP stack on Amiga they would have written it but it just wasn't that scene so indie devs stepped in with shareware stacks. (btw Amiga OS has come with a full TCP stack since 3.9).

Accusing indie devs of profiteering and gouging would be like accusing Notch of gouging for not releasing Minecraft as free open source, it's their work and if people want to pay for it they will.

The current Amiga scene is probably still the same, hence most Amiga devs feeling more protective over there work than FOSS enthusiasts, especially with paid bounties for Amiga ports of apps like Firefox. You can't criticise the Amiga scene for not being something it never was.

At that point the Amiga user base was so small it's lucky there were usable stacks at all, no way a 3rd party company could make money releasing a free stack and not enough free software enthusiasts to release a decent free stack.

At release Netscape was only supposed to be free for education and charity users, but yeah reading some more about it sounds like they were pretty loose with it. Again compared to Amiga's tiny tiny user base how would a commercial software company make anything free for non-commercial developing for Amiga given there were pretty much zero commercial users at that point?

Yeah everyone was pretty desperate to keep the platform alive, including the few commercial and shareware devs left. If there were no commercial devs would anyone have released a TCP stack etc for free?

What rubbish, you could get a complete suite for about £60-80, not free but hardly gouging. Big items like TCP stack and Browser were always commercial, but there were plenty of usable free and bundled apps for everything else. Maybe if you bought literally every shareware internet tool available you might get up to the cost of a decent PC...

Without those commercial devs where would that software have come from? Microsoft could release free stuff because they already had a huge revenue stream (plus they wanted to undermine competition), Windows developers could release free for personal use stuff because the rest of the market was huge. Linux got a lot of free software because it had a huge free software enthusiast userbase.

Well duh, that's true of every single limited demo for no-longer available software. Authors could have released free version as abandonware but there's nothing to say they have to. Maybe now we have a huge FOSS scene we're feeling a bit entitled to free software in our old ages?

If they want to protect their little pet project they're within their rights to under the Mozilla license, they're still releasing it for free (beer).

I hope you also read through the entire source code. And compiled the compiler you used. And hand assembled the compiler you compiled the compiler with :)

Of course it's fast, programs are virtually running on the bare metal with minimal OS features/interference to slow things down.

Fun to mess around with but these days hardware has caught up with features expected of a modern (complex) OS.

At time time (due to Commodore's bankruptcy) there was no first party networking stack, browser etc. so all these had to be provided by third parties, hence most of these things being commercial or shareware. Don't you remember when you had to pay for Netscape or IE on PC? And the big fuss everyone made of Microsoft bundling their browser with Windows?

Intelligent design was NOT brought to us by cavemen, it is a very modern invention.

Cavemen brought us creationism, which is perfectly understandable given their lack of access to modern science. Intelligent design is a modern (1960s) attempt to prove creationism using false science.

One is a reasonable assumption based on the limited knowledge of the time, the other is a dangerous perversion of science to suit political ends.