With a core operating system in ROM, mounted as a system disk. Flash your new OS like a BIOS.

That'd stop a lot of this rootkit crap cold, wouldn't it?

Just ask this on Reddit. You'll get a hundred replies in one hour and won't have to wait two days for the Slashdot mods to get around to posting your question.

Just coordinate with the grocery stores. Half of them have delivery trucks already, I'm sure they'd love to have someone else handle all that for them, plus have a cut of someone else serving online orders. Why the fuck is this so hard?

The public at large has a goodwill, founded in the hope of the project's success. That goodwill results in donations to the project and passive political support for the SETI goal. This goodwill is being squandered on a project with (pardon the pun) astronomical odds of success, even by astronomical standards.

You are turning the public into cynics by doing 'something' just to say you're doing 'something', even if the both of us know and understand that there is no chance a SETI telescope can receive earth-type signals, and a next-to-zero chance an alien society will be spending time and energy beaming a signal directly at us.

And while my terawatt hyperbole is just that, I'm sure it's not terribly far off.

The likelihood of someone beaming a terawatt transmission purposefully in our direction, for years at a time, is effectively nil. If this is what SETI is hoping for, it's a complete waste of everyone's time.

Is this telescope even capable of detecting Earth-type leaky RF signals at such a great distance?

And if it's not, isn't this like cupping your ear and hoping to hear conversations in China?

Seems you haven't been on Slashdot for very long either. These sorts of baiting and trolling summaries are picked by the editors for a reason: to spur discussion (and troll for hits). You took the bait. Congratulations.

Right you are, sir.

Thanks for taking the time to grade my work :)

And while we're on this subject I just noticed the second 'quis' in section 2 should be a 'qui'.
Many eyes make bugs shallow, eh.