Break the problem down into parts. Carefully consider contingencies. Get creative - sleep on it. Think about it in the shower. What bullshit will crop up as I work on this project?

Using all your experience as to how long similar components took to implement in the past, plus how much longer it would have taken if worst case nuclear godzilla attack had occurred, compute time estimates for each component.

Add all the time estimates together.

Multiply by the Planck constant in Joule seconds / (pi^3 / e^2) * 10^34... approximately 1.58. It has something to do with brane theory and the double slit experiment. Trust me.

Indeed. Furthermore, how many trillions has the US spent supporting a government in Afghanistan that is no less hated and corrupt than the Republic of South Vietnam was? A government that will last just as long without US support?

And yet, these cretins worry over things costing less than a thousandth the cost. Keep cutting discretionary spending and keep stealing from social security to cut taxes on the rich, US, and you'll be just like Russia in no time. Minus the natural resources. We Norwegians hoped Obama might get you back on track, but you guys apparently resent it, and it is ultimately your right to decline and deteriorate if you want.

FYI, unemployment for graduates with engineering degrees is less than 1% here, and immigration into Norway is easy for skilled workers. Send your useful people to Norway and let the rest finally have things as they please. You deserve better, and the idiots just plain deserve it.

It's not so unlikely: "The company [Tesla Motors] announced in early August 2009 that it had achieved overall corporate profitability for the month of July 2009.[51] The company said it earned approximately US$1 million on revenue of US$20 million. Profitability arose primarily from improved gross margin on the 2010 Roadster, the second iteration of Teslaâ(TM)s award-winning sports car. Tesla, which like all automakers records revenue when products are delivered, shipped a record 109 vehicles in July and reported a surge in new Roadster purchases."

Wikipedia lists their 2012 revenue as -251m, presumably because Tesla Motors is making heavy capital investment in production. They've been profitable before, and their investors apparently think they will be again.

It's worth noting that the already established and highly profitable oil companies take billions of incentives from your government every year. Evidently, they just love giving money to industrialists of every stripe. And banks, of course.

Advancing new basic technology with great strategic potential for reducing US dependency and therefore entanglement in the middle east is an excellent idea. Perhaps Fiskers was a poor choice - but doing nothing until after oil hits $500 a barrel would be far worse.

They'll never get to that point. Less aide means more people starve until only Kim Jong Un remains - in a bunker, watching Tom & Jerry. Going to war means the game is up and Kim Jong Un has to find another line of work. He will never pull the trigger.

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Get an account, moron.

Adding an IP address to their whitelist is no easy thing. You see, they hire only blind, deaf quadriplegics, so each octet is entered in binary through a mouth open/close morse code interface. But that's only after your request makes it through the queue to be read through tactile forehead tapping tty... Perfectly understandable that these folks detest spam, isn't it?

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Windows registry keys? How would changing Windows registry keys mitigate a flood DDOS that saturates your provider's inbound bandwidth?

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A headless windows server doesn't need a fancy graphics card... but neither does a headless linux server.

If you invest in accessories for the new connector, you'll be less inclined to buy a non-Apple phone.

Perhaps their connector has additional pins for HDMI, but they could have placed a real HDMI connector beside the USB connector for easy docking. Alternately, they could sell a dongle to pipe HDMI video out from USB2 as other manufacturers already do.

But then they couldn't lock their customers in and charge exorbitant licensing fees for their connector.

A Maze of Stars by John Brunner was a bit depressing, although quite good, when I read it. Which, even more depressingly, was 16 years ago...

You can't even get surface tablets yet. Why would you want to attack them? And why would you need help from Microsoft? I think a pocket knife or a pair of scissors would do the job. Those surface mock-ups didn't look very robust.

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By telling us his method, he lost the advantage of his method vs just using AES. IE, if we don't know how he generates the stream against which his data is XORed, that stream might as well be a one time pad. But now that he told us, the problem is reduced to brute forcing the initial stream generator parameters.