I couldn't get some of the 2.8s to work properly, so I'm still running 2.73 with the Ogg Vorbis plugin from later versions. And I hate players that try to organize my music, too.

Branson's craft can get up to LEO at best, right? And there was much rejoicing. Yay. Yay. Meanwhile, Bezos is actually building a serious spacecraft. Branson might beat Bezos to space, but if he wants out of LEO, he'll need to pay for a seat on someone else's craft.

Back in undergrad one of my friends was an assistant in Bio 101, so he got keys to the building. We'd go in at 2300 or so, fire up the projector and screen, hook up a GameCube to it, and play Super Smash Bros. on a screen easily ten feet by ten feet. It was fantastic. Even though they'd usually turn the heat down to about 50f, we'd bring blankets and keep playing.

Thank you! I was wondering how this could possibly scale, and I guess the answer is "It can't." I guess the only real question is whether this can be made efficient enough to compete with Rocket Lab or other smallsat launchers.

Same here. I got furious with my government when I learned of that. Don't get me wrong; I hated OBL, but I'd much rather live in a world without polio than a world without him. And there's no excuse for putting aid workers in danger.

Employees of a rival (for some value of the term) company were voluntarily posting their personal data all over Facebook, probably including comments about their workplace, and Facebook shut them down?

It's only academic till you run the numbers on what would have happened to their yard if a satellite large enough to survive reentry had crashed into it. Then they're going to be very, very glad it only came down from 65,000 feet.

At this point, the logical (and possibly only remaining) next step is for systemd to incorporate an e-mail client.

Whenever I WebEx, I always make sure to share only the application, not everything that appears on the monitor. This occasionally slows me down switching from application to application, but I always know precisely what other people are going to be seeing on their screens.

This comic is a dispatch from the future of this city.

I've heard Pashtun culture is like that, too. I wonder how people learn they're supposed to ask and respond like that.

It's not that I'm not into it, though. With a lot of these people, I'm happy to stop for a moment and find out how they're doing, and I thought the feeling was mutual.

I'll give it a try and see what happens. Should be fun.

I'm going to try that on someone who looks distracted sometime. I'll bet it will work.