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Comment The Apple Watch is replacing the Home Button (Score 0, Offtopic) 55

I heard that in order to bring us larger screens, thinner phones and battery life, Apple is removing the Home Button from the iPhone 8 and using the Apple Watch as it's replacement. They did something like this last year, but with the headphone jack and did not offer a replacement.

Comment I'd pay $20/month for all their movies (Score 1) 274

Netflix has tons of DVD movies that should be copied to a SAN and made available to us viewers. I'd gladly pay $20 a month to access nearly every movie and TV show ever made. I'm not really interested in going to a physical theater to watch a movie. My home set up is quite nice and features a pause button for bio-breaks.

Comment Applying now (Score 1) 164

Job sounds extremely awesome: https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob...

Job Overview

Summary

About the Agency

This position is assigned to Office of Safety and Mission Assurance for Planetary Protection. Planetary protection is concerned with the avoidance of organic-constituent and biological contamination in human and robotic space exploration. NASA maintains policies for planetary protection applicable to all space flight missions that may intentionally or unintentionally carry Earth organisms and organic constituents to the planets or other solar system bodies, and any mission employing spacecraft, which are ntended to return to Earth and its biosphere with samples from extraterrestrial targets of exploration. This policy is based on federal requirements and international treaties and agreements.

Current Agency policy requires the SL appointments be time-limited. The initial appointment will be for 3 years, with the possibility of extending for an additional 2 years. The selectee for this position will receive a temporary promotion. Employee will then return to a grade level no lower than the grade previously held at the home center. This temporary promotion may be converted to permanent without further competition.

Duties
The Planetary Protection Officer (PPO) is responsible for the leadership of NASA's planetary protection capability, maintenance of planetary protection policies, and oversight of their implementation by NASAs space flight missions. The PPO also supports the Safety and Mission Assurance (SMA) Technical Authority and serves as a principal advisory resource for the Chief, SMA and other senior officials on matters pertaining to planetary protection. The PPO is the Agency's focal point for interactions with external organizations on matters related to planetary protection. Primarily the Planetary Protection Officer performs the following:

Leads planning and coordination of activities related to NASA mission planetary protection needs.

Leads independent evaluation of, and provides advice regarding, compliance by robotic and human spaceflight missions with NASA planetary protection policies, statutory requirements and international obligations.

Advises the Chief, SMA and other officials regarding the merit and implications of programmatic decisions involving risks to planetary protection objectives.

In coordination with relevant offices, leads interactions with COSPAR, National Academies, and advisory committees on planetary protection matters.

Recommends and leads the preparation of new or revised NASA standards and directives in accordance with established processes and guidelines.

Supervisory Status
No

Promotion Potential
00

Comment Re:Yes (Score 1) 551

Windows 7 was Microsoft's peak OS. I don't understand why they don't release an official skin for Windows 10 called Windows 7 Classic. They can keep all their spyware and telemetry software hidden underneath if they absolutely insist. For now I use Classic Shell to keep my Windows 10 box somewhat usable. P.S. - Is there any way we can blame Millennials for the design of Windows 10?

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