The cost of one crash where they were judged negligent could bankrupt just about any airline, so there is more to this than the cost of salaries.

That means that this is an attempt to generate a fake Benghazi type scandal.

Let us know when a responsible person comes to the same conclusion.

Speaking to reporters last week, FCC chairman Ajit Pai hinted that the agency would likely honor those astroturfed comments, nonetheless.

Why not? He presumably paid good money for them.

All of the memory is non-volatile.

it could require a whole new kind of software.

I asked the technical lead Kirk Bresniker (chief architect at Hewlett Packard Labs) about this exact thing at the launch yesterday, and he said no, that you should be able to use conventional software (I specifically asked about Python), with the speed-up occuring under the hood.

I am not entirely convinced that it will be that easy...

Nature has no preferences.

I don't think Mr. Taplin knows what a natural monopoly is.

Note: It is not a market share gained through the neglect of anti-trust.

Not to mention that the Plutonium-238 used in RTGs is not fissile and produces only alpha particles, and thus can never go critical.

Beneath. Between the lowest ring and the upper atmosphere of Saturn.

Yes, the gaps are cleared by resonances with the moons, and this finding does not change that at all. Cassini was going beneath the rings, between the D ring and the upper atmosphere of Saturn, and the general feeling was that there would be a constant stream of ring material ("dust," although really it would be small ice particles) going down from the rings to burn up in Saturn's atmosphere. Now, it seems that isn't so, and I am sure some theorists are working on papers to explain why even as we discuss it here.

That is exactly what this means, and that will mean better pictures and data from the ring plane passages.

They were very worried about dust and ice fragments between the rings and Saturn itself before they went inside the rings*, which is why they used the Cassini radio antenna as a shield during the first two ring plane passages. Now that they have found that there is not much dust there, they won't have to do that**, which will free the spacecraft to take better pictures and collect better data.

As for the rest, Cassini entered orbit around Saturn on July 1, 2004. If it hasn't been struck so far, it will probably be OK for the rest of the mission.

* There was talk about doing this with Pioneer 11 in 1979, but in the end it was viewed as too dangerous.
** There will be 4 passes near the D ring for which the antenna will be used as a shield again.

Cassini did not find any material beneath the rings of Saturn - that is, between the lowest ring, the D ring, and the atmosphere of Saturn. I don't know why headline writers have been getting this so consistently wrong.

Airbnb Fires Back, Accuses Hotel Industry Of Punishing the Middle-Class.

A Silicon Valley firm funded by Sequoia Capital accuses a brick and mortar industry of punishing the middle class. Let's hope they don't try and expand into stand up comedy.

The one I looked had gave the airline the right to deny boarding. Once you have taken your seat, you have boarded. Being removed (in plain English, if not at law) is not being denied boarding.

IANAL, and this is certainly not legal advice.