Incorrect. You must be new here, for that is exactly very the reason all topics raise the noise level on Slashdot.

Not only incorrect on all counts, you obviously just made up everything you just claimed. The scrutiny of the transmission supports Armstrong's claims:

"The 'a' was intended," Armstrong said. "I thought I said it. I can't hear it when I listen on the radio reception here on Earth, so I'll be happy if you just put it in parentheses."

Although no one in the world heard the "'a," some research backs Armstrong.

In 2006, a computer analysis found evidence that Armstrong said what he said he said.

Peter Shann Ford, an Australian computer programmer, ran a software analysis looking at sound waves and found a wave that would have been the missing "a." It lasted 35 milliseconds, much too quick to be heard. The Smithsonian's space curator, Roger Launius, looked at the evidence and found it convincing.

NASA has also stood by its moon man.

"If Neil Armstrong says there was an 'a,' then as far as we're concerned, there was 'a,'" NASA spokesman Michael Cabbage said shortly before the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission.

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You deserve to be punched in the face by Buzz Aldrin.

There were twelve.
Neil Armstrong - Apollo 11 - July, 1969
Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin - Apollo 11 - July, 1969
Charles "Pete" Conrad - Apollo 12 - November, 1969
Alan Bean - Apollo 12 - November, 1969
Alan Shepard - Apollo 14 - February, 1971
Edgar Mitchell - Apollo 14 - February, 1971
David Scott - Apollo 15 - July, 1971
James Irwin - Apollo 15 - July, 1971
John Young - Apollo 16 - April, 1972 (also on Apollo 10, without landing)
Charles Duke - Apollo 16 - April, 1972
Eugene Cernan - Apollo 17 - December, 1972 (also on Apollo 10, without landing)
Harrison Schmitt - Apollo 17 - December, 1972

It does. Have you known many successful athletes? The best have what is called "heart" in pushing their bodies past the point of physical and mental exhaustion, but their competitive nature goes far beyond sport to social interaction. They compete at everything with everyone with an almost fanatical desire to win at everything, to be the best and be recognized as the best. They have an extreme level of self-confidence sometimes to the point of narcissism and beyond. However, any human can be broken. Sport is not for driving the individual until they die of exhaustion... all sport has rest and recovery period. The investigation of this agency and the scrutiny with which they drive at their prejudged goals has no rest period. It's possible he was simply beaten, financially, socially, emotionally and mentally, to the breaking point where he has given up.... doesn't seem likely but it is absolutely possible he made his decision to stop fighting the way prey will stop the pursuit of wolves by laying down and accepting their inevitable fate.

How strong did bitcoin get before investors dumped their bitcoins and developed a rumor to eliminate buying confidence and dramatically reduce the bitcoin value against the dollar? What was the bitcoin exchange rate trend before the story broke, and what is it now?

I don't think that bitcoin development is a bad idea on its face (anonymous money), and I don't see any pyramid scam, but without regulation or oversight, the bitcoin market is ripe for manipulation with impunity.

Poor comparison. For the metaphor to make sense, you'd have to be a gas reseller. Let's say the large oil companies came out with a new product. In order to force the gas stations to sell it, all they'd need do is raise the prices of the standard products slightly, unless the gas station agrees to sell some amount of the new product. If the station hits that nut, the standard products get 'discounted' down to the normal, regular prices. Otherwise, if the station doesn't agree to sell the new product or doesn't sell enough, they're paying premium prices on the standard products and forced to raise their retail prices slightly, causing customers to get gas elsewhere to save a dime.

Patients generally aren't doctor-shopping (unless they're already addicts). Pharmaceutical companies offer inventives to doctors/hospitals using similar tactics. A good case-study of what the GP seems to be talking about is OxyContin. This is a relatively new drug formulation that could have been a miracle drug in specific instances of chronic pain or terminal patients, but Big Pharm pushed this pain-killer in a huge way for years under the FDA's radar, giving doctors incentives to overprescribe, and within a few short years on the market we have pregnant women robbing pharmacies to get at it. Big Pharm and the physicians they manipulated effectively created a new narcotic drug epidemic and were successful in massively boosting sales and profits on a drug formulation that initially had a limited application. Subsequently, the drug has been again reformulated, hopefully in a way that is a disincentive for abuse, but new stories are now coming out that its been replaced on the street with a different new drug, a time-release pill formulation of synthetic morphine... once again, a formulation that is completely unnecessary with questionable benefits to legitimate patients and is already proving to have an enourmous abuse vector. But Big Pharm needed a new synthetic morphine because the old synthetic morphine's patent had expired, which reminds us of why they needed synthetic morphine in the first place, because formulations of regular old morphine (which still works just fine and is regarded as a gold standard of severe pain relief) predate the drug patent system by a century.

Once you're hooked to a strong narcotic, no one needs to put a gun to your head for the body to want the drug. It changes the chemistry of your brain forever and the craving for it never goes away.

The Space Shuttles TPS tiles are some amazing material... though even they are only spec'ed to maybe 1500C, but what is facinating about them, to me, is that they don't hold heat. They can be seared to 1200C and seconds later will be cool. So maybe a system that uses this technology combined with an extra liquid-based fast heat-removal system?

What material can withstand 100,000C ??? How do we test that?

Not as cut and dry as we'd initially expect... technically, Google and Apple are not really competing. Apple is a hardware company, and Google is a web technolgies company... but actually, and by the vast majority, Google's revenue stream comes from advertising, while Apple's comes from, again, hardware. Apple doesn't license iOS, and Google gives Android away... so the competition between the two companies is not so obvious. With Motorola mobile in the mix, it appears it might be different but it is not... Apple could have bought Motorola with no problem, as there are countless other mobile competitors. In the same way Microsoft has many times purchased companies simply to kill a single competitor, Apple could do the same, so long as there is plenty of other competition in the market, and there is that. Slashdot commenters seem to forget, Android is not a company, nor is it a typical 'product.' It is Apache licensed open source software. Again, in the same way Oracle purchased Sun and killed Open Solaris (and, effectively, Solaris), Apple could do the same to Google and Android. However, as Android is OSS, it could fork and Apple would have no control over that even if they did purchase Google... the same way Oracle has no control over nor can Solaris benefit from illumOS or projects based on the forks of Open Solaris.

wow... how did you... how did... you... prognosticate... the next frontpage slashdot summary??!!

Didn't mean to sound argumentative... was more exuberant. Flash, however, was never needed for what it was used for 99% of the time. Another thread mentioned Black and Tans... so I thought of a terrible metaphor. Flash is like Harp... a decent pale lager, but it becomes exceptional when mixed properly, wrapped, as it were, around Guinness ... which unfortunately for this metaphor can only be vector animation or a web game. So... Adobe says "Hey! What's good for Guiness is good for EVERYTHING! Mix it with your gin! It's a better vermouth! Mix it with your whiskey, it's a better sour!" Trouble is, Harp doesn't mix that well with anything but Guinness, no matter what the bartender says. And eventually, people will start hating Harp... because its just awful when it's used improperly, and unless it's by itself or with Guinness, it's being used improperly. Flash was never intended to be a video wrapper... that was just something that it could do but only did well during the very earliest part of the last decade under special circumstances, before bandwidth was taken for granted. Adobe kept leveraging it for video, however, long after it was reasonable to do so. Eventually, everyone hates Flash and forgets that its actually a decent app platform and wonderful for vector animation. Had Adobe stepped back off pushing it as a video wrapper, for which it is terrible for the extra processing overhead, and left it to find it's true usefulness, perhaps most web users wouldn't despise it.

Right. So exactly why do we need Flash for web video? We don't. It's superfluous. Now it's gone from mobile, we just need to clear it off the rest of the internets.

you do realize that Geohot wasn't slaving away at jailbreaking the PS3 for 5 years, right? Likely it took him less than 5 weeks, if not 5 days.