100,000 deaths at this stage would be a phenomenally good job. The problem is that in the past 24 hours he's made statements and taken actions that will make that number damn near impossible. This will drag on, much longer than needed, because this government (amongst others) has dragged their feet.

A quote I saw from a school trustee here in Canada when they shut down schools:

Guess which side we seem to be tracking towards?

You seem..oddly prepared to shit all over the CBC for things completely unrelated to the present thread.

Fixed for you, copyright trolls.

Calling Studio Ghibli content anime is like calling Pixar content cartoons. While technically correct, it's not exactly a fair comparison and at least subtly degrading to the quality being discussed.

This "thing" is pure 100% pork, designed to feed industries that were built to supply the shuttle that would otherwise shut down. This is corporate welfare, pure and simple.

There were programs that were running to replace the shuttle while it was still in service. They were all cut, until sufficient pork was reintroduced, and now we have this pile of flaming shit designed to supply corporations in cost-plus contracts, where they're guaranteed profit, and cost overruns are borne entirely by the taxpayers.

If it flies at all, it will be the most expensive orbital rocket ever designed.

I generally give a huge amount of leeway to Slashdot to define "stuff that matters" and "news for nerds" even if I don't care about the topic... but this? Executive changes in a retail company I've never heard of?

Don't know why this is marked troll - it's a very valid point.

Someone 44 would have turned 18 around 1995... or, they would have been a teen when computers in homes started to become common. Of course there's a huge age split difference. Prior to the 90s, computing was inaccessible to the large majority of the population.

I'm 38, and when I was in highschool, there were "computer" courses on touch typing. The large majority of the population couldn't type- it was an actual, marketable skill. Typing. Now the average 10 year old can type 50wpm. Of course the workforce is skewed to those under 44.

This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock, powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the US Department of Energy. I then took a shower in the clean water provided by the municipal water utility. After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC regulated television channels to see what the National Weather Service and National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration determined the weather was going to be like using satellites designed, built, and launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. I watched this while eating my breakfast of US Department of Agriculture inspected food and taking prescription medications which have been determined as safe by the US Food and Drug Administration.

At the appropriate time, as regulated by the US Congress and kept accurate by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the US Naval Observatory, I get into my National Highway Traffic Safety Administration approved automobile. I set out to work on the roads built by local, state, and federal departments of transportation, sometimes stopping to purchase additional fuel of a quality determined by the Environmental Protection Agency. I pay for that fuel using legal tender issued by the Federal Reserve. While at the gas station, I deposit any mail I have to be sent into the mailbox, to be delivered by the US postal service. I then drop off my children at the public school where they will be provided an education curriculum of a standard defined by local and state governments.

After work, I drive my NHTSA car back on DOT roads to my home, which has not burned down or been burglarized in my absence thanks, in part, to local and state building codes, municipal inspections agencies, and local fire and police departments.

I then log on to the internet, developed by the Defense Advance Research Projects Administration and post on slashdot thread about how democratic socialism is the same as marxism.

Apologies to the original, unknown author

By actually contributing or partnering with the companies that build open source software, and not just taking it all - lightly forking, rebranding, and selling a hosted version of the same software.

The issue is pretty straightforward- these companies believe Open Source is the Right Way to do software, but at the end of the day they have bills to pay, engineerings to employ, and revenue to generate that allows them to do all of those things. Amazon doesn't build competing products and sell them, they take the same product and compete head to head. Without either major open source contributions back, or some type of revenue sharing deal. These companies built and matured the product to a certain extent before Amazon picks them up.

Yes, it's a risk of the Open Source model. That's why you're seeing companies throw up their hands and say "yeah, we can't do it this way anymore, the big guys aren't acting in good faith with the Open Source model".

So this is a logical result. Amazon should be partnering and supporting these companies - instead they take their work and compete head on. Of course we need to change the models and licensing.

It's nice that a failed landing is news.

They haven't missed a landing for quite some time now.

IRC as a protocol and software stack is generally crap. While it was functional, a huge swath of IRC would have to be completely rewritten - including the underlying foundations - to turn it into a modern Slack or similar service. Honestly, it would be far easier to start from scratch than to base it on IRC. While a few things could be learned from how IRC was built, I wouldn't use that code as a base for anything.

Source: Me. Maintainer of Bahamut IRCd from 2001-2018.

They've already announced that the next FH launch will be to LEO, with a compliment of several separate satellites. Just because there's not a lot of LEO payloads large enough doesn't mean they can't put a bunch of separate payloads together onto a single launch.

I've been reading into this lately -- I do want an open source solution to this. I think the basic premise is quite useful.

Take a look at mycroft.ai. I haven't dug into it too deeply, and I can say that the speech-to-text runs through public cloud today due to a lack of current open alternatives - but the architecture is modular, open, and comes with (alpha/beta) hardware options if you don't want to go the route of mobile OS or raspberry pi.

Can't vouch for them, but I would probably be dumping a lot more time into them if I had it.

You'll note there's nothing to not believe. The journalist was simply pointing out that there is no apparent reason for this announcement to come from Intel's CEO while he's in the Oval Office. Nothing in the announcement, brief, or subsequent details suggests this has anything at all to do with Trump. Except the location of the announcement.

H's just confused about why it took place in the Oval Office. There's two possible reasons really:

(1) Trump did something to prompt this decision. In which case, I would expect, based on Trump's personality, that he'd be telling everyone who will listen how he did it.
(2) Trump didn't do anything except arrange for the announcement to come from inside the Oval. I personally think this is the case - it gives people (like you) that want to believe he's doing something a talking point, valid or not - and two, it gives Intel the perception of being both pro-trump and meh-trump at the same time.

The short version here is that we're being fed something. I hesitate to call it bullshit, because nobody said anything weird - but it certainly looks like people are trying to play some kind of game here.