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Comment How can they be bankrupt? (Score 1) 26

It's a simple business model: claim copyright infringement on all images they hold a copyright on, even on images they don't... It's a simple protection racket, how did it all go wrong?

Now the crooked firm will be owned by some equity firm. The perfect fit. I hope they go bankrupt together again.

Comment Re: With what Budget? (Score 1) 82

It's amazing to me that with access to the world's knowledge people will just write shit, then, when corrected, insist on it, without bothering to check. Anonymity is a powerful thing I guess.

Here, I copied the link to the Artemis program outline for you:

https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in...

Comment Proprietary software needs to be abandoned. (Score 1, Informative) 46

FOSS software of course also has an upgrade cycle however there are really major differences

  • * you can almost completely keep the upgrade cycle within your operating system by only using add no packages for specific specialist software you directly work with
  • * you'll normally be able to completely control rollback yourself and be able to see the reason for any upgrade, deciding if it's needed for you
  • * provided you use a "free as in beer" system, you won't have software costs for the upgrade
  • * you can find many people who can understand and verify what's changing during an upgrade

Comment Re: With what Budget? (Score 1) 82

Yes, they do. The HLS might take people from lunar orbit to the surface and back. They've still got to get to lunar orbit, and that uses an expensive SLS launch.

Even using Starship, it's unclear how much it would cost to launch from Earth to the moon. A lot more than it would seem from the mass to LEO numbers for sure. A hell of a lot of refuelling launches are required, including refuelling in lunar orbit, which means those tankers need their own LEO refuelling.

Likewise, the potential contract with Blue Origin is for the lander, not the whole mission. New Glenn isn't big enough, although the upgraded version they're talking about is getting closer. It doesn't exist yet though.

Neither Starship nor New Glenn are human rated and Starship especially isn't likely to be any time soon. Not good for racing.

Comment Re:Does not make me like the IT guys (Score 1) 79

Microsoft has probably the most illustrious history of bugs where just visiting a website or opening an email can get your system hacked, but you're right, this is not a problem unique to them.

These days, Lookout asks you before it loads any images from outside your organization...

Comment Re:MICROS~1: making clicking dangerous since 1984 (Score 1) 79

We should really be building operating systems with more process isolation and clear permissions systems for which apps can interact with which other apps in which ways. There's elements of this in Android, and in capabilities systems like selinux, but the more powerful they get the harder they are to use. This is inevitable, but a lot more can still be done to make this kind of functionality accessible to users.

Comment Re:In before... (Score 1) 14

"Our frontier models somehow got access to the internet and hacked a bunch of things, these things are unstoppable, sorry! Btw IPO soon"

"Our vast experience has taught us that giving our models access to the internet and telling them to hack stuff is a bad idea so we won't be doing that anymore. We look forward to everyone else following our industry leading best practices."

Except with some "humility" thrown in, and more linkedin cheese.

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