It's an interesting world these days (to my mind anyway) because I cannot as readily differentiate trolling and earnest belief anymore. I'm going to assume the latter in good faith.

I can at the very least attest to the fact that jets used to leave the exact same trails when I was a kid. I'm also from a very rural flyover state so I spent most of my childhood outdoors with my bb gun or stomping around the pastures. I vividly remember in the late 80s and early 90s the planes going over (there is an international airport an hour's drive from my parents farm). Then, as now, they had thick white trails that would start out very small and tight and gradually get wider. If the plane was low enough and it wasn't windy, I could watch them for a very long time spreading into huge fluffy long clouds. I obviously am not sending up weather balloons and taking samples of it, but it looks pretty much like normal cloud so these days I assume water vapor like I do now.

Growing up a classmates dad was also an air-traffic controller. He once came on career day to inspire us and talked a lot about how it worked. The main things I remember were that you have to space out flight plans and also that they have some horrid three strikes rule where if any two planes on your watch ever become indistinguishable as a single dot on radar you get a strike whether there is a collision or not. Three strikes and you're out of the air traffic controller business for life. So - rather than inspiring me I never wanted to be an air-traffic controller.

There was also an old-timey festival in our neighboring small town where they'd get out steam engines and thrash a field using pre-tractor era farming techniques. A sideshow event of that was a small single-propeller aircraft you could take rides in. Depending on the time of the day the coolest thing about that plane was that when it was running on the ground it would make these white spirals in the air around the nose of the plane and as a kid that was the coolest thing ever. When it took off, they'd continue and it would leave a white trail too - but it didn't really look quite like the ones that the jets at the airport left. It was more like:

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At first (from below - it would fly right over the festival grounds). After a minute or two it would spread out enough that the pattern wasn't really as visible anymore but it would still look like a long cloud.

I know it wasn't the exhaust because I could see where the exhaust was coming out of the tailpipe which was kind of down and below the airplane.

This didn't always happen, and was more common when they did the morning flights than the afternoon ones. I don't know why, maybe the warmer day air was drier? In any case that dude wasn't in on some chemtrail thing; he was just a farmer dude whose land butted against the festival grounds and he had a bulldozer so he made himself a grass runway and when that festival became a thing he started selling short flights with his little plane.
So at the very least - I know it's possible that one can do the whole contrail thing at LEAST with a propeller plane since I've seen it first-hand. I presume a similar principle can apply to jet engines but that's not a firsthand assumption. As to the KC-135 aircraft refueling thing - the only speculation I have is some kind of military nonsense. I know some transport aircraft are disguised as passenger planes to avoid being shot down in clandestine delivery operations so it doesn't sound unreasonable to me that you're correct about seeing the refueling of passenger aircraft.

I don't know but that was honestly the part that stood out to me the most. Like - the headline is a bit clickbaitish - but why? It could have been both MORE clickbaity AND more accurate by bringing up the bonkers Sasquatch angle.

Except perhaps you're being too literal just as Can'tNot may be being too imprecise (or could be regurgitating popular opinion as you say). Trump is quite good at implying without saying. I.E.Trump never said he would "ban Muslims", but on Fox when asked if the ban on foreign nationals from specific majority Muslim countries would apply to a Canadian businessperson who happens to be a Muslim, his response was: âoeThere's a sickness. They're sick people. There's a sickness going on. There's a group of people that is very sick.â Or comments like: âoeWe have a problem in this country; it's called Muslims. We know our current president is one.â In a policy proposal that was publically released on his website you'll find the text: âoetotal and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on.â Later Guiliani said that Trump asked him to find a way to do a Muslim ban legally. Now, he is both a primary source and kinda crazy, but taken with the other statements that are not disputable, it does add weight. He may not have said the exact quote, but people knew what he meant and it wasn't really ambiguous. That's obviously one of his many skills. He knows how to walk the line in the sense of legality and deniability.

In some ways it has some interesting usages. I can spin up a few hundred CentOS boxes (A lot of places use redhat even though I tend towards debian based distros personally) and have them configured with Salt to simulate a flexible cloud architecture, do integration tests, or a bazillion other things. As for the way it functions differently than the lxc containers, that's another story. It's build on aufs (though has support for other systems) and thus also does versionioning on write. I can tag anything at any point, rewind them, etc... but they behave exactly like virtual machines, right down to shells and package mangement. It's weird, but super cool.

Actually, docker is already open source. The question is really whether something that's valueable to the open source community needs to be driven by a single company; it's an interesting question. The product though has always been free.

You can craft the interface however you want however by matter of policy, apple restricts 3rd party browsers to using UIWebView component to render HTML which is the internal WebKit rendering engine. Gecko is not allowed on iOS. This means the JavaScript engine as well. In fact the newer JavaScript engine used by safari is also not accessible. UIWebView only exposes a slower older js engine. This means outside of the interface itself, all browsers by default will have inferior performance to Safari. It is simply a restriction imposed by Apple. One can argue about whether this is good policy or if they have good reasons or not, this is completely fair. But it is a matter of simple fact that you cannot use any other rendering engine.

http://pcdserver.shacknet.nu/Downloads/PIFTS.txt Is the dump of what happens when I disassemble it back to code. Has some interesting imports: +++++++++++++++++++ IMPORTED FUNCTIONS ++++++++++++++++++ Number of Imported Modules = 8 (decimal) Import Module 001: KERNEL32.dll Import Module 002: USER32.dll Import Module 003: ADVAPI32.dll Import Module 004: ole32.dll Import Module 005: SHELL32.dll Import Module 006: OLEAUT32.dll Import Module 007: VERSION.dll Import Module 008: WININET.dll as well as some other interesting information, check it out maybe someone can tell me from this what its trying to do.

User suggestions are great and its good they are doing this. That said one thing I would prefer is if there were more good open source games available. Better yet I would love to know why something like an Open Source Online RPG game has a hard time finding developers but other projects with less global appeal seem to have larger developer bases. Its interesting. (Disclaimer: I'm a core developer for an online RPG called Peragro Tempus ( www.peragro.org ) and have always pondered why gaining developers is so difficult.

OSS solutions? ClamWin is actually quite a nice scanner though it does no cleaning at all. In fact with a few simple tweaks you can have it run full scheduled scans every night and email YOU the admin the results. Then if a virus needs cleaning you can go take care of it the proper way, either by deleting the infected file completely, or by REPLACING (not cleaning) the affected .dll files. This is really the proper way of taking care of it. I keep a disk around with all the dll files installed by default cabextracted and carried on the 2nd track of a puppy linux live cd. That way I can boot up, replace the bad files with known good copies, and not worry if my virus cleaner actually fully removed the virus. In the end the whole solution cost my company no money at all other than a few blank cd's and I've found it much better overall.