I remember the warning in the old USENET days when every time I posted, my message will cost the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars to send everywhere.

A few reasons. ITAR/EAR restrictions. It's running on VxWorks, on a RAD750. Can't quite go down to the local big box store to pick up one of those.

Bah! Assan Motors Corporation did 15,000 per month in their Hadleyville Pennsylvania plant.

I'm on Spectrum (née Charter) and am on native IPV6. (Pasadena area) They've actually had it for a while, but I didn't get it until I recently bought a new Cable Modem.

And today's "The Los Angeles Angles of Anaheim" continues flying that banner. "The The Angels Angels of Anaheim" if you translated "Los Angeles" to English. But they're not the only ones. "La Brea" is "the tar", so we also have "The The Tar Tar Pits" in "The La Brea Tar Pits.". (never mind that Anaheim isn't even in Los Angeles County)

NASA didn't get the units mixed up. LockMart did.

You just have to look at how badly JSC allowed the Saturn V to deteriorate to have some idea why it didn't go to Houston.

Again, you misinterpret the requirement. Go to liveatc.net and go browse the non-English speaking feeds. You won't find one that's exclusively English.

You misinterpret the ICAO requirement. It only states that English be made available and be spoken proficiently on both the pilot and controller side. It does not say it must be used. "shall demonstrate language proficiency" not "shall be used". Find me a quote in 164 that says "English shall be used." You can't.

The first sentence "Therefore, pilots on international flights shall demonstrate language proficiency in either English or the language used by the station on the ground."

In other words, if you don't speak the local language, English is the default for both sides, that way a German pilot in Russia can drop to English if he or she doesn't speak Russian. Or he can use Russian if he knows it.

"PP-ASEL-IA"

Until the Coral Cache caches the "We've been slashdotted" page.

It was a re-do of the Mars Polar Lander. (Failed due to an un-debounced landing sensor switch).

Phoenix rose from the ashes of MPL.

For reference, the mast cams on MER (the one on the left) are at eye-level for a person 5'8"-5'10" ish tall.

I don't use noscript, but have been noticing lots of disabled copying on more and more websites.

The simple fix I use is to Ctrl-U/View source and copy from that window.

You haven't bought a car in California recently?

There are Prop 65 stickers on car windows already. "This car contains and is manufactured with stuff that gives you cancer."

I bought a car a month ago and that sticker didn't even make it off the lot before I took it off. One on the driver's side and one on the passenger side.

It's not the direct zap from your finger, it's the induced charge.

You're negatively charged, and hold one end of the USB stick. The EM field you are generating pushes all the positive charge to the other end of the stick. Usually the USB plug.

Your stick approaches the USB port, which is neutral and/or grounded and the positive end of the USB stick discharges through whatever you plugged it into.

It is even worse with grounded materials. Bring a positive charge near something grounded, and all the positive charges run away into the ground. Unground the device when the positive charged object is still around and now your device is net negatively charged. Plug that device into something and *zap*, ESD.