Comment Again? (Score 1) 172
They rewrote it from the ground up *again*? Clearly the last few times they did that didn't help. Why should this time be any different?
Comment Who cares? (Score 1) 169
Why would the people in an open source project waste their time talking to the press to begin with? It's about the code, and scratching an itch, etc. If a journalist wants to know something about the project, he can just look at the website like everybody else.
An open source project is NOT a corporation, and PR is irrelevant.
Space Litter To Hit Earth Tomorrow 443
A refrigerator-sized tank of toxic ammonia, tossed from the international space station last year, is expected to hit earth tomorrow afternoon or evening. The 1,400-pound object was deliberately jettisoned — by hand — from the ISS's robot arm in July 2007. Since the time of re-entry is uncertain, so is the location. "NASA expects up to 15 pieces of the tank to survive the searing hot temperatures of re-entry, ranging in size from about 1.4 ounces (40 grams) to nearly 40 pounds (17.5 kilograms). ... [T]he largest pieces could slam into the Earth's surface at about 100 mph (161 kph). ...'If anybody found a piece of anything on the ground Monday morning, I would hope they wouldn't get too close to it,' [a NASA spokesman] said."
Comment patent troll (Score 5, Insightful) 137
Developing ideas? Give me a break, they buy patents and sell licenses. It's your basic patent troll outfit.
