You can get white electrical tape and have just a hint of light get through.

Storms here are more violent, with wind gusts hitting 80mph/130kph, and that rips shingles off. We don't get as much snow, but we do get ice storms that leave a layer of ice more than 1inch/25mm thick. Trees break under the weight and fall onto houses. We use asphalt rather than tile, which inherently lasts a shorter period of time. Think 20 to 30 years. Some old houses had slate-rock, and last as long as your tile, but can also break. Some roofs are literally wood shingle, and those are just disgusting and leak. Oh, and the materials for shingles has changed over the years due to environmental regulations, so that you can't get a real 50-year roof anymore. BTW, I worked in Germany for a month and a half. Beautiful country, but dang is everything expensive.

^^ mod parent up.

Free upgrades to Linux, BSD or whatever flavor will be available for quite some time longer.

Next week I plan to release a free crapware game, spamming CDs to the masses ala AOL. In the prompts in the auto-installer, the text will say that in order to cancel, press ctrl-alt-shift-t while clicking cancel, with any other key combination or selection automatically upgrading the computer to BeOS.

Kiddie porn perps get outed. FF reaction is to close the loopholes.

Their CEO is illegally outed for supported the popular Prop 8. FF reaction is to burn the witch.

I still use FF, often as Palemoon, and have used Moz since before Phoenix, but they've turned into complete jackasses in the last few years.

I recall that back in the 1990s Bill Gates wanted to build a satellite based cell network. It failed partially due go launch costs. The joking image showed Bill tossing satellites up by jumping on a springboard. More immediately, we need more weather satellites to improve weather forecasting, to keep GPS working, and better communication to far flung places. I recall possibilities of better balanced high speed bearings made in space, balanced better due to microgravity, so cheap launches could spur that. Long term, Musk wants to colonize Mars, and further. He's making the space elevator look less necessary after all.

This was proven in an experiment involving monkeys, bananas, a ladder, and electrocution.

These are communications majors who make $10/HR at McDonald's, not senior developers making 150k.

I doubt it'll go towards purchasing DDT from the few places that still use it, so this is likely for naught.

I also liked Winamp and Dialpad.com (also a VOIP site), and look where they are today!

"try to gauge". The editing farce continues...

If you're going to veer off topic, at least post something fun, like the SpaceX lander game (unofficial) https://scratch.mit.edu/projec...

Full disclosure: I've done some work for SpaceX.

Looks like you're a marketing guy who sold VOIP and hosted some chintzy tourist sites.. Good luck with that one. I only hope that you paid so little for these sites that you don't feel the need to monetize them any further than to pay the bills and mortgage and make what simple improvements are necessary.

That said, I welcome our new /. overlords.

They plan on making every stage reusable. Musk's long range goals include sending someone to Mars. To do so, he wants to be able to send a lot of mass into upper orbits for as low of a cost as possible.