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Comment Re:Why are we still fighting with this? (Score 1) 105

by godber on Tuesday December 30, 2014 @12:14PM (#48696445) Attached to: 10 Years In, Mars Rover Opportunity Suffers From Flash Memory Degradation

These rovers were designed to last 90 days. The most broad plans extended to about a year if they were lucky. So no plans were made for every thing that could go wrong 5 to 10 years down the road.

This is the main answer to many of the questions beginning with "Why didn't they..."

- Austin

Comment Internet Diversity is Prone to Namespace Diversity (Score 1) 201

by godber on Wednesday October 29, 2008 @04:35PM (#25560559) Attached to: After Domain Squatting, Twitter Squatting

This concept is pervasive across the net. Each site represents a namespace that could potentially have value. So squatting seems like a reasonable thing to do, like it or not.

I even toyed with the idea of creating a marketplace to trade these items. Then I quickly realized that would probably be violating the terms of service of most of these sites.

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