They sell ad impressions, not products. Therefore, all they care about is that X% of ad impressions that could have been sold on their platform went elsewhere, and they want them back.

For an explanation: http://thedailywtf.com/article...

I work in a small software company, and a lot of our big clients require us to have an escrow of the product's source code for the duration of the contract.

If you don't mind me asking, which make/model/year is this?

The fuel cost of moving a satellite to the depot is non-trivial. (Orbital Maneuvers) , so I think it will take a lot of diplomatic fun before it would even be done.

From the New Scientist article, they talked about the possibility that the incoming photons boil off electrons from the sponge, and most of those electrons were emitted in the opposite direction of the light beam, generating more thrusts than can be accounted by just the light pressure alone.

They also raised the issue that, if that were actually the case, you would end up with a dangerous level of positive charge. Without being able to neutralize the charge, this would not make for a good propulsion system.

Besides, if you can do it in 1/16th of the time, you might find your maintenance budget get slashed to 1/16th of previous year/quarter.

From what you described, it seems you/they allocate about a day to upgrade each station (16 units at 0.5 hour each.) Beats driving around in traffic to 16 different stations a day, too.

Imagine you have two marbles, one red, one black. Put both of them in a bag, shake it up, and pick one out to put in your pocket. Don't look at it.

Now send the bag with the other marble inside somewhere. Across the country, to the ISS, to Mars, next star system, where ever.

Now pull out the marble in your pocket. If it's red, the other one must be black, and vise versa. However far they are apart.

Replace marbles with particles, and colors with spins.

You have been able to determine the other particle's properties instantly over vast distance, yet you have not transfer any information.

Yes, if you can get the proper requirements. (This does not apply to the current article, since I assume that the requirements for these syscalls, etc. are well described.)

On most business systems, especially one that us written over the course of a few months, the requirements are just as spaghetti as the code, so rewriting the system from scratch might also rewriting the requirements from scratch, which is a monumental task if it already have customers with different configurations.

On a more humorous note, I find it funny that this is today's article on The Daily WTF: Seven Minutes In Heaven

Someone should benchmark this against Mechanical Turk. It would be interesting to see how things stack up.

And it is still vulnerable to the crowbar hack. Especially if you have to carry a piece of paper with you while you're trying to commit it to memory.

Think of the fire hazard when insulation dust fills that server. Save yourself the headache and just get a NUC or something similar and put it on the bookshelves. If fire doesn't scare you, think of all the water pipes down there. I came home one day to find that my pressure regulation valve has broken and sprayed the whole crawl space with water. It was such a mess, and I was glad nothing valuable was down there.

Or, you could just have rolling updates and the clients wouldn't know that the servers were rebooted.

Distributions, etc. will continue to change to suit their needs. Linux itself is probably not quite that extensive yet, as evident by the multitude of complains about the non-working drivers.

J#.NET ?