Comment Re:About time (Score 1) 236
It has and ironically it was due to Amazon being large enough to impose a SLA.
Japan To Test Mini 'Space Elevator' (phys.org) 114
Zorro shares a report from Phys.Org: A Japanese team working to develop a "space elevator" will conduct a first trial this month, blasting off a miniature version on satellites to test the technology. The test equipment, produced by researchers at Shizuoka University, will hitch a ride on an H-2B rocket being launched by Japan's space agency from southern island of Tanegashima next week. The test involves a miniature elevator stand-in -- a box just six centimeters (2.4 inches) long, three centimeters wide, and three centimeters high. If all goes well, it will provide proof of concept by moving along a 10-meter cable suspended in space between two mini satellites that will keep it taut. The mini-elevator will travel along the cable from a container in one of the satellites. The movement of the motorized "elevator" box will be monitored with cameras in the satellites.
Comment We've already had this discussion years ago (Score 1) 565
https://ask.slashdot.org/story...
https://ask.slashdot.org/story...
If anything, I'm surprised the email medium is still so relevant for anything not serious.
https://ask.slashdot.org/story...
If anything, I'm surprised the email medium is still so relevant for anything not serious.
Comment What happens when they re-enable it? (Score 2) 51
Another lawsuit?
Comment Is this news going to bring them more business (Score 1) 164
or less?
Comment Re: The law of unintended consequences... (Score 2) 141
Maybe not explicitly, but I think there is an implicit requirement and also a tradition/convention of including your email address in open source software. After all, the author has to be contacted about changes.
cURL is MIT licensed which requires the copyright notice to be shown.
(actually it's the only requirement, much more permissive than the GPL)
Comment Re:For what, the last 20 years? (Score 1) 212
The government may be acting illegally, but who's going to sue them?
The EC could fine their country.
Comment Is it still 32-bit only? (Score 1) 211
But at least it can boot from USB!
Comment Re: HIV articles (Score 2) 107
Yes. That shit does happen. A lot. About one in 10 successful lab tests works in animals and of those, about one in 10 will actually work in humans. Think it's not worth publishing of something works in mice?
On the other hand, how does one find out about treatments that work on humans but not on mice?
Comment Re:When I said I was a fan of transparency (Score 1) 225
And you think the Russians would give a damn about that?
Make him look gay and you'll have a chance.
Make him look gay and you'll have a chance.
Comment This will only protect against lawsuits (Score 1) 173
if data cannot be legally obtained.
Of course it won't do anything about ELINT.
Of course it won't do anything about ELINT.
Comment Re:termination (Score 1) 103
So what will happen to Thawte in response?
I think that depends on what government had asked them to generate the fake cert for MITM purposes.
Comment If Sourceforge is any example (Score 4, Interesting) 80
does it mean they will become like them after they're bought?
Comment A closed-source component is responsible for this (Score 0, Troll) 60
Imagine that.
Comment And what good would it do? (Score 4, Insightful) 447
We already have a pretty good idea of what happened to the Germanwings flight even with 1 damaged black box.
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