Between ignorance and despair is action...
Start down that road, and you'll discover many a companion. Don't lose hope.

Here's one example . I'm sure there would be many others.

It's time to take this war (that's what it is) to the next level. People of the world unite! Lets use the internet to reclaim the internet. Here's how to get started.

• EFF’s Game Plan for Ending Global Mass Surveillance
• Opt out of global data surveillance programs like PRISM, XKeyscore and Tempora.

By far the best method to ensure long term survival of your data is to send it out in interstellar space embossed on a golden record like the guys from NASA did with the Voyager probes. Now, you didn't ask about retrieving it did you?

Your 'faith' gets restored in Slashdot. Now, off to watching Starship Troopers 3. :-)

As a soon-to-be ex-customer of this telecom giant, I'm doing the two things I can: Raising an almighty stink in all the channels I know, and obviously voting with my pocket by ditching them. Any other ideas would be welcome. I fear this is just the level-1 boss we're fighting against in the war against internet equality.

*Warning, insecure content!* This website doesn't have a NSA backdoor, and hence we cannot verify the americanness of the content. Terrorists may be hatching a plot to blow up something here. Or even worse, normal people might be talking how we fucked the web up. >OMFG! Take me out of hereI understand the risks

Mod up please!

Fully agree. In the many years and billions spent to reach this day, a 24 hr delay (or even a 48hr or more) is a fraction of a peanut. But the fact that they were willing to manually override the auto wind triggers suggests that they either felt pressured with the closing of the launch window, or didn't trust enough in the reliability of those automated systems. If it's the former, then it's a scary prospect. The purpose of this mission I guess is to test the capsule and the upper launch stages. The DIVH is going to be replaced by a different system in the future (SLS) anyway, so having a failure in this part of the mission would be characterized so. Having in a failure while in orbit or on the way back would be 'extremely useful test data' and NOT a failure.

Would there have been a valve or wind abort if that stray boat hadn't showed up? If not, then the valve issues might have become a complication later on in the mission? Sounds kinda edgy to me... I guess this is what test flights are for.

Hot on the heels of MAVEN, India's Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) or Mangalyaan (Mars-vehicle), has also successfully been inserted into it's planned orbit after its Liquid Apogee Motor (LAM) fired as expected. With this India becomes the first Asian nation to successfully send a Mars mission, and the first nation in the world to taste Martian success in its very first attempt. Don't worry, there won't be a collision between the two probes, we drive on opposite lanes... remember!

423 million miles / $75 million = 5.6 mi / $ = not bad!

News coming in that India's Mangalyaan has successfully test fired it's Liquid Apogee Motor (congratulations) and so a possible collision with MAVEN is very much infinitesimally probable :-) Too bad I can't watch it from my 8 inch dob.