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See also 2008, 2001, 1989, 1929, and whenever the hell the Dutch decided tulips were the most important thing in the world.

I'd love a version of Civilization that was 33% the same, 33% improved, and 33% removed.

It's funny that none of these companies ever mention whether or not "adult entertainment" plays an explicit role in their business plans. Because if we're behind honest, blackjack and hookers is probably where the money is.

As I understand it, most leagues only require specifying "upper body injury" or "lower body injury". Anything else is at the discretion of the team and the player. Which is pretty much the case here as well.

It sounds like a big part of WB's issue is that they don't believe Paramount actually can raise that much money.

I assume that's just the deorbit plan. If the Russians really can't get their act together, then it's better to use that money to accelerate CLD than keep dumping money into the ISS.

The hilarious part about that is that "the kids" are going back to point & shoot digitals because phone photos look too fake.

NASA's remit is aeronautics and space research, so this is absolutely something they should be doing. All of the "supersonic travel" talk is nonsense; the involvement of Skunk Works is a good indicator that it's primarily about testing for military use. Acoustic stealth is just as important as...

I haven't worked as a Windows sysadmin in 15 or so years, as my first "real" job, and I knew even then that NTLM was insecure. There was plenty of guidance from Microsoft on how to secure AD properly and avoid all of these problems. Any competent, properly-resourced IT department would have been...

There's a difference between "can't" and "won't".

There's a balance to be struck between "duplication" and "diversity". At this point, having a diversity of stations, crew vehicles, and launchers is probably more important than the fact that there will be duplication of functionality between them.

And what they want. The sky father makes everything happen. What more do you need to know?

A million times this. I've been annoying the hell out of my coworkers for the last couple of years making similar statements, which is a variation on what my AI prof told me 20-odd years ago: that once you find a practical use for something, it's not longer "AI". Computer vision used to be the...

Nintendo wins the AAA game by simply not playing. They do what they want, and their instincts as to what players will enjoy are good. When the make mistakes they learn from it. They are rewarded by being massively profitable, even if the cycle time is long. The idea that something can be merely...

For now. This is probably also getting ahead of a future where open chat is allowed without having to get everyone to agree again.

Astronaut resumes are a great way to feel inadequate - it's always "Former Navy SEAL, Medal of Honor recipient, PhD in Hardcore Applied Physics and MD in neurosurgery, has climbed all 14k mountains twice, and rescues puppies on weekends."

More than that, the agent generating the response includes the URL in the cryptographically signed response. The proxy can't read or tamper with the response (thanks to the magic of public-key cryptography), and then Real Google decrypts the response, sees that it was generated for an incorrect...

And if scalpers are successfully selling them at huge markups, that just means Nintendo under priced it. They could probably mark the first million as $1000 "Founder's Edition" units and still sell out.

Not exactly. In 1996, they were probably just using the standard C rand() function, which has an extremely short period (it's almost always a linear congruential generator). This means that while there may be 2 billion seeds, the generator may only produce a few million down to a few hundred...

Or the dispenser for Atlas is ready and the Vulcan one isn't. One downside to using multiple rockets is they all need slightly different mechanisms to attach the payload.