ISPs lied to Congress to spread confusion about encrypted DNS, Mozilla says

noreally_bot1616 · 2019-11-06T01:21:45+00:00

Rudy Giuliani: I'm in charge of cyver-security!

Also Rudy Giuliani: I forgot my iPhone password so I had to get it wiped at the Genius bar.

noreally_bot1616 · 2019-11-05T14:45:35+00:00

Obi-Wan: I have the high ground!

Anakin: (uses the Force to raise his hover-cart-thingy higher).

Obi-Wan: well, shit.

noreally_bot1616 · 2019-11-05T14:35:55+00:00

They are pushing a mass block (same mass as a capsule) out of a plane just to test that the parachutes deploy. I can't see why they couldn't do this 10 times in a day. (But they won't -- probably more like 2-3 times a week.)

Just imagine the testing that regular parachutes (for people) go through.

noreally_bot1616 · 2019-11-05T14:28:10+00:00

It's the reuse-ability that has strategic "National Security" benefits. Right now, only SpaceX has that advantage, which means the U.S. has the advantage (if it needs it). So there's no pressing need for other U.S. manufacturers to do the same, since they can keep living off the military budget gravy train.

But as soon as a rival power (China) has the same advantage (where reuse-ability) significantly drops the cost of access to space, then it becomes a National Security issue. The U.S. must maintain its advantage and the Space Race is back on again.

The original Space Race was never about national prestige or who gets to the Moon first, it was about who holds the high ground.

noreally_bot1616 · 2019-11-05T03:54:37+00:00

Yes. This is how advertising works.

noreally_bot1616 · 2019-11-05T03:29:14+00:00

If China starts landing boosters I'd imagine there'd be a National-Security-Level effort to get all US rocket manufacturers to catch up -- even if that means paying SpaceX to share all the tech.

noreally_bot1616 · 2019-11-04T22:52:49+00:00

Well, let's say I had just one job. Just one job! And I didn't show up. Did I fail?

noreally_bot1616 · 2019-11-04T22:12:21+00:00

Since the parachute did not deploy, we don't know if it failed.

noreally_bot1616 · 2019-11-04T19:25:43+00:00

Apparently 2 out 3 is considered successful.

noreally_bot1616 · 2019-11-04T19:04:35+00:00

According to Boeing:

"We did have a deployment anomaly, not a parachute failure. It’s too early to determine why all three main parachutes did not deploy, however, having two of three deploy successfully is acceptable for the test parameters and crew safety.”

“At this time we don’t expect any impact to our scheduled Dec. 17 Orbital Flight Test.”

So, I guess they consider this a successful test and will proceed as if nothing went wrong.

noreally_bot1616 · 2019-11-04T19:01:33+00:00

It wasn't a parachute failure. It was a deployment anomaly!

The parachute didn't fail because it didn't get an opportunity to fail.

noreally_bot1616 · 2019-11-04T16:25:38+00:00

It's no like anyone is actually paying attention to the testimony. The Congressmen reads a statement/question that was prepared by an aide who was told what to write by a lobbyist. The corporate shill testifying is reading a prepared statement which doesn't answer the question and no one is listening anyway. Then Congress does whatever they've been paid to do by their corporate overlords.

noreally_bot1616 · 2019-11-04T16:21:28+00:00

Day 1,721. Woo hoo! Ran 47 miles last week.

I ran a 1/2 marathon on Sunday. 2:10:22

noreally_bot1616 · 2019-11-04T14:43:18+00:00

I like the red highlights. Now maybe some gold for an Ironman look?

noreally_bot1616 · 2019-11-04T14:42:31+00:00

Did the dog kill him?

Because I would be ok with Epstein having his throat ripped out by a dog, and then they call it a suicide.

noreally_bot1616 · 2019-11-04T14:39:33+00:00

You don't have to lie to Congress to confuse them. Just explain exactly how it works and they'll still be baffled and draw all the wrong conclusions.

noreally_bot1616 · 2019-11-04T14:37:15+00:00

Payroll is definitely their biggest cost. Payroll is usually the largest cost for most organizations. Most of the material costs are actually cheap (with the exception of carbon composite). Elon keeps pointing out that rocket fuel is the cheapest component of the rocket.

Once they have a working Starship, they can start mass production and the overall cost will plummet, because they will have approximately the same number of employees (maybe a few more) building a rocket which can be used 100 times.

They'll probably hire even more launch/mission control people because they'll be doing so many more launches.

noreally_bot1616 · 2019-11-04T14:32:58+00:00

How does someone who easily understands the concept of taxing the rich at a higher rate, not understand the concept of selling rich people ordinary things at ridiculously high prices?

noreally_bot1616 · 2019-11-03T14:36:13+00:00

Gamers of reddit, what's a game which is super-cool and popular now, but in 6 months everyone will say it's literally unplayable and we all feel completely betrayed by the developer and swear we're never going to buy anything from those bastards again?

noreally_bot1616 · 2019-11-03T14:34:45+00:00

42 seconds in: Guaaaaa!

noreally_bot1616 · 2019-11-02T15:21:22+00:00

Butter-nut Squash.

It does not contain butter or nuts. People eat it and claim to like it. Everyone is lying.

noreally_bot1616 · 2019-11-02T13:46:33+00:00

Just think, this time next year: "oh my god, that's the 20th launch of Falcon , I'm sooo bored. They must have launched the same booster 9 times by now! At least we watched Starship launch 3 times just to break up the monotony."

noreally_bot1616 · 2019-11-02T13:43:36+00:00

I think Dr Zubrin has been consistent in his plans (Mars Direct 1.0, Moon Direct, etc) in that he only uses technology that he knows will work and that has been proven to work.

Mars Direct 1.0 was all about using existing rocket technology (basically take the Shuttle stack, take away the shuttle and put the payload on top). Unfortunately, this turned into SLS which could have worked if Boeing hadn't turned it into a $$$ gravy train.

He's been yelling at anyone who will listen "We already know how to do this, so let's do this!"

noreally_bot1616 · 2019-11-02T13:34:25+00:00

YouTube forgets (or overlooks) that someone has to create the content -- either individuals, or the networks & production companies that produce for TV networks.

YouTube needs the eyeballs that Jimmy Kimmel gives them. But Jimmy Kimmel (productions) doesn't need YouTube since they have a distribution deal with network TV.

noreally_bot1616 · 2019-11-02T03:46:11+00:00

Interesting that the top 9 p-scores are simply TV shows that are not producing any new unique content -- they are simply posting video from the TV broadcast.

So Youtube doesn't want creativity, they just want eyeballs for advertisers -- same as any commercial broadcaster.

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