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And, as a couple people have pointed out, Thorium isn't even used in fusion. This author could stand to do a little more reading on the subject.

To be fair, it's not the same people on both sides of each of your examples. I suspect every politician ever will be subject to completely opposing criticism from both sides.

I think they're pushing the "picture in space" as a sort of hook to gather public interest. Large scale public interest in their projects has the potential to bring in larger funding from entities that might otherwise not be interested.

Personally I think this is an excellent idea. The picture in space is a great little incentive to get people to take a closer look at the project.

Of course, there is the risk of failure and the bad PR that goes with it. That said, the list of endorsements they have is pretty impressive, and pushing the idea that a first grader could in theory direct the satellite to take a picture of his or her choice could give them a huge boost in interest.

Probably the most awesome Kickstarter I've ever backed. I'm so excited!!! Planetary Resources is a really cool company.

> Does the tech stack in the background matter

I think it does, because the tech stack in the background allows for things that might not be possible for other tech stacks.

You can duplicate somebody else's webapp in your backend of choice, but you can't have true GI if your rendering engine doesn't support it, and while you can fake some of the effects, they ultimately won't look as good as the real thing (unless you're aiming for a different 'good').

I could have sworn that last sentence wasn't there (my bad).

I think he means that prime factorization is unique (which is true).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorem_of_arithmet...

I think he means that this development would encourage the use of diplomacy over explosives. I initially read it the other way (diplomacy being more useful than this development).

That's terrifying...

> Can you buy an N4 simply yet?

Yep :) https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_4_8gb

Where does the GIL factor into this? I thought using threads in Python gives basically no gains unless all the heavy work is being done outside the interpreter. I've always gone with the multiprocessing module instead.

I remember it being something about check valves in the oxidizer pressurization system. I don't recall where I read that, but it's probably not too hard to dig up (I'm just lazy).

Wow. I had no idea the ATV was so expensive.

As a side note, your comments in space-related threads are always awesome. Do you work in the industry?

The capsule's thrusters had a blockage which prevented them from maneuvering and deploying the solar panels. They managed to clear the blockage just fine.

Nice. Looks clean, things are well sorted.

They lock in the price. I bought 3 bitcoins for $48.48, and shortly thereafter the price jumped up by a couple dollars. 5 days later, there was a charge in my bank account for a total of $48.48.

I don't believe he actually means the OS Kernel. It's a userspace "kernel" in that it coordinates the traffic and behavior for all of the subprocesses.

It can be done on a moderately powerful GPU these days, but only to about 10x zoom (or maybe less, I don't remember) before it starts to look weird. The main problem is floating point precision (or lack thereof) causing distortion :(

Are you sure you watched the HFR version? Not all 3D showings had HFR.

I think you may have only seen the regular version. HFR was really noticeable (for me, at least).

I've been running kippo (ssh honeypot) with a really weak root password. It's really entertaining to watch people break in and try to muck around.

How do you change the reported OS/SSH version? I didn't see any obvious lines in sshd_config that do that.

I imagine that's a factor, but it's primarily the fact that sea water is really hard on the delicate parts of the rocket due to corrosion and mineral deposits.

Like the other commenters gave said, landing vertically is very much their intention. The rationale is that sea landings make repair work much harder.

I knew armadillo was doing some impressive work, but wow. That was really cool.

How is this not a part of the EFF's core mission?

I still like to push the idea that my school's CS department uses: grading appointments. 40% of your grade is the code actually working, 60% is you being able to explain it to the TA.

So far it hasn't been a problem (fingers crossed). I have a couple ways into the server in case I get myself banned. Also, it's my personal server, so the only user that would complain is me :)

For other sites, I'm honestly not sure how they go about choosing a limit. 20 does seem to be more reasonable, while still being perfectly safe.

Not much implementation actually. Fail2ban does all the hard work, and then if I get too many emails reporting the same IP I go in and manually permaban the offending IP (doesn't happen often).

On my webserver, you get 3 chances and then a 24 hour ip ban. I think that comes out to 0.00003 passwords per second :)

The particularly persistent IPs get a special iptables rule.

I think he is referring to mmap? Not entirely sure though...