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by fbender 10y ago
System design derives from mission and project design. The lander is a demonstrator for a future rover, they had (for this particular mission) no intention to manage and support a lander for a substantial period of time. They basically bolt
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by fbender 10y ago
Probably thermal design contraints. A lot of black means high thermal radiation (both incoming and outgoing). The orbiter is intended to fly through the atmosphere, so to venture a guess, they want to radiate heat away quickly.
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by fbender 10y ago
Care to elaborate on that?
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by fbender 10y ago
Just to put some perspective on this, you are likely unable to survive >9g when experiencing it for more than a few moments, definitely so if you lack proper training for high Gs (there's a few techniques that help to avoid harm). T
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by fbender 10y ago
That is Apple's fault, not the web's or browsers' in general.
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by fbender 10y ago
Cmd+R on Mac
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by fbender 10y ago
> Fuel is cheap No, you pay with weight. Just using more fuel means your efficiency may(!) go down, with an ultimately worse outcome. But I'm lacking info on the design vs. other designs, so that general rule might be couterbalanced
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by fbender 10y ago
I suppose it's not about "jamming" but rather "accidental overlap" with future trajectories, i.e. another mission may pass through the axis between DSN-station and comet and the signals will mix. Be aware that the b
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by fbender 10y ago
No. As far as I'm aware, there exist no regulations regarding SETI interference (mainly because this is a private endeavour and regulations would need strong international political support). From the FAQ ( http://m.esa.int&#
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by fbender 10y ago
No. Not only because the antenna and solar panels will likely break, but Rosetta will receive a self-kill program initiated 10hrs prior to impact, which will shut off all systems on expected impact time. This is in part due to regulations r
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by fbender 10y ago
There's always a fuse you can pull. And there needs to be a fuse, per regulations on how to build aircraft. The stray MH370 signal was coming from the engines directly, presumably powered by the engine's internal power system, and
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by fbender 10y ago
You can use any of the LEO/MEO Satcomm services that support simplex and/or duplex data transmission, which currently are Globalstar or Iridium. These are far easier to target since you don't need as much transmitter power re
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by fbender 10y ago
The Iridium NEXT satellites to be launched by SpaceX soon (well, we'll see about that ...) are equipped with ADS-B receivers, see e.g. http://aireon.com/resources/iridium-next/
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by fbender 10y ago
Mind filing a bug with specifics at bugzilla.mozilla.org? There's probably some low-hanging fruit there …
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by fbender 10y ago
Did you try updating your graphics drivers? Sometimes bad drivers cause sluggishness.
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by fbender 10y ago
Do you have the latest graphics drivers? Some are really buggy and may be (one of) the cause(s).
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by fbender 10y ago
I found ads to be a major hog (and some bad scrolling scripts on popular or design-y sites). I'm using uBlock Origin or Adblock Plus, which gives a great responsiveness boost for far too many websites.
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by fbender 10y ago
Chrome does have the better Javascript engine, still, I believe that much of the slow Javascript on Firefox (an other browsers) could be avoided if people bothered testing a little more. All major engines are pretty much comparabl
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by fbender 10y ago
Totally agree, encryption by default is the best option. However: And if SSL is offered perhaps it should still be possible to access non-security-critical pages by plain old HTTP. I often thought about setting up a forwarding prox
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by fbender 11y ago
Works for me without Flash since at least a year (Fx on Mac). What are you using?
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by fbender 11y ago
> But then it would be even worse on battery life. I'd claim the opposite: There's (at least) one less runtime needed when executing Flash within JS. Also, no extra graphic, audio, video, … stack that is executed alongside the
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by fbender 11y ago
Port to HTML5 (or whatever you prefer) or take a look at Mozilla Shumay[1]. [1] http://mozilla.github.io/shumway/
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by fbender 11y ago
> Mozilla seem to take anywhere from one to three months. Source? The RCE exploits were all fixed within hours or days (or already fixed when reported). The updates were pushed within days or a few weeks.
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Firefox Developer Tools 41: Take Screenshot of HTML Nodes(hacks.mozilla.org)
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by fbender 11y ago
There's IndexedDB. Both Mozilla and Microsoft opposed on standardizing on a specific implementation of an SQL database (sqlite v2), and rightly so. There's loads of commentary/rationale on this issue on the web, so I won&#x27
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by fbender 11y ago
That's happening today (just check the "big" news sites) just as it happened before with Flash-based sites. But that is just bad habit of programmers, not the issue with the technology per se.
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by fbender 11y ago
Yes, it's part of the OpenWebApps[1] initative. As far as I know, however, there's no standard way to package them up with the runtime for shipping[2], except for XUL Runner (which does not target OpenWebApps). For Android, there&
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How to stream video using Media Source Extensions(hacks.mozilla.org)
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by fbender 11y ago
Because of the LAS, Dravon v2 has to carry more fuel than v1. And it's not only the rocket motors that are heavy, but the supporting equipment and structure (peak loads are different for some parts of the structure). All of that leads
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by fbender 11y ago
Keep in mind that several copies of a satellite will be built during production. Some are mockups of a few subsystems (e.g. structure), some are used for tests (e.g. thermal, electrical, interference), often there's also a "flight

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