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by rst 5y ago
The Biden administration just announced sanctions against the Russian government for their (presumed) responsibility for the SolarWinds attack. They're not shrugging this one off. https://www.theverge.com/2021/4&#
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by rst 6y ago
Which is... slightly baffling. Blue Origin doesn't have much of a track record actually getting stuff into orbit, but with Bezos's backing, you'd think the one thing they would have is flexibility on the payment schedule..
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by rst 6y ago
Medium actually has tried at least twice to exercise traditional editorial functions, with branded publication "sections" including multiple writers -- the second such experiment just ended the same way as the first, with former
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by rst 6y ago
There were non-ISS Shuttle flights after Columbia (most notably Hubble telescope refurb flights); also, the Chinese have had manned missions (including one to a small station of their own, since the US Congress chose to bar them from the IS
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by rst 6y ago
It's SpaceX's first crewed mission not going to the ISS. Before SpaceX, there were plenty of others, of course.
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by rst 6y ago
It could be a custom rendering of OSM data... whatever it is has full street grids for land-locked villages in the middle of France, which I can't imagine them gathering on their own. And their requirements (particularly for the vesse
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by rst 6y ago
The vulnerability most people here are talking about was introduced to the PHP codebase last weekend, as part of the block of code containing the "sold... mid 2017" message -- that vuln wasn't there previously, at least in th
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by rst 6y ago
Well, certainly the first to be widely implemented. After the original Fortran for the 704, there were compilers for a bunch of other machines, not always using the "Fortran" name. And, per this article, the first to have a meani
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by rst 6y ago
There can be other wrinkles. Builds of $dayjob's Rails app failed even though we had the gem itself cached locally all over, because entries for the BSD gem versions had vanished from the rubygems.org metadata, and we weren't cach
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by rst 6y ago
Your reading of what is copyrightable may not be entirely in accord with the US Supreme Court's, which has ruled that mere compilations of factual data (a telephone directory in the case that set the precedent) are not copyrightable.
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by rst 6y ago
It's not just COBOL, it's the whole OS environment -- which, for a lot of these old systems, involves legacy mainframe tech (z/OS) with its own peculiar jargon. Basic concepts like "file", "directory", an
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by rst 6y ago
Also, the first test did not reveal any kind of flaw in design or construction of the stage. It aborted early because of hydraulic pressure fluctuations that were within spec -- but exceeded extremely conservative limits in place for that
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by rst 6y ago
RocketLab just announced they intend to build a rocket they're calling "a purpose-built megaconstellation building machine", but they're not planning to launch until 2024, and reportedly still are evaluating options for
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by rst 6y ago
They have occasional landing failures (one this year, two last year), and still do launch expendably every once in a blue moon, so they'll likely need to build a new one every once in a while until the end of the program is in sight. (
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by rst 6y ago
Depends where you look. Hard to see IBM's z/Architecture dying out in that timeframe (the latest branding for S/360-derived mainframes), for example, and the embedded space is likely to remain an odd bestiary for quite some
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by rst 6y ago
Quite a few standard password login flows have a "magic link" stream already, in the guise of password recovery -- enter your username on a link, click "forgot password", and get an email with a magic link allowing you t
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by rst 6y ago
Well, if you're counting suborbital vehicles, Blue also had the Goddard research prototype. That said, while Blue will probably have something called New Armstrong if they last long enough, even they may have no clear idea what would b
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by rst 6y ago
They're having more results shipping engines at the moment than whole vehicles -- their BE-4 engines are projected for use on both New Glenn and ULA's somewhat smaller Vulcan, and they've shipped a couple of non-flight-rated
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by rst 6y ago
Not sure I agree with this diagnosis -- Ruby gemspecs (for components) and Gemfiles (for dependency lists) are both executable Ruby code, but packaging troubles at the Pythonesque level are rare. The trouble I've had with Python packag
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by rst 6y ago
Rolling outages are when they've got enough power for some neighborhoods, but not all of them. Texas is so short of power right now that they've dropped power everywhere they can, excepting only certain critical facilities (hospi
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by rst 6y ago
Writeup of the actual attack malware running on the build servers: https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/sunspot-malware-technical-a... It attacked MSBUILD.EXE processes on startup, and it didn't matter if they were st
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by rst 6y ago
The weasel-wording still left most readers with a clear impression that flaws in JetBrains software were directly implicated in the hack, and many US companies proceeded on that basis. But it wasn't -- the attackers had reconfigured th
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by rst 6y ago
This isn't the first century in which the press has skewed its coverage of its own business to serve its business interests. For decades, the Associated Press and Western Union had a symbiotic relationship in which the AP got favorabl
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by rst 6y ago
The old versions aren't getting security patches. Not sure there's a really good choice here.
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by rst 6y ago
Even for orbital launches on the production Falcon 9, schedules are subject to change due to technical glitches or just bad weather. Test launches are subject to both, with technical glitches being nearly part of the plan. For starship la
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by rst 6y ago
It's not just the initial compromise that's getting "sophisticated hack" headlines in this case -- it's the extraordinary care that the attackers took to evade detection afterwards. Among other things: delaying com
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by rst 6y ago
Odd to see a stress on interest in a problem for its own sake from pg, who has elsewhere written that the startup economy would be crippled by raising taxes on people who had already gotten fabulously rich. If being in it for the money is
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by rst 6y ago
They were attempting to switch to a separate set of tanks, ultimately meant to sequester fuel used for landing. It was pressure in the landing-fuel tanks that was low after the switch.
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by rst 6y ago
Not much different from early work on Falcon 9 landings -- the Grasshopper test rig and F9R-dev-1 prototype both did a bunch of land-to-land hops (the last being the crash that destroyed F9R-dev-1 after an engine failure) before they transi
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by rst 6y ago
It uses electric spark igniters.

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