NASA (and the federal government in general) has been pushing pretty aggressively to transition the entire workforce towards two factor authentication (password + PIV card), so either this happened on a system that hadn’t been transitioned to requiring PIV cards yet or it was an exploit of some kind.

I certainly hope you’re right! 

That’s a pretty impressive library. Can you put together a top ten list of your favorites? 

Thanks. I’ll check them out. Indie titles can definitely use the recommendations. There’s so little information out there about their quality that purchasing them seems like a shot in the dark most of the time.

It has an incredible library of $5.99 titles of dubious quality with bad Japanese translations. Not exactly what I’m looking for. It’s the AAA titles that are lacking. Hopefully you’re right and it’s just a matter of time before more Zelda quality games are released.

What the Switch does need to be incredible, though, are games. I love my Switch, but god the current game selection is just abysmal.

No word on how much thinner the device will be? I’d love to actually wear my Apple watch to work and have it fit comfortably under my shirt cuff.  

I think the ban got lifted awhile back. Adam can correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe they’ve been liveblogging from these events for a few years now.

BREAKING NEWS: People who use medication at higher risk of misusing medication.

Greetings from America. How’s the weather like in Russia today?

“Yeah, it sucks, but you also have to play the game”

The one I saw awhile back had the dad come in and start yelling at one of the younger kids about something, and then takes the kid’s Xbox and smashes it to pieces, all while the kid is cowering in a corner and wailing in fear. Then the dad’s like “it’s a prank, haha”. Pretty idiotic overall.

To all the people in the grays. You’re all right, there’s definitely no history of referring to black people as animals in this country.

Yeah, I’m from Detroit.

By “animals” you mean black people, right?  If you’re a racist, just own it.  You’re not fooling anyone. 

How about just focusing on making a phone that can get through an entire day on a single charge? I don’t need a skinnier phone. I need better battery life.

It’s the perfect example of why California’s proposition system is broken.

Does it still use directional WiFi for the connection? I love my Parrot Disco (super fun to fly), but man does its range (3/4 mile) absolutely suck compared to my DJI Mavic (2-3 miles). 

It seems that as the density of qubits (in this case atoms) increases, the likelihood that they will interact with another, neighboring, atom increases, breaking the connection between the atom and its original entangled partner. A technical challenge that will probably have to be overcome as these things scale up.

A nice diagram summarizing the TESS observing strategy. It will not only find planets, but potentially a whole slew of other transient phenomena that happen to fall within its field of view.