By doing an illegal operation in an immigrant neighborhood where they won’t report her for fear of INS involvement. 

There is truly nothing at all unusual about a recent blockbuster being available for piracy in full detail “with all the bells and whistles.” The piracy communities have always delivered a range of “products” ranging from low quality oldschool standard definition files all the way up to full DVD/BluRay rips.

Reading between the lines it seems like the test flight team suffered an ideological split during development, with management favoring those who gave more schedule-friendly answers. Stucky was sidelined for not being aggressive enough with the schedule, and let go when their bet against him was “proven” by the…

What rock did you crawl out from under? Trashy comment sections are a Gawker network tradition going back a decade and change at least.

You mean the “murder hornets” that haven’t yet terrorized us one iota? FFS for a writer under the “conservation” label on this blog, this is pathetic.

Belittling snark? You mean when I implied you hadn’t read the article? I stand by it, and you’re being sensitive now too.

He was around for past tragedy, and he’s commenting on parallels that he sees. He still knows people in the program, and closely follows events (I know him myself, and know the care and attention he puts into this).

NASA is a partner in the ISS, and responsible for the safety of their astronauts. Yes, they have a responsibility for making sure the other partners in the station are being safe and sane. They shy away from this responsibility because it’s not politically expedient to irritate the Russians, or the Senators who want…

If you read the entire OpEd (or even, imagine this, the article above), you’ll see that Oberg cites lots of other potential problems and indicators of problems. A complacency from a lack of real threats is only one potential contribution to the piss-poor response.

I’m talking about the long term consequences of climate change and wealth inequality as the economic situation has led to the corporatization of space flight

Even when done by our government I think we probably could have gotten microwaves, fuel cells and all the other creations of the Apollo project without the expense of a manned mission to the Moon. It was fantastic but in the end it was theater as a result of political posturing.

You have valid points, but there’s more nuance to *some* of the Android users - I don’t know the real breakdown, but it’s a real division.

Yeah, ADB is still an option (including decent support for wireless ADB over the LAN), but it certainly hasn’t gotten any more user friendly -- still distinctly a power user option. It’s a shame really, I feel like some companies could have done great stuff with ADB links to manage your phone, but it’s remained…

This ain’t NASA — No humans aboard until it’s flown successfully dozens of times.

Space doesn’t take resources away from Earth. All the engineers and technicians designing and building the hardware are paid on Earth, feed families here, etc. The technological developments spread to other industries, bringing new materials, better solar energy, better batteries, better medical technology.…

It’s not a developer option, it’s in the regular settings. And the device will prompt you when you try to launch an APK - you have to give per-app permissions to install APKs, which typically just means the first time you download one you’ll be prompted to allow your browser app to install APKs, you’ll check the box,…

Most of what I deliver is in those little white bags, and I have no idea the contents besides the obvious “Oh, this is a big jug of something, that’s a skillet, that’s a book” sort of observations. But larger and bulkier items are often in manufacturers packaging, so the contents are obvious. Cheap flatpack furniture,…

I gig for Amazon Flex sometimes, and I drop plenty of packages on multimillion dollar doorsteps. Some real cheap generic shit, too.

Fair, there’s some subjectiveness to it. But read his PR copy, talking about borders vanishing, yada yada ... He was hardly high enough to actually see anything but a state border (in a country where interstate travel is utterly trivial). That was pure ad copy not written by him, composed before he traveled, etc. I’d…

Not to hate on the direct premise of your article, but I guess I gotta hate on the premise of your article anyway ... Bezos didn’t go high enough for the overview effect. He likely didn’t even see outside the borders of the US, but perhaps he just barely saw our next neighbor over. In any case, he didn’t see any of…