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I enjoyed your book, made sense of a lot of things 13 year old me had stumbled upon that I could never get to work (as I was maybe 5 years too late).

'semi-governmental company'

If they're using it in prod then there are plenty of regulations that should force them to establish a real support relationship.

Sometimes this type of stuff happens for a prototype that an org is trying to get funded, but not for 10 years. I'd collect all of the org email addresses they used for the initial d/ls and contact them first- maybe one of the ones from ten years ago has gotten promoted to a point where they can establish a paid relationship or approve use of the open source version.

And somehow thinks upstate NY is a better real estate investment market than California.

On reading the comments it's about the healing powers of dodecahedrons.

Or Garth Marenghi quote.

The real answer is that none of the people Hegseth wants to show off to have access to those networks.

You know, even if you hired a protected class because of DEI fashion, that doesn't mean you can fire them just because the fashion has changed. The laws protecting them are still there, and I would think announcing "we're getting rid of DEI hires" would be giving a labor lawyer a discrimination case on a plate.

MITRE is already a not-for-profit.

I remember waiting for either the third or fourth page book of that series to release when The Matrix came out and being like "Oh yeah, that's where this is going". Was a much better story for a movie than a series of 700 page doorstoppers.

The local Hobbytowns had an aisle of RadioShack branded components- really basic stuff you might use for an elementary school science fair. Of course one of the stores closed last year, and the other is 90% R/C cars, so even that couldn't last.

The public internet is a public square, but does it have to be some caricature 1970's Times Square dominated by dealers, pimps, and thugs all looking to extract whatever they can from me?

First person to ask for more parenthesis in Lisp.

For World War 2 we relied on the British to name things (The US produced the M4 Medium Tank, the Brits called it the "Sherman"). The theory was they were government designed and (at least theoretically) produced by many companies.

I believe the Cold War names mostly came from US contractors- the government defined requirements ("air superiority fighter") and the contractors came up with designs that then had to be marketed against each other so they were given cool names ("Fighting Falcon").

Now there has been a lot of consolidation of contractors, and budgets are much more constrained. You no longer have the DoD funding competing designs and selecting, but a situation closer to early WW2 where the government is closer to the design.

At least that's my 5 minute guess, probably lots of 'citation needed' to be done.

Another notable Norwegian rocket launch:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/when-russian-radar...

The Eagles did- one of their players has a rugby background.

Do I have to be the old guy that brings up Clutch Cargo?

https://youtu.be/J8P3vZo-0Hc?t=169

Keep waiting, the dystopian cyberpunk future I was promised in my childhood is finally arriving...

You should look into the Artemis Spaceship Simulator: https://www.artemisspaceshipbridge.com/#/ (also on Steam)

While not nearly as extensive as what's in the article, it's a first step achievable with a small group of friends.

In the US, Methodist is a relatively middle-of-the-road denomination, not nearly as dreary as I've seen UK Methodists described.

When your kids are older there's "Phineas and Ferb" and "Gravity Falls" which are both good enough to be watched without kids.

Warner's a relic of a different time, unfortunately.

You do realize PARC and Bell Labs are long gone, right?

Anyone who has a clearance has signed numerous statements acknowledging their personal responsibility to protect the information in their care. If you want access, follow the procedures, then that responsibility is fulfilled. And if DOGE posts whatever to some unsecured S3 bucket its on them, not the bureaucrat (well, let's be real, contractor) who let them in.

Not really, whoever allows access could be prosecuted for failing any of a number of laws and regs for just rolling over so it would come down to a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation. The proper way to do it would be to work through both the organization's chain of command and send clearances through the security chain. Maybe that's being followed, but given the stories and timelines, I doubt it- Musk's war boys wouldn't even have time to obtain a clearance from scratch 3 weeks into the administration.

Clearance does not allow indiscriminate access, it just means you are theoretically trustable. You still need a reason to access the data, usually negotiated with the data owners, who is legally responsible for protecting the data. DOGE has bypassed all of that to just hoover up whatever they can.

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Neal Stephenson fans are already heading to the salt mines.

He means NRO- the US would miss a nuclear center being built in Iran or where ever because all the NRO left to be SpaceX minions.

We are for the big.

Satellites go in circles and need to point at things.