The link to the SpaceX "evidence" is an alien conspiracy video. Anyway, I'm guessing SpaceX is implying ULA had a shooter on the building? A .50 anti-material rifle like a Barrett or a Tac-50 with a single HEIAP round could do the trick easily, space rockets are fragile little toys. Timed right it would look like a failure or the rocket and the chances of anyone finding any indication of what really happened after the resulting explosion would be pretty damn slim. Only things I could think of would be punctures opposite the force of the explosion and shell fragments (good luck finding those). Any residue from the shell would most likely be burned off (if you could find it to begin with).

But I don't think anyone with enough knowledge of rockets would be that stupid. If you didn't get it to explode immediately there's a good chance the damage would cause the rocket to veer off course. The range safety officer would initiate self-destruct or the rocket would finally explode at that point but either way you're putting other people and equipment at risk.

What is interesting is that SpaceX uses Pad 40 and ULA uses Pad 41 so taking out Pad 40 would not affect Pad 41 (insert ominous sound effect here).

Personally I'm now convinced it was aliens *cough*.

The direction of their investigation was obvious from their previous release where they were talking about the breach in the helium system. They had a "large breach" that could not be explained, so what else fits the description better than a projectile? I was actually modded down for pointing that out (people saying you can't get within 8 miles of the launch etc), but, yeah, that's what they are looking at (among other things I assume). It is not that far-fetched I guess, I mean there are billions at stake here. And if you think about it, if you wanted to sabotage a rocket fueling would be the perfect time - low security compared to a launch (not to mention no bullet-time cameras etc rolling) and yet some activity that could be thought to be related to the cause.
I'm not saying it was certainly sabotage, but, regardless of what Giorgio Tsoukalos might tell you, it is much more probable than aliens ;)

Lockheed Martin and Boeing

Given the amount of money at stake, I wouldn't put it past them to engage in a little bit of industrial sabotage.

Earlier, it had snapped the interior of deep pits on the comet (shown above, from an altitude of 5.8 kilometers) that may show the building blocks it is made of.

It it too much to ask submissions be re-written to a point and not just blatant copying and pasting from the source?

The drug, epinephrine, is generic. It is adrenaline, which your body produces naturally. There is no patent stopping generic injectors, but so far none have been approved by the FDA.

Yes, they have. Adrenaclick's been on the market (with FDA approval) for 5+ years, and costs like 1/4 what Epipen does.

http://www.consumerreports.org...

That CEO was basically given a degree because of her father's political ties. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The company claimed on official government forms for multiple years that the drug is a generic.

The drug, epinephrine, is generic. It is adrenaline, which your body produces naturally. There is no patent stopping generic injectors, but so far none have been approved by the FDA. Teva submitted an injector, but the FDA denied approval for reasons that are not clear.

The patent on epinephrine expired Sep 11, 2005. Basically, the Epipen is a mechanism for delivery of the drug which could easily be likened to a simple auto-injection procedure or as it was known during the Second World War a Syrette .

Yes, why don't we patent a device known for over 60 years, put a new coat of paint on it and (this is the most important part) wrap it up in legalese so that professional people who are supposedly peers have no idea what the new patent is about and get rich. It does help if a few palms are greased as well.

That list of problems with competitors fails to mention Impax's Adrenaclick, which has been FDA approved and sold in the US market freely since 2010; it's widely available (it's sold at Rite Aid, Walgreens, CVS, Walmart, Target, etc) and much cheaper than EpiPen.

these clowns should get crucified for basically holding the public hostage

1 RICO charges should be filed against the company and the execs (i think its called separately and corporately liable??)

2 the IRS should do a full bore forensic audit on the paperwork for the last 7 years

3 the company should be required to pay back every penny plus 25% of the increase

4 their entire patent portfolio should be wiped and they should be required to assist any company currently in the same or semi related market on building a duplicate (in fact those patents should become PD)

if this does cause the company to become bankrupt then the Execs should be bared from any medical business for the next 15 years (or just give them all a nice 10-20 in a not actually nice prison)

next up for the Full Roman Treatment the guys that make Naloxone/Narcan

First we have

New California Law Allows Test of Autonomous Shuttle With No Driver

Followed by

Print-On-Demand Bone Could Quickly Mend Major Injuries

I think I sense a theme.

If you shatter a bone in the future, a 3D printer and some special ink could be your best medicine.

It will probably be an HP printer that requires genuine HP ink cartridges - so there's that.

Boned and can't get reboned.

You can buy polycaprolacetone (PCA) pretty readily. "Instamorph" is one brand, and you can also buy it from Alibaba by the metric tonne. It's a pretty decent thermoplastic, not all that dissimilar to ABS, but a little softer and more flexible.

The big thing is it melts at 60 degrees C and goes transparent when it's molten. It's also horrendously sticky when molten, especially to some plastics. It's fantastic stuff to keep around since you can use it to repair broken plastic items. If you have a small heat gun too, you can selectively rework and heat small areas.

I quit Snapchat when they added ads.
Surely the FB version will have them too.
No interest.

did they just spin up a new government branch because of the OPM leak and said new branch just contracted with the same company responsible for the OPM breach?

Yo dawg, I heard you liked government in your breaches, so I added government to your government breaches.

It opens a lot of possibilities. Standardised docks, single-connection car charging+audio, powered Bluetooth receivers, that sort of thing. It's a great option to add to our toolset.

But only as an option - not if it means removing the headphone jack too. If it catches on, everyone starts using USB headphones and audio jacks fall out of favour, then we can talk, but it's insane to remove such a popular connector while it's still so wisely-used.

"Developers of the standard hope that elimination of mini-jacks will help to make devices slimmer, smarter and less power hungry."

Less power hungry? Sounds like bullshit. Could someone explain how?

Because of the lack of a 3.5mm standard jack, more users will choose NOT to play music on their devices. This results in less usage of the audio amplifiers that feed signal to earbuds and headphones, resulting in less power use overall. ;-)

Innovative my ass. Nokia and Sony Ericsson were combining everything in the same port years before: Pop-Port, FastPort.

And guess what it sucked and having a separate 3.5mm audio jack was considered a huge improvement.

Back then it was considered to be a way to force people to buy their accessories and a cash grab. Now Apple calls it "courage". Hah.

No mention of vorbis, flac, alac or opus. Great, isn't it?

PCM_IEC60958
AC-3
MPEG-1_Layer1
MPEG-1_Layer2/3 or MPEG-2_NOEXT
MPEG-2_EXT
MPEG-2_AAC_ADTS
MPEG-2_Layer1_LS
MPEG-2_Layer2/3_LS
DTS-I
DTS-II
DTS-III
ATRAC
ATRAC2/3
WMA
E-AC-3
MAT
DTS-IV
MPEG-4_HE_AAC
MPEG-4_HE_AAC_V2
MPEG-4_AAC_LC
DRA
MPEG-4_HE_AAC_SURROUND
MPEG-4_AAC_LC_SURROUND
MPEG-H_3D_AUDIO
AC4
MPEG-4_AAC_ELD

Eventually I installed cameras and caught the motherfuckers, who got fined and harassed by the cops...

Your troll would have come across as more credible if you had managed to avoid the temptation to feed your ego with that embellishment. Harassed you say, golly.

Because authoritarians follow charismatic leaders...

Authoritarians follow leaders advocating authoritarian policies, like Hillary does.

Just saying repeating what someone else says doesn't make it true, no matter where you claim your loyalties lie (or in this case loyalties you disclaim).

Honey, I've been saying that Hillary is a lying, authoritarian, corrupt, incompetent bitch since long before Trump even entered the race.

Trump, the best president that money can buy. The best. 100 percent.

This pervasive sealing cripples public discussion of whether these judicial orders are lawful and appropriate.

Well of course it does. This is because they know very well that the orders are neither lawful nor appropriate. Furthermore they consider their ability to continue undermining national security a process that is vital to national security. So in order to maintain security, they must keep violating our security and must not allow public discourse to reach an informed consensus about what even constitutes security.

*sigh*

And that's not even touching on the privacy issues. Does anyone actually even need this shit unsealed to see the blatantly obvious logical flaw in the reasoning behind it being sealed in the first place?

Some lawyers and researchers at Stanford still think that the USA is a democracy which follows the rule of law, especially for its surveillance apparatus and unaccountable agencies (CIA, NSA, Homeland Security, ...).

I do hope that no one bursts their bubble, it would be like telling small children that there is no Santa.

As usual, Yahoo is missing the market. Rather than a binary porn/not-porn, there would be a MUCH bigger market for a porn classifier that could help people find what they like. If their DL-NN is based on RBMs they could even use it in generative mode to create porn to individual tastes.

New challenge, find an image that gives a perfect 1 score

Overstock is so much worse. It's insane

I bought one or two things over there a couple months ago, and received a barrage of emails daily. An absolute unmitigated shitstorm of spam. And they came from several different addresses (domains?), and were assigned to several different mailing lists, so marking one as spam and/or unsubscribing wouldn't stop the deluge.

I think it's mostly under control now, but what a mess that was...

It must be a uniquely American thing to equate massive levels of attention with good service. As a Brit now living in the US, all the unwanted interruptions you get when you're just trying to enjoy a slow, peaceful restaurant meal really took some getting used to.

I swear servers actually wait for you to fill your mouth before they comes over and ask "Is everything OK" every 30 seconds.... and whats with the rush to clear plates from the table? especially even before everyone at the table has finished eating? That's considered the height of bad manners in pretty much every other country I've ever lived in or visited.

Well, it's American to not spend hours on a meal, actually. I know, I traveled to Italy and had many great meals, and spent a couple of hours or more at the restaurant. That was fine, I was on holidays and was enjoying the leisurely experience.

Back home, well, things are a bit more rushed, so having efficiency really helps. I don't want to have to look for a waiter to call over so I can have my glass refilled. Just like I don't want to have to wait 10 minutes to get a waiter to get me my bill. (Yes, I like it when they automatically come and refill my glass, as well as print me out my bill and leave it at the table. Of course, if they hover around waiting for me to pay it, that's another thing, but if they drop it off and let me deal with it when I'm able, I'm happier.

Having to get the attention of a waiter can be the most annoying thing ever.

. . . . I had a Marketplace Seller who sent me a request for Feedback for 8 consecutive days.

I gave them feedback: One Star, titled "Adequate Item, but seller spams for feedback"

Amazon sent me a nastygram saying my review wasn't "helpful". . .

Have not left a review for a Marketplace item since, , ,

If I receive another from the same vendor, I go to Amazon and give them a one-star review. If you do this too (and I hope you do) then do NOT mention the spam as a reason for the bad review. If you do that, Amazon will remove the review, since reviews must be about the product and not the company selling it. So just make something up instead.

You blockhead. They do that because, I assume, you are reviewing THE PRODUCT through a PRODUCT REVIEW. Your review will appear under THE PRODUCT listing on Amazon, which is used by both Amazon, that Marketplace vendor, and all the other Marketplace vendors.

You honestly haven't figured this out yet? Despite the fact that when you search for the product it displays an Amazon purchase link (usually) and things like "24 new from $XXX.XX" and "5 used from $XX.XX"?

You want to go to your order history, click on the order, and magically there will appear a button labeled "Seller Feedback." Seller feedback is expressly supposed to be about the company selling it, so I'm not going to buy any cover-your-*ss follow-up that claims that you were referring to that button.

Hint: there's also a "Package feedback" button that you can use to complain about Amazon's packaging for the Amazon warehouse-fulfilled orders, which might actually provide feedback to the people who packaged the order.

Stop polluting the product reviews with made up issues because you can't be bothered to figure out how to review a vendor properly.

I get a lot of these. I buy used books on Amazon, all at least graded "good" or better. In Amazon's description, Good means the book includes a dust cover. About a quarter of the books I order arrive with no dust cover and they get a one-star review and an explanation why.

Then the e-mails start. The seller wants to give me a discount to make things right. I explain that I've already wasted as much time on the order as I'm going to and it's well worth whatever discount that they might give me to let people know that they messed up.
Next up is the full refund offer email. I reply, asking if they even read my email. I explain that they're wasting even more of my time and I'm even less inclined to remove my review now as I was before.
Occasionally at this point I get the begging email. What can we do to make this right? Let us know and we'll do it. I reply that if I hear from them again, I'll order from them again and give that item a one-star review too.

That shuts them up.

...I'm not on LinkedIn.

By gaining ownership of LinkedIn's unique dataset of over 450 million professionals in more than 200 countries, Microsoft will be able to deny competitors access to that data, and in doing so obtain an unfair competitive advantage

That 'data' is the career info and personal details on millions of hopeful job seekers, and they'll use it for what, exactly? "Oh, looks like Johnson just got a raise, time to start throwing ads for luxury vehicles at him!" Or "Smith is on mat leave, start spamming her with childhood educational assistance program ads!"

I did sign up for an account once about a decade ago...and deleted it after about a week. The sheer volume of bullshit that I got spammed with was unbelievable. It took quite some time to stem the flow again (pretty much had to pretend I died for a couple of years...). For a service advertised as 'for professionals', they sure act anything but.

SalesForce might actually want LinkedIn as a business unit.

However, I think MS is only in it for the user data, as with Skype and, to a degree, Mojang. MS is desperate to get user data like Apple and Google has. But MS has no idea how to build a community or connect with consumers, so they have to collect user data by either surreptitious means (Win10) or by buying it through business acquisitions.

Microsoft, Salesforce and Oracle are competing for the next artificial intelligence (AI) system, which requires large data sets to train properly. LinkedIn and Twitter have large data sets.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/salesforce-joins-race-for-artificially-intelligent-business-software-1474241982

If only we could stop the creation of smog in the first place.

The towers are just a silly stunt. Nobody really thinks that outdoor filters are a realistic solution. Filtering makes sense for enclosed areas, like homes and offices, but not outdoors. Beijing has been cracking down on burning trash and has banned coal for cooking/heating, and China has started imposing smog controls on cars. But diesel engines are common in China, and there are many many two-stroke gasoline engines on scooters and motorcycles. Those are not easy problems to fix. A good first step would be to promote electric scooters, with more convenient charging stations. That would not work in a hilly city like Chongqing, but should help in flat cities like Beijing or Shanghai.

Its a standard anti pollution device on boilers and large kilns. Its something that uses a lot of electricity and the power companies will shut them off at night alot if they can get away with it.

Rockefeller style.

Don't forget the new coal fired power plants to run the towers.

Electrostatic stack scrubbers are exactly the same thing, but fitted to the smokestacks.