I was an M247 colo customer in Manchester for approx 5 years. I went to their primary DC many times, interacted with their staff. They're a hosting company. The colo racks are full of servers with lots of little labels with different company names. The managed (and hence vps) racks are numerous and anonymous, which is what you'd expect. I'm not sure what you think is going on. They're cheap. They have excess capacity. So bottom-feeding race-to-the-bottom operators like VPN providers are buying from them. It doesn't seem too surprising.
This craft was bought by a government bureaucracy, right? So it's just about possible that nobody knows.
"Absolutely, we in the 67th Orbital Wing operate the X-37B, but it's there to fly missions for the National Space Operations Office"
"The National Space Operations Office's mission is to develop operational capabilities in support of our country's strategic priorities, as implemented by the Near Space Command."
"NSPACECOM is proud to be providing this unique Earth-to-Orbit capability in support of front-line forces. The X-37B is currently deployed with the 67th Orbital Wing. You'd have to ask them for details of the current mission."
That has some intriguing possibilities - all I need to do is find five or more government departments and persuade each of them they are working for the other - and the project is the effect on UK citizens of being given a billion dollars (I of course am the first test subject, direct deposit on my please)
I think this may be because 'no one knows' is the media equivalent to 'nobody that will talk to us knows'. Effectively that in turn translates into 'nobody in the general public knows' and what with headline space being expensive (if you use shorter headlines you can use larger letters) that got shortened to 'no one knows'.
It could have been shortened even further to just "". Then there would be nothing misleading in the headline at all.
As it is, the headline suggests that some plane accidentally crossed the Kármán Line, has been floating out there for nearly 2 years, and not even the pilot or ATC could work out how it happened.
> what with headline space being expensive (if you use shorter headlines you can use larger letters)
At least one of the national newspapers in Norway found a way around the "need" for larger letters: "War type". Can't get larger letters in? Use a suitably aggressive looking font, and you'll make foreigners think you're writing about war when you're writing about a tax increase or the latest minor political scandal.
Posting on Craigslist and some random websites is not an adequate defence against Theft By Finding charges. The person that removed this clearly valuable and not marked as abandoned item needs to immediately report it to the local authorities, and make arrangements to ultimately hand it in.
"breaks into"? Errm, they have the keys to the door. They own the house. No one broke in. Hotmail users give MS permission to look in their email when they agree to the T&Cs. So using an account hosted by them to conspire against them was pretty boneheaded to say the least.
Most of my friends aren't tech people, and most of them own iPhones because they like the way they look and feel. One of them just swapped to a Nokia because she liked the colour. Phones are jewellery for a lot of people, they're all roughly functionally equivalent anyway. Why not smartwatches?
$27778.92 per annum before taxes and expenses. There are an awful lot of people getting paid an awful lot more to paste bad themes into their employer's Drupal config. So it goes.
You're probably being ironic, but for the sake of the readers, I'll point out that most of us in the United States that are older than around 30 years old and learned to type using a formal system (including typing software) use double-spaces.
That's the way we were trained to type. The only thing this proves is that Satoshi was probably not a very young person. I don't think many people believe this anyway (or maybe he just "faked" the double-spaces?).
The joke was a reference back to Goodman's observartion in the original article: "the punctuation in the proposal is also consistent with how Dorian S. Nakamoto writes, with double spaces after periods and other format quirks."
Your comments about prevalence of this technique stand, of course.
Since they opened the SDK you've been able to do most (all?) the stuff people were initially excited about. The problem is that all the excitement has long since died away so very few people are developing versatile Chromecast apps... and the ones that are out there are mostly buggy and poor designs.
AllCast [1] is probably the most well known despite being crippled (limited to 1 min playback I think?) unless you pay.
There are very good procedural reasons for not paying out to random people that turn up at your offices. Try going to your bank's office building (not branch) and demanding cash. Proper withdrawal processes should be designed to protect both parties from fraud / risk while remaining convenient.
I'm not saying I think mtgox's actual procedures aren't batshit insane (they are), but trying (and failing) to operate outside of those procedures doesn't really prove anything.
While the attempt to contact the CEO in person does push the issue, it is sort of ridiculous to think that they keep 'cash on hand' at the office to cash people out.
As pointed out there are a bunch of reasons to keep withdrawal processes within process especially with a semi-anonymous currency of this type.
