Non-IT News Thread

Fyre Festival in the Bahamas is "going down in flames." This is epic stuff. Anyone know someone who is trapped there? Did @Jaguar go?

https://twitter.com/search?vertical=default&q=%23fyrefestival&src=tyah

Dominica has spent her morning reading the tweets. This is insane what is going on over there.

mlnews

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/southwest-airlines-to-stop-overbooking-flights-2017-04-27

Time to fly SouthWest! Woot.

mlnews

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/speed-of-poop-big-or-small-mammals-drop-a-deuce-in-12-secs-study-finds/

nadnerB

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/speed-of-poop-big-or-small-mammals-drop-a-deuce-in-12-secs-study-finds/

Headline number 2 of the day

mlnews

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/05/watch-live-spacexs-second-attempt-to-launch-its-first-spy-satellite/

JaredBusch

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/05/watch-live-spacexs-second-attempt-to-launch-its-first-spy-satellite/

Here is the webcast. Launch is jsut after the 12 minute mark.

Youtube Video – [12:00..]

The really cool thing about this one is that the spy satellite was only gong to LEO. So the first stage had ground camera coverage the entire time. Launch to landing. I had never watched that before.

dafyre

@JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/05/watch-live-spacexs-second-attempt-to-launch-its-first-spy-satellite/

Here is the webcast. Launch is jsut after the 12 minute mark.

Youtube Video – [12:00..]

The really cool thing about this one is that the spy satellite was only gong to LEO. So the first stage had ground camera coverage the entire time. Launch to landing. I had never watched that before.

That was awesome!

Reid Cooper

Very cool stuff. So much exciting spaceflight going on now, it has been so long without it.

mlnews

Patent Trolls Take a Hit...

http://techrights.org/2017/04/29/recognicorp-v-nintendo-swpats/

scottalanmiller

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

Patent Trolls Take a Hit...

http://techrights.org/2017/04/29/recognicorp-v-nintendo-swpats/

Woot!

mlnews

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/05/kiosk-delivers-pirated-movies-to-usb-sticks-in-the-middle-of-a-mall/

scottalanmiller

Paris art dealer 'forgets' €1.5m picture in taxi
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39782481