I wrote about the Left’s long-time misogyny over five years ago, but in light of the latest revelations about Hollywood scumbags, it’s just as relevant today.
[Update a few minutes later]
Glenn Reynolds has some related links.
Raptor
The USAF is partially (Or totally? Who knows?) funding SpaceX to develop it.
I have no problem with this; it’s a much better use of taxpayer funds than AR1.
Still Busy
We have relatives visiting this coming week, and are doing things to clean up and organize the house that we’ve been putting off for months/years. Meanwhile, go see how pathetically Tom Stafford is stuck in the 60s. #Apolloism
Off The Air
I was at the Space Settlement Summit all day yesterday, and will be all day today as well, with a non-functioning laptop. I will be tweeting occasionally from my phone, however, and I’ll probably have some overall thoughts on the event tomorrow.
In Search Of A Library
Bob Zimmerman has a familiar problem, one that I and many friends do (Leonard David’s is particularly acute, after half a century of space reporting). My own archives, such as they are, go back almost four decades.
Forget Mars
A planetary scientist who would prefer to live on Titan.
As usual, destinations are a secondary issue. What’s important is the ability to affordably get wherever we want in the solar system. Elon is at least paying lip service to that now.
A Minimoon
NASA has confirmed the existence of another “moon” around earth. It’s a captured asteroid (and this happens occasionally). This seems like a very near-earth object. I wonder what its composition is?
Moving AST Out Of FAA
Laura Montgomery discusses the legal and bureaucratic implications.
Lisa Bloom
Wow. Like her mother, she really is a hypocritical piece of work:
‘You know what is truth, Lisa? I feel like people should know that you’ve been calling my literary agent and saying there’d be money for me if I got on the “Harvey’s Changed” bandwagon?’ the actor wrote.
‘You told her that I should care about HIS reputation. How HE has a family now and how HE has changed. Well, guess what? I’ve always had a family and that didn’t stop him from assaulting me.’
Lord Acton identified problem w/Hollywood (and a lot of other places) a long time ago. And not only does it corrupt, but evil seeks power.
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) October 15, 2017
[Update later morning]
Hollywood’s masculinity deficit.
WiFi Security
This is wonderful. WPA2 has a critical flaw. One more reason to continue to distrust wireless.
[Update a few minutes later]
Well, apparently, so far Netgear is not on the case, so not clear what the implications are for our Orbi mesh. Guess until our phones get patched, good idea to not use wifi.
[Update a while later]
Here’s more information. My new phone is Android 7, so it’s affected, but I don’t generally use it with wifi. I’ll definitely avoid it, or at least avoid it for anything mission critical (like bank accounts), until it patches.
[Update a while later]
Now wondering about the Sony Blu-Ray player. Does this make it vulnerable to becoming a DDOS attacker? Wonder if there’s any way to patch it, and if there is, or will be a patch?
[Mid-morning update]
Nothing on line about patching the player; I’ve tweeted a request to @SonyElectronics. Meanwhile, here’s more info at Ars Technica.
[Update a few minutes later]
Here is the web site for the attack technique, with a lot of technical detail.