It shouldn't be that surprising. The Falcon 9 and Space Shuttle were two very different beasts and have different flight patterns. The Space Shuttle had additional thrust during the first part with the two solid-fuel boosters vs the Falcon 9 with no boosters, just 9 engines. Also the Dragon had some dampening between it and the Falcon while the Shuttle had no dampening, it's three engines effectively was the first and second stage rockets.

As for the second stage, the Falcon second stage has one of the same Merlin engines as first stage, just with a larger nozzle to improve thrust in a vacuum. Unlike the Shuttle or the upcoming Centaur second stage, the Merlin has more thrust but isn't as efficient. Much of this is due to it using RP-1 (highly refined kerosene) instead of liquid hydrogen, which the Centaur second stage will use and the Shuttle used the entire time. The Falcon second stage is going to be more powerful but be done quicker, which keeps it running fast and hot all the way to orbit.

Docking should be smoother. It's entirely automated, which lets it get exactly the momentum needed to dock without any extra which would cause the jolt. I expect all automated docking will be almost equally as smooth as Dragon's.

Now grandma can't get her copy of a 3D printed gun! How will she ever make that one-shot pistol she's always wanted? Seriously though, Facebook is losing relevance and traffic by the day and parading stuff like this around isn't going to help them. Nobody was going to Facebook to find links to 3D weapons blueprints before, and they still won't now. Short your Facebook stock now while they're still swirling in the toilet.

Rust can go and, well, rust. If you want to get safer C, than add Cyclone support to gcc and use that. No rewrites, no learning a new language, no hitching your project to a SJW converged organization that is slowly dying, no fanboys who pathetically spam puff pieces on Slashdot... Seriously, Cyclone or any of the other safe-C alternatives are better and less intrusive than a Rust rewrite.

I used to, but my webhost SmarterASP.NET decided to store their backups on the same SAN as the actual data, so I now have no emails. You are either extremely OCD and manually archive anything important or don't use your email for anything noteworthy that you want to keep for future reference.

In further news, the UK Conservative Party has decided to rename themselves Norsefire in an effort to provide "strong leadership in times of terrorism".

That would be the trolls

Well, I'll be sure to give them something to look at. Since this is plain HTTP, technically I can send them anything if I know the right URLs. So they'll see me talking to the presidents of various countries (some friendly, some not), taking pictures of goatse, reading leaked classified documents, visiting motorolasucks.com, and visiting various locations around the north and south poles, North Korea, and Motorola HQ.

Mix in enough chaff and it's harder to separate the real data. Too bad the article doesn't list the URLs, since I'm never in hell going to buy a Motorola phone.

It does. Just make sure the options "Dismount all when: Entering power saving mode" and "Wipe cached passwords on auto-dismount" are checked in the TrueCrypt settings (Settings -> Preferences) and you should be good. This will automatically dismount all TrueCrypt drives and wipe any cached passwords from memory when sleeping or hibernating.

Get b&, creep.

The sites only block Tor exit nodes. Unless the botnets are turning these computers into exit nodes, they won't be blocked.

Does Minecraft work with Icedtea? From what I've seen Icedtea works fine with hard floats, it's just the Oracle Java that doesn't support it yet.

Ron Paul tried that very technique, but he got stonewalled by the party establishment and had the rules changed at the last minute to exclude him. People are beginning to realize that changing the parties from the inside out doesn't work as long as there are power hungry people controlling the rules and making decisions for the party.

But this only works if you try and work within the party. Once Tea Party Republicans realize that they can't beat the powerful and corrupt using their rules, than we'll see a mass exodus followed by a party collapse rivaling the Whig party.