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Comment Re:Of course (Score 1) 109

What's so difficult about changing the fore/background colors differently for each URL component to contrast them out from each other?

Put the protocol on a grey background, color code it for "insecurity" with your child pastel traffic light standard.
Dark background and light text for the domain so it stands out.
White background with red text and a red underline or three for a colon and port number if not default. Make a couple squiggly if you must.
Then normal colors for the address, up to the "?" separator, and everything after in a lighter text color.

If you honestly are doing this to highlight the domain name because "safety", then *highlight it*
There is no highlighting, there is nothing to contrast it from anything else. You had one job developer, one job, and you failed.

Because when you say you want to highlight something, and do not add in any highlight, but instead HIDE things... Well "highlighting the domain" is a lie. A not-bold not-stylized face lie.

Hiding things is what you do when trying to trick people, to defraud them, to take advantage.

Firefox is already sorta doing this, at least in the nightly build that I'm running. Everything except the domain name is grey, the top-level domain (minus .com) is white to make it stand out. I still see the whole URL.

Comment Excited to Witness History in Person (Score 1) 112

I wasn't lucky enough to ever see a shuttle launch from the Space Coast. However I've moved to the Space Coast in the last few years, and I'm extremely excited to witness astronauts launch into space from U.S. soil. I'm about 20 minutes from KSC, and I can just stand outside my front door and witness every launch without having to cram along the waterways here in Brevard county.

Best of luck to Bob and Doug on bringing us into a new era of spaceflight.

Comment Re:Bright House Networks (Score 1) 142

My Bright House Lightning 75 in Central Florida is advertised as 75Mbs, but I consistently see 83-84Mbps

This is consistant with my experience. I had Lightning 35, and regularly saw 40 Mbps. I just upgraded to Lightning 150 and I can consistently get 170Mbps down. Best of all, there aren't any usage caps.

Submission + - SpaceX Signs Lease Agreement with Air Force for Landing Pad (spacenews.com)

PaisteUser writes: Space News reports that SpaceX signs a historic agreement to allow construction of a landing pad for Falcon 9 booster stages.

From the article: "The U.S. Air Force announced Feb. 10 that SpaceX has signed a five-year lease for Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 13, which was used to launch Atlas rockets and missiles between 1956 and 1978. In its new role, it will serve as a landing pad for Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy booster cores launched from Florida, the Air Force said. Financial terms of the lease were not disclosed."

Patrick Air Force Base also provides the documentation used for the environmental impact study which details out how the landing pad will be constructed:
http://www.patrick.af.mil/shar...

Comment Re:Landing Pad (Score 1) 69

SpaceX just recently signed a lease agreement with the Air Force to construct a landing pad for just that purpose. If you have a chance to read through the whole proposal, it's quite interesting. They are using an old launch complex that hasn't been used in 30+ years.

http://spacenews.com/spacex-le...

Link to PDF providing some detail used for the proposal: http://www.patrick.af.mil/shar...

Here's the PDF for the environmental assessment:
http://www.patrick.af.mil/shar...

Comment Re:Landing Pad (Score 1) 69

SpaceX just recently signed a lease agreement with the Air Force to construct a landing pad for just that purpose. If you have a chance to read through the whole proposal, it's quite interesting. They are using an old launch complex that hasn't been used in 30+ years.

http://spacenews.com/spacex-le...

Link to PDF providing some detail used for the proposal: http://www.patrick.af.mil/shar...

Comment Put Your Money in Speakers (Score 1) 249

I'm known to have a pretty good ear for music and audio. I've mixed bands live in a professional setting for years. Modern amplifiers are so clean now adays, that normal or even discerning person can't tell a difference. There was a double-blind study done (I can't find the link at the momemt) that used the same high end speakers, but changed out the amplifier and CD player. Most of the 'golden ears' couldn't tell the difference between the crappy amp and the reference amp, and a bunch preferred the crappy amp over the reference amp without knowing what they were choosing.

I'm perfectly happy with my sub $300 Yamaha receiver and my Paradigm's. They sound fantastic.

As long as you don't push your amplifier to the point where it adds distortion, or starts clipping, any amplifier will do. Spend your money on good speakers.

Submission + - NASA Orion Capsule Succesfully Lifts off from Florida Space Coast (nbcnews.com)

PaisteUser writes: NBC News writes: America's most powerful rocket launched a robotic test version of NASA's Orion deep-space capsule on its first flight on Friday, a day after a series of snags forced a scrub of the first attempt. The United Launch Alliance Delta 4 Heavy rocket's liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station had to be postponed on Thursday — at first due to gusty winds, and later due to a balky fuel valve. But on Friday, no technical issues or weather snags got in the way of an on-time 7:05 a.m. ET launch, even though the clouds were thick over Florida's Space Coast.

"Liftoff at dawn! The dawn of Orion, for a new era of American space exploration!" launch commentator Mike Curie said as the rocket blasted through the clouds just after sunrise.

Article include a live feed from the NASA TV channel, NTV-1.

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