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The DC-10's legacy is really one of bad timing more than anything. Its direct competitor, the L-1011 suffered a very short production run for many of the same reasons, none of which involved safety.

The 1980s ushered in a new era of twin engined widebody aircraft and the phasing out of the flight engineer. These two trijets were consequently a difficult sell, although the MD-11 was competitive with the 747 briefly in the early to mid 90s.

Curious, how did you come to possess enough knowledge of the Netflix application architecture to believe the techniques that have served you well at Quantcast could unconditionally apply to Netflix?

Sorry, you're right. I was thinking of the x-37.

However, I wasn't aware there was air-to-low-earth-orbit shoot down capability. Only ground launch capability.

It can ostensibly disable an adversary's satellite.

I don't think he'll need to get to Mars to be on that list.

Lastingly transforming the economics, reusability, and safety of rocket and vehicle technology in his short lifetime will be enough.

Musk and Spacex are already on track to benefit humanity 500 years from now and beyond.

There's MPlayer...

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html

On this topic, an interesting paper from 1994 on adding randomization to network traffic sources:

http://ee.lbl.gov/papers/sync_94.pdf