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?

Obviously, it works at quantcast. How could it not work elsewhere?

He would make the necessary architecture changes. It wouldn't have to be unconditional.

It can ostensibly disable an adversary's satellite.

Uhm, I might be off, but are you thinking of the X-37B?

The US has had satellite shoot down capability for a while.

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.

There was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_F-15_Eagle#An... and http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=35015

However, disabling (or altering) the satellite without the adversary knowing about it is an even greater advantage.

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.

And that's just one of his companies. Let's not forget PayPal and Tesla, which, while not as important to the future of humanity, both represent successful leaps forward in technology and economics.

There's MPlayer...

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

And in the OS X context the better form of it, MPlayerX: http://mplayerx.org/

Which has taken over Perian / VLC almost entirely, for me. Perian has been utterly fantastic, a near ideal passive improvement for everything, but MPlayer smokes everything in performance.

I find mplayerx extended better:

http://www.mplayerosx.ch/

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

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

Fascinating paper, even if it is 18 years old now. Thanks.