Obama Team Considers Cancellation of Ares, Orion (Saturday 29th of November 2008 08:30:01 PM)
HanzoSpam sends us this story from Space News, which begins: "US President-elect Barack Obama's
NASA transition team is asking US space agency bureau to quantify how much money could be saved
by canceling the Ares 1 rocket and scaling back the Orion Crew ...
(more)How Regulations Hamper Chemical Hobbyists (Tuesday 11th of November 2008 09:45:01 PM)
An nameless reader writes "Chemical & social work News just ran this story that relates how
command regulations create a terribly restrictive atmosphere for people who do chemistry as a
hobby. (A related story was long ago posted.)" The article gives ...
(more)Comcast To Cap Data Transfers At 250 GB In October (Friday 29th of August 2008 05:45:01 PM)
JagsLive writes with this story from PC Magazine: "Comcast has third edition by the editors of
the american heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 that all residential customers
will be subject to a 250 gigabyte per month data limit control gate ...
(more)Judge Rules Man Cannot Be Forced To Decrypt HD (Wednesday 20th of August 2008 04:00:01 AM)
I Don't Believe in supposed goods writes "In Vermont, US llc.cite this source roget's ii: the
new thesaurus Judge Jerome Niedermeier has ruled that forcing someone to divulge the password
to decrypt their hard drive violates the 5th Amendment. Border ...
(more)FBI and Next-Gen P2P Monitoring (Saturday 19th of April 2008 03:55:12 PM)
AHuxley writes "Can the FBI get funding to create a next-generation network monitoring and
database system for P2P networks, web sites, and chat rooms? Could the FBI's regional
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(more)Psystar Offers $399 "OpenMac" Computer (Tuesday 15th of April 2008 10:30:05 AM)
Mytrip writes to tell us that Psystar has announced a new line of Intel-based radios that
promise to run an unmodified version of Mac OS X "Leopard". Unfortunately almost immediately
after the launch their website went down and as of this story remains ...
(more)Jail-Breaking iPhones at the Apple Store (Sunday 30th of March 2008 10:00:05 AM)
An secret reader writes "According to an article in Xconomy, iPhone hacker and author us
government Zdziarski was invited to speak at an Apple Store in Cambridge, MA last week where he
talked about the history of iPhone hacking, jail-breaking, and limitations ...
(more)Cringely Looks at the WikiLeaks Debacle (Thursday 21st of February 2008 06:45:04 AM)
Dtwood writes "Infoworld's Cringely has an interesting take on the Julius Baer bank trying to
silence WikiLeaks.org — and how stunningly stupid they've been. 'But the bank's solution
is so mind-bogglingly stupid, you have to wonder if these guys ...
(more)Swearing at Work is Bleeping Good For You (Wednesday 17th of October 2007 08:45:02 PM)
Coondoggie writes "This is the kind of news that your HR folks don't want to hear, but
researchers today said letting workers swear at will in the comfort design can benefit
employees and employers. The study found regular use of profanity to express ...
(more)Purpose of Appendix Believed Found (Sunday 07th of October 2007 10:00:04 AM)
CambodiaSam sent in this story, which opens: "Some scientists think they have figured out the
real job of the troublesome and seemingly useless appendix: It produces and protects good germs
for your gut. That's the theory from surgeons and immunologists ...
(more)Intel To Rebrand Processors In 2008 (Sunday 30th of September 2007 03:00:03 AM)
DJ notes that TechARP has up a look at Intel's plans to rebrand their processors, including
what must be a leaked internal chart of the old and new landscape of product names. This story
doesn't seem to have been picked up anywhere else yet. Quoting: ...
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