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Submission + - New Zealand to Launch First Private Space Rocket (spacefellowship.com)

RobGoldsmith writes: Private New Zealand aerospace company Rocket Lab completed its final ground-based test today and is now ready to launch New Zealand into the space race with its Atea-1 launch vehicle. The first high altitude launch of Atea-1 is scheduled for the end of November this year. Once Atea-1 has successfully concluded the development phase it will be the first privately built rocket launched from the Southern Hemisphere to enter space. Read this article to see a new CGI movie and get more information on the launch!
Cellphones

Submission + - Hands on with the HTC Touch HD2 (pcpro.co.uk)

Barence writes: Pc Pro has its hands on the much-anticipated HTC Touch HD2, and first impressions are good. The huge screen earns much of the praise, balanced out by the necessarily bloated size of the handset. In fact the initial verdict is that it's "in many ways better than the iPhone. And that’s despite the use of Windows Mobile 6.5."
Idle

Submission + - SPAM: Insurance + cryonics = you are your beneficiary

destinyland writes: A science writer discovers it's possible to finance your cryogenic preservation using life insurance — and then leave a huge death benefit to your future thawed self! "Most in the middle class, if they seriously want it, can afford it now. So by taking the right steps, you can look forward to waking up one bright future morning from cryopreservation the proud owner of a bank account brimming with money!" There's one important caveat: some insist that money "will have no meaning in a future dominated by advanced molecular manufacturing or other engines of mega-abundance." (This article appeared in the fall issue of H+ magazine...)
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Security

Submission + - Holocaust Denier's Email Hacked, Leaked (wired.com)

AdamD1 writes: "It appears that a group of hackers have had access to holocaust denier's email accounts for some time, and decided to post a lot of what they found on Wikileaks.

The hackers posted Irving's e-mail correspondence online, as well as the user name and password for his web site account and AOL e-mail account, which shared the same password. The hackers also posted the e-mail addresses and other personal information — such as names, phone numbers and shipping and credit card billing addresses — of people who made donations through his web sites, purchased his books or bought tickets for his appearances.

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Comment forgive my asking. (Score -1) 173

I'm not sure if this question was brought up already, if it has been, then mod me down...however, I've been thinking. why not just create a new x-box system, like they did when they created the 360. Keep all the same elements and everything. essentially it'd be the 360, but it would have the inboard system for the Natal. I see nothing wrong with going out and buying the Natal as an add on, but yet at the same time, I find it extremely interesting that they want to do an add on for (when all is said and done mind you) $100. If they were just to create a new system, call it the X-box 360+ and have everything built in, wouldn't that be more cheaper in the long run? Because when you think about it, do you really want to go out and buy something that may not work, when if they build it in system, they can test it to make sure it works. That I think was something along the same lines when they first did in comp web cams, because people weren't sure if the product was going to work. I dunno. just my thoughts.

Comment Re:Transmission was heard... (Score -1) 154

Sounds also like what was heard in The Sparrow. Though in this case the transmissions from Rakhat wasn't music, but the planets poet celebrating the joys of sex/rape. The transmissions were heard the same way though; through radar/radio. It does raise an interesting question though, since after reading The Sparrow, we now hear music.....but how do we know it's actually music.

Comment Re:Most professors guilty? (Score -1) 467

I think Land that what you're missing is that there are people in college who really don't want to be in class, that the only reason they're there is because they're on a sports scholarship or something to that extent. They're forced to take classes, so they take something that A) they really don't care about and B) something that is easy. Unfortunately that doesn't translate out in college at all, unless you somehow don't declare a major at all and take all gen eds for all four years that you're there (which can be done apparently) and just breeze through. I realize though that once again with PowerPoint this also enables a student to skip out on class because a lot of profs that I know of, will post the PowerPoint they show in class to the server for the class. This is one of those things that I like, because most of my profs move through the slides way too fast to write anything down. The other thing that they do is that they will print out the slides(the Bio/Chem profs at my school do this) and then you can write in the lines they provide, while they talk about the slides as they show each one.

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