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Falcon 9 Is Now Fully Integrated At Cape Canaveral 82

Posted by timothy on Friday January 02, 2009 @02:08AM from the neither-cape-ann-nor-cape-cod dept.

RobGoldsmith writes "SpaceX's Falcon 9 is now fully integrated: an update from Elon Musk states 'Falcon 9 is now fully integrated at the Cape! Today we mated the 5.2 m payload fairing to the Falcon 9 first stage. This was the final step in the integration process — one day ahead of schedule.' New images are now available showing the first fully integrated Falcon 9 Rocket. Once the launch mount and erector are complete, SpaceX will transfer Falcon 9 on to the erector and raise it to vertical early in 2009."

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Comment Re:Try YouMail... (Score 1) 584

by loraksus on Tuesday November 11, 2008 @03:28PM (#25724563) Attached to: Where Have All the Pagers Gone?

Rogers (in Canada) charges you airtime minutes when a message is left and again when you listen to it (regardless of whether you call from a landline or from the cell)

If a call hits the voicemail system (i.e. no left message, you still get docked 1 airtime minute)
Minor, but it's pretty fucking annoying.

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Submission + - WD crippled "NAS", prevents sharing of med

Submitted by loraksus on Thursday December 06, 2007 @05:56PM

loraksus writes: One of the latest offerings from WD is this 1 TB drive that sits on your network. It's nice and white with a gigabit Ethernet port and UPNP support.
Oh... and it won't share any media files — from AAC to WMV — due to "unverifiable media license authentication"

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Submission + - Celebrity Paparazzi sue blogger over photos

Submitted by kaufmanmoore on Sunday December 17, 2006 @09:18PM

kaufmanmoore writes: X17, the paparazzi group famous for photos like Katie Holmes pregnant and Britney Spears sans underwear are suing blogger Perez Hilton for copyright infringement for his use of their photos on his blog to the tune of $7.6million. Perez Hilton maintains that he is entitled to fair use of newsworthy images and is using them to comment on them and for satiric purposes. The paparazzi claim that Hilton is freeloading off their images and reducing their ability to sell them as exclusives to gossip magazines. Full story here

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What Do Geek Squad Technicians Actually Do? 1065

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday June 27, 2006 @10:35PM from the are-they-worthy-of-the-name dept.

Zenitram asks: "I am a lead technician at a company that repairs computers for various vendors. Many of our systems are from Best Buy's Geek Squad. Based on the systems Geek Squad sends us, it makes me wonder what, if anything, do they actually do? We get systems that have issues that we simply shouldn't have to work on, like: installing device drivers, OS reloads, and reseting CRUs (Customer Removable Units). Additionally, we get systems that are misdiagnosed such as: bad hard drive when a system has faulty RAM; no POST when it simply won't boot into Windows; or no boot when it won't power on at all. So, what is the scope of technical repair that Geek Squad techs do?"

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Hacker Resells VOIP For Profit 155

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday June 07, 2006 @05:39PM from the lots-and-lots-of-profit dept.

uncleO writes "The New York Times tells the story of today's arrest of Edwin Andres Pena, 23, who 'hacked into computers run by an unsuspecting investment company in Rye Brook, N.Y., commandeered its unprotected servers, and re-routed his phone traffic through them,' then 'used more than $1 million he received from his customers to go on a spending spree, buying real estate in south Florida, a 40-foot Sea Ray Mercruiser motor boat, and luxury cars including a BMW and a Cadillac Escalade.'"

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Fraud in Internet Dating Prompting Regulation 371

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday June 07, 2006 @01:53AM from the you-mean-i-shouldn't-believe-everything-i-read dept.

anaesthetica writes "According to the Washington Post, an increasing tide of fraud in internet dating is prompting lawyers and lawmakers to examine possible regulations and consumer protections. Wire fraud scamming, plane ticket ripoffs, fraud perpetrated to fund trysts, fake "date bait" messages -- these are just a few of the issues the courts are beginning to deal with. Dating websites were immunized from lawsuits over false statements by the recent Communications Decency Act. Other attempts to regulate internet dating, such as the 2005 'mail-order bride' legislation, are already being challenged in court, but an increasing number of states are sponsoring their own legislation."

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