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Robotics

Submission + - Robot gets rid of landmines -- by crushing them (discovery.com) 1

Submitted by derGoldstein
derGoldstein writes: Discovery has an article about a robot that gets rid of landmines, not by using sensors to pinpoint their location, but by rotating a giant cylinder covered in tungsten hammers to smash them and blow them up: "An operator commands this beast from a safe distance using a remote control unit. The hull of the robot is made up of hardened steel plates in a "V" shape to help limit any damage from antitank mines and unexploded shells of sizes up to 3 inches, and the D-3 has been able to successfully ingest mines containing as much as 17.6 pounds of explosive, which is nothing to sneeze at.". A video of the beast in action can be found here.
Space

Submission + - New Soyuz Launch Facility Gets Equator Boost (pbs.org) 1

Submitted by tcd004
tcd004 writes: Russian and French teams are currently hard at work in French Guiana on the northern coast of South America, building the first Soyuz launch facility in the Western Hemisphere. Soyuz rockets normally carry 3,500 pound payloads into orbit, but from the French Guiana spaceport, the rocket will have an added benefit of being near the equator where the Earth's spin extremely fast. This extra boost allows it to deliver a 6,600 pound payload into orbit. The first launches are scheduled for October.
Programming

Submission + - The Rise of Git (infoworld.com)

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snydeq
snydeq writes: "InfoWorld takes a look at the rise of Git, the use of which has increased sixfold in the past three years. Buoyed in large part by interest among the Ruby community and younger developers, Git has been gaining share for open source development largely because of its distributed architecture, analysts note. And the version control system stands to gain further traction on Subversion in the years ahead, as Eclipse is making Git its preferred version control system, a move inspired by developers and members."
The Military

Submission + - Top General: Defense Department IT In 'Stone Age' (computerworld.com) 1

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CWmike
CWmike writes: "U.S. Marine Corps Gen. James 'Hoss' Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was sharply critical Tuesday of the the department is pretty much in the Stone Age as far as IT is concerned,' Cartwright said. He cited problems with proprietary systems that aren't connected to anything else and are unable to quickly adapt to changing needs. 'We have huge numbers of data links that move data between proprietary platforms — one point to another point,' he said. The most striking example of an IT failure came during the second Gulf War, where Marines and the Army were dispatched in southern Iraq, he said. 'It's crazy, we buy proprietary [and] we don't understand what it is we're buying into,' he said. 'It works great for an application, and then you come to conflict and you spend the rest of your time trying to modify it to actually do what it should do.'"
Politics

Submission + - Look who Obama's hired for cybersecurity team (wnd.com) 4

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walterbyrd
walterbyrd writes: "Ex-Clinton staffer 'lost' thousands of White House e-mails, booted by DHS for faking credentials . . . Investigators found that Callahan paid a diploma mill thousands of dollars for her bachelors, masters and doctorate degrees in computer science. She back-dated the degrees, all obtained between 2000 and 2001, to appear as if she earned them in 1993, 1995 and 2000, respectively. She landed the job of deputy DHS chief information officer in 2003."
Businesses

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Space

Submission + - ESA Summer of Code in Space (esa.int) 1

Submitted by
morrison
morrison writes: "Following the previous announcement [1], the European Space Agency's Summer of Code in Space (SOCIS) pilot program has announced their mentoring organizations [2] and is now open for submissions from students enrolled at EU institutions (alas, ESA requirement for the pilot) through July 27th. SOCIS is modeled after the highly successful Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program but targets "space-related" open source software. The selected mentoring organizations range from notable GSoC veterans like BRL-CAD [3] and ffmpeg [4] to relatively unknown space software like ORSA [5] and Open Mission Control [6].

[1] http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/06/29/0313212/
[2] http://sophia.estec.esa.int/socis2011/
[3] http://brlcad.org/wiki/ESA_Summer_of_Code_in_Space/Project_Ideas
[4] http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=FFmpeg_/_Libav_Summer_Of_Code_In_Space_2011
[5] http://orbit.psi.edu/~tricaric/SOCIS.html
[6] http://openmissioncontrol.wordpress.com/socis/"
Botnet

Submission + - Microsoft Posts $250K Reward For Rustock Herders (computerworld.com)

Submitted by
CWmike
CWmike writes: "Microsoft upped the ante on Monday in its months-long battle against the Rustock botnet by posting a $250,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the hackers who controlled the malware. It was the first time Microsoft used its malware bounty program since February 2009, when it offered the same amount for the people responsible for the fast-spreading Conficker worm. Microsoft announced the reward early Monday in a blog post written by Richard Boscovich, a senior attorney with the company's digital crimes unit. Microsoft also posted a reward (PDF document) that included an email address for tipsters."
Nintendo

Submission + - Netflix Releases Nintendo 3DS App (techtribune.com) 1

Submitted by
techtribune
techtribune writes: "Netflix is yet again expanding to another mobile device platform and this time around it's the Nintendo 3DS. The Netflix for the Nintendo 3DS will display content in 2D for the time being but soon subscribers will gain access to select 3D movies and best of all — no silly glasses are required with the 3DS."

Submission + - Being a Patent Troll Now Patented (kedrosky.com)

Submitted by ferespo
ferespo writes: By Paul Kedrosky

The end is nigh: Being a patent troll is now patented. Despair.

A system and methods for extracting value from a portfolio of assets, for example a patent portfolio, are described. By granting floating privileges described herein, a portfolio owner can extend an opportunity for obtaining an interest in selected assets from the portfolio to a client who lacks the resources to accumulate and maintain such a portfolio, in return for an annuity stream to the portfolio owner. The floating privilege can take many forms, depending on the needs of the client and the nature of the assets in the portfolio. The privilege is executed for a set of assets selected by the client and approved by the portfolio owner in accordance with a floating privilege agreement controlling the floating privilege.
Idle

Submission + - Pastafarian headgear now official for documents (yahoo.com) 1

Submitted by carletto
carletto writes: Austrian self-proclaimed Pastafarian Niko Alm was issued a driver's licence with a photo of him donning a colander. After 3 years the Austrian authorities have accepted his request to have a photo of him while wearing his religious headgear, the only kind of headgear allowed for the official photograph.

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