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Submission + - India Conducted ASAT Test, Shot Down Low Earth Orbit Satellite (theweek.in)

Submitted by William Robinson
William Robinson writes: India conducted ASAT (anti satellite weapon) test and successfully hit a low earth orbit live satellite. The announcement was made by the Prime Minister himself, saying "India has become the fourth nation to have tested an anti-satellite weapon, after the US, Russia and China". A-SAT missiles are space weapons deployed to destroy satellites for strategic military purposes. While the US, Russia and China have already tested A-SAT weapons, none of the nations have used the missile in warfare yet. However, the US Air Force cancelled the A-SAT programme in the late 1980s.

Submission + - Growing FUNGI Spotted and Photographed by Mars Curiosity Rover (express.co.uk) 1

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William Robinson writes: Fifteen specimens, what appears to be algae, lichens and "Martian mushrooms" , were photographed by NASA growing out of the ground in just three days. And photos of 15 mushroom-shaped specimens purport to show them growing larger and emerging from beneath the red sands of Mars. People have been preoccupied with finding life on Mars for hundreds of years, and new findings have captured their imagination. However, some scientists believe the circular specimens photographed emerging from beneath the Martian soil, are not mushrooms but hematite, a form of iron oxide, which NASA affectionately refers to as "blueberries."

Submission + - Milky Way Much Larger Than Andromeda, New Study Finds (businessinsider.com)

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William Robinson writes: Scientists have recalculated the mass of the Milky Way, and it's much more massive than previously thought. By combining data from the ESA's Gaia space probe and data from the Hubble space telescope — which is jointly operated by the ESA and NASA — astronomers were able to determine that the mass of the Milky Way is 1.5 trillion solar masses. The mass of Andromeda, on the other hand, is roughly 800 billion solar masses. The reason that previous calculations weren't quite accurate is due to "dark matter", a theoretical type of matter that could account for a sizeable quantity of all matter in the universe. This also means a potential future collision and fusion of the two galaxies would look quite different than what researchers had previously pictured. Until now, it was thought that Andromeda would devour the Milky Way but, according to these recent findings, the opposite may be true.

Submission + - 438 Bitcoins Stolen From Exchange In India, CSO Accused (indiatimes.com)

Submitted by William Robinson
William Robinson writes: Nearly 438 bitcoins, worth 3m$, were stolen from a top exchange firm in India in what is being billed as the biggest cryptocurrency theft in the country so far. The exchange, which has over two lakh users across the country, found that all the bitcoins that were stored offline had vanished. It was later found that the private keys — the password that is kept by the company and is stored offline — were leaked online, leading to the hack. The company tried to trace the hackers, but found that all the data logs of the affected wallets had been erased, leaving no trails about where the bitcoins were transferred.

Comment Re:How the fuck (Score 1) 418

What is needed is new processes and controls. You start with a simple governance framework (like COBIT maybe) where each part of the IT ecosystem is linked to a specific business leader, then you let each of those leaders make sure that their area of responsibility is well managed from a risk perspective. That's how you make the company more resilient, not by firing people who maybe were not empowered to make the right decisions in the first place.

Well, that is what they have been paid for so long. If processes and controls are not in place, to avoid this kind of disaster, the leaders have clearly failed their duties. I might agree that entire staff need not be fired, but it is for sure that blame goes to somebody higher up sitting on his ass, instead of the poor kid.

Submission + - 650m Astroid Will Fly Past Earth On 19 April (phys.org)

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William Robinson writes: A relatively large, 650m, near-Earth asteroid discovered nearly three years ago will fly safely past Earth on April 19 at a distance of about 1.1 million miles (1.8 million kilometers), or about 4.6 times the distance from Earth to the moon. The asteroid will approach Earth from the direction of the sun and will become visible in the night sky after April 19. It is predicted to brighten to about magnitude 11, when it could be visible in small optical telescopes for one or two nights. For comparison, Chelyabinsk meteor was 20m.

Comment Re:documentary (Score 1) 300

by William Robinson (#54058567) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Horrible IT Boss Story?

I watched a documentary about a guy who was slacking off at work (not showing up for work actually) and when the performance consultants interviewed him he actually got promoted to manager while they laid off a few of his friends or peers! Some other stuff happened in the documentary but I am pretty sure that was the relevant part.

Was it Office Space? You forgot to tell, how he and his friends take revenge on the printer.

Submission + - 1.6 Billion Old Plant Fossil Found In India (phys.org)

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William Robinson writes: Scientists at the Swedish Museum of Natural History have found fossils of 1.6 billion year old probable red algae. The scientists found two kinds of fossils resembling red algae in uniquely well-preserved sedimentary rocks at Chitrakoot in central India. One type is thread-like, the other one consists of fleshy colonies. The scientists were able to see distinct inner cell structures and so-called cell fountains, the bundles of packed and splaying filaments that form the body of the fleshy forms and are characteristic of red algae. The Indian fossils, 400 million years older and by far the oldest plant-like fossils ever found, suggest that the early branches of the tree of life need to be recalibrated. The finding could push the beginning of complex life 400 million earlier than thought, scientists believe.

Submission + - Signal from Andromeda. Probable evidence of Dark matter. (spacefellowship.com)

Submitted by William Robinson
William Robinson writes: NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has found a signal at the center of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy that could indicate the presence of the mysterious stuff known as dark matter. The gamma-ray signal is similar to one seen by Fermi at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy. The latest Fermi data shows the gamma rays in Andromeda are confined to the galaxy’s center instead of spread throughout. To explain this unusual distribution, scientists are proposing that the emission may come from several undetermined sources. One of them could be dark matter and another possible source for this emission could be a rich concentration of pulsars in Andromeda’s center. Scientists are excited that Fermi has detected a similar gamma-ray signature in both Andromeda and the Milky Way, scientists can use this information to solve mysteries within both galaxies.

Submission + - India launches 104 satellites at one go (reuters.com)

Submitted by William Robinson
William Robinson writes: India's ISRO successfully launched 104 satellites in a single mission, setting what its space agency says is a world record of launching the most satellites at one go. ISRO used its workhorse, PSLV, for this launch. The vehicle carried India's Cartosat-2 series and 103 nano satellites. Out of 103 nano satellites, 2 were from India, 96 were from the United States and one each from Israel, Kazakhstan, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates. The global space industry is US$ 300 billion and ISRO's low prices attracted international customers to launch 75 satellites last year from Sriharikota in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh,

Comment Re:Whoopty Doo (Score 1) 843

by William Robinson (#52997299) Attached to: Online Journalists Launch An Onslaught Against Donald Trump
It scares crap out of me to witness idiots as Presidents, who know some truth about terrorism and still funding them. Watch this video and then google how much taxpayers money we are giving Pakistan to fund this against our own citizens. Trump may be speaking a lot out of his head, but some issues raised by him made me think.

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