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Submission + - Mirror, Mirror Out in Space, How To Dust Off Your Face? 2

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coondoggie

on Friday August 24, 2012 @10:27AM

coondoggie writes: "One of the challenges with space telescopes and other satellite instruments is keeping their mirrors, lenses, and other surfaces free of dust and other contaminants. A Goddard researcher now has developed a way to dust these devices while the instruments are in space."

Submission + - Why Professors Love (and Loathe) Technology (insidehighered.com) 1

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dougled

on Friday August 24, 2012 @07:39AM

dougled writes: "Survey of 4,500 college professors (and campus technology administrators) reveals what faculty members think of digital publishing (they like it, but don't do it very much), how much they use their campus learning management systems (not nearly as much as their bosses think), and how digital communication has changed their work lives (they're more productive, but far more stressed)."

Submission + - Who cares if Samsung copied Apple (hbr.org)

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hype7

on Monday August 20, 2012 @09:24AM

hype7 writes: "The Harvard Business Review is running an article that's questioning the very premise of the Apple v Samsung case. From the article: "It isn't the first time Apple has been involved in a high-stakes "copying" court case. If you go back to the mid-1990s, there was their famous "look and feel" lawsuit against Microsoft. Apple's case there was eerily similar to the one they're running today: "we innovated in creating the graphical user interface; Microsoft copied us; if our competitors simply copy us, it's impossible for us to keep innovating." Apple ended up losing the case. But it's what happened next that's really fascinating. Apple didn't stop innovating at all.""

Comment Re:Take it one step further (Score 1) 160

by thmsdrew on Thursday August 16, 2012 @03:46PM (#41015507) Attached to: Scientists Store Entire Textbook In DNA

What's it like to have knowledge that you don't understand? That concept doesn't make sense to me.

Comment Re:Getting... colder (Score 2) 78

by thmsdrew on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @07:08AM (#40982593) Attached to: First Mummies May Have Been Inspired by Field of Corpses

First Mummies being a more contemporary, popular band. Everyone loves their music, thinks they're so original, pioneers, etc. Then we discover they were actually inspired by Field of Corpses?! Oh gosh!

Comment Re:Yet another part of the world getting pissed of (Score 1) 106

by thmsdrew on Friday August 10, 2012 @07:42AM (#40944159) Attached to: New State-Sponsored Malware "Gauss" Making the Rounds

I made that mistake verbally in 4th grade when I didn't really know what the word meant. There was a kid in our class from Lebanon. We were talking about how you can tell where a person is from by the shape of their skull or something, so we were all shouting out different nationalities. I shouted "Lesbian!" Haunts me to this day.

Comment Re:But he's and IT Expert! (Score 1) 222

by thmsdrew on Tuesday August 07, 2012 @08:07AM (#40903845) Attached to: How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led To Mat Honan's Identity Theft

Maybe he thought that if you ignore it long enough, eventually the problem just goes away.

Comment Re:Multifactor Authentication (Score 3, Interesting) 222

by thmsdrew on Tuesday August 07, 2012 @08:03AM (#40903827) Attached to: How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led To Mat Honan's Identity Theft

I won't take my security advice from him, but there's no need to discredit his entire body of work because of this. Surely he deals in other topics.

Comment What's stopping you? (Score 1) 160

by thmsdrew on Wednesday August 01, 2012 @01:20PM (#40844731) Attached to: Craigslist Demands Exclusivity For Postings

What's stopping you from changing up your advertisement a bit on different websites? You put up a specific advertisement that they own the rights to? So change a few words, leave some details out, add some different details. No problem. You'd probably end up doing that anyway to cater to the specific medium you're advertising on.

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