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Feed Where Has All The Antimatter Gone? (sciencedaily.com)

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Scientists have completed work on the inner heart of an experiment which seeks to find out what has happened to all the antimatter created at the start of the Universe. Matter and antimatter were created in equal amounts in the Big Bang but somehow the antimatter disappeared resulting in the Universe, and everything in it, including ourselves, being made of the remaining matter.
NASA

Submission + - Did NASA Accidentally "Nuke" Jupiter?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Title: Did NASA Accidentally "Nuke" Jupiter? Source: Enterprise URL Source: http://www.enterprisemission.com//NukingJupiter.ht ml Published: Apr 11, 2007 NASA's decision to finally terminate Galileo in September 2003 via a fiery plunge into Jupiter, was designed to prevent any possible biological contamination of Europa from a future random collision with the spacecraft, once its fuel was exhausted. An engineer named Jacco van der Worp claimed that, plunging into Jupiter's deep and increasingly dense atmosphere, the on-board Galileo electrical power supply — a set of 144 plutonium-238 fuel pellets — would ultimately "implode"; that the plutonium Galileo carried would ultimately collapse in upon itself under the enormous pressures of Jupiter's overwhelming atmosphere and go critical. Noone listened. One month later ... October 19, 2003 — an amateur astronomer in Belgium, Olivier Meeckers, secured a remarkable image, a dark black "splotch" showing up on the southern edge of Jupiter's well-known "North Equatorial Belt," trailing a fainter "tail" southwest (image center). Richard Hoagland http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?Art Num=183496 has now calculated that, given the slow fall through a highly pressurised atmosphere, it is possible that the splotch is the result of about 50lb of plutonium going critical 700 miles below. Way to go, NASA!
Software

Submission + - South African Government goes Open

Submitted by Jyms
Jyms writes: Seems like the South African government has finally taken the plunge and gone open. They have been making noises about this for some time. Hopefully they can pull this off. Wonder how long it will take before the man in the street notices. For more info see their OSS page.
Security

Submission + - 1/3 of Employees give up Credentials

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Bob Roswell
Bob Roswell writes: "I sent all my employees an HTML Email. The subject line said "Daylight Savings Time: Please login Below" and the body of email was a reasonable facsimile of the Outlook Web Access Login Screen. I sent the email from outside the company, but changed the from address to the email address of our internal support. About 1/3 of the employees logged into the web form which recorded their usernames and passwords. Fewer than 5% contacted internal support or their co-workers to warn them about the phishing attack. I guess our firewalls, VPNs, and training are not very good. Time to use multi factor logins?"
Operating Systems

Submission + - South Africa joins countries switching to OSS

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An anonymous reader writes: According to reports by Reuters and IOL, the South African government has officially announced that all government departments are to switch to Open Source operating systems and software from this year onwards. There is no word on how long the process will take (likely years), but a joint office to be run by the Department of Science and Technology and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) will be set up by April to oversee the process.
Role Playing (Games)

Journal Journal: CNN Just Confirmed it, Chivalry is Dead 7

Journal by Shadow Wrought
***UPDATED***

JesseL was kind enough to point me to an article which provides a couple few other details- such as the pr0n was played between 1:30 and 2:30 in the morning, while the door kicking didn't occur until 11:30 that morning! So much for the slant that he was rushing in to rescue her (unless the nighbor is lying, but there doesn't seem to be any reason for that).

So while I'll leave what I originally wrote, charges just made a whole lot more sense.

Media

Submission + - Colossal Squid Caught

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michaelrash
michaelrash writes: "From the article, "A fishing crew has caught a colossal squid that could weigh a half-ton and prove to be the biggest specimen ever landed, a fisheries official said Thursday. If calamari rings were made from the squid they would be the size of tractor tires, one expert said. The squid, weighing an estimated 990 pounds and about 39 feet long, took two hours to land in Antarctic waters, New Zealand Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton said.""

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