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Submission + - NASA tests hardware/software on Armadillo Rocket (nasa.gov) 1

Submitted by porcinist
porcinist writes: On June 23rd NASA successfully tested hardware and software on an Armadillo Rocket. With the end of NASA's Constellation program in sight, NASA is starting to focus on new, innovative exploration programs like Project-M. This project is meant to land a robotic humanoid on the moon in a thousand days. To meet this goal NASA teamed with Armadillo Aerospace and Draper Labs (The lab responsible for creating the original Apollo Guidance Computer) to integrate and flight test a real-time navigation system in only 7 weeks. This might be the fastest thing NASA has done in 30 years. Maybe NASA is taking Obama's new vision to heart.
KDE

A Quick Look At KDE SC 4.5 Beta 1 122

Posted by timothy from the delicious-candy dept.
dmbkiwi writes "The latest in the 4.x series of the KDE Software Compilation is due to be released in early August 2010. With the first beta of this release recently unleashed, I thought I'd download the openSuse packages and see what 4.5's got in store for us."

Comment When I think of coffee... (Score 1) 571

by tickticker (#27560087) Attached to: I prefer to consume my caffeine from a vessel of ...

I can't help but get a little nauseous.

What is coffee? Coffee is heated water strained through the ground up remains of dead, chemically treated vegetative matter that's traveled thousands of miles from who knows where via who knows what method peed on by who knows how many rats along the way and packaged for our consumption? Count me out.

I'll take a can of good ole sugared up naturally and artificially flavored soda any day.
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This sig pukes when it drinks coffee, and that's before the smell and the taste!
Government

Submission + - White House Announces Vivek Kundra As CIO

Submitted by
tickticker
tickticker writes: "The White House announced this morning that Vivek Kundra will be the administration's Chief Information Officer. Kundra served as the Chief Technology Officer for the Government of the District of Columbia and was voted the 2008 IT Executive of the Year. Kundra will direct technology ventures for US agencies and will "play a key role in making sure our government is running in the most secure, open, and efficient way possible," according to a statement from the President."
It's funny. Laugh.

MST3K is Back, Sort Of 264

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the that's-no-asteroid-that's-a-battlestation dept.
Polar Star writes "Retrocrush reports that Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett are back making fun of crappy movies again in a new incarnation called The Film Crew. In the first of many new DVDs to be released, they take on a 1969 abomination called Hollywood After Dark which features a still-not-very-young Rue McClanahan as a down-on-her-luck actress who becomes a stripper. Needless to say, it's one of the scariest movies you'll ever see. There's plenty of funny jokes throughout, and they definitely prove themselves worthy of carrying on the MST3K tradition." Update 1925 GMT by SM: Corrected a few oversights and pointed to The Film Crew's actual website.
Role Playing (Games)

Submission + - The Best MMO You're Not Playing: City of Heroes (cityofheroes.com)

Submitted by Bonker
Bonker writes: While Blizzard is certainly king of the MMO empire at the moment, it worth noting that Cryptic Studios has released the tenth free expansion to its popular comic-book themed MMO, 'City Of Heroes/City of Villains'. 'Issue 10: Invasion' sees Heroes and Villains alike defending their cities against attack from the alien Rikti. The expansion has a lot of new content, including a revamped co-op zone for Heroic and Villainous players to take the fight to the aliens. It also includes large-scale city-wide air-raids in which players can fight against spaceship bombers and teleporting alien invaders. Despite the 'large-scale' nature of the event, it's been coded so that it scales with the players attending. Solo-players can fight against the aliens just as well as team-oriented players. If you're not playing 'City Of' right now, you're really missing out on one of the most fun, most dynamic MMO gameplay experiences around.

Steve Jobs Hates Buttons 713

Posted by CmdrTaco from the also-buffy-hates-vampires dept.
ElvaWSJ writes "While many technology companies load their products up with buttons, Steve Jobs treats them as blemishes that add complexity and hinder their clean aesthetics. The iPhone is Steve Jobs's attempt to crack a juicy new market for Apple Inc. But it's also part of a decades-long campaign by Mr. Jobs against a much broader target: buttons. The new Apple cellphone famously does without the keypads that adorn its rivals. Instead, it offers a touch-sensing screen for making phone calls and tapping out emails. The resulting look is one of the sparest ever for Apple, a company known for minimalist gadgets. "
Security

Submission + - Three Cheap Ways to Boost Security

Submitted by narramissic
narramissic writes: In a recent article, security consultant Brent Huston offers three quick, inexpensive tips for small businesses that are looking to increase the overall security of their networks. His first tip, not too surprisingly, is to migrate users away from Internet Explorer. Inexpensive? Yes. Quick? I'm not so sure. Trying to change users' habits isn't generally an easy proposition.

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