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Submission + - SPAM: NASA and Goodyear build tire that won't go flat 3

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coondoggie
coondoggie writes: "Flat tires can be a serious problem whether you are tooling down the interstate or crunching across a foreign planet. In developing what could be the next cool technology for those of us here on earth, NASA and Goodyear have developed an airless tire let large, long-range vehicles transport heavy loads across the surface of the moon. The "Spring Tire" has inside 800 load bearing springs and is designed to carry much heavier vehicles over much greater distances than the wire mesh tire previously used on the Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV). According to Goodyear, NASA requires tires that can handle vehicles that will weigh ten-times what Apollo required. [spam URL stripped]"
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Education

Submission + - Teen dies in chinese gaming rehab camp

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An anonymous reader writes: "A teen, who was sent to a rehabilitation camp in China to cure his internet addiction was beaten to death by his trainers. While this is considered a cure for Internet addiction, it was not what the parents of Deng Senshan, 16, had in mind when they sent him to the camp. The three supervisors who allegedly beat him to death have been arrested." Seen on: http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/14916/1/

Western Digital Announces 1TB Mobile HD 252

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the better-sew-some-deeper-pockets dept.
Western Digital has announced a couple of new 2.5-inch mobile hard drives weighing in at 750GB and 1TB. The drives feature a 3 GB/s transfer rate and Western Digital's "WhisperDrive" tech along with specialized shock tolerance and head parking to ensure durability. "Both models are shipping now through various channels; the 1TB model is currently available in My Passport Essential SE USB drives. The Scorpio Blue 750GB model has a suggested sticker price of $190 while the Scorpio Blue 1TB is a mere $250. The My Passport Essential SE 1 TB portable drive is $299.99 USD and the 750 GB model is $199.99 USD."
Privacy

Ranchers Have Beef With USDA Program To ID Cattle 376

Posted by kdawson from the chipping-in dept.
Ponca City, We Love You writes "The NY Times reports that farmers and ranchers oppose a government program to identify livestock with microchip tags that would allow the computerized recording of livestock movements from birth to the slaughterhouse. Proponents of the USDA's National Animal Identification System say that computer records of cattle movements mean that when a cow is discovered with bovine tuberculosis or mad cow disease, its prior contacts can be swiftly traced. Ranchers say the extra cost of the electronic tags places an onerous burden on a teetering industry. Small groups of cattle are often rounded up in distant spots and herded into a truck by a single person who could not simultaneously wield the hand-held scanner needed to record individual animal identities. The ranchers also note that there is no Internet connection on many ranches for filing to a regional database. 'Lobbyists from corporate mega-agribusiness designed this program to destroy traditional small sustainable agriculture,' says Genell Pridgen, an owner of Rainbow Meadow Farms. The notion of centralized data banks, even for animals, has also set off alarms among libertarians who oppose NAIS. One group has issued a bumper sticker that reads, 'Tracking cattle now, tracking you soon.' 'They can't comprehend the vastness of a ranch like this,' says Jay Platt, the third-generation owner of a 22,000 acre New Mexico ranch. 'This plan is expensive, it's intrusive, and there's no need for it.'"

Comment Re:Native Tech? (Score 1) 67

by Eugene (#28238301) Attached to: China's First Mars Probe Ready To Launch

getting there is tough enough, if you look back at the history of the Mars exploration...

Mars Observer, Mars Polar Lander, Mars Climate Orbiter, Deep Space 2, Planet-B/Nozomi, and probably a few more I can't remember (Russians failed a few too I remember)
Image

Burglar Nabbed By Backup Program 98

Posted by samzenpus from the stupid-is-as-stupid-does dept.
Bruce Perens writes "A Berkeley, California, burglar engineered his own arrest, and that of his girlfriend, when he stole a laptop and used it as his personal computer. He didn't realize that the laptop had an automatic backup program, and that the photos he took were being copied to his victim's backup repository. Berkeley police recognized him, and his location, from the photos."
Businesses

EA Chicago Studio To Close 58

Posted by Zonk from the less-fights-more-nights dept.
Geoff Keighley, who is guest-editing Kotaku this week, has the official release from EA that their Chicago studio is closing. The 150 employees that used to work at the site are trying to be placed throughout the rest of the EA structure, while the games on tap for development there are currently on hold. The release is fairly terse when describing the reason the studio is being closed: "Each team is responsible for staying on a reasonable path to profitability. Sticking to that strategy is what gives us the financial resources and flexibility to take risks on new projects. Unfortunately, EA Chicago hasn't been able to meet that standard. The location has grown dramatically in the past three years while revenue from the games developed there has not. The number of employees has grown from 49 in 2004 to 146 people currently in the new facility in downtown Chicago. As it stands, EA Chicago has no expectation of hitting our profitability targets until FY2011 or later."
Security

Submission + - How do you secure your virtual servers? (allvirtualnow.com)

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allvirtualnow
allvirtualnow writes: "Ok the buss is all about Virtual server at the moment. The cost benefits in an enterprise environment have been well documented and have produced many pros and cons. But coming from a security perspective how do I as a guy used to dealing with edge security and applying security in and across an enterprise approach dealing with security in virtual environments? How do you secure virtual servers? You may have a few hosts running any of the free versions out there or you may be lucky enough to have some of the enterprise versions along with all the extras that go with that!! Blades and SANS etc... But how do you secure them? And do you really know what is going on? Below I have collected a few guides to securing the most popular virtual offerings, but I am more interested in your real life experiences of securing virtual environments and the uses you put those virtual environments to. If you have anything to say then please post your comments here, I am looking forward to hearing about your experiences. "
The Internet

Submission + - Do Frames Still Suck? 5

Submitted by Gonoff
Gonoff writes: Last year, I decided to broaden my abilities a little and started an evening, 2 year, university course. This year a major part of what I am doing is web development and I will be creating a website.

I had never used Dreamweaver before so I expected to have to learn but what caught my attention was the huge dislike I see the course leader has for frames.

I had already read Jakob Neilsens material but being keen to learn, I read it again. Much of what he put in seems completely out of date now.
The only browser I have that can't do frames is Lynx.
All major development packages do them a lot better than when that article was written — Dreamweaver, Frontpage or even Open Office do them fine. I find that it is not too hard in a text editor either...

Obviously, I will do it the way that I am instructed. I just can't see wanting to do it this way for real afterwards. Templates and layers seem much more complicated and I suspect that they are less simple to maintain once a site goes live. I know the need for maintainable source code. Surely maintainable HTML is the same?

What do other people think? Forget aesthetics and coolness. Can people convince me that this is a better way to work?
Education

Submission + - pc games in languages besides english

Submitted by devinv
devinv writes: I'm trying to improve my Spanish by playing video games in Spanish, but it's hard to find out which games are available in Spanish, aside from buying them. I'm wondering if anyone has found a convenient source for this kind of information, or has tried this and can comment on its effectiveness.

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