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Comment Re:Fuck no (Score 1) 1307

I have to agree with Gorkman. If I can't see what your box does from A to Z, then I am not going to put my neck on the block for the possible HIPPA violation, let alone trying to track a bug caused by incorrect configuration, extra services such as DNS, etc. This doesn't even take the yearly security audit into account, where I have to explain what your box does. 'I don't know' doesn't go very far with them.
Moon

Why NASA's New Video Game Misses the Point 205

longacre writes "Erik Sofge trudges through NASA's latest free video game, which he finds tedious, uninspiring and misguided. Quoting: 'Moonbase Alpha is a demo, of sorts, for NASA's more ambitious upcoming game, Astronaut: Moon, Mars & Beyond, which will feature more destinations, and hopefully less welding. The European Space Agency is developing a similar game, set on the Jovian Moon, Europa. But Moonbase Alpha proves that as a recruiting campaign, or even as an educational tool, the astronaut simulation game is a lost cause. Unless NASA plans to veer into science fiction and populate its virtual moons, asteroids and planets with hostile species, it's hard to imagine why anyone would want to suffer through another minute of pretending to weld power cables back into place, while thousands of miles away, the most advanced explorers ever built are hurtling toward asteroids and dwarf planets and into the heart of the sun. Even if it was possible to build an astronaut game that's both exciting and realistic, why bother? It will be more than a decade before humans even attempt another trip outside of Earth's orbit. If NASA wants to inspire the next generation of astronauts and engineers, its games should focus on the real winners of the space race — the robots.'"

Submission + - Has Newsrover Vanished?

Kiralan writes: Has anyone heard of NewsRover shutting down? I tried to use it on Sunday, and it was nowhere to be found. I have checked multiple DNS servers, and tried it from both home and work networks. Even their owning company, S&H Computing has gone absent. Not a word Could this be a side-effect of the recent NNTP indexing legal issues?
Education

Submission + - iProf, India's First Personal Education Tablet

Aakriti Bhargava writes: "Introducing iProf, India’s, oops, world’s first personal education tablet that is here to revolutionize the way students prepare for entrance tests. Who had thought that one day piles of books and hours of lectures and thousands of test papers will be bunched together in just one small, portable device that will change it all forever?
With a 7-inch touch screen tablet, iProf has built-in, high quality operating system Android (from Google) and a Learning Management System installed on it.
iProf is available at iStudy Zones located in various cities across India. iStudy Zones are enablers of the e-learning delivery mechanism via iProf. With high performance servers, high speed broadband and Wi-Fi capabilities, iStudy Zones will let students download content on iProf in a secure environment. Besides, iStudy Zones will also hold video conference for doubt clearing sessions between faculty and students.
Launched in the IIT-JEE preparation category and bundled with content from Brilliant Tutorials, it has been reasonably priced at INR.14900/- (content packaged tablet, exclusive of taxes) in the initial phase.
You may not have been waiting for it but the impact that it is going to create will surely make you follow it zealously."

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