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Submission + - Windows XP SP3 Releases One Week Early (pcmag.com)

Submitted by mikemuch
mikemuch writes: Microsoft today announced that Windows XP Service Pack 3 has been released to manufacturing, right in line with the company's timeline. PC Magazine got a download with some pictures of the installation. There's not much that wasn't in the beta already, it's just a rollup of the past three years' worth of security, stability, and performance updates. The only actual feature adds include Network Access Protection (NAP) to help organizations that use Windows XP to take advantage of new features in the Windows Server 2008. The update will be available at the Microsoft Download Center next Monday, and pushed to Windows Automatic updates in June.
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Submission + - Flashlight weapon makes target vomit (foxnews.com)

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synaptic
synaptic writes: "From the FOXNews article:

Intelligent Optical Systems, Inc., of Torrance, Calif., has been granted a contract by the Department of Homeland Security to develop what it calls the "LED Incapacitator," according to a DHS online newsletter. The handheld device using [sic] light-emitting diodes to emit super-bright pulses of light at rapidly changing wavelengths, causing disorientation, nausea and even vomiting in whomever it's pointed at.

"There's one wavelength that gets everybody," says IOS President Bob Lieberman. "Vlad [IOS top scientist Vladimir Rubtsov] calls it 'the evil color.'"
Vlad calls it the EVIL COLOR, eh? I wonder if shutter glasses could be rigged to detect the light and actively filter it."

Ares I Rocket Rumored To Be Too Heavy 165

Posted by Hemos from the hard-time-getting-it-up dept.
eldavojohn writes "In an article entitled "Constellation Battles the Blogosphere," problems with the Ares I lift vehicle are dispelled by NASA. An e-mail containing the rumor that the payload was a metric ton too heavy spurred this post which caused a lot of sidelines speculation that NASA might be setting themselves up for failure and simply need to start over. From the article, '[M]any who carp from the sidelines do not seem to understand the systems engineering process. They instead want to sensationalize any issue to whatever end or preferred outcome they wish," wrote Jeff Hanley the NASA official leading the development of the rockets and spacecraft the United States is building to replace the space shuttle and to return to the Moon.' The article also mentions that NASA looked at 10,000 to 20,000 different iterations of designs in their "Exploration Systems Architecture Study." As armchair speculators of space exploration, do our posts & blogs create negative fallout for NASA or is public criticism like this healthy for keeping government agencies in line?"

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