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OpenSSH 5.4 Released 127

Posted by timothy from the but-it's-secret dept.
HipToday writes "As posted on the OpenBSD Journal, OpenSSH 5.4 has been released: 'Some highlights of this release are the disabling of protocol 1 by default, certificate authentication, a new "netcat mode," many changes on the sftp front (both client and server) and a collection of assorted bugfixes. The new release can already be found on a large number of mirrors and of course on www.openssh.com.'"

Submission + - Dolphins can turn diabetes on and off (cosmosmagazine.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Healthy bottlenose dolphins appear to turn on and off a diabetes-like state: a trick that may open to door to a treatment for the disease in humans.
Star Wars Prequels

Submission + - Airborne Laser Successfully Shoots Down Missile (dailymail.co.uk)

Submitted by kborer
kborer writes: A prototype airborne laser system discussed here last August has completed a new milestone:

The U.S. have successfully taken out a ballistic missile with a high-powered laser beam mounted to a plane, it revealed yesterday. The U.S. Missile Defence Agency (MDA) announced the feat after the test overnight on Thursday in central California. The plane uses lasers to lock onto the missile and follow its trajectory and then brings it down with a single shot from its nose — all in a matter of seconds. It is the first successful test of a futuristic, directed energy weapon and realises what had previously just been a science fiction fantasy.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1250734/U-S-Star-Wars-laser-plane-shoots-ballistic-missile.html
Space

Submission + - FOSS CAD and 3D Modelling software (openluna.org) 1

Submitted by Paul server guy
Paul server guy writes: I work at an privately funded open source, manned, return to the moon mission.( http:\\openluna.org ) — Yes really, Yes, we really are going to put man (and woman) back on the moon.
Since we are Open source, we want all of our tools to be. What we are looking for is CAD software that we can feed into Blender (or the like) to do 3D modeling with. Many of the Engineers have tried working with Blender and Art of Illusion, but have not been pleased. They want to just draw the parts, then feed them to the art people who will run them through the 3D modelers for videos, illustrations and such.

What is your preference?

Comment Re:Explained by a Simple Formula (Score 2, Informative) 944

by kborer (#29853165) Attached to: When Libertarians Attack Free Software
Nothing has objective or inherent value. Some muddy water on the side of the road seems worthless to those walking by but would be priceless to someone dying of thirst. The price of something changes based on the subjective values of everyone participating in the market.

That is why there is little math in economic science. People assign ordinal values to things (item 1 is more valuable to me than item 2), but not cardinal numbers (item 1 is worth X). The price of something is not an objective value, nor even an average subjective value, but merely a historical fact that specifies at what price something sold for in a specific exchange. Consider how shares of the same stock can sell at wildly different prices at essentially the same time.

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I'd rather just believe that it's done by little elves running around.

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