Comment Re:Aluminium (Score 1) 219
Just thinking about those pages and pages of arguments about including that little silent "h" makes my yog hurt.
Comment Compromise (Score 2) 462
An uncle of mine told me about his first meeting with my great-grandfather, decades ago. He noticed all the clocks in the old man's house were off, by exactly half an hour, so he asked about it. "You know what they have in this country?" Grandad asked, sucking his pipe. "Daylight time! I don't agree with it, but I will meet anybody half way."
Comment 33 days (Score 2, Insightful) 214
"...beating his sister by 33 days as the youngest person to find a supernova."
If he's 33 days younger than his sister, their mom had a rough couple of months.
Comment Truck icon (Score 1) 258
The HyperLoop, contrary to what the icon depicts, is not a big truck you can load up with all kinds of stuff. It's a series of TUBES.
Comment Re:NRHP (Score 1) 255
The Old American Legation in Morocco is actually not an active embassy. It is not American soil but it is still listed on the NRHP. The Apollo sites on the Moon are also not American soil, obviously, but they are of great historic and cultural importance to the United States.
Comment NRHP (Score 2) 255
The United States Department of the Interior listed a location outside the nation on the National Register of Historic Places: the oldest American embassy. The Apollo sites are certainly as worthy of preservation. They should be listed as historic landmarks.
Comment Hodges Meteorite (Score 4, Informative) 122
The 1954 Hodges Meteorite, which crashed into a house in Alabama, is the only one in recorded history to have actually hit a person. She survived, suffering only a bad bruising.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylacauga_(meteorite)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylacauga_(meteorite)
Moscow Police Watch Pre-Recorded Scenes On Surveillance Cams 114
An anonymous reader writes "During several months of 2009, Moscow police looked at fake pictures displayed on their monitors instead of what was supposed to be video from the city surveillance cams. The subcontractor providing the cams was paid on the basis of 'the number of working cams,' so he delivered pre-cooked pictures stored on his servers. The camera company CEO has been arrested."
Comment Re:Are they serious? (Score 2, Informative) 154
The name is a reference to its location.
From its website:
"St. Lawrence was first built in 1136 in the east end of London in the old Jewish quarter..."
Submission + - Water vapour found on exoplanet (bbc.co.uk)
TallDarkMan writes: "We're getting quite a collection of planets (we know about) outside our solar system, and we can add another one that has water! From the article:
Astronomers have found water vapour in the atmosphere of a giant planet outside our Solar System. The detection in the extrasolar planet HD 189733b was made using Nasa's powerful Spitzer Space Telescope and is reported in the journal Nature. — It is only the second time water has been detected on an exoplanet.
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Journal Journal: How mail (and phone calls) work in the Senate
Please note that each Senate office will handle mail slightly different, however this post is general enough that it should apply most everywhere.
I will only be talking about mail from constituents, meaning people who are writing their duly elected representatives, and not someone else's. (See journal post of do's and don't of contacting your senator.)
Also please know that there is a delay in your mail reaching your Senator (it's about 3 days right now).
Submission + - How Microsoft fights off 100,000 attacks per month
jcatcw writes: Microsoft's IT department says it's the target of more than 100,000 intrusion attempts per month. With lots of employees and contractors needing access through the VPN, Microsoft's defenses include: two-factor authentication using smart cards; scanning of computers for approved operating system, enabled firewalls, and up-to-date patches, which can be installed but slow the VPN sign-in process to 5, or even 15, minutes; Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) with EAP-TLS; and access to e-mail, IM and Sharepoint site without needing the VPN.
