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Comment Re:I Don't Like Amazon's Decision, But: (Score 2) 641

I think the issue here is more that Amazon have the ability to reach into your kindle and remove books *after* you bought them.
Amazon did sell these books and decided to stop, fair enough. but going into the device and remove it from everyone who bouight it digitally is a step over the line. It's a bit Amazon forcing themselves into your home and going through your bookshelf removing books it deems 'wrong'

Bug

Iron-Eating Bug Is Gobbling Up the Titanic 221

gambit3 writes "A newly discovered microbe dubbed Halomonas titanicae is chewing its way through the wreck of the Titanic and leaving little behind except a fine dust, researchers report in the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 'In 1995, I was predicting that Titanic had another 30 years,' said Henrietta Mann, a civil engineering adjunct professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. 'It's deteriorating much faster than that now.'"
Space

SpaceX's Dragon Module Successfully Re-Enters 156

Zitchas writes "Following the news of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket with a Dragon module on-board, and its arrival on orbit, we now have the news that is has successfully re-entered the atmosphere and splashed down in the Pacific. As their website proudly claims, this is the first time a private corporation has recovered a spacecraft they orbited, joining the ranks of a few space nations and the EU space agency. A great step forward for space travel. Hopefully everything continues to go well for them."

Comment Re:Let me see. (Score 1) 1186

well, it's a fad that comes and goes, I got mine in the early 90's, when people said 'oh you'll regrett that, it's only a fad', still love it to this day.

people have been tattooing themselves for centuries so I doubt it's going anywhere soon. Of course, one should think it through befoer going and getting tattooed.

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