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Submission + - In pictures: Nasa's next Mars rover (wired.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 04, 2011 @12:37PM

An anonymous reader writes: In August 2012, the Nasa rover Curiosity is scheduled to touch down on the surface of Mars. The size of a small car, it's four times as heavy as predecessors Spirit and Opportunity, and comes with a large robot arm, a laser that can vaporise rocks at seven metres, a percussive drill and a weather station. Oh, and 4.8kg of plutonium-238. Wired has some high-resolution photographs from lab that is putting the next rover together.

Comment Re:/. News Network (Score 1) 615

by trnk on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @02:15PM (#35070186) Attached to: Do Tools Ever 'Die?'

It's called Traktor Scratch, and these days it's fairly widely used among DJ's: http://www.native-instruments.com/#/en/products/dj/traktor-pro/?content=1085 It'll never feel the same as playing real vinyl though.

Submission + - 'Attack Page' Scam Lurks in Firefox and Chrome (pcworld.com) 1

Submitted by Thinkcloud on Thursday October 21, 2010 @05:12AM

Thinkcloud writes: A new malware campaign takes advantage of the "malicious site" warnings commonly displayed by both Firefox and Chrome to trick unsuspecting users into downloading a rogue antivirus application, the security firm F-Secure reported today. The attack happens when Web surfers visit a page offering "SecurityTool," a known malware application that purports to be antivirus software. On both Firefox and Chrome, a fake warning page then pops up that mimics the messages those browsers normally give users who visit suspect sites.

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