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Comment Re:Unlike the inventor (Score 1) 283

by YouGotTobeKidding (#45776547) Attached to: Mikhail Kalashnikov: Inventor of AK-47 Dies At 94

You can bury an AK-47 for a long period of time and it'll continue to remain operation after you dig it up.

Meh. Someone else reads the duffel blog I see. Please and try to at least be original. :S Link to the joke Chav...err Chas is making rather poorly. http://www.duffelblog.com/2013/12/mikhail-kalashnikov-dead/

Submission + - NASA's Garver proposes to carve piece of big asteroid & bring it to be expl (examiner.com)

Submitted by MarkWhittington
MarkWhittington writes: According to a July 26, 2013 story in Space News, NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver mused about what appeared to be a change to the space agency’s asteroid snatching mission at the NewSpace 2013 conference. Apparently the idea is to send a robot to a larger asteroid than originally planned, carve out a chunk of it, and then bring it to lunar orbit for an crew of astronauts to visit in an Orion space ship.

Garver’s proposed change would widen the number of target asteroids and would test technologies important for asteroid mining. But it would also increase the complexity and certainly the cost of the asteroid mission. There are a lot of unanswered questions, such as what kind of mechanism would be involved in taking a piece of an asteroid and moving it?

At the same conference Garver had hinted at a willingness to consider mounting a program of "sustainable" lunar exploration, as some in Congress have demanded, concurrent with the asteroid mission.

Submission + - Google Engineer Wins NSA Award, Then Says NSA Should Be "Abolished" (tikkun.org)

Submitted by MetalliQaZ
MetalliQaZ writes: Last week, Dr. Joseph Bonneau learned that he had won the NSA’s first annual “Science of Security (SoS) Competition.” The competition, which aims to honor the best “scientific papers about national security” as a way to strengthen NSA collaboration with researchers in academia, honored Bonneau for his paper on the nature of passwords. And how did Bonneau respond to being honored by the NSA? By expressing, in an honest and bittersweet blog post, his revulsion at what the NSA has become: "Simply put, I don’t think a free society is compatible with an organisation like the NSA in its current form."

Submission + - The First 3D-Printed Rifle Broke Apart After Its First Shot (vice.com)

Submitted by Daniel_Stuckey
Daniel_Stuckey writes: A Canadian has just fired the first shot from his creation, "The Grizzly," an entirely 3D-printed rifle. In that single shot, CanadianGunNut (his name on the DefCad forum), or "Matthew," has advanced 3D-printed firearms to yet another level. Sort of: According to his video's description, the rifle's barrel and receiver were both damaged in that single shot.

Submission + - New Navy Comm. Satellites Have 16x More Bandwidth Than the Old Ones (vice.com)

Submitted by Daniel_Stuckey
Daniel_Stuckey writes: MUOS is designed to assist, and eventually replace, the Navy's current UHF-based satellite network, which can only transmit voice communications. The difference in capabilities is impressive: the UHF satellites currently flying have a bandwidth of just 2.4 kilobytes per second. The 15,000 pound MUOS satellites, built by Lockheed Martin, can transmit a comparatively-blazing 348 kilobytes per second, and the whole system is meant to act as a sort of global 3G network for the military.

"You can think of the satellites as the cell towers in the sky," said Iris Bombelyn, vice president of Lockheed Martin, during a pre-launch press briefing. "That's a really good way to think of how the system works."

Submission + - Former Cal State Student Gets Year in Prison for Rigging Campus Election (go.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A former student was sentenced to a year in prison for rigging his school elections at California State University-San Marcos so he could become student president, court documents show. Matthew Weaver, 22, was charged in January with wire fraud, access device fraud and unauthorized access to a computer. He pleaded guilty in March, admitting that he had stolen the email passwords of more than 740 students and used them to vote for himself 630 times during the student elections in March 2012... Right before the voting ended, on March 15, 2012, officials noticed 259 votes coming from another IP address. Officials tracked the IP address to a classroom, and found Weaver sitting there. There was only one other student in the lab, according to court documents. A university police officer arrested Weaver and seized his bag, subsequently discovering that he had stashed the keyloggers there.

Submission + - Study finds fracking chemicals didn't pollute water

Submitted by RoccamOccam
RoccamOccam writes: A landmark federal study on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, shows no evidence that chemicals from the natural gas drilling process moved up to contaminate drinking water aquifers at a western Pennsylvania drilling site.

After a year of monitoring, the researchers found that the chemical-laced fluids used to free gas trapped deep below the surface stayed thousands of feet below the shallower areas that supply drinking water.

Submission + - Porn Blocking Doesn't Work - Could Interactive Curating Help Kids (techweekeurope.co.uk)

Submitted by judgecorp
judgecorp writes: Politicians want web filters to protect children, but they are addressing the wrong problem with the wrong technology, says startup TwoTen. The company promises an interactive system — for kids under ten — where no links work until a human checks them. Sounds impossible — but they've got answers to most of our questions.

Submission + - Small town builds its own gigabyte network; cost to citizens $57/month (www.cbc.ca)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: On Thursday, the board of O-Net gave approval for residents to get access to a full gigabit (or 1,000 megabits) per second of bandwidth for the same price that they currently pay for a guaranteed download speed of 100 megabits per second — $57 to $90 a month, depending on whether they have bundled their internet with TV and phone service. ...

At that time, the town realized that it couldn't attract technology-based businesses and that bandwidth was a challenge even to ordinary businesses. It came up with a plan — it would install a fibre network throughout the town that would connect to the larger inter-community network being built by the government at that time — the Alberta Supernet.

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