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Comment Interesting comments on the satellites they used (Score 1) 89

The brilliant and ballsy engineering was typical of NASA during its golden age, a time when it was also more closely linked to other government agencies with an interest in taking pictures from space.

“These guys were operating right at the edge,” Cowing says with a reverence for these NASA engineers that’s shared by his team. “There’s a certain spy program heritage to all this, but these guys went above that, because those spy satellites would send their images back. These didn’t. They couldn’t. They were in lunar orbit.”

So NASA sent a few extra spy satellites to the Moon to do a little snooping around. That makes this even better.

Comment Re:Point and shoot (Score 1) 129

What you say about image quality is true today, but not necessarily true next year. The reason I used "Point and shoot" as the subject is because most people who take pictures don't have the skill or knowledge to make depth of field or even focusing decisions when a shot presents itself. They set it on auto exposure/auto focus and hope it comes out. Lytro's technology gives the option of making those decisions during post-processing.

Comment Read what you wrote (Score 1) 169

Despite the high news coverage that large breaches receive, and despite tales told by their friends about losing their laptops for a few days while a malware infection is cleared up, employees generally believe they are immune to security risks. They think those types of things happen to other, less careful people.

Untrained users are not the cause of large breaches. Malware infections happen to even the most careful users. In other words, training users and trying to change your company's culture won't make a significant difference.

Encrypt the laptop before a user can touch it. Make sure a decent virus scanner is running (and keep your fingers crossed). Get well trained sysadmins who see their job as keeping your network and servers as secure as reasonably possible.

Comment Why the hysteria? (Score 2) 129

As I read ATT's announcement, they've committed to four cities and are in discussions with twenty one more.

The response seems to be "They haven't committed to spending any money this year in those twenty one cities, this is clearly bogus!". Geez, don't they have anything important to write about?

Comment Re:Missing definition (Score 1) 311

If your net worth is over 2 million, you are wealthy. If your net worth is more than your age in thousands, you are middle class. Otherwise, you are poor. I don't care if you make $300,000 a year, if your net worth is negative,you are poor.

That is a reasonable definition of wealth. But I suggest that a person with a $300K/yr income will (usually) have a better lifestyle than someone sitting on $2M with no other income.

Comment Re:The term "Sexual Harassment" is very misleading (Score 5, Interesting) 182

"ex boyfriend" is relevant in this context. She's claiming she was bullied by a coworker at GitHub. If fact she's having relationship issues with an ex-boyfriend who also also worked at GitHub, and has caused additional problems for herself by dating the friend of a GitHub manager and getting into a pissing contest with the manager's wife over that relationship.

That said, GitHub management should have sat everyone down and told them to act like adults or find somewhere else to work, her included.

Submission + - Nanoelectronic Circuits Reach Speeds of 245 THz (gizmag.com)

Zothecula writes: Researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have designed and manufactured circuits that can reach speeds of up to 245 THz, tens of thousands of times faster than contemporary microprocessors. The results open up possible new design routes for plasmonic-electronics, that combine nano-electronics with the fast operating speed of optics.

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