So, someone in USA halliburtoned a huge chunk of taxpayer's money into their pockets, and then told American people a pretty fairy tale about how they made "a secret effort to clean up a Soviet nuclear site"? Where did I hear that story before? Please, don't make me laugh. It is 2013 already. Everybody knows what those mythological stories about "USA helping USSR to secure its nukes" are worth.

Well, virtually all such US events are "overrated" in a sense that the equipment is either directly bought from Russia, assembled from Russian components or at least based on Russian designs. This one is no exception. Antares is just another Atlas - an airkit pulled over a Russian main engine. While Russian superiority in this area is undisputed, it's already becoming a commodity. Nothing to write home about.

While this does bear certain similarities with Strava, there's no need to inject false information about the cyclist's death. The cyclist in question did not "break the laws of the road" and was not "killed in traffic". He died in a single-bicycle accident after losing control on a descent. Basically, he fell and got injured pretty badly.

No, no, no. You got it backwards. "Sedan" is what people in some isolated countries call what the entire civilized world knows as "Saloon".

"The Harrier"? Where did that come from? This plane is known as Nakamura lock, although this design is normally recognized as the "defualt" paper airplane design. It doesn't really need a name. When someone simply says "a paper airplane" without providing any specifics, it is universally assumed that Nakamura lock is implied.

Incorrect. The policy obviously does not apply to genuinely defective items, so customer's won't get concerned about that. The policy applies to those who expect to be able to return their items without any reason, i.e. those who consider retail stores their personal "free loaner" service, at everyone else's expense. Amazon will not work for that purpose, for obvious reasons. And if these people try going to Target or Walmart with their abusive practices, the stores will either be forced to implement similar policies or be kicked off the market. Kudos to BestBuy for doing at least something right. Honest people now have at least one store that stands for our principles.

"Neither VISA nor MasterCard have said which U.S.-based processor was the source of the breach" Translation: US State Department dispatched armed propaganda-enforcement teams who are currently holding the PR departments of Visa and MasterCard at gunpoint, forcing them to immediately come up with an official explanation that would tie the crime to "Russian crooks", as is usually required by the State Department's censorship and propaganda guidelines.

So you put a typical camera on a typical RC model - something virtually every single RC pilot has been doing for years already. YouTube is choke-full of such videos. Where's the news? The fact that he call it a "personal surveillance drone"? Or the fact that a Stanford professor is playing with a toy) (He should have bought a real non-toy RC model) P.S. And no, HAM radio licence is not sufficient for BVR operation.

You have to be careful with your statements. In USA people who dare to know history beyond what is transmitted into their heads by "History channel" tend to doubt the "Key Role Of USA In Winning The WWII" (TM). Under the US regime such people usually tend to have unfortunate and completely accidental slip-ups in their bathtubs that tend to lead to unfortunate, completely accidental and deadly breaking of their necks.

Er... WWII was the war between Germany and Soviet Union. What does the "quantity of the Sherman tanks" and the relative technological levels of USA and Germany have to do with winning WWII is not clear to me. And no, it was not about "quantity over quality". Soviets won the war by the tactical and strategic skill. It would simply be impossible for them to win it in any other way.

The facts of first video from another planet in the history of mankind usually induce immense butthurt in "patriotic" Americans, not even mentioning that publishing something like that can lead to serious problems with federal censorship watchdogs. Sing the "Starts and stripes" 11 times and eat two pairs of US-flag-colored underpants to cleanse yourself of your sins!

The first photos and videos from Venus, as well as the first TV picture from another planet in the history of mankind are quite extraordinary.

33 km is 1/3 of the way to space. Please stop perpetuating the boyscouts' sensationalist claims about weather balloons taking their junk "to the edge of space". That nonsense was written for the housewife moms, not for /.

Ugh... Americanism of cerebral cortex is running strong on /. today. Considering that the amount of "loose money" in Russia is about two orders of magnitude higher than in USA, why would Russian hackers ever target USA? Do hackers anywhere in the world target Zimbabwe? Ivory Coast? Haiti? Hackers target rich populations with high accessibility of "easy money", i.e. countries with large number of proverbial blondes carrying around 1-2 millions of US dollars cash as pocket money. And that spells "Russia". Bit a piss-poor craphole like USA??? Why would any hacker target it? Last occurrence of Russian hackers targeting anyone outside of Russia was recorded sometime around 2003. And now we get a suspiciously well-written piece with another set of fantastic claims... Sounds like someone in USA is trying to compensate for their inferiority complex by their delusion of grandeur :) Did Condoleezza Rice get back in the office? If not, who's guiding this 50-cent army on Slashdot? That's the question that needs answering.

97% of malware originates in USA. This is a well-known fact, which has been posted and discussed even here on /. repeatedly. Russia does produce malware, but most of it targets the local market. The reason this piece is making the news is that we are observing the rare case when foreign malware is detected on US market. This is indeed a rather strange and curious occurrence, since it makes no practical or economical sense for the perpetrators.