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Submission + - City Lights May Aid in Search for Extraterrestrial (gizmag.com)

Zothecula writes: It's difficult to look at the night sky and not wonder whether intelligent life exists out there. Indeed, the odds are very much in favor of there being countless civilizations scattered throughout the heavens, but the challenge remains in proving it. Recently, two scientists hit upon the novel but common-sense idea of searching for city lights on the dark side of distant worlds — a task advanced next-gen earth and space-based telescopes will likely be able to tackle in the not-too-distant future.
Science

Submission + - Voyager 2 Has Accepted The Commands! (messagetoeagle.com)

laejoh writes: NASA's Deep Space Network personnel sent commands to the Voyager 2 spacecraft Nov. 4 to switch to the backup set of thrusters that controls the roll of the spacecraft. Confirmation was received today november the 7th that the spacecraft accepted the commands.
NASA

Submission + - NASA Captures Radar Image During Asteroid Flyby of (nasa.gov)

Stirling Newberry writes: "We've all heard by now that asteriod impacts may be the cause of periodic mass extinction events – and perhaps of calls to defend earth against them. Maybe you have heard of comet panics. But near Earth passing events aren't all doom and gloom, in these images NASA and JPL used radar to capture images of Asteroid 2005 YU55, which will be closest at ~324,600 km at 1128 UTC, or 6:26 PM EST. Related NASA video is here, and as you can see, the moon will get a much better view than we will – though depending on the results of the asteroid's close pass of Venus in 2029, it could well pass this close to us in 2041. The images come from the Goldstone Complex in the Mojave desert."
Security

Submission + - Apple Nixes Charlie Miller From Dev Program Over D (threatpost.com)

Trailrunner7 writes: Just a few hours after it became public the security researcher Charlie Miller had inserted a proof-of-concept app into the Apple App Store to demonstrate a serious vulnerability in iOS, Apple informed Miller that it was removing him from its developer program.

Miller had created the app, which is a real-time stock ticker, a couple of months ago as a way to demonstrate an exploit for an iOS vulnerability he found that enabled him to load unsigned code onto a an iOS device. He submitted the app to the Apple iTunes App Store and it eventually was approved and appeared in the store in mid-September. Miller used the app to demonstrate the exploit in a video he created, but other people had also downloaded it.

Idle

Submission + - Kansas Governor Appoints CIO with Degree from Fake (cjonline.com)

kstatefan40 writes: The Topeka Capital-Journal is reporting that Kansas Governor Sam Brownback appointed Jim Mann as Chief Information Officer this week (with a salary of $155,000), and noticed that Mr. Mann listed his education B.S. in Business Administration from a degree mill called the University of Devonshire. "The school, according to a 2002 article by Wired, was owned by American residents in Romania, used mailing address in the United Kingdom, printed materials in Israel and banked in Cyprus. One estimate placed at 70,000 the number of degrees sold in the United States by their University Degree Program doing business as University of Devonshire and a series of other names." A spokeswoman for Governor Brownback said the decision by Brownback to hire Mann wasn't based on Mann's scholarly performance with the distance learning university.

A college degree isn't everything in IT, but this just seems like a really bad idea.

Submission + - "Life begins at conception" ? (cnn.com)

sfm writes: On Tuesday, the state of Mississippi is going to vote on a controversial ammendment which declares a fertilized egg is an individual and is protected by the same laws that govern people living outside the womb. This has far reaching implications is the area of birth control, abortion, and family planning.

Comment Re:Credit Transfers? (Score 1) 148

I suspect the value of the certificate relies directly on how well-known and respected the instructors are in the field. Personally, I'm considering on going back to school for a Master's in Computer Science, and since I've been out of school for awhile and my undergrad degree is not in CS, I figure it couldn't hurt to have this certificate from Stanford AI instructors to show a more recent academic performance to complement my work experience.

Comment Re:TFA is wrong (Score 1) 148

I suspect maybe Stanford's term starts the 26th and runs through December 16th? Because the course website also lists the last day of the course as December 8th, not the 16th, though it doesn't mention when the final is, but for the online portion the final is due December 18th. So yeah, seems like they can't agree with themselves on dates.

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