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Miners Send Drones To Work->

Submitted by aesoteric
aesoteric writes "Australia's top miners have opened a new front in their march to automation, flying unmanned aerial vehicles in increasing numbers at remote sites across the country. They've been used to inspect a fire-damaged oil rig, perform aerial photography and stockpile surveys. There is also a trend towards non US-built UAVs, due to the lag in receiving export approvals for the aircraft and spare parts."
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Programming

New electoral-vote.com still starts with #!/bin/sh->

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "Electoral-vote.com, one of Andy Tanenbaum's projects (after 100.000.000+ visits) has been totally revamped. Still the "Votemaster" uses a bunch of shell scripts--not a whole team of people--to process poll data and to generate the HTML and graphs that power this popular site. Never underestimate a bunch of shell scripts hurdling down the super highway."
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Government

Open source and the National Security Agency, together again->

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jmwci1
jmwci1 writes "The Open Source Software Institute, a non-profit group that supports open-source adoption and the National Security Agency (NSA), the organization in charge of all out of country eavesdropping, will co-host an Open Source Software Industry Day on Wednesday, May 30, 2012. The unclassified, one-day event will be held at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory’s Kossiakoff Conference Center near Fort Meade, MD, which is where the NSA is based. Alas, pre-registration is already over."
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Facebook

Is Twitter making money?

Submitted by Cuban Devil
Cuban Devil writes "After all the hype Facebook's IPO did not deliver what was expected. It made me think about a Twitter IPO, what would be the results? Better question: what really is Twitter's business model? How do they make money with pure and short text messages?"
Japan

Japan readies robot for work at crippled nuclear reactor->

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angry tapir
angry tapir writes "A Japanese robotics lab has developed a new emergency response prototype that will soon be put to work at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in northern Japan. The robot, called "Rosemary," is about the size of a lawn mower and has four extended treaded feet that swivel up and down to help it climb over obstacles."
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Hundreds of words to avoid using online if you don't want the government spying ->

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Dan541
Dan541 writes "The Department of Homeland Security has been forced to release a list of keywords and phrases it uses to monitor social networking sites and online media for signs of terrorist or other threats against the U.S.

The intriguing the list includes obvious choices such as 'attack', 'Al Qaeda', 'terrorism' and 'dirty bomb' alongside dozens of seemingly innocent words like 'pork', 'cloud', 'team' and 'Mexico'."
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In a gathering of two or more people, when a lighted cigarette is placed in an ashtray, the smoke will waft into the face of the non-smoker.