Comment: Re:security is a system, not in a product (Score 1) 596
Wow, pwned before he even finished posting.
Comment: Re:Tee hee hee (Score 1) 10
They're sacrifices to Mammon. You can see why Kinich Ahau might be feeling all neglected and wrathy.
Comment: Re:Tee hee hee (Score 1) 10
Ah, but which god? My money is on Kinich Ahau, the Mayan sun god: it's his department, there's the whole business with the calendar, and we've been pretty stingy with the human sacrifices lately...
Comment: Re:Sceptic (Score 1) 139
A red herring, more likely.
Comment: Re:Stupid (Score 4, Funny) 139
Focusing on consumers is also a dumb idea for a laser company. You get more repeat customers when they're not on fire.
Comment: Re:apple is clearly doomed (Score 4, Informative) 356
What gets under my skin is cutting off people using Dropbox SDK that have nothing to do with this.
Then you'll be pleased to learn that existing apps using previous Dropbox SDK versions still work perfectly and can still be downloaded from the app store (including Dropbox's own app). Nothing that was already approved has been removed or uninstalled.
Comment: Re:The English version is good for this (Score 1) 462
The logical conclusion being that all politicians would spout less drivel if they spent some time in prison. Worth a try IMO.
Good news for US fusion research->
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zrbyte writes "Fusion research would get a major boost in a Department of Energy (DOE) spending bill approved today by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations. The panel rejected an Obama Administration proposal to cut funding for domestic fusion research in the 2013 fiscal year, which begins 1 October. It would also give more money than requested to an international collaboration building the ITER fusion reactor in France. This will allow the Alcator C-Mod fusion facility at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge to be kept open, which the Administration had proposed closing."
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BOLD plan to find Mars life for cheap->
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techfun89 writes "There is a BOLD new plan for detecting signs of microbial life on Mars. The nickname is BOLD, which stands for Biological Oxidant and Life Detection Initiative, would be a follow-up to the 1976 Mars Viking life-detection experiments.
"We have much better technology that we could use," says BOLD lead scientist Dirk Schulze-Makuch, with Washington State University. He elaborates, "Our idea is to make a relatively cheap mission and go more directly to characterize and solve the big question about the soil properties on Mars and life detection."
To help figure out the life-detection mystery, Schulze-Makuch and his colleagues would fly a set of six pyramid-shaped probes that would crash land, pointy end down, so they embed themselves four to eight inches into the soil. One of the instruments includes a sensor that can detect a single molecule of DNA or other nucleotide."
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"We have much better technology that we could use," says BOLD lead scientist Dirk Schulze-Makuch, with Washington State University. He elaborates, "Our idea is to make a relatively cheap mission and go more directly to characterize and solve the big question about the soil properties on Mars and life detection."
To help figure out the life-detection mystery, Schulze-Makuch and his colleagues would fly a set of six pyramid-shaped probes that would crash land, pointy end down, so they embed themselves four to eight inches into the soil. One of the instruments includes a sensor that can detect a single molecule of DNA or other nucleotide."
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Google antitrust investigation advances as FTC hires outside attorney->
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suraj.sun writes "Signaling the gravity of the government's antitrust investigation against Google, the Federal Trade Commission has hired a prominent Washington litigator — Beth Wilkinson, who successfully argued for the government in Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh case — to serve as its outside counsel in the case, the first time in at least five years the federal regulatory agency has taken such a step.
"This means, to me, that the FTC is quite serious about bringing a case against Google," said Samuel Miller, a San Francisco antitrust lawyer who was recruited by the Justice Department in 1993 to prosecute its first antitrust case against Microsoft. "The antitrust authorities don't bring in outside counsel unless they are very serious about bringing a case."
The F.T.C. has been conducting a wide-ranging investigation into Google’s search business for over a year. Mr. Leibowitz cautioned that this did not necessarily mean the F.T.C. would sue Google."
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"This means, to me, that the FTC is quite serious about bringing a case against Google," said Samuel Miller, a San Francisco antitrust lawyer who was recruited by the Justice Department in 1993 to prosecute its first antitrust case against Microsoft. "The antitrust authorities don't bring in outside counsel unless they are very serious about bringing a case."
The F.T.C. has been conducting a wide-ranging investigation into Google’s search business for over a year. Mr. Leibowitz cautioned that this did not necessarily mean the F.T.C. would sue Google."
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