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SpaceX Falcon 9 and Dragon Make It To Orbit 200

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 08 2010, @11:42AM
from the up-up-and-away dept.

jnaujok writes "This morning the Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Dragon capsule lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 10:43 Eastern time, after an earlier launch had been scrubbed because of a bad telemetry feed. A little over 9 minutes later, the Dragon capsule separated from the second stage into its intended orbit. Part of the COTS (Commercial access To Space) program, this is the first test of the Dragon capsule by SpaceX to prove it can be used to ferry supplies to the ISS. The Dragon capsule will make two or three orbits before returning to Earth about four hours after launch."

MasterCard Hit By WikiLeaks Payback Attacks 715

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday December 08 2010, @10:00AM
from the this-is-getting-messy dept.

An anonymous reader writes "MasterCard's website has been hit by a distributed denial of service attack. Netcraft describes how the attack uses a voluntary botnet of LOIC (low orbit ion cannon) users to swamp sites with traffic. PostFinance, the PayPal blog and Swedish prosecutors have been targeted previously."

Comment: Re:Translation: Judge's son/nephew owns modded Xbo (Score 1, Funny) 285

by Gat0r30y on Thursday December 02 2010, @07:40AM (#34415748) Attached to: Judge Berates Prosecutors In Xbox Modding Trial

Yes, that was the joke, thank you.

Happy Post-Humas Birthday to Stephen Jay Gould-> 1

Submitted by Gat0r30y on Friday September 10 2010, @08:27AM

Gat0r30y writes "Not that correlation denotes causation, but I think its a good day for science."
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Fly Eyes Used For Solar Cells 73

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday July 28 2010, @08:09PM
from the windows-to-the-power-pole dept.

disco_tracy writes "Researchers took corneas from blow flies, fixed them on a glass substrate, added a polymer to protect the shape and then coated nine-eye arrays in nickel within a vacuum chamber. The result was a master template that retained those useful nanoscale features and can be used to make solar cells."

Comment: Eastern Orthodox (Score 0) 1131

by Gat0r30y on Wednesday April 21 2010, @11:11AM (#31924590) Attached to: Extremists Warn <em>South Park</em> Creators Over Muhammad In a Bear Suit

Eastern Orthodox Christians do not permit depictions of anyone. Do they throw a fit about cartoons too?

Comment: Re:It could have been worse.... (Score 1, Interesting) 1131

by Gat0r30y on Wednesday April 21 2010, @11:09AM (#31924566) Attached to: Extremists Warn <em>South Park</em> Creators Over Muhammad In a Bear Suit

Mohammed (PBUH) did have a 7 year old wife. People who idolize that while threatening violence toward a cartoon are, well, not stable.

Comment: Re:Sure, that sends the right message (Score 1) 334

by Gat0r30y on Wednesday February 10 2010, @12:40PM (#31087930) Attached to: Hackers Attack AU Websites To Protest Censorship

No, however they may have to consider the actual cost (in actual dollars) of implementing their idiotic plan. What do you think the actual cost of one day of these shenanigans is to the government? Also, while I do not like to feed the b/east they were rather effective at humiliating the government by making them appear completely ineffectual.

Comment: And My Sig (Score 1) 1

by Gat0r30y on Monday January 11 2010, @12:12PM (#30724894) Attached to: The robot apocalypse has arrived. And its sexy.

It is finally relevant.

The robot apocalypse has arrived. And its sexy.-> 1

Submitted by Gat0r30y on Monday January 11 2010, @11:27AM

Gat0r30y writes "Sexiest end of the world ever. One will inevitably be released with Lucy Lu's Erotic Assassin option, leading to a wave of destruction that is easy on the eyes."
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