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Comment: Hodges Meteorite (Score 4, Informative) 122

by Jonathunder on Monday March 12, @10:56AM (#39326099) Attached to: Meteorite Crashes Through Cottage In Oslo

The 1954 Hodges Meteorite, which crashed into a house in Alabama, is the only one in recorded history to have actually hit a person. She survived, suffering only a bad bruising.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylacauga_(meteorite)

Moscow Police Watch Pre-Recorded Scenes On Surveillance Cams 114

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 13 2010, @01:46PM
from the I-always-feel-like-nobody-is-watching-me dept.

An anonymous reader writes "During several months of 2009, Moscow police looked at fake pictures displayed on their monitors instead of what was supposed to be video from the city surveillance cams. The subcontractor providing the cams was paid on the basis of 'the number of working cams,' so he delivered pre-cooked pictures stored on his servers. The camera company CEO has been arrested."

Comment: Re:Are they serious? (Score 2, Informative) 154

by Jonathunder on Tuesday January 12 2010, @04:17PM (#30742148) Attached to: Smartphones Receive Holy Blessing

The name is a reference to its location.

From its website:

"St. Lawrence was first built in 1136 in the east end of London in the old Jewish quarter..."

Water vapour found on exoplanet-> 0

Submitted by

TallDarkMan

on Wednesday July 11 2007, @08:43PM

TallDarkMan writes "We're getting quite a collection of planets (we know about) outside our solar system, and we can add another one that has water! From the article:

Astronomers have found water vapour in the atmosphere of a giant planet outside our Solar System. The detection in the extrasolar planet HD 189733b was made using Nasa's powerful Spitzer Space Telescope and is reported in the journal Nature. — It is only the second time water has been detected on an exoplanet.
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Link to Original Source

Journal: How mail (and phone calls) work in the Senate 0

Journal by Marnhinn on Thursday December 14 2006, @05:52PM

Please note that each Senate office will handle mail slightly different, however this post is general enough that it should apply most everywhere.

I will only be talking about mail from constituents, meaning people who are writing their duly elected representatives, and not someone else's. (See journal post of do's and don't of contacting your senator.)

Also please know that there is a delay in your mail reaching your Senator (it's about 3 days right now).

How Microsoft fights off 100,000 attacks per month

Submitted by jcatcw on Thursday December 14 2006, @05:15PM

jcatcw writes "Microsoft's IT department says it's the target of more than 100,000 intrusion attempts per month. With lots of employees and contractors needing access through the VPN, Microsoft's defenses include: two-factor authentication using smart cards; scanning of computers for approved operating system, enabled firewalls, and up-to-date patches, which can be installed but slow the VPN sign-in process to 5, or even 15, minutes; Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) with EAP-TLS; and access to e-mail, IM and Sharepoint site without needing the VPN."