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by CdBee on Tuesday June 10, @09:03PM (#23736887)
Attached to: EU Calls For Use of Open Standards
"Strict gun-control, stupid "hate speech" laws"

Only an american could list those as bad things.... *sigh*...
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  Hardware: Carmack's Armadillo Aerospace Rocket Crashes and Burns 2007-08-22 16:02

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday August 22 2007, @04:02PM
from the doomed-rockets dept.
mcgrew (sm62704) writes "New Scientist is reporting that John Carmack's 'Armadillo Aerospace' has suffered a large setback in the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge after one of its two main rockets crashed and burned. 'During the test, Texel lifted off and hovered without incident, then descended again and touched the ground. But it then rose again unexpectedly and began accelerating upward. "Crap, it's going to fly into the crane, I need to kill it," Carmack recalls thinking. He hit the manual shutdown switch, turning off the vehicle's engine in mid-flight. Texel was about 6 metres above the ground and fell like a stone. One of its fuel tanks broke open when it hit the ground, spewing fuel that ignited and engulfed the vehicle in flames. "It made a fireball that would make any Hollywood movie proud," Carmack says.' No one was hurt in the crash, but the vehicle was destroyed."
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  Linus responds to Microsoft patent allegations 2007-05-15 11:37 at_slashdot

Submitted by at_slashdot on Tuesday May 15 2007, @11:37AM
at_slashdot writes "Linus Torvalds response to Microsoft patent allegations: "It's just FUD"

http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/05 /15/1455258"
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Bookmark by at_slashdot on Tuesday May 15 2007, @11:34AM
http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/05/15/1455258
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