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  Need a job? NASA is looking.[->] 2008-06-25 16:33 What is?

Submitted by What is? on Wednesday June 25, @04:33PM
What is? writes "NASA is accepting applicants for a "New NASA Astronaut Class". Got a bachelor's degree in engineering, science or math? Go fill out an application."
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/jun/HQ_08158_astronaut_deadline.html
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 [+] submission, space
Submitted by dotancohen on Thursday May 29, @09:22PM
dotancohen writes "Small observation: The Phoenix lander's robotic arm end effector looks like something that we've seen before. I hope that Ripley's stowed away on board again."
http://www.dotancohen.com/eng/phoenix_arm.html
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  Quicken on Linux? Just asking is frustrating.[->] 2008-02-19 19:22 dotancohen

Submitted by dotancohen on Tuesday February 19, @07:22PM
dotancohen writes "First rule of proprietary software: the company makes the rules, and the end user is either a sheep (follows blindly) or a snake (slithers away and good riddance too). Today I inquired about Quicken for Linux and had a rather frustrating experience. The three rules of proprietary software bit me one after the other."
http://dotancohen.com/eng/quicken_on_linux.html
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 [+] submission, linuxbusiness

  Netnanny for Linux? 2008-02-16 05:16 Dotan Cohen

Submitted by Dotan Cohen on Saturday February 16, @05:16AM
Dotan Cohen writes "Although the daughter is only one year old, I know that I had better start learning how to regulate her Internet usage now. I am interested in creating a NetNanny style of filter on the desktop. It might serve as a home server/router in the future as well. It's currently running FC6, but that will likely change about once a year so I need a solution that can grow with my distro, including non-Red Hat distros.

I looked at squid and I'm pretty certain that with the proper blacklist it may do the filtering that I need. I also thought about a nice heavy hosts file that would blacklist known porn sites. The problem is, where is one to acquire such a list? If I'm only filtering IPs then the hosts file would be preferable, but can I configure squid to do dynamic content filtering in realtime? Maybe a spamassasin-type point system to block || allow content? Is there a better proxy than squid for this specific purpose?

Has anybody any experience in the field? Are there already similar packages available? Proprietary software is fine, but of course an open source solution would be preferred."
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  Pilots Injured on New Zealand Plane 2008-02-09 16:47 What is?

Submitted by What is? on Saturday February 09, @04:47PM
What is? writes "Somali woman lightly injured two Jetstream pilots. She also made a bomb threat, but no bomb was found. Apparently the airport in which she boarded does not check domestic passengers. At all."
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  Pilots Attacked on New Zealand Plane[->] 2008-02-09 16:38 What is?

Submitted by What is? on Saturday February 09, @04:38PM
What is? writes "Somali woman lightly injured the two pilots. She also made a bomb threat, but no bomb was found. Apparently the airport in which she boarded does not check domestic passengers. At all."
http://voanews.com/english/2008-02-08-voa8.cfm
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 [+] submission, transportation

  Reaction Engines plan Mach 5 airliner[->] 2008-02-06 06:39 What is?

Submitted by dotancohen on Wednesday February 06, @06:39AM
A British company has designed an eco-friendly airliner that could make a trip from London to Sydney in under five hours. Reaction Engines has received funding from the European Space Agency to design the plane as part of the Long-Term Advanced Propulsion Concepts and Technologies project. The A2 airliner would be capable of carrying 300 passengers at speeds of up to Mach 5.
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2208916/british-boffins-plan-mach
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  Microsoft bids $44.6 billion for Yahoo[->] 2008-02-01 09:13 What is?

Submitted by What is? on Friday February 01, @09:13AM
What is? writes "Microsoft's offer, which was contained in a letter to Yahoo's board, amounts to $31 a share and represents a 62 percent premium over Yahoo's closing price on Thursday. Microsoft said it will offer shareholders the option of cash or stock. "We have great respect for Yahoo, and together we can offer an increasingly exciting set of solutions for consumers, publishers and advertisers while becoming better positioned to compete in the online services market," Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said in a statement. The public offer follows the Yahoo's disappointing earnings report on Tuesday, which sent the company's shares further down."
http://www.news.com/Microsoft-offers-to-buy-Yahoo-in-44.6-billion-deal/2100-1014_3-6228705.html?tag=html.alert.hed
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  Bending the rules: CRTs for heat? 2008-01-11 12:48 dotancohen

Submitted by dotancohen on Friday January 11 2008, @12:48PM
dotancohen writes "My university prohibits electric (or any other) heaters in the dorms. A dorm-dwelling friend asked me to formulate a solution for her, so I suggested that she plug in as many CRT monitors that she could before the fuse pops. Does anyone know of a more compact source of heat? How about some old 400W power supplies not connected to anything? Ovens, toasters, kettles, and the like are banned."
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  Mars Avoids Asteroid Strike[->] 2008-01-11 12:41 dotancohen

Submitted by dotancohen on Friday January 11 2008, @12:41PM
dotancohen writes "The possibility of a collision between Mars and an approaching asteroid has been effectively ruled out, according to scientists watching the space rock. Tracking measurements of asteroid 2007 WD5 taken from four observatories have greatly reduced uncertainties about its Jan. 30 close approach to Mars so that the odds of impact have dropped to 1 in 10,000, the Near-Earth Object Program at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said in a posting on its Web site."
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/01/11/mars-asteroid-miss.html?dcitc=w19-506-ak-0008
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Submitted by dotancohen on Sunday January 06 2008, @09:13PM
dotancohen writes "Microsoft Corp. apologized yesterday for saying its file format posed a security risk and issued new tools to let users of Office 2003 SP3 unblock a host of barred file types. In a posting to his own blog, David LeBlanc, a senior software development engineer with the Microsoft Office team, admitted the company's mistake in blaming insecure file formats."
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9055618
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 [+] submission, microsoft, notthebest, interesting, baddaytobeachair

  Slutbot passes turning test.[->] 2007-12-09 04:04 dotancohen

Submitted by dotancohen on Sunday December 09 2007, @04:04AM
dotancohen writes "
Russian crooks have unleashed an artificial intelligence, called CyberLover, that poses as a would-be paramour in sex chat rooms, enticing randy gentlemen to reveal personal information that can then be put to criminal use. Amazingly, the slutbot appears to be successful in convincing targets that it's a real person.
Even CmdrTaco hasn't yet convinced me that [it||he] is a real person. I can't wait to get scammed by this thing."
http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2007/12/slutbot_passes.php
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  Device to Smoke Weed During Brain Scan[->] 2007-12-01 11:56 dotancohen

Submitted by dotancohen on Saturday December 01 2007, @11:56AM
dotancohen writes "
Harvard Scientists Build a Device to Smoke Weed During Brain Scan. Why would you want to smoke pot during a brain scan? Because functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) allows researchers to observe activity in the brain, and doing so while smoking could enhance our understanding of addiction and how to treat it. Last Friday, Scott Lukas, the ringmaster for these studies and director of the Behavioral Psychopharmacology Research Laboratory was informed that he will receive a grant to conduct further studies with marijuana.
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http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/09/harvard-scienti.html
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  Linux Users Can't Sell On eBay[->] 2007-11-27 18:23 bobintetley

Submitted by bobintetley on Tuesday November 27 2007, @06:23PM
bobintetley writes "Many Linux/Firefox users are reporting problems uploading images to eBay. Having tested this myself, it is indeed completely broken. Why eBay would break standard HTTP uploads by using IE specific javascript to "check the file exists" boggles the mind. This problem has been reported to eBay since late October, but so far with no resolution. eBay have since stated that only IE is supported. I guess when you have no real competition you can pull stunts like this."
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3688990
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 [+] submission, yro, censorship, !censorship

  MS Explorer sinks for real this time.[->] 2007-11-27 12:48 dotancohen

Submitted by dotancohen on Tuesday November 27 2007, @12:48PM
dotancohen writes "
All 154 passengers and crew of a cruise ship that sank in Antarctic waters have now been flown to safety in mainland Chile. The MS Explorer went down after hitting an iceberg and the passengers spent several hours in lifeboats in sub-zero temperatures.
I find this symbolic and very fitting for /. trolls. Carry on."
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/26/2101781.htm
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