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Antarctic's First Plane, Found In Ice 110

Arvisp writes "In 1912 Australian explorer Douglas Mawson planned to fly over the southern pole. His lost plane has now been found. The plane – the first off the Vickers production line in Britain – was built in 1911, only eight years after the Wright brothers executed the first powered flight. For the past three years, a team of Australian explorers has been engaged in a fruitless search for the aircraft, last seen in 1975. Then on Friday, a carpenter with the team, Mark Farrell, struck gold: wandering along the icy shore near the team's camp, he noticed large fragments of metal sitting among the rocks, just a few inches beneath the water."

Apple Orders 10 Million Tablets? 221

Arvisp writes "According to a blog post by former Google China president Kai-Fu Lee, Apple plans to produce nearly 10 million tablets in the still-unannounced product's first year. If Lee's blog post is to be believed, Apple plans to sell nearly twice as many tablets as it did iPhones in the product's first year."

Comment Re:What!? (Score 1) 658

Just because a politician labels a bullet a "cop killer" does not mean that its intended purpose was ever to kill cops. More and more criminals are wearing kevlar these days. The armed cilvilian population needs to be as prepared as the criminals are.

Comment A losing battle (Score 2, Insightful) 285

I have been through three "server consolidation" projects in the last 13 years. Every time the IT shop moves servers from the wild into data centers, a whole new crop springs up in wild. Good policy and great enforcement are the keys to a successful consolidation, but with the do more with less mentality of most IT shops today the old just becomes the new again.

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