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Submission + - The Pirate Bay Founder's Jailing Sounds a Little Extreme (vice.com)

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pigrabbitbear

on Monday October 22, 2012 @01:30PM

pigrabbitbear writes: "Things aren’t looking awesome for Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm, who’s currently under lock and key in a newly built jail about 15 minutes north of Stockholm. Svartholm’s mother Kristina says that her 28-year-old boy is being held in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day without any human contact other than his interactions with the guards. It’s been nearly two months since Svartholm was arrested in Cambodia, where he’d been living for years, and extradited back to Sweden, where he’s due to spend a year behind bars and pay a $1.1 million fine for copyright offenses related to his role at the Pirate Bay. But that’s not why Sweden’s being so tough on him in prison. Authorities believe he may have played a role in the hacking of Logica, a Swedish technology company with ties to the country’s tax authorities. They haven’t charged him with any crimes yet in that case, however."

Submission + - NASA achieves data goals for Mars rover with open source software (opensource.com)

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caseyb89

on Monday October 22, 2012 @10:57AM

caseyb89 writes: "Open source projects Nginx, Railo CMS, and GlusterFS are powering Mars Curiosity's big data crunching. "Taken together, the combination of cloud and open source enabled the Curiosity mission to provide beautiful images in real time, not months delayed; at high quality, not "good enough" quality. A traditional, proprietary approach would not have been this successful, given the short time to deployment and shifting requirements that necessitated the ultimate in agility and flexibility.""

Submission + - Some Crime Scene Clean Up Agencies Do More Than Just Cleaning Up (livejournal.com)

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Kateallot

on Sunday October 14, 2012 @03:14PM

Kateallot writes: "A death due to a crime scene, or due to a suicide, requires more that just a bunch of people barging an at the crime scene and doing a mediocre job at the cleaning process, which only goes as far as surface cleaning. It requires people who are able to realize the delicacy of the situation."

Submission + - A Supercomputer on the Moon to Direct Deep Space Traffic 1

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Hugh Pickens writes

on Sunday October 14, 2012 @11:11AM

Hugh Pickens writes writes: "NASA currently controls its deep space missions through a network of 13 giant antennas in California, Spain and Australia known as the Deep Space Network (DSN) but the network is obsolete and just not up to the job of transmitting the growing workload of extra-terrestrial data from deep space missions. That's why Ouliang Chang has proposed building a massive supercomputer in a deep dark crater on the side of the moon facing away from Earth and all of its electromagnetic chatter. Nuclear-powered, it would accept signals from space, store them, process them if needed and then relay the data back to Earth as time and bandwidth allows. The supercomputer would run in frigid regions near one of the moon’s poles where cold temperatures would make cooling the supercomputer easier, and would communicate with spaceships and earth using a system of inflatable, steerable antennas that would hang suspended over moon craters, giving the Deep Space Network a second focal point away from earth. As well as boosting humanity's space-borne communication abilities, Chang's presentation at a space conference (PDF) in Pasadena, California also suggests that the moon-based dishes could work in unison with those on Earth to perform very-long-baseline interferometry, which allows multiple telescopes to be combined to emulate one huge telescope. Best of all the project has the potential to excite the imagination of future spacegoers and get men back on the moon."

Submission + - Samsung will reportedly sue Apple over LTE use on iPhone 5 (cnet.com)

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hodeting

on Tuesday September 11, 2012 @02:30AM

hodeting writes: "South Korean electronics giant to take "immediate legal action" against the iPhone maker, an industry source tells the Korea Times."

Submission + - The First Laptop in Space (spaceindustrynews.com)

Submitted by littlesparkvt on Monday September 10, 2012 @10:33PM

littlesparkvt writes: The first laptop in space was designed by a man named Bill Moggridge who passed away September 8th, 2012 at the age of 69 years old. Bill won the Prince Philip Designers Prize in 2010 which recognizes outstanding computer design.

Submission + - Amazon Blocks Arch Linux Handbook from Kindle Store (thepowerbase.com) 3

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 09, 2012 @06:54PM

An anonymous reader writes: We've all heard the horror stories of Amazon swindling the user out of their content on the Kindle, but this time they've managed to do it preemptively: by blocking the GFDL licensed Arch Linux Handbook from the Kindle Store.

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