Comment Re:that's good news.... (Score 5, Funny) 104
unprotected monkey sex, sharing heroin needles, and participating in HIV related research as test subjects
I miss college.
NASA Running Low On Fuel For Space Exploration 282
smooth wombat writes "With the end of the Cold War came warmer relations with old adversaries, increased trade and a world less worried about nuclear war. It also brought with it an unexpected downside: lack of nuclear fuel to power deep space probes. Without this fuel, probes beyond Jupiter won't work because there isn't enough sunlight to use solar panels, which probes closer to the sun use. The fuel NASA relies on to power deep space probes is plutonium-238. This isotope is the result of nuclear weaponry, and since the United States has not made a nuclear device in 20 years, the supply has run out. For now, NASA is using Soviet supplies, but they too are almost exhausted. It is estimated it will cost at least $150 million to resume making the 11 pounds per year that is needed for space probes."
Comment Re:Scientists *From* Spain? (Score 3, Funny) 182
With the Girl from Ipanema?
Comment Re:So I got a new sink..... (Score 1) 524
Oh, joy. Now I can pressure-wash my hands.
Comment Re:A right to do what? (Score 2, Funny) 419
They were having a sale on azaleas. A really great sale.
Comment Re:I have a feeling.... (Score 2, Funny) 1010
Age of Empires was fun.
Comment Re:RIP (Score 2, Interesting) 471
I say we get an early start and begin naming our spacecraft and space stations in the fashion of Iain M. Bank's Culture. Gravitas? We don't need no stinking gravitas.
Comment Re:why light? (Score 1) 92
Oops, sorry, didn't mean to make "Rat Pr0n FTW" even less funny.
Don't worry. The only way you could make "Rat Pr0n FTW" less funny is if you punched me in the face while I was reading it.
Comment Re:idea is redundant (Score 1) 403
So Soilent Green is Chinese people?
Comment Re:Older fathers have more autistic children (Score 0) 1056
Remember, correlation is not causation. There is very likely a strong genetic basis for autism. As such, the fathers of autistic children could well have some slight autistic traits that delay their social development. These late bloomers would be marrying and then having children at a later period in their lives.
I'm not saying that the above is fact, but that if this vaccine brouhaha can teach us anything it's to draw our conclusions with care.
Comment Re:Birds thrown into engine (Score 2, Funny) 242
With a special attachment, the engine also makes julienne fries!
Comment Re:Oh Real clouds (Score 2, Funny) 81
Only if your seed is pure.
Comment Re:Doesn't need to be a spaceship (Score 1) 436
If you're at the point where more than one person doesn't get your post, then perhaps it's time to rephrase what they're supposedly not understanding. It's called "discussion".
CCC Create a Rogue CA Certificate 300
t3rmin4t0r writes "Just when you were breathing easy about Kaminsky, DNS and the word hijacking, by repeating the word SSL in your head, the hackers at CCC were busy at work making a hash of SSL certificate security. Here's the scoop on how they set up their own rogue CA, by (from what I can figure) reversing the hash and engineering a collision up in MD5 space. Until now, MD5 collisions have been ignored because nobody would put in that much effort to create a useful dummy file, but a CA certificate for phishing seems juicy enough to be fodder for the botnets now."
Performance Tests Show Early Windows 7 Build Beats Vista 534
The Other A.N. Other writes "How does the latest build of Windows 7 stack up against Windows Vista? The answer seems to be very well if the benchmarks run by ZDNet are anything to go by. If Microsoft keeps up the good then Windows 7 should be head and shoulders better than Vista. 'What we have here is one set of data points for one particular system, but I think that the results are very promising. The fact that Windows 7 comes out on top in three out of four of these tests at this early stage is very promising indeed. The boot time and PCMark Vantage results are particularly good.'"
