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Comment Putin got caught? (Score 5, Interesting) 30

charged with allegedly transferring classified information to an unnamed foreign government
The company, ... helps companies and governments investigate cyberattacks and online fraud, and has customers ranging from Interpol to Russian banks and defense companies.

So we can translate this as Group-IB providing information about hackers, to a target of Russian government hacking then?

Submission + - First space-baked cookies took 2 hours in experimental oven (go.com)

Submitted by pgmrdlm
pgmrdlm writes: CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The results are finally in for the first chocolate chip cookie bake-off in space.

While looking more or less normal, the best cookies required two hours of baking time last month up at the International Space Station. It takes far less time on Earth, under 20 minutes.

And how do they taste? No one knows.

Still sealed in individual baking pouches and packed in their spaceflight container, the cookies remain frozen in a Houston-area lab after splashing down two weeks ago in a SpaceX capsule. They were the first food baked in space from raw ingredients.

The makers of the oven expected a difference in baking time in space, but not that big.

“There's still a lot to look into to figure out really what's driving that difference, but definitely a cool result," Mary Murphy, a manager for Texas-based Nanoracks, said this week. "Overall, I think it's a pretty awesome first experiment.”

Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano was the master baker in December, radioing down a description as he baked them one by one in the prototype Zero G Oven.

The first cookie — in the oven for 25 minutes at 300 degrees Fahrenheit (149 degrees Celsius) — ended up seriously under-baked. He more than doubled the baking time for the next two, and the results were still so-so.

The fourth cookie stayed in the oven for two hours, and finally success.

"So this time, I do see some browning," Parmitano radioed. "I can't tell you whether it's cooked all the way or not, but it certainly doesn't look like cookie dough any more."

Parmitano cranked the oven up to its maximum 325 degrees F (163 degrees C) for the fifth cookie and baked it for 130 minutes. He reported more success.

Comment Re: Use our Postal System as their Delivery Boy? (Score 1) 559

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You lefties are confused. If you would just leave services like deliveries to the private sector, you wouldn't have our tax dollars that prop up the USPS subsidizing Chinese delivery. Private business would fix the price or go out of business.

No confusion on this side of the education divide; USPS gets NO taxpayer funding. NONE. It's all paid for by postage.

Comment Re:I'm okay with this but I wish it was more (Score 1) 324

by APL bigot (#44186141) Attached to: USPS Logs All Snail Mail For Law Enforcement
Letter mail is OCRed to facilitate automated sorting. That orange barcode on the back of your mail links to the database record of the mailpiece destination. It's how the postal system sorts all that mail so quickly, with so few people. I've long suspected that the data got used in other ways, but it's primary purpose is to move the mail.

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