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Soyuz With Richard Garriott Successfully Launched 56

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday October 12, 2008 @09:37AM from the lord-british-in-space dept.

Toren Altair writes "Soyuz TMA-13 with ISS Expedition Crew 18 and Richard Garriott successfully launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome at 7:01 UT (3:01 EDT). The Soyuz capsule will dock to the ISS in two days. Garriott will return to Earth with Expedition 17 crew members, Commander Sergei Volkov and Flight Engineer Oleg Kononenko on October 23." With the extra attention on this launch, the Russians have gone out of their way to say that the return of the Soyuz vehicle will be safe, after a couple of different malfunctions in the past year. Garriott is in space partly for recreation, and partly as a promotion for his latest MMO, Tabula Rasa. He took with him a hard drive filled with information about humanity, as well as DNA sequences from Tabula Rasa players and various celebrities (including Stephen Colbert and Stephen Hawking) to 'preserve' that data in case of a disaster on Earth. Garriott will also spend time running and participating in experiments. Coverage of the Soyuz mission is ongoing at NASATV.

Comment Buggy Stuff (Score 1) 305

by Bodysurf on Saturday June 28, 2008 @08:17PM (#23986161) Attached to: What Happened To Palm?

Treos are notorious for being buggy, unstable, and spontaneously rebooting or requiring frequent reboots.

I had a Treo 600 from Cingular and I can speak for that firsthand. During the course of the day, it must have rebooted at least 5 times -- many times in the middle of a call.

I won't speak for others, but I won't tolerate a smartphone that behaves like Windows 2.0. A smartphone must be stable -- like an alarm clock, TV, etc.

I sent it back to Palm and went to a Blackberry. No stability problems and it just flat out worked.

Is There Any Reason to Report Spammers to ISP's?

Posted by Cliff on Saturday April 28, 2007 @02:25PM from the does-it-do-any-good dept.

marko_ramius asks: "For years I've been a good netizen and reported spam that I get to the appropriate contacts at varois ISPs. In the entire time that I've done this I've gotten (maybe) 5 or 6 responses from those ISPs informing me that they have taken action against the spammer. In recent years however, I haven't gotten any responses. Are the ISP's so overwhelmed with abuse reports that they aren't able to respond to the spam reports? Do they even bother acting on said reports? Is there any real reason to report spammers?"

Wikipedia May Require Proof of Credentials 317

Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday March 09, 2007 @11:41AM from the yeah-good-luck-with-that dept.

narramissic writes "According to Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, a new policy is currently under discussion by the community of users who regularly write and maintain Wikipedia that would require contributors to the site who claim certain credentials to prove they really have them. The new policy comes after one of Wikipedia's most prolific and respected editors, who went by the pseudonym 'Essjay,' was found not to be the 'tenured professor of theology' he claimed to be but a run-of-the-mill 24 year-old from Kentucky. Said Wales, 'To discover that someone had been deceiving the community for a long time really was a bit of a blow to our trust. Wikipedia is built on the idea of trusting other people and people being honest and we find that in the most part everyone is, so it was a real disappointment.'"

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