Comment When did peas stop being plants? (Score 1) 466
"is a mash-up of proteins from peas and plants"
Pretty sure peas are plants.
Comment Re:WTF? (Score 4, Informative) 204
How can replacing thousands of expensive centrifuges be cheaper than replacing the infected computers??!! Dude, WTF?!
The centrifuges were damaged (due to the worm) and would remain damaged even when you replace/clean the infected computers.
Submission + - AMD Open Sources Their Linux Video API (phoronix.com)
An anonymous reader writes: AMD has open sourced X-Video Bitstream Acceleration, their API by which they expose the Universal Video Decoder 2 GPU under Linux.
Google Wave To Live On As 'Wave In a Box' 59
snydeq writes "Google Wave will morph into an application bundle for real-time collaboration, according to a blog post by Google Wave engineer Alex North. 'We will expand upon the 200K lines of code we've already open sourced (detailed at waveprotocol.org) to flesh out the existing example Wave server and Web client into a more complete application or "Wave in a Box,"' North said, adding that the future of the recently flat-lined Google service will be 'defined by your contributions. We hope this project will help the Wave developer community continue to grow and evolve,' he said."
Submission + - Northop Grumman Says 'I'm Sorry' For Va. IT Outage (computerworld.com)
Lucas123 writes: After a storage area network in a data center run by Northrop Grumman went down last week, crippling 26 state agencies' websites — some for more than a week — Northrop Grumman today apologized to Virginia, saying it will learn from its mistakes in order to recover systems faster in the future. Northrop's $2.6 billion service contract with Virginia's government has come under harsh criticism in the past for service outages, along with project delays and cost overruns.
Submission + - NASA preps ultimate Sun mission (networkworld.com)
coondoggie writes: NASA today said it had picked five experiments that will ride aboard one of its most ambitious space missions to explore the Sun. The Solar Probe, a car-sized spacecraft, is scheduled to launch no later than 2018 and will fly closer to the Sun’s surface than any other probe, NASA stated. Ultimately the spacecraft’s goals are to help scientists understand why the sun's outer atmosphere so much hotter than the sun's visible surface and what propels the solar wind that affects Earth and our solar system, NASA said.
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