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Submission + - FCC: Google did nothing wrong with WIFI data (techcrunch.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 15, 2012 @11:53AM

An anonymous reader writes: The FCC has ruled that Google did nothing wrong when it accidentally collected WIFI data with its Street View cars: "[The FCC] concluded that there was no precedent for the commissions’ enforcement of the law in connection with WiFi networks. The FCC also noted that, according to the available evidence, Google only collected data from unecrypted WiFi networks, not encrypted ones, and that it never accessed or used the data."

Submission + - Sixty Years On, B-52s Are Still Going Strong 1

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Hugh Pickens writes

on Sunday April 15, 2012 @11:02AM

Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Those who grew up in the 1960s and 1970s knew the B-52 Stratofortress as a central figure in the anxiety that flowed from the protracted staring match between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Now CNET reports that it was 60 years ago, on April 15, 1952, that a B-52 prototype built by Boeing took off on its maiden flight and although the 1950s-vintage B-52s are no longer in the US Air Force inventory, the 90 or so H models delivered between May 1961 and October 1962 still remain on active duty. “The B-52 has been a wonderful flying box,” says retired Brig. Gen. Peyton Cole. “It’s persevered all these years because it’s been able to adapt and still continues to fly. It started out as a high-level flying platform during the Cold War. Then as air defenses got better it became a low-level penetrator, and more than that was the first aircraft to fly low-level at night through FLIR (forward looking infrared) and night-vision TV." The B-52's feat of longevity reflects both regular maintenance and timely upgrades — in the late 1980s, for instance, GPS capabilities were incorporated into the navigation system but it also speaks to the astronomical costs of the next-generation bombers that have followed the B-52 into service (a total of 744 were built, counting all models) with the Air Force. B-52s cost about $70 million apiece (in today's dollars), while the later, stealth-shaped B-2 Spirit bombers carried an "eye-watering $3-billion-a-pop unit price." The Air Force's 30-year forecast, published in March, envisions an enduring role for the B-52 and engineering studies, the Air Force says, suggest that the life span of the B-52 could extend beyond the year 2040. "At that point, why not aim for the centennial mark?""

Submission + - Engineered Stem Cells Seek out and Kill HIV in Living Mice (sciencedaily.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 15, 2012 @05:24AM

An anonymous reader writes: Expanding on previous research providing proof-of-principle that human stem cells can be genetically engineered into HIV-fighting cells, a team of UCLA researchers have now demonstrated that these cells can actually attack HIV-infected cells in a living organism.

Submission + - Anonymous kills websites, cartels kill bloggers. (reuters.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 15, 2011 @11:59PM

An anonymous reader writes: While drug cartels in Mexico are disemboweling people they accuse of blogging about drug violence , Anonymous busies its self taking down Mexican government websites. With all the problems facing people in Mexico right now, including drug cartels extorting teachers for 50% of their pay and killing schoolchildren (thus shutting down the school system) Mexico's biggest oil field in terminal decline and drug cartels kidnapping bus loads of people and forcing them into gladiator-style contests to the death Anonymous' actions appear particularly petty. In light of all the problems Mexico is facing, Anonymous' attacks seem about as appropriate as kicking the crutches from under under Tiny Tim.

Submission + - SPAM: The Google+ API Is Released

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 15, 2011 @03:08PM

An anonymous reader writes: Developers have been waiting since late June for Google to release their API to the public. Well, today is that Day. Just a few minute ago Chris Chabot, from Google+ Developer Relations, announced that the Google+ API is now available to the public
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Comment Re:any signal can be found and killed (Score 1) 417

by CrazyWolf on Sunday September 11, 2011 @03:43PM (#37370162) Attached to: North Korea Forced US Reconnaissance Plane To Land

Without information about their position, the pilots were forced to abort their mission and return to South Korea

My, what did pilots do before GPS?

Without GPS the pilots can't accurately know their current location, which is extremely important when you are near the border. If they happened to just briefly fly across the border, even on accident, it is an act of war. So instead of causing an international incident they went home.

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