Comment Re:One company doesn't succeed at once (Score 1) 263
Read the wikipedia article again...
SeaLaunch doesn't build the launcher themselves, but instead uses modified Russian Zenit SL3 rockets.
Bring Down Internet Explorer In Six Words 239
Marcion writes "Some handy Japanese guy called Hamachiya discovered a bug in Internet Explorer. Under certain conditions, an asterisk when used as a wildcard can crash IE as soon as the user attempts to go to another page." The article claims the "five HTML tags and a CSS declaration" crash IE7 as well as IE6, but I couldn't get IE7 to fail. This page says that as of June, IE6 was at about 37% market share and IE7 under 20%.
Submission + - Internet no longer dangerous, school boards decide (blorge.com) 1
destinyland writes: "Good news. The National School Boards Association, which represents 95,000 school board members, just released a report declaring fears of the internet are overblown. In fact, after surveying 1,277 students, "the researchers found exactly one student who reported they'd actually met a stranger from the internet without their parents' permission. (They described this as "0.08 percent of all students.") The report reminds educators that schools initially banned internet use before they'd realized how educational it was. Now instead they're urging schools to include social networks in their curriculum!"
Submission + - Brain electrodes help man speak again (yahoo.com)
An anonymous reader writes: "He was beaten and left for dead one night in a robbery while walking home in 1999. His skull was crushed and his brain severely damaged. The doctor said if he pulled through at all, he'd be a vegetable for the rest of his life."
"Researchers chose him for an experimental attempt to rev up his brain by placing electrodes in it."
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