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Submission + - ISS: new cracks found on the Russian module (livescience.com)

Submitted by Mr.Fork on Monday August 30, 2021 @02:36PM

Mr.Fork writes: Livescience.com is reporting that new cracks have been found on the International Space Station. Russian cosmonauts aboard the ISS discovered the fissures and there is concern that they could spread over time.

Submission + - Check out the world's tiniest gingerbread house (www.cbc.ca)

Submitted by Mr.Fork on Thursday December 19, 2019 @06:17PM

Mr.Fork writes: Travis Casagrande, a research associate at the Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy at Hamilton's McMaster University has created the smallest house ever built — even smaller than one made in France last year by nanorobotics researchers at the Femto-ST Institute in Besançon.

Casagrande's creation is a gingerbread house complete a door wreath, chimney, and other intricate details carved into the house — and all on top of a snowman smaller than the height of a strand of hair. He used a focused ion beam microscope to carve out the house with a beam of charged gallium ions. Merry Christmas

Submission + - Piracy is a Market Failure - Not a Legal One (thestar.com) 1

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Mr.Fork

on Monday April 04, 2011 @12:56PM

Mr.Fork writes: "Michael Geist, Canada's copyright law guru and law prof at the University of Ottawa, posted an interesting observation about the copyright issue of piracy. Canada's International Development Research Centre, came to a conclusion that "piracy is chiefly a product of a market failure, not a legal one" after a multi-year study of six relevant economies."

Submission + - Confessions of a SysAdmin (crunchgear.com) 1

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Mr.Fork

on Friday April 23, 2010 @12:16PM

Mr.Fork writes: "Scott Merrill from Crunchgear has a confession. He really really hates computers, in particular, WINDOWS-based computers. He writes: I hate computers. No, really, I hate them. I love the communications they facilitate, I love the conveniences they provide to my life, and I love the escapism they sometimes afford; but I actually hate the computers themselves.

Does his editorial speak to all of us in similiar IT related fields? Do we all silently hate the complexities and idiocentricities computers have like error messages and stupid designs that make no sense to the common user that make our tech professions miserable? IS Scott's onto something...?"

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