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Comment New? (Score 0, Troll) 241

by ockancc1701 on Saturday February 13, 2010 @11:01AM (#31126968) Attached to: The Wi-Fi On the Bus

So what is novel about this, the WiFi on the bus, or the fact that it is a school bus? Internet access is getting more and more widespread, this was only a matter of time. http://www.oxfordtube.com/wifi.html I used WiFi on a bus to Oxford two years ago.

Australia Scraps National ID Plan 149

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 27, 2007 @02:10AM from the who-are-you dept.

IPU = Imaginary Property Unicorn writes "The proposed Australian 'Access Card', a universal ID that would be required for any Australian wishing to use Medicare, Centrelink, the Child Support Agency, or Veterans' Affairs, has been scrapped by the incoming Rudd Labor Government. The card would have contained an RFID tag with the person's name, date of birth, gender, address, signature, card number, card expiration date, and Medicare number, but there were also provisions to add more personal data later on. It seems that Rudd Labor is not eager to copy the American REAL ID Act."

Internet Explorer Drops WGA Requirement 220

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday October 05, 2007 @07:33AM from the while-the-getting-is-good dept.

Kelson writes "The Internet Explorer team has updated the installer for IE7. Mostly they've adjusted a few defaults and updated their tutorials, but one change stands out: The installer no longer requires Windows Genuine Advantage validation. Almost a year after its release, IE7 has yet to overtake its predecessor. Was WGA holding back a tide of potential upgrades, or did it just send people over to alternative browsers?"

2.5 Mile Deep Hole Drilled Into San Andreas Fault 204

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday October 04, 2007 @09:43PM from the heart-of-the-matter dept.

iandoh writes "Cool research: Geologists at Stanford University and the US Geological Survey have drilled a 2.5 mile deep borehole into the San Andreas fault. They've extracted over one ton of rock from 2 miles down, and they'll be installing sensors down the length of the borehole."

Space Station Partners Bicker Over Closure Date 222

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday September 26, 2007 @03:04PM from the like-a-spoiled-child-on-to-the-next-toy dept.

jcdick1 writes "The current partners in the ISS are in discussion regarding the closure date of the space station, even though it still has not been fully assembled. 'The United States insists it will pull out of the station at the end of 2015 while Russia wants its life prolonged, said European Space Agency (ESA) chief Jean-Jacques Dordain at an astronautics congress in Hyderabad, southern India. NASA administrator Michael Griffin has told space station partners that the US agency has no plans for "utilization and exploitation" of the science research lab for more than five years after it is completed, Dordain said.'"

Comment One example (Score 1) 159

by ockancc1701 on Friday February 02, 2007 @05:40PM (#17865630) Attached to: Ocean Planets on the Brink of Detection

The formation of such planets is fairly likely, reports the PhysOrg article, despite the lack of an obvious example in our own
solar system.

Hmm what about Earth then?

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