Submission + - Smithsonian using Kickstart campaign to save Armstrong's moon suit (kickstarter.com)
...This suit has lunar dust embedded in the legs... moon dust..
The goal of the campaign is to conserve the suit so it can be placed on public display — if you care about the great adventure that took us to the moon and want to honor a brave man, make a contribution. You won't ever regret it.
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Comment Re:Dear republican candidates (Score 2) 452
There was a similar flap years ago between Chrissie Hinds (of the Pretenders) and Rush Limbaugh, who was using her song "Back to Ohio" as his opening and bump music. Thing is, Limbaugh paid the ASCAP and other associated licensing fees, so Hinds was basically told to bugger off (numerous times, and publicly on his show). I think she tried to sue, but discovered that she really couldn't do a damned thing about it.
It was Chrissie Hynde's song with The Pretenders "My City Was Gone" that Limbaugh had been using without licensing or permission for several years. She demanded he stop, he did. She relented when he agreed to give PETA $100,000. Amazing: you managed to create four factual errors and three spelling errors in one post. You're ready to run in a republican primary.
Comment Re:This Guy is a Scammer (Score 1, Flamebait) 515
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Submission + - New research cracks AES keys 3-5x faster! (computerworld.com) 1
From Computerworld: "Researchers from Microsoft and the Dutch Katholieke Universiteit Leuven have discovered a way to break the widely used Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), the encryption algorithm used to secure most all online transactions and wireless communications."
Link to paper: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/cryptanalysis/aesbc.pdf
Submission + - Cold Warriors Question Nukes (wordpress.com)
Submission + - Can You Beat A Computer At Rock Paper Scissors? (tekgoblin.com) 1
Submission + - Study Shows Technology Prevent us from Good Sleep (ispyce.com)
Submission + - Facebook may bust up the SMS profit cartel (cnn.com) 3
'Under the cell phone industry's peculiar pricing system, downloading data to your smartphone is amazingly cheap — unless the data in question happens to be a text message. In that case the price of a download jumps roughly 50,000-fold, from just a few pennies per megabyte of data to a whopping $1000 or so per megabyte.'
A young little application called Beluga caught the attention of Facebook, which purchased the company yesterday.
The app aims to bring messaging under the umbrella of data plans, and features group messaging, picture and video messaging, and integration with other apps.
The author argues that, if successful, Beluga (or whatever Facebook ends up calling it) could potentially be the Skype/Vonage or Netflix-type competitor to the old-school cellular carriers and their steep pricing plans."
Submission + - Firefox 4 RC Vs. IE9 RC: The First Duel (conceivablytech.com)
Submission + - Schools consider searching pupils' smartphones (pcpro.co.uk) 1