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Comment Re:The error is... (Score 2) 72

by sasdrtx on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @08:56AM (#59688640) Attached to: Microsoft Teams Went Down After Microsoft Forgot To Renew a Critical Certificate

My company did the changeover. There was a 3-day flurry of questions along the lines of "How do I... like in Skype?", then it went quiet. Once a week or so, someone posts a cat giphy, but business is back to email and phone calls.

Submission + - TSA screeners win immunity from flier abuse claims: U.S. appeals court (reuters.com)

Submitted by Mr.Intel on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @04:55PM

Mr.Intel writes: Fliers may have a tough time recovering damages for invasive screenings at U.S. airport security checkpoints, after a federal appeals court on Wednesday said screeners are immune from claims under a federal law governing assaults, false arrests and other abuses. In a 2-1 vote, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia said Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screeners are shielded by government sovereign immunity from liability under the Federal Tort Claims Act because they do not function as “investigative or law enforcement officers.”

The decision, the first on the issue by a federal appeals court, was a defeat for Nadine Pellegrino, a business consultant from Boca Raton, Florida. She and her husband had sued for false arrest, false imprisonment and malicious prosecution over a July 2006 altercation at Philadelphia International Airport. According to court papers, Pellegrino had been randomly selected for additional screening at the Philadelphia airport before boarding a US Airways flight to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Pellegrino, then 57, objected to the invasiveness of the search, but conditions deteriorated and she was later jailed for about 18 hours, the papers show. Criminal charges were filed, and Pellegrino was acquitted at a March 2008 trial.

Astronomer Offers Theory Into 400-Year-Old Lunar Mystery 66

Posted by Zonk on Friday August 03, 2007 @11:50PM from the flash-from-above dept.

webdoodle writes "An astronomer at Columbia University thinks he has solved a 400-year-old mystery: the origin of strange optical flashes seen on the moon's surface. These spots, called 'Transient Lunar Phenomenon' (TLP) by the astronomy community, have confused moon-gazers since the time of ancient scientists. Arlin Crotts now thinks that TLPs are something called 'outgassing', a process where trapped gasses escape to the lunar atmosphere. 'To arrive at his theory, Crotts correlated TLPs with known gas outbursts from the lunar surface as seen by several spacecraft, particularly NASA's Apollo 15 mission in 1971 and the robotic Lunar Prospector in 1998. What he discovered was a remarkable similarity in the pattern of outgassing event locations recorded by spacecraft across the face of the moon and reported TLP sites.'"

Submission + - Robert A. Heinlein's 100th birthday

Submitted by sasdrtx on Saturday July 07, 2007 @11:12AM

sasdrtx writes: Today is Robert A. Heinlein's 100th birthday (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein). From the article:

[He] was one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of "hard" science fiction. He set a high standard for science and engineering plausibility, and helped to raise the genre's standards of literary quality.

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