Comment Purposely (Score 1) 466
Has anyone stopped to think maybe they are doing this on purpose? It is a headline snatcher.
Submission + - Mandriva put up for sale (itwire.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The French company Mandriva, which creates and sells the Mandriva Linux distribution, appears to be up for sale, according to information at a website dedicated to news about the distribution.
Submission + - Lidar finds overgrown Maya pyramids (nytimes.com)
AlejoHausner writes: A team of archeologists scanned the jungle of Belize with lidar. Although most of the reflections came from the jungle canopy, some light reflected off the ground surface. Using this, suddenly hidden pyramids, agricultural terraces, and ancient roads are revealed, at 6-inch resolution. The NY Times has the story.
Comment Re:LOL (Score 2, Interesting) 280
Exactly. Maybe "safer" isn't the right word to use but it's very close.
No major incident since 9/11.
Everyone is more aware.
Military strikes are taking the fight elsewhere.
You can't really disagree with it.
I'm in the military and have been to Afghanistan and Iraq several times and I'm going again soon... there's no way you can tell us we aren't helping to keep us safer.
And to explain the recent failures in the system... as all programmers know, you can't prevent every exploit since there will always be some kind of bug in complicated code. You just have to learn and adapt. (though there is a lot of "oh well I'll get paid no matter if this works really good or just bare minimum" attitude in the govt)
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