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Submission + - NASA Remasters 20-Year-Old Galileo Photographs Of Jupiter's Moon, Europa

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Scientists have produced a new version of what is perhaps NASA’s best view of Jupiter’s ice-covered moon, Europa. The mosaic of color images was obtained in the late 1990s by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft. This is the first time that NASA is publishing a version of the scene produced using modern image processing techniques. This view of Europa stands out as the color view that shows the largest portion of the moon’s surface at the highest resolution. An earlier, lower-resolution version of the view, published in 2001, featured colors that had been strongly enhanced. The new image more closely approximates what the human eye would see. Space imaging enthusiasts have produced their own versions of the view using the publicly available data, but NASA has not previously issued its own rendition using near-natural color.

Submission + - Docker Turns 1: What is the Future for Open Source Container Tech? (eweek.com)

Submitted by darthcamaro
darthcamaro writes: Docker has become one of the most hyped open-source projects in recent years, making it hard to believe the project only started one year ago. In that one year, Docker has now gained the support of Red Hat and other major Linux vendors. What does the future hold for Docker? Will it overtake other forms of virtualization or will it just be a curiosity?

Submission + - Wireless carriers in huge Washington lobby fight over spectrum auction (publicintegrity.org)

Submitted by techpolicy
techpolicy writes: The big four wireless carriers are spending millions of dollars to hire professors, fund Washington think tanks and to meet with the Federal Communications Commission to try to convince the agency to write rules for an upcoming auction of spectrum that favor them, according to an article posted by the Center for Public Integrity in Washington. The frequencies are needed to bolster or build out their nationwide networks — and this kind of low-band spectrum won't be up for sale for a very long time. The biggest fight is over a rule that would limit how much AT&T and Verizon can get of these valuable frequencies. How it plays out will determine who has control over your smartphone.

Submission + - Newsweek Bitcoin Story unravels 80 years of high editorial and ethical standards

Submitted by sumoinsanity
sumoinsanity writes: A succinct and comprehensive rebuttal has been distributed from this particular Mr Nakamoto.

How embarrassing.

Newsweek copped a lot of criticism regarding their original expose on the purported uncovering of a BitCoin founder following their two month investigation. They defended with, "Ms. Goodman’s research was conducted under the same high editorial and ethical standards that have guided Newsweek for more than 80 years. Newsweek stands strongly behind Ms. Goodman and her article."

It is perhaps best not to link to their original stories and provide them with clicks.

Comment 17th January 2014 (Score 1) 287

by sumoinsanity (#45984017) Attached to: NSA Collects 200 Million Text Messages Per Day

The 17th of January is Michelle Obama's 50th birthday. On this day in 1961 President Eisenhower issued the clarion call for all citizens to be vigilant against oppression from the Military Industrial Complex. It is the anniversary of a decisive victory in the American Revolutionary War in 1781, the Battle of Cowpens. It is the anniversary of the overthrow of the monarchy in Hawaii in 1893 thus allowing the President to be born into an American state.

Will the President venerate the date and thank Edward Snowden?

Submission + - Senator Bernie Sanders Asks NSA If Agency Is Spying On Congress (foxnews.com) 3

Submitted by cold fjord
cold fjord writes: Fox News reports, "A U.S. senator on Friday pressed the National Security Agency on whether its controversial spying practices extend to monitoring members of Congress. “Has the NSA spied, or is the NSA currently spying, on members of Congress or other American elected officials?” Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., asked in a letter to NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander released from the senator’s office. Sanders, a self-described “democratic socialist,” defines spying as monitoring the phone calls, emails and internet traffic of elected officials."

Submission + - Losing Aaron

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: It's said that you can't fully understand someone until you meet their family. In Janelle Nanos's Losing Aaron, you'll meet Bob Swartz, father of the late Aaron Swartz and adviser to MIT's Media Lab, and get a better understanding of how Aaron's family helped plant the seeds of his idealism. You'll also, sadly, see how MIT — the institution which Bob Swartz long felt stood for compassion and creativity, challenging authority, and pure scientific inquiry — took a self-described stance of 'neutrality' in the aggressive prosecution of his son that ended with Aaron's senseless death last January. "Clearly I failed," a tortured Bob Swartz acknowledges. "There's no question, my son is dead. On the other hand, do I feel that I didn't try hard enough? Yes. Do I feel guilt about not trying hard enough? No. If you understand the distinction I'm trying to make. Could I have done more? Of course I could have done more. Because you can always do more. Did I put everything in that I possibly could? Did I work as hard pretty much as I knew how? Yes. Do I wish I did more? Yes. But I don't go home at night and say, 'Well, you didn't care.' Because I did. I cared about it more than anything else. And I don't go home at night and say, 'I didn't try.' Because I tried. Everything I could figure out. But I failed."

Submission + - NSA quantum compute effort disclosed 2

Submitted by sumoinsanity
sumoinsanity writes: Schrödinger's cat is "probably" still in the bag as disclosed by the Washington Post. Perhaps it is both disturbing and reassuring as discussed here. The reassuring part is that PKI is still OK when done properly as the NSA desires to break it with Quantum Crypto. The disturbing bit is that it is perhaps just a matter of time before PKI succumbs and our private parts are out there for all to see :-|
Crime

Submission + - Anonymous Warhead Targets US Sentencing Commission

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: Late Friday, Violet Blue reports, the U.S. Sentencing Commission website was hacked and government files distributed by Anonymous in 'Operation Last Resort.' The U.S. Sentencing Commission sets guidelines for sentencing in United States Federal courts, and on the defaced ussc.gov website Anonymous cited the recent suicide of Aaron Swartz as 'a line that has been crossed.' Calling the launch of its new campaign a "warhead," Anonymous vowed, 'This time there will be change, or there will be chaos.'

Comment Another wall building machine from the garage (Score 1) 357

by sumoinsanity (#12196363) Attached to: The House Building Machine
http://www.abc.net.au/newinventors/txt/s1300261.ht m
The Mortar Machine is a prototype of a machine which will be the hub of an automated bricklaying process. The machine will automatically deliver the mortar mix (cement, sand and a thickening agent like lime) needed to bond the bricks together when building a brick structure. The Mortar Machine will need to work in tandem with an automatic bricklaying machine which has yet to be produced. However, the technology exists to produce one. In fact, a Bricklaying Robot is in the prototype stage in Germany.

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