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Comment Re:never before. Reagan didn't, Clinton didn't (Score 1) 668

by thelowedown (#45047435) Attached to: Are Shuttered Gov't Sites Actually Saving Money?
The LM was shutdown in the 90s. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=MH&s_site=miami&p_multi=MH&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB4D2FDB76835BA&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM https://twitter.com/PJWeber/status/385392352535130112

Comment Re:never before. Reagan didn't, Clinton didn't (Score 1) 668

by thelowedown (#45047425) Attached to: Are Shuttered Gov't Sites Actually Saving Money?
You are a goddamn liar. The LM and WM have been closed like this before. https://twitter.com/PJWeber/status/385392352535130112 http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=MH&s_site=miami&p_multi=MH&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB4D2FDB76835BA&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM
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Submission + - Facebook Testing Translate Feature For Comments (zdnet.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Facebook is testing a translation feature that could overcome the language barrier many users experience on the social network. If a comment posted on a Page is in a language that is different than the one your Facebook account is set to, a Translate button may show up just below it and beside the existing Like button. Clicking on the button will translate the comment to your account language. After translation, an Original button appears instead, and if you click that it will revert the comment to the original version (and presumably offer the Translation button again).
Space

Submission + - 18-Year Old Student Discovers Comet Break-Up (discovery.com) 2

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astroengine
astroengine writes: "It's an event that any professional astronomer would consider to be a once in a lifetime discovery. But for one 18-year old British student, witnessing the fragmentation of a comet she was studying became the highlight of a summer work experience program using the multi-million pound Faulkes Telescope Project.

However, that was just the icing on the cake; Hannah Blyth of St Johns College, Cardiff, also assisted in the discovery of over 20 previously unknown asteroids, two of which she discovered herself.

It is extremely rare to spot a fragmenting comet, but for an amateur (let alone an 18-year old student on work experience) this is an incredible achievement."
Transportation

Submission + - Cryogenic truck services remote telescopes (networkworld.com) 1

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coondoggie
coondoggie writes: "Moving a 115-ton telescope down a mountain and 40 miles on the back of a humongous truck to a servicing facility is no task for the timid. It's a job the caretakers of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international astronomy facility , no longer have to worry about thanks to a new custom designed truck that can transport and service ALMA's temperature-sensitive astronomical equipment without removing a telescope from the working array at 16,500 feet in the Chilean mountains."

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