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Submission + - NASA Gets Two Military Spy Telescopes for Astronomy (washingtonpost.com) 1

SomePgmr writes: "The U.S. government’s secret space program has decided to give NASA two telescopes as big as, and even more powerful than, the Hubble Space Telescope. Designed for surveillance, the telescopes from the National Reconnaissance Office were no longer needed for spy missions and can now be used to study the heavens."

Comment Re:Decentralization (Score 0) 314

My friends call me a luddite, as I choose email over more centralized "social" ecosystems. Maybe they are right...but I would like to argue my reasons.

With email I am in greater control of the signal to noise ratio of my inbox through fine-grained filtering. I can make decisions over the privacy of my conversations by enforcing encryption and authentication. I can choose whether or not I am a marketing product. This freedom is made possible by open protocols implemented by a large set of clients and providers from which I can choose the most suitable.

I sincerely hope that SMTP will not go the way of NNTP.

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