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LifestreamAccording to Nature, NASA officials told seven mission managers (Voyager, Ulysses, Polar, Wind, Geotail, FAST (Fast Auroral SnapshoT) and TRACE (Transition Region and Coronal Explorer)) that there is now no money to keep their projects operating after the current fiscal year ends in October.
Every few years a review by scientists outside NASA ranks the science [...]
Archive for March, 2005
Via BoingBoing …
Don’t say ‘blogger’ to US Immigration.
This sounds like an unbelievable story, but it happened to Canadian blogger Jeremy Wright last week. As already reported on quite a few blogs, Jeremy was detained and interrogated by US Immigration when he arrived in New York last week to discuss a great business opportunity for Jeremy [...]
Better late than never …
A French appeal court has ruled in favour of a John Doe who downloaded around 500 movies. The judge ruled that these movies were private copies and that these downloaded films were not redestributed and that tax had been paid on the blank media that they were backed up on.
France seems [...]
Mambo CMS recently won Linux Format magazine’s prestigous “Best Free Software Project of the Year”. Nominations included Linux kernel 2.6, KDE, Gnome and Gentoo among others. Not bad. The awards are piling up.
“A shining example of why Open Source is great software”.
Security analysts proclaim WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy), the most common way to secure wireless networks, to be dead. After years of security flaws, WEP has been brought to its knees by packet injection as described here and here.
Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) with or without pre-shared key (PSK) is about all that is left now. WPA [...]
Kamelot may not be the band that everyone is talking about. Their existence has been one of relative obscurity up until now. At least as far as I am concerned. This warrants a closer examination however, considering that it is their seventh studio album.
Having picked up this disc “by accident”, I am sure you can [...]
Busy day if you’re into games. Not only one but two major releases. Yet another WW2 FPS and a rehash of the Driver franchise. As you can guess, despite the spit and polish, it’s not all good.
Driv3r (Driver 3) is the third installment in Atari’s long running series of driving games. The previous two games [...]
Propelled by a polished strategy crafted by activists on America’s political right, a battle is intensifying across the nation over how students are taught about the origins of life. Policymakers in 19 states are weighing proposals that question the science of evolution.
The proposals typically stop short of overturning evolution or introducing biblical accounts. Instead, they [...]
Via Slashdot …
After a swift defeat last March, the American government has won an appeal in an Australian court to have Hew Raymond Griffiths extradited to America to face trial – on charges of copyright infringement. Griffiths is accused of being the ringleader of a “warez” group known as DOD (Drink or Die), using the [...]
This is part of a rather interesting interview with three game developers at the GDC …
Chris Hecker: I’m pro-piracy. I want people to play the games I make. I do it because it’s art. I think DRM is a total fucking stupid mess. If the game industry collapses and can be reborn, I’m all for [...]
