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Goldin to Retire from NASA
nervesmiffs writes: "Lots of people hated him. I believe he has been one of the truly
great leaders of our time. He has completely turned NASA around
during his 10 year tenure. Here's the retirement story." So if you were NASA's next director, what would you do with the agency? Men on Mars? Probes on Europa? Trans-warp drives?
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Oh, this isn't a vote?
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So, anyone for some doughnuts while on that trip into la la land? Supose you wouldn't know where the nearest Krispy Kream would be out here?
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Goldin to Retire from NASA
Posted by michael on Wednesday October 17, @03:31PM
from the gone-fishing dept.
nervesmiffs writes: "Lots of people hated him. I believe he has been one of the truly great leaders of our time. He has completely turned NASA around during his 10 year tenure. Here's the retirement story." So if you were NASA's next director, what would you do with the agency? Men on Mars? Probes on Europa? Trans-warp drives?
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Digital Camera Wristwatch
Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday October 17, @02:43PM
from the gettin-all-james-bond-and-crap dept.
MikeyMars writes "Casio has released a new watch that, aside from telling time, can take 80 full color pictures. " The watch itself only displays in grey, but the camera takes color pictures. Its not like its doing 2 mega pixels or anything, but its still pretty nifty.
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Fiber On Your Motherboard...Soon!
Posted by timothy on Wednesday October 17, @12:57PM
from the let-there-be-fiber dept.
km790816 writes: "In this post I joked about wanting an optical bus on my PC. In the last week I've seen two articles from The Register and EETimes discussing the real possibility. Both mention high bandwidth and lower heat and power usage. Sounds good to me."
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Your Rights Online: Senator Backs Down On Crypto Backdoors
Posted by timothy on Wednesday October 17, @12:01PM
from the feints-and-reversals dept.
evenprime writes: " Sen. Judd Gregg (Republican, New Hampshire) was advocating mandatory backdoors in crypto on Sept. 13. Wired is now reporting that Sen. Gregg has changed his mind. They say that Gregg's spokesman, Brian Hart, has said: 'We are not working on an encryption bill and have no intention to.'" As Rob Carlson is quoted at the article's close, though: "(Gregg) said he was definitely supporting it. Now he says he's definitely not. Maybe he'll say he's definitely supporting it again."
( Read More... | 132 comments | Your Rights Online )
Your Rights Online: MSN Forces Outlook POP
Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday October 17, @11:12AM
from the you-gotta-be-kidding dept.
Phoenix-D writes: "Qwest.net, my Phoenix-area DSL provider and ISP, recently decided to hand over their ISP buisness to MSN. No huge deal, right? Well, check out this blurb: 'Due to the Microsoft anti-spam initiative, customers are restricted to use their mail services. Therefore, POP3 service is only available when using MSN Explorer, Microsoft Outlook, or Microsoft Outlook Express.'" Awesome. Microsoft's Anti-Spam initiative forces POP users to use the primary sender of mail worms.
( Read More... | 493 comments | Your Rights Online )
New Semiconductor Coolers
Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday October 17, @10:35AM
from the now-that's-a-lotta-cooling dept.
An anonymous reader writes: "A new thermoelectric material is 2.4X as efficient as best existing materials. The new solid state heat pumps can provide 700 watts of cooling (nearly one horsepower) with just one square centimeter. These new materials have the potential to replace current heat sinks, thermoelectric generators and mechanical heat pumps. You can also read an article in nature."
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ALICE Takes Medal At AI Competition
Posted by timothy on Wednesday October 17, @09:37AM
from the more-human-than-some-people dept.
jeffy124 writes: "The Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity (ALICE) has won the bronze and the top marks at the Loebner AI Challenge, a competition based on the Turing test. Silver and gold remain unawarded as silver requires convincing half the judges the AI program is a human, and the gold requires speech interaction rather than text. ALICE repeated as this year's bronze by scoring best among all the entries. She failed to convince half the judges she was human, so she has to stick to bronze. The event took place last Saturday at the London Science Museum."
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The Mozilla 1.0 Definition
Posted by timothy on Wednesday October 17, @08:31AM
from the what-things-mean dept.
The Evil Beaver writes: "Here we go. Mozillazine is reporting that Brenden Eich, mozilla.org's Technical Bigshot, has released the criteria to what is to be the 1.0 milestone. The 'manifesto' also explains why 1.0 is so important to reach, and why it isn't just another milestone, either. The Mozillazine article is here and the definition document here.
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iPAQ 3800 In Photos
Posted by timothy on Wednesday October 17, @07:43AM
from the oughtta-be-in-pictures dept.
okiwan points to this review of the H3800, the newest rev of the handheld iPAQs, writing "New pics of the ipaq 38xx. hella neat." The photos also give a good size comparison to other handhelds, including ones you may not have heard of before.
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Robot Cat 'NeCoRo'
Posted by michael on Wednesday October 17, @06:36AM
from the robot-mice-still-under-development dept.
Ssmoimo writes: "Omron's robot pet developing department chief Toshihiro Tashima introduces "NeCoRo" in Tokyo Tuesday. The robotic cat will go on sale in November for about $1,530." Chris DiBona said it was "freaky", and I think that's as good a description as any. You can see this thing sucking the breath out of a small child, can't you?
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Developers: Babbage, A Look Back
Posted by Hemos on Wednesday October 17, @04:37AM
from the recognize-our-roots dept.
A reader writes "System Toolbox just started a new computer history section in an effort to get us geeks in touch with our "roots." The current article in the monthly column focuses on Charles Babbage. The editor and author hope to raise awareness of our past so that scenes like this won't continue to take place. A big hill to climb, but worth the effort."
( Read More... | 206 comments | Developers )
Palm OS Spinoff
Posted by Hemos on Wednesday October 17, @02:04AM
from the interesting-move dept.
iCharles writes "According to this SEC filing per this Palm Infocenter story, it would appear that Palm is spinning off its OS devision. I'm a Handspring user, so it sounds quite interesting to me."
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IBM Patents Web Page Templates
Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 16, @11:05PM
from the patent-office-crack dept.
jalefkowit writes: "More follies from the US Patent
& Trademark Office
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