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Slashback: Intentia, Ephemera, Restoration
With a baby and some makeup you can add in some aliens.
Docrobot writes "NASA is obviously tired of the recent fanatical conspiracy claims dealing with 'faked' Apollo Moon Landings, the 'Face on Mars,' and most recently EuroSeti's claim that enhanced SOHO satellite images show UFOs.
NASA debunks EuroSeti's resent image enhanced SOHO satellite UFO photos covered by us here with this snappy and smug how-to article entitled: How to Make Your Own UFO.
It looks like Euroseti should to go back to the drawing board, or up their meds..."
At least use a security envelope next time. mpawlo writes "As reported by Greplaw, Reuters will not be prosecuted due to the alleged hack of Intentia's web server. Intentia did not clearly state that the information was secret, nor did Intentia try protecting it. Intentia stated that the report would be available at a certain time, and you only had to slightly change the URL from the report of the previous quarter in order to obtain the current report. Hence, the prosecutor will not initiate proceedings against Reuters or any of its reporters."
(Here is Slashdot's previous story on this affair.)
A happy turn in the PCI list saga. DieNadel writes "I've received an email today from PCI-SIG regarding the End of the Free PCI Device List, that says:
'Dear PCI Community,The PCI Vendor and Device Lists located at http://www.yourvote.com/pci/ have been restored. The PCI-SIG recognizes the value of Jim Boemler's Web site and our officers have worked with him to restore it.
We are committed to working with Jim and the rest of the community to ensure this service is not interrupted in the future.
Thank you for your continued support of our technologies. We will keep you informed with any other updates.
Best Regards,
Tony Pierce
PCI-SIG Chairman.'
I think it's a nice move from PCI-SIG!"
Making money with Free software, explained. Yesterday, we posted a link to an article explaining Red Hat's new EOL schedule for various versions of its operating system. Red Hat's decision drew a lot of flak in the comments attached to that story; not that it won't again, but over on NewsForge, Red Hat's Jeremy Hogan has a reaction-to-the-reaction (not just on Slashdot) which the new EOL schedule drew.
When you finish your UFO, be sure to make yourself an alien. Seriously, this is a fun read by some FX experts that really destroys that alien autopsy stuff.
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"You are not remembered for doing what is expected of you." - Atul Chitnis
Come on... we're all terribly curious. It's been slower than all get out recently. Why? How about letting everyone that hasn't befriended Taco know what he said in his journal about the site/features/updates? There's probably no more fitting place to have a meta-discussion about the site than in slashback, so let's do it.
...is that they assume that they *aren't* increasing their user base much, and that it's the same people always upgrading their version of linux. As their user base increases, there will be demand to keep supporting releases for longer periods. Hopefully the EOL commitment is not etched in stone.
alias uptime="echo '5:33pm up 22342352324 days, 6:28, 2124315623 users, load average: 2432.40, 12312.31, 123123.19'"
[snip] there are cases where trained pilots chase things which show up on radar going at supersonic speeds making hairpin turns [snip]
You wanna know why in recent times these cases have become so rare? It's because the software for radar tracking has been improved to the point where it won't link spurious signals together and assume that these must be a continuous track. Now when such systems do find something making hairpin turns (doesn't have to be supersonic) or travelling at 10K+ MPH, then the software will filter out such tracks.
Now a true believer's reaction might be "OH!MY!GOD! THEY (MIBs, the Fed, whatever) are stopping the information at the source! How can we protect ourselves if we don't even know if the UFOs are there!"
Or you might figure that the older radar systems simply were faulty.