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Funding Approved for Pluto/Kuiper Probe
azpenguin writes "While we discuss the acheivements of the now-silent Pioneer 10, Congress has apporved funding for the "New Horizons" mission to send a probe to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. Space.com has the story here. NASA had actually fought the idea, but Congress approved the money anyway. Wonder if in 12 years (when the probe is supposed to reach Pluto) the public will be as fascinated with the pictures coming back as much as with the Pioneer and Voyager spacecraft."
In related news, dalewj writes "Seems the team at JPL will
discontinue operations on
the Galileo Space probe to Jupiter after
extended the mission
three times. Galileo has been in space since 1989 and has some amazing
findings and pictures available on the
JPL website. Truly NASA and JPL's best effort to date."
CNN and Fox News are reporting that Mr. Rogers is dead of cancer at 74. Even if you didn't watch his show or didn't want to be his neighbor, he will be missed. Truly and American icon. Mr. Rodgers dead
I do wonder if there will be humans left by that time, or humans who arn't fighting against nuclear winter to actually care.
It would be a great shame if the probe goes out there and send back pictures, only to have noone there to recieve them - especially considering that this will be the best chance to observe pluto in gosh knows how many centuries.
Seriously though, why can't Bush just chill out? Warning N. Korea that he may use a pre-emptive nuclear strike? wtf is he THINKING?
My life in the land of the rising sun.
to mix eXPensive payper FUDge with;
Feds seizing domain names
Declan McCullagh, Staff Writer, CNET News.com
WASHINGTON--Federal police have adopted a novel crime-fighting tactic: seizing control of domain names for Web sites that allegedly violate the law.
Attorney General John Ashcroft said Monday that the domain names for several Web sites allegedly set up to sell illegal "drug paraphernalia" would be pointed at servers located at the Drug Enforcement Administration. A federal judge in Pittsburgh granted the U.S. Department of Justice permission to do so until a trial can take place, the government said.
Wednesday afternoon, the DOJ said it had taken over the iSoNews.com domain, whose owner pleaded guilty to felony copyright crimes under the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). David Rocci, 22, pleaded guilty in December to using his site to sell "mod" chips that let Microsoft Xbox and Sony PlayStation owners modify their devices so they can use them to play illegally copied games, or "warez."
Rocci "attempted to profit by marketing circumvention devices to (the gaming) community knowing they would be used to play pirated games," Michael Chertoff, the assistant attorney general for the DOJ's criminal division, said in a statement. "He thought that there were no risks associated with his actions. He was wrong, and everyone engaged in the warez scene should take note."
Chrisd kills and eats the rest of the slashdot staff, has to run the site by himself. Film at 11.
(He posted the last 3 frontpage stories)
The previous has been a secret message to my comrades.
go to jail. go directly to jail. pay 500 thousand dollar fine. that should help sales.
beware the Godless payper liesense, hostage ransom, last gasper stock markup felons from upon the pacific crest annex of wash.dc.msn.?NET? (govIE)
all the more reasons to avoid the whoreabull BugWear(tm) blight all together now.
tell 'em robbIE. you ?work? for them/US, right? tell 'em.
likely. fauxking wIEnIE bouys is all that's left here.
you KNOW the phonIE payper thing is toastdead, right?
how do you think the dept. of gov.FUDge.controll is gooing to be able to fined your moddernised Xbox?
you guise. talk about phonIE. you should mod yourselves WAY DOWn. nearly on the 'level' of execrable (yesterdaze word, if you recall).
phonIE fauxking monIEsuckers they are.
I just saw on CNN. Mr. Roger's has died. He will be missed from the neighborhood.
The cost of war in iraq has estimates upto $100bln, that's 2000x more expenisve.
It's already cost several billion in aid packages to Turkey, because they didn't want US troops in there country. (I'd like that backhander)
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
Fred Rogers, who gently invited millions of children to be his neighbor as host of the public television show "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" for more than 30 years, died of cancer early Thursday. He was 74.