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NASA's Kepler Mission Extended For Two Years
An anonymous reader writes "A report just released from NASA's senior review panel recommends extending the Kepler mission(Pdf), initially for two years. 'Kepler is not only a unique source of exoplanet discoveries, but also an organizing and rallying point for exo-planet research. It has enabled remarkable stellar science." The scaled-down budget for the extended mission was broadly expected to include funding only for continued operations and management, with no funding for science. Astronomers have already started seeking private funding to continue their Kepler-related work, through crowd-funding websites like PetriDish and FundaGeek, as well as through the non-profit Pale Blue Dot project."
there's a lot to be said about running The Tor Browser Bundle in an encrypted container (TrueCrypt) on a LiveCD, with the hard drive UNPLUGGED and UNUSED!
(just take the hard drives out and never use them again, USB thumb drives are cheap and can be encrypted with TrueCrypt, too, as an encrypted containter, partition, or the whole drive itself, just never use a proprietary OS like Windows or Mac OS X)
As a primer, read:
#Tor OPSEC - Operational Security - Great Resource of Information!
http://cryptome.org/0005/tor-opsec.htm
And:
#Lest We Remember: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys
https://citp.princeton.edu/research/memory/
If the keys (TC passwords) are in my head, complex enough, and never written down...
With the amount of RAM present in new computers, I see no logical reason to use a hard drive again when Linux LiveCDs, encryption, and thumb drives are on the cheap or free.
No unsafe hardware sex, either, this means no plugging your Tor/Truecrypt thumb drive into another system, any system, except for your Tor/Truecrypt system.
Run audits on your system, verify LiveCDs, make sure your router isn't backdoored like many or maybe all of the Cisco routers. Keep up to date if you use open source firmware for your routers. Consider replacing proprietary routers with an older PC as a router with an open source OS like OpenBSD or a prerolled firewall distro.
Test your connection with remote nmap, dabble with Snort, Tripwire and other monitoring tools.
Don't use external hard drives.
RAM is your friend, always.
The resident tedious nit-picking fucks on /. are hard to listen to, aren't they?
I don't know about you but I've started taking a zero tolerance approach to these pedantic assholes who get off on correcting people and divert potentially interesting threads off topic because of the precise meaning of certain words used in a summary, rather than actually talking about the topic at hand.
Drill baby drill - on Mars
Uhm ... 'air force' is two words; the US Army has Apache helicopters, which have some air-to-air capabilities and are therefore fighter aircraft; prior to 1947, all US fighter planes were part of the Army Air Corp, so every fighter plane in WWII was an 'army fighter plane', and several nations have fighter planes under their army.
So, while being pointlessly pedantic, you failed to be pedantic enough.
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