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by humbert 12y ago
The team is making space science and technologies accessible and understandable to a wider technical public audience than any previous project. That's the key point that the article tries unsuccessfully to relay. The team calls this &q
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by humbert 12y ago
There is propellant left, evidenced by the heating rate of the propellant tanks, but the pressurizing nitrogen has leaked, so it's unusable. Instead of continuing the mission around the preferred Earth-Sun L1 orbit, they'll collec
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by humbert 12y ago
The team bought the old McDonalds for use as a hackerspace, and also to prevent it from being torn down. Their $159,602 crowdfunding on http://www.rockethub.com/42228 paid for necessary equipment and services, the most expe
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by humbert 12y ago
When opportunity knocks, who wouldn't want to have the experience of riding in a Lamborghini? Rich guys are likely exciting too, so there's potential exciting follow-on dinners, mansion visits, etc. That kind of wealth subconsciou
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by humbert 12y ago
> what we've consistently not seen is a bunch of people trying to subvert democracy, not even according to the very documents NSA and their managers thought would be safest from ever being publically disclosed. In August 2013, a rep
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by humbert 13y ago
Regarding cosmological expansion, a million years has virtually no impact on us reaching ~4.8 billion galaxies at 0.99c. [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQTfuI-9jIo#t=1670
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by humbert 14y ago
In the US, you are only required to decrypt devices as ordered by court via subpoena.
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by humbert 14y ago
Break-even is 0.2 cents/hour per core for a 4-core system that uses 100 watts. A full i7-3770K system with integrated graphics uses 102 watts under heavy load [1], and when each of its 4 cores sells for 0.2 cents/hour, that covers the 4*0.2
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by humbert 14y ago
Try the RTMP stream: rtmp://cern.fc.llnwd.net/cern/cern1_900 If that's choppy, save it to disk with rtmpdump: rtmpdump -v -o cern1_900.flv -r rtmp://cern.fc.llnwd.net/cern/cern1_900 edit: alternate bitrates (thanks to Brajeshwar): cern1_900
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by humbert 14y ago
In the US, decrypting satellite TV without authorization is illegal under 47 USC 605(a)(6): "No person not being entitled thereto shall receive or assist in receiving any interstate or foreign communication by radio and use such communicati
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by humbert 14y ago
The article is likely about the talk "And That's How I Lost My Eye: Exploring Emergency Data Destruction" at DEFCON 19 [1]. A blog post [2] gives a quick overview, and the 50 minute talk [3] is very entertaining. There's no whitepaper, and