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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 articl…

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 aroun…

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 nece…

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, ma…

> 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 ev…

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

In the US, you are only required to decrypt devices as ordered by court via subpoena.

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…

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_90…

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 interstat…

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 minut…