] The Federal Aviation Administration's Associate
] Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation
] (FAA/AST) is expected next month to certify that the
] Mojave Airport Civilian Flight Test Center as a
] non-federal spaceport to handle horizontal launches of
] reusable spacecraft.
]
] As such, Mojave Airport can offer a range of launch and
] landing services making it a hub for high-flying craft
] intended to help spark public space travel. The Mojave
] Airport is located approximately 100 miles north of Los
] Angeles, in southeastern Kern County, along the western
] edge of the Mojave Desert.

Spaceport to Rise in California's Mojave Desert

] Microsoft has spent more on securing its software than
] was spent on the Star Wars missile project, the company's
] head of security has told conference guests. An
] unfortunate analogy for Iain Mulholland to use since the
] project was a complete failure and little more than the
] private obsession of a few top American ego-maniacs.

Techworld.com - Microsoft security spend greater than the Star Wars missile system

] So he decided to make a camera that could create an image
] as awe-inspiring as the vista before him. The result was
] R1, a 110-pound, 6-foot film camera that produces what
] experts say are some of the highest-resolution landscape
] photographs ever made.
...
] But when Ross' 9-inch-by-18-inch negatives are digitally
] scanned, the result is decidedly high-tech. Each image yields
] a 2.6-gigabyte file — huge for a single image.

Yahoo! News - Photographer Makes High-Resolution Camera

] Êàê ñòàëî èçâåñòíî SecurityLab, 13 ìàÿ 2004 ãîäà áûëè
] óêðàäåíû âñå èñõîäíûå êîäû îïåðàöèîííîé ñèñòåìû CISCO IOS
] 12.3, 12.3t, êîòîðàÿ èñïîëüçóåòñÿ â áîëüøèíñòâå ñåòåâûõ
] óñòðîéñòâ êîìïàíèè CISCO. Ïîëíûé îáúåì óêðàäåííîé
] èíôîðìàöèè ñîñòàâëÿåò îêîëî 800Ìá â àðõèâå.
]
]
] Ïî èìåþùåéñÿ ó íàñ èíôîðìàöèè, óòå÷êà ôðàãìåíòîâ
] èñõîäíîãî êîäà ïðîèçîøëà èç-çà âçëîìà êîðïîðàòèâíîé ñåòè
] Cisco System. Ïðåäñòàâèòåëè Cisco System ïîêà íèêàê íå
] êîììåíòèðóþò ïðîèçîøåäøèé èíöèäåíò.

Translation: Source to IOS 12.3 is floating around IRC now.

[Wow. Apparently Memestreams or the bookmarklet really do not take kindly to non-ASCII characters]

SecurityLab.ru - Óòå÷êà èñõîäíîãî êîäà CiSCO IOS?

] Google has "bought" an ad for the search term Jew that
] goes on top of the first result so they can apologize for
] their first result!

This is an interesting response to the problem. The problem being that the search "Jew" results in a prominent link to an anti-semetic page. This caused outrage, and a giant petition drive (when it was expressed by someone at Google that they would take the link out if a certain number of people signed against it). It is a tight spot for Google -- they don't want to be responsible for the results of queries, they want it automated, and to respond based on subjective (rather than legal) consideration would be a pandora's box. I think this solution is in pretty good taste.

Jew Watch Watch (Google Weblog)

] (one of Joseph Schumpter key theories is that all things
] being equal, periods of revolutionary technological
] change are by necessity deflationary.)

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Joseph Schumpter wrote a two volume book, Business Cycles.

Revolutionary Technological Change

] Many companies are quickly coming to realize this, as you
] can see from the impressive customer list on MySQL's
] website. I'm sure that most readers have used the Yahoo!
] (Nasdaq: YHOO) Finance site on many occasions (like
] perhaps this one), but would probably be surprised to
] learn that even Yahoo!'s massive source of data is fed
] from MySQL databases.

Things I did not know.

Fool.com: MySQL Makes Waves [Motley Fool Take] April 23, 2004

] This is a bizarre comparison because x86 is a CPU
] architecture, and Unix is an operating system family:
] they are not the same things! All the Unix flavors run
] perfectly well on x86. Yes: Linux is a Unix flavor. Where
] this relates to Java and Sun is that because such a huge
] fraction of customer applications that run on Sun
] hardware is written in Java, we can treat CPUs (and even
] operating systems) as commodities, in the same way we
] treat disk drives. We can use whatever underlying CPU
] technology (x86/x86-64/Sparc/...) or OS technology
] (Solaris/Linux/...) is most suitable for the situation at
] hand. We aren't constrained by the instruction set or OS
] interface that is baked into our customers' applications.
] This is hugely liberating for hardware design.

Gosling on defending the Microsoft payout, without saying anything
other than "you people have it all wrong, that's not how it is"... and lets slip why Sun no longer has a real business plan. If hardware is a commodity, and their customers software is in Java, does he really believe that Sun will remain powerful because it thinks it "controlls" Java?

NewsForge | Gosling defends Sun's new partnership with Microsoft

digitalreporter wrote:
] ] I have seen the future and it sucks. It also sweeps and
] ] removes dust and pieces of dirt. Its name is Roomba.

Everyone has caught that ROOMBA is an anagram of A BROOM, right?

RE: Special Report from PC Magazine: World, Meet Roomba