[News] 2013 News (NO POLITICS)

[Ornette]

There's a pretty serious 777 plane crash at SFO.

[Mr. Tines]

There's a pretty serious 777 plane crash at SFO.

An optimistic tweet from a passenger

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[Ænimal]

http://spaceindustrynews.com/mits-next-mars-space-suit/1563/

[drinian]

http://spaceindustrynews.com/mits-next-mars-space-suit/1563/

Interesting, I just finished reading Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars and this sounds exactly like the "walker" suits described in the book. It's fantastic to see stuff envisioned a few decades ago becoming real products.

[pwhodges]

Just handy for these guys (yeah, really - you can apply to become a Mars colonist).

[NemZ]

Sounds like Greece has gone completely nuts.

[url]http://www.2ndcouncilhouse.co.uk/blog/2013/06/05/and-then-they-came-for-the-trans-people/[/url]

[bobbyfischer's ghost]

On release they are warned that if they did not “return to normal” they would be arrested for public indecency.

Well...yet another reason to not visit Greece. I guess they don't stop at imprisoning game developers. Way to clean up the streets assholes

[Monk Ed]

Madison, y u so moe?

My favorite was the Washington.

From now on, that pose should totally be called The Washington.

[Ænimal]

http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2013/07/09/More-than-250-gallons-of-horse-poo-dumped-at-Swedish-town-hall/UPI-67011373403598?spt=hs&or=on

sounds like a crappy time

[Dream]

Sounds like Greece has gone completely nuts.

[url]http://www.2ndcouncilhouse.co.uk/blog/2013/06/05/and-then-they-came-for-the-trans-people/[/url]

Man... That's really heart-breaking. I really hope Greece finds some way to come out positively from all those hardships.

[Mr. Tines]

Your tax dollars at work --

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/07/us-agency-baffled-by-modern-technology-destroys-mice-to-get-rid-of-viruses/

The headline just speaks for itself.

[pwhodges]

With a magnificent example of poor legal drafting, Florida has just banned all computers, phones, etc:

[url]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/08/florida-banned-computers_n_3561701.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular[/url]

[bobbyfischer's ghost]

Unfortunately that sort of stuff happens all the time in the states.

[Dream]

Unfortunately that short of stuff happens all the time in the states.

Pretty much everywhere as far as i know.

[cyharding]

Could this be the next major change in the English language?

[url]http://www.cbc.ca/asithappens/features/2013/07/10/an-australian-inventor-creates-a-texting-symbol-for-the-word-the/[/url]

[riffraff11235]

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/07/us-agency-baffled-by-modern-technology-destroys-mice-to-get-rid-of-viruses/

...That's like putting out a birthday candle with a fire hose....

@cyharding I actually wouldn't mind using that symbol.

[soul.assassin]

Your tax dollars at work --

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/07/us-agency-baffled-by-modern-technology-destroys-mice-to-get-rid-of-viruses/

The headline just speaks for itself.

Who hired the CIO in the first place, and also who approved such an idiot measure?

[Monk Ed]

The audit does, however, note that the EDA's IT infrastructure was so badly managed and insecure that no attacker would need sophisticated attacks to compromise the agency's systems.

Quite possibly the greatest insult in the whole piece.

[arkiel]

Sounds like Greece has gone completely nuts.

[url]http://www.2ndcouncilhouse.co.uk/blog/2013/06/05/and-then-they-came-for-the-trans-people/[/url]

If I lived in Greece and had any sense of national pride, I'd be calling for people to grab a gas can and find a cop car. But after a couple years of economic implosion and austerity, I guess they're all too hungry to be outraged. Also, I'm not sure you can buy gasoline in Greece anymore.

In other news:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/07/apple-guilty-of-conspiring-to-raise-e-book-prices/
#hawhaw

[Ornette]

As some of you are aware, HTTP 2.0 is in the works, and it'll be interesting to take a look at the early adopters. But I found this bit of backwards incompatibility kind of funny: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-http2-04#section-3.5 Specifically the purpose of the contents of the connection string before the settings frame.