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SubaruStephen:
I just learned the the rocket as using a 40 year old Soviet built engine. No wonder it went boom.
Case:
If you've thought that Watch Dogs' ctOS, and it's ability to identify and steer meme dispersion via social networks (e.g. to spin newsstories and influence elections etc.) is pure science fiction, think again:
Media furor confronts NSF-funded study of social-media dynamics
Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks.
Notably, amongst the first ones to worry about an AI-Big Brother (charmingly dubbed 'Truthy') are not Queda bloggers, but rather conservative news-sites, because "Feds creating a database to track hatespeech on twitter" is a bad thing indeed when you're a publication "dedicated to uncovering the stories that the powers that be hope will never see the light of day”.
Well, and Fox-News, of course: ;)
--- Quote --- In the 22 October Washington Times opinion piece “The feds’ ‘truthy’ new chill on free speech,” Fox News analyst Andrew P. Napolitano, a former judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey, charged that “when the feds get into the business of monitoring speech . . . it is a nightmare. [Truthy] is part of the Obama administration’s persistent efforts to monitor communication and scrutinize the expressions of opinions it hates and fears.”
--- End quote ---
It seems that nobody told them that 'truthy' actually doesn't have a database ...
(If I hadn't grabbed the links straight from 'Physics Today', I would wonder wether the Onion made this up to fuck with 'truthers' ... ;))
ReindeerFlotilla:
What just happened?
GarandMarine:
Not the best week for Space Flight.
SpaceShip Two broke up in flight today. Pilots ejected. One fatality, one in serious condition. Thoughts and prayers for those who were lost and those who remain.
"If we die we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us, it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life. Our God-given curiosity will force us to go there ourselves because in the final analysis, only man can fully evaluate (the moon) in terms understandable to other men."
- Gus Grissom, Gemini/Apollo Astronaut. Killed in a pad fire aboard Apollo 1.
http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/31/7139527/virgin-galactics-spaceshiptwo-suffers-anomaly-in-flight
ev4n:
Someone posted a sarcastic facebook comment this weekend, something about "is someone who has been to space really a hero?"
I felt like this week of all weeks was the wrong time to ask that question.
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