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Feed Magnetar Does A Gigantic Stellar 'Hiccup' (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed on Thursday April 05, 2007 @01:12PM

Astronomers using data from several X-ray satellites have caught a magnetar -- the remnant of a massive star with an incredibly strong magnetic field -- in a sort of giant cosmic blench.

Pthreads vs Win32 threads 385

Posted by Hemos on Monday February 26, 2007 @11:00AM from the different-situations,-different-needs dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It's interesting when different people have different opinions. While I was searching for something on Intel's website, I came across an article on why Windows threads are better than Posix threads. Curiously, I also came across this article on why Posix Pthreads are better that Win32 threads. The thing is, both of these articles are written by the same author!

So who is right (metaphorically speaking?), or what has changed since the first article was written?"

Rosetta Probe Reveals Martian Cloud Systems 26

Posted by Hemos on Monday February 26, 2007 @11:00AM from the looking-more-deeply dept.

MattSparkes writes "The ESA's Rosetta probe swooped around Mars on Sunday, completing a key manoeuvre in its 10-year mission to land on a distant comet. The 3-tonne probe came within 155 miles of the planet's surface, and took some incredible images that reveal cloud systems on the planet. "At this time of the Martian year, a large fraction of Mars' atmosphere is evaporating from the southern polar cap and will migrate to the northern polar cap during nothern winter. Over most of the Martian disk one can see large cloud systems.""

Submission + - The end of net privacy in Brazil

Submitted by DieNadel on Monday November 06, 2006 @09:25AM

DieNadel writes: The Brazilian senate is considering a bill that will make it a crime to join a chat, blog or download from the Internet without fulling identifying oneself first.
If approved, it will be a crime, punishable with up to 4 years of jail time, to disseminate virus or trojans, unauthorizedly access data banks or networks and send e-mail, join chat, write a blog or download content anonymously.
Privacy groups and Internet Providers are very concerned, and are trying to lobby against the bill, but it seems they won't have much success on it.

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