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Comment What's wrong with ATV? (Score 2, Interesting) 43

by sunbeam60 on Saturday February 23, 2008 @04:49AM (#22525436) Attached to: NASA Awards Space Cargo Grant

I thought the whole idea of an *international* space station was that we didn't have to duplicate technology efforts between the partners? ESA developed the ATV for the express purpose of resupplying the ISS, so what's this duplicate piece of tech doing?

European Commission Reverses its Views on Patents 181

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday May 25, 2006 @12:12AM from the maybe-not dept.

prostoalex writes "ZDNet UK News reports "The European Commission said last week that computer programs will be excluded from patentability in the upcoming Community Patent legislation, and that the European Patent Office (EPO) will be bound by this law". Politician Adam Gierek posted a question to European Commission asking the institution to clarify its standings on software patents."

NASA Hacker Gary McKinnon Interviewed 402

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday May 06, 2006 @09:44AM from the out-of-this-world dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A BBC article reports about an interview between Click and Gary McKinnon who in 2002 hacked into NASA and other US Military networks. In the interview he talks about how he accessed machines by using default passwords and a conversation with a NASA network engineer using Wordpad. He also talks about how he found information about anti-gravity, UFO technology, free energy and how UFOs are regularly airbrushed out from high-resolution satellite images."

Google Calendar 448

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday April 13, 2006 @07:53AM from the google-everyday dept.

rickyb writes "After months of rumors and speculation, Google Calendar is now live. It features integration with Gmail, full iCal support, and a bunch of other goodies I'm just starting to discover. The wait is over!"

Mozilla Announces Extend Firefox Contest Winners 163

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday March 03, 2006 @08:33AM from the best-of-show dept.

Foxy Betty writes "Mozilla Corporation has announced the winners of the Extend Firefox Contest, a project initiated to encourage development of extensions for the Firefox Web browser. A panel of industry notables reviewed more than 200 extensions submitted to the contest."

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