This Mini Museum Will Land on the Moon in 2019
Credit to Author: Daniel Oberhaus| Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 13:00:00 +0000
No dick pics in the MoonArk.
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The US Is Paying Big Oil to Keep Fossil Fuels Profitable
Credit to Author: Stephen Leahy| Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 10:00:00 +0000
Subsidies are keeping “zombie energy” alive.
Read MoreC'mon, what else could it be?
Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 03:00:00 -0700
Desktop support tech is helping a user at her desk, reports a pilot fish who happens to be close enough to hear what’s going on.
“He asked the user to enter her password,” fish says.
“She said, ‘Password.’
“Yes, he said, please enter your password.
“‘Password,’ she said.
“He then asked if her password is ‘password.’
“She said, ‘Of course.’
“We promptly changed and tightened up our password requirements.”
Sharky wants to pass the word to remind you about fresh guidelines for better passwords from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (along with an explanation of why NIST’s new rules are better). Take a look — and after that, don’t forget to send me your true tale of IT life at sharky@computerworld.com. You’ll snag a snazzy Shark shirt if I use it. Comment on today’s tale at Sharky’s Google+ community, and read thousands of great old tales in the Sharkives.
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USPS ‘Informed Delivery’ Is Stalker’s Dream
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2017 16:32:33 +0000
A free new service from the U.S. Postal Service that provides scanned images of incoming mail days before it is slated to arrive at its destination address is raising eyebrows among security experts who worry about the service’s potential for misuse by private investigators, identity thieves, stalkers or abusive ex-partners. The USPS says it hopes to have changes in place by early next year that could help blunt some of those concerns.
Read MoreThis Paleolithic Dick Gave Us Genital Herpes
Credit to Author: Becky Ferreira| Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2017 18:38:07 +0000
Nuts to you, Nutcracker Man.
Read MoreInside the Most Exclusive High-Powered Rocketry Event in America
Credit to Author: Daniel Oberhaus| Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2017 16:00:00 +0000
Each year in the Nevada desert, BALLS takes amateur rocketry back to its homebrewed, experimental roots.
Read MoreScientists Used CRISPR to Edit a Gene That Causes Miscarriages
Credit to Author: Mallory Locklear| Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2017 15:14:59 +0000
The gene editing technology could eventually herald the next frontier in fertility treatment.
Read MoreCompound Associated With Life Found in Two Very Different Locations in Space
Credit to Author: Becky Ferreira| Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2017 15:13:03 +0000
Why that’s actually not good news for astrobiologists looking for extraterrestrial life.
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