krou writes “Talking to the BBC at a private function held at the Royal Society in London, former astronauts Jim Lovell and Eugene Cernan both spoke out about Obama’s decision to postpone further moon missions. Lovell claimed that ‘it will have catastrophic consequences in our ability to explore space and the spin-offs we get from space technology,’ while Cernan noted he was ‘disappointed’ to have been the last person to land on the moon. Said Cernan: ‘I think America has a responsibility to maintain its leadership in technology and its moral leadership … to seek knowledge. Curiosity’s the essence of human existence.’ Neil Armstrong, who was also at the event, avoided commenting on the subject.”
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According to The Financial Times, “Google has drawn up detailed plans for the closure of its Chinese search engine and is now ‘99.9 per cent’ certain to go ahead [with the closure] as talks over censorship with the Chinese authorities have reached an apparent impasse, according to a person familiar with the company’s thinkin...
suraj.sun tips a report up at CNet which begins: “Browser makers, grappling with outmoded technology and a vision to rebuild the Web as a foundation for applications, have begun converging on a seemingly basic but very important element of cloud computing. That ability is called local storage, and the new mechanism is called Indexed DB. Index...
superapecommando writes “GCHQ lost 35 laptops in one year, potentially containing highly sensitive data. The UK’s electronic spy centre was today lambasted by MPs for having a ‘cavalier’ attitude to data security. The centre is responsible for tracking the electronic communications of terrorists. In a new report, the Commons...
I Don’t Believe in Imaginary Property writes “PJ of Groklaw has found some really interesting documents coming out of the never-ending SCO trial. Specifically, in SCO v. Novell, SCO doesn’t want the jury to find out about the email Blake Stowell (then a PR guy for SCO) sent to Maureen O’Gara that asked her to ... ...
holmesfsf writes “Creeped out by the Lower Merion School District’s remote monitoring of students? Check out the Free Software Foundation’s response to the laptop spying scandal and help build a wiki listing of school districts that provide students with laptops, so that the FSF can campaign against mandatory, proprietary laptops....
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