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<title><![CDATA[Air Force Spaceplane Readying For Launch]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=air-force-spaceplane-readying-for-launch</link>
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<description><![CDATA[FleaPlus writes "The US Air Force is currently preparing for the launch of the secretive X-37B OTV-1 (Orbital Test Vehicle 1) spaceplane, which was transferred from NASA to DARPA back in 2004 when NASA opted to focus its budget on lunar exploration. The reusable unmanned spaceplane is set to launch in April on top of a commercial Atlas V rocket, orbit for up to 270 days while testing a number of <br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A Skeptical Comparison of HTML5 Video Playback To Flash]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=a-skeptical-comparison-of-html5-video-playback-to-flash</link>
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<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:45:23 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[gollum123 writes "Think we'd all be better off if HTML5 could somehow instantly replace Flash overnight? Not necessarily, according to a set of comparisons from Jan Ozer of the Streaming Learning Center website, which found that while HTML5 did come out ahead in many respects, it wasn't exactly a clear winner. They did find that HTML5 clearly performed better than Flash 10 or 10.1 in Safari on a <br/><br/>20 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pi Day and an Interview With a Pi Researcher]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=pi-day-and-an-interview-with-a-pi-researcher</link>
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<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:15:22 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[JoshuaInNippon writes "In honor of Pi Day, March 14 (or 3.14 for those who may need a hint), readers may be interested in reading an interview with Professor Daisuke Takahashi, the Japanese researcher who found 2.5 trillion digits of Pi back in August, before being apparently being edged out in December by a French computer programmer looking to prove his efficient coding abilities. Professor Tak<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Long-Running Underwater Robot Lost At Sea]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=long-running-underwater-robot-lost-at-sea</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:15:03 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[this_boat_is_real writes "Somewhere off the coast of Chile a pioneering underwater robot named Abe lies in a watery grave today. The Autonomous Benthic Explorer was one of the first truly independent research submersibles, being both unmanned and un-tethered to its launching ship. While on its 222nd research dive on Friday all contact with the craft was lost, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institut<br/><br/>18 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[OpenBSD 4.7 Preorders Are Up]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=openbsd-4-7-preorders-are-up</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:15:03 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[badger.foo writes "The OpenBSD 4.7 pre-orders are up. That means the release is done, sent off to CD production, and snapshots will turn -current again. Order now and you more likely than not will have your CD set, T-shirt or other cool stuff before the official release date. You get the chance to support the most important free software project on the planet, and get your hands on some cool play<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pharma Marketing Faces a Character-Count Conundrum]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=pharma-marketing-faces-a-character-count-conundrum</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:45:03 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[this_boat_is_real writes "There's growing concern over how pharmaceutical companies use social media and the Internet to market their products. Last November, the US Food and Drug Administration held a hearing on the topic, and many were worried over how marketing mediums such as Twitter &mdash; which has a 140-character limit on text &mdash; can sufficiently disclose drug risks." Here's the FDA'<br/><br/>14 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Programming the Commodore 64: the Definitive Guide]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=programming-the-commodore-64-the-definitive-guide</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:15:03 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Mirk writes "Back in 1985 it was possible to understand the whole computer, from the hardware up through device drivers and the kernel through to the high-level language that came burned into the ROMs (even if it was only Microsoft BASIC). The Reinvigorated Programmer revisits R. C. West's classic and exhaustive book Programming the Commodore 64 and laments the decline of that sort of comprehensi<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Former Astronauts Call Obama NASA Plans "Catastrophic"]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=former-astronauts-call-obama-nasa-plans-catastrophic</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:45:04 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[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 hav<br/><br/>15 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[GPS Log Analysis Uncovers Millions In NYC Taxi Overcharges]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=gps-log-analysis-uncovers-millions-in-nyc-taxi-overcharges</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:45:02 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Hugh Pickens writes "The NY Times reports that New York City's Taxi and Limousine Commission is using GPS data collected in every cab to review millions of trips in New York City over the past 26 months and has discovered a huge number in which out-of-city rates, twice the rate charged for rides in the five boroughs, were improperly charged. The drivers' scheme, the commission says, involved 1.8 <br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Brinksmanship Continues In Google-China Row Over Censorship]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=brinksmanship-continues-in-google-china-row-over-censorship</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:15:03 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[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&rsquo;s thinking. In a hardening of positions on both sides, the Chinese governmen<br/><br/>20 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why Are Digital Hearing Aids So Expensive?]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=why-are-digital-hearing-aids-so-expensive</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:15:03 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[sglines writes "Over the last couple of years I've been slowly getting deaf. Too much loud rock and roll I suppose. After flubbing a couple of job interviews because I couldn't understand my inquisitors I had a hearing test which confirmed what I already knew, I'm deaf. So I tried on a set of behind the ear hearing aids, wow, my keyboard makes clacks as I type and my wife doesn't mumble to hersel<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Key Web App Standard Approaches Consensus]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=key-web-app-standard-approaches-consensus</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:45:07 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[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. Indexed DB, proposed by Oracle and initially called WebSimple<br/><br/>18 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[AMARSi Project Aims To Have Robots Learn Jobs From Co-workers]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=amarsi-project-aims-to-have-robots-learn-jobs-from-co-workers</link>
<comments>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=amarsi-project-aims-to-have-robots-learn-jobs-from-co-workers</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:15:11 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Lanxon writes "Robots of the future will be capable of learning more complex behaviors than ever before if a new, pan-European research project succeeds in its goal of developing the world's first architecture for advanced robotic motor skills, reports Wired. If successful, the four-year AMARSi (Adaptive Modular Architecture for Rich Motor Skills) project could see a manufacturing world filled wi<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Toyota Acceleration and Embedded System Bugs]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=toyota-acceleration-and-embedded-system-bugs</link>
<comments>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=toyota-acceleration-and-embedded-system-bugs</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:45:02 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader writes "David Cummings, a programmer who worked on the Mars Pathfinder project, has written an interesting editorial in the L.A. Times encouraging Toyota to drop claims of software infallibility in their recent acceleration problems. He argues that embedded systems developers must program more defensively, and that companies should stop relying on software for safety. Quoting:<br/><br/>18 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Final Decision Deferred On ".xxx" Domains]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=final-decision-deferred-on-xxx-domains</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:45:05 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Hugh Pickens writes "The Associated Press reports that the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has deferred a decision until June on whether to create a '.xxx' Internet suffix as an online red-light district, beginning a 70-day process of consultations on a domain that could help parents block access to adult sites. ICM Registry LLC first proposed the '.xxx' domain in<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Fastest (and Most Compact) Stellar Spinner Confirmed]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=fastest-and-most-compact-stellar-spinner-confirmed</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:15:08 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[gregg writes "HM Cancri has been confirmed as a binary system of two white dwarfs orbiting each other so closely that they complete one orbit every 5.4 minutes; they are separated by a mere 8 Earth diameters. 'These are the burnt-out cinders of stars such as our Sun, and contain a highly condensed form of helium, carbon and oxygen. The two white dwarfs in HM Cancri are so close together that mass<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Dark Side of the Web]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=the-dark-side-of-the-web</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:45:03 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Barence writes "Beneath the web pages indexed by Google lies an online world that few know exists. It's a realm of huge, untapped reserves of valuable information containing sprawling databases, hidden websites and murky forums. It's a world where academics and researchers might find the data required to solve some of mankind's biggest problems, but also where criminal syndicates operate, and ter<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[PA Laptop Spying Inspires FSF Crowdsourcing Effort]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=pa-laptop-spying-inspires-fsf-crowdsourcing-effort</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:15:02 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[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."         Read more of this story at Slashdot.<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SCO Asked O'Gara To Smear Groklaw]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=sco-asked-ogara-to-smear-groklaw</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:45:37 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[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 'send a jab PJ's way.' For those who don't remember that far back in the SCO saga, the '<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Permanent Undersea Homes Soon; Temporary Ones Now]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:15:08 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[MMBK writes "Dennis Chamberland is one of the world's preeminent aquanauts. He's worked with NASA to develop living habitats and underwater plant growth labs, among other cool things. His next goal is establishing the world's first permanent underwater colony. This video gets to the heart of his project, literally and figuratively, as most is shot in his underwater habitat, Atlantica, off the coa<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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