8:36 PM
Nice summary of the huge impact SpaceX's success had on the space program for the U.S.:
http://pjmedia.com/blog/what-does-the-success-of-the-dragon-mean/?singlepage=true
Mars One plans to have the first human settlement on Mars by April 2023. They will first send 4 astronauts to live on Mars (it takes 7 months to get there), then send new teams every 2 years until they have over 20 people living on Mars by 2033:
http://mars-one.com/mission/mission-and-vision
Experts note that Flame represents a new level of sophistication in government-sponsored cyberattacks, where Flame circumvented anti-virus programs and remained undetected between 2 and 5 years. One expert points out that Flame hid itself and used multiple exploit combinations (some that may not have been discovered yet) and another expert said that Flame makes signature-based malware detection software obsolete:
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20120601-experts-flame-represents-a-new-level-of-statesponsored-cyber-attacks
That $1 bil that Oracle wanted from Google over Java is *not* going to happen...the jury threw up the patents last week and the copyright claims were thrown out by the judge today. The judge dismissed Oracle's claims that the APIs for Java that Google used were copyrightable...that is good, since having a language's APIs copyrightable would have changed things with the software industry:
http://www.androidcentral.com/another-huge-win-google-judge-throws-out-copyright-claims-oracle
The iPhone is entering the prepaid market, with Cricket provider Leap Wireless committing $900 mil over 3 years to sell the iPhone. Leap will sell the iPhone 4S for $499.99 for the 16 GB model and the iPhone 4 for $399.99 for the 8 GB model. Leap will allow iPhone users to use the $55 all-in-one plan:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/leap-commits-900m-over-three-years-apple-iphone/2012-06-01
The Tourism branch for British Columbia built a 14-foot-tall, 10-foot-wide bike-and-kayak-dispensing machine in San Francisco to promote tourism in their region of Canada:
http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/giant-vending-machine-dispenses-bikes-and-kayaks-tourism-british-columbia-140865
http://pjmedia.com/blog/what-does-the-success-of-the-dragon-mean/?singlepage=true
Mars One plans to have the first human settlement on Mars by April 2023. They will first send 4 astronauts to live on Mars (it takes 7 months to get there), then send new teams every 2 years until they have over 20 people living on Mars by 2033:
http://mars-one.com/mission/mission-and-vision
Experts note that Flame represents a new level of sophistication in government-sponsored cyberattacks, where Flame circumvented anti-virus programs and remained undetected between 2 and 5 years. One expert points out that Flame hid itself and used multiple exploit combinations (some that may not have been discovered yet) and another expert said that Flame makes signature-based malware detection software obsolete:
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20120601-experts-flame-represents-a-new-level-of-statesponsored-cyber-attacks
That $1 bil that Oracle wanted from Google over Java is *not* going to happen...the jury threw up the patents last week and the copyright claims were thrown out by the judge today. The judge dismissed Oracle's claims that the APIs for Java that Google used were copyrightable...that is good, since having a language's APIs copyrightable would have changed things with the software industry:
http://www.androidcentral.com/another-huge-win-google-judge-throws-out-copyright-claims-oracle
The iPhone is entering the prepaid market, with Cricket provider Leap Wireless committing $900 mil over 3 years to sell the iPhone. Leap will sell the iPhone 4S for $499.99 for the 16 GB model and the iPhone 4 for $399.99 for the 8 GB model. Leap will allow iPhone users to use the $55 all-in-one plan:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/leap-commits-900m-over-three-years-apple-iphone/2012-06-01
The Tourism branch for British Columbia built a 14-foot-tall, 10-foot-wide bike-and-kayak-dispensing machine in San Francisco to promote tourism in their region of Canada:
http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/giant-vending-machine-dispenses-bikes-and-kayaks-tourism-british-columbia-140865