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The Los Angeles Times reports that an explosion at the Mojave airport killed three workers and injured three others, during a test of the propellant flow system for SpaceShipTwo.
In 2004, SpaceShipOne became the first privately funded manned spacecraft, and won the Ansari X Prize.  SpaceShipTwo has not yet been unveiled, but is being developed as [...]

I was pleasantly surprised to see DEC made the #1 spot on CIO’s Dearly Departed, a list of computer companies and products that didn’t deserve to die.  DEC is gone, but not forgotten.

I’ve started receiving spam text messages on my cell phone.  They are stock tips, obviously for illegal pump-and-dump operations.  It doesn’t appear that there’s any way to get rid of them, short of either having the carrier block all text messages to my phone, or changing my phone number.
I suppose I’m lucky to have had [...]

AT&T now claims that they will deploy some kind of filtering to keep copyrighted content off their network, effectively spying for the MPAA and RIAA. No one has developed a reliable way to even identify copyrighted content, but even if that existed, how would they distinguish legitimate transfers of copyrighted content from unauthorized transfers?
It [...]

Apparently Dijkstra was right!

In the twilight of a beautiful day, when fancy seized upon my mind, I passed by the edge of the city and tarried before the wreck of an abandoned house of which only rubble was left.  In the rubble I saw a dog lying upon dirt and ashes. Sores covered his skin, and sickness [...]

There was a conspiracy, but the landing wasn’t faked on a sound stage. The real story has finally been revealed by TDAH #20.

I certainly was shocked when it turned out that Voldemort is Hermione’s father!

Heard in a meeting. Apparently not new, but new to me. The meaning was fairly obvious from context. Definition from the Jargon File:
[Cisco] A command in a complex piece of software which is more likely to be used by an extremely experienced user to tweak a setting of [...]