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Man, I got my dates messed up. Fridays' update I put as April 4th instead of April 6th. At least I'm
getting the year right now.
In a hilarious twist of irony, aliens have sued the US military via the DMCA for reverse engineering their spaceships. The
DMCA makes it against the law in some cases to reverse engineer objects, so BBspot decided to make a
satire piece out of it. Stupid laws sure can be funny.
You can now read a log by Sheppard on what is happening on the International
Space Station on the Internet. He wrote down what he did during his trip on the ISS, and it's
interesting to see what the average day in the life of an astronaught is.astronaut You can also read a short
article that gives a bit of
a summary on some of what he wrote. Apparently there have been a number of computer problems, with
"Most of the problems appear to be related to Microsoft's Windows NT, while Russian-made software
seems to be more reliable." Surprise Surprise :)
You know that old saying that pretty soon everything will be connected to the Internet, including
your toaster? Well, your toaster can now be connected to the
Internet, so that you can find out what the weather will be like from it. The toaster connects
to the Internet, finds out if it'll be sunny, cloudy, or rainy, and then burns an image on your
toast depicting one of those scenerio's. So with refrigerators, washing machines, and now toasters
all connected to the net, there isn't much left to conqueror in the kitchen.
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