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Making Untraceable Guns at Home Just Got Easier
Will Windows 10 Finally Address OS Decay?
Elon Musk's Plan to Save Humanity: Put 1M People on Mars
Apple Fixes 'Shellshock' Bug in OS X
How Would the World's Religions Cope with E.T.?
Hot Comment: "Yes, the point has come up again and again that ebola has mutated..."
From the Vault: Richard Stallman's Dissenting View of Steve Jobs
Watch It: Boy Genius Becomes Celebrity Maker, Intel Intern
Poll Booth: Why did Microsoft skip Windows 9?
Sponsored Resource: Email Far from Dead and Could Get Better
Making Untraceable Guns at Home Just Got Easier
Cody Wilson, the man behind the world's first 3D-printed gun, built a company behind the ideals of DIY gun-making, and now he's come out with another device: the "Ghost Gunner," a $1,200 CNC mill designed to create the lower receiver of an AR-15 rifle. Wired reports, "That simple chunk of metal has become the epicenter of a gun control firestorm.... Selling that untraceable gun body is illegal, but no law prevents you from making one."
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Will Windows 10 Finally Address OS Decay?
colinneagle writes, "The real question on my mind is whether Windows 10 will finally address a problem that has plagued pretty much every Windows OS since at least 95: the decay of the system over time. ... Even if you try aggressively to maintain your system, eventually it will slow, and very few people aggressively maintain their system. So, I wonder if Microsoft has found a solution to this."
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Elon Musk's Plan to Save Humanity: Put 1M People on Mars
First, Elon Musk wanted to make the trip to Mars affordable, then he wanted to establish a city-sized colony, and now he's got his eye on the future of humanity. Musk says we need a million people on Mars to form a "sustainable, genetically diverse civilization" that can survive as humanity's insurance policy. How fast could we do it? Within a century, once the spacecraft reusability problem is solved, he says.
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Apple Fixes 'Shellshock' Bug in OS X
Apple has released the OS X Bash Update 1.0 for OS X Mavericks, Mountain Lion, and Lion, a patch that fixes the "Shellshock" bug in the Bash shell. Bash, which is the default shell for many Linux-based operating systems, has been updated two times to fix the bug, and many Linux distributions have already issued updates to their users. An Apple representative told Ars Technica that OS X Yosemite, the upcoming version of OS X, will receive the patch later.
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How Would the World's Religions Cope with E.T.?
At the current rate of discovery, astronomers will have identified more than a million exoplanets by the year 2045. That means, if life is at all common in the Milky Way, astronomers could soon detect it. So, the nature of the debate about life on other worlds is about to fundamentally change. And lead Vanderbilt astronomer David Weintraub decided to find out what theologians and leaders from the world's major religions have to say about the matter.
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Re:Contagiousness
"Yes, the point has come up again and again that ebola has mutated to an airborne form before. In 2012 Canadian researchers showed that Ebola Zaire could be transmitted in an airborne fashion from pigs to monkeys. Being transmitted between humans that way doesn't seem like a very large leap. My thoughts are that it wouldn't exactly have to "go airborne" to become a catastrophe. MRSA isn't exactly airborne, but its nasty, sometimes fatal, and endemic to hospitals and health clubs all over the pretty sanitary (compared to Liberia) United States. Replacing MRSA with something that is essentially untreatable..." --by david_bonn
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Richard Stallman's Dissenting View of Steve Jobs
Three years ago, Free Software Foundation Founder Richard Stallman posted his not-so-fond memories of Steve Jobs on his personal site, writing, "As Chicago Mayor Harold Washington said of the corrupt former Mayor Daley, 'I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone.' Nobody deserves to have to die -- not Jobs, not Mr. Bill, not even people guilty of bigger evils than theirs. But we all deserve the end of Jobs' malign influence on people's computing." His statement has spurred reaction from the community; some even asking to the Free Software movement to find a new voice."
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Boy Genius Becomes Celebrity Maker, Intel Intern
Joey Hudy has won a number of awards for his engineering creations, including a solar-powered computer and two LED Arduino Shields. If that wasn't enough, the editors of Brilliant.org named him "one of the 10 smartest kids in the world," and he recently met the President of the United States. He's also the youngest person Intel has ever hired through its corporate internship program. Timothy Lord caught up with the busy high schooler at IDF14.
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Why Did Microsoft Skip Windows 9?
- Off-by-one error
- Because 7 8 9
- Graphic designer got it wrong and it was easier to leave it
- Trying to dispel the even/odd rule
- Marketing! Marketing! Marketing!
- Distancing from Windows 8
- Base 9 notation
- I don't know but I'm mad
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Email Far from Dead and Could Get Better
While there is prevalent speculation that social software and other real-time communications applications will replace email, email nevertheless remains a stalwart in business operations. In addition, as relationships across all business communication channels continue to be redefined, innovative modes and methods of communication are emerging. As a result, locating the right data and information at the right time -- while still critical -- becomes increasingly complex. IDC expects that organizations will use social software to complement existing tools and address these business needs for the foreseeable future.
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