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Steve Pyke’s beautiful photographic project including portraits of Apollo astronauts, their rocks and personal artifacts…and the last foot on the moon.

Investing for the long term? These companies–the year’s Global 100–are sustainable enough to be around longer than you will be.

Now this is a good one: Two years ago, Austrian authorities arrested the immigrant owner of the car right on spot and deported him back to Romania. Yet, yesterday issued him a parking ticket, too. Probably the biggest in history – I am not sure if is 20,000 or 21,000 euro, but the clock is ticking…

“Whether you’re the cop or the perp, getting stopped on the side of the road is never a good thing. At best, it’s an inconvenience. At worst? Well….”

Here are two hot girls who are getting in the Super Bowl Spirit by wearing Body Paint Uniforms

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Zonk brings word that Mythic has announced their plans to expand Warhammer Online in the coming months using a series of live events that will open up new careers, gear, and zones. The first event, planned for sometime in March, will allow access to the Dwarf Slayer and the Orc Choppa, as well as a new RvR scenario. Later, players will race to unlock a massive new zone, the Lands of the Dead. The expansion itself is titled “A Call to Arms,” and it will be rolled out free of charge.

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dfdashh writes “A former Fannie Mae contractor has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Baltimore, MD for computer intrusion. He attempted to propagate a malicious script throughout the company’s 4,000 servers. The DC Examiner has details of the incident: ‘Had this malicious script executed, [Fannie Mae] engineers expect it would have caused millions of dollars of damage and reduced if not shutdown operations at [Fannie Mae] for at least one week. … The virus was set to execute at 9 a.m. Jan. 31, first disabling Fannie Mae’s computer monitoring system and then cutting all access to the company’s 4,000 servers, Nye wrote. Anyone trying to log in would receive a message saying “Server Graveyard.” From there, the virus would wipe out all Fannie Mae data, replacing it with zeros, Nye wrote. Finally, the virus would shut down the servers.'”

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mcgrew writes “New Scientist reports that a British team has overcome the obstacles to cheap LED lighting, and that LED lamps as cheap as CFLs will be on the market in five years. Quoting: ‘Gallium nitride cannot be grown on silicon like other solid-state electronic components because it shrinks at twice the rate of silicon as it cools. Crystals of GaN must be grown at 1000C, so by the time a new LED made on silicon has cooled, it has already cracked, rendering the devices unusable. One solution is to grow the LEDs on sapphire, which shrinks and cools at much the same rate as GaN. But the expense is too great to be commercially competitive. Now Colin Humphreys’s team at the University of Cambridge has discovered a simple solution to the shrinkage problem. They included layers of aluminium gallium nitride in their LED design… These LEDs can be grown on silicon as so many other electronics components are. … A 15-centimetre silicon wafer costs just and can accommodate 150,000 LEDs making the cost per unit tiny.'”

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eldavojohn writes “Russell Tice, former NSA employee & whistleblower, has revealed yet more details claiming that wiretapping was combined with credit card data to target civilians. He also suggests the CEOs of major companies hold the truth: ‘To get at what’s really going on here, the CEOs of these telecom companies, and also of the banking and credit card companies, and any other company where you have big databases, those are the people you have to haul in to Congress and tell them you better tell the truth.’ Will congress follow his suggestions?” This adds to information revealed by Tice last week that the wiretaps targeted journalists in particular.

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