And from the news........

From Slashdot -

I want to blog from space.

Science: Vint Cerf
Preps Interplanetary Internet Protocol
Posted by timothy on Thursday July 24,
@03:57PMfrom the would-be-helpful-at-the-jupiter-hotel-too dept.

TechFiends32 writes "After years of working with NASA to bring Internet connectivity to deep space, scientists say Vint Cerf's efforts may be nearing completion. To combat the apparent challenges of extending the Internet into space (such as meteors and weighty, high-powered antennas), Cerf and others have made significant efforts, like adjusting satellite-based IP, and working on delay-tolerant networking (DTN) to address pure IP's limitations in space. According to principal engineer at The Mitre Corp., Keith Scott, 'The 2010 goal is designed to bring DTN to a sufficient level of maturity to incorporate it into designs for robotic and human lunar
exploration.'"
[+] internet, space, lag (tagging beta)
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Which is good because I'm sure the aliens will want to use the internet. You know, so they can creat accounts on monster.com and take our jobs.

Science: Apollo 14 Moonwalker Claims Aliens Exist
Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday July 24, @12:48PMfrom the
truth-is-out-there dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Former NASA astronaut and moon-walker Dr Edgar Mitchell — a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission — has stunningly claimed
aliens exist. And he says extra-terrestrials have visited Earth on several
occasions — but the alien contact has been repeatedly covered up by governments
for six decades. Dr Mitchell, 77, said during a radio interview that sources at
the space agency who had had contact with aliens described the beings as 'little
people who look strange to us.'"
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Or maybe the aliens will come online and bully us!

Ask Slashdot: How To Deal With Internet Bullies?
Posted by timothy on Thursday July 24, @08:46PMfrom the warning-link-contains-classic-deep-trolling dept.

creyes123 writes "I run a free website with an online model airplane design calculator. The number of registered users has quickly climbed and I've gotten many ompliments. Out of nowhere, a fellow shows up and proceeds to bad mouth the calculator in a posting in one of my forums. After I politely point out that he's mistaken and should have looked at the documentation before posting, he changes the subject and bad mouths a different 'flaw.' The cycle repeats a few more times, with no apparent end in sight. I want to encourage folks to share their opinions, but constructive criticism was clearly not his goal. I feel that the whole episode was just a massive time waster for me. What did I do to deserve this? Could I have handled this better?"
[+] internet, toy, donotfeedthetrolls, dontfeedthetrolls, ignorethem (tagging beta)
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And moving on to the BBC -

There's oil in that thar Arctic!

Arctic 'has 90bn barrels of oil'

Oil prices are tipped to rise The Arctic is estimated to hold 90bn barrels of untapped oil, according to figures from the US Geological Survey (USGS). The USGS says the area has three times as much untapped natural gas as oil. Drilling plans in the Arctic have been controversial, with environment groups worried about the effect on wildlife.
While oil prices have been falling in recent days to around $125 a barrel, many analysts expect oil prices to remain high, and even to rise again.

Screw the environment, I want cheap gas. Let it be the next generation's problem. From the looks of things, I may not be contributing much to the next generation.

Soy foods 'reduce sperm numbers'

Soy products contain chemicals mimicking female hormones A regular diet of even modest amounts of food containing soy may halve sperm concentrations, suggest scientists. The study, published in the journal Human Reproduction, found 41 million fewer sperm per millilitre of semen after just one portion every two days. The authors said plant oestrogens in foods such as tofu, soy mince or milk may interfere with hormonal signals.
However, a UK expert stressed that most men in Asia eat more soy-based
products with no fertility problems.

Well that might explain a few things about me. I've heard about this sort of thing in the past, first time I saw it on a reliable news source. or at least what I thought was reliable. At the least I can blame it on me being a vegetarian, right?