16 Mar 2009
Rocket Hobbyists Prevail Over Feds In Court Case

Very cool, and even cooler considering the date.DC District Court judge Reggie Walton has finally ruled in the 9-year old court case pitting the model rocketry community against the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The ruling is a 'slam dunk' for the rocketry community, stating that the BATFE ignored scientific evidence and overstepped its bounds by classifying ammonium perchlorate composite propellant (APCP) as an 'explosive.' Effective immediately, the BATFE has no legal jurisdiction over hobby rocket motors, and a federal Low Explosives User's Permit will no longer be needed in order to purchase APCP motors.

(link) [Slashdot]

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Seattle paper moves online only

This may be an irreversible (and perhaps inevitable) trend, but I wonder if anyone else has thought how ultimately easy damnatio memoriae is in a universe of naught but links and electrons.

Tuesday's edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer will be the last copy to be printed, as a slimmed-down edition moves solely online.

(link) [BBC News]

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New DNS trojan taints entire LAN from single box

A clever - and dangerous - attack. Be alert!

Internet security experts are warning of a new rash of malware attacks that can hijack the security settings of a wide variety of devices on a local area network, even when they are hardened or don't run on Windows operating systems.

(link) [The Register]

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