Wait... They have viruses on the International Space Station?

Astronaout: "Houston we have a problem"

NASA HQ: "And what would that be?"
Astronaut: "I can't log into my MapleStory account"
NASA HQ: "WHAT?"

Great, now they even have avirus in space (onboard the ISS). It's interesting to see that NASA doesn't have any virus protection installed on their computer. What's even more interesting is that they use Windows on their laptops? I always thought NASA wouldn't have used something more complex like DOS or UNIX or even Linux. After all they're rocket scientists right? Well, although the same can't be said about the astronauts, it seems that they should atleast get some kind of special "designed from the ground up" operating system, right?

The Sci-Am blog does a nice job of shedding some light on this problem:

This interstellar infection provides insight into NASA security lapses as well how the agency's astronauts spend their free time. Apparently this includes indulging in multiplayer online role-playing games that involve embarking on virtual quests and slaying monsters. As if leaving the planet wasn't exciting enough.

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Firefox Version 2.0.0.11?

Am I the only one noticing the fact that Firefox version 2.0.0.10 was just released a couple of days ago? Or is every Firefox lover out there wondering if the Mozilla team screwed up something, or is just working overtime. Now, first off, I must mention that I am a Firefox lover. I absolutely can't do without the really cool add-ons and features this amazing browser has. But why would someone release updates so quick? My first thought was that it was some kind of wierd virus/malware thing. However, Macs don't have viruses! Silly Me.

After thinking for a while, I've came to the conclusion that it was probably for a couple of reasons why the back-to-back updates were released.

• Some one in the Mozilla Team screwed up some code so they had to fix it
• A really really big security bug was discovered
• They wanted to introduced some new features (I didn't see anything new though)
• The FireFox team was bored to death and decided to release something new
• Some one noticed a bug in FireFox

Turns out, they did make firefox more stable. And although previous versions of Firefox used to crash on Leopard (Mac OS X.5) they don't anymore. Now I can get back to using the recipe editor on Tech-Recipes, hopefully. If you're want to know more about the recent update... you can mosey on over to C-Net, and they'll update you on it.
So now, rest assured, no one else needs to worry about the quick release of updates. I hereby confirm that Firefox is still the browser that you should use the most. Why? Because it is updated frequently, has great features and is still the fastest of the bunch. At least, I find it to be fastest.

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