Link: Sheriff calls for guns on campus and mental health reform

Larimer (Colorado) County Sheriff Jim Alderden has an interesting take on guns on campus… In his county, CSU allows concealed weapons. In Boulder County, CU Boulder forbids them.

 Alderden was instrumental in passing Colorado’s CCW law, and apparently the shall-issue program was based on his practices in Larimer County.

Link: nimrangul’s “netjihad” for the Beastie

It seems that the BSD daemon image has been blatantly ripped off for years by a British sex-toy vending machine company. McKusick knows it, but can’t do anything about it, being a foreigner. Hmmm.

Link: VMware to include Unity feature to battle Parallels’ Coherence

VMware Fusion is offering Unity, a feature designed to run Windows apps transparently on the Mac desktop like Coherence in Parallels. It’s a tight race between the two.

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Link: Riding an Ion Drive to the Asteroid Belt

Iron Condor writes “JPL is now close to embarking on another of its trademark, one-of-a-kind missions, this time to the heart of the asteroid belt: The Dawn mission is being prepared for launch this summer from Kennedy Space Center. Dawn will explore Ceres and Vesta, the two largest known asteroids in our solar system, which lie in the vast expanse between Mars and Jupiter. In the process, the mission will make history on several fronts. Besides being the first spacecraft to orbit a main-belt asteroid and the first to ever orbit two targets after leaving Earth, Dawn will be the first science mission powered by electric ion propulsion, the world’s most advanced and efficient space propulsion technology.”

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Link: Forgetting May be Part of the Remembering Process

CFTM writes “The New York Times is running an interesting article about how human memory works and the theorized adaptive nature of forgetfulness”. From the article, “Whether drawing a mental blank on a new A.T.M. password, a favorite recipe or an old boyfriend, people have ample opportunity every day to curse their own forgetfulness. But forgetting is also a blessing, and researchers reported on Sunday that the ability to block certain memories reduces the demands on the brain when it is trying to recall something important. The study, appearing in the journal Nature Neuroscience, is the first to record visual images of people’s brains as they suppress distracting memories. The more efficiently that study participants were tuning out irrelevant words during a word-memorization test, the sharper the drop in activity in areas of their brains involved in recollection. Accurate remembering became easier, in terms of the energy required.”

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