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While studying the edges of the heliopsphere where it defines a huge magnetic buggle around our solar system which was crated by solar winds as it runs up against the thin gas in interstellar space.

Scientists think this indicates that the bubble carved into interstellar space by the heliosphere, which extends well past the distant orbit of Pluto, is not perfectly round, and the solar system is shaped a bit like an oblong.

“Imagine a balloon is being blown up by the solar wind. You might imagine that if you took a balloon, which is mainly spherical, and pushed it against the wall, it would be blunted on one side,” said Edward Stone of the California Institute of Technology, one of the scientists involved in the research.

The findings were published in the journal Nature.

SOS was first adopted by the German goverment in radio regulations which occured on April 1st, 1905. The standard became worldwide and in the 2nd International Radiogrpahic Convention which became effective officially on July 1st 1908.

In the past century, ‘SOS’ has become a firm part of popular culture used in everything from DIY programme titles to Abba hits, British newspaper ‘The Times’ reported. 
But, it may be mentioned here that the call actually became famous when one of the radio operators of the ill-fated Titanic had supposedly said to his colleague: “Send SOS”. The tragedy revealed just how vital a universal system was. 

After the collision in April 1912, the ship’s radio operators sent out both the old CQD and the new ‘SOS’ signals, but some ships in the area ignored both, thinking that they were having a party.

The new SOS distress signal was rarely ignored after that. Of course, technology has moved on dramatically since 1908 and only very occasionally are the telltale dots and dashes that have saved countless lives employed today.

Happy Birthday, ‘SOS’, and thanks for saving as many lives.

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“We basically have found what appears to be the requirements, the nutrients, to support life, whether past, present or future,” said Sam Kounaves, the project’s lead chemist, from the University of Arizona.

“It is the type of soil you would probably have in your back yard - you know, alkaline. You might be able to grow asparagus in it really well.”

This comes after extensive analysis the Phoenix Mars Lander has made on soil it pockets as it digs through the surface of mars then analyzes the contents by powerful microscopes.

The Arctic location where Phoenix touched down is thought to hold large stores of water-ice just below the surface.

Last week, scientists said they were positive there was ice on the planet after eight dice-sized chunks were seen melting away in a series of photographs.

But Phoenix has so far not detected organic carbon - considered an essential building block of life.

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Since 1975, Gates has had a hand in everything in the company, whether it be software development or the business cument. When the company went public in 1986, Gates stood as the CEO and chairman before stepping back in 2000 giving the role to Steve Balmer.

In 2006, Microsoft announced that Gates would slowly be transitioned out of his responsibilities as chairman and work more closely to the charities he and his wife Melinda have been part of.
During the late 80s to the late 90s, Outlook Express, a Microsoft creation was one of the top programs in the Usenet community to connect and access newsgroups. Although many other Usenet specific programs have grown to replace it in popularity, it is still one of the most widely used programs to access newsgroups.

What happens to Microsoft after Gates departure is still to be seen. But the impact, regardless of perception, that Bill Gates has made to both Microsoft and consequentially - the world - is undeniable.

“So my name is a footnote in American legal history, which I’m perversely kind of proud of,” Carlin told The Associated Press earlier this year.

Sadly, Carlin at the age of 71 passed away today due to heart failure.

A great comedic force, his legacy of pushing the envelope uncensoring the censored, made a mark not just in society, but in history.

Speaking of uncensored, Newsdemon offers over 60,000 heavily traveled newsgroups completely uncensored.

We’ll miss you Carlin!

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Verizon, Sprint and Time Warner Cable have agreed to dismantle usenet access to their users, either partially or entirely. Details on what each company will end up censoring in total has still yet to be announced.

Time Warner Cable has been the only company to go on the record currently to state that it will be shutting down ALL Newsgroups it controls on its network. Time Warner Cable has already been in the news recently as it announced a tentative release of a new rate plan which would charge users who went over a set download limit per month.

Sprint and Verizon have yet to state anything other than they would “limit access” to newsgroups on their networks to their customers. Verizon has also been a very big proponent of limiting general download usage of customers, as Sprint has been rumored to be in the works of creating a similar rate plan as Time Warner Cable has announced.

The incentive for these companies appear to be noble on the cover. However, with information regarding concerns on the usage of their networks many are speculating that this is drawn from an agenda to reduce traffic on there networks in order to gain higher returns. One of the top arguments is that the proposed incentive is to shut down thousands of legitimate newsgroups that are irrelevant in this case rather than just a few offending groups that would be questionable.

At Newsdemon, we hold open arms to all the refugees of these networks that are being left out in the cold by these ISPs. As an incentive, we’re offing 15% off all of our monthly rate plans for a limited time only for customers  from Time Warner, Verizon and Sprint.

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Here is a summary of recent changes.  For more detailed information, see
www.NewsRover.com/whatsnew.htm
 


* Changed the Configure/Server screen so that it is now possible to have two
entries for the same news server.  You can specify a server nickname to cause
the two entries to have different display names.

* Improved the error retry facility so that logon errors are retried as well
as download I/O errors.

* Improved the handling of arrow and Home/End keys in the search screens.

* Made a change so that the currently selected message is not changed when a
download of another message finishes.

* The up/down-arrow and page up/down keys can now be used to scroll through
the newsgroup subscription list.

* Fixed a bug that could cause News Rover to crash when pictures were deleted
while viewing them in the Slide Show viewer.

* Fixed a bug related to changing the Encrypted/Non-encrypted status of a
group that had a file attachment larger than 2GB.

* Fixed a bug that could cause News Rover to crash if the “Folders” item on
the menu for the File Attachments section was clicked when there were no
defined filing folders.

* Fixed a bug that could cause News Rover to crash if a file was launched
from the File Attachments section and the file attachments section was closed
and reopened while the file was being launched.

* Fixed a problem that could cause News Rover to crash if the Delete key was
held down to delete many messages while other messages were being downloaded
by the same group.

* Fixed a problem that could cause News Rover to crash if the message list
was refreshed while performing a Save-As or Move-To operation.

* Fixed a bug that could cause News Rover to hang in some conditions if the
up-arrow key was used to try to move above the top item in the message
display list.

* Fixed a bug that caused serious display problems when News Rover was run
with Vista 64 with SP1.

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We thought we would have a little fun today.  We stumbled upon a study at Cambridge that found “It doesn’t matter in what order the letters in the middle of a word are. All that matters is that the first and last letter be in the correct place. The rest can be totally randomized and you can still read it without problem”. This is because the human mind does not read every letter by itself, but the word as a whole.  We have  found that some words are easier to recognize than others, mostly because we use them in everyday language more often.  Traditional, options, through, and allotment were a few of the words in the paragraph above that stumped our staff originally.  Newsgroups

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A small search engine called ‘Google’ opened its doors on September 7th, 1998.  It was originally given a name because of its unique ability to analyze ‘back links’ pointing to a given website.  It was renamed shortly before opening.  What was its original name?

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Just a reminder, we will now be posting the winners in the comments section of the blog post for each question.

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 H.G from London, England won today’s question with the following answer:  humanities.*, comp.*, misc.*, news.*, rec.*, sci.*, soc.*, and talk.*

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Harry P. from Athens, Greece provided the following answer:  May 11th, 1981

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 J.R. of Paris, France succesfully answered:

Some users placed the word “meow” in their killfiles due to  several spammer who had invaded many groups.  Long story short, these spammers were posting spam which often contained the word “meow” or other feline references.

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Question: Why was the word “meow” placed into many experienced usenetters’ “killfiles” in the mid 1990’s?

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Charles J. of London, UK correctly answered that the original standard was RFC 0850.  We actually would have accepted several different answers for this questions because there is some debate about which RFC is truly the Usenet’s original standard.
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POST command issued when posting is not allowed.

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With that said, we would like to point out that we have been putting in a lot of hard work to generate useful Usenet and Newsgroups related content on the site.  If you haven’t already been there, we recommend you try out our “What is Usenet” page.  There are lots of helpful pages of information regarding the usenet, newsgroups, and how it all got started.  We also try to answer some of the common questions our support department receives regarding “Usenet Rules”, etiquette, and just a general overview of how NNTP works.  Many of our usenet trivia answers can be found in these pages.  We have a whole section of our staff dedicated to creating these pages, so check back on these frequently, we are adding new pages every day.  If you think we have left something out, or you disagree with our take on a certain process or term, please do not hesitate to inform us.  We are not perfect, but we are trying!  Oh wait!  We ARE the perfect Usenet and Newsgroups Provider!  (gotta keep the bosses happy!)  :)