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Here is a uuencoder:-

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end

Here is a list of URLs which can decode it:-

• http://www.silisoftware.com/tools/uudecode.php
• http://sqa.fyicenter.com/Online_Test_Tools/UUdecode_Converter.php
• https://quickhash.com/extra-uu-decode-online
• http://decode.urih.com/
• http://uuencode.online-domain-tools.com/

NASA says their New Horizons probe suffered a temporary communication breakdown on Saturday at 17:54 UTC, 10 days before it's supposed to fly past Pluto on 2015-07-14. The probe went into "safe mode" but it will still fly past Pluto at the planned distance, speed, and time. The glitch may cause the approach animations and a gap in the light curves for Nix and Hydra. The mission team is working to restore communications to normal. "Full recovery is expected to take from one to several days," NASA wrote in a status report on Saturday. "New Horizons will be temporarily unable to collect science data during that time. The latency one way is currently 4.5 hours.

The two way communication progress can be seen here at the Canberra dish. There's a thread over at New Horizons Pluto System Encounter, 28 Jun 15 that has some things to say about the issue.

Some close up pictures of the planet: dark band at the bottom is around the equator.

University of Cambridge is Recruiting for a Professor of LEGO in 2015. The selected candidate will head a new research center that focuses on children’s relationships with play in education, development and learning. They will also investigate how unrestrictive play can help improve a child’s experience of education. LEGO funds it with an 4 million GBP donation (6.2 million USD).

Now one can have 128 GByte of RAM in a PC. Corsair offers 128 GB DDR4/2400 for 1980 US$ and Kingston is to offer 3000 MHz speeds. Kingston did the deed not with the pricey Core i7-5960X Haswell-E processor, but the cheapie Core i7-5820K CPU.

But to get ECC you need a very pricey Xeon processor. But your alpha radiation detector is included by just scanning the RAM..

Guess 64-bit address bus finally found a use case :p

Albert Einstein wrote a letter in June 1951 that has now been discovered in a safe at a Brazilian school. It was addressed to students at Colégio Anchieta in Porto Alegre in the south of the country. The original is in German, and the translation is: “He who knows the happiness of understanding has gained an infallible friend for life. Thinking is to man what flying is to birds. Don’t follow the example of a chicken when you could be a lark.”

Take home? Find happiness in understanding and thinking, it will reward you. Do what you are good at regardless of detractors and don't follow the slimy flow of complacency.

Any thoughts?

When specifying timestamps like "Your points expire at 2015-02-09 12:34.". Also specify which timezone you are reffering to. Otherwise it can mean just about ANY timezone. Confusion galore.

Anyone that has used the login from the main page using the login dialog at the top-right will be silently surprised with the login being done using https but once completed it will switch to http. And thus dump your username association with your IP-address along with the session cookie for all three letter organizations to grab. Or your local hackers to abuse for impersonation.

There's a workaround for this. Simple go to any article from the main page. Click on the [Reply] link right underneath the article text. If you are not logged in ie missing session cookie. A login dialog will be added to your comment reply dialog. Just fill in username and password and click [Preview]. Viola.. logged in!

And don't forget ONE mistake on revealing your username association with IP, browser header etc.. It's there for a eternity or something bad happens to some harddisk racks in a certain location..

Happy SSL login to you! ;-)

Seems comment submission in article threads won't work properly. One has to click submit button upto 5 times before it works. Something wrong?

Perhaps the wiki could go https just as the main site? considering the opportunity for manipulation and eavesdropping these days, it would be nice.

From this:
http://wiki.soylentnews.org/wiki/Finances

To this:
https://wiki.soylentnews.org/wiki/Finances

When one submits a story to the editors for publication on the site. It would be useful to have a separate input field where one could write comments on the submission itself. That should stay private between the submitter and the editors.

It could be something like "please check the links, good story but in a hurry" etc.

Leaving a comment inside the submission box in parenthesis or similar has the risk of getting unintended publication..