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Submission + - Iran Claims Space Launch

Submitted by massivefoot
massivefoot writes: Iranian TV claims Iran has launched its first rocket into space. Iran already has a civilian satellite programme but so far it has relied on Russia to put its satellites into orbit. The article contains few details, this appears to be breaking news.
United States

Submission + - Web 2.0 at War?

Submitted by boulainvilliers
boulainvilliers writes: The internet is transforming business, retail, news, travel, dating, social networking, you name it. It is also transforming warfare — on both sides. Sure, Iraqi insurgents and militant Islamists didn't read "Coase's Penguin"; and America's soldiers are better at fiddling with M16s than with Linux updates. Yet both sides apply Web 2.0-lessons in the physical world, often with devastating effect.

Peer-production, the wisdom of crowds, open standards, and loose coupling have reached the battlefield, Thomas Rid argues in "War 2.0" (Policy Review, February 2007). Individual "users" take the initiative. If you're frustrated in Baghdad, you can easily find some fellows, buy a 152mm Russian artillery shell for about $100, download the bomb-design and shopping list on the internet, add some commercially available chemicals to enhance the bang, use a toy-car remote control as a trigger, watch the online-video of how to target Americans best, and you're in business. You might even post your own advice for fellow militants in, say, Afghanistan. Don't be surprised that the U.S. Army also embraces peer-to-peer networks, such as companycommand.com. The troubling thing, says Rid, is that the wrong side is better at it. America's army faces probably its most entrepreneurial enemy ever (courtesy the smallwarsjournal.com).
Music

Submission + - The Best P2P Network Nowadays?

Submitted by
rigamarole
rigamarole writes: "Well, I've been using Limewire for most of my mp3 downloads for the past while. At first I was very satisfied with it after switching from Ares, because my download times were significantly faster. Recently though, I've been getting a lot of results like, "Stephen Spielberg gets a hilarious prank call!" and other such nonsense. Note that I get a lot of search results like this on both audio and video-specific searches. I'm sick of Limewire now, and I'm wondering what people in the know are using for their downloads nowadays. I should note that I've had some satisfactory results from using isoHunt for movie downloads, but I have no idea how good of a music source it is...and I prefer the classic KaZaA/Ares/Limewire layout anyhow. Thoughts?"
The Courts

Submission + - Top Canadian Court strikes down detention law

Submitted by
athar
athar writes: "The Canadian Supreme Court, in an unanimous 9-0 decision, struck down the security certificate regime in Canada, whereby foreigners could be detained indefinitely on the basis of secret evidence, with no real ability to challenge their detention. The Court ruled that the regime violated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and has given the government one year to rectify the regime. The decision is in stark contrast to the current legal situation in the United States."
Operating Systems

Submission + - DragonFly BSD to develop own filesystem

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Matt Dillon has decided to develop a new filesystem from scratch to support DragonFly's clustering, rather than port an existing one. From his post: "There are currently two rough spots in the design. First, how to handle segment overflows in a multi-master environment. Such overflows can occur when the individual masters or slaves have different historical data retention policies. Second, where to store the regeneratable indexes."
Space

Submission + - Einstein's twin paradox resolved

Submitted by
slashthedot
slashthedot writes: "An Indian American scientist Subhash Kak from Louisiana State University has resolved the 100+ years old Einstein's twin paradox. "The fact that time slows down on moving objects has been documented and verified over the years through repeated experimentation. But, in the previous scenario, the paradox is that the earthbound twin is the one who would be considered to be in motion — in relation to the sibling — and therefore should be the one aging more slowly. Einstein and other scientists have attempted to resolve this problem before, but none of the formulas they presented proved satisfactory. Kak's findings were published online in the International Journal of Theoretical Science, and will appear in the upcoming print version of the publication."
"The implications of this resolution will be widespread, generally enhancing the scientific community's comprehension of relativity. It may eventually even have some impact on quantum communications and computers, potentially making it possible to design more efficient and reliable communication systems for space applications."
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-02/lsu -lpr021407.php"
Mozilla

Submission + - EverQuest II embeds Mozilla browser

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: EverQuest II's next release will include an embedding of the Mozilla browser. It's currently live on the test server and has a few issues that will hopefully be resolved before release.

http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?st art=15&topic_id=347230

Some interesting uses of the browser such as automatically searching for quest hints are being discussed on the interface board:

http://www.eq2interface.com/forums/showthread.php? t=7846

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