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Submission + - SpaceX Falcon 9 and Dragon make it to orbit (spacex.com)

Submitted by jnaujok
jnaujok writes: This morning the Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Dragon capsule lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 10:43 Eastern time, after an earlier launch had been scrubbed because of a bad telemetry feed. A little over 9 minutes later, the Dragon capsule separate from the second stage into its intended orbit. Part of the COTS (Commercial access To Space) program, this is the first test of the Dragon capsule by SpaceX to prove it can be used to ferry supplies to the ISS. The Dragon capsule will make two or three orbits before returning to Earth about four hours after launch.
Technology

Submission + - LimeWire back from the Dead (pcworld.com)

Submitted by digitaldc
digitaldc writes: Less than a month after its "permanent shut down," LimeWire has been resurrected by an anonymous dev team--and it's better and more powerful than before. Or, well, something like that.

According to the site TorrentFreak, a "secret dev team" stayed loyal to the Gnutella-based file-sharing client, even after its creators closed their doors indefinitely, thanks to that pesky little thing known as copyright law.

An anonymous source gave TorrentFreak the following quote:

"On October 26 the remaining LimeWire developers were forced to shut down the company's servers and modify remote settings in the filesharing client to try to harm the Gnutella network. They were then laid off.

"Shortly after, a horde of piratical monkeys climbed aboard the abandoned ship, mended its sails, polished its cannons, and released it free to the community."

Submission + - Russia moots Nobel Prize for Wikileaks founder (hindustantimes.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Russia on Wednesday suggested to help the jailed whistleblower website WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and nominate him for the coveted Nobel Prize by the NGOs. "Non-governmental and government organisations should think of ways to help him. Perhaps he could be awarded a Nobel Prize," unnamed
Kremlin sources were quoted as saying by RIA Novosti.

Submission + - Ex-CIA Group Supports Assange and WikiLeaks (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou
Stoobalou writes: A group of ex-intelligence officers from the CIA, FBI and the British Government has written an open letter of support for Julian Assange and WikiLeaks.

Fronted by Daniel Ellsberg — the former US military analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971, exposing the truth about the Vietnam War — the statement says: "WikiLeaks has teased the genie of transparency out of a very opaque bottle, and powerful forces in America, who thrive on secrecy, are trying desperately to stuff the genie back in."
Government

China's Influence Widens Nobel Peace Prize Boycott 360

Posted by timothy from the friends-of-un-friends dept.
c0lo writes "Not only did China decline to attend the upcoming Nobel peace prize ceremony, but urged diplomats in Oslo to stay away from the event warning of 'consequences' if they go. Possibly as a result of this (or on their own decisions), 18 other countries turned down the invitation: Pakistan, Iran, Sudan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Colombia, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Iraq, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Venezuela, the Philippines, Egypt, Ukraine, Cuba and Morocco. Reuters seems to think the 'consequences' are of an economic nature, pointing out that half of the countries with economies that gained global influence during recent times are boycotting the ceremony (with Brazil and India still attending)."
Wikipedia

Submission + - Wikipedia could block 67 million Verizon customers (wikipedia.org) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A particularly nasty Wikipedia vandal has forced a discussion to take place over whether to block a range used by over 67 million Verizon customers from editing the site. Verizon has not responded to abusive Wikipedia users on their network before, even though the abusive Verizon users have released private information (phone numbers, etc.) of numerous individuals, and made countless threats that have also been reported to law enforcement. Wikipedia has done something similar in the past with users on the AOL network, which used proxy servers and thus allowed vandals to continue disrupting the site. says that AOL neglected to act on complaints by Wikipedia and individual users, and the resulting massive blocks by Wikipedia resulted in AOL changing their anonymizing system, according to . Discussion is also taking place on alternate solutions to deal with abuse from this Verizon user, named "Zsfgseg" on Wikipedia. If a block of millions is enacted, Verizon could potentially change how they assign IP addresses, or be forced at least to address a PR nightmare.
NASA

Submission + - Chandra discovers "exceptional" cosmic object (nasa.gov)

Submitted by broknstrngz
broknstrngz writes: NASA will hold a news conference at 12:30 p.m. EST on Monday, Nov. 15, to discuss the Chandra X-ray Observatory's discovery of an exceptional object in our cosmic neighborhood.
The news conference will originate from NASA Headquarters' television studio, 300 E St. SW in Washington and carried live on NASA TV.
Google

Submission + - Google Preparing to Launch Gtown

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: The Mercury News reports that Google's aggressive online growth increasingly has a counterpart in bricks and mortar, with the company's Mountain View HQ mushrooming in the past four years to occupy more than 4 million sqft. And that's just for starters. On Silicon Valley's NASA Ames base, Google is preparing to build a new corporate campus with fitness and day care facilities and — in a first in the valley — employee housing, adding 1.2 million sqft to Google's real estate holdings. 'I don't want to say it's the new company town,' said commercial real estate VP Gregory M. Davies of Google's role, 'but it's not far from it.' Presumably, no anti-suicide nets will be needed for this one.
Facebook

Submission + - Man jailed for naked photo of ex on Facebook (nzherald.co.nz) 2

Submitted by harryjohnston
harryjohnston writes: A resident of Wellington, New Zealand has been jailed for posting a naked photograph of his ex-girlfriend on her Facebook page. This is believed to be a legal first — although since he had also pleaded guilty to threatening to kill, wilful damage, theft and assault, it seems likely that the judge took those into account in deciding on a jail sentence.

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