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Court ordered Wikileaks.org offline 0

Submitted by Adhemar on Tuesday February 19 2008, @11:00AM

Adhemar writes "BBC News reports that a California court ruling ordered the whistle-blower site Wikileaks.org to be taken off-line. It also ordered Dynadot, which controls the site's domain name, to remove all traces of Wikileaks from its servers, and to prevent the domain name from resolving to the wikileaks.org website or any other website or server other than a blank park page, until further order of this Court. The case was brought by a Swiss bank after "several hundred" documents were posted about its offshore activities. Other sites of Wikileaks, such as Wikileaks.be, Wikileaks.cx, Wikileaks.de, etc., are still active. Wikileaks remarks that the order was written by Cayman Island's Bank Julius Baer lawyers and was accepted by judge White without amendment, and that Wikileaks was not represented, given notice "by email" only hours prior to the hearing."

Pluto no longer a planet

Submitted by on Thursday August 24 2006, @10:08AM

Adhemar writes "Remember last week's story on the IAU's new proposed definition of the word planet, and how it would immediately add three celestial bodies to the list of planets? Well, the BBC reports the follow up. IAU's members have cast their votes. The proposal has been rejected. Instead, Pluto loses its status as a planet. To be a planet, the neighbourhood around a celestial body's orbit has to be cleared."