15793644
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Flu writes
"Tomorrow, Danish rocket amateurs attemts a launch of a single-seated (or actually — single-standing) rocket launch. The goal is to prove that a rocket launch doesn't have to have costs of astronomical sizes.
The rocket is a full-scale test, (hopefully) proving a method capable of lauching a single passenger into space for less than 0,02% of the cost of a normal NASA launch. Rocket amateurs Kristian von Bengtson and Peter Madsen have spent approximately €50.000 ($65.000), using commonly available parts, rather than specially designed ones.
The article is google translated from Swedish to Enlish."Link to Original Source
7516390
submission
Flu writes
"Four children aged 1 to 9 and their mother died from the toxic smoke, likely caused by an overheated laptop battery, as the battery caught fire late one night. The state forensic laboratory begun an investigation after the fire and today published their results. The remains of the computer was however so devastated that neither brand or year of manufacture could be determined.
The house lacked smoke-detector, and the laptop had most likely been placed on a coach when it caught fire.
The link is autotranslated using google translate, but the original (in Swedish) is here."Link to Original Source
4576301
submission
Flu writes
"In the aftermath of the Pirate Bay trials, the Stockholm court of Appeals has appointed Ulrika Ihrfeldt as judge handling the appeals. However, only four hours after the news was pusblished, it was revealed that she, too, was possibly biased, based on the fact that she, too, had been a member of the same lobbyorganization ( http://www.upphovsrattsforeningen.com/, associated with http://www.alai.org/ ) as the music and movie industry lawyers Monique Wadsted and Peter Danowsky.
As a result, the Stockholm court of Appeals made the decision that judge Ihrfeldt will not handle the issue of whether District court judge Tomas Norström was biased, when he sentenced the founders of The Pirate Bay to pay 3.000.000 euros in fines. Instead, it will be three judges lead by judge Anders Eka that handles the issue of bias. But not even judge Eka is said to be without bias; judge Eka is, too, associated with both the president of http://www.upphovsrattsforeningen.com/, and the music and movie industry lawyers Monique Wadsted and Peter Danowsky, though a rearchproject about media law.
Peter Sunde, spokesperson for the Pirate Bay, said in a comment that "we don't find it very amusing that it seems a little difficult to find anyone independent.", but declines to use the word conspiracy: "I only find it very, very, very, very odd that these people know each other a little too well, and spend too much time together".
Judge Norström was originally accused of being biased, since he is also a member of both http://www.upphovsrattsforeningen.com/, and is appointed president of another lobbyorganization ( http://www.sfir.se/, fully integrated with https://www.aippi.org/), while simultaneously leading the Pirate Bay trial in the Stockholm District court. Laywers Wadsted and Danowsky represented the IFPI and MPAA during the trial.
More information is autotranslated from swedish by google."
710071
submission
Flu writes
"Sweden's major engineer newspaper NyTeknik writes about a new technology which is used to automatically convert 60.000 aerial photographs of Stockholm, Sweden, into a 3d-world, similar to Google Earth's rendering of major buildings in some US citites.
But unlike Google's laser-measured rendering, this technique took less than 8 days (including the photography) to automatically generate the 3D-model of Stockholm — which includes every building and details as high as individual trees!
The program was developed by C3, a subsidiary of the Swedish defense industry company SAAB together with a PC gaming company called Agency 9.
The complete article is available at http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/it_telekom/allmant/article361352.ece (sorry, swedish only), but the 3D-rendering of Stockholm is available as a Java-Appled from the swedish phone-dictionary service Hitta.se at http://www.hitta.se/3d/3d_splash.aspx (tick the checkbox — it's an ordinary disclaimer, and click "Till 3D-kartan")."Link to Original Source
