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Submission + - Defense Contractor Halliburton Moving HQ to Dubai

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theodp
theodp writes: "Much-maligned defense contractor Halliburton is moving its corporate headquarters from Houston to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Dubai's friendly tax laws will add to Halliburton's bottom line. Last year, it earned $2.3B in profits. Sen. Patrick Leahy called the company's move 'corporate greed at its worst.' Halliburton, once headed by VP Dick Cheney, has received contracts valued at an estimated $25.7B for its work in Iraq."
Space

Submission + - New Earthlike planet detector should launch soon

Submitted by AlphaLop
AlphaLop writes: The hunt for Earth-like planets is to be stepped-up as a new mission prepares for launch.

Corot will be the first spacecraft capable of detecting rocky planets just a few times bigger than Earth that are orbiting neighbouring stars.

It will also uncover information on the stars themselves, determining their mass, age and chemical composition.

The mission, led by the French space agency Cnes, is due to launch on the 26 or 27 December.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6210012. stm
Space

Submission + - X9 Solar Flare!

Submitted by RacerZero
RacerZero writes: spaceweather.com is reporting the observation of a major X9 class solar flare this morning at 1035 UT. The flare was not pointed earthward but there could be more to come. Flares of this kind can blackout radio communications planet-wide.
Networking

Submission + - Internet2 turns 10 and upgrades

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: As an update to a previous story, Internet2 is celebrating its 10th anniversary in Chicago this week at it's fall conference. In addition, they're announcing the initial stages of their second significant network upgrade of their backbone network. Engineers are providing daily blog updates of the network install process as the old network is transitioned to the new. In addition to changing to a Level3-managed and Internet2-provisioned DWDM transport system for backbone capacity, I2 is implementing a new connection-oriented backbone network based on the Ciena CoreDirector platform in concert with the routed IP network.
Announcements

Submission + - 3 of 4 in Kim Family Found; James Still Missing

Submitted by sanimalp
sanimalp writes: Kati Kim, and her 2 daughters, Penelope and Sabine were found in their car in a remote area of Oregon after being lost for nearly 9 days. The family reportedly ran their car until it ran out of gas to stay warm, and then burned the tires one by one to keep warm. James apparently set out on foot 2 days ago in an attempt to get help. Here is to hoping that James Can be found in time.
Security

Submission + - The Case for OpenID

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: VeriSign and NetMesh are making the case for OpenID, the grass-roots, decentralized digital identity system already supported by LiveJournal, Six Apart, Technorati, VeriSign and many startups, reportedly growing 5% every single week. They say OpenID "is fundamentally different from other identity technologies" because it is a "fully decentralized system" and has a "much lighter cost structure" than any alternative, like Microsoft Passport, CardSpace or Liberty Alliance.

Time to remove username and password from your site and add OpenID libraries instead, so visitors can authenticate with their blog URL?

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