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Gaza Debate Goes Virtual 644

Ian Lamont writes "The war of words over the conflict in Gaza has moved from the real world to the Internet. Besides a furious stream of mini-debates on Twitter between supporters of and critics of Israel's military actions, there have also been demonstrations in Second Life at an Israel-themed sim and a collection of Facebook applications, including 'QassamCount' and 'Stop Israel's war crimes in Gaza.' Another project — 'mapping the war in Gaza' — was launched by Al Jazeera and takes user-submitted reports, tweets, and Microsoft Virtual Earth to track the number of casualties and other developments." In addition to this, the series of website defacements we discussed a few days ago has now extended to sites controlled by NATO and the US Army.

Comment Just isnt interference - air pressure is to blame (Score 1) 773

Planes are unable to be controlled wirelessly. The plunge in altitude of 300 feet was most likely due to a sudden change in air pressure. Its happened before, over thousands of feet, which is much worse. People should keep their seatbelts on. If a wireless mouse can push a plane off course, then that fact would have been exploited. The only thing that could affect the planes direction is if the plane was using radio navigation, rather than gps. And bluetooth mice dont emit a constant, high power set of radiowaves anyway. Its absurd.

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