IBM's Almaden Research Center have built a 7 qubit quantum computer, the most complex yet, and used it to solve Shor's Algorithm to factor a num
New Anti-Terror Law Brings Consternation:
Three hundred and forty-two pages. Three hundred and fifty subject areas. Forty federal agencies. Twenty-one legal amendments.
Sweeping anti-terrorism legislation that was proposed, debated and signed into law in less than six weeks now has federal prosecutors, defenders, regulators and administrators around the country scrambling to decipher what Congress and the Bush administration intended and immediately put it into effect.
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Chashama, a New York City theater and art gallery that had rented space to Adbusters for an ad got a visit from the Defense Department questioning the content of the billboard. [via email]
Pipeline Politics: Oil, the Taliban, and the Political Balance of Central Asia - A report from World Press Review.
The bin Laden tape that got some much attention last week is available from the State Department now. Mozilla doesn't like the links, so here are the RealPlayer versions of the links for easy cutting and pasting into RealPlayer.
Text of the U.S. report to the UN Security Council Counterterrorism Committee on what the U.S. has done to cut off terrorist financing and their activities, as required by U.N. resolution 1373. Reports from other countries are also available.
Israel and the Palestinian Authority are talking again and Hamas is considering stopping suicide attacks.
The Gas between the Stars: Ronald J. Reynolds of the University of Wisconsin describes why the interstellar medium is "far more interesting than scientists once thought".
DS-1, which was intended to test several novel technologies including an ion drive, has run out of fuel and radio links have been shut down.
