Iran is currently undergoing riots and violent demonstrations as a result of irregularities in the recent presidential vote. Thus Iran is all over the news, in good and in bad.

Recently Nokia-Siemens Networks got some (unwanted?) publicity from many sources after having sold “network snooping equipment” to Iran.

The sad thing is that while people are so pumped up by evil ayatollahs oppressing the people of Iran, they mistakenly think that spying on the citizens is something so terrible that it can only happen in some sort of backwater evil clerical dictatorship, and that such snooping is not even possible to do elsewhere.

That is false. This kind of functionality exists today in basically ALL GSM networks, in ALL countries you can think of. Yes, this means also your country.

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Abchernin has sent a step-by-step guide how to enable Zenburn colors into EasyEclipse for Python v1.3.1 – it should work with any Eclipse+pydev combination.
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We can soon start to detect potentially life-bearing planets, improving our searching for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). Check this out, it’s good news.