] Supercomputer maker Cray on Thursday priced a new public
] offering of its common stock at $6.20 per share.
] The company said it offered 7.3 million new shares of
] common stock and an additional 145,000 shares of common
] stock from certain selling shareholders. The offer
] increases Cray's outstanding shares by about 13 percent.
] The company said it planned to use proceeds from the sale
] for general corporate purposes.

odd theory of IPOing going into a war.

Cray sets price for public offering

] Japan has given a warning it would launch a pre-emptive
] military action against North Korea if it had firm
] evidence Pyongyang was planning a missile attack.
] Defence Minister Shigeru Ishiba said it would be "a
] self-defence measure" if North Korea was going to "resort
] to arms against Japan".
] Mr Ishiba said it would be too late if a North Korean
] missile was already on its way.
] His remarks were the latest in the international row over
] Pyongyang's nuclear intentions, and followed a North
] Korean warning that it had the ability to strike American
] targets anywhere in the world, if provoked.

Kudo's to Japan!

Japan threatens force against N Korea

] Palestinian stone throwers disclosed for the first time
] Friday, that due to a gross miscalculation of their
] arsenal, they had finally run out of rocks and would be
] forced to come up with more inventive ways of continuing
] their Intifada on the Jewish state of Israel.
]
] I reached down to grab a rock this morning and all
] I got was a handful of sand, said one Palestinian
] militant who asked to remain anonymous. I tried
] throwing it but it just blew back in my face. Man, It
] really stung my eyes!

Palestinians Run Out of Rocks

So it's not just Americans who can't speak French?

The French: Why do they hate us?

cyantist wrote:
] ] A Japanese scientist has developed a coat which appears
] ] to make the wearer invisible
]
] Oh My God, this is sooo cool. Watch out Harry Potter!

That looks like a very cool coat!!!

RE: Ananova - Japanese scientist invents 'invisibility cloak'

Your tax dollars at work.

DOJ may aid Microsoft in appeal by states

] CIA Director George J. Tenet warned yesterday that the
] %u201Cdesire for nuclear weapons is on the upsurge%u201D
] among small countries, confronting the world with a new
] nuclear arms race that threatens to dismantle more than
] three decades of nonproliferation efforts.
] “THE ‘DOMINO theory’ of the 21st century may well be nuclear,”
] Tenet said in reference to the doctrine that led the United
] States militarily into Vietnam in the 1960s to try to prevent a
] communist takeover of Southeast Asia. “We have entered a new
] world of proliferation.”

CIA head predicts nuclear arms race

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] Unlike its hastily passed predecessor, the Justice
] Department's wide-ranging follow-up to the Patriot Act of
] 2001 is already facing intense scrutiny, just days after
] a civil rights group posted a leaked version of the
] legislation on its website.
] The legislation, nicknamed Patriot II, would broadly
] expand the government's surveillance and detention
] powers. Among other measures, it calls for the creation
] of a terrorist DNA database and allows the attorney
] general to revoke citizenship of those who provide
] "material support" to terrorist groups.

Very scary read at where the DoJ wants to go!

Wired News: A Chilly Response to 'Patriot II'

] One of the biggest surprises revealed in the data is that
] the first generation of stars to shine in the Universe
] first ignited only 200 million years after the Big Bang,
] much earlier than many scientists had expected.
] In addition, the new portrait precisely pegs the age of
] the Universe at 13.7 billion years old, with a remarkably
] small one percent margin of error.
] The WMAP team found that the Big Bang and Inflation
] theories continue to ring true. The contents of the
] Universe include 4% atoms (ordinary matter), 23% of an
] unknown type of dark matter, and 73% of a mysterious dark
] energy. The new measurements even shed light on the
] nature of the dark energy, which acts as a sort of an
] anti-gravity.

New Image Of Infant Universe Reveals Era Of First Stars, Age Of Cosmos, And More