(http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/asia/story/0,1870,48097,00.html)

But a recent bomb scare leads police to discover the gadgets concealed all over Taipei, ending the puzzle of why so few have been caught speeding

By Lawrence Chung
STRAITS TIMES TAIWAN BUREAU

TAIPEI – A device hidden illegally on a tree to warn motorists of anti-speeding traps was mistaken for a bomb, which led police to uncover even more of such gadgets in all sorts of concealments, including street lamps and cracks in the walls.

The discovery had unravelled the puzzle as to why so few offenders were being booked for speeding recently.

If not for the bomb scare, the traffic police of Taiwan would have remained in the dark when it toughened the traffic law today to inflict more severe punishments on the island’s legion number of errant motorists. In the past week, armed with high-tech electromagnetic wave tracers, police have left no stone unturned at major roads where speed detectors are installed to ferret out the illegal transmitters.

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The Internet Engineering Task Force has a new draft RFC that explores how the Internet will work across the solar system — Interplanetary Internet (IPN): Architectural Definition.

Since space is so big, the Internet can’t quite work the same way it does here on little old Earth. In fact, the delay of bouncing signals off of satellites (that are only a several thousand miles a way) already causes some problems with our terrestrial Internet.

Unlike the draft itself, one of the authors, S. Burleigh, has waxed poetic to summarize the differences between the Internet on Earth and the Internet that will span the planets:

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