Topic: DRUGS - on October 17, 2003 at 11:48:45 PM CEST
High Times' Potluck
Potluck, the long-awaited first movie from High Times magazine.
Should pot movies be decriminalized? It's a question that threatens to tear this country apart. Under the current legislation, any citizen who tries to rent Half Baked, How High or anything starring Cheech and Chong faces fines of up to $10. True, that penalty is only exacted when the renter leaves the videos under a pizza box and forgets to return them to the store on time. But it's an indisputable fact that pot movies have been unfairly targeted in the so-called “war on drug films.”
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 17, 2003 at 11:32:00 PM CEST
Internet Storm Center
2003-Oct-17... current status: green | Large number of Microsoft Updates (5 Critical, 1 Important) | new Windows RPC issues (race condition) | Randex.Q virus
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Topic: - on October 17, 2003 at 8:51:52 PM CEST
Ferngesteuerte Stromzufuhr über das Web
Steuerung von PCs, Servern und USVs via IP, USB und seriell Lindy hat ein Gerät vorgestellt, mit dem man per Internet auf die Stromversorgung von Rechnern, USVs, Routern oder anderen Geräten zugreifen kann. Damit lassen sich sämtliche Geräte, die ans Stromnetz angeschlossen sind, ein- oder ausschalten. Bis zu acht Geräte sind an einem Switch anschließbar. Der Lindy IPower Switch 1500 ist kaskadierbar und bietet so die Möglichkeit, bis zu 128 Geräte über eine IP-Verbindung zu managen.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 17, 2003 at 8:26:41 PM CEST
Physicists smash Internet speed record
The average transfer rate was 5.44 gigabits per second (Gbps), which broke the previous record of 2.38 Gbps – more than 20,000 times faster than a typical home broadband connection.
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Topic: LOST - on October 17, 2003 at 7:58:32 PM CEST
Vorsicht, Explosionsgefahr!
Nokia hat diverse Brände oder Explosionen von Mobiltelefonen in den vergangenen Monaten untersucht. Nach Angaben des Unternehmens war in diesen Fällen stets ein Fremdakku angeschlossen.
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Topic: Terror - on October 17, 2003 at 7:48:29 PM CEST
USA lassen nach Messerfund Flugzeuge durchsuchen
Nach dem Fund von Teppichmessern an Bord zweier Passagierflugzeuge haben die USA heute die Durchsuchung aller Zivilmaschinen binnen 24 Stunden angeordnet.
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Topic: Terror - on October 17, 2003 at 7:40:32 PM CEST
Feds Searching All Commercial Airplanes
Authorities were searching every commercial airplane in the United States on Friday after someone left three suspicious bags filled with claylike material, bleach and boxcutters on two Southwest Airlines flights, U.S. officials told Fox News.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on October 17, 2003 at 7:36:29 PM CEST
Chip Maker Finds Bombs Among Potatoes
Workers at a Kettle Foods potato chip plant were feeding potatoes into a machine that sorts out stones and other debris this week when a 3-pound military bomb popped out.
General manager Marc Cramer said the shipment from a Pasco, Wash., farm also contained a second bomb.
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Topic: W A R - on October 17, 2003 at 7:33:35 PM CEST
New, Safer Land Mine Detector Unveiled
A new land mine detector has been devised that uses the physics of light to reveal where mines have been recently buried.
The new detector could be used to detect land mines from a safe distance 1,000-feet above ground and dramatically speed up the current method of specially trained soldiers arduously checking the ground with hand-held, ground-penetrating radar.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 17, 2003 at 7:30:34 PM CEST
VeriSign to Sell Most of Network Solutions
VeriSign bought Network Solutions for $16 billion in June 2000. Now VeriSign is selling it for $100 million.
Internet security and Web address company VeriSign Inc. on Thursday said it would sell most of its Network Solutions unit for $100 million, marking a costly retreat from the Web hosting and domain name business it bought near the peak of the dot-com boom.... Link (0 comments) ... Comment
Topic: SEX - on October 17, 2003 at 7:21:56 PM CEST
What do Germans enjoy doing most after sex?
Most Germans would rather go straight to sleep after sex than take part in any other activity - including having sex again.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on October 17, 2003 at 7:17:14 PM CEST
Cat carried 15 miles in car engine
AS motorist Mike Wilson travelled home from work his car engine purred along - but for all the wrong reasons.
Trapped inside the 20-year-old Honda was a moggy miaowing to be let out.
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