Topic: SPY - on December 3, 2003 at 11:47:50 PM CET
Wo Daten anfallen und gesammelt werden, werden Begehrlichkeiten geweckt
Internationale Verbraucherschutz- und Bürgerrechtsorganisationen wiesen jüngst in einem gemeinsamen Positionspapier auf die Gefahren für Privatsphäre und Bürgerrechte hin, die durch RFID-Etiketten entstehen können. Für Telepolis sprach Christiane Schulzki-Haddouti mit padeluun vom Bielefelder Verein Foebud e.V., dem Unterzeichner des Positionspapiers sowie Organisator des deutschen Big-Brother-Preises. Erst vor kurzem erhielt der Foebud-Verein von der Stiftung "Bürgerrechte in der digitalen Gesellschaft" 15.000 Euro zur Realisierung eines RFID-Lesegeräts für Bürger zugesprochen.
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Topic: Terror - on December 3, 2003 at 11:39:54 PM CET
Terroristen-Rekruteur in München gefasst
In einer Blitzaktion hat die bayerische Polizei in München das Mitglied einer der gefährlichsten Terrorgruppen im Irak festgenommen. Der Mann soll Selbstmordattentäter für Ansar-e Islam geworben und deren Reise in den Irak organisiert haben.
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Topic: NASA - on December 3, 2003 at 10:52:18 PM CET
Pentagon Using Spy Satellites To Check ISS For Damage
At NASA's request, the Pentagon is using spy satellites to check the international space station for any exterior damage that might explain the loud metallic noise heard last week by the two men on board.
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Topic: GINGER - on December 3, 2003 at 10:49:48 PM CET
Will Segways become battlefield bots?
It's called the Segway Human Transporter, but the Pentagon is drafting the two-wheeled scooter as part of a plan to develop battlefield robots that think on their own and communicate with troops.
The program is still in the research phase, so the self-balancing scooters aren't expected to report to boot camp anytime soon.
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Topic: - on December 3, 2003 at 10:44:06 PM CET
Bush signs bill to cut down forests because they are a fire threat
President Bush on Wednesday signed into law a forest management plan he said would reduce the risk of wildfires in federal forests but which environmental groups called a giveaway to the timber industry.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 3, 2003 at 10:39:07 PM CET
Porn virus targets spam stoppers
Anti-spam organisations are coming under attack from a virus written to bombard their websites with junk data.
The Mimail-L Windows virus poses as an e-mail from a woman called Wendy who writes about a sexual encounter and offers readers nude photographs.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 3, 2003 at 9:13:15 PM CET
No Drugs - No Future
Streitbar ist er geblieben: Günter Amendt, der wohl bekannteste Sexualaufklärer der 68-er Generation und ausgewiesene Bob-Dylan-Experte. Nun war der mittlerweile 64-jährige Hamburger zu Gast im Literarischen Salon der Uni Hannover, um sein neues Buch "No Drugs No Future" vorzustellen. Ein, wie Moderator Alexander Perrey zu Recht anmerkte, engagiertes Manifest und gleichzeitig ein Rückblick von Amendt auf seine jahrzehntelange Auseinandersetzung mit der offiziellen Drogenpolitik.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on December 3, 2003 at 9:05:40 PM CET
Girlfriend Bites Boyfriend's Tongue Off
Young lovers can sometimes lose their heads, but a young man in Kansas lost part of his tongue Monday night. Police were called to a loud fight at a home in Wichita.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 3, 2003 at 9:01:52 PM CET
The Agony of Ecstasy Research
Science gets recruited in the Drug War
Damaged and dead monkeys? Call in the feds! In 2002, the prestigious journal Science stunned club-going kids everywhere with a study from Johns Hopkins University researcher George Ricaurte. Probably not coincidentally, the study also furthered the cause of such draconian laws as the Reducing Americans Vulnerability to Ecstasy (RAVE) Act, which notoriously allows the police to shut down clubs and bars and prosecute their owners if any patron is caught using the apparently deadly drug Ecstasy on their premises.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on December 3, 2003 at 9:00:22 PM CET
Booked for driving too slow
A Territory motorist has been booked by police for driving too slowly. Auditor Saud Shehzad said he was doing 62km/h in a 70km/h zone.
``The officer said I was going too slowly,'' he said.
His infringement notice reads: ``Obstruct traffic by travelling unreasonably slowly''.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 3, 2003 at 8:58:27 PM CET
Pensioners catch the gaming bug
Increasing numbers of over 60s are picking up joysticks to play video games, says a games company.
Nicknamed "grey gamers", they are buying the more diverse games around, like strategy and historical titles.
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Topic: NEWS english - on December 3, 2003 at 8:56:35 PM CET
Eat worms - feel better
Who would deliberately drink a dose of gut worms? The answer is Anna Glanz, an ordinary mother-of-two from Iowa.
She's testing the remarkable theory that not all parasites are necessarily bad for us. Some of them may actually help us fight diseases.
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