Topic: SCIENCE - on May 21, 2004 at 11:23:00 PM CEST
Thousands may have human form of mad cow disease
Some 3,800 people in Britain could be harbouring the human form of mad cow disease without knowing it, government-funded research suggests. Scientists who examined 12,674 stored appendix and tonsil samples said they had identified three bearing signs of the agent that causes variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
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Topic: BLOGLIFE - on May 21, 2004 at 11:18:00 PM CEST
ping-o-matic-xml-rpc
We finally found time to do some more work on Ping-O-Matic, and have implemented an XML-RPC interface. You can now send a standard weblogs.com compatible ping to *ttp://rpc.pingomatic.com/ and we will ping a subset of our services. Currently, this is a fixed subset of seven services.
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Topic: W A R - on May 21, 2004 at 11:10:00 PM CEST
Norway to bring troops home from Iraq
Visiting Norwegian Foreign Minister Jan Petersen said Friday that Oslo will be bringing its troops in Iraq back to Norway as planned this summer when their term expires and indicated that replacement troops are not expected to be sent.
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Topic: EU - on May 21, 2004 at 10:15:00 PM CEST
First Janet Jackson, Now Nipple Video Banned
Four months after Janet Jackson outraged the United States by bearing her breast on TV, Ireland has banned a video to encourage voting in next month's European elections because it shows a bare nipple.
In Britain, where bare breasts are shown daily in tabloid newspapers, the film will be shown in censored form. The breast-feeding sequence survives but shots of the offending nipple have been edited out.
The 45-second film was produced by the European Parliament's audio-visual department and shows a suckling baby trying to decide which of its mother's breasts to feed from.
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Topic: Terror - on May 21, 2004 at 10:11:00 PM CEST
In pictures: Gaza after the withdrawal
Palestinians went out into the streets of parts of Rafah for the first time on Friday after a two-day Israeli operation in search of arms-smuggling tunnels.
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Topic: FUN - on May 21, 2004 at 10:06:00 PM CEST
Where Did They Put Their Ticket Stubs?
Over 80 British students threw caution and their clothes to the wind Friday to set a world record for the number of nudes riding on a rollercoaster.
The naked joy riders spent a hair-raising one minute and fifty seconds swooping around the rails of the gravity defying rollercoaster ride at a theme park south of London.
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Topic: BOARD NEWS - on May 21, 2004 at 5:12:00 PM CEST
Sound für feinfühlige Männer
Die HiFi-Messe "High-End 2004" hat in München eröffnet
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Topic: BLOG - on May 21, 2004 at 5:12:00 PM CEST
Information Cannot be Owned
Apart from technology, the information age has up to now badly served its idol. It has failed sufficiently to recognize specific features of information. This is shown with respect to the question whether legal rights on information can take the form of ownership. The answer is negative considering that communication by its very nature is free and constitutes a basic value, and furthermore that law is itself information and cannot systematically dispose of information flows. Analyzing the phenomenon of information, the differences of its properties as compared with those of a physical object are illustrated and assessed as fundamental; ownership would therefore be for information a Procrustean bed leading to mere arbitrariness. Intellectual property, although granting exclusive rights concerning information is not by itself opposed to these findings. But the conflict arises, if its purpose of shaping competitive advantages is spoiled to the detriment of information flows by lack of neutrality in two senses: the lack of balance between the title holder’s value generation and the reward, and of neutrality towards the various kinds of communicative relationships.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on May 21, 2004 at 5:10:00 PM CEST
Griechenland: Drei Monate Haft wegen zwei Raubkopien
Griechenland greift nun im Kampf gegen Musik-Piraterie zu drastischen Maßnahmen: Wie die BBC berichtet, wurde jetzt erstmals ein Käufer illegaler CDs zu einer Gefängnisstrafe verurteilt.
Ein Gericht in Athen verhängte über den Mann drei Monate Haft, nachdem dieser in der Vorwoche einem Händler zwei raubkopierte CDs abgekauft hatte.
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Topic: e-bay - on May 21, 2004 at 5:08:00 PM CEST
Chainmail Condom -- steel, handmade, medieval novelty
You are bidding on one handmade chainmail condom! YES, this is real chainmail! The links are 18ga and 14ga (for the trim) 1/4" interior diameter galvanized steel, knitted in a classic European 4-in-1 weave. When fully stretched vertically, it measures approximately 7 inches long, and about 1 7/8 inches across.
This is a project that started out as something quite different, but took a very naughty turn! Of course, this isn't intended to be actually worn or used--just a unique and nifty gift item for that kinky guy or girl who already has everything!
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Topic: BOARD NEWS - on May 21, 2004 at 5:07:00 PM CEST
Das Banksystem der Armen
Informelle Geldüberweisungssysteme bilden eine erfolgreiche Schattenwirtschaft, die den herkömmlichen Banken ein Dorn im Auge ist.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on May 21, 2004 at 5:04:00 PM CEST
Sasser fan club stops rattling tin
Fundraising abandoned at under $100
Supporters of the self-confessed author of the Sasser worm, Sven Jaschan, have abandoned attempts to raise money on his behalf.
A brief notice on the support site explains: "Actually, we were unable to get a hold of Mr. Jaschan in a timely manner, so we have decided to stop our fundraiser. Losing the paypal account didn't exactly improve the case either, and it seems all other online payment services have even worse fees." Any dosh handed was earmarked for giving Jaschan a good time before his case comes to court rather than towards paying legal fees.
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