Topic: STRANGE - on May 23, 2004 at 11:22:00 PM CEST
Volcanologists spy pink 'dinosaur' on remote webcam
Scientists using a camera to monitor a remote New Zealand volcano over the Internet have struck an odd problem - a pink dinosaur.
New Zealand's Geological and Nuclear Sciences (GNS) has installed a digital camera in the crater of a volcano which makes up most of White Island in the Bay of Plenty, east of Auckland.
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Topic: 911 - on May 23, 2004 at 11:07:00 PM CEST
Your government trained and funded Al-Qaeda
Eleventh public hearing of the 9/11 Commission, with testimony by Fmr. Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Wind the video on to three minutes before the end to hear the family members of the victims chastise the whitewash commission, where a family member of a victim says, "remmeber this, your government trained and funded Al-Qaeda" - as the rest of the 9/11 families applause.
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Topic: SECURITY - on May 23, 2004 at 11:01:00 PM CEST
CCTV goes wi-fi to fight crime
In the UK there is one CCTV camera for every 14 people. If you are in London, you could be caught on camera up to 300 times a day. But the cameras are expensive, and once you have installed one, and laid all the wires back to base, it is fixed and cannot move.
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Topic: MDA - on May 23, 2004 at 10:51:00 PM CEST
Windows 95 makes it to Pocket PC
Thanks to Miracle and ceasar54 for writing in with the news that a member has got both Windows 95 and Windows 98 SE running on his Asus PPC.
This was made possible by a Pocket PC port of Bochs, by Mamaich, who has also ported DosBox, a "program similar to Bochs but it's a lot faster and only emulates DOS". Sadly, the author tried and failed to get WarLords II working on both these versions, but I'm sure time will tell!
If you're keen to try this on your own Pocket PC, you'll need a minimum of a 256MB memory card (or stream the image over a wireless network) and you'll need a program like Nyditot Virtual Display to increase your screen resolution. Oh, yes, and you'll also need the emulator.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on May 23, 2004 at 10:50:00 PM CEST
Fahrenheit 9/11 wins the Palme D'Or!!!
Last night, the jury here at the 57th Cannes Film Festival awarded the Palme D'Or, one of the highest honors in filmmaking, to Fahrenheit 9/11. Michael and everyone who worked on the film were completely blown away. Four of the nine festival jury members were American, and only one of the jurors was French. Fahrenheit 9/11 is the first documentary to win the Palme since Jacques Cousteau's "The Silent World" in 1956.
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Topic: STRANGE - on May 23, 2004 at 9:47:00 PM CEST
70-jährige Frau sammelte 20 Tonnen Müll in ihrer Wohnung
Eine 70 Jahre alte Frau aus China hatte über Jahre rund 20 Tonnen Müll in ihrer Wohnung angesammelt. Neben Kleidungsstücken, Flaschen und sonstigem Hausmüll, fand man etliche Küchenschaben.
Stadtmitarbeiter mussten mit drei LKWs anrücken um den Müll abtransportieren zu können. Als die Mitarbeiter die Lumpen wegwerfen wollten, sagte die Frau: 'Die Kleidung ist doch noch sauber, die kann man doch noch anziehen.'
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Topic: SPAM - on May 23, 2004 at 9:00:00 PM CEST
Spamlawine sorgt für Datenchaos an der TU Braunschweig
An der Technischen Universität Braunschweig sind die Rechnersysteme völlig überlastet. Tausende von unerwünschten Werbenachrichten überschwemmen die Server der Uni.
Während es am letzten Dienstag 30.000 nicht bearbeitete Mails waren, wuchs die Zahl bis zum Freitag auf 100.000 Nachrichten, die noch zugestellt werden müssen.
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Topic: SPORT - on May 23, 2004 at 8:58:00 PM CEST
200.000 Dollar-Diamant bei Formel1-Unfall verloren
Beim Crash des Jaguar-Piloten Christian Klien (AUT) löste sich ein in die Schnauze des Formel1-Boliden eingelegter Diamant im Wert von 200.000 Dollar. Der Diamant stammte vom neuen Jaguar-Sponsor Steinmetz.
Es wird vermutet, dass während des Abtransports des Autos sich der Diamant gelöst hat. Bei Jaguar wird nicht erwartet, dass der Diamant zurückgegeben wird und somit jemand ein nettes Andenken von dem Rennwochenende nach Hause bringen wird.
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Topic: JOB - on May 23, 2004 at 8:14:00 PM CEST
Supermarket offers chance to win job
The economy in Brazil is not exactly what you might call booming. The problem is now so bad that a popular supermarket is offering a job as a prize in a competition.
Two lucky winners will receive a guaranteed job for six months based on their capabilities. After six months they will be given the opportunity to keep their job based on their performance.
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Topic: NEWS - on May 23, 2004 at 8:12:00 PM CEST
British are too clean
A new report in the UK states that the British are just too clean. Experts are warning that a modern ultra-clean life style is causing children to become susceptible to allergies.
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Topic: W A R - on May 23, 2004 at 8:10:00 PM CEST
Soldiers Can No Longer Have Camera Phones in Iraq
The Pentagon reportedly believes that photos of Abu Ghrain prisoners being abused were taken with camera phones. This has led to Rumsfeld banning "Digital cameras, camcorders and cellphones with cameras."
The ban applies to "military compounds in Iraq" but the Pentagon plans a "total ban throughout the US military."
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Topic: COMPUTER - on May 23, 2004 at 8:07:00 PM CEST
Tastenkombination läßt Windows XP abstürzen
Tweakxp' hat eine Tastenkombination bekannt gegeben, mit der man WindowsXP absichtlich abstürzen lassen kann. Mit den Tasten 'STRG' und zweimal auf die Taste 'Scroll Lock' stürzt WindowsXP ab.
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