Topic: NEWS english - on October 4, 2004 at 10:29:00 AM CEST
Oktoberfest Not Quite As Festive This Year
Bad weather has slowed the party at this year's Oktoberfest.
Organizers blame two weeks of cold, rainy weather for a dip in attendance at the beer-fueled event in Munich, Germany. It attracted about 400,000 fewer participants than last year.
Still, nearly 6 million people downed about 5.5 million liters of beer.
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Topic: NEWS english - on October 4, 2004 at 10:27:00 AM CEST
Philippine slum stream turns into gold rush site
Hundreds of people have flocked to a polluted stream in an overcrowded slum in the Philippine capital after some residents found gold nuggets, witnesses say. A village chief said it was a puzzle as to how the nuggets got into the trash-strewn and heavily silted channel.
"It is puzzle. All we got from this before was trash," he said.
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Topic: NEWS english - on October 4, 2004 at 10:25:00 AM CEST
Theater showing 'Anacondas' hunts for movie-going snake
No, it's not a 3-D creature feature: A Houston movie theater — one that was showing Anacondas among other films — has shut down while workers hunt for an 8-foot snake.
A maintenance worker said he saw a snake about a week ago that was thick as a man's arm slithering along a wall, said Terrell Falk, a spokeswoman for Cinemark USA Inc.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on October 4, 2004 at 10:24:00 AM CEST
Mom may face jail for drunken sex with sons
A Kitchener woman pleaded guilty yesterday to having sexual intercourse with her two teenage sons on separate occasions. The 35-year-old woman can't be named to protect the identities of her sons. She sobbed in Kitchener's Ontario Court as the two incest charges were read out and the facts given.
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Topic: MUSIK - on October 4, 2004 at 10:22:00 AM CEST
Billy Joel Marries 23-Year-Old Fiancee
Singer-songwriter Billy Joel married his fiancee, 23-year-old Kate Lee, in a ceremony Saturday at his Long Island mansion, his record label said. Joel, 55, wed Lee in a sunset wedding at his waterfront home, Newsday reported in its online editions. Columbia Records, Joel's label, announced the marriage Saturday night. A spokeswoman for Joel could not immediately be reached for comment.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 4, 2004 at 10:21:00 AM CEST
Who tracks the trackers?
It's apparently okay for RFID tag promoters to watch you apply lipstick from 750 miles away, but not for a privacy advocate to keep an eye on companies using the pesky technology.
Yes, the cloak and dagger operations of consumer trackers have come under the microscope and it's not to the liking of Frontline Solutions. The conference organizer sent a letter to CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering), requiring that the organization pull down "unauthorized" photos of CheckPoint's RFID tags popping up in clothing from the likes of Abercrombie & Fitch and Champion taken at a recent event here. CASPIAN's leader Katherine Albrecht has refused to gag herself, opting instead to print Frontline's complaint online.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 4, 2004 at 10:17:00 AM CEST
Mount St. Helens VolcanoCam
This is an image of Mount St. Helens, taken from the Johnston Ridge Observatory. The Observatory and VolcanoCam are located at an elevation of approximately 4,500 feet, about five miles from the volcano. You are looking approximately south-southeast across the North Fork Toutle River Valley.
The USGS issued a Level III Volcano Alert today, which included the evacuation of the Johnston Ridge Observatory. The VolcanoCam is now the closest operating camera to Mount St. Helens. It continues to function with no problem.
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Topic: P2P - on October 4, 2004 at 10:16:00 AM CEST
Peer-to-Peer traffic
on service provider networks; and that the level of Peer-to-Peer dwarfs all other types of traffic. By comparison web traffic accounts for only a few percent of traffic..
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 4, 2004 at 10:09:00 AM CEST
Bill Gates hat Spyware-Probleme
Selbst Microsoft-Gründer Bill Gates leidet an der Spyware-Epidemie - auch einige seiner Heimrechner seien betroffen gewesen. Deshalb werde sein Unternehmen nun Anti-Spyware schaffen.
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