Topic: COMPUTER - on November 15, 2006 at 6:42:00 PM CET
FCC Meets to Investigate Cookie Abuse
Online advertisers have a sweet tooth for cookies. Not the kind you bake, but the digital kind—those tiny files that embed themselves on a PC and keep tabs on what Web sites are visited on which machines. They're useful because they help marketers tailor which ads are served to which users.
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Topic: POLITIK - on November 15, 2006 at 6:37:00 PM CET
Queen's speech omits violent sex
The Queen delivered a speech designed to appease the sado masochistic lobby today with a raft of proposals to give people in uniforms more power to punish those boys and girls who get caught doing something naughty.
But she disappointed the naughtiest of all, who had been waiting on the edges of their seats for her to mention plans to ban extreme porn made at home by so many people who like a little pain and perversion. She didn't even say, sex, let alone, bestiality.
All we heard was a long list of ways in which the government wanted to put everyone else into bondage.
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Topic: NEWS english - on November 15, 2006 at 6:22:00 PM CET
Chemical cloud hits Serbian town
The Serbian president has called for a petrochemical plant near Belgrade to be closed after high levels of dangerous chemicals were detected in the air.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 15, 2006 at 6:21:00 PM CET
Guarded Hope for Dope Reform
Democrats control Congress, a socialist is in the Senate and the president's approval ratings are in the tank. So it's no surprise that advocates of drug reform are looking forward to a new day -- sort of.
Consider this: A bill that would allow sick people to use marijuana might actually pass the House. Of course, it's probably dead on arrival in the Senate, and President Bush would almost certainly stamp it with an override-proof veto.
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Topic: logisch - on November 15, 2006 at 10:29:00 AM CET
Physics promises wireless power
The tangle of cables and plugs needed to recharge today's electronic gadgets could soon be a thing of the past.
US researchers have outlined a relatively simple system that could deliver power to devices such as laptop computers or MP3 players wirelessly.
MIT makes case for wireless power
Wireless Energy Transfer May Power Devices at a Distance
Wireless energy could power consumer, industrial electronics
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