Topic: BOARD NEWS - on November 19, 2006 at 8:07:00 PM CET
Stilles Örtchen: Heute ist Welttoilettentag
Wer an welchem Ort die Morgenzeitung liest, ist eine indiskrete Frage. Dafür wird es Zahlen geben. Sechsmal täglich sucht der Mensch im Durchschnitt allerdings eine Toilette auf. Die Künstler der Moderne haben gern versucht, diesen verschämten oder nur gedankenlosen Gang bewußt zu machen. Wie Marcel Duchamp mit seinem Pissoir oder zuletzt der Niederländer Leonard van Munster: Dessen "Toilette Private Room" ermahnte überraschte Raucher, Spülmuffel und Stehpinkler mit strengen Worten.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on November 19, 2006 at 6:11:00 PM CET
Google News in trouble - again
Google gets into trouble with its new Scandinavian versions of Google News.
For those webmasters who are struggling to get into the Google News search results, this may come as a surprise, but there are actually several news sites that want to stop Google from spidering their sites in order to present news snippets on the Google News portal.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 19, 2006 at 5:59:00 PM CET
The Budgetary Implications of Marijuana Prohibition - Economists against prohibition
An Open Letter to the President, Congress, Governors, and State Legislatures
We, the undersigned, call your attention to the attached report by Professor Jeffrey A. Miron, The Budgetary Implications of Marijuana Prohibition. The report shows that marijuana legalization -- replacing prohibition with a system of taxation and regulation -- would save $7.7 billion per year in state and federal expenditures on prohibition enforcement and produce tax revenues of at least $2.4 billion annually if marijuana were taxed like most consumer goods. If, however, marijuana were taxed similarly to alcohol or tobacco, it might generate as much as $6.2 billion annually.
Milton Friedman: interviewed on America's Drug Forum
World Prison Population List [.pdf]
The History of the Non-Medical Use of Drugs in the United States
The Top 10 Things I Know About Drugs
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Topic: Space - on November 19, 2006 at 11:33:00 AM CET
9 Billion-Year-Old ‘Dark Energy’ Reported
A strange thing happened to the universe five billion years ago. As if God had turned on an antigravity machine, the expansion of the cosmos speeded up, and galaxies began moving away from one another at an ever faster pace.
Now a group of astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that billions of years before this mysterious antigravity overcame cosmic gravity and sent the galaxies scooting apart like muscle cars departing a tollbooth, it was already present in space, affecting the evolution of the cosmos.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 19, 2006 at 11:27:00 AM CET
PCI cards the next haven for rootkits?
SecurityFocus has an interesting article about a paper published on the possibility of hiding a rootkit in different PCI cards and having the rootkit survive a reboot or cleansing of the hard disk. It seems though that the author of the article doesn't think this would be abused frequently.
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