Topic: ART - on January 25, 2007 at 11:59:00 AM CET
Robert Anton Wilson memorial celebration February 18
Here's a public announcement for the upcoming Robert Anton Wilson Memorial.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on January 25, 2007 at 11:45:00 AM CET
20 Hottest Gadgets From the Consumer Electronics Show
This year's Consumer Electronics Show included plenty that was new, significant, or just plain bizarre--we selected the best of it for our multimediatastic gallery of what CES had to offer.
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Topic: DRUGS - on January 25, 2007 at 11:42:00 AM CET
Cannabis bust sinks Russian sailor
Alexander Panov, who served on the Dmitry Donskoy nuclear submarine, started growing cannabis on the window sill of the barracks over a year ago, Russian news agencies reported.
"When the three plants he was cultivating grew above 1 metre, the sailor brought them into the stockroom," RIA news agency quoted judge Oleg Arkhipov as saying.
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Topic: NEWS english - on January 25, 2007 at 11:41:00 AM CET
Scientists Can't Get Sloth To Move
Scientists in the eastern German city of Jena said Wednesday they have finally given up after three years of failed attempts to entice a sloth into budging as part of an experiment in animal movement.
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Topic: TOYS - on January 25, 2007 at 11:39:00 AM CET
Robot dinosaurs: now with emotions
The Pleo is described as a 'lifeform' by its manufacturers Ugobe, and is said to 'feel' pain, have its own rudimentary emotions and can yawn, hiccup and sneeze.
A prototype of the toy, designed by the American Caleb Chung - who also came up with the Furby doll - was demonstrated today at Britain's biggest toy fair in London's ExCel Centre.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on January 25, 2007 at 11:12:00 AM CET
Blu-ray Encryption Defeated
The hacker who cracked HD DVD strikes again by defeating Blu-ray Disc encryption
Late last year, a crafty individual who goes by the name “Muslix64” circumvented the copy protection scheme used to protect HD DVD.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on January 25, 2007 at 11:11:00 AM CET
Interview with Developer of BackupHDDVD
HD DVD and Blu-Ray were supposedly protected by an impenetrable fortress. However a programmer named "muslix64" discovered that this was not the case, and released BackupHDDVD. Now, Slyck.com has an interview with the individual responsible, who provides some interesting insight to his success.
slyck.com BackupHDDVD [Wikipedia] AACS confirms hacks on high-definition DVD players AACS - Advanced Access Content System
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on January 25, 2007 at 11:08:00 AM CET
BackupHDDVDGUI
I think most will agree that main BackupHDDVD thread is getting way too long so I decided to create a seperate thread for my GUI app.
I am glad that some of you liked this program and I will try keep improving it.
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Topic: MUSIK - on January 25, 2007 at 11:01:00 AM CET
Ninja kitten band win Coke battle
An unsigned British band have reached a settlement with Coca-Cola over the soft drink giant's use of their material in a television commercial.
The band, 7 Seconds of Love, argued that Coke used their song Ninja and its distinctive kitten-filled video without permission in a South American advert.
After talks, Coke agreed to an out of court settlement of an undisclosed sum.
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Topic: NEWS english - on January 25, 2007 at 10:58:00 AM CET
French newsreader voted YouTube's hottest babe
Readers of UK tabloid The Sun have voted French newsreader Melissa Theuriau "YouTube's hottest babe EVER" after excerpts of the foxy Gallic minx's news broadcasts proved a huge online hit.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on January 25, 2007 at 10:56:00 AM CET
Microsoft Mistakenly Accuses 2.6 Million Half A Million Of Having Pirated Versions Of Windows
Remember Microsoft's "Windows Genuine Advantage" program? The one that would tell you if you had a pirated copy of Windows, but was coming up with all sorts of false positives, causing trouble for plenty of legitimate users? Well, now it appears that Microsoft is 'fessing up to the fact that it may have mistakenly labeled somewhere around 2.6 million legitimate Windows users as "pirates."
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Topic: W A R - on January 25, 2007 at 10:52:00 AM CET
US military unveils heat-ray gun
The US military has given the first public display of what it says is a revolutionary heat-ray weapon to repel enemies or disperse hostile crowds.
The gun - called Silent Guardian - projects an invisible high energy beam that produces a sudden burning feeling, but is actually harmless.
The beam can be fired as far as 500m (550 yards), much further than existing non-lethal weapons like rubber bullets.
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