Topic: MUSIK - on January 30, 2007 at 3:27:00 PM CET
Achim Mentzel
schwabbelige Lockensaurier ..
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Topic: CARS - on January 30, 2007 at 3:01:00 PM CET
Superbike sparks 'plane crash' alert
EMERGENCY services called to the scene of a 'plane crash' arrived to find it was just the jet engine of a superbike being fired up.
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Topic: TV - on January 30, 2007 at 2:59:00 PM CET
A nine-year-old girl has become a TV chef in China.
Shi Yulan, from Shanghai, is now writing her own recipe book, reports Qianjiang Evening News.
Shi has been working in the kitchen at home for almost as long as she has been able to walk.
She said: "At two-years-old, I already helped my mom by washing bowls in the kitchen and I started to cook for the family for fun from the age of six."
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Topic: NATURE - on January 30, 2007 at 2:58:00 PM CET
Frozen snake found along Ohio river
Four workers clearing debris along the Great Miami River in southwest Ohio found a frozen eight-foot boa constrictor Monday morning.
"We never expected this to happen," said Chris Miller, who was working with other McGraw-Kokosing Inc. workers to clean debris from recent floods and fill a sinkhole. "We've been entertaining ourselves. It's been a lot of fun, really."
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Topic: SEX - on January 30, 2007 at 2:46:00 PM CET
Girl of 14 who was a boy until she was 12
Even at the age of two, Tim insisted he was a girl trapped in a boy’s body.
And when puberty began to approach at the age of 12, he convinced his parents that something had to be done.
With their agreement, he became the youngest sex-change patient in the world, receiving hormone injections which arrested his male development.
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Topic: Apple - on January 30, 2007 at 2:28:00 PM CET
Apple's Next Product
How Do You Like Them Apples?
Apple Inc. made their mark in the computer arena. They revolutionized the music player industry, and now they're poised to take over the phone market. What will Steve and the gang come up with next?
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Topic: COMPUTER - on January 30, 2007 at 1:43:00 PM CET
Vista Launch Coverage
DefectiveByDesign members turned out today in New York City (despite the bitter cold!) to spread the message that Vista's DRM is a danger to computer users. We were joined by folks from the BadVista.org campaign who distributed free software to the guests lining up to attend the launch event.
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Topic: WEB - on January 30, 2007 at 1:40:00 PM CET
I Was a Cybercrook for the FBI
By the time David Thomas eased his Cadillac into the parking lot of an office complex in Issaquah, Washington, he already suspected the police were on to him.
An empty Crown Victoria in one of the parking spaces confirmed it. "That's heat right there," he told his two passengers -- 29-year-old girlfriend Bridget Trevino, and his crime partner Kim Marvin Taylor, a balding, middle-aged master of fake identities he'd met on the internet.
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Topic: NASA - on January 30, 2007 at 11:53:00 AM CET
Hubble Space Telecope's Main Camera Offline, Some Science Lost
The Hubble Space Telescope’s primary camera is offline, with some science capabilities likely lost for good, NASA officials said Monday.
An electrical short in the backup system for Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) pushed the space telescope into a protective “safe mode” over the weekend and prompted the formation of an Anomaly Investigation Board on Monday, NASA officials said.
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Topic: e-bay - on January 30, 2007 at 11:52:00 AM CET
How eBay Sellers Fix Auctions
The Times online is carrying stories on fraud carried out on eBay using shill bidding. Citing eBay's changes to security as aiding the shill bidders and this fraud: "Last November eBay changed its rules to conceal bidders' identity — making it even more difficult for customers to see whether sellers are bidding on their own lots.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on January 30, 2007 at 11:48:00 AM CET
Vista DRM Cracked by Security Researcher
Security researcher Alex Ionescu claims to have successfully bypassed the much discussed DRM protection in Windows Vista, called 'Protected Media Path' (PMP), which is designed to seriously degrade the playback quality of any video and audio running on systems with hardware components not explicitly approved by Microsoft. The bypass of the DRM protection was in turn performed by breaking the Driver Signing / PatchGuard protection in the new operating system.
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Topic: MUSIK - on January 30, 2007 at 11:36:00 AM CET
"Window in the Sky", a U2 montage of 137 video clips
"Window in the Sky" is a YouTube style video synch mash-up done on a professional budget with the magic of copyright clearances.
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