Topic: LOST FOUND - on May 31, 2007 at 1:50:00 PM CEST
The $592 Million U.S. Embassy In Iraq
Construction of the U.S. embassy in Iraq, set to open in September, is projected to cost $592 million, with a staff of 1,000 people and operating costs totaling $1.2 billion a year. It will be a 104-acre complex, which is the size of approximately 80 football fields.
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Topic: SPY - on May 31, 2007 at 1:47:00 PM CEST
CIA Officers Names and Photos 2007
Vienne à l'instar de Londres et de Berlin a toujours été un centre important de renseignement de la CIA en Europe de l'Ouest. A la croisée des chemins entre l'est et l'ouest du continent, cette ville abrite aussi plusieurs institutions stratégiques comme l'OPEP et l'AIEA.
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Topic: PHOTO - on May 31, 2007 at 11:10:00 AM CEST
Nikon’s Visual Sketch
With this philosophy, photographer Yoshiaki Kita set out from China on a long trip, drawing a 35,000km-long line from the Eurasian Continent to the African Continent, capturing the people and cultures along the way. Kita’s photos and commentary show how people’s lives and surroundings vary according to the various climates, elevations and faces he encounters.
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Topic: Bdays - on May 31, 2007 at 11:03:00 AM CEST
The True Story of the Statue of Liberty.
In 1865 a young French sculptor named Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi went to a banquet near the town of Versailles, where he struck up a conversation with Edouard de Laboulaye, a prominent historian.
De Laboulaye, a great admirer of the United States, observed that the country’s centennial was approaching in 1876. He thought it would be a good idea for France to present America with a gift to commemorate the occasion. But what? Bartholdi proposed a giant statue of some kind … and thought about it for the next six years.
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Topic: Green - on May 31, 2007 at 10:57:00 AM CEST
Air-Car Ready for Mass Production
The world's first commercial compressed air-powered vehicle is rolling towards the production line. The Air Car, developed by ex-Formula One engineer Guy Nègre, will be built by India's largest automaker, Tata Motors.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on May 31, 2007 at 10:50:00 AM CEST
Germany declares hacking tools 'verboten'
Updates to Germany's computer crime laws banning so-called "hacking tools" have been criticised as ill-considered and counterproductive.
The revamp to the German criminal code is designed to tighten definitions, making denial of service attacks and attempts to sniff data on third-party wireless networks, for example, clearly criminal. Attacks would be punishable by a fine and up to 10 years imprisonment.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on May 31, 2007 at 10:39:00 AM CEST
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates: Historic discussion live from D 2007 [Video]
We kind of never thought we'd see the day where Mac and PC voluntarily shared the stage on neutral ground, but that day is today. Very soon Bill Gates and Steve Jobs -- both pioneering execs that need absolutely no introduction -- will sit up in front of the audience here at D and discuss god knows what. Don't miss this, people, who knows if this will happen again in any of our lifetimes. You'll know when we get started. Who's got odds that they don't walk out and say "Hi, I'm a PC." "Hi, I'm a Mac."?
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Topic: GOOGLE - on May 31, 2007 at 10:33:00 AM CEST
Google gives you the Street View?
Google has unveiled a new “Street View” level for their popular mapping service, allowing you to walk the streets of Denver, Las Vegas, Miami, New York, and San Francisco from a first person perspective. Though minimally informative, it is fun to play around with, and lets you take the world’s cheapest vacation, so travel lightly.
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Topic: WEB - on May 31, 2007 at 10:28:00 AM CEST
Google, Yahoo, Facebook Extensions Put Millions of Firefox Users At Risk
Firefox browser users love the myriad of third-party extensions that tweak the open-source browser's performance, but some of the most popular of those extensions have created a security hole so wide even a newbie AOL hacker could find it and millions of Firefox users are at risk of having their browsers hijacked.
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