Topic: BOARD NEWS - on August 14, 2007 at 9:05:00 PM CEST
Australier floh vor Krokodilen sieben Tage auf einem Baum
Aus Angst vor Krokodilen hat ein Australier eine ganze Woche lang auf einem Baum ausgeharrt.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on August 14, 2007 at 1:12:00 PM CEST
Thangka painting
A 35-meter by 30-meter Thangka painting bearing the image of Sakyamuni, founder of Buddhism, is unveiled August 12, 2007 on the hillside next to the Zhebung Monastery in Lhasa, capital of China's Tibet Autonomous Region.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on August 14, 2007 at 1:10:00 PM CEST
3 tonne meteorite stolen in Russia
Russian news agency Interfax is reporting that thieves have stolen a three-tonne meteorite from the yard of the Tunguska Space Event foundation, whose director said it was the part of meteor that caused a massive explosion in Siberia in 1908.
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Topic: MUSIK - on August 14, 2007 at 1:02:00 PM CEST
Henry Rollins interviews Marilyn Manson
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Topic: MUSIK - on August 14, 2007 at 12:59:00 PM CEST
Blue Note label to offer downloads'n'social on web
Jazz and blues record label Blue Note plans to revamp its website from later this month, transforming it from a regular corporate front window to a combined social network and music download shop.
The move could be seen as flying in the face of conventional marketing wisdom. Jazz fanciers are assumed to spend their music-buying time grubbing for vinyl in backstreet shops, getting dust all over their berets and corduroy jackets with elbow patches.
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Topic: ART - on August 14, 2007 at 12:52:00 PM CEST
Video of Brian Eno Talking About His 77 Million Paintings
Here’s a short video I put together of Brian Eno’s talk at the The Long Now Foundation members event for the North American premiere of 77 Million Paintings by Brian Eno exhibit which took place on July 1st at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. In addition to the video, I also shot some photos of the event.
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Topic: ART - on August 14, 2007 at 12:48:00 PM CEST
Dylan's drawings to go on display - alongside Picasso's
He has spanned five decades as one of the world's most loved singer-songwriters, and he's still going strong. But as if that wasn't enough, Bob Dylan, the musician, poet, and living legend has confirmed that he is further extending his record as the ultimate artist, by putting some of his own pictures on display.
It emerged last night that Dylan has produced more than 200 sketches and watercolours over the years, which will go on show in October at the Kunstsammlungen art museum in Chemnitz, Germany.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 14, 2007 at 12:42:00 PM CEST
Porn company Perfect 10 sues Microsoft
A publisher of nude model photography is suing Microsoft for putting links and images of the company's content in search results taken from other websites that are illegally reproducing the material.
The company, Perfect 10, previously lost a similar suit seeking injunctions against Google and Amazon.com and its subsidiary search engine, A9.com, over alleged copyright infringement, but Perfect 10 is appealing that decision.
The latest suit, filed in US District Court, Central District of California, alleges that Microsoft's MSN image search feature creates unauthorised thumbnails of content owned by Perfect 10 and includes links to see full-size versions of the images for free.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 14, 2007 at 12:37:00 PM CEST
The Terabyte has landed
MAGINE ONE THOUSAND thousand thousand thousand bytes. A terabyte, if you will. But more than just that—a milestone in storage capacity that hard drive manufacturers have been chasing for years. After more than a decade of living in a world of gigabytes, the bar has finally been raised by Hitachi's terabyte-capacity Deskstar 7K1000.
Being first to the terabyte mark gives Hitachi bragging rights, and more importantly, the ability to offer single-drive storage capacity 33% greater than that of its competitors. Hitachi isn't banking on capacity alone, though. The 7K1000 is also outfitted with a whopping 32MB of cache—double what you get with other 3.5" hard drives. Couple that extra cache with 200GB platters that have the highest areal density of any drive on the market, and the 7K1000's performance could impress as much as its capacity.
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Topic: WEB - on August 14, 2007 at 12:30:00 PM CEST
27 Years of Warez Scene Release Info Leaked in Giant Database
Usually, when a leak is made by the warez scene, it’s usually material created by someone else - a movie, music, games or software. This time the leak is of their own material. A huge pre database of 2.6 million entries has become available on the internet, containing information on warez scene releases dating back to 1980.
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Topic: WEB - on August 14, 2007 at 12:26:00 PM CEST
German sites close, as anti-hacking law arrives
Security researchers in Germany continued to pull down exploit code from their sites last week, scrambling to comply with a German law that makes illegal the distribution of software that could be used to break into computers.
The German law -- referred to as 202(c) -- went into effect on Sunday. Many experts have complained that the language of the law is very unclear, but a strict reading appears to make illegal the distribution, sale and possession of security tools which could be used to commit a crime.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 14, 2007 at 12:25:00 PM CEST
Germany enacts 'anti-hacker' law
Germany has introduced draconian anti-hacker measures that criminalise the creation or possession of dual-use security tools.
An update to the country's computer hacking laws makes denial of service attacks and hacking assaults against individuals clearly criminal. Gaining access to data, without necessarily stealing information, would also become an arrestable offence. The most serious offences are punishable on conviction by up to 10 years' imprisonment.
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