Topic: ART - on August 23, 2007 at 5:46:00 PM CEST
"Goodbye Privacy"
What is the value of privacy? According to the classical interpretation of Modernity, the private sphere is a precondition for autonomy and the capacity of the individual to act. Being able to discuss issues in a context in which ones privacy is protected is a necessary requirement for the existence of a critical public in a democratic society. Can this view of the private sphere still be maintained before the backdrop of terror and Web 2.0?
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on August 23, 2007 at 1:40:00 PM CEST
Woman sets fire to ex-husband's penis
A woman set fire to her ex-husband's penis as he sat naked watching television and drinking vodka, Moscow police said Wednesday.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 23, 2007 at 1:39:00 PM CEST
Content-Aware Image Sizing
This video by Dr. Ariel Shamir shows off presentation on content-aware image sizing. It demonstrates a software application that resizes images in such a way that the content of the image is preserved intelligently.
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Topic: VIDEO - on August 23, 2007 at 1:36:00 PM CEST
Anonymous on FOX11
Dear Fox News
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Topic: WEB - on August 23, 2007 at 1:34:00 PM CEST
Spying Goes All 2.0
While the US intelligence community has a long history of expensively botched computer systems, it does seem like they've suddenly became Web 2.0 believers. Last year we wrote about the internal Wikipedia-like offering called Intellipedia, that would let members from different agencies in the intelligence community share information more easily.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 23, 2007 at 1:33:00 PM CEST
Man arrested for stealing broadband
A man who was spotted in the street using his laptop to access an unsecured wireless connection has been arrested.
The 39-year-old man was seen sitting on a wall outside a home in Chiswick, west London, by two community support officers.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 23, 2007 at 1:32:00 PM CEST
Hackers Take Down the Most Wired Country in Europe
The minister of defense checked the Web page again — still nothing. He stared at the error message: For some reason, the site for Estonia's leading newspaper, the Postimees, wasn't responding. Jaak Aaviksoo attempted to pull up the sites of a couple of other papers. They were all down. The former director of the University of Tartu Institute of Experimental Physics and Technology d been the Estonian defense minister for only four weeks. He hadn't even changed the art on the walls.
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Topic: Space - on August 23, 2007 at 1:11:00 PM CEST
Your Real Sun
OK, having a personal Moon is a cool idea. Now watch our real Sun in several clips with amazing details with The Sun in Motion.
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Topic: NASA - on August 23, 2007 at 1:08:00 PM CEST
NASA partners with Internet Archive to put space archives online
With the space shuttle Endeavour safely back on the ground, NASA is working on showing the world its photo album.
The space agency and the Internet Archive said Tuesday that they plan to scan and archive more than 12 million NASA photographs and 100,000 hours of film and video footage for free access online, under an five-year agreement. As part of the deal, the Internet Archive will host the media album on a new Web site, Nasaimages.org.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on August 23, 2007 at 1:07:00 PM CEST
Erforschen Sie den Himmel mit Google Earth
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Topic: GOOGLE - on August 23, 2007 at 1:01:00 PM CEST
Google Earth’s New Virtual Telescope
You need to download the newest version of Google Earth to use the Sky feature.
An internet mapping service used by millions every day has been launched into space.
Using free software from Google Earth, amateur stargazers can now bring an astronaut's view of galaxies and planets to their computer screens.
At the click of a button, they will be able to zoom millions of miles into space to scan through 100million stars and 200million galaxies as seen from the Earth.
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