Topic: CARS - on September 4, 2007 at 5:47:00 PM CEST
No drunken driving with Volvo
Volvo’s obsession with car safety is a fact known to all. The company has spearheaded many safety developments that are hot on the list today, including, the airbags. Close on the heels of the announcement of Volvo’s CWAB and DAC systems, comes another system to boost road safety, the Alcoguard.
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Topic: WEB - on September 4, 2007 at 5:46:00 PM CEST
Optimize BitTorrent To Outwit Traffic Shaping ISPs
These days, nothing worries an internet service provider more than peer-to-peer file trading. Depending on where you live, P2P can account for between 50 and 75% of broadband internet traffic. We mostly have the popularity of BitTorrent to thank for this crazy amount of data going to and fro.
This amount of traffic can raise the ISPs daily costs of delivering service, cause congestion either in your neighborhood or on the ISP's network, and force the ISP to buy increased bandwidth capacity.
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Topic: FUN - on September 4, 2007 at 3:27:00 PM CEST
Walking on water on the Costa del Sol
A company is maketing a device called a 'Water Ball' allowing you to walk on water inside a large bubble
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 4, 2007 at 3:25:00 PM CEST
Important drugs haul on Vejer beach
Officers recovered 1.5 tons of cannabis but failed to capture the smugglers.
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Topic: TV - on September 4, 2007 at 1:58:00 PM CEST
German YouTube Clone Acquired by TV Station
Germany’s biggest television broadcaster, ProSiebenSat1 Media, has bought a 70% stake in German video-sharing network MyVideo.de for $26 million.
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on September 4, 2007 at 1:56:00 PM CEST
Off to Linz
Although I still haven't decided which camera to take with me, I'll be leaving for Linz in a few hours to attend the Ars Electronica Festival. According to my bio page on the site, this is the 10th year that I've participated.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on September 4, 2007 at 1:52:00 PM CEST
Pushing the impossible
Movie studios believe they can create the perfect copy protection system. But it would be easier to go faster than the speed of light, says Cory Doctorow
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Topic: WEB - on September 4, 2007 at 1:46:00 PM CEST
Pentagon: Chinese military hacked us
Sources in Washington have indicated that the cyber attack last June which targeted the office of US Defence Secretary Robert Gates was conducted by the Chinese military.
According to a report in the London Financial Times, "senior US officials" and "persons familiar with the event" have briefed that there is a “very high level of confidence...trending towards total certainty” within the Pentagon that the People's Liberation Army (PLA) carried out the June attack. That was seen as a particularly significant event, apparently, as it involved disruption of networks as well as passive snooping.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 4, 2007 at 1:44:00 PM CEST
Cyber crime tool kits go on sale
Malicious hackers are producing easy to use tools that automate attacks to cash in on a boom in hi-tech crime.
On sale, say security experts, are everything from individual viruses to comprehensive kits that let budding cyber thieves craft their own attacks.
The top hacking tools are being offered for prices ranging up to £500.
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Topic: MUSIK - on September 4, 2007 at 9:01:00 AM CEST
Der Künstliche Komponist
"Ludwig" – ein Schritt in das Zeitalter der Rockenden Roboter In einigen Musikstilen fühle ich mich nicht firm genug: "Hat das noch was mit Schubert zu tun?" "Nee", sagt Markus Aust, der Komposition studiert hat und es wissen sollte.
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