Topic: logisch - on September 26, 2007 at 10:48:00 AM CEST
Nepal considers nudity ban on Everest
Attention climbers: Please keep your clothes on while climbing Mount Everest.
Nepal's mountaineering authorities are calling for a ban on nudity and attempts to set obscene records on the world's highest mountain, officials said Wednesday.
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 26, 2007 at 10:37:00 AM CEST
What are they smoking on 'Weeds'?
You'd think that on Weeds - Showtime's hit pot show - they would smoke the real stuff, just like in a Cheech & Chong movie. Wrong.
That scene in a recent episode where Silas (Hunter Parrish) turns on Tara (Mary-Kate Olsen) with a neatly rolled clear-paper joint. Looks like pot, right? Not.
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Topic: MUSIK - on September 26, 2007 at 10:35:00 AM CEST
Vox Amplug Headphone Guitar Amps
Vox is releasing a range of modestly-sized guitar headphone amps, each of which are designed to simulate one of three classic amps: the AC30; the Marshall; and the Mesa Boogie (probably). The "cabinet" designs, however, are all based on the AC30.
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Topic: e-bay - on September 26, 2007 at 10:33:00 AM CEST
For sale: Spacious missile base for only $1.5 million
Looking for a new home with a bit more space as well as a 1950s Cold War ambiance?
A US intercontinental ballistic missile base, equipped with a vast underground network of tunnels and rooms but no atomic warheads, is for sale in a remote corner of the United States.
The warheads and missiles went when the US government abandoned the Titan bases in the 1970s.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on September 26, 2007 at 10:31:00 AM CEST
New cracks in Google mail
Yesterday, we reported on an unholy trinity of Google vulnerabilities that put emails, private photos and website security at risk. Today came word of a new weakness that makes it easy for bad guys to silently put a backdoor in Gmail accounts.
The technique comes courtesy of Petko D. Petkov, a researcher at GNU Citizen, who writes in a blog post that the backdoor is installed simply by luring a victim to a specially crafted website while logged in to Gmail. The naughty site uses a slight of hand known as a multipart/form-data POST, which writes a filter to Gmail that causes all email with attachments to be forwarded to collect@evil.com.
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Topic: Terror - on September 26, 2007 at 10:29:00 AM CEST
Germans reveal bomb details
FUSES intended for use in a suspected plot to bomb US installations in Germany came from Syria through Turkey, the German interior minister said yesterday.
Wolfgang Schaeuble said the three suspects had received an order from Pakistan to act by mid-September.
German security officials were also monitoring three men who had trained in a Pakistan camp for militants, but lacked the evidence to arrest them, Mr Schaeuble said.
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Topic: War and Peace - on September 26, 2007 at 10:26:00 AM CEST
Burma monks march as police act
Several thousand Burmese monks and other protesters have begun a new march in Rangoon despite a baton charge by police at the city's holiest shrine.
Police charged the crowd outside the Shwedagon Pagoda as demonstrators met for a ninth day of marching and warning shots were fired at another site.
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