Topic: MUSIK - on November 6, 2007 at 1:49:00 PM CET
Rolling Stone digital magazine for Free
As you may have noticed, the enormous third installment of our fortieth anniversary issues is now on newsstands. But you’re at work, and you can’t kick back and read the magazine at your desk without your boss making an example of you in front of your co-workers. Well, now you can. Rolling Stone is pleased to present our very first “digital edition” of the issue.
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Topic: Online-Fahndung - on November 6, 2007 at 11:55:00 AM CET
Internet-Daten werden nicht gespeichert
Die massive Kritik zeigt Wirkung: Infrastrukturminister Werner Faymann (SPÖ) wird die EU-Richtlinie zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung nur teilweise umsetzen. Für das Erste müssen die Telefon-Anbieter nur speichern, wer mit wem wann und wie lang telefoniert hat. Die von der EU ebenfalls verlangte Speicherung von E-Mail- und Chat-Daten wird bis März 2009 verschoben, sagte ein Sprecher Faymanns zum STANDARD. Diese Pläne habe man auch bereits der EU-Kommission mitgeteilt - gemeinsam mit 14 anderen EU-Staaten.
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Topic: STRANGE - on November 6, 2007 at 11:08:00 AM CET
Toddler with eight limbs branded 'reincarnation of Hindu god' to undergo life-saving operation
A toddler born with eight limbs and believed by some to be the reincarnation of the multi-limbed Hindu goddess Vishnu, is set to undergo a 40-hour operation to remove half of her limbs.
Lakshmi Tatma was born joined to a 'parasitic twin' and will go under the knife at the hands of 30 surgeons to remove two of her useless arms and legs.
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Topic: NEWS - on November 6, 2007 at 11:07:00 AM CET
3,500 Chinese Babies Named “Olympics”
There has been a lot of crazy stuff going on in China in anticipation for the 2008 Olympics. None quite so strange as this story.
Nearly 3,500 children, since the year 2000, have been named after the 2008 Olympics.
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Topic: MUSIK - on November 6, 2007 at 11:00:00 AM CET
Radiohead Could Really Piss Off the Music Industry Machine
Radiohead blew us away with the “donated” sales revenue from its last album “In Rainbows.” The band offered the music for free, and let fans choose how much they’d pay, almost as a tip for the album. What comScore found was that 62% of global users chose not to pay for the album at all.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on November 6, 2007 at 10:56:00 AM CET
American Gangster Rakes in $46.3 Million Despite Heavy DVD Quality Bootlegging
Looks like the DVD quality bootlegs that hit the streets over the last couple of weeks did very little to effect the number of movie goers who went out in droves to see “American Gangster” The flick based on the life of Frank Lucas took home the top spot raking in $46.3 million to top Jerry Seinfeld’s family cartoon “Bee Movie,” which earned $39.1 million to place second.
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Topic: CARS - on November 6, 2007 at 10:53:00 AM CET
Lamborghini Reventón — 'World's first hypercar'
Lamborghini is producing only 20 of these 650-horsepower, 12-cylinder coupes, all of which have been sold — 11 in the U.S., seven in Europe and two in Asia.
List price: $1.45 million.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 6, 2007 at 10:46:00 AM CET
Cocaine is bad for the brain?
Caution: This video is very graphic.
In Australia, they apparently don’t have to hold back for their PSAs like they do in the US.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 6, 2007 at 10:36:00 AM CET
New Drug Alert!
We're not sure what they're inhaling down in Collier County, Florida, but here's the bizarre "information bulletin" prepared by the local sheriff's intelligence bureau about a purported "new drug" favored by the kids. It's an inhalant called "Jenkem," and causes hallucinations and a "euphoric high." Of course, as the bulletin notes, Jenkem users dislike its sewagey taste, which can last for days. That's because Jenkem's active ingredients are urine and fecal matter, hence its street names like "Butthash" and "Fruit from Crack Pipe."
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 6, 2007 at 10:29:00 AM CET
Open source, Lego-like computer modules run Linux
A six-person startup is readying a modular, open source hardware/software system resembling a set of electronic Legos. Bug Labs claims device developers can build "anything" using "Bug," which comprises an ARM11-powered base and various modular add-ons.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 6, 2007 at 10:28:00 AM CET
Give one (XO laptop), get one, and get free T-Mobile access for a year
The Give One Get One philanthropic campaign puts laptops into the hands of children in the developing world. For a limited time - from Nov. 12 to Nov. 26, 2007 - people can donate $399 for two laptops. One laptop will be given to a child in the developing world. The other laptop will be sent to the donor along with information on how to activate the one year of complimentary T-Mobile HotSpot service.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 6, 2007 at 10:09:00 AM CET
SiCortex does desktop supercomputer
Supercomputing youngster SiCortex has done the inevitable by popping out a pint-sized version of its cluster in a container.
The new SC072 - code-named "Catapult" - fits 72 processors into a deskside unit that starts at less than $15,000. The system is a no brainer for SiCortex since it provides a more a digestible option for engineers, developers and those hoping to take the company's weird hardware for a test drive. In addition, the more compact unit lets SiCortex tap into a trend pioneered by now deceased Orion Multisystems of selling supercomputer class machines in a near PC form factor.
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