Topic: ART - on November 10, 2007 at 11:06:00 AM CET
M. C. Escher's favorite building
Five years ago, Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren unveiled their radical design for the new China Central Television Tower here to a disbelieving public. Even their client wasn't sure it could be built, they say.
Formed like a misshapen square doughnut, the building is full of technical challenges, with two towers leaning inward at sharp inclines that will be joined to form one continuous loop.
There were no building codes for this convoluted sort of structure, which Messrs. Koolhaas and Scheeren conceived as a challenge to the notion that all skyscrapers should point skyward. (Complicating matters: Beijing lies in an earthquake zone.)
Now, the moment is fast approaching for a crucial part of the tower's construction. In a matter of weeks, workers will construct the floors that will join the two leaning towers, producing the building's unusual shape.
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Topic: WERBUNG - on November 10, 2007 at 10:59:00 AM CET
New Guinness advert: Giant domino village
From the moment Guinness used a Toucan to promote its dark stout, the brewery's adverts have always been iconic.
Its latest and most expensive one, which will be shown tonight for the first time, is no exception.
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Topic: MUSIK - on November 10, 2007 at 10:46:00 AM CET
Police raid on Winehouse's home
Police have raided the house of singer Amy Winehouse after four men were arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice.
The arrests relate to an upcoming court case involving Ms Winehouse's husband Blake Fielder-Civil, who faces charges of causing grievous bodily harm.
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Topic: MUSIK - on November 10, 2007 at 10:44:00 AM CET
David Bowie: Mug Shot Oddity
Mug shot aficionados are likely aware that TSG has unearthed a host of previously unseen celebrity mug shots, from Tupac Shakur and Andre The Giant to Johnny Cash and 50 Cent. Today we're adding to that list with this marvelous booking photo of David Bowie, which was snapped in Rochester, New York following the singer's March 1976 arrest on a felony pot possession charge. Bowie, 29 at the time, was nabbed along with Iggy Pop and two other codefendants at a Rochester hotel following a Saturday concert.
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Topic: MUSIK - on November 10, 2007 at 10:41:00 AM CET
Prince Suing Pirates Not Fans
Prince's camp has denied suing fansites and instead his UK promotion company says that the Purple one is targeting pirate sites. In fact, he is reportedly planning to sue The Pirate Bay in not just his native U.S. but in two different countries in Europe and Israeli based companies that advertise on Pirate Bay.
News.com reports that Prince plans to file suit in the U.S. also plans to file "suit in the next few days against The Pirate Bay in France, a country known for tough copyright laws, and Sweden, where The Pirate Bay is based. In addition, Prince is preparing to take civil action against some of the Israel-based companies that advertise on The Pirate Bay, according to John Giacobbi, Web Sheriff's president."
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Topic: WEB - on November 10, 2007 at 10:39:00 AM CET
Botmaster owns up to 250,000 zombie PCs
An American computer security consultant on Friday admitted using massive botnets to illegally install software on at least 250,000 machines and steal online banking identities of Windows users by evesdropping on them while they made financial transactions.
John Kenneth Schiefer, 26, of Los Angeles, pleaded guilty to four felonies, including accessing protected computers to conduct fraud, disclosing illegally intercepted electronic communications, wire fraud and bank fraud. He faces a maximum sentence of 60 years in federal prison and a fine of $1.75m, according to documents filed Friday in federal court.
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Topic: WEB - on November 10, 2007 at 10:37:00 AM CET
IndiaTimes website 'attacks visitors'
Visitors to the IndiaTimes website are being bombarded by malware, some of which appear to target previously unknown vulnerabilities in Windows, a security researcher warns.
In all, the English-language Indian news site is directly or indirectly serving up at least 434 malicious files, many of which are not detected by antivirus software, according to Mary Landesman, a senior security researcher at ScanSafe. She said at least 18 different IP addresses are involved in the attack.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 10, 2007 at 10:36:00 AM CET
The Register Misunderstands BitTorrent Encryption
The Register recently had a story about an explosion of encrypted BitTorrent traffic. They speculate that this is an attempt to evade the recording industry and law enforcement officials who are cracking down on illegal file sharing. But as TorrentFreak explains, El Reg is fundamentally misunderstanding the rationale for BitTorrent encryption.
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Topic: Online-Fahndung - on November 10, 2007 at 10:33:00 AM CET
German Bundestag Decides to Implement Data Retention
Starting next year, all communication providers in Germany will have to store all connection data for six months. This includes:
* Phone calls: Date, time, length and involved numbers of all phone calls (landline, mobile or VoIP)
* In case of mobile phones additionally the location of the phone at the time of the call, the IMSI code of the phone and SMS connection data
* Internet access: IP address, date, time and length of the connection, and the line which was used
* E-mail: e-mail-addresses involved and the header of each e-mail
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