Topic: Online-Fahndung - on March 18, 2008 at 2:56:00 PM CET
16 Plätze in Österreich videoüberwacht
Parlamentarische Anfrage der SPÖ - Kosten: 33.500 Euro im vergangenen Jahr
Wien - Weit mehr als ein Dutzend Plätze in Österreich überwacht die Polizei per Videokameras. Das geht aus der Beantwortung einer parlamentarischen Anfrage der SPÖ durch Innenminister Platter hervor, die Anfang März veröffentlicht wurde. Mit dem Stichtag 1. Jänner 2008 waren in Österreich 15 Plätze zumindest vorübergehend videoüberwacht. Ein 16., der Grazer Hauptbahnhof, kam am 7. Jänner dazu.
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Topic: Online-Fahndung - on March 18, 2008 at 2:55:00 PM CET
MPI-Gutachten zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung
Ihr erinnert euch an den Bundestags-Beschluss zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung? Die Opposition hatte erfolglos versucht, ihn zu verschieben, bis ein unabhängiges Gutachten des Freiburger Max-Planck-Instituts für Strafrecht zur bisherigen Speicherpraxis den Abgeordneten vorliegt. Denn bislang war recht unklar, wie häufig die Verkehrsdaten eigentlich benötigt werden und für die Verfolgung welcher Straftaten.
Das Gutachten ist nun in umfangreichen Auszügen beim AK Vorrat verfügbar. Die MPI-Forscher haben die Akten aus 467 repräsentativ ausgewählten Ermittlungs- und Strafverfahren ausgewertet und damit erstmals eine saubere wissenschaftliche Studie zur Struktur und Effektivität der Telekommunikationsüberwachung vorgelegt.
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Topic: ART - on March 18, 2008 at 2:51:00 PM CET
ASCII Code Curtain Branches Into Home Decor
The mere idea of ASCII code immediately makes my brain hurt. As much as I may try to play like I've got some geek suave going on, I know that inside my synapses are misfiring and things are well on their way to short circuiting in the left hemisphere of my cranial cavity.
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Topic: ART - on March 18, 2008 at 2:46:00 PM CET
Color Chart: Reinventing Color from 1950 to Today
This exhibition takes as its point of departure the commercial color chart, an item that openly declares the status of color as mass-produced and standardized. Midway through the twentieth century, long-held convictions regarding the spiritual or emotional power of particular colors gave way to the embrace of color as an ordinary commodity. At the same time, many artists rejected traditional artistic pedagogy about correct relationships and instead adopted aesthetic approaches that relied on chance, ready-made sources, or arbitrary systems...This exhibition features the work of forty-four artists who take a position in which art and life mingle rather than remain separate, and where beauty is found in the everyday rather than in the ideal.
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Topic: PHOTO - on March 18, 2008 at 2:40:00 PM CET
Google's Zurich Office
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 18, 2008 at 2:36:00 PM CET
Windows Vista Toilet Paper
Ah, the Japanese... They are so fond of the upcoming Windows Vista Service Pack 1 that they printed toilet paper rolls about it, highlighting it's features.
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Topic: CARS - on March 18, 2008 at 2:34:00 PM CET
100-year-old model for electric car coming back
It was good enough for John D. Rockefeller Jr.
To promote itself, Detroit Electric--a new joint venture between Zap and China's Youngman Automotive Group--plan to release a limited number of cars based around the Detroit Electric, an electric car produced by the Anderson Electric Car Co. in the early part of the 20th century.
Anderson produced various models of the Detroit Electric from 1907 to 1939. Customers included Henry Ford and Rockefeller. It was also featured on a stamp. TV host Jay Leno has some of the cars in his collection.
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Topic: NEWS english - on March 18, 2008 at 2:31:00 PM CET
No call for China boycott - Rogge
No governments have called for a boycott of the Beijing Olympic Games, says International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge.
The issue has arisen following China's handling of the unrest in Tibet.
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