Topic: NATURE - on March 20, 2008 at 11:51:00 AM CET
Revealed: The Antarctic iceberg that looks like a giant humbug
One of them looks like a giant mint humbug, with its clear blue, green and brown stripes.
The other looks as if it has been shot through with a streak of spearmint.
These stunning banded icebergs - formed over hundreds, if not thousands, of years - were pictured floating in the waters of the Antarctic.
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Topic: WEB - on March 20, 2008 at 11:50:00 AM CET
Botnet farmers play the international exchange game
Spyware authors are prepared to pay botnet farmers or webmasters much more for infecting PCs in the UK or Australia than machines in continental Europe.
Selling "installs" is a common practice in the cyber-underworld, the most notable example being in 2005 when Jeanson Ancheta was arrested for building a 400,000-strong botnet and installing adware from 180 solutions for a fee of $60,000. Cybercriminals have since moved on to installing spyware onto compromised machines.
Zombie machines infected with Trojan horse malware can be used to relay spam or launch denial of service attacks. Compromised machines can be also be pointed to websites from which additional items of malware can be downloaded. The practice is normally used to update Trojan code, but it also creates a means for cybercrooks to make a "nice little earner".
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Topic: Online-Fahndung - on March 20, 2008 at 11:48:00 AM CET
Menschen produzieren riesigen digitalen Schatten
Bits über Bits: Jeder Mausklick, jeder Einkauf und jeder Anruf erzeugt Datensätze, die gespeichert werden. Nach Berechnungen von Marktforschern brauchen diese Nutzerdaten doppelt so viel Speicherplatz wie Digitalfotos, E-Mails oder Texte, die ein Mensch pro Tag abspeichert.
Menschen produzieren mit dem Einsatz digitaler Technik einen riesigen und stetig wachsenden Datenberg: Tausende MP3-Songs, Digitalfotos und Videoclips landen auf den Festplatten heimischer Computer. Die Datenspeicher sind mittlerweile Hunderte Gigabyte groß. Doch die Dateien sind nur ein Teil jener digitalen Informationen, die der moderne Mensch von heute erzeugt und die auch gespeichert werden.
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Topic: PHOTO - on March 20, 2008 at 11:46:00 AM CET
Stanford researchers developing 3-D camera with 12,616 lenses
The camera you own has one main lens and produces a flat, two-dimensional photograph, whether you hold it in your hand or view it on your computer screen. On the other hand, a camera with two lenses (or two cameras placed apart from each other) can take more interesting 3-D photos.
But what if your digital camera saw the world through thousands of tiny lenses, each a miniature camera unto itself? You'd get a 2-D photo, but you'd also get something potentially more valuable: an electronic "depth map" containing the distance from the camera to every object in the picture, a kind of super 3-D.
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Topic: STRANGE - on March 20, 2008 at 11:43:00 AM CET
Another Olympic problem — squat toilets
mong all the protests, pollution concerns and talk of boycotts surrounding the Beijing Olympics, a more basic problem has arisen for organizers: the toilets.
At the more than 30 test events held by organizers, the presence of squat toilets at many of the new and renovated venues has drawn frequent complaints.
"We have asked the venues to improve on this, to increase the number to sit-down toilets," Yao Hui, deputy director of venue management for the Beijing organizers, said Wednesday. "Many people have raised the question of toilets."
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on March 20, 2008 at 11:37:00 AM CET
Police: Allow Sex in All Dutch Parks
The police's National Diversity Expertise Centre (LECD) wants sex allowed in all public parks in the Netherlands. The police institute has advised the cities to follow the example of Amsterdam, De Telegraaf newspaper reported Friday.
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Topic: ART - on March 20, 2008 at 11:36:00 AM CET
Art forgery operation broken up by FBI and Spanish police
Spanish police and the FBI have dismantled a multimillion-dollar international art forgery ring which duped hundreds of customers into buying counterfeit prints of works purporting to be by artists including Picasso, Warhol and Dalí.
Two Italians, one Spaniard and four Americans were charged in connection with two overlapping conspiracies believed to have netted about $5m (£2.5m). With the help of US gallery owners, fraudsters based in Catalonia and Italy used eBay to sell the fakes to victims in the US, Canada, Australia, Europe and Japan, US and Spanish law enforcement officials said. The bogus works were sold for between €1,500 (£1,180) and €20,000 to more than 1,000 clients.
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Topic: BOARD NEWS - on March 20, 2008 at 11:28:00 AM CET
Frau an WC-Sitz festgewachsen
Sie weigerte sich, das Badezimmer zu verlassen. Als Kory McFarren nach zwei Jahren endlich Hilfe holte, war seine Freundin bereits mit der Toilettenbrille verwachsen. Nun muss sich der 37-Jährige im US-Bundesstaat Kansas vor Gericht verantworten.
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