Topic: PHOTO - on April 11, 2008 at 11:02:00 AM CEST
The World's Most Extreme Photography Equipment
There are several categories of camera gear available: there's the sensible, the desirable and then there's the stuff that you'd never even imagined. Here's a selection of equipment that most definitely belongs in the latter category.
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Topic: Online-Fahndung - on April 11, 2008 at 11:01:00 AM CEST
Europe rejects plan to criminalize file-sharing
The European Parliament rejected attempts to criminalize the sharing of files by private individuals and threw out the idea of banning copyright abusers from the Internet, in a plenary vote Thursday.
The vote was close, with 314 MEPs (Members of the European Parliament) voting in favor of an amendment to scrap what many consider draconian and disproportionate measures to protect copyright over the internet, and 297 voting against the amendment.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on April 11, 2008 at 10:58:00 AM CEST
Windows is 'collapsing,' Gartner analysts warn
Calling the situation "untenable" and describing Windows as "collapsing," a pair of Gartner analysts yesterday said Microsoft Corp. must make radical changes to its operating system or risk becoming a has-been.
In a presentation at a Gartner-sponsored conference in Las Vegas, analysts Michael Silver and Neil MacDonald said Microsoft has not responded to the market, is overburdened by nearly two decades of legacy code and decisions, and faces serious competition on a whole host of fronts that will make Windows moot unless the software developer acts.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on April 11, 2008 at 10:37:00 AM CEST
VIRENJÄGER KASPERSKY - "Apple-Nutzer tragen Hawaii-Hemden"
Jewgenij "Eugene" Kaspersky gehört zu den besten Kennern der kriminellen Virenszene. Im Gespräch mit SPIEGEL ONLINE erklärt er, warum kriminelle Programmierer die Cyber-Chaoten verdrängt haben - und warum es gut ist, dass Windows-Nutzer Kummer gewöhnt sind.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on April 11, 2008 at 10:36:00 AM CEST
RSA - Top botnets control 1M hijacked computers
Storm is a shadow of its former self, Kraken is just another name for Bobax and the biggest botnet goes by the mouthful of "Srizbi," a noted botnet researcher said Wednesday as he released the results of his census of the various armies of hacked computers that spew spam.
Joe Stewart, director of malware research at SecureWorks, presented his survey at the RSA Conference, which opened Monday in San Francisco. The survey ranked the top 11 botnets that send spam; by extrapolating their size, Stewart estimated the bots on his list control just over a million machines and are capable of flooding the Internet with more than 100 billion spam messages every day.
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Topic: ART - on April 11, 2008 at 10:33:00 AM CEST
Andre Kutscherauer
This, unfortunately, is a 3D render and not a sculpture. It’s by an artist named Andre Kutscherauer who, if he actually constructed some of these little guys, has the potential to get very very rich. I’m not saying they have to actually be able to run around looking for a power socket to keep themselves from dying or whatever, but the idea is undeniably clever.
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Topic: FUN - on April 11, 2008 at 10:29:00 AM CEST
Poseable Paper Pope
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Topic: food - on April 11, 2008 at 10:27:00 AM CEST
Pair of Japanese mangoes fetches 2,000 dollars
The mangoes, produced in southern Miyazaki Prefecture, were sold for 200,000 yen in the season's first auction here, an official at fruit wholesaler Tokyo Seika said. The buyer's identity was not disclosed.
The price far surpassed the previous Japanese record of 38,000 yen bid last year for a similar pair.
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Topic: NEWS english - on April 11, 2008 at 10:26:00 AM CEST
Car wash finds $500,000 diamond pendant
Car cleaners at a Russian firm got a surprise when they cleaned out a vacuum cleaner this week: a diamond pendant worth up to 300,000 euros ($475,400).
"I didn't know how much it was worth at first so I got a jeweler to come around and he said it was worth as much as 300,000 euros," Vladimir Shapiro, owner of the car cleaning firm in Russia's northern city of St Petersburg, told Reuters.
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