Topic: 911 - on May 14, 2008 at 5:52:57 PM CEST
9/11: Keine Anklage gegen "20. Attentäter"
Washington (dpa) - Das US-Pentagon hat ohne Angaben von Gründen die Anklage gegen Mohammed al-Kahtani fallengelassen, der als "20. Attentäter" der Anschläge vom 11. September 2001 galt.
Zugleich habe die US-Militärjustiz jedoch die Anklagen gegen den Ex-Chefplaner des Terrornetzes El Kaida, Chalid Scheich Mohammed, sowie vier weitere mutmaßliche Beteiligte der verheerenden Terroranschläge von New York und Washington bestätigt, teilte das Pentagon am Dienstag mit. Im Falle einer Verurteilung droht ihnen die Todesstrafe. Die fünf sitzen im US-Gefangenenlager Guantánamo Bay (Kuba).
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on May 14, 2008 at 3:24:34 PM CEST
HOWTO handle a police-stop
Here's the latest installment in Instructables' series of HOWTOs inspired by my young adult novel Little Brother, which tells the story of young people who use homebrew technology to restore their civil liberties after a police crackdown on terrorism.
This week's installment: What to do if the police stop you.
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Topic: DRUGS - on May 14, 2008 at 3:20:14 PM CEST
The Future of Psychedelics
The 2008 World Psychedelic Forum was an almost shockingly respectable affair. Held in Basel, Switzerland, in a spacious convention center next to the five-star Swissôtel Basel, the event drew 1,500 visitors for a two-day symposium on the past and present state of psychedelic thought and research. Despite flashes of eccentricity and DayGlo, you could have easily thought you were at a conference for alternative medicine or some abstruse but uncontroversial hobby. I felt honored to be one of the speakers, part of a high-profile group which included the Czech LSD researcher and theorist Stanislav Grof; Ralph Metzner, a well-known author and teacher and one of Leary's original partners at Harvard; botanists Dennis McKenna, Christian Raetsch and Kat Harrison; MAPS director Rick Doblin; anthropologist and author Jeremy Narby; visionary artists Alex and Allyson Grey; and many more.
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Topic: MUSIK - on May 14, 2008 at 3:16:58 PM CEST
100 Essential Jazz Albums
While finishing “Bird-Watcher,” a Profile of the jazz broadcaster and expert Phil Schaap, I thought it might be useful to compile a list of a hundred essential jazz albums, more as a guide for the uninitiated than as a source of quarrelling for the collector. First, I asked Schaap to assemble the list, but, after a couple of false starts, he balked. Such attempts, he said, have been going on for a long time, but “who remembers the lists and do they really succeed in driving people to the source?” Add to that, he said, “the dilemma of the current situation,” in which music is often bought and downloaded from dubious sources. Schaap bemoaned the loss of authoritative discographies and the “troubles” of the digital age, particularly the loss of informative aids like liner notes and booklets. In the end, he provided a few basic titles from Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Miles Davis, and other classics and admitted to a “pyrrhic victory.”
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Topic: SCIENCE - on May 14, 2008 at 3:15:07 PM CEST
Childish superstition: Einstein's letter makes view of religion relatively clear
Scientist's reply to sell for up to £8,000, and stoke debate over his beliefs.
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." So said Albert Einstein, and his famous aphorism has been the source of endless debate between believers and non-believers wanting to claim the greatest scientist of the 20th century as their own.
A little known letter written by him, however, may help to settle the argument - or at least provoke further controversy about his views.
Due to be auctioned this week in London after being in a private collection for more than 50 years, the document leaves no doubt that the theoretical physicist was no supporter of religious beliefs, which he regarded as "childish superstitions".
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Topic: COMPUTER - on May 14, 2008 at 3:12:54 PM CEST
Air Force Colonel Wants to Build a Military Botnet
While most government agencies are struggling to keep their computers out of the latest Russian botnets, Col. Charles W. Williamson III is proposing that the Air Force build its own zombie network, so it can launch distributed denial of service attacks on foreign enemies.
In the most lunatic idea to come out of the military since the gay bomb, Williamson writes in the Armed Force Journal that the Air Force should deliberately install DDoS code on its unclassified computers, as well as civilian government machines. He even wants to rescue old machines from the junk bin to enlist in the .mil botnet army.
wired.com A U.S military botnet in the works Carpet bombing in cyberspace Why America needs a military botnet
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Topic: COMPUTER - on May 14, 2008 at 3:11:32 PM CEST
Hacker posts personal details of 6m Chileans
A hacker with a point to prove posted personal details on 6m Chileans on the internet after lifting the information from government websites.
The unidentified hacker posted data including names, telephone numbers, addresses and educational details on two websites (IT site FayerWayer and community site ElAntro) after stealing the data from sites run by the state-owned telco, an electoral agency and the Education Ministry. The sensitive data was available for around two hours over the weekend before the authorities stepped in, El Mercurio reports.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on May 14, 2008 at 3:10:17 PM CEST
International Hackers Indicted for Sniffing Credit Cards from Dave & Buster's
Three international hackers have been indicted for allegedly using "college-level knowledge of computer programming skills" to steal and sell credit card numbers from customers of Dave & Buster's restaurant chain, the Justice Department said Monday.
One of the men arrested, Maksym Yastremskiy, of Ukraine, was found in possession of millions of stolen credit card numbers, unrelated to the restaurant, on his laptop when the Turkish National Police arrested him in July. The indictments were unsealed Monday in the Eastern District of New York, and cover a 5-month-long intrusion last year into the Dallas-based eatery.
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