Topic: COMPUTER - on August 10, 2008 at 6:33:00 PM CEST
Why Microsoft and Intel tried to kill the XO $100 laptop
Nicholas Negroponte had a vision: to build a $100 laptop and give away millions to educate the world’s poorest children. And then the fat-cat multinationals got scared and broke it...
At the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2005, Nicholas Negroponte, supreme prophet of digital connectivity, revealed a strange tent-like object. It was designed to change the world and to cost $100. It was a solar-powered laptop. Millions would be distributed to children in the developing world, bringing them connection, education, enlightenment and freedom of information. The great, the good, the rich and the technocrats nodded in solemn approval.
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Topic: TV - on August 10, 2008 at 6:31:00 PM CEST
TV-Mitarbeiter gesteht Manipulation von Live-Bildern
Die Eröffnungsfeier der Olympischen Spiele hat bewiesen: Kaum eine Nation kann mit Feuerwerkskörpern so imposante Spektakel inszenieren wie China. Doch jetzt hat ein Mitarbeiter des Künstlerteams zugegeben, dass ein Teil der Live-Farbspiele im Fernsehen manipuliert wurde.
Imagepolitur mit opulenter Megashow: Mit einem nie dagewesenen Spektakel verblüffte die Pekinger Olympia-Eröffnungsfeier am Freitag Fernsehzuschauer und Kritiker. "Fantastisch - zu fantastisch" fand das die italienische Tageszeitung "La Repubblica", und der britische "Independent" bekannte: "Es ist schwer, wenn nicht unmöglich zu bestreiten: Das war die größte Show, die die Welt je gesehen hat."
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Topic: WEB - on August 10, 2008 at 12:32:00 PM CEST
ISPs block The Pirate Bay in Italy
The Pirate Bay has encountered its fair share of challenges lately. Earlier this month, TPB experienced some downtime, thanks to the compounding effect of traffic and server upgrades. Today, a blog post by spokesman Peter Sunde reports that The Pirate Bay has been blocked by all major ISPs in Italy.
We have had fights previously in Italy, recently with our successful art installation where we had to storm Fortezza in order to get our art done. And as usual, we won. We will also win this time.
We have already changed IP for the website - that makes it work for half the ISPs again. And we want you all to inform your italian friends to switch their DNS to OpenDNS so they can bypass their ISPs filters. This will also let them bypass the other filters installed by the Italian government, as a bonus. And for the meanwhile - labaia.org works (La Baia means The Bay in Italian).
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Topic: GOOGLE - on August 10, 2008 at 12:24:00 PM CEST
“Google has stationed approximately a million computers worldwide to be able to process the 40 billion searches per month. One search request uses as much energy as a low-energy light bulb in one hour.” (25000 Joule/Hour = 7 Watt/Second)
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Topic: GOOGLE - on August 10, 2008 at 12:23:00 PM CEST
Surfing Google may be harmful to your security
A well-known researcher specializing in website security has strongly criticized safety on Google, arguing the world's biggest search engine needlessly puts its millions of users at risk.
"Google is and will be and always has been vulnerable," Robert Hansen, CEO of secTheory, told a standing-room-only audience at the Defcon security conference in Las Vegas. "They haven't been open with consumers. Ultimately, this all comes down the the fact that they just want to track you guys."
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on August 10, 2008 at 12:18:00 PM CEST
Federal judge halts Defcon talk on subway card hacking
A federal judge on Saturday gagged three Massachusetts Institute of Technology undergraduates from publicly presenting research at Defcon demonstrating gaping holes in the electronic payment systems of one of the nation's biggest transit agencies.
US District Judge Douglas P. Woodlock issued the order at the request of the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority, which sued the three students and MIT on Friday. It forbids Zack Anderson, 21, RJ Ryan, 22 and Alessandro Chiesa, 20, from "providing program, information, software code or command that would assist another in any material way to circumvent or otherwise attack the the security" of the MBTA's fare system.
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