Topic: Apple - on August 27, 2008 at 4:38:00 PM CEST
Mystery 'iPhone Girl' generates Internet intrigue
Pictures of an Asian factory worker found on a new iPhone sold to a British customer have generated keen discussion on the Internet about her identity — and her fate.
The three pictures, posted on the Apple discussion Web site MacRumors.com, show a young Asian woman working on what appears to be an assembly line for iPhones.
Dressed in a pink striped outfit and hat and wearing white gloves with yellow fingertips, the young woman now known on the Web as the "iPhone Girl" is shown smiling and making victory signs as she poses next to an iPhone.
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Topic: POLITIK - on August 27, 2008 at 2:03:00 PM CEST
Österreich: Parteien zur IT-Politik
Die Futurezone hat bisher in zwei Teilen die Antworten der Parteien in Österreich auf einen Fragenkatalog zur IT-Politik zusammengestellt.
Parteien zur IT-Politik: E-Government Parteien zur IT-Politik: Infrastruktur via
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Topic: MUSIK - on August 27, 2008 at 2:00:00 PM CEST
Led Zeppelin trio back in studio
Led Zeppelin musicians Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and Jason Bonham have been working on new material.
Drummer Bonham told a radio station in Detroit that the songs could be destined for a new Led Zeppelin album.
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Topic: MUSIK - on August 27, 2008 at 1:52:00 PM CEST
Leading Cuban musician arrested
The Cuban authorities have arrested one of the island's leading punk rock musicians, Gorki Aguila of band Porno Para Ricardo.
He could face charges of dangerousness, which allow the authorities to detain people who are likely to commit crimes.
According to fellow band members, he was picked up by police at his home in Havana on Monday as the group were preparing to record their latest album.
The group's lyrics are often critical of life on the communist island.
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Topic: WEB - on August 27, 2008 at 1:49:00 PM CEST
The Internet's Biggest Security Hole
The demonstration is only the latest attack to highlight fundamental security weaknesses in some of the internet's core protocols. Those protocols were largely developed in the 1970s with the assumption that every node on the then-nascent network would be trustworthy. The world was reminded of the quaintness of that assumption in July, when researcher Dan Kaminsky disclosed a serious vulnerability in the DNS system. Experts say the new demonstration targets a potentially larger weakness.
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Topic: WEB - on August 27, 2008 at 1:46:00 PM CEST
There are 905 days until Central Registry IPv4 address exhaustion - The End is Near, but is IPv6?
As of this blog posting, exactly 900 days remain until the end of the Internet, or at least the exhaustion of IPv4 registry allocations. And you don’t have to take my word for it, even the normally staid London Times and Fox News proclaimed, “Internet meltdown… The world is heading for a digital doomsday”.
Heady stuff.
Of course, IPv6 (or the new IPv4) was supposed to take care of all of this — billions of billions of new IP addresses, hardened security built in from the start, and an elegant new architecture to replace all of IPv4’s hacks.
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Topic: DRUGS - on August 27, 2008 at 1:42:00 PM CEST
Queen feuert Mitglieder ihrer Leibgarde
Ihre Aufgabe ist es, Königin Elizabeth II. zu schützen und bei königlichen Zeremonien ihre Dienste zu tun: Jetzt wurden fünf Mitglieder der renommierten "Royal Horse Artillery" gefeuert, weil sie Drogen nahmen.
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Topic: DRUGS - on August 27, 2008 at 1:41:00 PM CEST
Killing bacteria with cannabis
Pharmacists and chemists have found another use for the multipurpose cannabis as a source of antibacterial chemicals for multidrug resistant bacteria. Ironically, inhaling cannabis is known to damage the lung's ability to fend off invading pathogens, but the ingredients in cannabis, particularly the cannabinoids, have antiseptic properties. Although scattered research has been conducted since the 1950s, no comprehensive study existed that relates the structure of cannabinoids with antibacterial activity. Giovanni Appendino, Simon Gibbons, and coworkers attempted to remedy that problem by examining the activity of five common cannabinoids and their synthetic derivatives.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 27, 2008 at 12:52:00 PM CEST
Notebooks in der ISS mit Schadsoftware infiziert
Mehrere Notebooks auf der Internationalen Raumstation (International Space Station, ISS) waren nach einem Pressebericht kürzlich mit einer Schadsoftware infiziert. Nach Aussagen der US-Weltraumbehörde Nasa waren jedoch keine wichtigen Systeme betroffen.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 27, 2008 at 10:14:00 AM CEST
Virus Infects Space Station Laptops (Again)
Viruses intended to steal passwords and send them to a remote server infected laptops in the Iss_laptopsInternational Space Station in July, NASA confirmed Tuesday.
And according to NASA, this wasn't the first infection.
"This is not the first time we have had a worm or a virus," NASA spokesman Kelly Humphries said. "It's not a frequent occurrence, but this isn't the first time."
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Topic: STRANGE - on August 27, 2008 at 10:12:00 AM CEST
WoW - RL Race Across Azeroth
We've always wondered what it would be like to run the same distance in the real world that we run every day in Warcraft. Finding out required duct tape, computers, custom scripts, sore legs, and elf ears. We had been wanting to connect a treadmill to Warcraft and calibrate the speed for a long time. Probably since we started calling Warcraft "RunCraft" because neither of us had mounts.
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