Topic: FUN - on September 15, 2008 at 10:53:00 AM CEST
Evolutionists Flock To Darwin-Shaped Wall Stain
"I brought my baby to touch the wall, so that the power of Darwin can purify her genetic makeup of undesirable inherited traits," said Darlene Freiberg, one among a growing crowd assembled here to see the mysterious stain, which appeared last Monday on one side of the Rhea County Courthouse. The building was also the location of the famed "Scopes Monkey Trial" and is widely considered one of Darwinism's holiest sites. "Forgive me, O Charles, for ever doubting your Divine Evolution. After seeing this miracle of limestone pigmentation with my own eyes, my faith in empirical reasoning will never again be tested."
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Topic: VIDEO - on September 15, 2008 at 10:46:00 AM CEST
3M Launches first Pocket Projector
The holy grail of gadgets springs at last (from an unlikely source)
That’s projector, not protector. But geeks will rejoice nonetheless. The pocketsize projector has been the Holy Grail of gadgets for many years, and now we’ve got it. 3M sent us one of their first samples of their MPro110 mini projector a few weeks ago (but asked us to keep it on the down-low for a while). I immediately plugged it into a DVD player and watched Blackhawk Down on my desk—literally, on it, as I aimed it at my white Ikea desktop. (Ah, to be owned by a Swedish company.) It also worked on the wall, on a piece of 8.5-by-11-inch printer paper and on the back of my colleague, Doug.
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Topic: WEB - on September 15, 2008 at 10:44:00 AM CEST
U.N. agency eyes curbs on Internet anonymity
A United Nations agency is quietly drafting technical standards, proposed by the Chinese government, to define methods of tracing the original source of Internet communications and potentially curbing the ability of users to remain anonymous.
The U.S. National Security Agency is also participating in the "IP Traceback" drafting group, named Q6/17, which is meeting next week in Geneva to work on the traceback proposal. Members of Q6/17 have declined to release key documents, and meetings are closed to the public.
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Topic: POLITIK - on September 15, 2008 at 10:43:00 AM CEST
Rule Changes Would Give FBI Agents Extensive New Powers
The Justice Department will unveil changes to FBI ground rules today that would put much more power into the hands of line agents pursuing leads on national security, foreign intelligence and even ordinary criminal cases.
The overhaul, the most substantial revision to FBI operating instructions in years, also would ease some reporting requirements between agents, their supervisors and federal prosecutors in what authorities call a critical effort to improve information gathering and detect terrorist threats.
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Topic: 911 - on September 15, 2008 at 10:36:00 AM CEST
Wikileaks obtains 10 years of messages, interviews from Osama bin Laden translated by CIA
Wikileaks.org, the website dedicated to leaking previously unreleased documents, has obtained 10 years of messages and interviews by Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda. The documents were translated by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the United States.
The nearly three hundred page, 'official use only' packet from 2004, translated by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS), a division of the CIA, includes interviews with bin Laden from various news agencies and also includes messages he sent directly to the U.S. from the periods of 1994 to 2004.
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Topic: ART - on September 15, 2008 at 10:30:00 AM CEST
Stephen Hawking to unveil strange new way to tell the time
Prof Stephen Hawking is to unveil a remarkable £1 million clock with no hands that pays tribute to the world's greatest clockmaker. # What makes nature's clocks tick? # Clock from 1776 just goes on and on # World's most accurate clock unveiled
One clock made by the legendary John Harrison, the pioneer of longitude, took 36 years to build and he was still calibrating it when he died at his home in London on March 24, 1776, his 83rd birthday.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on September 15, 2008 at 10:28:00 AM CEST
Large Hadron Collider's Hacker Infiltration Highlights Vulnerabilities
Though the Large Hadron Collider's infiltration by hackers did not disrupt the $6 billion project, experts warn that its computer systems are vulnerable -- though at least their exploitation won't destroy Earth.
Shortly after physicists activated the Collider on Wednesday, hackers identifying themselves as Group 2600 of the Greek Security Team accessed computers connected to the Compact Muon Solenoid detector, one of four key subsystems responsible for monitoring the collisions of protons speeding around the 18-mile track near Geneva, Switzerland.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on September 15, 2008 at 10:25:00 AM CEST
Urknall-Experiment nach Hackerangriff nicht gefährdet
Entwarnung nach dem Hackerangriff auf den Teilchenbeschleunigers LHC: Ein Cern-Sprecher in Genf sagte, es sei "nichts Schlimmes" passiert. Die Angreifer wollten offenbar nur auf Sicherheitslücken hinweisen.
Es war ein Schuss vor den Bug: Am Mittwoch hatte ein Hackerangriff gezeigt, dass die europäische Organisation für Kernforschung Cern bei Genf Sicherheitslücken aufweist, die den weltgrößten Teilchenbeschleuniger LHC und die zugehörigen Detektoren betreffen. Doch der Zugriff blieb offenbar ohne schwerwiegende Folgen: "Es sieht so aus, als sei nichts Schlimmes passiert", zitierte die britische Zeitung "The Times" am Samstag Cern-Sprecher James Gillies. "Scheinbar wollten die Leute beweisen, dass man sich ins Cern einhacken kann."
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