Topic: WEB - on September 17, 2008 at 11:11:00 AM CEST
How to measure a website's IQ?
The creator of the world wide web, Tim Berners-Lee, has made an odd request: for a kind of rating system to help people distinguish sites that can be trusted to tell the truth, and those that can't.
Berners-Lee was speaking at the launch of the World Wide Web Foundation, which aims to ensure that everyone in the world benefits as the web evolves.
In his speech he referred to the way fears that the LHC could destroy the world spread like wildfire online. As the BBC puts it, he explained that "there needed to be new systems that would give websites a label for trustworthiness once they had been proved reliable sources."
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 17, 2008 at 11:08:00 AM CEST
Hallucinogenic chocolates doom Berlin sweet shop
Police closed down a Berlin sweet shop after discovering the owner was selling chocolates and lollipops laced with hallucinogenic mushrooms and marijuana.
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 17, 2008 at 11:07:00 AM CEST
Canada Has Gone To Pot
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Topic: TV - on September 17, 2008 at 11:06:00 AM CEST
'Weeds' Season Four recap
Nancy's having a baby! Or so it would appear, judging from the final scene of Weed's fourth season, which concluded last night. Caught between a rock and a drug lord, Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louis Parker) played a high-stakes card game, stumping Esteban's revealing photo of her and a DEA agent with one of her own baby bump. Thus ended Weeds' sexiest season ever.
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Topic: History - on September 17, 2008 at 11:00:00 AM CEST
Hells Angels
A scene from today's procession and funeral for Mark "Papa" Guardado, head of the Frisco chapter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 17, 2008 at 10:52:00 AM CEST
Microsoft, Cray Unleash $25K Mainstream Supercomputer
Impulse buyers, lock your credit cards in a drawer when you're browsing Amazon.com: You might end up purchasing a $25,000 compact supercomputer on a whim.
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Topic: WEB - on September 17, 2008 at 10:51:00 AM CEST
IsoHunt Lawsuit Sends Message to CRIA, RIAA, MPAA & More - Linking is Legal
The issue of copyright is a hot one at the moment, with sites as diverse as YouTube and The Pirate Bay both having to deal with the subject on a daily basis. The two sites may be very different, but are facing similar gray areas in the law.
The main difference between those two sites is that one will immediately comply with a takedown notice over an alleged copyright claim while the other doesn’t care.
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Topic: WEB - on September 17, 2008 at 10:48:00 AM CEST
CERN wins battle at Wikipedia, LHC history scrubbed
For months on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Wikipedia page a war has been raging between independent physicists and CERN over it's safety, but we have a winner! Wikipedia has watered down the LHC safety issues, banned some veteran members from editing the page, and scrubbed the page history so you can't read it, so to a new visitor clicking on the tab labeled history of the LHC page, it would look like the page was created 7 September, 2008, or whatever date it might be at the time of reading this article since it's continuously being scrubbed, when in reality it was created around 14 January 2004 according to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.
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Topic: WEB - on September 17, 2008 at 10:45:00 AM CEST
The Web back in 1996-1997
Back in 1996 the Web was starting to gain some serious momentum, but it was still just a few years old. Now in 2008, looking 12 years back into the past of the Web can be a both nostalgic and entertaining experience.
To give you some perspective, in 1996…
* Google.com didn’t exist yet.
* In January 1996 there were only 100,000 websites, compared to more than 160 million in 2008.
* The web browser of choice was Netscape Navigator, followed by Microsoft Internet Explorer as a distant second (Microsoft launched IE 3 in 1996).
* Most people used dial-up Internet connections with mighty speeds ranging from 28.8Kbps to 33.6Kbps. Highly modern 56Kbps modems would arrive in 1997.
* People had only recently started to switch from 640×480 to 800×600 screen resolutions.
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Topic: SECURITY - on September 17, 2008 at 10:43:00 AM CEST
Pentagon Researcher Conjures Warcraft Terror Plot
The American military and intelligence communities are increasingly worried that would-be bin Ladens might gather in a virtual world, to plan a real-life attack. But the spies haven't given many details, about how it might be done. Now, a Pentagon researcher has laid out how such a terror plot might unfold. The planning ground is World of Warcraft. The main target of this possibly nuclear strike: the White House.
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Topic: SECURITY - on September 17, 2008 at 10:38:00 AM CEST
Taliban using Skype phones to dodge MI6
Taliban fighters targeting British troops in Afghanistan are using the latest ‘internet phones’ to evade detection by MI6, security sources said last night.
Skype, a popular piece of consumer software that allows free calls to be made over the web, has been adopted by insurgents to communicate with cells strung out across the country.
Unlike traditional mobile calls, which can be monitored by RAF Nimrod spy planes, Skype calls – the commercial application of a technology called Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) – are heavily encrypted.
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Topic: WAR - on September 17, 2008 at 10:36:00 AM CEST
Has the U.S. Invasion of Pakistan Begun?
Having, with much hoopla, launched wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, each disastrous in its own way, the Bush administration in its waning months seems intent on a slo-mo launching of a third war in the border regions of Pakistan. Almost every day now news trickles out of intensified American strikes—by Hellfire-missile armed Predator drones, or even commando raids from helicopters—in the Pakistani tribal areas along the Afghan border; and there is a drumbeat of threats of more to come. All of this, in turn, is reportedly only "phase one" of a three-phase Bush administration plan in which the American military "gloves" would "come off." Think of this as the green-lighting of a new version of that old Vietnam-era tactic of "hot pursuit" across national borders, or think of it simply as the latest war.
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