Friday, 24. July 2009

Not All Of Google May Be Available In Your Country


The name is “world wide web”, but it’s not always. What are some of Google’s services that will only work in one country, or a limited set of countries? (Unless perhaps you route around the block – geolocation by IP, as it’s often implemented, is not an impossible hurdle.) Here are some examples

blogoscoped.com

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Milliarden-Dollar-Drogenfund in Kalifornien


Drogenfahnder haben in Kalifornien Marihuana-Pflanzen im Wert von über einer Milliarde Dollar beschlagnahmt. Wie der US-Sender CNN am Donnerstag berichtete, gingen den Beamten mehr als 80 Verdächtige ins Netz, viele davon mit Verbindungen zu mexikanischen Drogenkartellen.

nzz.ch orf.at

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$1 billion in marijuana seized in California


Authorities have seized $1 billion worth of marijuana plants and have arrested 82 Mexican nationals with ties to drug cartels in the first week and half of an effort to eradicate marijuana fields from California's Fresno County, the county sheriff's office said Wednesday.

cnn.com

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Deluxe Miracle Jesus Action Figure


Hier eine Jesus Actionfigur, die 5000 Leute mit fünf Broten und zwei Fischen ernähren kann und obendrein noch Glow-In-The-Dark-Hände hat. Ein Glow-In-The-Dark-Hands-Jesus!

Deluxe Miracle Jesus Action Figure

nerdcore.de

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Giant 'soap bubble' found floating in space


IT LOOKS like a soap bubble or perhaps even a camera fault, but the image at right is a newly discovered planetary nebula.

Planetary nebulae, which got their name after being misidentified by early astronomers, are formed when an ageing star weighing up to eight times the mass of the sun ejects its outer layers as clouds of luminous gas (see Why stars go out in a blaze of glory). Most are elliptical, double-lobed or cigar-shaped, evolving after stars eject gas from each pole (see a gallery of the nebulae).

Giant 'soap bubble' found floating in space

newscientist.com

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Kaspersky veröffentlicht Details zur Botnetz-Schattenwirtschaft


Ein neuer Artikel des Virenanalysten Yuri Namestnikov von Kaspersky, russischer Anbieter von Virenschutzsoftware, fasst den derzeitigen Stand in Sachen Botnetze zusammen. Er erläutert, wie Computer infiziert und zu Zombienetzen zusammengeschlossen werden und für welche Zwecke man die so entstandenen Botnetze einsetzt.

heise.de

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