Topic: COPYRIGHT - on May 21, 2010 at 10:37:00 AM CEST
Lost Hacking Documentary Surfaces on Pirate Bay
After collecting cobwebs in a studio vault for the better part of a decade, an unreleased documentary on the 2003 hacking scene leaked onto the Pirate Bay Thursday.
Narrated by actor Kevin Spacey, the 90-minute Hackers Wanted follows the exploits of Adrian Lamo, who pleaded guilty in 2004 to cracking the internal network of The New York Times. The film was produced by Spacey’s Trigger Street production company, and includes interviews with Kevin Rose and Steve Wozniak.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on May 21, 2010 at 10:35:00 AM CEST
German High Court Declares All Software Patentable
Long gone are the times when Europe was that bastion of resistance against software patents and patents on such things as file systems were ruled invalid. In a decision published today, the Federal Court of Justice of Germany upheld a patent on the automatic generation of structured documents (such as XML/HTML) in a client-server setting.
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Topic: History - on May 21, 2010 at 10:33:00 AM CEST
Fader pushers mourn Fritz Sennheiser
The founder of Sennheiser Electronics, Dr Fritz Sennheiser, has died aged 98.
Sennheiser studied electronics in Berlin in 1929 first at the Technical University then the Heinrich Hertz Institute. He helped build the amplification for the 1936 Berlin Olympics ceremony. During the war he worked in cryptography, but this was verboten by the Allies after VE Day.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on May 21, 2010 at 10:32:00 AM CEST
Polizist hielt Bohrmaschine für Maschinenpistole
In Rio de Janeiro hatte der Irrtum eines Polizisten tragische Folgen: Weil der Beamte einen mit Bohrmaschine auf seinem Balkon arbeitenden Heimwerker für einen Drogengangster mit Maschinenpistole hielt, gab er einen tödlichen Schuss auf den Mann ab.
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Topic: WEB - on May 21, 2010 at 10:28:00 AM CEST
Penn Point
Penn Point is no ordinary vlog. It's an ongoing virtual conversation about what's going on around us. And now you can get a front row seat to his witty, informative, and prolific points of view! Penn has a point that he wants to make...and you won't want to miss it.
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