Wednesday, 21. July 2010
Topic: Netz - on July 21, 2010 at 1:16:00 PM CEST
Forderungen für ein lebenswertes Netz
Der Chaos Computer Club (CCC) hat seit Beginn seines Bestehens die Chancen und Möglichkeiten, die das vernetzte Leben mit sich bringt, erkannt und propagiert. Viele der ursprünglichen – damals noch futuristisch anmutenden – Visionen sind inzwischen nicht nur Realität, sondern Selbstverständlichkeiten in der Mitte der Gesellschaft geworden. Der Einzug des Internets in den Alltag fast der gesamten Bevölkerung hat uns Datenschutzsorgen gebracht, aber auch zu einer Demokratisierung, einer Bereicherung aus wissenschaftlicher, sozialer und künstlerischer Sicht geführt. Die Selbstheilungskräfte des Internets haben dabei viele befürchtete dystopische Auswüchse ohne staatliches Eingreifen verhindern können. Aus unserer Sicht liegt der aktuellen Diskussion eine Fehleinschätzung zugrunde, an welchen Stellen Regulierungsbedarf notwendig ist und an welchen nicht.
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Topic: STRANGE - on July 21, 2010 at 1:14:00 PM CEST
Man caught smuggling 18 monkeys in his clothes
38-year-old Roberto Cabrera arrived at Mexico City's international airport on a commercial flight from Lima, Peru, on Friday when authorities noticed the bulge and conducted a body search, the Public Safety Department said in a statement on Monday.
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Topic: BP - on July 21, 2010 at 1:13:00 PM CEST
BP Launches Effort To Control Scientific Research Of Oil Disaster
Foreign oil giant BP is on a spending spree, buying Gulf Coast scientists for its private contractor army. Scientists from Louisiana State University, Mississippi State University and Texas A&M have “signed contracts with BP to work on their behalf in the Natural Resources Damage Assessment (NRDA) process” that determines how much ecological damage the Gulf of Mexico region is suffering from BP’s toxic black tide. The contract, the Mobile Press-Register has learned, “prohibits the scientists from publishing their research, sharing it with other scientists or speaking about the data that they collect for at least the next three years.” Bob Shipp, head of marine sciences at the University of South Alabama — whose entire department BP wished to hire — refused to sign over their integrity to the corporate criminal:
We told them there was no way we would agree to any kind of restrictions on the data we collect. It was pretty clear we wouldn’t be hearing from them again after that. We didn’t like the perception of the university representing BP in any fashion.
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Topic: BP - on July 21, 2010 at 1:03:00 PM CEST
BP's photoshopped spill response command center
...when AMERICAblog's John Aravosis pointed to a poorly Photoshopped photo of the company's crisis command center in Houston which was published on BP's official crisis response website. The company has now come clean (sort of) to The Washington Post -- claiming this morning that it was the photographer who snapped the image who was responsible for inserting three extra video screens into a bank of monitors. It still remains unclear, though, precisely why the alterations were even made in the first place.
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