Topic: POLITIK - on December 24, 2011 at 11:33:00 AM CET
Russia vote-rigging protests in Vladivostok and Moscow
Russia's opposition is holding rallies to protest against what it says were rigged elections on 4 December.
In the first of the day's rallies in the far eastern city of Vladivostok, regional MP Artyom Samsonov said the election results should be cancelled.
In the capital alone, organisers say some 50,000 people are expected to gather on Sakharov Avenue.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 24, 2011 at 11:30:00 AM CET
Jail for man who grew cannabis 'Christmas tree'
A man who grew a large cannabis plant to look like a Christmas tree will spend the festive season in prison after police found his home-based drug factory.
Ian Richards, 46, made the cannabis plant resemble a festive tree by growing it to 5ft tall and decorating it with brightly-coloured baubles.
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Topic: FUN - on December 24, 2011 at 11:27:00 AM CET
Odd Things to Be on a Leash
BuzzFeed collected this silly little gallery full of hilarious images of odd things on leashes. Some of them are questionable in terms of strangeness (people leash their kids all the time, right?) while others are truly weird, and really make you wonder what we humans will be leashing up next?
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Topic: LEGO - on December 24, 2011 at 10:21:00 AM CET
The Large Hadron Collider has been recreated in Lego
Sasha Mehlhase, a post doc from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen has spent approximately 81 hours of work end EURO 2,000 to build a model of CERN's Large Hadron Collider's Atlas detector...out of LEGO bricks. All in all 9,500 LEGO brics were used on the model which is made in a 1:50 scale. His idea is to use the model for alternative learning - fx on events such as the Culture Night in Copenhagen. Sasha Mehlhase is currently working on a manual for construction of his model, so it can be reproduced.
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on December 24, 2011 at 10:19:00 AM CET
Regierung gab bisher mehr als sechs Millionen für Medienberatung aus
Seit Anfang 2009 - Spitzenreiter: Innenministerium mit mehr als 1,8 Millionen Euro
Die Bundesregierung hat seit ihrem Bestehen im Jahr 2009 mehr als 6,2 Mio. Euro für Medien- und Strategieberatung ausgegeben. Das geht aus einer parlamentarischen Anfrage-Beantwortungsserie des Grünen Karl Öllinger hervor, berichtet der "Kurier" (Samstag-Ausgabe).
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on December 24, 2011 at 10:17:00 AM CET
Behörden vernichteten Beweismittel zu Terror-Trio
Ermittler waren den 1998 untergetauchten Neonazis Zschäpe, Mundlos und Böhnhardt auf der Spur: Sie hörten mutmaßliche Unterstützer ab. Nun bestätigte das Thüringer LKA, dass Mitschnitte von Telefonaten später gelöscht wurden. Die Verjährungsfrist war abgelaufen.
Das Thüringer Landeskriminalamt (LKA) hat bestätigt, dass Telefonmitschnitte von mutmaßlichen Helfern der Zwickauer Neonazi-Terrorzelle vernichtet worden sind. Grund seien die Löschfristen im Anschluss an die Einstellung des Ermittlungsverfahrens 2003 gewesen. Einen Verdacht auf eine terroristische Vereinigung hatten damals weder die Staatsanwaltschaft Gera gesehen noch der Generalbundesanwalt, der die Akten zu dem Fall angefordert hatte.
Das LKA bestätigte damit einen Bericht der "Berliner Zeitung". Demnach sind aber noch schriftliche Zusammenfassungen der Gespräche vorhanden. Sächsische Behörden hätten im Jahr 2000 sieben mutmaßliche Helfer des zwei Jahre zuvor untergetauchten Trios abgehört.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on December 24, 2011 at 10:13:00 AM CET
More And More Internet Infrastructure Players Coming Out To Say How Bad SOPA/PIPA Are
We've noted in the past that most of the people who actually understand the basic internet infrastructure have come out against SOPA and PIPA. That includes both individuals and companies (such as OpenDNS and Dyn), but it appears that we may be reaching a tipping point with tons and tons of internet infrastructure companies speaking out against these bills. We've already talked about the massive GoDaddy backlash... but it's interesting to note that many registrars and hosting companies are using this as an opportunity to speak out against SOPA and PIPA. Hover, Dreamhost, NameCheap and Name.com have all made explicit statements on their blogs. Back in the DNS space, EasyDNS has written a blistering anti-SOPA post on its blog:
If this becomes law, it's a short stretch from SOPA to NODA (No Online Dissent Anywhere) and if you think I'm a nutcase for saying so, I'd like to remind everybody what happened just over a year ago, when US politicians were tripping over themselves to shut down wikileaks (a royal fiasco in which this company was embroiled) and to this day, they have not been charged with a crime anywhere.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on December 24, 2011 at 10:08:00 AM CET
GoDaddy Drops SOPA Support After Customer Revolt
Domain registrar and hosting company GoDaddy has dropped its support for the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). The change in position follows the protests of thousands of customers who threatened to transfer their domains to competitors. In a statement released today the company now says it “will support it when and if the Internet community supports it.”
sopaA list of SOPA-supporting companies published earlier this week spurred a variety of customer initiatives.
Most prominent was the campaign against domain registrar GoDaddy that started on Reddit yesterday. Within hours hundreds of people voiced their support for the initiative to transfer domain names away from GoDaddy.
The CEO of the famous Cheezeburger network quickly joined and threatened to move 1000+ domains, and many other big names including Wikipedia followed the example. In addition, nearly all of GoDaddy’s top competitors recognized the great marketing initiative and offered coupon codes to those who want to make the switch.
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