Topic: COPYRIGHT - on February 23, 2012 at 5:40:00 PM CET
FAQ on referral of ACTA to European Court of Justice
Following the recent decision of the European Commission to refer the draft Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) to the European Court of Justice, Access and EDRi have prepared this short FAQ to explain this process.
1 - How can the EC refer ACTA to the CJEU?......
..... 11 - What should be done while we await the Court’s ruling?
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Topic: War and Peace News - on February 23, 2012 at 2:23:00 PM CET
Syria regime tanks reportedly enter Homs
Activists say Syrian forces have resumed shelling an opposition stronghold in Homs a day after attacks on the area killed dozens of people including two Western journalists, and have driven tanks into one neighborhood in what could be the beginning of an expected ground siege.
"Tanks have entered the Jobar area in the south of Baba Amr," said activist Abu Imad, according to the Reuters news agency, which said he contacted them from inside the beseiged city.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on February 23, 2012 at 1:26:00 PM CET
Österreichweite Proteste gegen ACTA am Samstag
Tausende zu Märschen in Wien und Landeshauptstädten erwartet - Organisatoren hoffen auf Ratifizierungs-Stopp
Zwei Wochen nach den europaweiten Protesten gegen ACTA finden am Samstag erneut Demonstrationen in Österreich statt. Organisiert werden sie von der Piratenpartei, den Grünen, der "Initiative für Netzfreiheit" und der Sozialistischen Jugend. Geplant sind Kundgebungen in Wien, Graz, Linz, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt und Bregenz.
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Topic: CARS - on February 23, 2012 at 12:53:00 PM CET
How To Brick An Electric Car - Tesla Motors’ Devastating Design Problem
Tesla Motors' lineup of all-electric vehicles — its existing Roadster, almost certainly its impending Model S, and possibly its future Model X — apparently suffer from a severe limitation that can largely destroy the value of the vehicle. If the battery is ever totally discharged, the owner is left with what Tesla describes as a "brick": a completely immobile vehicle that cannot be started or even pushed down the street. The only known remedy is for the owner to pay Tesla approximately $40,000 to replace the entire battery. Unlike practically every other modern car problem, neither Tesla's warranty nor typical car insurance policies provide any protection from this major financial loss. Here's how it happens.
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Topic: WEB - on February 23, 2012 at 12:01:00 PM CET
Facebook Kiffen ja, Nippel nein
Ein geheimes Handbuch für Facebook-Kontrolleure zeigt, was das Netzwerk in seinem Reich duldet. Kiffen, zerquetschte Köpfe, tiefe Fleischwunden - alles kein Problem. Nicht okay sind Sex, weibliche Brustwarzen, Tierquälerei: Solche Bilder werden gelöscht. Subtil setzt der Konzern seine eigenen Werte durch.
Bei Facebook darf man schreiben: "Ich habe einen großen Penis und mag es, wenn Mädchen ihn anfassen." Verboten dagegen ist: "Ich suche nach Mädchen, die Spaß haben wollen. Schickt mir eine Nachricht, wenn ihr eine gute Zeit haben wollt."
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Topic: SECURITY - on February 23, 2012 at 11:59:00 AM CET
Disconnection of Millions of DNSChanger-Infected PCs Delayed
Millions of computers infected with the stealthy and tenacious DNSChanger Trojan may be spared a planned disconnection from the Internet early next month if a New York court approves a new request by the U.S. government. Meanwhile, six men accused of managing and profiting from the huge collection of hacked PCs are expected to soon be extradited from their native Estonia to face charges in the United States.
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Topic: nuclear power - on February 23, 2012 at 11:59:00 AM CET
Vor Fukushima wird der Meeresgrund zubetoniert
Vor dem Atomkraftwerk Fukushima Daiichi soll der Meeresboden mit dicken Betonschicht abgedichtet werden, um eine weitere radioaktive Kontaminierung des Ozeans zu verhindern.
Vor dem Atomkraftwerk Fukushima Daiichi soll der Meeresgrund mit einer 60 Zentimeter dicken Betonschicht abgedichtet werden. Wie die Betreibergesellschaft der nach dem Erdbeben vom 11. März im vergangenen Jahr schwer beschädigten japanischen Atomreaktoren, die Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), am Mittwoch in Tokio mitteilte, soll die Betondecke mehr als 73.000 Quadratmeter groß sein. Das entspricht der Größe von zehn Fußballfeldern.
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Topic: nuclear power - on February 23, 2012 at 11:57:00 AM CET
Nuclear Regulatory Commission releases audio of Fukushima disaster
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission today released transcripts and audio recordings made at the NRC Operations Center during last year’s meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan. The release of these audio recordings comes at the request of the public radio program "BURN: An Energy Journal," and its host Alex Chadwick.
The recordings show the inside workings of the U.S. government’s highest level efforts to understand and deal with the unfolding nuclear crisis as the reactors meltdown. In the course of a week, the NRC is repeatedly alarmed that the situation may turn even more catastrophic.
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Topic: SECURITY - on February 23, 2012 at 11:51:00 AM CET
WikiLeaks verbreitet neue Insurance-Datei
Die Whistleblowing-Website WikiLeaks verbreitet seit dem gestrigen Mittwoch eine neue "Insurance"-Datei. Darunter versteht WikiLeaks Dateien noch nicht veröffentlichter Dokumente, die zur Absicherung der Mitarbeiter der Plattform verschlüsselt verbreitet werden. Geschieht WikiLeaks etwas, soll das Passwort veröffentlicht werden.
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Topic: SECURITY - on February 23, 2012 at 11:19:00 AM CET
Pakistani newspaper ad seeks bids for a Great Firewall of Pakistan
The ad, clipped from one of the national Pakistani newspapers today (it apparently ran in all of them), seeks bids for a national censoring firewall: "Each box should be able to handle a block list of up to 50 million URLs (concurrent unidirectional filtering capacity) with processing delay of not more than 1 milliseconds.
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Topic: WEB - on February 23, 2012 at 11:17:00 AM CET
"Unethical" HTML video copy protection proposal draws criticism from W3C reps
A new Web standard proposal authored by Google, Microsoft, and Netflix seeks to bring copy protection mechanisms to the Web. The Encrypted Media Extensions draft defines a framework for for enabling the playback of protected media content in the Web browser. The proposal is controversial and has raised concern among some parties that are participating in the standards process.
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Topic: Drone - on February 23, 2012 at 10:29:00 AM CET
Who Wrote the Legislation for Domestic Drone Use? The Drone Industry
From the Majority Report, live M-F 11:30am EST and via daily podcast at http://Majority.FM: Lee Fong at the Republic Report has found some interesting information on domestic drone use...
Majority.FM Drone Industry wrote the legislation governing domestic drone use The List OF 75 US Senators Who Voted To Let 30,000 Drones Shoot Americans In The Streets
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