Topic: DRUGS - on November 28, 2013 at 2:56:00 PM CET
Recherchereise zum besten Hasch der Welt
Bis in die 1920er-Jahre, als Nordmarokko von Spanien besetzt wurde, war Chefchaouen im Grunde eine von der Außenwelt abgeschottete Stadt. Als die ersten Truppen in die Stadt eindrangen, trafen sie auf Juden, die eine mittelalterliche Sprachstufe des Kastilischen sprachen, das man auf der Iberischen Halbinsel seit 400 Jahren nicht mehr gehört hatte. Außerdem begegneten sie einer Bevölkerung, die das Christentum vehementer ablehnte als alle militanten Reddit-Atheisten zusammen.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 28, 2013 at 2:10:00 PM CET
26th Annual HIGH TIMES Cannabis Cup
What to know who wins? We will be streaming the awards ceremony live beginning at 9pm tonight Amsterdam time, which means 3pm EST.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on November 28, 2013 at 2:08:00 PM CET
Millionen-Entschädigung: US-Militär nutzte jahrelang raubkopierte Software
Das amerikanische Heer hat eine Software für 150 Geräte bezahlt - sie aber auf Tausenden Computern installiert. Und zwar ausgerechnet zu der Zeit, in der die US-Regierung ihren erbitterten Kampf gegen Urheberrechtsverletzungen aufgenommen hat.
Die US-Regierung macht sich für den Urheberschutz und die Bekämpfung von Raubkopien stark. Doch die Armee hat über Jahre hinweg unerlaubt Logistik-Software des Anbieters Apptricity genutzt. Die Herstellerfirma verklagte die US-Regierung auf 224 Millionen Dollar Schadensersatz.
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Topic: SECURITY - on November 28, 2013 at 2:07:00 PM CET
New Snowden docs show U.S. spied during G20 in Toronto
Top secret documents retrieved by U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden show that Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government allowed the largest American spy agency to conduct widespread surveillance in Canada during the 2010 G8 and G20 summits.
The documents are being reported exclusively by CBC News.
The briefing notes, stamped "Top Secret," show the U.S. turned its Ottawa embassy into a security command post during a six-day spying operation by the National Security Agency while U.S. President Barack Obama and 25 other foreign heads of state were on Canadian soil in June of 2010.
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Topic: SECURITY - on November 28, 2013 at 2:04:00 PM CET
Death and the NSA: Motherboard Meets Bruce Schneier
Since Edward Snowden's disclosures about widespread NSA surveillance, Americans and people everywhere have been presented with a digital variation on an old analog threat: the erosion of freedoms and privacy in exchange, presumably, for safety and security.
Bruce Schneier knows the debate well. He's an expert in cryptography and he wrote the book on computer security; Applied Cryptography is one of the field's basic resources, "the book the NSA never wanted to be published," raved Wired in 1994. He knows the evidence well too: lately he's been helping the Guardian and the journalist Glenn Greenwald review the documents they have gathered from Snowden, in order to help explain some of the agency's top secret and highly complex spying programs.
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Topic: NATURE - on November 28, 2013 at 2:01:00 PM CET
Sperm whale explodes as man tries to open stomach - video
A dead sperm whale explodes in the Faroe Islands as a man attempts to open its stomach. The mammal's insides suddenly surge open as the man in protective costume runs to shield himself from the slime. Sperm whales are not killed on the Faroe Islands. This whale had died of natural causes
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