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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Topic: TV - on November 27, 2013 at 5:47:00 PM CET
The Incredible Story Of Marion Stokes, Who Single-Handedly Taped 35 Years Of TV News
In a storage unit somewhere in Philadelphia, 140,000 VHS tapes sit packed into four shipping containers. Most are hand-labeled with a date between 1977 and 2012, and if you pop one into a VCR you might see scenes from the Iranian Hostage Crisis, the Reagan Administration, or Hurricane Katrina.
It's 35 years of history through the lens of TV news, captured on a dwindling format.
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Topic: NEWS - on November 27, 2013 at 5:18:00 PM CET
Stromkunden sollen sich überwachen lassen – und dafür zahlen
Smart Meter, digitale Stromzähler, sind teuer und bringen keine Einsparung, besagt eine neue Studie. Die Autoren schlagen deshalb vor, die Nutzerdaten weiterzuverkaufen.
Der Wortzusatz smart, englisch für schlau oder intelligent, ist in Politik und Werbung beliebt, um etwas zu verkaufen, seien es Fernseher, Bomben oder Grenzüberwachungsanlagen. Nicht selten ist die Bezeichnung smart dabei irreführend bis unsinnig. Die sogenannten Smart Meter, die intelligenten Stromzähler, sind ein gutes Beispiel dafür. Denn erstens sind sie nicht sonderlich schlau. Und zweitens hat derjenige, der sie in seiner Wohnung oder seinem Haus einbaut, von ihnen keinen Vorteil.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 27, 2013 at 3:57:00 PM CET
Haschisch freigeben: Was spricht eigentlich dagegen?
Muss diese Cannabis-Pflanze weiterhin ein Tabu sein? Oder sollte es das Gesetz nicht länger kümmern, wenn jemand das daraus gewonnene Haschisch raucht? Das Tagesgespräch fragt: Was meinen Sie?
Muss es wirklich noch bestraft werden, wenn jemand Cannabis-Pflanzen besitzt und daraus gewonnene Rauschmittel konsumiert? Oder werden die Gefahren von Drogen verharmlost, wenn die Drogenpolitik liberaler werden würde?
Wie sollten Politik und Justiz in Zukunft mit Marihuana oder Haschisch umgehen? Darüber haben die Anruferinnen und Anrufer im Tagesgespräch auf Bayern 2 und in BR-alpha diskutiert.
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Topic: SECURITY - on November 27, 2013 at 3:29:00 PM CET
NSA 'collected details of online sexual activity' of Islamist radicals
The NSA has been collecting details about the online sexual activity of prominent Islamist radicals in order to undermine them, according to a new Snowden document published by the Huffington Post.
The American surveillance agency targeted six unnamed "radicalisers", none of whom is alleged to have been involved in terror plots.
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Topic: SECURITY - on November 27, 2013 at 2:53:00 PM CET
NSA 'spied on porn habits to target radicalisers'
• Snowden document 'shows NSA porn trawl' • EU threatens to freeze US data-sharing • Indonesian president 'angry' with Australia • UN moves closer to calling for end to surveillance • New to the NSA revelations? Catch up here • What do the NSA files mean for you?
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Topic: SECURITY - on November 27, 2013 at 2:51:00 PM CET
UN: Mass Spying May Be a Human Rights Violation
Following the steady stream of revelations about the NSA’s surveillance program, a United Nations human rights committee passed a “right to privacy in the digital age” resolution on Tuesday. The resolution, co-sponsored by Brazil and Germany, two countries whose leaders were spied on by the NSA, states that “that surveillance and data interception by governments and companies ‘may violate or abuse human rights,’” Agence France Presse reports.
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Topic: SECURITY - on November 26, 2013 at 3:06:00 PM CET
The NSA and surveillance ... made simple
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