Topic: WEB - on October 18, 2013 at 3:06:00 PM CEST
BitTorrent search site IsoHunt will shut down, pay MPAA $110 million
isoHunt, a search engine for BitTorrent files founded more than a decade ago, has agreed today to shut down all its operations worldwide. The company, founded by Canadian Gary Fung, has also accepted a judgment that it must pay the movie studios that sued it $110 million.
It's not clear how much of that the studios will actually be able to collect. According to a chunk of court transcript cited by Techdirt, the movie studios' lawyers estimated that Fung and his company had only "two million dollars to $4 million, $5 million at the most" that they could possibly pay.
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 18, 2013 at 3:04:00 PM CEST
Europol sieht Gefahr in Teams aus Hackern und Schmugglern
Mindestens seit Juni 2011 beauftragten holländische Drogenschmuggler professionelle Hacker, um Computersysteme im Antwerpener Hafen auszuspionieren. Mit Hilfe der ausgespähten Daten verschob die Bande mutmaßlich Drogen im Wert von mehreren Hundert Millionen Euro. Rob Wainwright, Chef von Europol, sieht in dieser Kooperation eine neue Art von Kriminalität und hofft auf mehr Technikwissen bei der Polizei. Regierungen und Parlamente sollten aber zusätzlich Gesetze erlassen, mit denen die "Ausnutzung des Internets" bekämpft werden könne, berichtet die BBC.
heise.de Hafen von Antwerpen: Hacker halfen Drogenschmugglern beim Containerklau
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 18, 2013 at 3:01:00 PM CEST
Why Oreos Are As Addictive As Cocaine To Your Brain
A small new study suggests the brain responds to Oreo cookies quite like it responds to actual drugs – at least if you’re a rat. The “pleasure center” of the brain, the nucleus accumbens, apparently gets just as activated in response to Oreos as it does to cocaine and morphine, which could actually have some major public health implications. While the study was done in rats, the authors say it’s likely relevant to humans as well, and could explain why people have such a hard time resisting eating an entire sleeve of the cookies. The study, which will be presented at the Society for Neuroscience’s annual conference next month, also made another discovery: Rats, like humans, like to eat Oreo’s creamy center first.
forbes.com Student-faculty research shows Oreos are just as addictive as drugs in lab rats
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 17, 2013 at 4:23:00 PM CEST
Silk Road: Will cybercrime evolve in wake of takedown?
Silk Road, the infamous online marketplace for drugs and other illegal goods, was closed down by the FBI earlier this month. Since then its alleged founder, Ross Ulbricht - who denies being the site's operator known as Dread Pirate Roberts - has been taken into custody, and police forces around the world have been making arrests.
It is a blow to the sale and distribution of harmful substances, including cocaine and heroin, as well as disrupting other criminal activities arranged online, such as the sale of weapons and hitmen for hire.
But for how long will society have been made safer?
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 17, 2013 at 4:22:00 PM CEST
Google to support Windows XP longer than its developer Microsoft
Microsoft will officially retire its Windows XP operating system early next year, but Google on Wednesday announced it will continue to support its Chrome browser for the platform through at least early 2015.
The Mountain View, Calif., Web giant announced it will keep sending out updates and security patches to the Windows XP version of Google Chrome "until at least April 2015."
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Topic: NEWS english - on October 17, 2013 at 4:21:00 PM CEST
Why Pierre Omidyar decided to join forces with Glenn Greenwald for a new venture in news
Yesterday word leaked out that Glenn Greenwald would be leaving the Guardian to help create some new thing backed by Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay. I just got off the phone with Omidyar. So I can report more details about what the new thing is and how it came to be.
Here’s the story he told me:
In the spring of this year, Pierre Omidyar was one of the people approached by the Washington Post Company about buying the Post. Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, wound up with the prize. But as a result of exploring that transaction, Omidyar started thinking seriously about investing in a news property. He began to ask himself what could be done with the same investment if he decided to build something from the ground up.
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Topic: SECURITY - on October 17, 2013 at 4:19:00 PM CEST
Documents reveal NSA’s extensive involvement in targeted killing program
It was an innocuous e-mail, one of millions sent every day by spouses with updates on the situation at home. But this one was of particular interest to the National Security Agency and contained clues that put the sender’s husband in the crosshairs of a CIA drone.
Days later, Hassan Ghul — an associate of Osama bin Laden who provided a critical piece of intelligence that helped the CIA find the al-Qaeda leader — was killed by a drone strike in Pakistan’s tribal belt.
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 16, 2013 at 5:04:00 PM CEST
The Dalai Lama Supports Medical Marijuana Use
The Dalai Lama isn't that keen on recreational marijuana use, but the spiritual leader told supporters in Mexico on Tuesday that he supports legal, medicinal marijuana when the drug has been shown to have value. The comments, in the middle of a debate on the drug in the country as Mexico City considers legislation to legalize pot, came at an event hosted by former president Vicente Fox. Fox supports the legalization of pot for a different reason: because it could cut off a valuable stream of revenue for the country's drug cartels.
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 16, 2013 at 4:51:00 PM CEST
Panel to vote on rules for Washington pot industry
After nearly a year of research, planning and public hearings, Washington state is poised to approve the rules for its new legal marijuana industry.
The rules will dictate everything from the security at and size of licensed marijuana gardens, to how many pot stores can open in cities across the state.
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 16, 2013 at 4:42:00 PM CEST
North America’s Largest City Moves to Legalize Pot
Legislators in Mexico City, the largest city in North America, are preparing to push through certain measures that would decriminalize and regulate the consumption of marijuana in the Mexican capital, a move that may speed up pot legalization elsewhere on the continent
Though deprived of sunlight and breathing the smog-ridden air of Mexico’s mountain capital, the marijuana plants, from a strain known as purple kush, reach 0.9 m in a brick home at a middle-class suburb. They are alimented with electric lights and kept behind closed curtains by the owner, who says he grows them to smoke himself. If police found them, he could be nailed for drug production and face a hefty prison sentence under laws designed to tackle the country’s ultraviolent cartels.
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Topic: SEX - on October 16, 2013 at 4:15:00 PM CEST
Deutsches Paar muss für Sex auf fremdem Wagen zahlen
Das nächtliche Liebesspiel auf der Motorhaube eines fremden Autos kommt ein Pärchen aus der Oberpfalz (Bayern) teuer zu stehen. Vor dem Amtsgericht Weiden stimmten am Mittwoch sowohl der klagende Wagenbesitzer als auch der Anwalt der Beklagten einem Vergleich zu. Demnach müssen die beiden fast 2.700 Euro für die Reparatur des Autos sowie drei Viertel der Gerichtskosten zahlen.
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Topic: ART - on October 16, 2013 at 3:35:00 PM CEST
Shugo Tokumaru - "Katachi"
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