Topic: NEWS english - on September 26, 2013 at 3:19:00 PM CEST
Somebody Stole 7 Milliseconds From the Federal Reserve
Three to seven milliseconds before the fed moved interest rates, billions of dollars of trades were input that took advantage of the changed rates, reaping huge profits. According to a report at Mother Jones, 'Last Wednesday, the Fed announced that it would not be tapering its bond buying program. This news was released at precisely 2 pm in Washington 'as measured by the national atomic clock.' It takes 7 milliseconds for this information to get to Chicago. However, several huge orders that were based on the Fed's decision were placed on Chicago exchanges 2-3 milliseconds after 2 pm. How did this happen?'
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Topic: WEB - on September 25, 2013 at 5:20:00 PM CEST
Emulator of the first "readily accessible" web browser
The line-mode browser, launched in 1993, was the first readily accessible browser for what we now know as the world wide web. It was not, however, the world's first web browser. The very first web browser was called WorldWideWeb and was created by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990.
But WorldWideWeb only worked on the NeXT operating system. WorldWideWeb was a great piece of software, but it was important that the web should be accessible to many kinds of computers, not just NeXT machines.
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Topic: MUSIK - on September 25, 2013 at 4:28:00 PM CEST
What Does The Fox Say?
Norwegian animators Twintrash have created the animated short "What Does The Fox Say," based on "The Fox" music video by Ylvis.
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Topic: MUSIK - on September 25, 2013 at 2:49:00 PM CEST
Musik aus Maschinen, mit der Hand
So ähnlich, wenn auch deutlich mit weniger Equipment, sah es damals bei uns im Studio aus. Hardware. 38 Kilo Klinkenkabel, 23 Kilo MIDI-Kabelage. Dazu kleine MIDI to Sync Konverter von Deopfer, die uns die alten Roland Kisten irgendwie synchron in den MIDI-Park zu schleifen wussten. Riesenpult mit 4 Aux-Wegen, um die Effekte zu schleifen und mit immensem Rauschfaktor.
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 25, 2013 at 2:47:00 PM CEST
The Heretic
For decades, the U.S. government banned medical studies of the effects of LSD. But for one longtime, elite researcher, the promise of mind-blowing revelations was just too tempting.
At 9:30 in the morning, an architect and three senior scientists—two from Stanford, the other from Hewlett-Packard—donned eyeshades and earphones, sank into comfy couches, and waited for their government-approved dose of LSD to kick in. From across the suite and with no small amount of anticipation, Dr. James Fadiman spun the knobs of an impeccable sound system and unleashed Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68.” Then he stood by, ready to ease any concerns or discomfort.
For this particular experiment, the couched volunteers had each brought along three highly technical problems from their respective fields that they’d been unable to solve for at least several months. In approximately two hours, when the LSD became fully active, they were going to remove the eyeshades and earphones, and attempt to find some solutions. Fadiman and his team would monitor their efforts, insights, and output to determine if a relatively low dose of acid—100 micrograms to be exact—enhanced their creativity.
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Topic: Drone - on September 25, 2013 at 2:46:00 PM CEST
Boeing Turning Old F-16s Into Unmanned Drones
Boeing has revealed that it has retrofitted retired fighter jets to turn them into drones. It said that one of the Lockheed Martin F-16s made a first flight with an empty cockpit last week. Two U.S. Air Force pilots controlled the plane from the ground as it flew from a Florida base to the Gulf of Mexico (video). Boeing suggested that the innovation could ultimately be used to help train pilots, providing an adversary they could practise firing on. The jet — which had previously sat mothballed at an Arizona site for 15 years — flew at an altitude of 40,000ft (12.2km) and a speed of Mach 1.47 (1,119mph/1,800km/h).
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Topic: SECURITY - on September 25, 2013 at 2:45:00 PM CEST
Überwachungsindustrie hält Politik in Geiselhaft
Der Wiener Kriminalsoziologe Reinhard Kreissl beim heutigen Hearing im EU-Parlament über die NSA-Spionage zur Überschätzung von Überwachung durch die Politik.
Der zweite Teil des Hearings setzte dort fort, wo der erste Teil zu Mittag geendet hatte. Die von der Kommission zur Faktenfindung eingesetzte Kommission hatte ebensowenig Konkretes zum Stand der Dinge zu sagen, wie EU-Kommissarin Cecilia Malmström am Vormittag. Das Hearing zog sich mühsam dahin, dass es sogar auf Twitter völlig ruhig wurde, bis der Kriminalsoziologe Reinhard Kreissl aus Wien zugeschaltet wurde.
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Topic: NEWS english - on September 24, 2013 at 2:41:00 PM CEST
BP seeks to have Gulf Coast oil spill settlement payments suspended
BP on Monday renewed its request for a federal judge to temporarily suspend settlement payments to Gulf Coast residents and businesses affected by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, citing a scathing report on alleged misconduct within the court-supervised program.
In a court filing, BP attorneys said the report, issued earlier this month by the former FBI director Louis Freeh, shows the settlement program is plagued by problems that need to be fixed. US district judge Carl Barbier has already rejected two requests by BP to suspend settlement payments, but both rulings preceded Freeh's report, which was released on 6 September.
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Topic: SECURITY - on September 24, 2013 at 2:40:00 PM CEST
How a Crypto ‘Backdoor’ Pitted the Tech World Against the NSA
In August 2007, a young programmer in Microsoft’s Windows security group stood up to give a five-minute turbo talk at the annual Crypto conference in Santa Barbara.
It was a Tuesday evening, part of the conference’s traditional rump session, when a hodge-podge of short talks are presented outside of the conference’s main lineup. To draw attendees away from the wine and beer that competed for their attention at that hour, presenters sometimes tried to sex up their talks with provocative titles like “Does Bob Go to Prison?” or “How to Steal Cars – A Practical Attack on KeeLoq” or “The Only Rump Session Talk With Pamela Anderson.”
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Topic: MAKE - on September 23, 2013 at 3:27:00 PM CEST
Peachy Printer's sub-$100 3D printer smashes fundraising goal
While the cost of 3D printers are coming down, it's unlikely we'll start to see them invade everyone's homes 'til they become much cheaper. That's the idea, at least, behind the Peachy Printer, a device that's promising to retail for less than $100. Unlike printers made by companies such as Makerbot, Peachy uses a laser to set objects from liquid resin. The laser is guided by a pair of mirrors that take instructions from your PC's audio in / out ports, and the system even allows you to scan objects with your own camera.
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Topic: SEX - on September 23, 2013 at 2:22:00 PM CEST
South Colombia man has penis amputated after Viagra overdose
The 66-year old man from the tiny town of Gigante, Huila, confessed to the local newspaper he had overdosed on Viagra in an attempt to please his new girlfriend.
However, as a result of his overly enthusiastic penis-enhancing-drug use, the anonymous man — who claims to be a former member of the Gigante municipal council — found that his penis had gone into an apparently constant state of erection.
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Topic: NATURE - on September 23, 2013 at 2:20:00 PM CEST
Dinosaur Feathers Found in Ancient Amber
Fluffy structures trapped in thumbnail-sized bits of ancient amber may represent some of the earliest evolutionary experiments leading to feathers, according to a new study. These filaments of "dinofuzz" are so well preserved that they even provide hints of color, the researchers say.
The oldest bird, Archaeopteryx, lived in what is now Germany about 150 million years ago, and the oldest known feathered dinosaur, Anchiornis huxleyi, lived in northeastern China between 151 million and 161 million years ago.
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