Topic: CARS - on August 27, 2013 at 2:14:00 PM CEST
Chinese Carmaker Licenses “Snowden” Name For New Electric Vehicle
Haima Snowden and you're not! Hainan-based Haima Auto has contracted with the Chinese trademark owner of the “Snowden” name and are planning to use the American asylum-seeking secret-spiller's monniker for a yet-to-be-released EV (electric vehicle). One would hope the upcoming Snowden sedan won't leak as much as its notorious namesake.
FAW Haima Automobile Co., Ltd., or Haima for short, is a subsidiary of Chinese state-owned automotive manufacturing company FAW Group founded in 1992 as a joint venture between the government of Hainan province and Japanese automaker Mazda with the original plan being for Haima to produce locally assembled Mazda “clones” in China for sale to the domestic market.
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Topic: SEX - on August 27, 2013 at 2:13:00 PM CEST
Sex in der Kiste: Zürcher Verrichtungsboxen nehmen Betrieb auf
In Zürich-Altstetten taten in der ersten Nacht 30 Damen Dienst im Sex-Drive-in
Wer hat's erfunden? In diesem Fall die Niederländer. Nach dem Vorbild der Stadt Utrecht haben in der Nacht auf Dienstag die ersten Sexboxen in einem Gewerbegebiet von Zürich ihren Betrieb aufgenommen.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on August 27, 2013 at 2:12:00 PM CEST
Computer beweist die Existenz Gottes
Neue Perspektiven für eine Computer-assistierte Metaphysik: Wissenschaftler aus Berlin und Wien haben Kurt Gödels berühmten Gottesbeweis mit einem Computerprogramm bestätigt
Wissenschaftlern der Freien Universität Berlin und der TU Wien ist es gelungen, Kurt Gödels berühmten Gottesbeweis mit Computern zu überprüfen. Die Wissenschaftler haben Automatisches Theorembeweisen eingesetzt , eine Technik , die bis heute vor allem für mathematische Fragestellungen verwendet wurde. Einen ersten Bericht von Christoph Benzmüller und Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo zum neuen, automatisierten Gottesbeweis Gödels findet man in arXiv: Formalization, Mechanization and Automation of Gödel's Proof of God's Existence.
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Topic: FUN - on August 27, 2013 at 12:28:00 PM CEST
Teddybär übertrifft Felix Baumgartner
Babbage, das Maskottchen des Raspberry Pi Projekts, springt aus 39.000 Meter Höhe von einem Ballon. Mit Hilfe von Kameras und einem eingebauten Mini-Computer wurde der Sturzflug per Livestream übertragen.
Initiiert wurde der Stratosphärensprung des Teddybären vom Ballon-Enthusiasten Dave Akerman, berichtet die BBC. Der Sprung sollte unter anderem die Fähigkeiten des Minicomputers Raspberry Pi unter Beweis stellen. Akerman konstruierte eine Plattform unter einem Ballon, auf der der Stoff-Passagier aus ähnlicher Perspektive gefilmt wurde, wie schon Felix Baumgartner bei der Red Bull Stratos Mission im Oktober 2012.
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Topic: e-bay - on August 27, 2013 at 12:25:00 PM CEST
4k of Soviet RAM
Original Core Memory Cube BP-20 from USSR Military Computer. 1983 of past century... 4.8x5.5x5.2 inches in the common cube with support circuits. Common weight more than 1.3 kg !!!! Capacity - 4096 words Width - 18 Frequency - 400 kHz Logical "1" - 20-60mV Logical "0" - 10mV (not more) Dimensions - 121x132x165 mm
Manual - 32 pages with circuits, diagrams, shematics
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Topic: STRANGE - on August 26, 2013 at 2:48:00 PM CEST
Man steals 200 bicycle seats: “I wanted to smell them.”
We love documenting the intriguing fetishes that exist out there — and be sure, we don’t do out of any sense of judging! Quite the opposite, we are kind of celebrating difference.
Anyway, another example has just come to light.
A man was arrested in Kanagawa prefecture over the weekend for stealing. Nothing new in that, except that he stole bicycle seats. A lot of them. 200 of them.
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Topic: SEX - on August 26, 2013 at 2:47:00 PM CEST
Zurich opens drive-in garages for prostitutes
Switzerland has launched a novel experiment to make prostitution safer: publicly funded drive-in "sex boxes".
The teak-colored open wooden garages will be open for business from Monday for drive-in customers, in the country where prostitution has been legal since 1942. The several dozen sex workers who are expected to use them will stand along a short road in a small, circular park where they can negotiate with clients. The park was built in a former industrial area nestled between a rail yard and the fence along a major highway.
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Topic: SECURITY - on August 26, 2013 at 2:45:00 PM CEST
NSA leaks: David Cameron's response is intimidation, says world press body
David Cameron has been told that the government's attempt to destroy sensitive leaked documents about mass surveillance was "an act of intimidation" that risks a chilling effect on press freedom.
The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) has written to the prime minister over the government's "deeply regrettable" response to files leaked by the National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The body, which represents 18,000 publications from 3,000 companies, condemned officials for their "symbolic" attempt to restrict reporting by destroying computer hard drives held by the Guardian
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Topic: SECURITY - on August 25, 2013 at 12:23:00 PM CEST
Google and the NSA: Who’s holding the ‘shit-bag’ now?
It has been revealed today, thanks to Edward Snowden, that Google and other US tech companies received millions of dollars from the NSA for their compliance with the PRISM mass surveillance system.
So just how close is Google to the US securitocracy? Back in 2011 I had a meeting with Eric Schmidt, the then Chairman of Google, who came out to see me with three other people while I was under house arrest. You might suppose that coming to see me was gesture that he and the other big boys at Google were secretly on our side: that they support what we at WikiLeaks are struggling for: justice, government transparency, and privacy for individuals. But that would be a false supposition. Their agenda was much more complex, and as we found out, was inextricable from that of the US State Department. The full transcript of our meeting is available online through the WikiLeaks website.
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Topic: POLITIK - on August 25, 2013 at 12:18:00 PM CEST
Berlusconi's party says his removal from parliament is 'unthinkable'
Silvio Berlusconi's center-right party said on Saturday that removing the former prime minister from parliament over a tax fraud conviction would be unacceptable and "unthinkable", escalating its row with center-left coalition allies.
Angelino Alfano, secretary of Berlusconi's People of Freedom (PDL) warned Prime Minister Enrico Letta this week that the party could bring down the government if the center-left Democratic Party (PD) voted to throw Berlusconi out, something PD members have repeatedly said they will do.
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Topic: SECURITY - on August 25, 2013 at 12:17:00 PM CEST
Neue NSA-Dokumente: US-Geheimdienst hörte Zentrale der Vereinten Nationen ab
Der US-Geheimdienst NSA hat nicht nur die Europäische Union, sondern auch die Zentrale der Vereinten Nationen abgehört. Das geht aus geheimen Unterlagen der NSA hervor, die der SPIEGEL ausgewertet hat.
Demnach ist es der NSA im Sommer 2012 gelungen, in die interne Videokonferenzanlage der Völkergemeinschaft einzudringen und die Verschlüsselung zu knacken. Dies habe für "eine dramatische Verbesserung der Daten aus Video-Telekonferenzen und der Fähigkeit, diesen Datenverkehr zu entschlüsseln" gesorgt, heißt es in einem geheimen NSA-Dokument. "Der Datenverkehr liefert uns die internen Video-Telekonferenzen der Uno (yay!)". Innerhalb von knapp drei Wochen sei die Zahl der entschlüsselten Kommunikationen von 12 auf 458 angestiegen.
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Topic: SECURITY - on August 24, 2013 at 6:45:00 PM CEST
NSA analysts 'wilfully violated' surveillance systems, agency admits
The National Security Agency has admitted that some of its analysts deliberately abused its surveillance systems, with one analyst disciplined for using NSA resources to track a former spouse.
The agency said Friday it had found "very rare instances of wilful violations of NSA's authorities" as officials briefed reporters that various agents had used the NSA's controversial data monitoring capabilities to spy on love interests.
"NSA takes very seriously allegations of misconduct, and co-operates fully with any investigations – responding as appropriate," the NSA said in a statement. "NSA has zero tolerance for willful violations of the agency's authorities."
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