Topic: HOLLYWALD - on December 22, 2016 at 5:08:00 PM CET
The Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Board Game, Inspired by Hunter S. Thompson’s Rollicking Novel
There was a time, fair children of the late 20th century, when every movie and television show had itself a board game. Most were bad. But we bought them, and then tried our best to make it work. You can see a collection here. Few ever recreated the spirit of the original work, but instead coasted by on a cynic’s heart hoping to harvest your pop culture memories.
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Topic: NASA - on December 22, 2016 at 5:06:00 PM CET
Apollo 8: The (second) greatest Christmas story ever told
Sometimes it can be easy to get so immersed in the detail of spaceflight, the documentation, the politics and the technical minutiae, that we lose sight of the very real emotional connection that our achievements can have. Occasionally when things come together just right, for a brief moment we can all pull together and feel a collective human wonder at events we see unfolding. I suspect many of us have our own ‘special mission’, indeed one of the great pleasures of meeting fellow space enthusiasts is to swap stories of these pivotal moments, the wonder they gave us and the lasting glow that keeps us wanting to learn more. Increasingly these may be missions we only learn about decades after their completion – we come new to these experiences, yet they can affect us just as they affected the generation that witnessed them first-hand. For me there will always be a special place in my heart for Apollo 8.
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Topic: NEWS english - on December 22, 2016 at 5:03:00 PM CET
2016: The Year the Media Broke
Rupert Murdoch’s bid for a full takeover of Sky TV demonstrates graphically that the extreme concentration of media ownership has not yet run its course. It also yet again underlines the extent to which the Leveson Inquiry was barking entirely up the wrong tree. There is no question to which the correct answer is increased government control over free speech. Any inquiry into the media should look first and foremost at its highly concentrated ownership and how to instil more pluralism. It is probably now too late to expect that a vibrant, diverse traditional media is achievable. We can however be cheered by the continuing decline of the political influence of the mainstream media, as illustrated by its “Fake News” panic. Even five years ago, if the mainstream media carried a meme that was fundamentally untrue, the chances of persuading public opinion of its untruth were almost minimal. Similarly if they wished to ignore an inconvenient truth, it would be very hard indeed to get it out to a significant number.
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Topic: NEWS english - on December 22, 2016 at 5:02:00 PM CET
Twitter is ‘toast’ and the stock is not even worth $10: Analyst
Twitter is "toast" as a company and the stock is not even worth $10, according to a research note published Tuesday, following the departure of another top executive at the social media service. The microblogging platform's chief technology officer, Adam Messinger, tweeted that he would leave the company and "take some time off", while Josh McFarland, vice president of product at Twitter, also said he was exiting the company. Both executives announced their departure on Tuesday.
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Topic: JOEOEOEORG - on December 22, 2016 at 4:58:00 PM CET
Peter Thiel's startup helps authorities track illegal immigrants
Documents released from a lawsuit tie Palantir to data-mining tools currently used by immigration agencies.
Data-mining and analytics firm Palantir, co-founded by Gawker-bankrupting tech billionaire Peter Thiel, remains a secretive purveyor of intelligence-gathering tools. While a May report revealed the company's struggles retaining blue chip commercial clients, it still retains contracts with some government agencies. Recently-released documents uncover that the company has quietly provided assistance to US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) by contributing to an info analysis system that draws information from multiple law enforcement databases. This existing relationship could assist Trump in his stated plans to ramp up the US' immigration vetting process.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 22, 2016 at 4:53:00 PM CET
20 Questions Security Pros Should Ask Themselves Before Moving To The Cloud
A template for working collaboratively with the business in today's rapidly changing technology environment. Everywhere I go lately, the cloud seems to be on the agenda as a topic of conversation. Not surprisingly, along with all the focus, attention, and money the cloud is receiving, comes the hype and noise we’ve come to expect in just about every security market these days. Given this, along with how new the cloud is to most of us in the security world, how can security professionals make sense of the situation? I would argue that that depends largely on what type of situation we’re referring to, exactly. And therein lies the twist.
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Topic: weiss nicht - on December 22, 2016 at 4:50:00 PM CET
Norwegians are about to lose their FM radio and they’re not happy about it
In just a matter of weeks, Norway will tune out FM radio for good and become the world's first country to switch over to digital-only transmissions. Norway's government has decided that the nation's FM airwaves will fall silent from January 11, 2017, starting in Nordland and gradually moving south.
After nearly a century of the analogue system, which revolutionised music listening with high-fidelity stereo sound compared to mono AM transmissions, the changeover to Digital Audio Broadcasting's advanced version (DAB+) will render the country's almost eight million radio sets obsolete.
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Topic: JOEOEOEORG - on December 21, 2016 at 1:29:00 PM CET
Donald Trump’s future NSA director met with Austrian party founded by Nazis
The leader of Austria’s Nazi-founded Freedom Party has signed a cooperation agreement with Russia’s ruling party — only weeks after meeting with Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, who will soon be national security adviser to President-elect Donald Trump. This muddies the waters as to the United States’ place in a geopolitical world that could be dominated by Russia in the near term. Heinz-Christian Strache, the leader of the Freedom Party, announced that he had signed the agreement with Putin’s own United Russia party on his Facebook page, The New York Times reported on Monday. The announcement also mentioned that Strache had visited Flynn a few weeks earlier in Trump Tower. The cooperation agreement itself includes plans for collaboration between United Russia and the Freedom Party on economic, business, and political projects over the next five years.
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Topic: JOEOEOEORG - on December 21, 2016 at 1:27:00 PM CET
Marine Le Pen denies cash-for-support deal with Russia
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen may have received funding from Russian-backed banks as thanks for supporting Russia’s annexation of Crimea, French investigative news site Mediapart reported Tuesday, citing text messages exchanged between two Russian officials. In the messages, which Mediapart said it had obtained thanks to a hacking group called “Anonymous International,” Kremlin official Timur Prokopenko mentioned Le Pen dozens of times in exchanges with a person identified as Kostia. Anonymous International identified Kostia as Konstantin Rykov, a former pro-Putin MP who has a house in France and is known to have met with Le Pen.
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Topic: Terror - on December 21, 2016 at 1:22:00 PM CET
„Du feiges Stück Sch****,(…) du hast dir die falsche Stadt ausgesucht!“ #berlinattacks
Rayk Anders spricht voller Emotion über die brutale Geschichte von Berlin und nimmt sich dabei den feigen Täter vor, der genau da zugeschlagen hat, wo eine Kirche steht, die der ganzen Welt die Narben der Stadt zeigt. Das Symbol für Frieden, Zusammenhalt und den Mut wieder auszustehen und weiter zu machen. Manchmal sind es solche klaren Worte, die es auf dem Punkt bringen, wenn das Herz getroffen wird!
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 15, 2016 at 4:46:00 PM CET
New DEA Rule Says CBD Oil is Really, Truly, No-Joke Illegal
The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) made CBD oil a little more federally illegal in a little-noticed bureaucratic maneuver this morning. Today’s Federal Register (Dec. 14, 2016) contains an item (21 CFR Part 1308) that establishes a new drug code for “marihuana extract.” “This code,” wrote DEA Acting Administrator Chuck Rosenberg, “will allow DEA and DEA-registered entities to track quantities of this material separately from quantities of marihuana.” The move, the Register entry explained, is meant to bring the US into compliance with international drug-control treaties.
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Topic: WEB - on December 5, 2016 at 2:50:00 PM CET
Ich habe nur gezeigt dass es die bombe gibt
Am 9. November gegen 8.30 Uhr erwacht Michal Kosinski in Zürich im Hotel Sunnehus. Der 34-jährige Forscher ist für einen Vortrag am Risikocenter der ETH angereist, zu einer Tagung über die Gefahren von Big Data und des sogenannten digitalen Umsturzes. Solche Vorträge hält Kosinski ständig, überall auf der Welt. Er ist ein führender Experte für Psychometrik, einen datengetriebenen Nebenzweig der Psychologie. Als er an diesem Morgen den Fernseher einschaltet, sieht er, dass die Bombe geplatzt ist: Entgegen den Hochrechnungen aller führenden Statistiker ist Donald J. Trump gewählt worden.
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