Topic: EU - on July 6, 2013 at 4:11:00 PM CEST
EU votes to support suspending U.S. data sharing agreements, including passenger flight data
The European Parliament on Thursday adopted a joint, cross-party resolution to begin investigations into widespread surveillance of Europeans by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA).
In the vote, 483 voted for the resolution, 98 against, and 65 abstained on a vote that called on the U.S. to suspend and review any laws and surveillance programs that "violate the fundamental right of EU citizens to privacy and data protection," as well as Europe's "sovereignty and jurisdiction."
The vote also gave backing to the suspension of data sharing deals between the two continents, should the European Commission take action against its U.S. ally.
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Topic: logisch - on July 6, 2013 at 4:03:00 PM CEST
Why do protesters in Cairo use laser pointers?
At the beginning, they were used to light up snipers on rooftops. Later, it just became fashionable to use them, and such things spread very fast among the youth of Cairo, who can find the high power laser pointers for sale on the sidewalks. The article contains amazing photos of a chopper lit up by green laser pointers
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Topic: food - on July 5, 2013 at 3:22:00 PM CEST
Man eats record 69 hot dogs
Joey "Jaws" Chestnut ate the sausages with buns in 10 minutes, breaking his old record of 68 and winning the world title for the seventh year in a row.
In the women's contest, Sonya Thomas kept her title with nearly 37 sausages.
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Topic: EU - on July 5, 2013 at 3:12:00 PM CEST
US: We spied on you Europeans but we can still be chums. Right?
High-ranking Eurocrats are expected to begin crisis talks on digital surveillance with American officials on Monday.
Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskaitė, whose country will take up the EU presidency today , said she hoped to piggyback discussions on Edward Snowden and the PRISM system on top of trade talks.
The EU and the US will start hammering out the details of a transatlantic trade and investment partnership on Monday, which Eurocrats hope could create the largest free trade zone in the world.
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Topic: SECURITY - on July 5, 2013 at 3:09:00 PM CEST
Watching your cats and dogs by remote control
It separates the pet owners, who understand the wrenching pain and sense of loss, from those that live a life without small, loyal, four-legged life companions.
Paul Loeffler is a pet owner.
"It is one of the things that as a dog lover, it really stays with you," he says.
Growing up he had a German Shepherd called Bear.
"Bear passed away when he was only five years old," he remembers.
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Topic: DRUGS - on July 5, 2013 at 1:40:00 PM CEST
Tod durch CO-Vergiftung: Cannabisplantagen-Besitzer verurteilt
Ein 35-jähriger Pflegehelfer ist am Freitag am Wiener Straflandesgericht rechtskräftig zu einer Haftstrafe von einem Jahr, davon drei Monate unbedingt, verurteilt worden. Er wurde der fahrlässigen Tötung unter besonders gefährlichen Umständen für schuldig befunden. Der Mann hatte für seine Cannabis-Plantage eine starke Abluftanlage installiert und den Abgaswächter der Kombi-Therme verhängt. Seine 26-jährige Mitbewohnerin ist deswegen beim Duschen erstickt.
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on July 5, 2013 at 1:39:00 PM CEST
In Wien sind 159 Straßennamen historisch belastet
Historikerkommission veröffentlicht ihren Bericht, gibt aber keine Empfehlungen zu Umbenennungen ab
Zwei Jahre lang hat eine Expertenkommission im Auftrag der Stadt Wien die Biografien von Persönlichkeiten untersucht, nach denen in Wien Straßen benannt sind. Es wurde überprüft, ob sie historisch belastet sind. Am Mittwoch wurde der 350-Seiten-Bericht veröffentlicht.
Das Ergebnis: 159 von 4.359 personenbezogenen Verkehrsflächen weisen eine "kritische Benennung" auf. Das heißt, dass diese Personen eine mehr oder weniger stark ausgeprägte problematische Einstellung zum Antisemitismus, beziehungsweise dem Nationalsozialismus hatten. Unter den untersuchten Personen waren etwa Karl Renner, Ignaz Seipel oder Julius Raab.
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Topic: SECURITY - on July 5, 2013 at 1:05:00 PM CEST
European states were told Snowden was on Morales plane, says Spain
Spain says it and other European countries were told that the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden was on board the Bolivian presidential plane that was diverted to Austria this week, causing a diplomatic row.
The foreign minister, José Manuel García-Margallo, said on Spanish National Television on Friday that "they told us that the information was clear, that he was inside".
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Topic: logisch - on July 5, 2013 at 12:52:00 PM CEST
Office Paper to Toilet Paper Machine
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Topic: SPY - on July 4, 2013 at 6:21:00 PM CEST
European firms 'could quit US internet providers over NSA scandal'
European businesses are likely to abandon the services of American internet providers because of the National Security Agency surveillance scandal, the European commission has warned.
Neelie Kroes, the commission vice-president who speaks on digital affairs, predicted that providers of cloud services, which allow users to store and access data on remote servers, could suffer significant loss of business if clients fear the security of their material is under threat.
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Topic: DRUGS - on July 4, 2013 at 5:50:00 PM CEST
High hopes for new pot laws
California led the nation in allowing marijuana to be used for medical purposes, but last month residents of Los Angeles said enough is enough.
Tired of a proliferation of lightly regulated marijuana dispensaries that made pot available to any "patient," voters approved a measure to drastically scale back the number of shops allowed -- to 135 from 805.
In Colorado, state officials had trouble keeping up with -- and collecting taxes from -- many of the 1,000-plus marijuana farms, while people who were not sick easily obtained pot registration cards. The widespread availability of medical cannabis accelerated the movement toward full legalization of the iconic weed, which was approved last year.
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Topic: SPY - on July 4, 2013 at 5:41:00 PM CEST
Eavesdropping a fax machine
I was intrigued this morning to see on the front page of the Guardian newspaper a new revelation by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden: a US eavesdropping technique “DROPMIRE implanted on the Cryptofax at the EU embassy [Washington] D.C.”. I was even more intrigued by an image that accompanied the report.
Having done many experiments to eavesdrop on office equipment myself, the noisy image at the bottom third of the picture above looked instantly familiar: it is what you might get from listening with a radio receiver on the compromising emanations of a video signal of a page of text.
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