Topic: DRUGS - on August 11, 2016 at 5:01:00 PM CEST
DEA Rejects Attempt to Loosen Federal Restrictions on Marijuana
The Obama administration has denied a bid by two Democratic governors to reconsider how it treats marijuana under federal drug control laws, keeping the drug for now, at least, in the most restrictive category for U.S. law enforcement purposes. Drug Enforcement Administration chief Chuck Rosenberg says the decision is rooted in science. Rosenberg gave "enormous weight" to conclusions by the Food and Drug Administration that marijuana has "no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States" and by some measures, it remains highly vulnerable to abuse as the most commonly used illicit drug across the nation.
npr.org DEA Reaffirms ‘Flat Earth’ Position With Regard To Marijuana Scheduling DEA decision keeps major restrictions in place on marijuana research
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Topic: DRUGS - on August 11, 2016 at 4:57:00 PM CEST
The Party Drug With The Power To Ease Anxiety, Depression, And PTSD
When New Yorker Stacy Berman was young, she would take MDMA (otherwise known as “molly” or “ecstacy”) once in awhile for recreational reasons. It just made her feel good, she says. So when she discovered as an adult that she’d been suffering from Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD)—often found in victims of child abuse and Holocaust survivors—she thought she’d give MDMA another try. At the time, Berman was working to complete a doctoral program in mind/body medicine. She couldn’t believe how much MDMA helped. “The idea behind CPTSD is that in a situation where a person is not able to fight or flee, they tend to freeze up… MDMA allowed me to start feeling again,” she says.
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Topic: Linux - on August 11, 2016 at 4:55:00 PM CEST
Serious TCP Bug in Linux Systems Allows Traffic Hijacking
A serious vulnerability in the TCP implementation in Linux systems deployed since 2012 (version 3.6 of the Linux kernel) can be used by attackers to identify hosts communicating over the protocol and ultimately attack that traffic. Researchers from the University of California, Riverside and the U.S. Army Research Laboratory are expected today at the USENIX Security Symposium deliver their paper, “Off-Path TCP Exploits: Global Rate Limit Considered Dangerous,” that explains the vulnerability and recommendations on how to mitigate it.
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Topic: TOR - on August 11, 2016 at 4:52:00 PM CEST
Tor can be cracked “like eggshells”, warns US judge
A US judge has put into the public record, during a hearing in Tacoma, Washington, an interesting pair of comments about Tor.
Tor, of course, is the so-called onion router network, originally designed by the US Navy as a technique for using the public internet in an anonymous way.
End-to-end encryption, such as you get when you point your browser at an HTTPS site like Naked Security, is good for confidentiality: eavesdroppers can’t keep track of which pages you’re most interested in, or sneakily sniff out your email address when you publish a comment.
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Topic: NEWS english - on August 11, 2016 at 4:48:00 PM CEST
Arianna Huffington to leave Huffington Post
Huffington Post co-founder Arianna Huffington said on Thursday she would leave the company to focus on running her new venture, health and wellness startup Thrive Global.
"I thought HuffPost would be my last act. But I've decided to step down as HuffPost's editor-in-chief to run my new venture, Thrive Global," she tweeted.
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Topic: weiss nicht - on August 11, 2016 at 4:43:00 PM CEST
WikiLeaks Offers $20K Reward for Information in Murder of DNC Staffer
WikiLeaks is offering a reward for information in the murder of a Democratic National Committee staffer. WikiLeaks said in a tweet Tuesday that the group is issuing a $20,000 reward for information leading to a conviction in the death of Seth Conrad Rich.
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Topic: MUSIK - on August 11, 2016 at 4:40:00 PM CEST
Happy 20th, MP3-Piracy!
Gestern war der 20ste Jahrestag des ersten „illegalen“ MP3-Rips, die Compress 'Da Audio-Release-Group hatte damals die erste MP3-Sammlung per FTP-Server online gestellt. Es gab andere Release-Groups, die bereits vorher MP3s rippten, hatten aber anscheinend nicht denselben Impact auf die grade entstehende MP3-Scene.)
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Topic: PHOTO - on August 11, 2016 at 4:30:00 PM CEST
Nikon Develops Camera with 4 Lenses and 4 Sensors
The multi-aperture computational camera is an exciting technology that’s emerging in the world of photography, and it appears that Nikon wants in. The company has patented a “4-eye” camera that packs 4 lenses and 4 sensors. The startup company Light made splashes in the computational camera space in October 2015 when it announced the L16, a compact camera that combines the powers of 16 separate camera modules to shoot 52-megapixel “DSLR quality” photos.
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Topic: PHOTO - on August 11, 2016 at 4:25:00 PM CEST
‘The Impossible Project’ Documentary Tells the Story of Polaroid’s Rebirth
When Polaroid announced that it would stop making Polaroid instant film in February 2008, The Impossible Project was founded to keep the film alive. Filmmaker Jens Meurer has spent several years shooting a feature-length documentary film about the saving and reinventing of the Polaroid picture. “The Impossible Project” is a film about film that was actually shot on 35mm film. Here’s a first official trailer that gives a taste of what the movie is like:
petapixel.com impossible-project.com Instant Photography Reinvented
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Topic: logisch - on August 11, 2016 at 3:48:00 PM CEST
How do you cut one of the worlds largest diamonds
Swiss jeweler De Grisogono SA bought the rights to market a 404-carat rough diamond from Dubai trader Nemesis International DMCC. The stone was discovered at Lucapa Diamond Co.’s Lulo mine in Angola, Nickolas Polak, a director of Nemesis International, said in Dubai at a news conference to announce the sale. He declined to disclose a price, but in February Lucapa said it sold a 404-carat diamond for $22.5 million. The stone is the world’s 27th-biggest and should take six months to cut, said Omar Chaoui, managing director of the Middle East & India region for Geneva-based De Grisogono.
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Topic: TV - on August 11, 2016 at 3:46:00 PM CEST
Inside the Fox News Bunker
Few people in the news business have valued secrecy quite like Roger Ailes, the former C.E.O. of Fox News. Ailes’s very own corner office on the second floor of 21st Century Fox’s glass and steel headquarters, in Midtown Manhattan, featured a solid wood door that prevented anyone on the outside from peering in. Visitors had to be buzzed in by Ailes or an assistant. They were also captured on-camera, their image projected to a monitor on Ailes’s desk. Many assumed that such secrecy was a vestige of Ailes’s formative years advising Richard Nixon. Now, it appears that it may have run deeper. Last month, former anchor Gretchen Carlson filed suit against Ailes for sexual harassment—an event that ushered in a litany of former colleagues with similar stories. Weeks later, Ailes resigned. (Ailes has fervently denied all allegations. His lawyer, Susan Estrich, reiterated those denials. A spokesperson for 21st Century Fox also declined to comment for this piece.)
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Topic: GOOGLE - on August 11, 2016 at 3:44:00 PM CEST
Google Maps did not ‘delete’ Palestine — but it does impact how you see it
Dear @googlemaps, Palestine exists! #FreePalestine #PalestineIsHere #BoycottGoogle pic.twitter.com/9cWqziofId — Ainara (@afraileromero) August 8, 2016
Users view Google Maps more than a billion times each week: It’s one of the world’s largest sources of geographic data and the first place many of us turn when we need to locate something. So it makes sense that, when a Gaza City-based journalism group claimed that the nation of Palestine had literally been wiped from Google’s maps, readers were, well — indignant. Dozens of Middle-Eastern news outlets have covered the “backlash,” and tens of thousands have Facebook-shared and tweeted it.
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