Topic: POLITIK - on December 23, 2011 at 2:56:00 PM CET
Hungary police detain opposition MPs in chain protest
Hungarian police have broken up a demonstration by green liberal opposition MPs who chained themselves together outside parliament.
Former Socialist Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany was among several MPs detained by police at the scene in Budapest, Reuters news agency says.
The LMP party activists were blocking the parliament's car park, trying to prevent MPs entering, reports say.
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Topic: Phone - on December 23, 2011 at 2:53:00 PM CET
EFF reverse engineers Carrier IQ
At this point we have a fairly good idea of what Carrier IQ is, and which manufacturers and carriers see fit to install it on their phones, but the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) — the preeminent protector of your digital rights — has taken it one step further and reverse engineered some of the program’s code to work out what’s actually going on.
There are three parts to a Carrier IQ installation on your phone: The program itself, which captures your keystrokes and other “metrics”; a configuration file, which varies from handset to handset and carrier to carrier; and a database that stores your actions until it can be transmitted to the carrier. Now, the Carrier IQ program is a binary application and fairly hard to reverse engineer, and the database sounds like it’s stored in RAM and thus hard to obtain — but the configuration profile… well, it turns out that that is very easy to crack.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 23, 2011 at 12:10:00 PM CET
It Turns Out That Smoking Marijuana May Actually Make You A Safer Driver
An amazing study authored by professors D. Mark Anderson (University of Montana) and Daniel Rees (University of Colorado) shows that traffic deaths have been reduced in states where medical marijuana is legalized.
According to their findings, the use of medical marijuana has caused traffic related fatalities to fall by nearly nine percent in states that have legalized medical marijuana
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Topic: POLITIK - on December 23, 2011 at 12:08:00 PM CET
Das Geheimnis der weißen Seegurke
Als ihm zwei Jahre später das Amt des Parteichefs übertragen wurde, kommentierte das Medienberichten zufolge auch Mutter Natur: „Angesichts der geheimnisvollen Naturerscheinungen sagen sich die Nordkoreaner, dass Genosse Kim Jong Il tatsächlich der Größte der großen vom Himmel geschaffenen Männer ist und dass die Blumen zum Zeichen für dieses großartige Ereignis blühen“, hieß in einer Agenturmeldung.
Zu den Vorboten, die mit Beginn des kühlen Herbstwetters gemeldet wurden, gehörten Hunderte blühende Birn- und Marillenbäume sowie das Auftauchen einer seltenen weißen Seegurke: Am Morgen des 22. September sei Fischern in den Gewässern von Chongjin eine zehn Zentimeter lange weiße Seegurke ins Netz gegangen, meldete KCNA. Dieses seltene Tier sei aufgetaucht, um das Ereignis der Wahl des Genossen Kim Jong Il zum Generalsekretär der Partei zu begrüßen, hieß es in dem Bericht.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 23, 2011 at 11:56:00 AM CET
Spanish model smuggles cocaine into Italy inside her implants
2.5 kilos of cocaine were found inside her breast and buttock implants when she was searched at Rome airport
The 33 year old model arrived there on a flight from Sao Paolo, Brazil, and aroused suspicion with her vague answers when she was questioned by police about her planned stay in Italy.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on December 23, 2011 at 11:54:00 AM CET
Physiker entdecken neues Teilchen
Die Entdeckung des mysteriösen Gottes-Partikels lässt auf sich warten - doch jetzt haben Wissenschaftler am Kernforschungszentrum Cern ein anderes, bisher unbekanntes Teilchen entdeckt.
Schlagzeilen macht der Large Hadron Collider (LHC) am Kernforschungszentrum Cern in Genf vor allem durch die Suche nach dem Higgs-Boson, das der Materie ihre Masse verleihen soll. Doch das sogenannte Gottesteilchen ist nicht alles, was an dem riesigen Teilchenbeschleuniger erforscht wird. Ein Team um Roger Jones von der britischen Lancaster University hat nun mit Hilfe des LHC erstmals ein neues Teilchen entdeckt.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on December 23, 2011 at 11:48:00 AM CET
How SOPA's 'circumvention' ban could put a target on Tor
A little-noticed section of the Stop Online Piracy Act could make it illegal to distribute Tor and other software that can "circumvent" attempts by the U.S. government to block pirate Web sites.
The controversial Hollywood-backed copyright bill allows injunctions to be filed against "any" person, nonprofit organization, or company that distributes a "product or service" that can be used to circumvent or bypass blockades erected against alleged pirate Web sites such as ThePirateBay.org.
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Topic: POLITIK - on December 21, 2011 at 1:38:00 PM CET
THE GINGRICH FILES
Newt Gingrich, the 2012 GOP candidate who takes pride in being the most blatant hypocrite in the race thus far, somehow actually has a chance. This is probably due to the lack of knowledge that the brainwashed citizenry of the United States have about him.
So let’s take a look at what this American “patriot” has done and said, shall we?
Newt Gingrich was the 58th Speaker of the House from January 4, 1995 – January 3, 1999 under President Bill Clinton. During his term as Speaker of the House, eighty-four ethics charges were filed against him. After an investigation by the House Ethics Committee, he was forced to pay $300,000. According to Wikipedia, Mr. Gingrich was the first Speaker of the House ever to be disciplined for ethical wrongdoing. In January of 1997, Mr. Gingrich admitted to giving inaccurate, incomplete, and unreliable statements to the committee. The House Ethics Committee concluded that the inaccurate information supplied to investigators was an “intentional or … reckless” disregard of House rules.
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Topic: NEWS english - on December 21, 2011 at 12:46:00 PM CET
28C3: Behind Enemy Lines
The Event
The 28th Chaos Communication Congress (28C3) is a annual four-day conference on technology, society and utopia. The Congress offers lectures and workshops on a multitude of topics including (but not limited to) information technology and generally a critical-creative attitude towards technology and the discussion about the effects of technological advances on society.
For 28 years, the congress is organized by the community and appreciates all kinds of participation. You are encouraged to contribute by volunteering, setting up and attending hands-on events or presenting your own projects to fellow hackers.
Some basic survival guidelines might come in handy for everything not answered in our 28C3 FAQ. Like last year we search for helpers in our distributed congress program, no nerd left behind. Updated information are covered by the CCC Events Blog or via Twitter (@CCC).
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on December 21, 2011 at 12:22:00 PM CET
'Swindlers and thieves': Anti-corruption blogger challenges Putin after leaving Russian jail
Opposition leader Alexei Navalny used his release from jail on Wednesday to call on Russians to unite against Vladimir Putin whom he said would try to snatch victory in a March 4 presidential election that was sure to be unfair.
Navalny, who has harnessed a mood change among Russia's urban youth against Putin's 12-year rule, was greeted by chants of 'Navalny, Navalny' and applause from supporters who braved a blizzard to await his release from a Moscow police station.
Initially weary and dazzled by scores of television camera lights, Navalny swiftly embarked on a dissection of the disputed December 4 parliamentary election, brandishing his slur of Putin's ruling party as a collection of "swindlers and thieves."
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Topic: POLITIK - on December 21, 2011 at 12:20:00 PM CET
Finsternis in Russland - Pressefreiheits-Watchdog
Kein Ende von Journalisten-Morden in Sicht - 330 weitgehend ungeklärte Fälle - Putin zeigt erstmals Schwäche
Sonderlich kalt ist es dieser Tage in Moskau nicht, aber ungleich finster. Präsident Medwedew hat die Umstellung auf Winterzeit für entbehrlich erklärt, also wird es nun erst kurz vor zehn Uhr hell. Wann der Tag beginnt, erkennt man nur noch am heillosen Morgenverkehr. Klar, dass bei diesem täglichen Hin- und Zurückwahnsinn eine Smogglocke über der Stadt hängen muss. Doch selbst wenn dann endlich das Tageslicht durchdringt, fühlt man noch immer keine Helligkeit. Im Gegenteil.
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Topic: NEWS - on December 21, 2011 at 12:10:00 PM CET
World’s largest helicopter crashes in Russia, killing one
One person was killed on early Tuesday morning when a large helicopter crashed in western Siberia, federal aviation officials said. Several others were injured.
The accident happened at around 08.34 GMT when the Mi-26T helicopter crashed near an oil plant in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous region, which is located in western Siberia. A total of six crew members were on board the aircraft, which was transporting freight.
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