Topic: POLITIK - on July 22, 2016 at 11:45:00 AM CEST
Thiel für Trump: Rede von Paypal-Mitgründer schockt Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley-Investor und "Arbeitsgeber" von Laura Rudas bekennt sich offen zu Trump Peter Thiel ist für seine politischen Ansichten berüchtigt: Schon 2009 schrieb er, dass seiner Meinung nach Freiheit und Demokratie nicht kompatibel seien. Außerdem beschwerte er sich über den Sozialstaat, die Übernahme der USA durch "Hippies" und US-Universitäten wie Harvard und Stanford, die er mit der "katholischen Kirche im Jahr 1514" verglich. Zuletzt sorgte Thiel für Aufsehen, indem er das umstrittene Medienportal Gawker an den Rande des Ruins brachte. Thiel hatte Ex-Wrestler Hulk Hogans Prozess gegen Gawker finanziert.
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Topic: POLITIK - on July 22, 2016 at 11:39:00 AM CEST
Forget Trump: Peter Thiel Is So Dangerous and Fascinating
Tonight, Peter Thiel, an openly gay immigrant hailing from San Francisco, will address the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. His speech will close out the coronation of Donald Trump as the nominee claof his party, which three days earlier finalized a platform affirming the definition of marriage as “between one man and one woman.” Thiel may seem an unlikely warm-up act for a raving nativist like Trump. But the pair are actually an impeccable ideological tag-team. In fact, Thiel outmatches Trump both in the preposterousness of his capitalistic ambition and in the sheer pathology of his political inconsistency.
theintercept.com Peter Thiel thinks he’s a Trump supporter. But really he’s Trump’s enemy. kottke.org
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Topic: DOPE HEAD - on July 22, 2016 at 11:38:00 AM CEST
In "Pokémon Go" vertieft, Joint in der Hand, Polizei übersehen
Kurioser Vorfall in München – Spieler bat Polizei, Pokémon-Arena noch einnehmen zu dürfen Eines ist mittlerweile klar: "Pokémon Go" macht viele Menschen süchtig – und sorgt dafür, dass sie ihre Umwelt nur mehr nach Gesichtspunkten der Monsterjagd wahrnehmen. In München hat das nun für einen besonders kuriosen Vorfall gesorgt. Ein Spieler, der offenbar gerade einen Marihuana-Joint rauchte, übersah dank "Pokémon Go" eine Polizeistreife und wurde prompt angezeigt.
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Topic: DRUGS - on July 22, 2016 at 11:35:00 AM CEST
The High Priests of Marijuana Fitness
Jim McAlpine’s plan to open the world’s first gym for marijuana enthusiasts is coming along well. Pot-related businesses are having their moment in the United States, especially in the Bay Area, where McAlpine lives and plans to open his gym, Power Plant Fitness. Arcview Market Research estimates the size of America’s marijuana industry at a fast-growing $7.2 billion, and Y Combinator, the esteemed startup accelerator, made its first investment in a cannabis business—an “uber for cannabis” delivery app—in 2015. “I’ve raised money before, and it’s been an arduous, shitty process that I hated,” says McAlpine. “This time so far it’s been a pleasure. We’re in the position where we’re picking and choosing who’s going to invest in us. A lot of professional athletes and celebrities want to get involved.”
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Topic: IoT - on July 22, 2016 at 11:34:00 AM CEST
Now You Can Hide Your Smart Home on the Darknet
The privacy software Tor has aided everything from drug dealing marketplaces to whistleblowing websites in evading surveillance on the darknet. Now that same software can be applied to a far more personal form of security: keeping hackers out of your toaster. You can still get to your baby monitor via an app or the web, but a potential hacker won’t even be able to find it. On Wednesday, the privacy-focused non-profit Guardian Project, a partner of the Tor Project that maintains and develops the Tor anonymity network, announced a new technique it’s developed to apply Tor’s layers of encryption and network stealth to protecting so-called “Internet of things” or “smart home” devices. That growing class of gadgets, ranging from refrigerators to lightbulbs to security cameras, are connected to the Internet to make possible new forms of remote management and automation. They also, as the security research community has repeatedly demonstrated, enable a new breed of over-the-Internet attacks, such as the rash of hackers harassing infants via baby monitors or the potential for hackers to steal your Gmail password from your fridge.
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Topic: ham - on July 22, 2016 at 11:32:00 AM CEST
Turkey government revokes 3213 ham radio licenses
It has been confirmed by Supreme Council of radio and television of Turkey (RTUK) the news that Mr. Erdogan – the president of Turkey has revoked 3213 national ham radio licenses. The HF radio in Turkey is now silent. No transmissions are allowed.
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Topic: BOARD NEWS - on July 21, 2016 at 6:47:00 AM CEST
Indonesisches Restaurant serviert Essen in Kloschüsseln
Ein ungewöhnliches Restaurant zieht Besucher in Indonesien an: Im Jamban Cafe werden Mahlzeiten in Kloschüsseln serviert. Die Gäste sitzen auf Toiletten rund um einen Tisch, auf dem das Essen in den Schüsseln von Hock-Klos dargeboten wird. Gäste können ihre Suppe oder ihren Cocktail dann aus der Kloschüssel schöpfen.
Mit seinem Restaurant in Semarang auf der Insel Java verfolgt Besitzer Budi Laksono eine Bildungsmission: Er will seine Gäste über Hygiene aufklären und zu einer stärkeren Verbreitung von Toiletten in Privathaushalten beitragen. Die Idee des Toilettenrestaurants sei gut, weil die wichtige Hygienebotschaft so besser hängenbleibe, so ein Besucher.
Millionen von Indonesiern leben unter der Armutsgrenze. Es ist weit verbreitet, dass sich die Menschen im Freien erleichtern, nicht überall gibt es Toiletten.
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Topic: SECURITY - on July 20, 2016 at 4:37:00 PM CEST
Hacker ‘Phineas Fisher’ Speaks on Camera for the First Time—Through a Puppet
A little bit over a year ago, the normally quiet Twitter account of Hacking Team, an Italian company that sells spying tools to governments all over the world, started acting weird. “Since we have nothing to hide, we’re publishing all our e-mails, files, and source code,” read a Tweet published on late Sunday, July 5, 2015. The tweet was accompanied by a link to a torrent file of around 400 gigabytes, practically everything Hacking Team had on its corporate servers: internal emails, confidential documents, and even the company’s source code. Hacking Team, which at that point was already notorious for selling its wares to repressive regimes and governments such as Ethiopia, Morocco, and others, had just gotten hacked.
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Topic: Drone - on July 20, 2016 at 4:35:00 PM CEST
The world's fastest consumer drone can record 4K video at 85 miles per hour
George Matus was 11 years old when he flew his first drone. "I was immediately hooked," the young man tells me with a grin. By age 16 he was competing as a professional drone racer and acting as a test pilot for new aircraft. Now 18, he recently finished high school but decided to defer college, opting instead to pursue a fellowship offer from tech billionaire Peter Thiel. He used that money to start his own company, Teal, which today is launching its first product, a consumer facing drone that a beginner can easily fly with an iPhone to capture 4K video. The difference between Teal's first drone and the competition is that this unit can also perform like a racecar, reaching speeds of 85 miles per hour while flipping, diving, and performing barrel rolls.
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Topic: NASA - on July 20, 2016 at 4:27:00 PM CEST
Apollo 11 turns 47: A lunar landing anniversary retrospective
On July 20, 1969, at about four minutes before 10:00pm Central Daylight Time, former naval aviator and test pilot Neil Armstrong became the first human being to stand on the surface of the Moon. About 20 minutes later, he was followed by Buzz Aldrin, an Air Force colonel with a PhD in astronautics from MIT (Aldrin had, quite literally, written the book on orbital rendezvous techniques). Armstrong and Aldrin’s landing was the culmination of almost a decade of scientific and engineering work by hundreds of thousands of people across the United States. Even though the lunar program’s goals were ultimately political, the Apollo project ranks as one of the greatest engineering achievements in human history.
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Topic: POLITIK - on July 20, 2016 at 1:26:00 PM CEST
Erdogan emails: Turkey blocks access to WikiLeaks after release of 300,000 secret government emails
Turkey has blocked access to WikiLeaks in the country after the whistleblowing organisation released nearly 300,000 secret emails from the incumbent Justice & Development Party (AKP). The Telecommunications Communications Board, Turkey's Internet watchdog, said it had taken an "administrative measure" against the website – a term it commonly uses when blocking access to sites.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on July 20, 2016 at 1:00:00 PM CEST
Police Find Marijuana, Give Facebook Instructions on How Its Owner Can Retrieve It
As the Republican National Convention rages on, police in one Cleveland suburb have some jokes.
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