Topic: POLITIK - on February 20, 2011 at 10:37:00 AM CET
Dr. ? Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg - Copy-and-Paste-Affäre "Ärgerlich", "erbärmlich"
Die Publikationen eines EU-Diplomaten, einer Schweizer Journalistin, mehrerer Wissenschaftler - der jetzige Verteidigungsminister zu Guttenberg hat sich für seine Dissertation offenbar querbeet bedient, ohne korrekt zu zitieren. Doch nicht alle der mutmaßlichen Plagiatsopfer sind stinksauer.
Hamburg - Der Diplomat weiß sofort, worum es geht. Natürlich könne er sich an diese Rede erinnern, sagt Günter Burghardt, ehemaliger Botschafter der Europäischen Kommission in den USA, am Telefon. Es war sein Beitrag zu einer Vortragsreihe an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, am 6. Juni 2002. Eine von vielen, vielen Reden, die Burghardt in mehr als 30 Jahren diplomatischer Karriere gehalten hat.
spiegel.de Guttenberg kupferte freizügiger ab als gedacht Online-Fahnder wollen Plagiatebilanz vorlegen Der Minister ließ auch den wissenschaftlichen Dienst des Bundestages für sich arbeiten GuttenPlag Wiki
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Topic: POLITIK - on February 20, 2011 at 10:31:00 AM CET
Ägyptisches Museum - "Sie wollten nur Gold"
Wie sicher sind die Kulturschätze im Ägyptischen Museum in Kairo? Nach den Plünderungen muss sich Zahi Hawass jetzt solchen Fragen stellen. Der Auftritt des Chefs der Altertümerbehörde ist wie gewohnt öffentlichkeitswirksam. Doch als enger Verbündeter von Mubaraks Ex-Regime wächst nun der Druck auf ihn.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on February 20, 2011 at 10:29:00 AM CET
Airport face-scanning robots switched off
Facial recognition scanners at Manchester Airport have been switched off after an incident in which the robot guard let a couple through the gate even though they had swapped passports.
An immigration officer stopped the couple after they got through the barrier.
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Topic: WEB - on February 20, 2011 at 10:21:00 AM CET
Hintergründe zum Einbruch bei US-Sicherheitsfirma - HBGary
Ars Technica hat die Hintergründe zu dem Einbruch bei der US-Sicherheitsfirma dokumentiert, die eigentlich Anonymous an den Kragen wollte und stattdessen dann selbst auseinander genommen wurde. Demnach war der Einstiegspunkt ein proprietäres CMS, das speziell für HBGary entworfen wurde. Dieses CMS überprüfte zentrale Eingabeparameter nicht ausreichend, sodass es möglich war, über passende URLs SQL-Kommandos an die Datenbank zu senden. Auf diesem Weg gelang es den Angreifern, an die Hashes der Passwörter der CMS-Nutzer zu gelangen. Die stellten sich als einfache MD5-Hashes heraus, die nicht gesalzen und somit ein leichtes Opfer für eine Angriff mit Rainbow-Tabellen waren.
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Topic: WEB - on February 20, 2011 at 10:11:00 AM CET
Anonymous speaks: the inside story of the HBGary hack
It has been an embarrassing week for security firm HBGary and its HBGary Federal offshoot. HBGary Federal CEO Aaron Barr thought he had unmasked the hacker hordes of Anonymous and was preparing to name and shame those responsible for co-ordinating the group's actions, including the denial-of-service attacks that hit MasterCard, Visa, and other perceived enemies of WikiLeaks late last year.
When Barr told one of those he believed to be an Anonymous ringleader about his forthcoming exposé, the Anonymous response was swift and humiliating. HBGary's servers were broken into, its e-mails pillaged and published to the world, its data destroyed, and its website defaced. As an added bonus, a second site owned and operated by Greg Hoglund, owner of HBGary, was taken offline and the user registration database published.
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Topic: POLITIK - on February 20, 2011 at 10:10:00 AM CET
Will Multiculturalism End Europe?
Multiculturalism has “totally failed,” says German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
“State multiculturalism has had disastrous results,” says Britain’s David Cameron.
Is multiculturalism a failure in France? “My answer is clearly yes, it is a failure,” says President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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Topic: STRANGE - on February 19, 2011 at 7:24:00 PM CET
KUSF: RIP 1977-2011
Thanks for listening over all these years. Thanks for all the phone calls, whether you were pissed off at us for playing the art noise from japan at six in the morning, or in ecstasy for playing THAT SONG you'd only heard once...and were dying to hear again! All of you folks out there who kept you radios tuned to 90.3 FM mean a hell of a lot to us, indeed you're the very reason we existed. We gave you hearts and souls for thirty four years... Goddammit, we're going to miss you...
Presidents Letter on the KUSF Sale blatherwatch.blogs.com U.S. radio stations simulcast KUSF in act of solidarity kusf.org savekusf.org KUSF 90.3FM [twitter] wiki
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Topic: POLITIK - on February 16, 2011 at 11:44:00 AM CET
Egyptian Presidency
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Topic: NATURE - on February 15, 2011 at 11:08:00 AM CET
Russia's Fish Fight For Oxygen In St. Petersburg Ponds
Fish cluster at an ice hole, covered with thin pieces of ice, struggling for air in a pond in a park in St. Petersburg, Russia. As the long Russian winter drags on, fish in the ponds of St. Petersburg become increasingly desperate for oxygen, clustering in vast, thrashing masses at shrinking holes in the ice. Not only does ice block oxygen that could be diffused into the water from the air, but it also impedes sunlight from reaching oxygen-generating plants and algae in the water.
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Topic: EU - on February 15, 2011 at 10:59:00 AM CET
Fraunhofer Peers Into The Mobile 3D Market
One of the most quickly expanding markets in the visual industry is the world of 3D television and movies, and German research firm Fraunhofer has found a way to make the third dimension mobile.
Researchers at Fraunhofer have combined the new mobile radio standard LTE-Advanced with a video coding technique. This puts 3-D films on your cell phone. The experts will be presenting their solution from February 14-17 in Hall 2, Stand E41 at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on February 15, 2011 at 10:56:00 AM CET
Interne E-Mails der NPD
"Kampftruppen" für die DVU und "Heil Hitler"-Rundschreiben vom Parteinachwuchs: Die mehr als 60.000 internen E-Mails der NPD, die mehreren Medien vorliegen, zeigen eine Partei am Anschlag. SPIEGEL ONLINE dokumentiert vier interne Vorgänge.
"Unsere Stärke liegt in der Einheit und Geschlossenheit", so tönt es am Samstag von der NPD-Website als Reaktion auf ein riesiges Datenleck bei der rechtsextremen Partei. Mehr als 60.000 E-Mails, verschickt im Zeitraum zwischen März 2010 bis Januar 2011, wurden SPIEGEL ONLINE und weiteren Medien anonym zugespielt. Inklusive der Dateianhänge belegt der Datenberg 13 Gigabyte Speicherplatz.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on February 15, 2011 at 10:49:00 AM CET
Stuxnet blitzed 5 Iranian factories over 10-month period
The Stuxnet worm repeatedly attacked five industrial plants inside Iran over a 10-month period, according to new data collected by researchers from antivirus firm Symantec.
Three of the undisclosed organizations were targeted once, one was hit twice and one was targeted three times, members of Symantec's Security Response Team wrote in the report (PDF), which updates findings first released in September. The attacks took place in 12,000 separate infections in 2009 and 2010 and weren't discovered until July.
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