Topic: POLITIK - on May 18, 2010 at 10:20:00 AM CEST
Australian Wikileak founder's passport confiscated
Julian Assange, the Australian founder of the whistleblower website Wikileaks, says he had his passport taken away from him at Melbourne Airport and was later told by customs officials that it was about to be cancelled.
Last year Wikileaks published a confidential Australian blacklist of websites to be banned under the government's proposed internet filter.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on May 16, 2010 at 10:48:00 AM CEST
Erste Urteile gegen Besitzer des 'Anarchist's Cookbook'
Zwei Briten wurden beim Download des bekannten 'Anarchist's Cookbook' ertappt, wodurch ihre terroristischen Absichten auffielen.
Gestern erging in Großbritannien das erste Urteil gegen zwei Männer, die durch den Download der als 'Anarchist's Cookbook' bekannten Datensammlung aufgefallen waren. Einer der beiden hatte das Werk auch zum weiteren Download angeboten. Beim 'Anarchist's Cookbook' handelt es sich um eine Zusammenstellung verschiedener Anleitungen zur Herstellung von Giften, zum Bombenbau und ähnlichem.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on May 16, 2010 at 10:44:00 AM CEST
In UK, First "Anarchist's Cookbook" Downloaders' Convictions
In the UK last month the author/compiler of the well-known-in-Internet-circles 'terrorist handbook' pleaded guilty to seven counts of collecting information that could have been used to prepare or commit acts of terrorism, with a maximum jail term of 10 years. Today the first people caught with downloaded copies have been put behind bars — a white-supremacist father and son pairing getting 10 and two years respectively, convicted of three counts of possessing material useful for acts of terror. How many will be emptying their recycle bins after this conviction? As of writing, the book is still freely available on Amazon.com to buy.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on May 16, 2010 at 10:42:00 AM CEST
Polish pop star faces jail for blasphemy - Pop star claims Bible written by drunks
One of Poland's most famous and controversial pop stars faces two years in jail after suggesting that the Bible was written by drunks and people with a fondness for "herbal cigarettes".
Dorota Rabczewska, famed for an unabashed attitude when it comes to flaunting her flesh, and a string of hits, has been charged by Warsaw prosecutors with insulting religious feeling for comments she made in a television interview a year ago.
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Topic: POLITIK - on May 15, 2010 at 1:01:00 PM CEST
US-Behörde soll Ölbohrungen illegal genehmigt haben
Haben staatliche Aufseher in den USA Gesetze missachtet, um Ölgiganten zu schonen? Bohrungen wurden genehmigt, ohne Umweltzulassungen einzuholen - auch an der "Deepwater Horizon", berichten US-Zeitungen und zitieren Forscher, denen zufolge gerade weit mehr Öl ins Meer gelangt als bekannt.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on May 15, 2010 at 1:00:00 PM CEST
Google gesteht Datenpanne bei Street View
Google selbst spricht von einem "sehr großen Fehler": Entgegen eigenen früheren Angaben hat der Suchmaschinenkonzern mit seinen Street-View-Autos doch Daten aus offenen W-Lan-Netzwerken aufgezeichnet - weltweit und über Jahre hinweg. Die Panne fiel erst dank einer Nachfrage aus Hamburg auf.
spiegel.de Fehler im perfekten System [lol]Google erbost die BundesregierungPolitik fordert von Google Aufklärung über WLAN-Datensammlung [Update] Datenschützer fordern Einblick in Google-Software
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Topic: GOOGLE - on May 15, 2010 at 12:58:00 PM CEST
Google admits collecting Wi-Fi data through Street View cars
Google has been accidentally gathering extracts of personal web activity from private wifi networks through the Street View cars it has used since 2007, it said last night.
It was discovered as a result of a data audit demanded by Germany's data protection authority, and is likely to inflame critics of Google concerned about the web giant's use of private data.
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Topic: born rich - on May 15, 2010 at 12:17:00 PM CEST
Keeping It Classy: ATM Dispenses Gold Bars
It's the ultimate hole-in-the-wall - a money machine that dispenses pure gold.
But installed beneath the gold-coated ceilings of Abu Dhabi's Emirates Palace hotel, where royalty and billionaires come for cappuccinos topped with gold flakes, the machine almost seems part of the furniture.
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Topic: MUSIK - on May 15, 2010 at 12:13:00 PM CEST
Mick Jagger talks downloading and piracy on 40th anniversary of "Exile on Main Street"
This BBC News interview with [Sir] Mick Jagger on the 40th anniversary of the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street contains a few really choice grafs about the myth that the internet has robbed artists of their livelihoods. He seems pretty chill about the perceived threats of downloading, and explains that for a long time, the record labels did a fine job of robbing artists.
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Topic: MUSIK - on May 15, 2010 at 12:07:00 PM CEST
Public Image Ltd. Returns For A Thrilling Live Concert
After a nearly 20-year hiatus, the highly revered and often imitated post-punk group Public Image Ltd. has re-formed and launched a new U.S. tour. The band made a stop in Washington, D.C., for a full concert, recorded live at the 9:30 Club.
Public Image Ltd. was frequently overlooked when it originally formed and released a string of records in the 1980s and early '90s, or maybe it was looked at for the wrong reasons.
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Topic: MUSIK - on May 15, 2010 at 12:06:00 PM CEST
The 50 Greatest Hip-Hop Samples Of All Time
These days, everyone loves hip-hop. But how much does the average fan really know about the building blocks that formed the foundation of the genre's entire sound? That's right, before it was all-808-everything, hip-hop used a secret (and sometimes not-so-secret) selection of classic soul, funk rock, and jazz records from the ’60s and ’70s to create their sound. From tiny, obscure snippets to instantly-recognizable loops, the sample-based producers of the late ’80s and early ’90s uncovered some truly classic musical gems that are still sought after and used today.
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Topic: MUSIK - on May 15, 2010 at 12:04:00 PM CEST
Bootsy Collins talks about acid tripping with James Brown and dosing his brother
In this YouTube clip spotted by an eagle-eyed Boing Boing reader in an earlier post about Bootsy Collins' soon-to-be-launched Funk University, the legendary bass god talks about his first time taking LSD—which happened to be while he was hanging out and having deep chats with James Brown. Bootsy also admits to having dosed his brother "Catfish," as a prank, while they were all touring with J.B.: "Catfish," the story goes, was always mooching food off of others on the tour bus, so Bootsy and his friends (on one occasion or more) stuck LSD in it before offering it to him. Somehow, a tale that would otherwise seem cruel is funny and charming when delivered by Bootsy, whom I adore.
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