Topic: DRUGS - on August 23, 2009 at 12:26:00 PM CEST
CIA-Agenten bedrohten Terrorverdächtigen mit Bohrmaschine
Todesdrohungen, simulierte Erschießungen, Waterboarding: Während der Amtszeit von Ex-Präsident George W. Bush bedienten sich Verhörspezialisten des US-Geheimdienstes CIA brutaler Methoden. Ein Regierungsbericht schildert nun grausige Details der Folterpraktiken.
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Topic: DRUGS - on August 23, 2009 at 12:24:00 PM CEST
Record marijuana grow pulled up by the roots in Siskiyou County
Police are yanking out more than 200,000 marijuana plants from the Low Gap area just a few miles south of the Oregon state line in Siskiyou County's largest-ever bust and nearly a new record for the state.
The Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office said this morning that it has seized 204,933 pot plants from 13 grow sites on national forestland in the Seiad Creek/Low Gap area of Siskiyou County north the small town of Seiad Valley off of Highway 96 northwest of Yreka.
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Topic: DRUGS - on August 22, 2009 at 7:08:00 PM CEST
In California Forests, Marijuana Growers Thrive
Lt. Sonny LeGault and 11 other officers from the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department woke before dawn one recent morning, hiked three miles through the woods and just missed the apparently hungry men they had hoped to arrest.
“They’d been cooking breakfast: there were a couple of quails dressed out, and a soup going,” Lieutenant LeGault said. “But they were gone.”
Those the officers had been hunting were workers at one of the scores of remote, highly organized outdoor marijuana “grows” that dot the vast forests of California, largely on federal property.
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Topic: MUSIK - on August 22, 2009 at 1:39:00 PM CEST
Rave flyers in the 90’s
Like how a lot of things “aren’t they way they used to be” these days, rave culture and visual cues that go along with it, aren’t the way they used to be (there’s a flyer from a more recent event after the jump). A one sentence summary of rave history: In the late 1980s, the word ‘rave’ was adopted to describe the subculture that grew out of the acid house movement. Activities were related to the party atmosphere of Ibiza, a Mediterranean island frequented by British and German youth on vacation.
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Topic: FUN - on August 22, 2009 at 1:28:00 PM CEST
Disney silhouette
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 22, 2009 at 1:26:00 PM CEST
Der gehackte Hacker - Mitnick gegen AT&T
Kevin Mitnick war der berühmteste Hacker der Welt: Die Geschichte seines Katz-und-Maus-Spiels mit den Fahndern wurde mehrfach verfilmt. Jetzt wurde er selbst gehackt - und seine Telefonfirma kündigte ihm, weil sie die Sicherheit seines Accounts nicht garantieren kann. Mitnick wehrt sich.
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Topic: Online-Fahndung - on August 22, 2009 at 1:24:00 PM CEST
Bundestrojaner ein Programmierer erzählt
Ruben Unteregger hat rund sieben Jahre lang als Softwareentwickler beim Schweizer Unternehmen ERA IT Solutions gearbeitet. Seine Aufgabe dort war das Erstellen von Schadprogrammen, die ein Eindringen in die Computer von Privatanwendern ermöglichen soll. Die ERA IT Solutions soll insbesondere am Aufbau von Trojanern beteiligt sein, die dem Abhören von VoIP-Telefonaten dienen. Will er keine Vertragsstrafe zahlen, so muss er sich über die Kunden des Unternehmens ausschweigen. Zeitgleich zur Veröffentlichung dieses Interviews will Herr Unteregger der Öffentlichkeit den Quellcode seines Trojaners zur Verfügung stellen.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on August 22, 2009 at 1:22:00 PM CEST
Wikileaks publishes large cache of US neo-Nazi group's emails
More than 600 "private emails" from the National Socialist Movement, aka NSM88, basically the reincarnation of the American Nazi party, managed to find their way into the hands of the folks who maintain Wikileaks. These don't look so much like "private emails" as the contents of an opt-in email mailing list maintained by the group, but I'm still trying to confirm their origin.
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Topic: NATURE - on August 21, 2009 at 11:46:00 AM CEST
In hot water: World sets ocean temperature record
The average water temperature worldwide was 62.6 degrees, according to the National Climatic Data Center, the branch of the U.S. government that keeps world weather records. That was 1.1 degree higher than the 20th century average, and beat the previous high set in 1998 by a couple hundredths of a degree. The coolest recorded ocean temperature was 59.3 degrees in December 1909.
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Topic: ART - on August 21, 2009 at 11:41:00 AM CEST
The Magical Digital Art of Andy Gilmore
New York based Andy Gilmore describes himself as a draftsman, designer and musician.
With clients such as Wired Magazine and The New York Times, he has established a solid reputation with his works being featured in countless publications, shows and exhibits around the world.
This brilliant and colorful art takes you on a geometric and kaleidoscopic visual experience.
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Topic: food - on August 21, 2009 at 11:37:00 AM CEST
Philips Food Design Probes
Food Design Probes is a research project by Philips. They developed ideas how we will eat and source our food in the future, like in 15 to 20 years. There are 3 products we might have in our homes by then:
The Nutrition Monitor. It basically has 3 parts, a sensor which you have to swallow, a scanner which can measure the nutritional value of food and a display device. So you’ll exactly know what your body needs and what kind of effect your food will have on it.
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Topic: WEB - on August 21, 2009 at 10:56:00 AM CEST
Internet junkie detox center claims US first
A dedicated internet and gaming addiction recovery program has opened shop in Fall City, Washington, which claims to be the first of its kind in the US.
The center, called reStart, is a 45-day anti-internet detox program located at the soothingly-named rural Heavensfield Retreat Center located some 20 minutes away from Microsoft's Redmond HQ.
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