Topic: WEB - on June 27, 2016 at 8:54:00 AM CEST
Richard Stallman - Reasons not to use Facebook
Why you should not "use" (i.e., be used by) Facebook. I have never had a Facebook account. There is a Facebook account called "Richard Stallman", but it is an impostor. Putting the photo of someone on Facebook (or Instagram) contributes to surveillance of that person. Please don't post any photos there that include me, and I suggest you avoid posting photos of anyone else too.
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Topic: ART - on June 27, 2016 at 8:51:00 AM CEST
I, SNOWBOT
Snowden attending a TED conference in Vancouver in 2014. Edward Snowden lay on his back in the rear of a Ford Escape, hidden from view and momentarily unconscious, as I drove him to the Whitney museum one recent morning to meet some friends from the art world. Along West Street, clotted with traffic near the memorial pools of the World Trade Center, a computerized voice from my iPhone issued directions via the GPS satellites above. Snowden’s lawyer, Ben Wizner of the American Civil Liberties Union, was sitting shotgun, chattily recapping his client’s recent activities. For a fugitive wanted by the FBI for revealing classified spying programs who lives in an undisclosed location in Russia, Snowden was managing to maintain a rather busy schedule around Manhattan.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on June 27, 2016 at 8:50:00 AM CEST
The Piracy Box Sellers and Youtube Promoters Are Killing Kodi
Over the past few years it’s become clear that many users have been watching pirated content using unofficial and unsupported add-ons that frequently break, and they are installing add-on repositories whose trustworthiness is questionable, leaving themselves open to numerous security exploits. Lately there’s even been a move to install “builds,” which intentionally break Kodi and, much like viruses, are almost impossible to uninstall, but have the benefit of adding LOTS of untrustworthy repos full of add-ons that don’t work.
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Topic: EU - on June 26, 2016 at 12:51:00 PM CEST
Brexit: Expats denied say in EU referendum due to missing postal votes demand re-run after scandal is revealed
Anger is growing among countless British expats who say they have been “disenfranchised” in the EU referendum because their postal votes failed to arrive.
Since The Independent revealed the scandal on Thursday, more than 100 people have said they had confirmation that they registered within the Government’s deadline but never received the ballot.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on June 25, 2016 at 5:13:00 PM CEST
The Mill BLACKBIRD
The Mill BLACKBIRD is a new fully adjustable car rig for creating CG cars for the advertising industry. The goal of the BLACKBIRD is to eliminate the need for specific physical cars on commercial sets, allowing creatives to shoot a real car and skin it later in the editing process. The BLACKBIRD can adjust its length by up to four feet and width by ten inches. The wheels can be replaced with whatever tire fits the actual car, and its electric engine can be programmed to behave like the engine in the actual car’s engine. The Mill has created The Mill BLACKBIRD, the first fully adjustable car rig that creates photoreal CG cars – it’s a car rig that can be shot at any time, in any location, without the need to rely on a physical car. Created in collaboration with JemFX, Performance Filmworks and Keslow, Mill Blackbird inspires and expands creative opportunities, offering a truly flexible production tool without sacrificing any quality or direction.
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Topic: POLITIK - on June 25, 2016 at 3:35:00 PM CEST
Harald Vilimsky zum Brexit
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Topic: MUSIK - on June 25, 2016 at 11:36:00 AM CEST
Parliament-Funkadelic Founding Member Bernie Worrell Has Died
Bernie Worrell, the man behind the keyboard and one of the founding members of Parliament-Funkadelic, died Friday at the age of 72 after a battle with lung cancer.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on June 25, 2016 at 11:35:00 AM CEST
A Bug in Chrome Makes It Easy to Pirate Movies
For years Hollywood has waged a war on piracy, using digital rights management technologies to fight bootleggers who illegally copy movies and distribute them. For just as long, hackers have found ways to bypass these protections. Now two security researchers have found a new way, using a vulnerability in the system Google uses to stream media through its Chrome browser. They say people could exploit the flaw to save illegal copies of movies they stream on Chrome using sites like Netflix or Amazon Prime.
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on June 25, 2016 at 11:33:00 AM CEST
Finding an ATM Skimmer: It pays to be paranoid!
Finding an ATM Skimmer on vacation at the Samsung Cash Machine outside St. Steven's cathedral in Vienna, Austria. While on vacation with my family in Vienna, Austria, I went to grab some cash from an ATM. Being security paranoid, I repeated my typical habit of checking the card reader with my hand as I have 100's of times... today's the day when my security awareness paid off! Check out my discovery of a custom made card skimmer that perfectly matches up to this ATM machine!
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Topic: POLITIK - on June 25, 2016 at 11:30:00 AM CEST
Donald Trump’s Ridiculous Brexit Tweet Is Getting Some Amazing Replies
After the surprising results of the ‘Brexit’ results out of the U.K., a very not surprising thing occurred on Twitter: Donald Trump posted something ridiculous.
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Topic: POLITIK - on June 23, 2016 at 11:27:00 PM CEST
Here is how much money the senators who voted against gun reform received from the NRA.
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Topic: logisch - on June 23, 2016 at 11:26:00 PM CEST
Life as a Verb: Applying Buckminster Fuller to the 21st Century
IF ONE BELIEVES the story, at the peak of his fame, Buckminster Fuller wore three wristwatches — one set for his current location, one for his previous one, and one for his next one. Jonathon Keats’s new book You Belong to the Universe appropriately situates the designer and autodidact in the present, past, and future — not just Fuller’s, but ours too. In fact, Keats’s central argument is that today’s would-be “world changers” can extract inspiration and even concrete examples from Fuller’s 20th-century life and apply them to 21st-century design futures.
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