Topic: STRANGE - on August 4, 2009 at 11:55:00 AM CEST
Schülerin will als 74-Jährige in Disco
Dreister geht es kaum, dümmer allerdings auch nicht: Eine 14-Jährige hat sich mit einem gefälschten Ausweis in eine Münchner Discothek zu schleichen versucht. Allerdings hätte sie demnach bereits im Rentenalter sein müssen.
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Topic: MUSIK - on August 4, 2009 at 11:53:00 AM CEST
Will the indie chart rise again?
In its 1980s heyday, the indie chart was a beacon of top alternative music. Then the majors took over. Now it may get a new lease of life
It seems like a folk memory already. Could there really once have been a pop chart that was topped, variously, by a portly middle-aged man's cod-opera single, by an anarchist collective from Essex, by Australian soap stars, by black-clad goths from Leeds, by – well, by pretty well anyone you can think of?
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Topic: DRUGS - on August 4, 2009 at 11:52:00 AM CEST
22 Arrested in Drug Raid at 'Music Church' Funk Fest
Authorities said there were four head shops that had 1,000 marijuana pipes for sale.
People working like cocktail waitresses walked the crowd, selling "Ganja" treats -- including Rice Krispies snacks believed to be laced with marijuana, according to authorities.
A total of 22 people were arrested Saturday evening as the Fayette County Drug Task Force raided the 47-acre Bullskin site of the Church of Universal Love and Music.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on August 4, 2009 at 11:48:00 AM CEST
Strange New Air Force Facility Energizes Ionosphere, Fans Conspiracy Flames
Todd Pedersen had to hustle—the sky was scheduled to start glowing soon, and he didn't want to miss it. It was just before sunset, a cold February evening in deep-woods Alaska, and the broad-shouldered US Air Force physicist was scrambling across the snow in his orange down parka and fur-lined bomber hat. Grabbing cables and electronics, he rushed to assemble a jury-rigged telescope atop a crude wooden platform.
The rig wasn't much, just a pair of high-sensitivity cameras packed into a dorm-room refrigerator and pointed at a curved mirror reflecting a panoramic view of the sky. Pedersen had hoped to monitor the camera feed from a relatively warm bunkhouse nearby. But powdery snow two feet deep made it difficult to string cables back to the building.
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Topic: Space - on August 3, 2009 at 12:41:00 PM CEST
Orbit Your Own Satellite For $8,000
Interorbital's TubeSat Personal Satellite Kit, which allows anyone to send a half-pound payload to low-earth orbit for $8,000. Your satellite will fly to orbit from Tonga atop an Interorbital Systems NEPTUNE 30 rocket along with 31 other TubeSats. It will function for several weeks, then its orbit will decay and it will burn up in the atmosphere. Interorbital plans to send up a load of 32 TubeSats every month.
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Topic: SECURITY - on August 3, 2009 at 12:38:00 PM CEST
Apple keyboard firmware hack demonstrated
APPLE KEYBOARDS ARE vulnerable to a hack that puts keyloggers and malware directly into the keyboard. This could be a serious problem, and now that the presentation and code is out there, the bad guys will surely be exploiting it.
The vulnerability was discovered by K. Chen, and he gave a talk on it at Blackhat this year. The concept is simple, a modern Apple keyboard has about 8K of flash memory, and 256 bytes of working ram. For the intelligent, this is more than enough space to have a field day.
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Topic: SECURITY - on August 3, 2009 at 12:37:00 PM CEST
Apple-Tastaturen können mitlauschen
Apple-Tastaturen lassen sich offenbar sehr leicht zu Keyloggern umprogrammieren. K. Chen zeigte in einem Vortrag auf der Sicherheitskonferenz BlackHat, dass neuere USB-Keyboards aus Cuppertino – auch die der MacBooks – einen frei programmierbaren Microcontroller enthalten, mit dem sich allerhand Schabernack treiben lässt.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on August 3, 2009 at 12:33:00 PM CEST
Police helmet cams go up in smoke
The latest crime-fighting gadget, a cigar-sized camera attached to a police helmet, has gone up in smoke after problems with its batteries setting on fire.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on August 3, 2009 at 12:32:00 PM CEST
Soko Eierschwammerl vereitelt Pilzgroßraub
Italiener mit 50 Kilogramm Schwammerln aufgegriffen - Behörde vernichtete die Beute
Es war der größte Schwammerlraub, der der Sondereinsatzgruppe der Kärntner Bergwacht bislang untergekommen ist. Fast 50 Kilogramm Pilze, darunter 40 Kilogramm Eierschwammerln, hatten drei italienische Sammler bei sich, als sie von der Kärntner Pilze-Soko aufgegriffen wurden. Sie wurden ertappt, als sie ihre Ausbeute, versteckt in prallgefüllten Rucksäcken, im Auto verstauen wollten.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on August 2, 2009 at 11:58:00 AM CEST
Mexican police investigate hotel over stockpiling Cancun beach sand
Tourists have found their little piece of Cancun beach paradise ringed by crime-scene tape and gun-toting sailors after a hotel was accused of illegally stockpiling sand. Environmental enforcement officers backed by Mexican navy personnel closed off hundreds of feet of powder-white coastline in front of the hotel.
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Topic: STRANGE - on August 2, 2009 at 11:56:00 AM CEST
Wie die große Gartenhure Investoren verrückt machte
Nicht Gold oder Diamanten weckten im Jahr 1637 die Gier holländischer Investoren - sondern Blumen. Ein regelrechter Tulpen-Wahn bescherte der Finanzwelt die erste Spekulationsblase der Geschichte. Sie gilt heute als Prototyp für viele spätere Krisen.
Die Königin der Tulpen trug ihr Haupt hoch, so kamen die leuchtenden Farben noch besser zur Geltung: Blau am Blütenboden, wo der schlanke Stil ansetzte, nach oben übergehend in ein reines Weiß, aus dem blutrote Flammen zur Spitze hin züngelten. "Semper Augustus" tauften die Züchter ihr Wunderwerk. Das Privileg, es in natura betrachten zu dürfen, war nur wenigen Zeitgenossen vergönnt.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on August 2, 2009 at 11:55:00 AM CEST
Maybe The RIAA Should Just Charge $22,500 Per Song
The RIAA has been awarded $675,000 in the case of Joel Tenenbaum, a student who illegally downloaded 30 songs. If the award stands, Tenenbaum will be filing for bankruptcy.
Since Tenenbaum had already admitted to infringement, the jury’s instructions from the judge were to choose an amount between $750 and $150,000 per song.
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