Topic: DRUGS - on August 2, 2009 at 11:50:00 AM CEST
Legalized Pot-Packaging-Design
OUR DIRECTION is essentially about preserving the spirit of buying pot illegally. The rituals and customs of scoring a bag of weed are so ingrained in pop culture that to ignore them simply because marijuana is legal seems to do a disservice to decades-old pot culture.
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Topic: DRUGS - on August 2, 2009 at 11:46:00 AM CEST
The Shulgin Project – 9 minute trailer
Alexander Shulgin - chemist extraordinaire and living legend in underground drug culture - features in this new film on the unexplored potential of psychedelic drugs. Having quit his post as a senior research chemist at Dow Chemical Company in 1965, together with his wife Ann he set forth on a personal quest to design new psychoactive drugs. The lifestyle drugs market is now estimated to be worth up to $25 billion annually, providing legal treatments for conditions ranging from depression to impotence. Why should man be prevented from using other drugs, which alter his mental and physical experiences? Many have been used for centuries and others continue to be applied in therapeutic, creative, religious, exploratory, recreational and military settings. Are these drugs so innately dangerous that people need to be protected from them? Or are there other reasons? Doctors prescribing MDMA for post traumatic stress disorder and terminal cancer, military psychiatrists testing LSD on troops, chemists developing new 'designer drugs,' shamans using psychedelics to heighten spiritual awareness, multiple sclerosis sufferers self-medicating with cannabis, artists using LSD as a creative tool. Such practices are at best restricted and at worst outlawed - but what are the motives behind the regulations? Further filming is planned in the US, the UK, the rest of Europe, and South America.
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Topic: WEB - on August 1, 2009 at 10:13:00 AM CEST
eBay could ditch uncrackable Skype tech
Skype's proprietary scrambling technology is purportedly the bane of electronic spies at the NSA and GCHQ, and now in a move sure to spark conspiracy theories, eBay has quietly revealed it could rip out and replace the code at its core.
In a regulatory filing this week, the online auction house said it might substitute Skype's encrypted peer to peer technology, which it has licensed from a company named Joltid.
"Skype has begun to develop alternative software to that licensed through Joltid," eBay told US regulators.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 1, 2009 at 10:11:00 AM CEST
Researchers find insecure BIOS 'rootkit' pre-loaded in laptops
A popular laptop theft-recovery service that ships on notebooks made by HP, Dell, Lenovo, Toshiba, Gateway, Asus and Panasonic is actually a dangerous BIOS rootkit that can be hijacked and controlled by malicious hackers.
The service — called Computrace LoJack for Laptops — contains design vulnerabilities and a lack of strong authentication that can lead to “a complete and persistent compromise of an affected system,” according to Black Hat conference presentation by researchers Alfredo Ortega and Anibal Sacco from Core Security Technologies.
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Topic: FUN - on August 1, 2009 at 10:01:00 AM CEST
WTF?
This web site belonged to a recently prosecuted criminal pharmaceuticals dealer and is being used as a tool in an investigation to catch online pharmaceuticals buyers.
Your IP, 0.0.0.0.0, has been logged. Your ISP, First Colo via AS44066, will be contacted, your contact information subpoenaed, and you may be personally contacted by a DEA agent.
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Topic: FUN - on August 1, 2009 at 9:57:00 AM CEST
This snicker: Bikini Dissolves In Water
A bikini that dissolves in water has outraged women's rights campaigners. The saucy thong swimsuit - sold as the perfect present for dumped boyfriends - looks like a real bikini but disappears completely after just a few seconds in water.
Sellers in Germany bill the Get Naked costume as a chance for men to get their own back after a break-up.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on August 1, 2009 at 9:53:00 AM CEST
Geffen Records Signs New Artist: Pope Benedict XVI
He'll be home for Christmas. Pope Benedict XVI will, according to reports, release an album in time for the Christmas season.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on July 31, 2009 at 12:12:00 PM CEST
Pope: Creation vs. evolution clash an ‘absurdity’
Pope Benedict XVI said the debate raging in some countries — particularly the United States and his native Germany — between creationism and evolution was an “absurdity,” saying that evolution can coexist with faith.
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Topic: SECURITY - on July 31, 2009 at 12:05:00 PM CEST
Bootkit hebelt Festplattenverschlüsselung aus
Der österreichische IT-Sicherheitsspezialist Peter Kleissner hat auf der Sicherheitskonferenz Black Hat ein Bootkit namens Stoned demonstriert, das in der Lage ist TrueCrypts vollständige Partitions- und Systemverschlüsselung auszuhebeln. Bootkits sind eine Kombination aus einem Rootkit und der Fähigkeit des Schädlings, den Master Boot Record des PC zu modifizieren und so bereits vor dem Start des Betriebssystems aktiv zu werden.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on July 31, 2009 at 12:01:00 PM CEST
Was kommt nach dem Copyright?
Auf Vimeo gibt es die Dokumentation “Was kommt nach dem Copyright” zu sehen, die im vergangenen Herbst auf 3sat gezeigt wurde
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Topic: MUSIK - on July 31, 2009 at 11:59:00 AM CEST
U2's latest tour – ludicrous, expensive and a bit hypocritical
Considering their reputation as the most socially aware band on the planet, U2 have been doing their best to inflame at least one section of society with their latest venture. Protesters in Dublin this week picketed the Croke Park stadium where the dismantling of the world's most expensive – and most preposterous – rock show, including a giant electronic "claw", required almost two days of continual activity and the relentless rumble of juggernauts down narrow lanes. All of this presumably left a giant dent where a dainty little carbon footprint should have been.
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Topic: DRUGS - on July 31, 2009 at 11:57:00 AM CEST
Amy Winehouse 'stole cocaine from Kate Moss's handbag'
Amy Winehouse allegedly stole cocaine from Kate Moss’s handbag, her ex-husband has claimed.
Blake Fielder-Civil said they were partying with the supermodel in New York when Winehouse went into her purse and pocketed two grammes of the drug.
They were mingling with other models and Hollywood stars in a private suite at the city’s Gramercy Park Hotel.
He said: 'Kate had told Amy to get a $10 note out of her handbag to snort lines with. Amy Winehouse
'But Amy told me she found two grammes of cocaine in there – so she nicked them.
'We did some in the toilets and had sex, but we did the rest in front of everyone.'
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