Topic: FUN - on April 12, 2009 at 6:52:00 PM CEST
Find Thousands of Easter Eggs at the Easter Egg Archive
Hard boiled and chocolate filled don't have to be the only Easter eggs you see today. Check out the tasty little treasures buried in software and media you can discover without the grass stains.
Last year we shared our 10 favorite software Easter eggs with you, but why limit yourself to a mere 10? At The Easter Egg Archive there's a huge catalog of over 13,000 Easter eggs.
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Topic: NEWS english - on April 12, 2009 at 3:11:00 PM CEST
Cable-cutting vandals disconnect Silicon Valley
Police are on the lookout for saboteurs believed to have gone on a fiber-optic cable slashing spree on Thursday, leaving hundreds of thousands of Silicon Valley residents without internet access, landline, and mobile phone service for much of the day.
California Bay Area officials say vandals cut four cables belonging to local carrier AT&T sometime before 1:30 AM in San Jose, south of San Francisco. Another four cables were snipped approximately two hours later at two nearby locations northward in San Carlos. An additional two lines were then severed in south San Jose.
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Topic: WEB - on April 12, 2009 at 12:03:00 PM CEST
c’t widerlegt Argumente für Internet-Zensur
In der neuen c’t finden sich prima alle Argumente für die Mahnwache in Berlin am Freitag nochmal zusammengefasst: Die Argumente für Kinderporno-Sperren laufen ins Leere. Darin sind:
* Die Sperrung von Neonazi-Webseiten in NRW 2002.
* Eine kritische Hinterfragung der Zahlen des Familienministeriums, mit der recherchierten Aussage, das in diesen Zahlen auch fallen gelassene Ermittlungsverfahren der “Operation Himmel” sind.
* Die Widerlegung, dass es eine Konderporno-Industrie auf Webseiten gibt.
* Die Probleme von DNS-Blacklists, IP-Sperren und Deep Packet Inspection Systemen.
* Die Aussage des Chefs der Polizeiermittlungsgruppe gegen Kinderpornografie in Schweden, dass Internet-Sperren nicht gegen die Produktion von Material helfen.
* Viele der Server auf den geleakten Sperrlisten anderer Länder stehen in westlichen Ländern, bei denen das Abschalten der Server einfach ist. Der Artikel sagt, dass Carechild die Server mit klar illegalen Inhalten innerhalb von Stunden zur Abschaltung bekommen hat.
* Probleme mit “grundrechtsschonender” Zensur, beispielsweise dass der bisherige Gesetzesentwurf nicht sagt, ob und wie einmal gesperrte Domains wieder von der Sperrliste kommen.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on April 12, 2009 at 11:55:00 AM CEST
Sweden Sees Boom In Legal Downloading
Quantos writes with word that in Sweden, in addition to a drop in traffic following the introduction of the IPRED anti-file sharing law, the country also saw a doubling of legal downloads.
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Topic: FUN - on April 12, 2009 at 11:50:00 AM CEST
Happy Easter
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Topic: TV - on April 11, 2009 at 3:28:00 PM CEST
Adam Curtis - The Rise and Fall of the TV Journalist
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Topic: PHOTO - on April 11, 2009 at 9:51:00 AM CEST
What, where?
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Topic: MAKE - on April 11, 2009 at 9:48:00 AM CEST
Egg Zeppelin
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Topic: food - on April 11, 2009 at 9:45:00 AM CEST
BaconCamp
Inspired by last year's creative cooking competition and exhibition called CupcakeCamp and in solidarity with the growing popularity of events (see the recent Grilled Cheese Invitational), the first BaconCamp took place over the weekend. It was a well-organized and smoothly run event that simultaneously demonstrated just how much of a high bacon is currently on in terms of notoriety and how far people are able to stretch one culinary theme.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on April 11, 2009 at 9:44:00 AM CEST
Video: Watch 10 terrific 'Easter eggs' in action
In this case, they're hidden tricks, games and surprises that programmers put in their code that are activated by certain key combinations or other user input. You can find them in applications, operating systems, browsers and just about any other type of software.
I admit that a couple of these examples -- one in Linux and one in a Telnet session -- aren't technically Easter eggs. But I think these little treats are pretty cool so I put them all in my egg basket to share with you.
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Topic: Online-Fahndung - on April 11, 2009 at 9:41:00 AM CEST
Germany muzzles WikiLeaks
On April 9th 2009, the internet domain registration for the investigative journalism site Wikileaks.de was suspended without notice by Germany's registration authority DENIC.
The action comes two weeks after the house of the German WikiLeaks domain sponsor, Theodor Reppe, was searched by German authorities. Police documentation shows that the March 24, 2009 raid was triggered by WikiLeaks' publication of Australia's proposed secret internet censorship list. The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) told Australian journalists that they did not request the intervention of the German government.
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Topic: POLITIK - on April 10, 2009 at 4:28:00 PM CEST
World’s first trillion dollar ad campaign
One of the most eloquent symbols of Zimbabwe’s collapse is the Z$100 trillion dollar note, a symptom of their world record inflation. This note cannot buy anything, not even a loaf of bread and certainly not any advertising, but it can become the advertising, it can be a powerful reminder about Zimbabwe’s plight and the need to hold someone accountable.
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