Topic: COPYRIGHT - on March 6, 2009 at 1:02:00 PM CET
Pirate Bay Defendant Restarts Server Remotely during Trial
Fredrik Neij - one of the accused in the trial against thepiratebay.org - took some time to manage the website remotely in the middle of the closing argument.
- A server was down and I restarted it, Neij tells expressen.se. He is one of the four founders of The Pirate Bay that stand accused of “complicity to making copyrighted material accessible” (yes, that’s the charge). That didn’t stop him from taking care of a server mishap in the middle of the trial’s closing argument.
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Topic: DRUGS - on March 6, 2009 at 1:00:00 PM CET
How to stop the drug wars - Prohibition has failed; legalisation is the least bad solution
A HUNDRED years ago a group of foreign diplomats gathered in Shanghai for the first-ever international effort to ban trade in a narcotic drug. On February 26th 1909 they agreed to set up the International Opium Commission—just a few decades after Britain had fought a war with China to assert its right to peddle the stuff. Many other bans of mood-altering drugs have followed. In 1998 the UN General Assembly committed member countries to achieving a “drug-free world” and to “eliminating or significantly reducing” the production of opium, cocaine and cannabis by 2008.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on March 5, 2009 at 12:56:00 PM CET
Woman Calls 911 After McDonald's Runs Out Of Nuggets
According to the report, Goodman called 911 three times Saturday to report that a McDonald's employee wasn't giving her a refund for the chicken nuggets she wanted.
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Topic: NATURE - on March 5, 2009 at 12:52:00 PM CET
10 Most Diabolical Fish On Earth
On the one hand, fish are inoffensive creatures, the majority not much to worry about unless they’re getting overcooked on the barbecue. Yet there are a few species that are more loathsome to our tastes. These are creatures straight out of nightmares – some more fangs than fish; others that look like they’ve barely swum out of the primeval sludge. But though we’d like to think we’re no relation to these demons of the deep, in the evolutionary scheme of things all us land vertebrates are derived from our fishy cousins.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on March 5, 2009 at 12:48:00 PM CET
Vatican says that "Evolution is OK, but it doesn't disprove God."
Vatican official calls atheist theories 'absurd'
A Vatican cardinal said Tuesday that the Catholic Church does not stand in the way of scientific realities like evolution, though he described as "absurd" the atheist notion that evolution proves there is no God.
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Topic: MUSIK - on March 5, 2009 at 12:28:00 PM CET
DJ Fatboy Slim checks into rehab
DJ Norman Cook has checked himself into rehab to battle an alcohol addiction, his manager has confirmed.
The star, who is better known as Fatboy Slim and had a number one with the hit Praise You in 1999, admitted himself to a specialist facility on Monday.
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Topic: DRUGS - on March 5, 2009 at 12:27:00 PM CET
Wiener Ermittler heben riesigen Drogenring aus
Einen großangelegten internationalen Drogenring haben Wiener Ermittler in Zusammenarbeit mit weltweiten Polizei- und Justizbehörden zerschlagen. Im Zuge der mehr als drei Jahre dauernden Operation "Leopold" ist es gelungen, rund 150 Kilogramm Heroin und Kokain sowie 350.000 Euro Bargeld sicherzustellen. Insgesamt wurden 174 Personen wegen Drogenschmuggels und -handels festgenommen, 145 davon in Österreich. Der Straßenverkaufswert des Suchtgifts wird auf ungefähr 15 Millionen Euro geschätzt. Das gaben das Landeskriminalamt (LKA) Wien und das Bundeskriminalamt (BK) am Mittwoch in Wien bekannt.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on March 4, 2009 at 1:19:00 PM CET
Mindfuck Movies
Note: The text of this essay contains no spoilers, but watch the clips at your own peril.
There’s a certain brand of movie that I most enjoy. Some people call them “Puzzle Movies.” Others call them “Brain Burners.” Each has, at some point or another, been referred to as “that flick I watched while I was baked out of my mind.”
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Topic: WERBUNG - on March 4, 2009 at 1:18:00 PM CET
New guidelines on behavioural ads
The online advertising industry has launched a set of guidelines for a genre of adverts that have been causing controversy.
The code of practice drawn up by the Internet Advertising Bureau looks specifically at behavioural advertising.
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Topic: Green - on March 4, 2009 at 1:15:00 PM CET
Cycling into the Future: 15 Crazy Concept Bicycles
Since bicycles work pretty flawlessly as it is, you might wonder just why we need crazy modifications like spokeless wheels and the ability to ride sideways. Innovation never ceases, and as a result we’ve been treated to a wild assortment of ideas from giant amphibious contraptions to bikes that fold up into backpacks. Some of these 15 concept bikes address issues like cost, portability and adaptability and others are just plain strange.
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Topic: FUN - on March 4, 2009 at 12:25:00 PM CET
Petaminx Dodecahedral Puzzle Would Make Ernő Rubik Cry
I think “whoa!” is the only response you can really have when you first see this amazing dodecahedral puzzle created by Jason Smith of PuzzleForge.com. While the original design was created by Andrew Cormier, the completed Petaminx puzzle you see above was cast and hand-assembled by Jason, who clearly has the patience of a saint.
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Topic: WEB - on March 4, 2009 at 12:23:00 PM CET
The SSD Project
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has created this Surveillance Self-Defense site to educate the American public about the law and technology of government surveillance in the United States, providing the information and tools necessary to evaluate the threat of surveillance and take appropriate steps to defend against it.
Surveillance Self-Defense (SSD) exists to answer two main questions: What can the government legally do to spy on your computer data and communications? And what can you legally do to protect yourself against such spying?
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