Topic: WEB - on January 29, 2009 at 10:28:00 AM CET
Google shamed by Low Countries search
As Google and Yahoo! play Privacy Theatre, at least one search engine has realized your personal data is not a toy.
Today - aka Data Privacy Day 2009 - Netherlands-based search engine Ixquick told the world it will no longer log user IPs. In the past, the privacy-obsessed outfit stored IP addresses for only 48 hours, but it has now shunned the practice entirely.
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Topic: WEB - on January 29, 2009 at 10:27:00 AM CET
M-Lab und Google: Tools gegen Provider-Tricks
Google hat gemeinsam mit US-Bürgerrechtlern eine Website mit Werkzeugen gestartet, die es Internet-Nutzern ermöglichen, Verstöße gegen die Netzneutralität durch ihre Provider zu erkennen. So gibt es ein Online-Tool, mit dem der Nutzer prüfen kann, ob sein Provider hinter seinem Rücken den Datenverkehr des BitTorrent-Protokolls behindert.
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Topic: WEB - on January 29, 2009 at 10:26:00 AM CET
Google and Friends Release Net Neutrality Measuring Tools
Google and a group of partners have released a set of tools designed to help broadband customers and researchers measure performance of Internet connections. The set of tools, at MeasurementLab.net, includes a network diagnostic tool, a network path diagnostic tool and a tool to measure whether the user's broadband provider is slowing BitTorrent peer-to-peer (P-to-P) traffic.
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Topic: POLITIK - on January 29, 2009 at 10:17:00 AM CET
I survived the Bush Administration Shirt
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Topic: DRUGS - on January 29, 2009 at 10:15:00 AM CET
Nato-Oberbefehlshaber erteilt rechtswidrigen Tötungsbefehl
Das Vorgehen gegen die Drogenmafia in Afghanistan sorgt für offenen Streit in der Nato: SPIEGEL-Informationen zufolge will Oberbefehlshaber Craddock alle Opiumhändler töten lassen - auch ohne Nachweis, dass sie etwas mit bewaffneten Aufständischen zu tun haben. Die Kommandeure wollen dem Befehl nicht folgen.
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Topic: BOARD NEWS - on January 28, 2009 at 10:28:00 PM CET
Schweiz verhängt Geldstrafe gegen Nacktwanderer
Nackedeis in Wanderstiefeln sind in der Schweiz unerwünscht. Im Kanton Appenzell-Innerrhoden droht Alpinisten im Adamskostüm künftig ein saftiges Ordnungsgeld. Das neue Gesetz wurde sofort nach einer ersten FKK-Invasion erlassen.
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Topic: Universe - on January 28, 2009 at 1:36:00 PM CET
Have you ever seen the band of our Milky Way Galaxy?
In a clear sky from a dark location at the right time, a faint band of light becomes visible across the sky. Soon after your eyes become dark adapted, you might spot the band for the first time. It may then become obvious. Then spectacular. One reason for a growing astonishment might be the realization that this fuzzy swath contains billions of stars and is the disk of our very own spiral galaxy
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Topic: logisch - on January 28, 2009 at 1:33:00 PM CET
15 Things Kurt Vonnegut Said Better Than Anyone Else Ever Has Or Will
1. "I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'"
The actual advice here is technically a quote from Kurt Vonnegut's "good uncle" Alex, but Vonnegut was nice enough to pass it on at speeches and in A Man Without A Country. Though he was sometimes derided as too gloomy and cynical, Vonnegut's most resonant messages have always been hopeful in the face of almost-certain doom. And his best advice seems almost ridiculously simple: Give your own happiness a bit of brainspace.
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Topic: NEWS english - on January 28, 2009 at 1:25:00 PM CET
Climate Change Could Choke Oceans for 100,000 Years
According to a simulation of planetary warming trends, failure to drastically cut greenhouse gas pollution within the next half century could choke Earth's oceans for the next 100,000 years.
With warmer temperatures reducing its ability to absorb oxygen, much of the water would become barren and lifeless. Oceanic food chains could be profoundly disrupted.
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Topic: Green - on January 28, 2009 at 1:18:00 PM CET
BIOWALLS: Living Walls Filter Out Toxins Indoors (VIDEO)
By now we've all seen green roofs (and voted on our favorite green roofs), but what about green walls? Biowalls, a very cool concept, look amazing and actively, naturally purify the air indoors.
| Morristown building goes green with biowall |
huffingtonpost.com Assessment of Biowalls: An Overview of Plant- and Microbial-based [pdf]
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Topic: CARS - on January 28, 2009 at 11:45:00 AM CET
AERO EV: Fastest Electric Car Specs Revealed!
Shelby Supercars first raised eyebrows several months ago with claims of building “the first 100% Green Supercar to achieve speeds never before seen”. Well, it seems like those details are starting to formalize and they are just as outlandish as previously thought. According to Shelby, the Ultimate Aero EV will be able to produce over 1,000 horsepower that will power the vehicle from 0-60 mph in less than 2.5 seconds!
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on January 28, 2009 at 11:43:00 AM CET
List of Christian evangelist scandals
This is a list of scandals related to American Christian evangelists. (Roman Catholic clergy and high-profile leaders from New Religious Movements are not within the scope of this list.)
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