Topic: ART - on January 23, 2009 at 12:10:00 PM CET
81 works of art attributed to Salvador Dalì intervened in Estepona
A Frenchman who organised an exhibition in the Kempinski Hotel in Estepona has been arrested.
81 works of art attributed to Salvador Dalí have been seized by the authorities from an exhibition in the Kempinski Hotel in Estepona. The items were all up for sale.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on January 23, 2009 at 12:08:00 PM CET
Mac malware piggybacks on pirated iWork
Malware masquerading as part of Apple's iWork 09 productivity suite is targeting unsuspecting Mac users foolish enough to install pirated software downloaded on warez sites.
Once installed, iServices.A has unfettered root access, which it promptly uses to connect to a remote server over the internet, according to Intego, which sells anti-virus software for Macs. A secondary download installs malware that makes victims part of a botnet that's attacking undisclosed websites.
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Topic: Phone - on January 23, 2009 at 12:04:00 PM CET
Obama gets to keep his BlackBerry - t's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's 'super-encryption'
President Obama can keep his BlackBerry, making him the first sitting president to use email.
Barack Obama has resisted calls to relinquish his beloved handheld despite concerns over personal security, espionage, and presidential record-keeping.
"He has a BlackBerry through a compromise that allows him to stay in touch with senior staff and a small group of personal friends in a way that use will be limited and security enhanced to ensure his ability to communicate, but to do so effectively and to do so in a way that is protected," White House press secretary Roberts Gibbs told reporters on Thursday.
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Topic: POLITIK - on January 23, 2009 at 12:00:00 PM CET
The Obameter: Tracking Obama's Campaign Promises
PolitiFact has compiled about 500 promises that Barack Obama made during the campaign and is tracking their progress on our Obameter. We rate their status as No Action, In the Works or Stalled. Once we find action is completed, we rate them Promise Kept, Compromise or Promise Broken.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on January 22, 2009 at 3:15:00 PM CET
Atheist ads 'not breaking code'
An atheist UK bus campaign which uses the slogan "There's probably no God" does not breach the advertising code, a watchdog has ruled.
The Advertising Standards Authority said it had assessed 326 complaints. Some claimed the wording was offensive to people who followed a religion.
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Topic: POLITIK - on January 22, 2009 at 3:13:00 PM CET
Obama unveils new ethics rules for White House staff - video
President Barack Obama announced new ethics rules for White House staff and froze pay for staffers making over $100,000.
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Topic: POLITIK - on January 22, 2009 at 3:08:00 PM CET
Obama Inauguration Newspaper Headlines
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Topic: POLITIK - on January 22, 2009 at 3:04:00 PM CET
The Inauguration of President Barack Obama
On January 20th, 2009, Barack H. Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States of America - the first African-American ever to hold the office of U.S. Commander-in-Chief. The event was witnessed by well over one million attendees in chilly Washington D.C., and by many millions more through coverage on television and the Internet. Collected here are photographs of the event, the participants, and some of the witnesses around the world. (48 photos total)
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on January 22, 2009 at 3:01:00 PM CET
First Federal Courtroom Webcast Postponed
The nation's first live steaming webcast of federal trial court action -- a pretrial hearing in a Recording Industry Association of America file sharing copyright case -– has been postponed.
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Topic: Space - on January 22, 2009 at 2:34:00 PM CET
Russia says no more space tourists after 2009
Russia's space agency chief said there's no more room for space tourists in the International Space Station after this year because of plans to double the full-time crew at the orbiting outpost
Roskosmos top brass Anatoly Perminov told the government newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta in an interview published today that the last commercial flights will be made by Vladimir Gruzdev, a cosmonaut from the ex-Soviet republic sometime in Fall 2009, and by US software designer Charles Simonyi in March.
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Topic: ART - on January 21, 2009 at 12:19:00 PM CET
Original Banksy "Balloon Girl"
You´re bidding on an original artwork of world-famous street artist Banksy which was sprayed on a wall on Mona Road, Kingston, Jamaica, by the artist during a visit to the island in the year 2004. It is roughly 60 inches by 55 inches and about 7 inches thick. It weighs approximately 2000 pounds. Done by the artist in 2004 on Mona road in Kingston, Jamaica.
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Topic: WEB - on January 21, 2009 at 12:13:00 PM CET
The country's new robots.txt file
Here's a small and nerdy measure of the huge change in the executive branch of the US government today. Here's the robots.txt file from whitehouse.gov yesterday:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /query.html
Disallow: /omb/search
Disallow: /omb/query.html
Disallow: /expectmore/search
Disallow: /expectmore/query.html
Disallow: /results/search
Disallow: /results/query.html
Disallow: /earmarks/search
Disallow: /earmarks/query.html
Disallow: /help
Disallow: /360pics/text
Disallow: /911/911day/text
Disallow: /911/heroes/text
And it goes on like that for almost 2400 lines!
Here's the new Obamafied robots.txt file:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /includes/
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