Topic: Online-Fahndung - on December 3, 2008 at 11:38:26 AM CET
European Police Plan to Remote-Search Hard Drives
Remote searches of suspect computers will form part of an EU plan to tackle hi-tech crime.
The five-year action plan will take steps to combat the growth in cyber theft and the machines used to spread spam and other malicious programs.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on December 3, 2008 at 11:35:40 AM CET
Cops banned from bush-urination
Police using an isolated shooting range in Austria have been banned from urinating in nearby bushes if they are caught short.
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Topic: MUSIK - on December 2, 2008 at 12:20:38 PM CET
Has the riddle of Rolling Stone Brian Jones's death been solved at last?
She was a tall, graceful woman who greeted me with a delicate handshake. As we chatted in her sitting room and she poured tea, I found it difficult to believe that this woman was once at the centre of one of pop's most mysterious deaths.
Janet Lawson was the person who found Rolling Stones star Brian Jones dead at the bottom of his swimming pool on July 2, 1969.
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Topic: FUN - on December 2, 2008 at 12:16:50 PM CET
Lighthouse Needs New Keeper
A Richmond nonprofit is looking for a couple to serve as lighthouse keepers on East Brother Island, a 1-acre rock in San Pablo Bay. The winning applicants will keep tabs on the flashing Fresnel light and a pair of foghorns, and will run the inn housed in the 1874 lighthouse, which still has a functioning Coast Guard light.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 2, 2008 at 12:13:58 PM CET
New Massive Botnet Building On Windows Hole
The worm exploiting a critical Windows bug that Microsoft patched with an emergency fix in late October is now being used to build a fast-growing botnet, said Ivan Macalintal, a senior research engineer with Trend Micro. Dubbed 'Downad.a' by Trend (and 'Conficker.a' by Microsoft and 'Downadup' by Symantec), the worm is a key component in a massive new botnet that a new criminal element, not associated with McColo, is creating.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 2, 2008 at 12:12:41 PM CET
Malware spread explains Pentagon USB ban
Pentagon systems and computers in warzones in Iraq and Afghanistan reportedly came under a malware-based attack last month. The infection promoted a recent ban of the use of USB stick and other forms of removable storage by the US military and also talk of cyberwar, which fails to stack up under close examination.
An intrusive piece of malware "designed specifically to target military networks" affected PCs in combat zones and penetrated one "highly protected classified network", the Los Angeles Times reports.
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Topic: POLITIK - on December 1, 2008 at 11:28:14 AM CET
Bürokraten wollen 30.000 Mustangs schlachten lassen
Angeblich machen sie den riesigen Viehherden der Rancher das Grünfutter streitig - deshalb sollen nach Plänen aus Washington Tausende frei lebende Pferde geschlachtet werden. Letzte Hoffnung für den Wildwest-Mythos: Privatleute sollen die Mustangs adoptieren.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 1, 2008 at 11:26:19 AM CET
Van man had 210 kilos of drugs
The Guardia Civil has revealed that they stopped a Torrevieja man in his van last Wednesday when found to be transporting 210 kilos of hashish.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 1, 2008 at 11:22:15 AM CET
Hightimes Cannabis Cup Winners Results!
21st Cannabis Cup Winners
Cannabis Cup poster Cannabis Cup
- Green House United - Super Lemon Haze
- Barney's - Utopia Haze
- Green Place - Chocolope
Indica Cup (decided by High Times staff and friends)
- Mt. Cook from Kiwi Seeds
- Cheese from Homegrown Fantaseeds
- JSD from Amnesia Seeds
Sativa Cup (decided by the Cannabis Cup Band)
- Utopia Haze from Barney's Farm
- De La Haze from Paradise Seeds
- Integrity from Resin Seeds
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 1, 2008 at 11:20:53 AM CET
Kiffen bleibt in der Schweiz illegal
Der Konsum von Cannabis bleibt in der Schweiz auch künftig unter Strafe. Bei einer Volksabstimmung sprach sich eine klare Mehrheit der Schweizer gegen eine Legalisierung der Droge aus. Zuvor hatten schon Regierung und Parlament die sogenannte "Hanf-Initiative" abgelehnt.
Mindestens 500.000 Schweizer greifen mehr oder weniger regelmäßig zum Joint. Und dabei ist Kiffen in der Schweiz verboten. Wer beim Cannabis-Konsum erwischt wird, kommt aber in der Regel mit einer Verwarnung davon.
Bei hartnäckigen Wiederholungstätern werden auch schon mal Geldbußen zwischen umgerechnet 15 und 150 Euro verhängt.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 1, 2008 at 11:19:15 AM CET
Swiss approve pioneering legal heroin program
A pioneering Swiss program to give addicts government-authorized heroin was overwhelmingly approved Sunday by voters who simultaneously rejected the decriminalization of marijuana.
Sixty-eight percent of voters approved making the heroin program permanent. It has been credited with reducing crime and improving the health and daily lives of addicts since it began 14 years ago.
Only 36.8 percent of voters favored the marijuana intitiative.
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Topic: ART - on November 30, 2008 at 1:24:06 PM CET
20 Artistic Architectural Optical Illusions
Seeing is believing… or is it? Aided by high-tech materials, today’s artists and architects are finding that if it can be imagined, it can also be built. This selection of architectural optical illusions showcases 20 more very public ways to fool the eye, please the mind and satisfy the soul.
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