Saturday, 18. October 2008

'Anonymous' Member Unmasked, Charged With Web Attack on Scientology


An 18-year-old New Jersey man agreed to plead guilty to federal computer hacking charges Friday for participating in a denial-of-service attack against Church of Scientology websites, as part of collective of online troublemakers known as "Anonymous."

Dmitriy Guzner is charged with a single felony count of unauthorized impairment of a protected computer for the January distributed denial-of-service attack. He faces a likely sentence of 12 to 18 months in prison based on stipulations in his plea agreement, which also obliges him to pay $37,500 in restitution.

wired.com theregister.co.uk

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Reading This Will Change Your Brain


Is technology changing our brains? A new study by UCLA neuroscientist Gary Small adds to a growing body of research that says it is. And according to Small's new book, "iBRAIN: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind," a dramatic shift in how we gather information and communicate with one another has touched off an era of rapid evolution that may ultimately change the human brain as we know it. "Perhaps not since early man first discovered how to use a tool has the human brain been affected so quickly and so dramatically," he writes. "As the brain evolves and shifts its focus towards new technological skills, it drifts away from fundamental social skills."

newsweek.com

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Wednesday, 15. October 2008

Tresore gestohlen - Polizei merkte nichts


Kurz nach Mitternacht sind vermutlich mehrere Täter in die Innsbrucker Hauptpost eingedrungen. Sie entwendeten mehrere Schließfächer und einen Tresor. Da Alarm ausgelöst wurde, war die Polizei an Ort und Stelle, zog mangels Einbruchsspuren aber wieder ab.

orf.at

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Fun With Obama


Fun With Obama

damncoolpics.blogspot.com

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Sea otters sleep holding hands


Sea otters sleep holding hands

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MoJo Audio: PETA Co-Founder and President Ingrid Newkirk


This is a Mother Jones podcast. Ingrid Newkirk is the president and co-founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals [PETA], the world's largest animal rights organization. The English-born Newkirk has shepherded PETA for two decades, penning multiple books and promoting the organization with controversial publicity campaigns featuring naked models. Mother Jones editor Jen Phillips talks with Newkirk about her newest book, and about the feminists who have a beef with PETA's ads.

motherjones.com

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Mexico's president wants to decriminalize pot, cocaine and heroin possession


Even on his most homicidal of days, Al Pacino's character in Scarface couldn't even approach the level of drug trafficking-related brutality bleeding down Mexico's streets. It is no longer unusual for the Mexican news media to report on yet another, freshly decapitated head stuck atop a fencepost or a metal spike, or a garbage bag filled with body parts, usually with a hand-scrawled note or placard attached. That amounts to a cartel's calling card, and it's usually delivered in the form of a warning to a rival cartel, or for the Mexican authorities to stay away and stop seizing their drugs.

alternet.org

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Tuesday, 14. October 2008

Liebesgrüße aus dem All


Der Countdown läuft: An diesem Dienstag landen Aliens von der Förderation des Lichts auf der Erde - behauptet zumindest das Medium Blossom Goodchild. Nach Jahren heimlichen Wachens über Barack Obama und die restliche Menschheit wollen die Außerirdischen sich zeigen. Endlich.

Die gute Nachricht vorab: Die Aliens, die sich (wie eine steigende Zahl von Menschen rund um den Globus zu glauben scheint) bereits am Dienstag bei uns vorstellen wollen, kommen nicht, um die Erde zu erobern. Das hört man gern, aber es kommt sogar noch besser:

"Wir kommen, um eurer Welt zu helfen. Wir kommen nicht, um sie zu übernehmen. Wir kommen nicht, um zu zerstören. Wir kommen, um euch Hoffnung zu bringen."

Das - man beachte die Anführungszeichen - sagen die Aliens von der Föderation des Lichts selbst, und zwar durch das Medium Blossom Goodchild.

spiegel.de

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Amy Winhehouse macht in Zuckerwatte


Sängerin Amy Winehouse hat ein neues Spielzeug. Jetzt legte sich die 25-Jährige eine Zuckerwatte-Maschine zu. Amy hat allerdings laut einem Insider gegenüber der “News Of The World” keineswegs eine Zucker-Sucht entwickelt. Sie versetzt die Schleckerei vielmehr mit Kokain. Das Ergebnis: Kokain-Zuckerwatte.

die-topnews.de

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Amy Winehouse & Friends Enjoy Cotton “Cocaine” Candy WTF?


Amy Winehouse and her druggie friends have found a new use for her cotton candy machine… to make cotton “cocaine” candy. You can get your sugar high and your coke high at the same time. Supposedly this concoction was the clever idea of Babyshambles guitarist, Mik Whitnall. Just what Amy Winehouse needs huh?

stupidcelebrities.net

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Daughter of Mossad chief sent to military prison for refusing to enlist. Stay classy, Israel!


Omer Goldman is a very pretty girl, slender as a model. Never still and very restless, the expected loss of her freedom fills her with anxiety. For months before she refused to be drafted into the Israel Defence Forces she went to a psychologist every week to prepare for what was to come: incarceration in a cell in a military prison.

thefirstpost.co.uk

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Switchlist Dienstag: Kottan ermittelt - 22.45 bis 23.45 | ORF 1 | In memoriam Kurt Weinzierl | Mabuse kehrt zurück


In memoriam Kurt Weinzierl ändert der ORF sein Programm. Neben einem Beitrag im "Kulturmontag" bringt der ORF am Dienstag, um 22.45 Uhr in ORF 1 die letzte, 1984 entstandene "Kottan ermittelt"-Folge "Mabuse kehrt zurück".

Am Samstag (18.) zeigt ORF 2 um 13.10 Uhr den Dokumentarspiel "Der Fall Jägerstätter" von Axel Corti (Regie) und Hellmut Andics (Drehbuch) aus dem Jahr 1971. Kurt Weinzierl verkörperte darin die Titelrolle des mittlerweile selig gesprochenen Kriegsdienstverweigerers.

derstandard.at/

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