Topic: POLICE REPORT - on October 12, 2008 at 1:04:00 PM CEST
Speed cameras will be able to track drivers for miles - Speed cameras which can track drivers for up to 30 miles are to be deployed on roads next year.
The device is to stop motorists dodging tickets by braking suddenly before a camera and speeding up immediately afterwards.
The cameras will work together in a network, and can be positioned more than 15 miles apart, automatically reading numberplates and transmit data instantly to a penalty processing centre.
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Topic: SECURITY - on October 12, 2008 at 12:50:00 PM CEST
The coverage of the recent NSA intercept stories has some serious deficiencies. - Inside Operation Highlander: the NSA's Wiretapping of Americans Abroad
That's not the Terrorist Surveillance Program (TSP), and not related to foreign intelligence collection programs in that were in place in the United States. That's the NSA working in a foreign military operations theater, and is vastly different. These intercepts were happening in realtime and were focused on an area of military operations.
When working in the dynamic environment of an operations theater, it's difficult to make distinctions about what traffic should be monitored and when. That is of course not to say that US Persons should continue to be collected on after their status is known, even under difficult circumstances.
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Topic: SECURITY - on October 12, 2008 at 12:48:00 PM CEST
World Bank Under Cyber Siege in 'Unprecedented Crisis'
The World Bank Group's computer network — one of the largest repositories of sensitive data about the economies of every nation — has been raided repeatedly by outsiders for more than a year, FOX News has learned.
It is still not known how much information was stolen. But sources inside the bank confirm that servers in the institution's highly-restricted treasury unit were deeply penetrated with spy software last April. Invaders also had full access to the rest of the bank's network for nearly a month in June and July.
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Topic: SECURITY - on October 12, 2008 at 12:46:00 PM CEST
Turbo-charged wireless hacks threaten networks
The latest graphics cards have been used to break Wi-Fi encryption far quicker than was previously possible. Some security consultants are already suggesting the development blows Wi-Fi security out of the water and that corporations ought to apply tighter VPN controls, or abandon wireless networks altogether, in response.
Russian firm ElcomSoft has applied GPU acceleration technology to its password recovery tool to allow PCs or servers running supported NVIDIA video cards to break Wi-Fi encryption up to 100 times faster than is possible by using conventional microprocessors. Recovery times for Wi-Fi keys are increased by a factor between 10 to 15 in the use of Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery in combination with a regular laptop featuring NVIDIA GeForce 8800M or 9800M series GPUs.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 11, 2008 at 5:51:00 PM CEST
Nutter has 36 WoW accounts, play all simultanously, raids by himself
This is pretty much wrong. Dual-Boxing’s forums have yielded information about a man who has 36 World of Warcraft accounts and raids by himself. There’s an explanation there of how he manages to control that many characters simultaneously. We’re a bit baffled by this, to be honest.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on October 11, 2008 at 10:27:00 AM CEST
German pop star marries a pineapple - Ananas Express?
As celebrity weddings go, it's one of the wackiest (and, er, sweetest) you're ever likely to see.
German pop star Ramma Damma, aka Ulli Hopper, decided to get married – to a pineapple.
Picking up his bride for about £8 – he wanted one who wasn't cheap – he drove her across the Scottish border to Gretna Green in a Jaguar covered in green AstroTurf.
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 11, 2008 at 10:15:00 AM CEST
Invest in weed!
This came out of a discussion on the nature (failure) of expertise, certainly inspired by the continued downward spiral in which our economy finds itself. Apparently, the $700 billion bailout did not work and the Dow Jones Industrial Average slips further daily.
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Topic: FUN - on October 11, 2008 at 10:07:00 AM CEST
Cartoon
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Topic: ART - on October 11, 2008 at 9:56:00 AM CEST
Someone spray painted the Wall St. Bulls balls blue
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Topic: POLITIK - on October 11, 2008 at 9:51:00 AM CEST
Legislative Panel: Palin Abused Authority
Sarah Palin unlawfully abused her power as governor by trying to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper, the chief investigator of an Alaska legislative panel concluded Friday. The politically charged inquiry imperiled her reputation as a reformer on John McCain's Republican ticket.
Investigator Stephen Branchflower, in a report to a bipartisan panel that looked into the matter, found Palin in violation of a state ethics law that prohibits public officials from using their office for personal gain.
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Topic: JOEOEOEORG - on October 11, 2008 at 9:46:00 AM CEST
Rechtspopulist Jörg Haider bei Autounfall getötet
Der österreichische Rechtspopulist Jörg Haider ist bei einem Autounfall ums Leben gekommen. Der Dienstwagen des Kärntner Landeshauptmanns und Chefs der rechten Partei Bündnis Zukunft Österreich (BZÖ) kam nach Polizeiangaben am frühen Samstagmorgen in Klagenfurt von der Straße ab und überschlug sich.
Der österreichische Rechtspopulist Jörg Haider ist im Alter von 58 Jahren bei einem Autounfall ums Leben gekommen. Das berichtet die österreichische Nachrichtenagentur APA unter Berufung auf die Polizei. Bei dem Unfall sei Haider allein im Auto gewesen. Er habe schwerste Verletzungen im Kopf- und Brustbereich erlitten, an denen er wenig später gestorben sei.
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Topic: SECURITY - on October 10, 2008 at 11:56:00 AM CEST
Freedom Not Fear 2008
On 11 October 2008 we call for an international action day in as many European capital cities as possible and elsewhere around the world to demonstrate against the total retention of telecommunication data and other instruments of surveillance. We would like to recall the remembrance of the historical achievement of civil rights and liberties as a heritage of the Age of Enlightenment and to support the trust in security in our free society.
humanrights21.org vorratsdatenspeicherung.de freiheit-statt-angst.org Berlin
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