Topic: AUSTRIA - on May 15, 2016 at 10:08:00 AM CEST
for sale: Majestic Imperator Train de Luxe, Vienna Austria € 8,900,000
Majestic Train de Luxe GmbH (commercial register Austria FN 302000v) is the owner and operator of one of the world’s most luxurious trains. The “Majestic Imperator” revives the original k.u.k. Imperial Train of the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I. and his wife Elisabeth from the year 1891. Built according to original plans the seven carriages with a total of 239 seats (197 dining seats, 42 salon seats) offer a unique experience to the enthusiastic and sophisticated traveler. Each of these carriages with its exclusive original design offers the highest comfort, safety and the most luxurious flair of any operating train in the world.
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Topic: CARS - on May 15, 2016 at 10:01:00 AM CEST
Key West man riding high in ‘Cannabis Car’
About 100 pounds of hemp were used to make the car
The prototype cost $200,000 to make, but custom orders start at $40,000
The maker claims that the weed-mobile can cut automobile carbon footprints by about a quarter
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Topic: WEB - on May 15, 2016 at 9:56:00 AM CEST
ISIS launches an official Android app for kids (yes, really)
The sadistic Islamic fundamentalists who run Islamic State are some of the absolute worst people in the world… but that doesn’t mean they can’t have soft spots in their hearts for children. Well, at least when it comes to indoctrinating children into their violent and twisted ideology.
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Topic: SECURITY - on May 15, 2016 at 9:55:00 AM CEST
Hidden Microphones Exposed As Part of Government Surveillance Program In The Bay Area
Hidden microphones that are part of a clandestine government surveillance program that has been operating around the Bay Area has been exposed.
Imagine standing at a bus stop, talking to your friend and having your conversation recorded without you knowing. It happens all the time, and the FBI doesn’t even need a warrant to do it.
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Topic: Linux - on May 15, 2016 at 9:53:00 AM CEST
The Linux command that you should never say out loud
If, when working on your Linux servers, you occasionally mistype a command and then curse, you might feel right at home with a very oddly named Linux command. It might even reduce the frustration you feel by helping you to correct your typing mistakes. The tool is called, well, thef?ck -- but with the ? replaced by the obvious letter. And, in spite of its rather off-color name, a lot of people are very excited to have a little help getting past their command line mistakes.
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Topic: Linux - on May 15, 2016 at 9:51:00 AM CEST
After three years of Linux, Munich reveals draft of crunch report that could decide its open source future
A German city that undertook one of the world's largest shifts from Windows to Linux is struggling with buggy and outdated software.
Munich city council spent years migrating more than 15,000 staff to LiMux, a custom-version of Ubuntu, and other open-source software - a move the city said had saved it more than €10m ($11m). Microsoft's attempts to avoid such a high-profile shift by Germany's third-largest city saw the then CEO Steve Ballmer fly to Munich in 2003 to meet with the mayor at the time.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on May 14, 2016 at 3:59:00 PM CEST
Guide to Computing
This colourful series of ten historic computers, created in close collaboration between INK and Docubyte, documents the beginning of our computing history.
Featuring such famous machines as the IBM 1401 and Alan Turing’s Pilot ACE, Guide to Computing showcases a minimalist approach to design that precedes even Apple’s contemporary motifs.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on May 14, 2016 at 11:36:00 AM CEST
Zimbabwe’s trillion-dollar note: from worthless paper to hot investment
The central bank of Zimbabwe issued $100,000,000,000,000 notes during the last days of hyperinflation in 2009, and they barely paid for a loaf of bread. But their value has shot up.
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Topic: MUSIK - on May 14, 2016 at 11:31:00 AM CEST
Hear the Greatest Hits of Isao Tomita (RIP), the Father of Japanese Electronic Music
During his childhood in the Japan of the 1930s, Isao Tomita would have barely had the chance to hear Western music. But when the Second World War came to an end, the introduction of local U.S. Army broadcasts must have felt like the opening of a sonic floodgate: “I thought I was listening to music from outer space,” remembered the man that child grew up to become a respected composer as well as a pioneer of electronic music known for his cutting-edge, intergalactically-minded interpretations of the work of such Western predecessors as Claude Debussy, Igor Stravinsky, and Gustav Holst.
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on May 10, 2016 at 10:04:00 AM CEST
Als Bleistift geboren: Peter Glaser, Autor und Journalist (Teil 2)
Achtung Canvas-Fingerprinting cba.fro.at
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Topic: logisch - on May 10, 2016 at 9:59:00 AM CEST
Satoshi - wikileaks
We'd like to thank #Satoshi hoaxer Dr Craig Wright for showing how bankrupt the fact-checking standards are at the BBC, LRB & Economist.
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Topic: DRUGS - on May 8, 2016 at 11:07:00 AM CEST
Why America Can't Quit the Drug War
After 45 years, more than $1 trillion wasted, and the creation of the world's largest prison system, America still lacks the political will to change its failed drug policy.
I n March, the commander in chief of the War on Drugs stood in front of a crowd of policymakers, advocates and recovering addicts to declare that America has been doing it wrong. Speaking at the National Prescription Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit in Atlanta – focused on an overdose epidemic now killing some 30,000 Americans a year – President Barack Obama declared, "For too long we have viewed the problem of drug abuse ... through the lens of the criminal justice system," creating grave costs: "We end up with jails full of folks who can't function when they get out. We end up with people's lives being shattered."
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