Topic: BOARD NEWS - on January 28, 2014 at 9:52:00 PM CET
Furzende Kühe produzieren Stichflamme in Stall
Furzende und rülpsende Kühe haben in Deutschland beinahe ihren Kuhstall in die Luft gejagt. 90 Milchkühe hatten in ihrem Stall in Hessen mit ihren Blähungen jede Menge Methangas produziert, wie die Polizei gestern mitteilte. Das Gas habe sich entzündet und sei in einer Stichflamme verpufft - wohl nach einer statischen Entladung an der Massagemaschine im Stall.
Das Dach wurde beschädigt, eine Kuh erlitt leichte Verbrennungen. Auf dem Bauernhof waren nach Polizeiangaben die Feuerwehr und ein Gasmesstrupp im Einsatz. Kühe setzen beim Rülpsen und Furzen große Mengen an klimaschädlichem Methan frei.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on January 24, 2014 at 3:52:00 PM CET
Stephen Hawking: 'There Are No Black Holes'
Stephen Hawking has proposed a new solution to the black-hole firewall paradox, which has been vexing physicists for almost two years. The paradox troubles physicists because if the firewall scenario is correct, Einstein's general theory of relativity is flouted. But the classical theory black hole cannot be reconciled to the quantum mechanical prediction that energy and information can escape from a black hole. Now Hawking has proposed a tantalizingly simple solution to the paradox which allows both quantum mechanics and general relativity to remain intact — black holes simply do not have an event horizon to catch fire. The key to his claim is that quantum effects around the black hole cause spacetime to fluctuate too wildly for a sharp boundary surface to exist. As Hawking writes in his paper, 'The absence of event horizons mean that there are no black holes — in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity.'
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Topic: NATURE - on January 24, 2014 at 3:50:00 PM CET
Dinge, die man wissen sollte: Wie klingt es, wenn ein Reh furzt?
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Topic: NEWS english - on January 24, 2014 at 3:49:00 PM CET
Hong Kong tycoon offers $130 million to any man who marries his lesbian daughter
A Hong Kong tycoon may double a “marriage bounty” to find a male suitor for his gay daughter to US$130 million, despite his initial offer attracting 20,000 candidates, a report said.
Two years ago, wealthy property developer Cecil Chao made global headlines by offering a reward of HK$500 million ($65 million) to any man who could persuade daughter Gigi to marry.
He is now considering increasing his offer, a report in a Malaysian financial publication said.
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Topic: DRUGS - on January 24, 2014 at 3:48:00 PM CET
Prisoner rats himself out with Facebook selfie of cell-grown cannabis
A Polish prisoner has taken one of the most head-desk-bang-bang selfies ever: a picture of himself, taken on a contraband mobile phone smuggled into the prison, showing a lush, equally contraband and definitely illegal cannabis plant he grew from seed in his cell.
According to Metro, Marcin Zendarski used the illegal smartphone to keep in touch with friends, watch TV shows and browse the web from an Austrian jail.
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Topic: SECURITY - on January 24, 2014 at 3:46:00 PM CET
Snowden kann sich Rückkehr in die USA derzeit nicht vorstellen
Der ehemalige US-Geheimdienstmitarbeiter Edward Snowden kann sich auf absehbare Zeit keine Rückkehr in die Vereinigten Staaten vorstellen. "Leider ist das angesichts der gegenwärtigen Gesetze zum Informantenschutz nicht möglich", schrieb der Informant in einer Fragerunde im Internet. Grundsätzlich sei seine Rückkehr in die USA aber wohl die beste Lösung für die Regierung und ihn selbst, hieß es in der Antwort, die auf der Unterstützer-Webseite freesnowden.is/asksnowden erschien.
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Topic: SECURITY - on January 23, 2014 at 5:00:00 PM CET
The U.S. Crackdown on Hackers Is Our New War on Drugs
Before Edward Snowden showed up, 2013 was shaping up as the year of reckoning for the much criticized federal anti-hacking statute, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”). The suicide of Aaron Swartz in January 2013 brought the CFAA into mainstream consciousness, so Congress held hearings about the case, and legislative fixes were introduced to change the law.
Finally, there seemed to be a newfound scrutiny of CFAA prosecutions and punishment for accessing computer data without or in excess of “authorization” — which affected everyone from Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer (disclosure: I’m one of his lawyers on appeal) to Chelsea Manning to Jeremy Hammond. Not to mention less illustrious personalities and everyday users, such as people who delete cookies from their browsers.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on January 23, 2014 at 3:14:00 PM CET
Behind-the-scenes of ‘A Clockwork Orange’: Stanley Kubrick and his Droogie buddies
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Topic: NEWS english - on January 23, 2014 at 3:11:00 PM CET
Photo of 'tandem' toilets at Sochi Olympics goes viral
At least one Olympic bathroom seems to be flush with toilets. This photo taken on Friday Jan. 17, 2014, shows two toilets at the cross-country skiing and biathlon center for next monthÌs Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Although two toilets and only one stall like this are not common in Russia, social media users have responded by posting other pictures of toilets standing side by side. One said this was standard at Russian soccer stadiums.
When BBC reporter Steve Rosenberg went to use the bathroom at the cross-country skiing and biathlon center for next month's Winter Olympics in Sochi, he found two toilets but only one stall.
His tweeted picture instantly became a national joke.
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Topic: DRUGS - on January 23, 2014 at 3:08:00 PM CET
Weißes Haus rudert nach Obamas Marihuana-Äußerungen zurück
Weißes Haus: Präsident nicht für Legalisierung
Washington - US-Präsident Barack Obama setzt sich weiterhin nicht für die Legalisierung von Marihuana durch das amerikanische Bundesgesetz ein. Das stellte das Weiße Haus am Mittwoch klar, nachdem Obama in einem Interview gesagt hatte, das Rauschmittel sei nicht gefährlicher als Alkohol.
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Topic: food - on January 23, 2014 at 3:07:00 PM CET
Monsanto Is Going Organic in a Quest for the Perfect Veggie
In a windowless basement room decorated with photographs of farmers clutching freshly harvested vegetables, three polo-shirt-and-slacks-clad Monsanto executives, all men, wait for a special lunch. A server arrives and sets in front of each a caprese-like salad—tomatoes, mozzarella, basil, lettuce—and one of the execs, David Stark, rolls his desk chair forward, raises a fork dramatically, and skewers a leaf. He takes a big, showy bite. The other two men, Robb Fraley and Kenny Avery, also tuck in. The room fills with loud, intent, wet chewing sounds.
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on January 23, 2014 at 3:06:00 PM CET
50 Cent pro Monat statt "Festplattenabgabe"
Um den seit Jahren andauernden Streit über die "Festplattenabgabe" zu beenden, hat sich die unter anderem von den Geräteherstellern Hewlett Packard (HP) und Samsung und dem Händler DiTech gegründete "Plattform für ein modernes Urheberrecht" etwas Neues einfallen lassen. Sie schlägt einen Kulturbeitrag von 50 Cent pro Monat durch jeden Haushalt vor.
Damit sollen an Geräte und Speichermedien gebundene Urheberrechtsabgaben wie die "Leerkassettenvergütung", die Reprografievergütung und die strittige "Festplattenabgabe" ersetzt und Kreative für private Kopien ihrer Werke entschädigt werden, sagten Gregor Gessner, Mitglied der Geschäftsführung von HP Österreich, und Samsung-Managerin Martina Friedl am Mittwoch bei einem Pressegespräch in Wien.
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