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Well I never liked him ;)
Trough him we lost the final ;)
Trough him we lost the final ;)
i guess some germans will have the same feeling ;)
@rhys: What second? english is not my mother language, so yes i recognize i was too lazy for reading the whole notice, just read the first line about it :P
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@rhys: What second? english is not my mother language, so yes i recognize i was too lazy for reading the whole notice, just read the first line about it :P
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Firesheep hacks into Facebook and Twitter
TORONTO - Think twice before logging into Facebook with free WiFi access -- unless you don’t mind nosy people reading and potentially altering your profile.
A software developer is hoping to educate users about the dangers of using unsecured WiFi networks with a computer program that makes it easy to hack into Facebook and Twitter accounts.
With a download of Firesheep, a plug-in for Mozilla’s FireFox web browser, all it takes is patience and a couple clicks to access someone’s profile on a variety of websites.
The program sniffs out log-ons over the network and connects Firesheep users with those accounts.
Seattle-based Eric Butler says in a blog post explaining his program that websites have a duty to protect the people who depend on their services, and it’s time for everyone to demand a more secure web.
Butler says not all websites are vulnerable to Firesheep, but notes too many sites aren’t secure enough to thwart hackers.
A spokeswoman for Canada's privacy commissioner says Firesheep is on their radar, but there have been no public inquiries about the program.
In a statement, Facebook says it’s working on beefing up its encryption and warned about the risks of using the site over WiFi.
The Canadian Press
Warning: using Firesheep on others accounts is in some countries illegal! But you can always test your own account, that's never illegal.
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TORONTO - Think twice before logging into Facebook with free WiFi access -- unless you don’t mind nosy people reading and potentially altering your profile.
A software developer is hoping to educate users about the dangers of using unsecured WiFi networks with a computer program that makes it easy to hack into Facebook and Twitter accounts.
With a download of Firesheep, a plug-in for Mozilla’s FireFox web browser, all it takes is patience and a couple clicks to access someone’s profile on a variety of websites.
The program sniffs out log-ons over the network and connects Firesheep users with those accounts.
Seattle-based Eric Butler says in a blog post explaining his program that websites have a duty to protect the people who depend on their services, and it’s time for everyone to demand a more secure web.
Butler says not all websites are vulnerable to Firesheep, but notes too many sites aren’t secure enough to thwart hackers.
A spokeswoman for Canada's privacy commissioner says Firesheep is on their radar, but there have been no public inquiries about the program.
In a statement, Facebook says it’s working on beefing up its encryption and warned about the risks of using the site over WiFi.
The Canadian Press
Warning: using Firesheep on others accounts is in some countries illegal! But you can always test your own account, that's never illegal.
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Such a luck that I don't have a Facebook or any other community portal acoounts :)
Alcohol 'more dangerous than crack, heroin and Ecstasy'
Last updated at 8:31 AM on 1st November 2010
Professor David Nutt, the controversial sacked government drugs adviser, led the analysis into the harm of alcohol compared to other substances.
Alcohol is a more dangerous drug than heroin or crack cocaine, a study claims.
Scientists have found that alcohol is the most harmful drug overall and three times as harmful as cocaine and tobacco, according to a new scale of drug harm that rates the damage to both users and to wider society.
Ecstasy is only an eighth as harmful as alcohol, according to the new analysis, led by the controversial sacked government drugs adviser David Nutt with colleagues from the breakaway Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs.
The study says that if drugs were classified on the basis of the harm they do, alcohol would be class A, alongside heroin and crack cocaine.
The findings of the study, published in the Lancet today, are likely to reignite the debate over the government’s drugs classification system.
Professor David Nutt was sacked last year by then home secretary Alan Johnson after he challenged ministers over their refusal to take the advice of the official Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, which he chaired.
The committee wanted cannabis to remain a class C drug and for ecstasy to be downgraded from class A, arguing that these were less harmful than other drugs when social factors were taken into consideration.
Professor Nutt, whose work was published in the Lancet medical journal, said the findings showed that ‘aggressively targeting alcohol harms is a valid and necessary public health strategy.’
In his study, Professor Nutt and his team examined nine categories of harm that drugs can do to the individual ‘from death to damage to mental functioning and loss of relationships’, as well as seven types of harm to others.
Overall, alcohol scored 72 out of a maximum ‘harm’ score of 100, compared to 55 for heroin and 54 for crack.
And while the most dangerous drugs to individual users were judged to be heroin, crack and then crystal meth, alcohol was deemed most harmful to society, followed by heroin and then crack.
Nutt told the Lancet a new classification system ‘would depend on what set of harms “to self or others” you are trying to reduce’.
‘But if you take overall harm, then alcohol, heroin and crack are clearly more harmful than all others, so perhaps drugs with a score of 40 or more could be class A; 39 to 20 class B; 19-10 class C and 10 or under class D,’ he added.
This reclassification would result in tobacco being labelled a class B drug alongside cocaine.
Cannabis would also just make class B, rather than class C. Ecstasy and LSD would end up in the lowest drug category, D.
The Home Office said last night: ‘We have not read the report. This government has just completed an alcohol consultation and will publish a drugs strategy in the coming months.’
A Department of Health spokesperson said: ‘In England, most people drink once a week or less. If you’re a women and stick to two to three units a day or a man and drink up to three or four units, you are unlikely to damage your health.
‘The government is determined to prevent alcohol abuse without disadvantaging those who drink sensibly.’
Two experts from the Amsterdam National Institute for Public Health and the Environment and the Amsterdam Institute for Addiction Research point out in a Lancet commentary the study does not look at multiple drug use, which can make some drugs much more dangerous – such as cocaine or cannabis together with alcohol – but they acknowledge the topic was outside its scope.
They add that because the pattern of recreational drug use changes, the study should be repeated every five or 10 years.
dailymail.co.uk
Last updated at 8:31 AM on 1st November 2010
Professor David Nutt, the controversial sacked government drugs adviser, led the analysis into the harm of alcohol compared to other substances.
Alcohol is a more dangerous drug than heroin or crack cocaine, a study claims.
Scientists have found that alcohol is the most harmful drug overall and three times as harmful as cocaine and tobacco, according to a new scale of drug harm that rates the damage to both users and to wider society.
Ecstasy is only an eighth as harmful as alcohol, according to the new analysis, led by the controversial sacked government drugs adviser David Nutt with colleagues from the breakaway Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs.
The study says that if drugs were classified on the basis of the harm they do, alcohol would be class A, alongside heroin and crack cocaine.
The findings of the study, published in the Lancet today, are likely to reignite the debate over the government’s drugs classification system.
Professor David Nutt was sacked last year by then home secretary Alan Johnson after he challenged ministers over their refusal to take the advice of the official Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, which he chaired.
The committee wanted cannabis to remain a class C drug and for ecstasy to be downgraded from class A, arguing that these were less harmful than other drugs when social factors were taken into consideration.
Professor Nutt, whose work was published in the Lancet medical journal, said the findings showed that ‘aggressively targeting alcohol harms is a valid and necessary public health strategy.’
In his study, Professor Nutt and his team examined nine categories of harm that drugs can do to the individual ‘from death to damage to mental functioning and loss of relationships’, as well as seven types of harm to others.
Overall, alcohol scored 72 out of a maximum ‘harm’ score of 100, compared to 55 for heroin and 54 for crack.
And while the most dangerous drugs to individual users were judged to be heroin, crack and then crystal meth, alcohol was deemed most harmful to society, followed by heroin and then crack.
Nutt told the Lancet a new classification system ‘would depend on what set of harms “to self or others” you are trying to reduce’.
‘But if you take overall harm, then alcohol, heroin and crack are clearly more harmful than all others, so perhaps drugs with a score of 40 or more could be class A; 39 to 20 class B; 19-10 class C and 10 or under class D,’ he added.
This reclassification would result in tobacco being labelled a class B drug alongside cocaine.
Cannabis would also just make class B, rather than class C. Ecstasy and LSD would end up in the lowest drug category, D.
The Home Office said last night: ‘We have not read the report. This government has just completed an alcohol consultation and will publish a drugs strategy in the coming months.’
A Department of Health spokesperson said: ‘In England, most people drink once a week or less. If you’re a women and stick to two to three units a day or a man and drink up to three or four units, you are unlikely to damage your health.
‘The government is determined to prevent alcohol abuse without disadvantaging those who drink sensibly.’
Two experts from the Amsterdam National Institute for Public Health and the Environment and the Amsterdam Institute for Addiction Research point out in a Lancet commentary the study does not look at multiple drug use, which can make some drugs much more dangerous – such as cocaine or cannabis together with alcohol – but they acknowledge the topic was outside its scope.
They add that because the pattern of recreational drug use changes, the study should be repeated every five or 10 years.
dailymail.co.uk
dailymail.co.uk
http://www.thedailydust.co.uk/2009/02/19/20-strange-things-the-daily-mail-say-will-cause-cancer
Read that and you will learn to ignore anything they have to say!
http://www.thedailydust.co.uk/2009/02/19/20-strange-things-the-daily-mail-say-will-cause-cancer
Read that and you will learn to ignore anything they have to say!
20. CHOCOLATES AND BAGGED SNACKS: Chocolates and bagged snacks are being pulled from shop shelves after potential cancer-causing toxins were found in a batch of rice flour
Belgium is screwed.
Belgium is screwed.
it is already, nothing can save the magical land of chocolate and ducks now :(
Turkey reinstates YouTube ban
(Reuters) - A Turkish court has reinstated a 30-month ban on YouTube just days after it was removed, as a dispute continued over the video-sharing website's refusal to remove content deemed illegal in the EU candidate country.
Access to YouTube, a unit of Google Inc, has been blocked by the Turkish government since May 2008 after users posted videos Turkey says are insulting to the republic's founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
A court in Ankara on Saturday lifted the ban, which has drawn widespread criticism of Ankara's restrictive Internet laws, after a German-based firm at the request of Turkish authorities removed the videos by using an automated copyright system designed by Google to protect copyrighted material.
YouTube later said it had reinstated the videos, arguing such videos did not violate users' copyright.
But a separate court in Ankara ruled late on Tuesday that the ban should be reinstated -- this time over a secretly taped video purportedly showing the former chairman of the opposition in a bedroom with an aide.
State-run news agency Anatolian said the court had notified the telecommunications authority of its decision.
"The court has ruled that the ban on video sharing website Youtube be reinstated. The Telecommunications Board will ask YouTube to remove the videos or otherwise the access to the website would be blocked," Anatolian said.
Telecommunication Board officials could not be reached for comment. Google representatives in Turkey said they were checking the reports.
Turkish visitors to the YouTube site have been able to circumvent the ban by using proxy websites.
Human rights groups and media watchdog associations have long urged European Union membership candidate Turkey to reform its Internet laws. Turkey has cited offences including child pornography, insulting Ataturk and encouraging suicide as justification for blocking websites.
Analysts have criticized the ease with which citizens and politicians can apply under Turkish law to have an Internet site closed down.
In June, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe said Turkey's Internet law had been expanded to bar access to more than 5,000 sites. The YouTube ban has attracted particular criticism, and even President Abdullah Gul has used his Twitter page to condemn it, urging authorities to find a solution.
Google Inc's legal chief has called for pressure on governments that censor the Internet, citing China and Turkey, arguing that their blocking access to websites not only violates human rights but unfairly restrains U.S. trade.
reuters.com
They did it again ........ :S What about freedom? But apparently a pervert, the former chairman of the opposition, who thought it was necessary to make a video of himself, is more important than freedom for the people in Turkey, it's really a shame!
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(Reuters) - A Turkish court has reinstated a 30-month ban on YouTube just days after it was removed, as a dispute continued over the video-sharing website's refusal to remove content deemed illegal in the EU candidate country.
Access to YouTube, a unit of Google Inc, has been blocked by the Turkish government since May 2008 after users posted videos Turkey says are insulting to the republic's founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
A court in Ankara on Saturday lifted the ban, which has drawn widespread criticism of Ankara's restrictive Internet laws, after a German-based firm at the request of Turkish authorities removed the videos by using an automated copyright system designed by Google to protect copyrighted material.
YouTube later said it had reinstated the videos, arguing such videos did not violate users' copyright.
But a separate court in Ankara ruled late on Tuesday that the ban should be reinstated -- this time over a secretly taped video purportedly showing the former chairman of the opposition in a bedroom with an aide.
State-run news agency Anatolian said the court had notified the telecommunications authority of its decision.
"The court has ruled that the ban on video sharing website Youtube be reinstated. The Telecommunications Board will ask YouTube to remove the videos or otherwise the access to the website would be blocked," Anatolian said.
Telecommunication Board officials could not be reached for comment. Google representatives in Turkey said they were checking the reports.
Turkish visitors to the YouTube site have been able to circumvent the ban by using proxy websites.
Human rights groups and media watchdog associations have long urged European Union membership candidate Turkey to reform its Internet laws. Turkey has cited offences including child pornography, insulting Ataturk and encouraging suicide as justification for blocking websites.
Analysts have criticized the ease with which citizens and politicians can apply under Turkish law to have an Internet site closed down.
In June, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe said Turkey's Internet law had been expanded to bar access to more than 5,000 sites. The YouTube ban has attracted particular criticism, and even President Abdullah Gul has used his Twitter page to condemn it, urging authorities to find a solution.
Google Inc's legal chief has called for pressure on governments that censor the Internet, citing China and Turkey, arguing that their blocking access to websites not only violates human rights but unfairly restrains U.S. trade.
reuters.com
They did it again ........ :S What about freedom? But apparently a pervert, the former chairman of the opposition, who thought it was necessary to make a video of himself, is more important than freedom for the people in Turkey, it's really a shame!
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i think all dogs should die, and cats should rule the world hahahahaha! :)
I read the other day that a cat mawled at a postmans finger....not so nice now are they :P
I read the other day that a cat mawled at a postmans finger....not so nice now are they :P
Have to say it is disappointing to see this kind of thing happen. I also read of a case today where an author was arrested in Singapore because he criticized the country's judicial system. I guess I am fortunate to live in a country where political and religious sensitivities have no bearing on a citizen's right to freedom of speech and political dissent.
I would be interested to hear what Sokker's Turkish users have to say about this.
I would be interested to hear what Sokker's Turkish users have to say about this.
Denmark has also freedom of speech but the cartoonists who draw the Mahoma cartoon are persecuted (ona almost got killed). Then, they don't really have freedom of speech.
we have to be careful or muslims will rule the world soon. governments are too soft on them, any muslims who are known aggrivators of hatred need to go to guantanimo to get tortured.