Hackers with guts want to place own satellites into orbit

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Computer hackers intend to launch own satellites into Earth orbit to combat internet censorship. The plan was outlined at Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin

Hackers have just unveiled their plans of having their own satellites into space to circumvent in this way the internet censorship

They announced the ambitious plan at the Chaos Communication Congress (CCC) that was held this week in Berlin.

The initiators of the project HackerSpace Global Grid are also planning to build ground stations aimed at communicating with the satellites.

Hobbyists have alreay lauched a few small satellites into space, but the tracking of the devices appears to be difficult for low budget projects. Armin Bauer, a 26-year-old enthusiast from Stuttgart who is working on the Hackerspace Global Grid tricky said that amateur satellites are hard to pinpoint precisely from the ground.

Censorship:
According to hacker Nick Farr, the idea came because of the growing threat from the internet censorship. “The first goal is to have free internet in space. Let us control over the Internet away from earthly entities,” said Farr in an interview for BBC.

He reminded of controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the United States as an example of the kind of threat to online freedom. If the SOPA anti-piracy plan is adopted, some sites would be blocked under copyright violation.

The Moon:
The hackers are hoping for longer term to put a man on the Moon. That would be possible sometime in the coming 23 years from now.

Anonymous prepares New Year Eve hacking attack

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Anonymous hacking group hacked Stratfor and vow New Year attack. Credits: rocketdock.com

In a statement released Thursday on the Internet, the hacking group Anonymous announced their intention to carry out an attack on 31 December 2011, a plan aimed at “targeting multiple law forces across the United States”, informs AFP.

Only a week ago, the group claimed an attack against Stratfor and posted a link to a list featuring the customers of various corporations such as the Information analysis agency, U.S. Department of Defense, security sub-contractors and IT giants like Apple or Microsoft.

Thus Anonymous published in their communique, links to 75,000 names, credit cards data and passwords belonging to such customers. There are also links that provide access to personal information of a number of 860,000 people registered on the Stratfor website, including 50,000 email addresses of members of the U.S. administration.

The group offered a justification for their action. Its members urge the members of hacking community, – described as a “shadow army” -, to use this information in order to fight “oppression of those rich and powerful.”

This urge has already generated results, as Anonymous posted last Sunday images of receipts of donations to charitable organizations, using Stratfor’s customer accounts.

2012 arrived in Hong Kong, Philippines and Singapore

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The New Year (2012) has just been celebrated with pomp and splendour at Hong Kong.

2011 final hours are numbered in Europe and the U.S., but in China, Philippines, Singapore and Malaysia 2012 has arrived. Hundreds of thousands of people met in Hong Kong to welcome the New Year with spectacular fireworks.

Hong Kong’s spectacular show attracted not only locals but also dozens tourists. The Chinese marked the moment with traditional dances such as dragon or lion dance.

People believe the rituals are able to ward off evil spirits and bring the best of new year … But the real Chinese New Year begins just over almost a month, namely on 23 January. At that time the Chinese will say goodbye to the year of Rabbit and welcome the year of Dragon with a series of ceremonies even more lavish than those organized this night.

Lavish fireworks display welcome 2012 in Hong Kong

Facebook Messenger publicly revealed and ready for download, works with Win7

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You’ve probably heard of Facebook’s intention to launch a Messenger application for Windows (something similar to Yahoo, or MSN).

Ok, Facebook plans came to reality as its Messenger was recently unveiled to the large public.

Facebook Messenger can be now downloaded, installed, used, and if you like it, you could send also feedbacks.

So if you prefer desktop applications along with a variety of web and mobile applications, you will have access to the chat but also to updates of your friends.

Attention, you need Windows 7!

Facebook Messenger is now available and works only on Windows 7. Photo: playtech.ro

Photo: Nicole Snooki Polizzi to copy Rihanna’s hairstyle

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Snooki, just “promoted” her new hairdo through Twitter (scroll down for photo).

Snooki posted a photograph accompanied by a tweet: “A sneaky peek! I went mega red!”

However Snooki’s red colored hair reminds somehow of Rihanna, another natural brunette, who sparked dozens debates on this fashion topic

Snooki appointed New York hair stylist Bradley Moreland for her shinny transformation: “My @BradleyStyleNYC is genius.”

“Jersey Shore” star is known to be enjoying the 2012 New Year celebration in Las Vegas.

Nicole Polizzi before (left) and after hairdo (right). Credits:Twitter

Video: Hollywood overwhelmed by violent arsons

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California authorities are desperately struggling to catch the person who so far intentionally set 21 Hollywood homes on fire. The arsons were set at short interval of time and one of the damaged properties was the house once occupied by Doors frontman Jim Morrison The house is located on Rothdell Trail street and was the inspiration for the Doors song, “Love Street.”

It looks like the parked cars are mainly targetted but the fire spreads also to the surrounding buildings.

Now the officials prompted a $60,000 reward for the “head” of the arsonist. Fortunately no one was hurt in the incidents although one fireman suffered minor injuries.

Apparently the arsons caused property damages estimated at $350,000. Hollywood features a density of 20,000 inhabitants per square miles.

Video: Hollywood fire set by unknown arsonist

Siri gets mad, tells boy Charlie: Shut the F***Up, you Ugly t***

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Advice for parents: Siri is not always nice to your kids

Be nice with Siri and do not exaggerate in case you don’t wanna receive an rude answer your mother would be ashamed of,,,that’s it, the F-word!!! AND A TIP: be careful when asking Siri about the number of people in the world:)

This story seems to be real and I can only admit that it was a really funny happening (scroll down for photo proof). Now probably everyone wonders what exactly a kid said to irritate Siri. Personally I talked to Siri last night but it was…still decent.

According to The Sun, DailyMail and all UK media, the personal assistant Siri of a demo iPhone 4S got pissed off enough to tell little boy Charlie Le Quesne, 12, to “Shut the F—Up, you Ugly t—”, after being asked “How many people are in the world?”

Charle Le Quesne, his mother and a manager heard the same vulgar message coming out of Siri’s voice at a Tesco branch in Coventry.

Boy’s mother, Kim said in an inteview for The Sun: “I thought I must be hearing wrong, therefore we asked again and the same four-letter word coming out.

Tesco staff believe that hoaxers tricked iPhone’s set up to make it express bad language. Apparently someone hacked the gadget by introducing the vulgar phrase as the phone user’s name, so that Siri blares it out whenever answering a question.

It’s possible to change your name in Siri by telling it, ‘Call me…’ then a name.

Anyway Tesco decided to open an investigation to find out how easy to fool Siri is and the phone is gonna be sent back to Apple for further language checks.

Filthy answer: Charlie Le Quesne, his mother and a manager could not believe what they heard,,,but it was real


Charlie Le Quesne (middle) along with his mother Kim (left) and his brother Jay (right)

VIDEO: Orca vs shark fight in New Zealand waters

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Viral video shows incredible images of a male orca attacking a shark in shallow waters at Blue Cliffs Beach off New Zealand coasts (scroll down for stunning video and photos).

Residents living in the nearby area had the “once-in-a-lifetime” chance to see for themselves who wins the clash between the sea titans.

The confrontation was extremely long (about 2 hours) and marine biologist Clinton Duffy believes there were more orcas and sharks getting involved in the fight. Many times orcas – known as killer whales -, get into the surfing area to gather large mass of fish. No one knows what the outgunned shark was doing there but certainly he was at the wrong location, at the wrong moment.

According to eye-witnesses about 6 orcas and 6 sharks are estimated to have participated in the spectacular natural display.

How did the deadly game end?
Well, the only chance for the shark to escape orca’s fierce assault, was to head toward the shore but unfortunately he ended up stranded on the beach. However the “Jaws” could not find peace on land as well because Peter Robertson’s “brave” dog engaged into action. A dog harassing the shark? This must be something rare to see:)

According to Robertson, “It looked like the whales were fighting the sharks … the sharks were coming towards shore because they prefered not to be in the water.”

So far, it’s unclear what species the beaten sharks were. In any case, they appeared to be much smaller than the orcas and would have ended up worse in most confrontations.

The fact that an orca wins over a shark does not come as something surprising. Let’s not forget that in general orcas are stronger, bigger, swifter and heavier that EVEN the most fearful sea creature, i.e. the great white shark.

Video: Orca attacks shark in New Zealand

A killer whale turns out to be too aggressive for the shark who was forced to come ashore at the Blue Cliffs Beach in Tuatapere, New Zealand


Peter Robertson's dog seems to challenge the shark

Video: David Dean Smith to have infected dozens with HIV

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David Dean Smith of Michigan is believed to have infected hundreds people with terrifying virus HIV. And even worse, he appears to have done it on purpose (scroll down for msnbc video report).

Now the authorities say they are worried about Dean Smith’s menthal health. Probably is not necessary any research here as it is obviously that the guy was insane if carried out such a horrible task.

51-year-old David Dean Smith lives in Comstock Park, north of Grand Rapids, was accused of “AIDS-sexual act with an uninformed partner” after police managed to identify a 2nd possible victim.

Smith gave himself in to Grand Rapids police a few days ago claiming that he had intentionally unprotected sex with as many individuals as as possible in the past 3 years, police sources said.

A Grand Rapids Court revealed that Smith admitted to have had sex with “thousands” of partners, in order to kill them by HIV infection. Those who had contact with the David Smith are from all over around Grand Rapids and the psycho met most of his victims on the internet.

Video: Michigan man thought to have contaminated many people with HIV virus

Samoa and Tokelau skip one day to be the first in 2012

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For Samoa and Tokelau the day of today (Dec. 30, 2011) did not exist as they jumped from 29 to 31 (scroll down for international dayline sketch).

The states of Samoa and Tokelau skipped one day directly into the future. Finally they made things right and pulled the meridian…straighter, thus moving the country west of the international time line which separates western hemisphere from eastern one; therefore they will be ahead anyone on Earth instead of coming almost 24 hours later. Can imagine that it was somehow weird for Samoa to lie between Kiribati and Australia and being delayed in respect to both neighbors.

After deciding to change the time zone, because of the large hour differences compared to the nearby states, the citizens of the two South Pacific countries were forced to give up entirely the day of 30 December.

International timeline before and after Samoa change


Samoa and Tokelau feature a population of 186,000 and 1,500 people respectively, and the reason of the timeline shift was motivated by a better alignment with the trading/business partners in the Asia-Pacific region.

Samoans celebrated the date switch in the capital Apia. As the capital’s clock tower pointed midnight, the country were “teleported” 24 hours into the future. The event was greeted with cheers, applauses, fireworks or siren wails.

Before adjusting the international date line, Samoa was 21 hours behind Eastern Australian and 23 hours after New Zealand.

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