Add another name to the list of critics concerned with attempts to rewrite the International Telecommunication Union to give governments control of the Internet: Silicon Valley’s Mozilla now officially opposes the ITU.
Mozilla, the makers of the highly successful Firefox Web browser for Macs, PCs and smart phones, have come out to condemn a top-secret meeting in Dubai this week that could lead to changes with how the world is wired to the Internet.
An independent internet service provider popular with tech geeks in central Canada is warning that it has been asked to hand over personal information about customers in advance of a potential file-sharing lawsuit, and it’s telling its customers they may want to lawyer up.
Chatham, Ont.-based TekSavvy says it has received a request from Hollywood production company Voltage Pictures to identify the people behind 2,000 IP addresses which the company presumably suspects of unauthorized file-sharing.
The emails show that just two days after the explosion occurred Mix sent in an estimation of the flow rate to his supervisor of between 62,000 and 146,000 barrels a day. BP executives told the coast guard that their best estimates held the leak at 1,000 barrels a day.
„It would give us an unlimited magazine,” a person close to the High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System (HELLADS) program told Time magazine.
Seed and chemical giant DuPont just hired a fleet of ex-police officers to patrol the farmlands of North America.
The second-largest seed company used to rely on their partner/competitor Monsanto to play the industry ‘bad cop’ when it came to seed policing.
The multimillion dollar upgrade is underway in several US cities, including San Francisco, Eugene, Traverse City, Columbus, Baltimore, Hartford and Athens, reports The Daily, which obtained documents detailing the purchases.
Washington führt sich auf wie der Betrunkene in einer Bar, der einen Streit mit einem Kraftprotz beginnt. Washington ist von sich selbst überzeugt, aber Russland und China werden sich nicht einlassen mit einem finanziell ruinierten und militärisch überlasteten Lackaffen. Das Böse in Washington treibt uns in den Atomkrieg und in die Zerstörung des Lebens auf der Erde.
A secret U.S. Air Force space plane has been launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida on its third classified mission, officials said.
Federal officials have given energy and mining companies permission to pollute aquifers in more than 1,500 places across the country, releasing toxic material into underground reservoirs that help supply more than half of the nation‘s drinking water.
A giant asteroid will make a flyby of Earth over the next few days, and armchair astronomers can watch the action live on their computers.
Korruptionsexperte Andrew Feinstein über den Waffenlobbyisten, der ab morgen vor Gericht steht
Norwegian peace organizations and opponents of the European Union held a torch-lit march Sunday to protest the decision. Three Nobel Peace Prize laureates — Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Mairead Maguire of Northern Ireland and Adolfo Pérez Esquivel from Argentina — sent an unprecedented letter to the Nobel Committee opposing the award, saying the 27-nation bloc contradicts Alfred Nobel’s vision of a demilitarized global peace order.
Wer die eisigen Nächte nicht scheut, kann in den nächsten Tagen eine deutlich erhöhte Sternschnuppenaktivität beobachten. Die Sternschnuppen scheinen von einem Ort etwas nordwestlich des hellen Sterns Kastor im Sternbild Zwillinge auszugehen, lateinisch Gemini genannt.
Video posted by the Lansing State Journal shows a man laying on the ground as several mounted police awkwardly try to move their horses through a crowd of people protesting the so-called “right to work” legislation being pushed through by Republican lawmakers.
In August, Emir of Qatar Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani met with Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi in Cairo to discuss means of enhancing cooperation between the two countries.
Morsi‘s modifications to the CBE laws comes in the wake of his issuance of a constitutional declaration on 21 November that gives himself sweeping powers which was partially rescinded under popular pressure on 8 December.
Wie der IWF am Dienstag in Washington mitteilte, hat die Führung in Kairo „im Lichte laufender Entwicklungen“ im Land darum gebeten, ihren Antrag auf finanzielle Hilfe zu vertagen.
Wegen der Unruhen im Land bat Ägypten den Internationalen Währungsfonds (IWF), die Entscheidung über einen 4,8 Milliarden Dollar schweren Kredit für das Land zu vertagen. Ägypten habe den IWF um einen Aufschub gebeten, nachdem Mursi geplante Maßnahmen zur Reduzierung des massiven Haushaltsdefizits auf Eis gelegt habe, sagte Ministerpräsident Hescham Kandil am Dienstag auf einer Pressekonferenz.
The fact that General Sir David Richards, chief of defence staff, has been drawing up contingency plans to provide Syrian rebels with maritime and possible air support should not be seen as an appetite within the Ministry of Defence to get involved.
The military might well do; it might have to. But it doesn‘t want to, at all, and for months military sources in Whitehall have been expressing deep unease about the situation to anyone who will listen.
Wer die Bewaffneten waren, wisse das Bundesheer nicht, sagte Sprecher Michael Bauer der APA. Die Männer hätten keine Uniformen oder erkennbaren Abzeichen getragen.
Gonzi traf darauf am Dienstag Staatspräsident George Abela, um die Auflösung des Parlaments und Neuwahlen einzuleiten. Gonzi ist seit 2008 am Amt. Seine konservative Nationalistische Partei ist in Malta seit knapp einem Vierteljahrhundert fast ununterbrochen an der Macht.
What mattered in 2011? Zeitgeist sorted billions of Google searches to capture the year‘s 10 fastest-rising global queries and the rest of the spirit of 2011.
On December 8, a special operation was carried out by the Federal Security Service at the instruction of the Investigations Committee. As a result, three gunmen from the “Gimry” militant group were detained.
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a striking galaxy called NGC 4452, which appears to lie exactly edge-on as seen from Earth. The result is an extraordinary picture of billions of stars observed from an unusual angle.
Fünf Milliarden Euro Miese und Rauswurf des halben Vorstands: Nach den verheerenden Einschnitten hat ThyssenKrupp-Chef Hiesinger mit dem früheren Management des Stahlriesens abgerechnet.
Dabei entfallen allein 3,6 Milliarden Euro Abschreibungen auf die Unternehmenseinheit Steel Americas. Durch die Abschreibungen soll der Weg zu einem baldigen Verkauf der beiden hochdefizitären amerikanischen Stahlstandorte des Konzerns geebnet werden.
Der Gesetzentwurf, den Michejew aus der Fraktion der Partei Gerechtes Russland konzipiert hat, trägt die Überschrift „Über den Schutz der Bevölkerung vor Informationen“.