Today, Standard&Poors have discredited France for a while by taking their top rating AAA
and downgrading it to AA. According to Standard&Poors, this was the result of a technical
issue where an automated system did not report proper values for France related to its
actual credit rating. France itself has started investigating in this case also.

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When you’re in the USA you’d better avoid filming cops. They don’t want to be
seen on private videos when on duty. And if you’re ignoring this warning, then
the following might happen to you. Although in this case it was a bit hefty that
the filmer, despite asking if filming is okay, got shot with a rubber projectile.

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This story describes how the webcam got invented. A small idea grown during
the question on how full a coffee machine’s can in a distant office room is.
Quentin Stafford-Fraser picked up the idea to remotely watch the coffee can by
a camera pointing to the coffee machine shooting a picture every 20 seconds.

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It ain’t a good day for Apple. Today, Charlie Miller has shown another exploit,
that could Apple bring some big problems. The reason: an unobtrusive stock
ticker app. The purpose (besides shoing stock tickers): Getting access to the
inner core applications and files of iDevices. No wonder, Apple striked back!

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It seems that this young man has spent much time on his NES/SNES.
Why? Because he’s very good at replaying the tunes of the various games on
his violin. The results are on the one hand funny on the other hand also
amazing. There’s not much to say about it. Enjoy the show!

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There it is, the shiny new version of Firefox. Overhauled with new features, an
improved display engine and a faster javscript engine this new version shall
bring a new browser experience. However have not many users digested the
sixth major release, the seventh is still much propagated.

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Or how the IFPI wants us to believe why controlling the internet is good. The argument:
Child pornography. And whenever that term is evolved, some sites get on an index of some
ISP’s that block the access in total. So wht’s the most efficient way to take a site down that
publishes copyrighted material? Right: Accuse that site of broadcasting child pornography!

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Well… the MTV Europe Music Award 2011 has been done and the stars have
been awarded. While Hayden Pannetiere, known from “Heroes” has announced
the winners, a desperate fan of her had the glorious idea to rush the stage bare
naked. I still wonder why there was no Security to stop him…

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Todays topic deals with the censorship of the Internet. You all know, that especially
China is strictly filtering the internet for any unwanted criticism of the regime that rules
the country. China has installed the Golden Wall (a government-administered firewall)
to “protect” the chinese people from any bad influence that may come from the internet.

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Todays news hit Apple very hard: Motorola, holder of two patents, Apple is
violationg, has reached that the sale of iPhones is prohibited in Germany. As
the christmas sale is just around the corner, this is by far the worst news,
Apple could get these days. So which patents has Apple violated anyways?

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So there’s Groupon as a new U.S. stock market player. The revenues flooded
700 million dollars into Groupon’s stash. Lots of money to play with and also
lots of investors that now rely on them to do something good with the money.
But why am I so sceptic about Groupon’s latest big deal? Get a load of this…

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Today I spotted a video that made me think about reptiles again. Well, in Spain
it seems, some snakes prefer the money output slot to hold a rest or something
else they’re doing in there. At least a viper is a poisonous snake and you’d
prefer not to be bitten by such one. Especially not when you’re on vacation.

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This video spectacularly shows how to stop bad guys trying to flee the cops
using the historical movie way: Taking off with a plane while a cop car chases
them. However in this case either the pilot did not give enough power to the
engines or the cops simply had a more powerful car. The result: Cops win!

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Well… maybe you’ve already read about it or heard of: Apple has just filed for
patents of 3D gestures for a device to be steered with. Today I was astounded
to see that a rather unknown manufacturer of cell phones has released a final
version of a 3D gesture-controlled cell phone. Looks great so far!

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I really like tom&Jerry and there’s an episode called “the framed cat”.Long story
shortened: Tom gets framed bx Jerry for destroying goods and got blamed for it.
Getting a boot out of the house he did not know why. In this video three cats are
actors. Watch closely as you might find parallels to the cartoon above.

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What to say, the European Union and the Euro have an immense crisis for quite a long
time now. Fights here, financial cuts there, failing agreements there, all in all no unity
at all. Greece, actually the biggest debitor in the European Union seems not to agree to
the planned big payment cuts that Greece should do in order to “survive”.

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Weirdstuff you can find on Youtube. In this case it deals with Halloween which
is a rich-celebrated holiday in the USA. Were standard jackolanterns the his-
torical lighting methods for housefronts and far from spectacular, so has LED
become an interesting place there now. The video says more then 1000 words!

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And on Sunday there’s also a new Apple message. One that might shock you.
Apple, usually known for their real closed-source attitude has decided to
male the ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec) available to all programmers.
They plan to release the full sourtce code and API to the interested.

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So… when checking the web again, I found something really disturbing!
The iPhone 4S is yet really desired and waiting times for Apple’s newest
smartphone is at up to three weeks. One of it’s most advertized features:
Siri! Apple says that Siri is demanding lots of CPU power. True?

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Battlefield 3 has hit the stores and since yesterday you can activate your
purchased game online. Activate it? Yes, you read right, also EA has started
the crap with online activation à la Ubisoft & Co. – So playing Battlefield 3
without a working activation Server and Origin? Well… T. s.!

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Another video today catched my attention. Car drivers know them and they
hate them: Parking meters! Especially when they run out and just in this
moment a traffic warden happens to pass by to give you a ticket. These two
guys in Brooklyn, NY seem not very happy about the ticket. Time to act!

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This video shows well why you should double-check objects you plan to put
your bodyweight on as otherwise material-failure could lead to serious
injury. But this guy also wanted to be a show-off to his colleague. In this
case the show-off competition went the wrong way. Serves him right!

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I think, Dostojevski would be once more proven right with his provocative
book title “The idiot”. But in this case, two russians couldn’t help it to annoy
a wandering crab. The crab found a way to exact revenge on the one guy
who picked it up. But watch for yourself:

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People eat different food on different continents. You probably have heard of
people eating worms, locusts and other rather disgusting “meals”. In this case
it seems that the video channel ownler likes fresh and live food!
The following videos may not be suitable for people with weak stomach!

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Apple has done many lawsuits in the past. And one was about their logo where
it was hard for me to find similarities that may infringe with patents or copy-
rights of the Apple company in Cupertino (read here). This time I think, they’ve
gone too far! A small tea room owner got sued for her logo she has patented.

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What’s the best advertisement you can have today? TV? No! Radio? Probably!
Newspapers and magazines? Probably… but the best public advertisement is,
in my opinion, the Internet and independent blogs. But the PR department of
Sony Ericcson seems to have missed the time shifting and the modern times.

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Usually, gameshows follow only one motto (at least they do in the western
countries): Win, win, win, win (by solving quizzes, tasks or other stuff).
However in the land of the rising sun, it seems that public humiliation is
ignored when the dough is calling. So seen on YouTube…

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This strange video shows that the holder (italian guy according to the italian
license plate) totally misunderstood the usage of a power cleaning hose. Most
of all car holders know, that it is only used to remove very crusty dirt, the
brushes in the washing facility cannot remove. But the interior of the car?

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So just few days ago I have shown that the new phone
displays in the upcoming devices with Android will have
displays with approx. 346 ppi and thus little sharper than
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Usually, Boards tend to acoustically notify you about a forecoming collapse.
The following video shows that a shelf, that has worked fine for 31 years, can
instantly collapse without further notice. In that case, more than 6000 wine
bottles crashed and flooded the market with lots of wine.

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Today, the phone gets 150 years old. Johann Philipp Reis, a german physicist and inventor
brought out a device that was able to transmit sound using an apparatus that simulates the
ear. The receiver is getting the emitted electric pulses from the sending unit that has a tube
to catch the sound. in 1861 he publicly presented his communication-invention.

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I bet you have wondered why it became so silent on my blog where every day
had at least one entry. Well… I had a very sad moment on Tuesday, October
18th when my dad died very surprisingly almost at noon to Tuesday. Therefore
I was in mourning for the last week and decided not to blog for that time.

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