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Authorities in the United Kingdom will only be allowed to hold the DNA evidence related to persons found to be innocent of the crimes they were charged with, for a maximum period of six years, after which time they will have to destroy the material. The decision applies in England and Wales, the UK Home Office has an... |
11 November 2009
22:31 GMT |
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As someone who has had the chance of studying the world's political systems and doctrine in detail, I am often surprised by just how many people put the “equal” mark between democracy and freedom. It's absolutely true that there are higher chances of people being free within a democratic society... |
31 October 2009
07:56 GMT |
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A leaked video, showing off a French version of Modern Warfare 2 being played, popped up yesterday displaying a level of the single player campaign, apparently the fourth, which assaults them with some pretty disturbing images.The spoiler heavy gameplay (those who wish to go into the experience untainted need not rea... |
29 October 2009
05:40 GMT |
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A 32-year-old man working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), near the French-Swiss border, was detained under accusations of terrorism last week, when it was proven that he was entertaining links with the renowned terrorist organization al-Qaeda. The man, who is of Algerian descent, was working on an experiment insi... |
13 October 2009
05:05 GMT |
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When people think of terrorism, they think of the 9/11 attacks, of wars in the Middle East or of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. But now, Yutaka Kubota, who is the head of the Association of Copyright for Computer Software in Japan, wants you to associate terrorism with videogame piracy in general and... |
28 May 2009
16:31 GMT |
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The fight against international terrorism is not just one that is to be carried on the battlefield, a new study conducted by Israeli researchers says. Rather, information warfare is at the forefront of the struggle, as the support or critics of the general population, in any country, can be won or lost very easily th... |
18 March 2009
11:19 GMT |
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From the same series as the infamous Patriot Act, authorities in the US seem to be turning the country into a police state more and more every day. This has been made especially clear recently, when a group of four animal rights activists have been arrested as “terrorists” in the Santa Cruz and Alameda co... |
23 February 2009
12:01 GMT |
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Surely, the field of physics is far from being the first thing that presidents concern themselves with when it comes to the skills they require for the job. However, having a more solid knowledge of the way things happen around the world and in nature in general, as well as in space, might make the difference at some... |
3 November 2008
11:08 GMT |
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Recently, a legislator from Nebraska has filed a lawsuit against God, but it was dismissed by the court before it even began since, according to the state laws, a plaintiff must reach the defendant, and there was no address specified. There were quite a few movies on the theme of suing God, and perhaps they hav... |
16 October 2008
03:18 GMT |
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A deliveryman from Hertfordshire, UK, bought a camera for £17 (around $30) from eBay. After returning from a vacation in the US, the man tried to download his pictures only to discover images of rocket launchers and photos of al-Qaeda terrorists along with their names and fingerprints.The records fo... |
1 October 2008
08:03 GMT |
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Except for the invention of the time machine, everything else is running as smooth as the script of the Terminator series, don't you agree? You know, building robots, then equipping robots with guns, then ever increasing artificial intelligence, so that in the end we lose control over them and total annihilation... |
28 February 2008
10:18 GMT |
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Everything you wanted to hear one lousy Tuesday morning is that Al-Qaeda has updated its file security and is now able to send messages that can't be understood by the people in charge with protecting us. A big bundle of joy, that is, it feels like leprechauns taking your hand over the rainbow, to their pot o�... |
5 February 2008
05:03 GMT |
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After 9/11, people finally realized what terrorism is capable of and that terrorists would do anything to accomplish their plans. Correlate that with large amounts of missing nuclear fuel from the ex-soviet countries and you get nuclear terrorism. Most of the radioactive detection systems being currently used are pre... |
24 January 2008
05:43 GMT |
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While playing Activision's Call of Duty 4 on Xbox Live, a student threatened to shoot up his school. He was immediately arrested by the local police forces with the help of Microsoft. According to the student, he was only joking and had no intention to really do what he said, but... what a bad joke if that'... |
13 December 2007
04:53 GMT |
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Here is some good news - the LAX airport has deployed a new security measure, in the hope that other airports will follow in their tracks. It seems like a great development, as it involves guessing what a terrorist would think and countering it. This is all about randomization - as Newsweek informs us, the LAX has be... |
5 October 2007
11:09 GMT |
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As you know, monitoring is one way to uphold security. And when threats become direr, so do the methods of netting them. One of the worst threat that we are facing now, far worse than malware of any type, botnets or whatever, is cyber-terror. It's as nasty as it can get as skilled hackers already exist and peopl... |
27 September 2007
09:04 GMT |
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DUSSELDORF - The Police stormed into the house of an innocent man, turned it upside down to search for bombs and in the end nabbed the poor guy. Alexander Jansen is a German IT engineer and he was operating a Tor server when the Police thrashed his house, after they thought he was a terrorist. You would think that ma... |
17 September 2007
03:10 GMT |
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