Ecologists

The crime grows in Great Britain by... ecologists. The defenders of the nature invented that municipal street lamps had to get out after the midnight. And this becomes impudent criminals, which, protected by darkness, they attack passers-by.


"It is in the town entirely dark. You, which samotnie live, they horibly fear" - British "Daily Mail" Judith Giles speaks from Hampshire. Councillors decided that you should switch off the current about the midnight in her town. Can spares energy in this way, and, how ecologists claim, save the earth before global warming up.

So much that councillors Hampshire and they different British towns enraged police and occupants. Because darknesses become impudent bandits. Criminals know that nobody will notice them and houses rob or they attack passers-by.

To this, dark patch also leads to the growth of the number of road incidents. Drivers do not see lighted up foot and cyclists.

What worse, how he even writes "Daily Mail", the powers of the majority of towns they did not ask occupants about the sentence. Of course, no information was about dark patch. One day enlightened simply turn off.

Andrew Mezynski

French antipirate

The debate began on the subject of new anti-pirate recipes in the French parliament. The law has to introduce obligatory in connections, meanwhile public hotspoty will be able to make accessible exclusively limited number of the Web PAGES.

Frenchmen fight with the new right for months. It was successful however to establish the final shape of the document in the measure after long negotiations. The proposal hit on the Monday before Accumulating National. He values himself chances on her introduction in the life as large – in spite, that some parties from whole strengths oppose new records.

The law foresees the creation new specregulatora about the name HADOPI. Mine he to administer the black letters of the users who were be cut off from the Net for using from P2P. Principle of three steps will be in force (e-mails warning, written warning, the blockade the access to Internet on 3-12 months).

Within the of contained contract with the owners of autorskich rights, the movie makers bound themselves to the somewhat quicker publication of the plates DVD after cinema Prime Ministers and resignation of the majority of the mechanisms of the digital management the rights (DRM).

The international Federation Industry Fonography is delighted. Her general manager, John I „do not understand BitTorrent” Kennedy, he said: „Our future depends on this, (...) or we in the state will bear the working business in the environment which illegal music flooded legally”.

The European parliament already criticised the new French right. The proposal of the limitation of functionality hotspotów aroused the special surprise. They have the exclusively closed, limited list of shopwindow to offer users to previews the (principle of the white list). Remaining services will be blocked.

The source: ArsTechnica.com

Germany's gold

The Germany throws out to litters the half ton of gold annually. They throw out together with with 24 millions old cellular telephones.

And water on the mill of the hamburgs foundry Norddeutsche Affinerie (he just changes I will name on Aurubis), regaining the gold from points of contact and the arrangements of electric mobile phones, computers itp, the German institution works on full turns in the worst from second world war crisis etc . , exchanging he throws the litter about in the bars of gold. As the agency Bloomberg passes, what the company the year regains 3,5 of this metal worth tones 110 million USD. The similar firm Umicore regains near the Antwerp (Belgium) 6 tons annually.

The recycling campaign undertaken by Philips, the largest in Europe manufacturer of television sets m.in. helps them, and Nokię, the front producer of mobile phones. Philips will give to 2012 r. 1 mld of EUR on the projects of the products which will facilitate the salvage of materials. Nokia tries to convince the users of telephones, instead of to throw out, they gave back old devices to recycling.

Does he as yet hit there only what sixth old mobile phone thrown out in the Germany. Wish, because – as learned counted from Berlinian engineering college, the ton of electronic throws the litter about he contains average 347 grams of gold. And gold beats price records recently.
/source pb.pl

Gmail broken

I’ll keep this short and sweet. The answer is no, simply because Gmail offers more service and “things” to students than any other web provider on the web. The news broke this afternoon that Gmail had suffered another outage, in a series of outages over the last couple of months.

Considering three-quarters of the population of Facebook use Gmail, it’s one of, if not the most popular web email service there is on the web. It’s clear to me already that students use Gmail more than any other service available, and often use it to outsource their own university email.

There is no reason as of yet as to why Gmail failed this afternoon, although the service does seem to be up and running once again; according to their status page:

Update at 1:30 UTC: Please note that the Google Mail service has already been restored for the majority of our users. The rest of the users should be coming back online within the next 24-36 hours. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and continued support.

Gmail, to me, remains as one of the most important and integral parts of my life at the moment. Without the service, I wouldn’t be able to get the email on my phone, access my email from everywhere with any browser, and chat with my friends and colleagues all in the same window.

source zdnet.com