New Zealand police use Facebook to stop crime By Saeed Ahmed CNN – cnn.com 14 January 2009
(CNN) -- Police in southern New Zealand nabbed a would-be burglar after they posted security camera images of him trying to break into a safe on the popular social networking site, Facebook.
The Queenstown police are calling it their first Facebook arrest. The police department created its online presence on the site just two months ago, said Constable Sean Drader.
"It's pretty popular, isn't it, this site?" Drader told CNN Wednesday, surprised at the quick success.
The 21-year-old masked man allegedly broke into a local pub through a roof early Monday morning and spent considerable time trying to crack open a safe using an angle grinder.
"It's a very small room that he broke into, and it was hot weather. It's summer here," Drader said. "There are sparks flying all about him. And after about an hour, he gets too hot and takes his gloves and balaclava off."
Unable to break open the safe, the man gave up and got ready to leave, Drader said. "He looks around to see if he's forgotten anything, and he looks up right at the camera. It was rather silly. We got a good look," he said.
The police department posted the surveillance camera photos on its Facebook page. By the next day, the man was in custody, fingered by viewers who recognized him from the images on the site, and from TV segments on the Facebook posting.
Police did not release the suspect's name, but said the Queenstown native is charged with two counts of burglary. burglary.
Facebook, the Web's most popular social networking site, allows users to create personal profiles. They can then connect with one another, upload photos and share links. The site boasts more than 90 million active users.
In November, Facebook helped a seafood restaurant owner in Melbourne identify five customers who dined on oysters, trout and expensive wine and then bolted without paying the US $323 bill.
According to media reports, the owner remembered one of the diners asking about a former waitress.
The waitress suggested the restaurateur look through her friend's list on Facebook. A quick scroll later, the owner spotted one of the bill dodgers.
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Social networking helps police arresting a criminal. After a man broke into a pub and got his face recorded by the security camera, the police posted the recorded image on to Facebook. The man was in custody the next day, recognized and fingered by viewers. Police could use social networking as another data base or another way to find the wanted criminal.
kay Measuring the speed of your Internet connection and figuring out just how your ISP handles certain types of traffic has always been difficult to do accurately. Now Google, which has always been interested in Net neutrality, is stepping in with a solution to the problem. Google isn't doing it alone. It's bringing friends, including the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute, the PlanetLab Consortium, and academic researchers. The group has created Measurement Lab, or M-Lab, which Google describes as an open platform for which Internet measurement tools can be developed. Network World bloggers Peter Sevcik and Rebecca Wetzel discuss the three tools available now and some of the tools that are planned. The first tools out of the gate include a speed and diagnostic test developed by Internet2, a tool that tries to figure out whether your ISP is blocking or throttling BitTorrent traffic, and a tool that diagnoses common problems affecting the last mile. Google says these tools are "still in development" and will support a limited number of simultaneous users. When I tried the tools they were overloaded. What makes the Google effort potentially powerful, though, is that Google is offering up servers in diverse locations to make the measurements to users' computers. Over 2009, Google will provide 36 servers in 12 locations in the United States and Europe. Plus, Google says it will make all the data collected available to other researchers for further enhancements. The effort is really in keeping with Google's philosophy that more information is a good thing. And by collecting the data and sharing it, we could end up with a better understanding of how the Internet is actually working - and that understanding could lead to large-scale improvements.
From The Economist print edition The departing president tries to burnish his environmental halo IN THE dying days of his administration, George Bush has done something remarkable for a man unlikely to be remembered as a friend of the environment. With an eye, perhaps, on his legacy he has pulled off the largest marine-conservation effort in history. The ocean is increasingly thought by conservationists to need the equivalent of wildlife parks—areas that are naturally diverse where plants and animals can be allowed to live and breed unmolested by man. But such marine reserves are rare, so conservationists want more of them. In 2006 Mr Bush gave them part of their desire by establishing what was then the world’s largest marine protected area—Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, in north-western Hawaii. It is home to some 7,000 species, including the monk seal and spinner dolphins. Now, with another flourish of the presidential pen, he has done something similar in three new areas in the Pacific Ocean, around the Mariana Islands, Palmyra Atoll and Rose Atoll, totalling more than 500,000 square kilometres. This will protect some stunning areas of pristine reefs containing many large animals (such as reef sharks and giant clams) that are badly depleted elsewhere. Although the protection is not as extensive as they had hoped, environmental groups are thrilled. And although Mr Bush deserves credit, so too do the green groups that have lobbied for this. Some of them, such as the Pew Environmental Group and the Environmental Defence Fund, are well known. But much of the scientific donkey-work and lobbying behind Mr Bush’s reserves was done by a smaller organisation, the Marine Conservation Biology Institute, in Washington. Congratulations.
Do you ever wish you could turn off your lamps with ease, without having to reach behind furniture to find the switch? This innovative gadget, the Handy switch allows you to control any lamp in your home with the use of a remote switch. Consisting of a remote receiver and the wireless switch you'll be able to turn lamps off from up to 60 feet away.
Simply plug your Handy Switch receiver into an outlet and then plug your lamp into the receiver. When you're ready to leave the room just flip the switch and your lamp switches off. If you get up in the middle of the night and find yourself struggling around for a light switch, , carry the wireless switch with you anywhere and you can flip the light on before you even enter a dark room. It is easy to use all you have to do is peel the sticker out and stick it where required. For Example: You can place this handy switch in your car switch on the lights inside the house before even entering the house. It is even convenient if you place the handy switch upstairs and control the downstairs lights from upstairs. Place the handy switch in such places where the kids can easily switch on and off their room lights at night. You will not even have to get out of bed to turn off their bedside lamp as you can just use the handy switch. The handy switch is even handy for your pockets as they are removable and reusable. The device costs $19.99.
Colossus is an orphan. The experts have confirmed the Prado, Monday 26 January on the website of the museum in Madrid, their doubts about the paternity of the famous painting, previously attributed to Francisco Goya. According to them, this allegorical painting of the War of Independence from Spain against Napoleon's troops, which belongs to the museum since 1931, is more the work of the painter Asensio Julia, an assistant of Goya. If the experts are not sure about the author, they now reject categorically that this may be the work of Spanish master. "Under a proper light, they wrote, the poverty of the art, light and colors, as well as the marked difference between the Colossus and works mainly attributed to a documented way to Goya, become apparent." For nearly eighty years, visitors to the Prado would have admired a work that is not admirable. However, the decision of the museum to "downgrade" this pseudo Goya is not the end of the controversy. Bozales Valeriano, one of the leading Spanish Goya told the newspaper ABC, Wednesday 28 January that "the arguments of the experts are not conclusive."
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New Zealand police use Facebook to stop crime
By Saeed Ahmed
CNN – cnn.com
14 January 2009
(CNN) -- Police in southern New Zealand nabbed a would-be burglar after they posted security camera images of him trying to break into a safe on the popular social networking site, Facebook.
The Queenstown police are calling it their first Facebook arrest. The police department created its online presence on the site just two months ago, said Constable Sean Drader.
"It's pretty popular, isn't it, this site?" Drader told CNN Wednesday, surprised at the quick success.
The 21-year-old masked man allegedly broke into a local pub through a roof early Monday morning and spent considerable time trying to crack open a safe using an angle grinder.
"It's a very small room that he broke into, and it was hot weather. It's summer here," Drader said. "There are sparks flying all about him. And after about an hour, he gets too hot and takes his gloves and balaclava off."
Unable to break open the safe, the man gave up and got ready to leave, Drader said.
"He looks around to see if he's forgotten anything, and he looks up right at the camera. It was rather silly. We got a good look," he said.
The police department posted the surveillance camera photos on its Facebook page. By the next day, the man was in custody, fingered by viewers who recognized him from the images on the site, and from TV segments on the Facebook posting.
Police did not release the suspect's name, but said the Queenstown native is charged with two counts of burglary.
burglary.
Facebook, the Web's most popular social networking site, allows users to create personal profiles. They can then connect with one another, upload photos and share links. The site boasts more than 90 million active users.
In November, Facebook helped a seafood restaurant owner in Melbourne identify five customers who dined on oysters, trout and expensive wine and then bolted without paying the US $323 bill.
According to media reports, the owner remembered one of the diners asking about a former waitress.
The waitress suggested the restaurateur look through her friend's list on Facebook. A quick scroll later, the owner spotted one of the bill dodgers.
Comment:
Social networking helps police arresting a criminal. After a man broke into a pub and got his face recorded by the security camera, the police posted the recorded image on to Facebook. The man was in custody the next day, recognized and fingered by viewers. Police could use social networking as another data base or another way to find the wanted criminal.
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Measuring the speed of your Internet connection and figuring out just how your ISP handles certain types of traffic has always been difficult to do accurately. Now Google, which has always been interested in Net neutrality, is stepping in with a solution to the problem.
Google isn't doing it alone. It's bringing friends, including the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute, the PlanetLab Consortium, and academic researchers. The group has created Measurement Lab, or M-Lab, which Google describes as an open platform for which Internet measurement tools can be developed.
Network World bloggers Peter Sevcik and Rebecca Wetzel discuss the three tools available now and some of the tools that are planned. The first tools out of the gate include a speed and diagnostic test developed by Internet2, a tool that tries to figure out whether your ISP is blocking or throttling BitTorrent traffic, and a tool that diagnoses common problems affecting the last mile.
Google says these tools are "still in development" and will support a limited number of simultaneous users. When I tried the tools they were overloaded.
What makes the Google effort potentially powerful, though, is that Google is offering up servers in diverse locations to make the measurements to users' computers. Over 2009, Google will provide 36 servers in 12 locations in the United States and Europe.
Plus, Google says it will make all the data collected available to other researchers for further enhancements. The effort is really in keeping with Google's philosophy that more information is a good thing. And by collecting the data and sharing it, we could end up with a better understanding of how the Internet is actually working - and that understanding could lead to large-scale improvements.
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From The Economist print edition
The departing president tries to burnish his environmental halo
IN THE dying days of his administration, George Bush has done something remarkable for a man unlikely to be remembered as a friend of the environment. With an eye, perhaps, on his legacy he has pulled off the largest marine-conservation effort in history.
The ocean is increasingly thought by conservationists to need the equivalent of wildlife parks—areas that are naturally diverse where plants and animals can be allowed to live and breed unmolested by man. But such marine reserves are rare, so conservationists want more of them. In 2006 Mr Bush gave them part of their desire by establishing what was then the world’s largest marine protected area—Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, in north-western Hawaii. It is home to some 7,000 species, including the monk seal and spinner dolphins.
Now, with another flourish of the presidential pen, he has done something similar in three new areas in the Pacific Ocean, around the Mariana Islands, Palmyra Atoll and Rose Atoll, totalling more than 500,000 square kilometres. This will protect some stunning areas of pristine reefs containing many large animals (such as reef sharks and giant clams) that are badly depleted elsewhere.
Although the protection is not as extensive as they had hoped, environmental groups are thrilled. And although Mr Bush deserves credit, so too do the green groups that have lobbied for this. Some of them, such as the Pew Environmental Group and the Environmental Defence Fund, are well known. But much of the scientific donkey-work and lobbying behind Mr Bush’s reserves was done by a smaller organisation, the Marine Conservation Biology Institute, in Washington. Congratulations.
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Do you ever wish you could turn off your lamps with ease, without having to reach behind furniture to find the switch? This innovative gadget, the Handy switch allows you to control any lamp in your home with the use of a remote switch. Consisting of a remote receiver and the wireless switch you'll be able to turn lamps off from up to 60 feet away.
Simply plug your Handy Switch receiver into an outlet and then plug your lamp into the receiver. When you're ready to leave the room just flip the switch and your lamp switches off. If you get up in the middle of the night and find yourself struggling around for a light switch, , carry the wireless switch with you anywhere and you can flip the light on before you even enter a dark room.
It is easy to use all you have to do is peel the sticker out and stick it where required. For Example: You can place this handy switch in your car switch on the lights inside the house before even entering the house. It is even convenient if you place the handy switch upstairs and control the downstairs lights from upstairs. Place the handy switch in such places where the kids can easily switch on and off their room lights at night. You will not even have to get out of bed to turn off their bedside lamp as you can just use the handy switch.
The handy switch is even handy for your pockets as they are removable and reusable. The device costs $19.99.
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"The Colossus" is not by Goya
Colossus is an orphan. The experts have confirmed the Prado, Monday 26 January on the website of the museum in Madrid, their doubts about the paternity of the famous painting, previously attributed to Francisco Goya. According to them, this allegorical painting of the War of Independence from Spain against Napoleon's troops, which belongs to the museum since 1931, is more the work of the painter Asensio Julia, an assistant of Goya. If the experts are not sure about the author, they now reject categorically that this may be the work of Spanish master. "Under a proper light, they wrote, the poverty of the art, light and colors, as well as the marked difference between the Colossus and works mainly attributed to a documented way to Goya, become apparent." For nearly eighty years, visitors to the Prado would have admired a work that is not admirable. However, the decision of the museum to "downgrade" this pseudo Goya is not the end of the controversy. Bozales Valeriano, one of the leading Spanish Goya told the newspaper ABC, Wednesday 28 January that "the arguments of the experts are not conclusive."
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