EFF and Carpathia Hosting Help MegaUpload Users To Retrieve Their Data

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1 February 2012
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Yesterday the news broke that personal files of MegaUpload’s users are at risk. Late Friday MegaUpload received a letter from the US Attorney stating the data of users could be deleted coming Thursday.

While MegaUpload’s legal team is negotiating with the US authorities find a solution, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today launched a campaign to assess the scope of the issue.

A few minutes ago the MegaRetrieval website went live. On the site MegaUpload users can contact the EFF for legal help to retrieve their personal files — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Ninth Mayan Underworld / De Bethune

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De Bethune tells us that the ninth step of the Bolon Yokte Ku, the cosmic pyramid of the Mayan civilisation, symbolizes the advent of a new world, the ninth underworld, according to which the evolution of consciousness is believed to reach its highest level. The brand marks the occasion of humankind’s symbolic passage into this new underworld predicted by the Mayan calendar with a 12-piece edition created in tribute to the scholarly traditions of this people — via WatchTime

The Cube / Make Architects

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The Cube is the final phase of Birmingham’s Mailbox development and one of Make‘s largest buildings to date. Comprising offices, an automated car park, apartments, retail units, a hotel, spa, restaurant and sky bar, The Cube was conceived as a building which would never close; crafted to open up routes and views to emerging neighbouring districts and permeable to both the users of the building and the community as a whole. Pivotal to the continued regeneration of the surrounding area,The Cube’s striking appearance has had a dramatic impact on the Birmingham city skyline — via ArchDaily

Norwegian alarm system monitors length of office lavatory visits

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1 February 2012
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Managers are alerted by flashing lights if an employee is away from their desk for a loo break or other personal activities beyond the allotted time.

But unions and workplace inspectors have branded the practice at insurance company DNB as highly intrusive and a potential breach of their human rights.

Norway’s privacy regulator called Datatilsynet has now written to DNB telling them the monitoring system is a major violation of privacy.

It said: Each individual worker has different needs and these kinds of strict controls deprive the employees of all freedoms over the course of their working day.

The employees union Finansforbundet described the rules as unacceptable.

Malayan Tapir / Port Lympne Wild Animal Park

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Hoof stock keepers at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park in the UK are delighted to announce the birth of an extremely rare Malayan tapir. The young male, named Manado, was born on 12 January to mother Malacca and father Hunter. This new arrival is the tenth successful tapir birth there, the first occurring in 1989. Now Port Lympne’s tapir house is home to two young male tapirs, as little Kejutan, born 4 months ago to mother Lidaeng, is growing fast — via ZooBorns

Primus customers in the dark over outage

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31 January 2012
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Customers hosted at Primus Telecom’s Melbourne datacentre experienced outages this morning, with several sites forced offline.

Among those confirmed to be affected were security software vendor AVG and Mirvac’s chain of sites, including Mirvac Hotels.

These sites were not responding, or were experiencing intermittent delays, from 9.45am AEDST this morning. The outage has resulted in several other sites on the same hosting service being taken offline, but Primus has not indicated the scale of the outage, or how many were affected.

Initial customer reports indicated that the problem was caused by a routing issue with Primus’ upstream providers, but the company later clarified that some of its core switches were having issues. Most outages were resolved almost immediately, and all issues were resolved by 11.35am, the company said — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Seamaster Limited Edition James Bond 50th Anniversary / Omega

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31 January 2012
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The Omega Seamaster Limited Edition James Bond 50th Anniversary Watch uses a 007 theme on the black lacquer dial with 50 filled in with red on the outer bezel. The watch also offers Omega’s caliber 2507 co-axial movement, with the winding rotor designed to look like a bullet. It’s also inscribed with 50 years of James Bond.

The limited edition Seamaster is being sold worldwide in an edition of 11,007 pieces, with a shelf date of some time early this year. No mention of price as yet, but as both a classic watch and a limited edition, this is unlikely be one of the cheaper watches on the market — via Retro To Go

Angry Birds boss: ‘Piracy may not be a bad thing: it can get us more business’

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Rovio Mobile learned from the music industry’s mistakes when deciding how to deal with piracy of its Angry Birds games and merchandise, chief executive Mikael Hed told the Midem conference in Cannes this morning.

We have some issues with piracy, not only in apps, but also especially in the consumer products. There is tons and tons of merchandise out there, especially in Asia, which is not officially licensed products, said Hed.

We could learn a lot from the music industry, and the rather terrible ways the music industry has tried to combat piracy.

Hed explained that Rovio sees it as futile to pursue pirates through the courts, except in cases where it feels the products they are selling are harmful to the Angry Birds brand, or ripping off its fans.

When that’s not the case, Rovio sees it as a way to attract more fans, even if it is not making money from the products. Piracy may not be a bad thing: it can get us more business at the end of the day — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Wildlife charity to fund police unit tackling animal trafficking

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30 January 2012
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A specialist police unit that fights wildlife crime is joining forces with an animal charity.

The Metropolitan police’s wildlife crime unit is teaming up with the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA), which warned animal trafficking is a major source of revenue for criminals.

It is the first time a charity has directly funded a Met police unit and it is hoped it will lead to more staff being recruited and trained in how to tackle wildlife crime — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Dutch ISPs Refuse To Block The Pirate Bay

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30 January 2012
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Two large ISPs in the Netherlands have said they will not be blocking subscriber access to The Pirate Bay, as demanded by the Hollywood supported anti-piracy outfit BREIN. T-Mobile and KPN argue that blocking websites is a threat to the open Internet, and suggest that the entertainment industry focuses on new business models instead. BREIN is now expected to take the ISPs to court — via redwolf.newsvine.com

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