Anastasia Architects designed the Vila Castela Residence in Nova Lima, Brazil — via CONTEMPORIST
The Benarus Watch company offers their Moray model in bronze as well. Unfortunately, they only made twenty of this particular model, and they are completely sold out. The most striking feature is, of course, that gorgeous bronze case, made from the bronze alloy UNI5275 — via Wrist Watch Review
Legal brothels in NSW and Victoria are operating unchecked despite police investigations implicating them in human trafficking, sex slavery and organised crime.
Two federal police investigations, Operations Elixation and Raspberry, have identified at least two Sydney brothels and three Melbourne ones linked to an international human trafficking and sex slavery ring. The syndicate allegedly convinces Asian women to come to Australia to study. They are then forced to work as sex slaves in brothels.
But the state and local authorities responsible for approving legal brothels have taken no action, despite court documents in August detailing federal police allegations of the brothels’ — or their managers’ — involvement in organised crime — via redwolf.newsvine.com
This is the first time a Paca has been hand raised at the San Diego Zoo or the Safari Park. Keepers hope he will one day be an animal ambassador, who does education programs at the Safari Park. The affectionate rodent was born 7 September 2011 — via ZooBorns
Like the travelling fairs that still roam India, a snazzy white bus trundles along the subcontinent’s B-roads, stopping in small towns for a few days at a time and inviting locals into another world. But in place of tightrope-walking girls and performing monkeys, its main attraction is access to the internet. For some visitors, it is their first time online.
The Google Internet bus is a free, mobile cybercafe dreamed up by the search giant and run in association with BSNL, a large state-owned internet service provider (ISP). It has covered over 43,000km and passed through 120 towns in 11 states since it hit the road on February 3rd, 2009. Google estimates that 1.6m people have been offered their first online experience as a result. Of those, 100,000 have signed up for an internet connection of their own. Like a high-school drug dealer, though admittedly less nefarious, the idea is to hook them young and keep them coming back. In return for its efforts, Google says it gains a better understanding of their needs. That, in turn, lets it develop products for the potentially huge local market — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Members of a golf club in Australia have something more to worry about than just their swing — playing on what’s thought to be the world’s first shark-infested course.
Water hazards are a challenge for anyone who plays golf, but on the 14th tee at the Carbrook Golf Club in Brisbane there is another reason to be concerned.
Half a dozen man-eating bull sharks live in the lake in the centre of the course where their fins poking through the water have become a regular sight.
The sharks got onto the Queensland golf course when it flooded some years ago after a river broke its banks — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Geraldine de Beco’s ceramic cereal bowls include a little surprise when filled with liquid. When the bowls are empty, they appear to have strange carvings around the edges, but when the bowls have liquid in them, the form of an animal magically appears.
The bowls come with three different animals to choose from — a wolf, a bird and a cat. The silhouetted forms of these animals are expertly crafted and would surely make anyone smile. Not only are the animal forms beautifully designed, but the bowls themselves are gorgeous with bright colors complimenting the outer white gloss. However, these sell for about $317 (240 euros) a piece! How much would you spend on something that holds your breakfast cereal? — via My Modern Metropolis
Famous high street businesses, including Topshop and the recruitment specialist Reed, are being named and shamed by an internet campaign targeting the rise of unpaid and very low paid internships that, it is claimed, is undermining the link between pay and work.
Topshop, the star performer in Sir Philip Green’s £2.7bn Arcadia retail empire, is exposed for paying graduates on month-long work experience secondments just £3.50 a day plus limited travel expenses.
Urban Outfitters, the American clothier with stores in a dozen cities around the UK, has been attacked for advertising a nine-month unpaid internship in their merchandising department for people who are hardworking, organised [and] able to multi-task
.
And Reed, one of the country’s largest job agencies, has been nicknamed Greedy Reed
for having advertised 46 unpaid internships within its company, variously described as intern receptionist
, intern executive assistant
and secretarial admin internship
. The adverts were recently taken down after the company was reminded by the campaign of the obligations of the national minimum wage legislation introduced in 1999. There is no legal definition of an “intern”, and the law says that anybody who qualifies as a worker must be paid at least £6.08 an hour if aged 21 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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Australian vets say they are having great success treating arthritic dogs with stem cells and researchers developing arthritis treatments for humans are taking a keen interest in the technique.
The trouble is that some dog owners feel their four-legged friends are getting better treatment than they are — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Hacknotifier searches for your email address in publicly available hacked databases. All you need to do to check is type in your password email address on the main page and it will cross-reference it and give you its results in seconds, no registration or payment required. If you want 24-hour security, the site offers two plans of $5 and $7 per year for constant monitoring and notification
What we have here is the wewood DATE, and I want to address the name of the model right away. After I got in contact with the company, that’s one of the points I wanted to clarify, because I most certainly was not seeing a date window on the dial. To put it simply, it’s the name that the Italian designer selected, and that’s what the company went with — via Wrist Watch Review
Santa Rosa CA’s Safari West shared a new picture of their Fennec Fox kits Bella and Bill — via ZooBorns
DRM only hurts legitimate customers.
The phrase above has been written a few dozen times here on TorrentFreak, and it’s now supported by an academic report.
Researchers from Rice and Duke University looked into the effect of digital restrictions on music piracy. In their paper Music Downloads and the Flip Side of Digital Rights Management Protection
they conclude that DRM doesn’t prevent piracy at all. Quite the opposite.
Only the legal users pay the price and suffer from the restrictions. Illegal users are not affected because the pirated product does not have DRM restrictions,
the researchers write in their report — via redwolf.newsvine.com
One of the consequences of the exhaustion of the IPV4 address space is that not only are legitimate companies having a hard time finding IP blocks to use, so are the attackers. The number of IP addresses required for large scale botnets to operate effectively can be considerable, and finding large IP blocks to use for them can be difficult. And if they do find them, the IP addresses often are blacklisted quickly by reputation systems and are then useless for the attackers.
Now, in one effort to get around these systems, some attackers are taking advantage of the lack of IPV4 space by either purchasing or renting blocks of IP space with good reputations that have been built up over the course of several years. A number of legitimate trading and auction sites have appeared as the IPV4 space became scarcer, and the attackers have gotten involved as well, getting their hands on known good IP blocks and using them for C&C or hosting malware — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Apparently there are some politicians who get it
. At least it seems that way after reading an entry on the blog of Rick Falkvinge (founder of the Swedish Pirate Party). He says the Green party group, fifth largest in the European Parliament, has officially adopted several of the Pirate Party’s stances in a new position paper (PDF). The Greens say, the copyright monopoly does not extend to what an ordinary person can do with ordinary equipment in their home and spare time
, adding that a 20-year protection term is more reasonable than 70 years. They go on to say, Net Neutrality must be guaranteed
, and also mention DRM: It must always be legal to circumvent DRM restrictions, and we should consider introducing a ban in the consumer rights legislation on DRM technologies that restrict legal uses of a work
— via Slashdot
Prosecutors call it the biggest identity theft bust in US history. On Friday, 111 bank tellers, retail workers, waiters and alleged criminals were charged with running a credit-card-stealing organization that stole more than US$13 million in less than a year-and-a-half.
This is by far the largest — and certainly among the most sophisticated — identity theft/credit card fraud cases that law enforcement has come across,
the Queens County District Attorney’s office said in a statement announcing the arrests.
The credit card numbers came from far and wide: from skimming operations in the US, where restaurant employees or retail cashiers were paid to steal credit card data from customers; from carder forums on the Internet; and also from shady overseas suppliers in countries such as Russia, China and Libya — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Not only might companies have ethical, civic and legal obligations to alert authorities to cyberthreats, businesses may find that the authorities can be helpful, law enforcement agents and prosecutors said on Friday.
Aravind Swaminathan, assistant US attorney in the Western District of Washington, took pains to describe the lengths to which his office goes to be sensitive to the needs of companies that report crimes. He spoke during a cybercrime conference at the University of Washington School of Law on Friday.
Everybody’s worried that their trade secret will end up on the front page of the paper,
he said. Trade-secret cases are hard, but work with us. We aren’t obtuse. We know that’s the stock and trade of your business
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Google has finally added SQL to its cloud platform offering, Apps Engine. Until now, developers had to use the Datastore service, which provides a vendor lock-in threat and isn’t supported by most existing software and libraries. The SQL service should definitely improve Apps Engine adoption. It is currently in limited preview mode — via Slashdot
Graphene, an exotic form of carbon consisting of sheets a single atom thick, exhibits a novel reaction to light, MIT researchers have found: Sparked by light’s energy, the material can produce electric current in unusual ways. The finding could lead to improvements in photodetectors and night-vision systems, and possibly to a new approach to generating electricity from sunlight.
This current-generating effect had been observed before, but researchers had incorrectly assumed it was due to a photovoltaic effect, says Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, an assistant professor of physics at MIT and senior author of a new paper published in the journal Science. The paper’s lead author is postdoc Nathaniel Gabor; co-authors include four MIT students, MIT physics professor Leonid Levitov and two researchers at the National Institute for Materials Science in Tsukuba, Japan — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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