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Motorola and Samsung use of all the first-ever iPhone presentation to proceed against a patent of the Group. Because Steve Jobs had made a mistake: he proudly showed the world a wipe effect
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Steve Jobs was not afraid of competition. “Boy, have we patented it!” The Apple CEO said at the launch of the first iPhone prototype in January 2007. Whoever wants to copy the principle of iPhone – Apple has patents in order to keep the upper hand
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But just this appearance now ensures trouble. Apple fell into a gap between U.S. patent law and the rules in Germany, listed the subject patent blog Foss . In the United States inventors had then twelve months to apply for a patent – a public presentation in this period did not contradict the laws in force there
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The Federal Patent Court declared the European patent number 2059868 to be invalid, as it announced now. The claim is based on the court in terms of the art no longer on inventive activity. It is a function, thanks to the content of the screen jumps back in a gallery back to the original position when he was dragged a finger across the screen edge.
Apple rivals Motorola and Samsung had appealed against the patent called “Portable Electronic Device for Photo Management.” Apple may still file an appeal at the Federal Court. The case falls into a number of patent disputes between the major Techkonzernen. Who owns a patent, may require high license fees usually from competitors.
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Following the announcement of Telekom telephone company also wants Congstar DSL ... - ABC Online
information Congstar FOCUS will also take its customers to the data line. The subsidiary of Telekom intends by 2014 to set a data limit for fixed line customers. What that will be is not yet known.
div after the Telekom wants to regulate their subsidiary Congstar the data speed for DSL connections. A company spokesperson confirmed the news magazine FOCUS: “We plan to introduce a data cap for fixed line customers.” An exact time for he did not name.From the telecom circles was reported that the subsidiary would change their terms and conditions
2014 at the latest two years later, the real limitation of the data volume will be implemented -. Way it had already informed its customers that Telekom. The outgoing CEO René Obermann announced in the spring to introduce a monthly data cap of 75 gigabytes for beginners tariffs. The change affects not only new customers but also those who choose a different telecom tariff.
Also apparently Vodafone does wonder to throttle its data network. Thus, the company recently acquired cable Germany is already heavy users a day surfing limit of ten gigabytes. A company insiders said FOCUS: “Vodafone is impossible to existing DSL customers can surf unlimited and new throttle cable customers.” Officially, the company denies such plans
Telecom: With artificial DNA against the theft of copper cables - Heise Newsticker
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means drone and a cable device will be marked artificial transmission lines with DNA. 
The German Railway employs such artificial DNA for some time, despite their Nahmes but contains no real genetic material. Rather, it is an invisible paint that glows green under ultraviolet light. Equipped with special lamps, police and railway officials can recognize such designated stolen immediately. The paint will also find about 400 microns small platelets of nickel in which a number is engraved, which can only be read under a microscope. Each track section of the track is secured with a different code. Is stored in a database which code belongs to which
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who tampers with marked cables will also mitgekennzeichnet the marking fluid. In UV light copper thieves can be exposed so quickly. The Telekom hopes so that copper thieves are deterred. The German Railway had registered more than 2,700 thefts in 2012 with a total loss of around 17 million euros. With her and other companies, the German Telekom is involved in a safety partnership against metal theft, to the Alliance also includes the RWE AG, the German Association of Metal Traders (VDM), the Federal Association of German steel recycling and waste management companies (BDSV) and the Vattenfall Europe Mining AG . (jk)
Sunday, September 29, 2013
Following the announcement of Telekom telephone company also wants Congstar DSL ... - ABC Online
information Congstar FOCUS will also take its customers to the data line. The subsidiary of Telekom intends by 2014 to set a data limit for fixed line customers. What that will be is not yet known.
div after the Telekom wants to regulate their subsidiary Congstar the data speed for DSL connections. A company spokesperson confirmed the news magazine FOCUS: “We plan to introduce a data cap for fixed line customers.” An exact time for he did not name.From the telecom circles was reported that the subsidiary would change their terms and conditions
2014 at the latest two years later, the real limitation of the data volume will be implemented -. Way it had already informed its customers that Telekom. The outgoing CEO René Obermann announced in the spring to introduce a monthly data cap of 75 gigabytes for beginners tariffs. The change affects not only new customers but also those who choose a different telecom tariff.
Also apparently Vodafone does wonder to throttle its data network. Thus, the company recently acquired cable Germany is already heavy users a day surfing limit of ten gigabytes. A company insiders said FOCUS: “Vodafone is impossible to existing DSL customers can surf unlimited and new throttle cable customers.” Officially, the company denies such plans
Space - Science: Private Space Shuttle "Cygnus" docked late ... - Süddeutsche.de
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Washington (dpa) – Only the software on strike, then was a Soyuz capsule in the way: With a week late, the private space shuttle “Cygnus” the International Space Station reached at
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The unmanned space capsule had arrived on Sunday at 13.00 clock EST at ISS, said the U.S. space agency Nasa. Started by robot arm, the astronauts aboard the ISS the capsule. On Monday they want with the unloading of approximately 600 kg equipment, including clothing and food to start.
“Cygnus” transporters, on 18 September was started with an Antares rocket from Wallops spaceport Iceland in the U.S. state of Virginia, was expected to dock already last week Sunday at the ISS. But then appeared before the start of the maneuver, the data exchange between the approaching visit and the station – according to Nasa now dissolved – software problem. Then the supply ship had to endure a few days in space: it allowed a Soyuz capsule does not get in the way, which brought three astronauts to the ISS
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NASA chief Charles Bolden evaluated the inaugural flight of “Cygnus” to ISS despite glitch and delay as a “historic milestone”. “We have expanded so that America’s ability to reliably transport cargo into space.” Even David Thompson, head of the company Orbital Sciences, which has developed the “Cygnus” transporters, spoke of a “mission as it is in the book.”
“Cygnus” (Latin for swan) will now remain docked to the ISS for about a month and then with about 750 kg of cargo – plunge into the Pacific – among other refuse. By 2016, Orbital Sciences plans according to the contract with the NASA eight missions to the ISS, where a total of 20,000 kg cargo to be transported.
“Cygnus” transporter is only the second private space freighter docks with the ISS. Developed by SpaceX “Dragon” transporter has two supply flights to the ISS behind. By 2016, at least twelve more are “Dragon”-scheduled flights, the order is worth a total of around 1.6 billion dollars (1.2 billion euros).
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Android 4.3 for HTC One and Samsung models - Heise Newsticker
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Other new features of 4.3: Improved text input, Wi-Fi improvements, new languages ??and tablets faster exchange between users In some countries, HTC has already begun shipping the update to Android 4.3 for the smartphone HTC one, but German users will have to wait: In this country, the update will probably appear only towards the end of October, as our gadget has learned Blog TechStage.
The French mobile operator SFR has announced that the Samsung Galaxy S4 also gets an update to 4.3 in October. In November or December, the Galaxy S3 and Note 2 to follow Whether these dates also apply to Germany, is not yet known.
Android 4.3 was released in July, currently it only runs on
smartphones and tablets from Google’s own Nexus series and some for a few days available devices like the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Innovations are even hidden Rights Management, OpenGL ES 3.0 for better graphics and support for Bluetooth Smart (BT LE) for connecting, for example, sports sensors. Samsung Bluetooth Smart also needs to communicate with the Smart Watch Gear, which therefore currently only works with the touch 3rd Advanced profile management of Android 4.3 should be 4.2 to see how even the only multi-user management of Android on tablets, at least on the Nexus 4 is nothing to see them. 
alternative integrated Android ROM CyanogenMod 4.3 from CM 10.2, which is still in development.
Google wants the successor to Android 4.4 (Kitkat) probably imagine along with a Nexus 5 in mid-October. (jow)
USA: Private Space Shuttle docked to ISS delayed - Munich evening paper
Washington – With a week late for the first time appointed private space shuttle “Cygnus” has reached the International
Space Station. Clock at 13.00 Central European Time has begun the complicated docking maneuvers, tweeted the U.S. space agency Nasa. This maneuver can take several hours. The laden with about 600 kg equipment transporter was expected to dock already last Sunday at the ISS. A computer problems had delayed the arrival.
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Google wants may waive cookies – and instead pursue its users via a so-called “anonymous identification program.” Privacy advocates and advertisers fear that they thereby further lose control.
The U.S. company Google is likely to undermine decisively with its new anonymous identification program, the Internet privacy. The key question is: Will Google’s users by check complete – as full-body scanners at airports illuminate the passengers? If you look at the public reaction to the leaked information from the group, it seems to actually be so.
Google is consideringtherefore, apply anonymous identification programs to track the surfing habits of users in the network. The technology could gradually replace the controversial “cookies”. These markers are currently placed by companies on our computers, to observe where we are going in the net. The goal: Advertising should be switched precisely
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But even if Google’s plans seem like a little technology advancement, they were generally the alarm bells sound. Privacy advocates and marketing companies are now speculating where it could go. The reason is obvious: Google dominates our lives online. The company operates the most popular Chrome browser and, with the most widely used mobile operating system Android. For e-mails and search Google holds a dominant position.
Google also sells more online ads than its competitors. The company has secured according to market research firm eMarketer, about a third of the $ 117 billion global cake for large digital displays in the network.
The term anonymous identification program most users will come like a contradiction in itself. “It identifies the time, works as a super cookie” Jeff Chester, head of the Center for Digital Democracy annoyed. “Google will find out more information about users, wherever they are, across platforms -.., And with a number so that we can be identified around the clock”
identification program can discriminate
marketing strategists were singing the praises of anonymity to disguise, would like very much interfered with their privacy, says Professor Joseph Turow of the University of Pennsylvania. Whether a company knows the names of the users, make no difference, adds the professor. The identification program they’ll still selling opportunities for targeted or “discriminatory” even. This could happen when a high price for advertising is required on an anonymous profile that is particularly promising.
trade publication Advertising Age warns his readers against Google’s new system. You would then have to submit to any conditions that dictate Google. This applies, for example, how the technology and the information gained by it can be used. In this scenario, Google Maps rises from the largest players at the poker table to the owner of the entire casino. The advertisers could then only play with the chips from Google.
What about other platforms?
the original news about Google’s intentions was not the talk of the use of identification programs across multiple platforms – such as smartphones and desktops. Google had also not issued as a target.
In fact, little is known about the company’s plans. It also remains unclear if and how other companies have access to the new identification program. The Internet company may only want to repeat what has already been achieved with the Apple iPhone: Cookies are not going well on mobile devices, therefore, the Group uses an individual identification program sending Discuss feedback to editors copy short URL sz.de/1.1783108 http://sz.de/1.1783108 copy short URL
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But there are also good reasons to suppose otherwise. The advertising industry has currently two major problems. First, cookies are very controversial because they penetrate heavily in privacy. They also do not work well on the increasingly popular smartphones. They are also unreliable and can be blocked on other devices. The industry is desperately looking for a better mousetrap.
The sticking point for the advertising industry is the identification across multiple devices. You want to tailor their ads – regardless of whether the users are just sitting on the smartphone, tablet PC, laptop or desktop computer
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appreciate Market researcher Forrester Research found that by 2013 half of all adult Internet users will be constantly connected. That is, they have at least three networked devices and go several times a day from various locations on the Internet. In 2011 the number was still at 38 percent.
Google currently does not even appear as a defender of privacy. This also applies to its own Chrome browser. The competitor Apple’s Safari blocks third-party cookies. The Explorer from Microsoft sends a message to the advertiser that they are not in the network, please follow the user. The Firefox browser from Mozilla may soon have to offer a complete barrier option. Google has no tolerance here. In its Chrome browser, the company is pushing against appropriate measures. After all, the user can change its configuration and thus block cookies.
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slim design Google puts its logo flat Rudolf Diesel: 100 Death of emergency engineer - Spiegel Online
His invention was long considered noisy, smelly and lame. But the high-compression internal combustion engine by Rudolf Diesel has long been driving the world economy. 100 years ago died one of the greatest engineers of the late 19th Century. By Fabian Hoberg
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Ironically, on a steamboat, Rudolf Diesel disappears from this world. The steam engine, the drive, wants to defeat the diesel – and it also creates. On 29 September 1913 Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel goes on a ride on the mail steamer “Dresden” overboard. He’s on his way through the English Channel to a meeting of the Consolidated Diesel Manufacturing Ltd.. in London, but never gets there on. His body was found three days later in the North Sea, the precise circumstances are never clarified. But his idea lives on -. Still
Rudolf Diesel is one of those pioneers, the early 19th Century to redefine mobility with technically brilliant ideas. The 18 Born in Paris in March 1858 Diesel spent his childhood in France and discovered his passion for art early on. He draws and constructed with twelve years he receives an award at the Société Pour L’Instruction Elémentaire. However, after the outbreak of the Franco-German war he must leave France with his family. It first goes into exile in England, 1870, he travels alone to Augsburg, to the birthplace of his father.
Diesel wants to quench his thirst for knowledge and first goes to the Royal County Vocational School, where his uncle is a professor. At 14, he wrote in a letter to his parents: “My greatest wish is to become a mechanic.” The young man is not only ambitious, but also very intelligent: In 1872, he finished as the best business schools and changes to the engineering school. There he again in 1875 for Best from parallel, he enrolled to study at the University of Technology (Polytechnic) in Munich. 1880 ended the engineer at the age of 22 years, his studies with the best exam for the Polytechnic.a day do you like? You can become a fan on Facebook.
1878 is still an immature thought that the young engineer formulated during a lecture by Carl at Linde in his notebook: “Can you construct steam engines so that perform the complete cycle, without being too complicated” Diesel can, even if it should take a few more years. Dream of a strong machine
His first job takes him back to his native city of Paris. In the linden between ice factory in 1881 he was appointed director. But just to run the business, it is apparently too monotonous. He tinkers and applies for a patent in the same year for the production of clear ice in bottles.
linden appreciates the expertise of the young designer. After nine years in France Diesel enters the Linde Executive Board to Berlin. He is now responsible for market and cold storage – and can not stop inventing. His vision is for an efficient machine that is strong enough to power locomotives and ships. Instead of cold, he delves more and more into heat machines. The 1876 four-stroke engine developed thrilled him, but his efficiency is toolow. For stationary machinery hovering before him a higher efficiency. He plans, expects and tinkering diligently before he introduces his engine. In February 1892, he reported the Imperial Patent Office in Berlin a “new, rational heat engine” in order to replace the inefficient steam engine. Matter of the patent is the ‘working methods and the type of construction for internal combustion engines. ” A month later, he wants his machine at the Maschinenfabrik Augsburg (now MAN) can produce, at the time one of the largest steam engines manufacturer. He first gets a rebuff, as the senior chief engineer keeps the air compression pressure for much too high. pressure, pressure, pressure
Because comes in comparison to the four-stroke engine without the diesel from spark plug. In the cylinder, the air is compressed so strongly that they ignite the injected fuel, petroleum initially it is due to heat itself. Due to the much higher compression ratio than the petrol engine, the efficiency is higher and the engine more fuel efficient.
In February 1893, the German Rudolf Diesel receives patent number 67207th Only a few months later, he improved his invention and obtains a patent for an “internal combustion engine with variable duration which takes place under varying pressure fuel introduction.” Thus, his theoretical concept can be implemented in practice but, diesel needed financial support. Which he found in Heinrich von Buz, director general of Maschinenfabrik Augsburg. Diesel leaves Linde and developed at the Maschinenfabrik his engine. In April, the engineer starts with the experimental setup, in February 1894, the stationary engine running for the first time at idle. It would take another three years to the diesel engine is ready. The cylinder has an output of 18 hp and an efficiency of 26.2 percent. A sensation – then steam engines are only around ten percent efficiency. The engine can still be seen at the Deutsches Museum in Munich today. Mysterious Death on the High SeasThe energy-saving drive will now soon replace the steam engine. 1895, the first diesel engines are supplied by the licensee Maschinenfabrik Augsburg. The invention is more and more recognition: in 1900 the drive receives at the World Exhibition in Paris, the Grand Prix award. From 1903 the first ships using diesel engine from the stack. 1904 produced the first diesel-fired power plant in Kiev six MAN diesel engines with 1,600 hp power. In 1924 the first truck with a diesel engine in series. The Citroën Rosalie in 1933 the first car with a diesel engine, but is not produced as a production vehicle. In 1936 the German diesel models Mercedes-Benz 260 D and Hanomag presented record.
As an inventor, he seems to be on target. But patent litigation and the bankruptcy of his company founded in 1898, diesel engine factory Augsburg make it crumbly. As awesome as he is an inventor and engineer, he is so clumsy as a businessman. Although he earned the meantime millions and lives lordly in Munich. Land speculation unfavorable licensing agreements and false friends but gnaw on account and at the ego. His mysterious death at just 55 years points to suicide, but evidence does not exist. Shortly before his death, Rudolf Diesel is also at odds with the spirit of his work. To his son Eugen, he says: “It’s nice to be designed and invent, like an artist designed and invents But if the whole thing had a purpose, whether people have become more happier, I can not today. to decide. “
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As a “wake up call” and “alarm” call politicians and scientists the new IPCC report on climate change. Environmentalists see the next federal government has an obligation to do more against global warming. Angela Merkel has already responded.
EU Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard sees the report of the IPCC as a wake-up call. “If your doctor is sure that 95 percent that you are suffering from a serious illness, would you look immediately after a treatment.” It would not matter whether you believe in climate change or not. “It’s about whether you stick to the science or not,” Hedegaard said in a statement released in Brussels. With the number of them was related to the security experts have stated that the IPCC for their assumptions.
“On the day on which all scientists warn you with one hundred percent certainty about climate change, it will be too late.” Europe will continue to lead the fight against climate change, Hedegaard assured. By the end of the year, the EU Commission will make further proposals for climate protection and energy saving targets for the year 2030. “Europe will continue to demand more action from all polluters,” she said.
According to the latest report of the IPCC, sea level will rise much faster than previously thought. At worst, it increases up to the end of this century by 82 centimeters. And even if the climate would be significantly strengthened, there were at least 26 centimeters. The temperatures on earth could – starting from the period 1986 to 2005 – until the end of this century rise by 0.3 to 4.8 degrees
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the head of the UN climate secretariat Christiana Figueres, described the IPCC report as a “wake up call for the world.” The report shows that there is more clarity about a human-generated climate change than ever before. “Past efforts to limit global warming was not enough.”
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from the perspective of the Kiel researcher Mojib Latif is the report “a very clear signal to the world.” “There is a great need for political action to finally agree on the climate conferences,” the scientist from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research after a conference in Hamburg said. Finally, the international community had already geenigt to limit global warming to two degrees. The World Climate Report shows that this is theoretically still possible with dedicated global climate.
“We must move away from the harmful burning of coal and oil,” says Greenpeace climate expert Karsten Smid in Hamburg. But some countries, such as Russia, would do as if it were a second world. A reduction in carbon dioxide emissions also calls for the German Nature Conservation (DNR) by the new federal government. Angela Merkel (CDU) had to be air-Chancellor again, said DNR President Hartmut Vogt man.
“The report will drive the Chancellor”
The Chancellor government spokesman Steffen Seibert According responded. The report will be “the Chancellor of course – as in the past – to drive, to make an ambitious climate policy,” Seibert said in Berlin. “This is a central concern of the Federal Chancellor and the Federal Government, and that it will remain so.”
Angela Merkel had played as Federal Minister for the Environment 1997, a major role in the development of the Kyoto Protocol, with the most UN member states committed themselves to the goal of protecting the climate. Even as Chancellor, she was a driving force in the agreement that global warming should not exceed two degrees. Last year, the carbon dioxide emissions in Germany is, however, still increased by about two percent.
Federal Environment Minister Peter Altmaier (CDU), told a press conference in Berlin, the new world climate report is a call for a determined political action. The goal to limit global warming to two degrees is to achieve only with the right decisions. Even in a coalition agreement is likely to play an important role
in the issue. “We must continue to set ambitious national climate change targets.” At the same time everything must be done to reach a binding international agreement at the climate summit in 2015 in Paris. sending Discuss feedback to editors short URL copy sz.de/1.1782161 http://sz.de/1.1782161 copy short URL
Hubert Weiger, chairman of the Federation for Environment and Nature Conservation Germany (BUND), criticized the last government had woefully neglected climate change. A new federal government would do everything to make the European Community as a whole on the international stage again playing a pioneering role in climate protection. German Chancellor Angela Merkel had set the climate center of its policies again.
“to avoid extreme weather, floods, droughts, famines and large flows of refugees, especially the industrialized countries must act immediately. Longer Wait for all is very, very expensive” Weigert said. “If the most responsible for climate change, industrialized countries and major emerging economies now also go on as before, they put the lives of millions of people at risk.”
“This is bad news for the planet,” said Sven Harmeling, coordinator of climate policy at Care International, the IPCC report. For the poorest of the poor climate change is a long bitter reality, although they would contribute the least to it, Harmeling said. Care must apply in its poverty reduction programs have long methods that prepare people for the already significant impact of climate change: “In Niger, farmers have to find new sources of income, for the rearing of cattle is due to increased and prolonged droughts impossible,” said Harmeling. And Peru could no longer count on seasonal glacial water for farming communities in the highlands of the Andes. Also there were the bitter consequences of hunger and poverty.
Togetherwarn the evangelical relief organization Bread for the World and German watch from the devastating consequences of climate change for both million coastal residents as well as for food security. “Here is a practical large-scale experiment with the oceans and its creatures instead,” said Christoph Bals from German Watch.
“If the sea level rises by one meter would be affected in Bangladesh alone as one of the poorest countries in more than 30 million people affected by flooding. Around the world, hundreds of millions of people at risk,” said Sabine Minninger, climate expert from Bread for the world.
would be added an immense and possibly much more immediate threat to the world food by the acidification of the oceans, because fish is one of the main sources of animal protein in developing countries.
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Class action suit approved: Keyword search in Gmail may be illegal - ZDNet.de
U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh has a class action lawsuit against Google approved, subject to the violations of wiretapping laws by the automatic scanning of email content. She pointed to its decision, the objection Google’s back, which had requested a dismissal of the action.
Google argued that, users would have approved this procedure with the accepted terms of use. The service they received in return an e-mail provider, belongs to the normal business running even browsing, e-mails for keywords. Other e-mail subscribers, sent the messages to Gmail users, the practice would be known to scan e-mails to filter out spam and deliver targeted ads – hence its indirect agreement is presupposed
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“Google’s alleged eavesdropping of e-mail content is primarily used to create user profiles and deliver targeted advertising – and both have nothing to do with the transmission of e-mails,” the judge ruled. Google’s terms and conditions and privacy policies not disclosed clearly to the scanning of e-mail content with the intention to show you tailor your ads so determined according to the interests of users. The implied consent of non-Gmail users called it a “far-fetched theory.”
“The decision means that wiretapping laws apply to national as well as at the federal level on the Internet,” said Jon Simpson of the consumer advocacy group Consumer Watchdog, referring to laws that were originally created for telephone communication. “It is a huge victory for privacy online. Companies like Google can not easily do with our data and
e-mails, what they want. “
“We are disappointed with this decision and think about our other options to,” said a Google spokesman. “The automatic scanning allowed us to offer the Gmail users more security and spam protection as well as great features like Priority Inbox.”
Yahoo will track the progress of a class action carefully, as it also scans e-mails to its over 300 million users to deliver targeted advertising can. The competing platform Outlook.com however refrained as Microsoft said in a policy campaign. But Microsoft is conducting scans of email content to combat spam and other unwanted activities. In addition, it uses each subject, award given by the user personal information and its Web search to deliver similar to Google and Yahoo tailor listings. 
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Rising levels: Super levees to protect coasts of Germany - Spiegel Online
Husum / Hanover – The warning from the experts was still fairly moderate: In the presented on Friday summary of the new UN world climate report says that global sea level could rise by an average of 26-81 inches by the end of the century. That would be – because the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica are taken into account for the first time – a little more than predicted in the last report of 2007
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However, the values ??would still be far more extreme scenarios, which also hold an increase of 1.20 or even 1.50 meters in this century is possible. And then even more clearly. “Sea level rise will not stop in 2100, this is a long term issue,” warned IPCC author John Church of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Australia.
, the Chinese Qin Dahe, one of the co-chairs of the IPCC “While heating the oceans and melting glaciers and ice sheets, global sea level will continue to rise, but faster than we have seen in the last 40 years” (IPCC). “The IPCC report allows for this possibility of a higher rise, there is no explicit limit,” said Anders Levermann from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, lead author of the IPCC report, see sea level.
“dikes in good to very good condition”coast guards such statements are difficult. You must decide how strong the levees must be raised exactly – and each additional centimeter costs millions. At least, so says the experts for this winter, are Germany’s coastal winter. The dikes along the North and Baltic Sea would the winter storms and storm surges probably defy the “Blanker Hans” would stay out.
“In general, were the levees in recent years, in good to very good condition,” the director of the State Office of Coastal Protection and Sea National Park Schleswig-Holstein, John Oelerich said. Ensure that this remains so in future, currently some old dikes are replaced by super levees in the country. And Lower Saxony and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania equip themselves against the threat from the sea.
The rise of the sea level was in the past hundred years to 20 centimeters. The know the coast guards of the old records water levels. But as I said: The forecast for the next one hundred years are extremely difficult. So act like? Schleswig-Holstein dike guards have meanwhile opted for a “Climate Award” of 50centimeters. This applies uniformly to all land protection dikes along the North and Baltic Sea, and on the Elbe Estuary.
Overall still 93 km dike sections must be reinforced in Schleswig-Holstein, is defined as in the Coastal Protection Master Plan of 2012. Kiel has earmarked a total of EUR 66.8 million for coastal protection this year. As large measures were beyond the dike reinforcements in Büsum and on North beach and sand nourishments of Sylt Sylt regular at.
researcher calls “protection against 1.20 or 1.50 meters”The other northerners toil. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern invested, according to the Ministry of Environment about 18.5 million euros a year to get the total of 2000 kilometers of coastline and strengthened. There is considerable need for action, said Environment Minister Till Backhaus (SPD). More than 1000 kilometers of coastline are considered potentially at risk from flooding. 2020 protection measures totaling 120 million euros are planned, it said.
Lower Saxony are the conservation projects largely in the plan, it said by the Lower Saxony Water Management, Coastal Defence and Nature Conservation Agency (NLWKN). In 2013 this 72 million euro were provided. Only 12 million euros should be installed for the protection of offshore East Frisian Islands. Almost 50 million euros were meant for the main dike associations with emphasis on Jade Bay and on the lower Weser.
long term, however, are likely to significantly increase investments necessary. “When you do not go out of dyke construction of a flood probability of 33 percent a century and a corresponding risk flooding the city,” says researcher Lever man. Therefore we build the levees according to a limit – and I need it “protects against 1.20 or 1.50 meter sea level rise.” The rich then until the year 2100.
Federal Environment Minister Peter Altmaier (CDU) wants to ensure that the climate change negotiations at the forthcoming coalition is a prominent theme claims to be. “I assume that the climate in the upcoming government education plays an important role and that we will anchor a new chapter in the coalition agreement, in which we discuss the major challenges,” Altmaier said on Friday.
The need for a change of course Altmaier but not seen. The report “confirms the previous policy of the Federal Government and the governments of its predecessors,” the CDU politician said. Germany had in the past “done everything to an international pioneer” to be on climate change.
Monkey handle Windows: Bill Gates: "Ctrl + Alt + Del" was a mistake - ABC Online
Every PC user knows the key combination Ctrl + Alt + Del: It serves as a front door to a Windows computer, and the first-aid action when a program crashes. But the key combination accidentally came in handy about.
The Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates unveiled at a fundraising event at Harvard University in the U.S.. “It was a mistake,” Gates said.
“We could have a single button, but the guy who designed the IBM keyboard, wanted to give us no separate button,” said the former Microsoft boss.
The key combination that is denominated in US keyboards Ctrl + Alt + Del, was from the beginning part of the Microsoft Windows operating system. A video of the speech from the weekend was launched on Thursday
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Bad news from the IPCC: Blue planet is still blue - n-tv.de NEWS
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A shot by NASA from 2006 (Photo: AP). Friday 27 September 2013
Two key statements, the report of the IPCC, both are not really new. And that is the disturbing message of the report.
The sea level is rising faster than previously thought. This is a key message of the fifth World Climate Report, which the IPCC presented this Friday in Stockholm.
The biggest climate change, the sea level increased according to the report by the end of this century, at least 26 centimeters. In the worst case, there are 82 centimeters. “While heating the oceans and melting glaciers and ice sheets, global sea level will continue to rise, but faster than we have seen in the last 40 years,” said one of the co-chairs of the relevant Working Group 1, the Chinese climate scientists Qin Dahe .
The second key message that the international community is threatening their goal of limiting global warming to two degrees to clear miss. The temperatures on earth could by 2100 – depending on the scenario – increase by 1.5 to 4 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial era. 0.8 degrees which are already achieved. If the temperature increases by more than two degrees above pre-industrial era scientists fear uncontrollable environmental consequences.
“climate chancellor Angela Merkel must be again,” the president of the German Nature and Environment, Hartmut Vogt man said, in a first reaction to the report. In November, the annual World Climate Conference will take place in Warsaw. It is already the thirteenth. With probability bordering on certainty, it is also there be no real breakthrough.
Kiribati prepares for the fall before
Only on Wednesday, the President of Kiribati, Anote Tong, strongly warned against the destruction of his Pacific island nation. “Sea level rise threatens the survival of our people,” Tong said before the UN General Assembly in New York.
“What we are currently experiencing on the low-lying atolls, is just a warning of what we will experience. Nobody will be spared. We can not continue to abuse our planet.” The fight against climate change will not currently occurring committed enough, so Tong. “We are disastrously off course.”
His country stronglyneed the help of the international community to deal with the consequences of climate change and to prepare the people of Kiribati on his uncertain future, Tong said. For example, his government was already in further developing the professional skills of the inhabitants of Kiribati. “We want them to have the opportunity to emigrate with dignity.”
“Climate skeptics lose a battle”
that climate change is man-made, doubt only hard science deniers. The IPCC is itself than in its previous report in 2007 that man has in his new report, more secure, the main responsibility for global warming. The UN body had not provided the chance in the fourth assessment report, 90 percent, he now described the theory as “extremely likely.” – A term that describes a probability of 95 percent
the final of the World Climate Report had negotiated government officials and researchers since Monday. It is traditionally a matter mitigate certain statements or to prevent such a slowdown. The German government officials were reportedly traveled, for example, with the mission to Stockholm, to prevent the reporting of a “pause” in global warming is the question.
fact, a slowdown in the global warming observed – that is indisputable. The so-called climate skeptics, behind which lobby groups are not uncommon, although this slowdown take this opportunity to announce the end of climate change. The arguments are always the same: Carbon dioxide is good for the vegetation and have greater influence no influence on the climate, the temperature of the sun will
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of science are those positions at most a marginal phenomenon. On now published the first part of the new world climate report 259 lead authors have been working for four years, supported by hundreds of other researchers. According to the UN climate chief Christiana Figueres, the new climate report is a “wake up call”. The skeptics who deny a climate change would “just lose a battle,” said the head of the UN Climate Secretariat.
warming does not run straight
“Climate change does not take a break,” said Guy Brasseur, one of the main authors of the last report
and director of the Climate Service Center in Hamburg. The earth by greenhouse gases continue to take a lot of energy from the sun. “Only they warmed currently just not so much the layers of air above the ground, but the oceans.”
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any case, the increase in the air temperature does not run straight, but is subject to fluctuations: If only the curve of the last 15 years, look at them, will think that the global temperature decrease. Over the last 100 years, however, it is clear that global warming is increasing steadily.
climate calculations, therefore, consider changes in 30 years, and not short-term fluctuations, says Brasseur. “I think in the last report, we have not made such phenomena clearly. This was a mistake by the science,” the researcher says.
Many questions are still open
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the melting ice of glaciers and Poland take on heat, and the sun shine in its own cycle. Both, however, can not explain the current downturn in air temperature rise, says Brasseur.
climate scientists concede quite that many questions are still open. “The big question mark is mainly the oceans, but also the clouds and dust particles in the atmosphere,” says climate researcher Ulrich Cubasch, a professor at the Free University of Berlin and one of the two main authors of the introduction of the new Climate Report.
The general direction of future global warming but is confirmed in any case. Today there are more detailed knowledge, so that the new report would break down global warming regions on stronger than the last. “We are constantly making new projections taking into account new data, especially from new ocean probes and satellites,” said Cubasch. “That then the answers of today are not the same as 20 years ago is clear, otherwise we would have to save the work ourselves.”
The full report appears on this Monday. Parts 2 and 3 of 5 World Climate Report deal with the effects of climate change and policy options to slow him down. They will be presented in spring 2014 in Japan and Berlin.
Source: n-tv.de
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