Wie oft darf bei einem kostenfreien Konto Geld abgehoben werden? Number26 hat Kriterien veröffentlicht, mit denen mehr Transparenz hergestellt werden soll. Zuvor war zahlreichen Nutzern gekündigt worden. (Number26, Internet) Bitch Planet is a dark, futuristic satire about women in prison
A dystopian comic about women sent to jail on another planet.
Image Comics
The covers of each comic are reminiscent of pulp exploitation movies of the 1960s.
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With its deliberately shocking name and over-the-top imagery of scantily clad women fighting in prison, Bitch Planet looks like the comic book version of a 1960s exploitation movie. If you've ever watched Russ Meyer's classic flick Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, you know what I'm talking about. But this comic book, written by Kelly Sue DeConnick and drawn by Valentine De Landro (the two also co-created the concept), manages to do something unexpected. Somehow, by depicting sensationalized violence and extreme future scenarios, DeConnick and De Landro manage to tell a surprisingly subtle story about the dangers of political conformity.
Image Comics recently published the first Bitch Planet collection, Extraordinary Machine, which delivers a fairly complete arc while still leaving us on a good cliffhanger. The tale begins with a seriously creepy look at Bitch Planet, the isolated planet where "non-compliant" women are sent to "live out [their] lives in penitence and service." The prisoners are all tattooed with NC, for non-compliant, which has already become a popular geek tattoo in the real world. Mostly, the prison is run remotely from Earth by a team of wise cracking guys who deploy giant holographic women to order the inmates around, and punish them with stints in solitary where the wall screens are filled with mocking faces that tell the mostly innocent women how guilty and evil they are. Still, there are a few guards around to beat the crap out of anyone who dares to question how tight their prison garb is—and to murder some of the women for mysterious reasons. De Landro's art is both satirical and horrifically disturbing, and he's brilliant at including little details like ads or signs in the panel backgrounds that show us what this future Earth is like.
It's made of people
Slowly we realize that all this insanity is happening because Earth has fallen under the power of an authoritarian group known as the Council of Fathers, who rule with an iron fist but pretend to be kindly, priest-like elders. To please the Fathers, the Bitch Planet warden devises a scheme to enter a team of female prisoners into the "Megaton," a brutal rugby-like game that has become Earth's most popular sporting event. Indeed, the Council of Fathers requires all men to watch Megaton, because they believe this bloody, dangerous sport helps "exorcise" men's warlike urges so they can form peaceful political coalitions. Except, of course, the Fathers' rule is hardly peaceful. There are rigid economic divisions between men, and there are several scenes where we see powerful men humiliating and abusing their male underlings. Women, as you might guess, have no rights at all in this future. They are forced to become wives and mothers, or eke out a perilous existence on an economic ladder where they can only ascend a few rungs from the bottom.
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Nvidia unveils the GTX 1060: Faster than a GTX 980 for $250
Hot on the heels of AMD’s mainstream RX 480, you can buy the GTX 1060 on July 19.
The GTX 1060, Founders Edition. It looks much like the Founders Edition GTX 1070 and 1080, but it's a bit shorter.
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Nvidia has unveiled the GTX 1060, the most affordable member of its Pascal-based graphics card lineup yet. Starting at $250 (UK price TBC, but likely £220), Nvidia claims the GTX 1060 is faster than a GTX 980—a card that costs upwards of $400 (£380)—and features a power-sipping TDP of just 120W. It'll be released worldwide on July 19.
While the full technical details behind the GTX 1060 aren't available just yet, Nvidia has revealed that the card is based on a new GP106 chip, not a binned version of the the GP104 chip used in the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070. The GTX 1060 sports 1280 CUDA cores, 6GB of GDDR5 memory running at 8GHz (only a 6GB version will be available), and a boost clock of 1.7GHz that Nvidia claims is easily overclocked to 2GHz and beyond. Power supply is via a single 6-pin connector.
Like the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070, the GTX 1060 will be available from manufacturers like Asus, Zotac, and Gigabyte, as well as directly from Nvidia in Founders Edition form at a higher $299 (~£260) price. The extra $50 buys a dual-FET power supply, as well as a similar blower-style cooler to the more expensive Pascal cards, albeit one made out of plastic rather than metal.
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Geforce GTX 1060: Schneller, sparsamer und kaum teurer als die RX 480
Die dritte Pascal-Grafikkarte nutzt einen kleineren Chip: Nvidias neue Geforce GTX 1060 basiert auf dem GP106. Trotz weniger Shader-Einheiten und schmalerem Speicherinterface soll sie AMDs Radeon RX 480 schlagen und dabei weniger Energie benötigen. (Nvidia Pascal, Grafikhardware)
Die dritte Pascal-Grafikkarte nutzt einen kleineren Chip: Nvidias neue Geforce GTX 1060 basiert auf dem GP106. Trotz weniger Shader-Einheiten und schmalerem Speicherinterface soll sie AMDs Radeon RX 480 schlagen und dabei weniger Energie benötigen. (Nvidia Pascal, Grafikhardware) Kabellose Ohrhörer: Fireflies erreichen Finanzierungsziel in Rekordzeit
Die günstigen kabellosen Ohrhörer Fireflies kommen auf den Markt. In weniger als einem halben Tag wurde das Finanzierungsziel erreicht. Noch gibt es die Fireflies zum Vorzugspreis von weniger als 100 US-Dollar, die Ohrhörer haben allerdings nur eine kurze Akkulaufzeit. (Rear- and side-view mirrors could become a thing of the past in Japan
Japan’s transport ministry approved a futuristic design that the world may follow.
Those aren't side-view mirrors, those are side-view cameras.
Japan’s transportation ministry has approved mirrorless cars to drive on its roads, according to The Japan Times and Automotive News. The country green-lit the new policy after a United Nations’ working group on international auto standards said cameras could replace mirrors on cars if the camera systems met certain standards.
According to The Japan Times, “At first, monitors and the cameras must be positioned in the same place as current rear-view and side-view mirrors and offer the same views.” Transportation Ministry official Maseru Miyashita told the paper, “Getting used to (monitors instead of mirrors) is the main factor to ensure drivers’ safety.”
Mirrorless cars substitute analog rear- and side-view mirrors for cameras and screens. Advocates say that dropping side-view mirrors can make a car more aerodynamic and cameras can have a wider field of vision than a mirror. On the other hand, a mirror is a simple thing, and a camera and screen setup is complex, and, by nature, one is easier to fix than the other. In addition, as Automotive News points out, some in the auto industry have cautioned that although a rear-view camera can go a long way in eliminating blind spots, some drivers rely on the rear pillars in a car to gauge exactly where an object coming up behind the car is.
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Context Graph: Mozilla arbeitet an eigenem Vorschlagssystem
Der Firefox-Browser soll künftig einen intelligenten Vorwärtsknopf bekommen. Möglich machen soll das ein besseres Verständnis der Nutzeraktivitäten im Browser. Dadurch sollen interessante Seiten im Web vorgeschlagen werden. (Antivirus: Avast kauft AVG für 1,3 Milliarden US-Dollar
Der Cybersecurity-Markt konsolidiert sich weiter. Avast hat den Antivirenhersteller AVG gekauft. Die Unternehmen wollen gemeinsam besonders in den Bereichen Smartphones und Internet der Dinge wachsen. (Security, Smartphone)
Der Cybersecurity-Markt konsolidiert sich weiter. Avast hat den Antivirenhersteller AVG gekauft. Die Unternehmen wollen gemeinsam besonders in den Bereichen Smartphones und Internet der Dinge wachsen. (Security, Smartphone) UK ISPs Fail to Overturn Site Blocking Order
In 2014, the High Court ordered Sky, TalkTalk, BT, Virgin Media and EE to block websites dealing in counterfeit luxury products. The ISPs appealed the case on a number of grounds, including that the court had no power to order the injunctions. That appeal has now failed.
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Site blocking in the UK has become a hot topic after the world’s leading entertainment companies successfully applied for injunctions against many hundreds of ‘pirate’ sites.
In response, Compagnie Financière Richemont S.A., which owns several well-known luxury brands including Cartier and Mont Blanc, decided to get in on the action.
In 2014, Richemont wrote to the UK’s leading ISPs – Sky, TalkTalk, BT, Virgin Media, EE and Telefonica/O2 – with a request to block several sites offering counterfeit products. In common with earlier cases involving The Pirate Bay and KickassTorrents, the ISPs refused and the case went to court.
In October 2014, the High Court ruled in favor of Richemont, stating that counterfeit product sites must be blocked in the same manner as torrent and streaming portals.
Despite this being a trademark case, the judge found that he had jurisdiction to order an injunction and that the ISPs should pay for any blockades to be implemented.
In a statement, a Richemont spokesperson told TorrentFreak that the decision was a positive step. However, the matter was not over. While the ISPs seemed happy to accept the High Court’s decision in respect of ‘pirate’ site blockades, they decided to contest the luxury brand injunction.
In their appeal, the ISPs complained that they are innocent parties and that the Court had no jurisdiction to hand down a blocking order. However, even in the event that it did have jurisdiction, the ISPs said that certain thresholds required for an injunction had not been met.
Continuing, the ISPs said that the judge had failed to apply the correct principles in deciding whether or not to hand down an order, and that the orders made were disproportionate. Finally, the judge should not have ordered the ISPs to foot the bill for blocking the infringing sites.
This week the Court of Appeal handed down its long awaited decision and it’s almost completely good news for the brand owners.
Dismissing the ISPs’ appeal, the Court said that High Court did indeed have the power to issue the blocking injunctions and that all the legal thresholds for doing so had been met.
“Each of the target websites was directed to consumers in the United Kingdom and the operators of those sites were advertising and offering for sale counterfeits of the goods of one of the named claimants,” Justice Briggs wrote.
“The [High Court] judge was entitled to make an order to try to prevent this happening for the third sentence of Article 11 of the Enforcement Directive and Article 8(3) of the Information Society Directive are concerned not only with measures aimed at bringing infringements of intellectual property rights to an end but also with measures aimed at preventing them.”
Interestingly, on the issue of who would pay for the site-blocking to be carried out, the Court of Appeal had some sympathy for the ISPs
“In my judgment the cost burden attributable to the implementation of a particular blocking order should fall upon the rightsholder making the application for it,” Justice Briggs wrote.
“In circumstances where valuable intangible rights of this kind need to be protected from abuse by others, I regard it as a natural incident of a business which consists of, or includes, the exploitation of such rights, to incur cost in their protection, to the extent that it cannot be reimbursed by appropriate orders against wrongdoers.”
But that doesn’t mean that the ISPs are completely off the hook. Justice Briggs said that while the ISPs wouldn’t have to pay the costs associated with implementing a blocking order, they would still have to foot the bill for “designing and installing the software with which to do so whenever ordered.”
Richemont lawyer Simon Baggs welcomed the decision.
“The court has recognized that often the best way for online unlawful activity to be stopped is for intermediaries such as ISPs to cut the Internet lifeblood that the websites need to trade,” Baggs said.
“Site blocking is a developing area in many jurisdictions globally and this judgment should further enable the growth of this important remedy.”
The ISPs still have the possibility of taking their case to the Supreme Court but no announcement has yet been made.
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Die erste Ransomware: Der Virus des wunderlichen Dr. Popp
Ein bärtiger Mann mit Lockenwicklern, ein Trojaner auf 5,25-Zoll-Disketten und ein Forschungszentrum, das vor Schreck alle Dateien löscht: Schon bevor im Jahr 2016 Krankenhäuser verschlüsselt wurden, waren Erpressungstrojaner in der Medizin ein Thema. Hinweis: Um sich diesen Artikel vorlesen zu lassen, klicken Sie auf den Player im Artikel. (Ransomware, Virus)
Ein bärtiger Mann mit Lockenwicklern, ein Trojaner auf 5,25-Zoll-Disketten und ein Forschungszentrum, das vor Schreck alle Dateien löscht: Schon bevor im Jahr 2016 Krankenhäuser verschlüsselt wurden, waren Erpressungstrojaner in der Medizin ein Thema. Hinweis: Um sich diesen Artikel vorlesen zu lassen, klicken Sie auf den Player im Artikel. (Ransomware, Virus)
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