Red Bull one-two in 

Sao Paulo, Webber wins

 

World champion Sebastian Vettel has made dozens of victories in Formula 1 is not completely full. But finishing second behind Mark Webber gave it to the season finale in Sao Paulo on Sunday, the third Red Bull one-two victory of the season after Turkey and Belgium. While it was the only win of the season for Webber, the Briton Jenson Button chose the McLaren finished third in the race for vice-world champion.

Vettel was in his Formula-1-Record of the 15th Pole position in the 71 laps at the Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace gone, caught even the best start. But after about 14 laps of the 24-year-old complained two weeks after his only season loss in Abu Dhabi on transmission problems with his car. Vettel Red Bull had by pit radio repeatedly pointed out to watch when switching.

Just before half-time of the race on lap 30 Webber went on the last double-world champion in history, but past that. Thus, the positions at the top of the Grand Prix were purchased from Brazil. Webber drove a total of nearly 17 seconds ahead of his seventh career victory, his second in Brazil after 2009 and the first since the first in Hungary August 2010, contrary to. Vettel still cheered: "This will be a year to which they always look back and be proud of. I would not have done it alone. "

As on the previous day's qualifying was announced from the precipitation with which the pilots feared aquaplaning on this course has been spared. Vettel did so without additional turbulence in the record of 392 meters-point mark, Button follows with respect to the distance of 122 points. Webber third as Alonso has 258 points to its name, 257 The British triple-season champion Lewis Hamilton in the McLaren was fifth (227), the Abu Dhabi winning difference in lap time from 47th

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Jetman Flying Alongside Fighter Jets Amazing Stunt Over Alps

 

Amazing pictures from Switzerland stunt show where "jetman" or "Jet Man" Yves Rossy gave this incredible flying display, using a tailor-made jet pack.

The aviation enthusiast leapt from a helicopter and performed a series of aerial acrobatics above the Alps. He then joined two jet planes in a synchronized flight.

To synchronize their flight paths the jets reduced their speed to 220 kilometers per hour (137 miles per hour), which put their engines at a point close to stalling.

Rossy's previous aerial feats include flying the English Channel and looping the loop around a hot-air balloon.

 

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World’s first pee-controlled video game opens in London bar

 

A bar in London has become the first in the world to offer pee-controlled video games in its bathroom. Taking a leak will never be the same again. 

In most pubs and bars, going for a pee involves just that – emptying your bladder, washing your hands and returning to your table. However, take a pee in The Exhibit bar in south London and you’ll have an altogether different experience.

You see, The Exhibit has taken it upon itself to install in its men’s bathroom a number of pee-controlled video games; games with carefully thought up names such as Clever Dick and On The Piste. The system is thought to be the first of its kind in the world, and besides making a trip to the bathroom more entertaining, it will also be an opportunity for advertisers to promote their products.

Developed by UK-based Captive Media, the high-tech urinals come with 12-inch LCD screens fitted just above them. Ads play on the screens until a punter approaches the urinal. Detecting that the punter is in position and ready to pee, the system then switches into gaming mode.

“Sophisticated algorithms then allow the user to do something simple, but VERY engaging – controlling the system just by aiming their stream left or right!” the blurb says on Captive Media’s website. So with the skiing game, you’re able to navigate the course with some subtle but deft movements. How well you do at the game is entirely in your hands, so to speak.

The pee-controlled urinals are the brainchild of Gordon MacSween, a man who is effectively paid too pee. “We tend to drink a lot of water so that we can test the product more often,” he stated.

MacSween said that when the system was trialed at a bar in Cambridge recently, a couple of behavioral changes among the peeing public were noted. “There has been less mess, which we sort of expected because we designed the game so you’re not splashing about, and less vandalism,” he explained.

“When we put it in, people thought it’d be ripped off the wall within a week, but it’s still there after four months. Because people are having a laugh, there’s a lot less vandalism. People just tend to get less angry.”

At one point MacSween was baffled by players’ ability to achieve scores far above anything he ever got. After talking to some customers, he found out why. “It turns out people were learning how to stop and start (their pee flow) to get higher scores.” So if you ever find yourself peeing for points, you know exactly what to do.

The Exhibit bar opened its new bathroom on Friday. It’s quite possible that for the first time ever in a UK drinking establishment, there’ll be more people lining up for the bathroom than for a drink.

It’s not known what, if anything, Captive Media has planned for the women’s bathroom.

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Vettel cracked record - 15 Pole of the season

 

Sebastian Vettel with the 15th Pole position in a season, a new chapter written Formula 1 history. The youngest double world champion captured the premier class in Saturday's final qualifying again this year in Brazil, the first starting position and overtook the British Nigel Mansell, who in 1992 had been on pole 14 times.

"We have made it. Thanks guys, you're incredible, "beamed the German, after he had made short work of the season finale. After Vettel had more than once this year set up practically at the last second, the quality-best time, he made early this time for the preliminary decision. Shortly before closing, he improved his own fastest lap time and even stayed in 1:11,918 minutes alone among the brand of 1:12 minutes.

As for further evidence of the Red Bull reign in F1 Mark Webber was in second place on the front row for the World Cup team on Sunday (17:00 clock live one ORF, RTL and Sky) perfectly. Third in the World Cup runner-up Jenson Button was in front of his McLaren teammate Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari star Fernando Alonso.

Vettel made it easily beaten in the World Cup has long been adversaries but not initially. In the first period put the button in front of record time. Team-mate Hamilton, who won two weeks ago after the blowouts and loss of the Grand Prix Vettel Abu Dhabi confirmed, with the second fastest lap of the strength of the McLaren on the bumpy course.

For anxious glances of the eye also caused up: The sky was drawn over the course more and more, the increased humidity and temperatures around 30 degrees continues to increase. The rain stayed away but was afraid. Vettel kept in the crucial ten minutes but once again in impressive fashion, the nerves, while Webber is still in the race for the runners held. The Australians, however, has 22 points behind Button, Alonso still lies in between. The two-time champion from Spain ten points on missing button.

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Giant Penis And Jewish Star Found On Business Mogul's 

Lawn 

Giant penis mystery baffles Stockholm suburb

A wealthy Swedish businessman was surprised to learn on Wednesday that the grounds near his luxurious home appear to feature a giant penis visible only from the sky.

“It may be distasteful, but it's not illegal,” Nicholas Rundbom, a spokesperson for Hitta.se, the Swedish directory and map website which published the phallus-filled aerial photograph, he stated.

The picture came to Rundom's attention when he was contacted by a reporter with business news website Realtid.se who was writing a story about a posh villa belonging to Swedish business icon Per-Olof Söderberg.

Söderberg, founder of the Söderberg & Partners insurance brokerage and board member of the Ratos private equity firm founded by his grandfather in 1933, had put his home up for sale, prompting the news website to take a closer look at the property using Hitta.se

Much to the surprise of the journalist, the grounds near Söderberg's home featured a symbol in the shape of a massive penis, as well as a star, mowed in the grass.

Söderberg, whose home is adjacent to the tennis-court-sized penis, was also clueless about the sex-themed shape in the grass surrounding his compound.

“I didn't know anything about it,” Söderberg told the Expressen newspaper in reference to the newly-discovered phallus.

Following the report, technicians with Hitta.se contacted Metria, the company that supplied the images, to verify that the image, which was taken on April 18th of this year, had not been doctored.

“All six experts said it was clearly real grass and they all used the word 'boyish prank',” Metria spokesperson Johanna Ahlmark told Realtid.se.

“Someone was clearly having fun when mowing the lawn.”

Rundom from Hitta.se marveled at the coincidence that has resulted in the penis-prank being given a long-lasting afterlife on the internet.

“It's highly improbable that those who came up with this creative stunt and cut the grass in that way did so just before a satellite flew overhead and snapped a picture,” he stated.

According to Rundom, Hitta.se has never received a similar report.

While the company hasn't received any complaints about the oversized sex organ, Rundom added that Hitta.se was prepared to make changes to the image if necessary.

When contacted, a spokesperson for Danderyd municipality, in which the Djursholm district lies, said he wasn't aware of the penis prank.

"This is the first I've heard of it," he said, although he confirmed that the municipality does have responsibility for maintaining public parks and grounds, something which is usually done by a contracted landscaping firm.

 

 

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Hackers Leak Facebook Law Enforcement Guidelines

 

A group of hackers claiming to represent Anonymous’s Antisec movement hijacked two Gmail accounts belonging to a retired California Department of Justice cybercrimes investigator, now a private investigator, and on November 18 published 38,000 private emails and identifying contact information online.

Among the data published by the hackers in a torrent file were two versions of what appears to be Facebook’s guidelines for law enforcement agencies, according to Public Intelligence, a collaborative research website dedicated to the freedom of information.

Specifically, the documents posted by the hackers and made available on the Public Intelligence website are two different versions of instructions on how agencies should submit subpoenas and requests for user data from the world’s largest social network, one of them dated 2010 and the other, shorter document dated November 2006.

Sources close to Facebook stated that the newly revealed guideline documents are “outdated,” and that an updated set of law enforcement guidelines is scheduled be made publicly available to all users on Facebook’s Help Center late Wednesday.

The 2006 document notes that Facebook will not provide any user data without “a valid subpoena or warrant,” while the 2010 document states that the social network requires “a valid subpoena or a legal document with equivalent authority issued through your local court system.”

Federal warrant rulings permitting law enforcement agencies to obtain Facebook data have surged in recent years, Reuters reported, with federal judges granting over 24 warrants since 2008.

The newly revealed 2010 document expressly discourages law enforcement officers from creating phony accounts, even for undercover investigations: “We encourage you to report false accounts to Facebook, and discourage any use of false accounts by law enforcement,” the document states.

Both the 2010 and 2006 documents explain how agencies need to first locate a Facebook user’s or group’s unique ID number, which is easily seen in the URL after the letters “id” or “gid.”

The documents state that a law enforcement agency must submit this information to Facebook in order to retrieve information about the account in question. According to the documents, Facebook can then provide agencies with “basic subscription information (BSI)” which includes a user’s email address, mobile phone number (if provided by the user in their Facebook account), the date and time their account was created, and the most recent login times.

The 2006 document states that Facebook can provide a user’s “Neoprint,” which is described as an “expanded view” of a profile, including “all wall postings and messages to and from the user that have not been deleted by the user.” Facebook can, according to the document, also provide “a compilation” of all of a user’s photos and all of a user’s contact information that’s been uploaded, even if it doesn’t appear in their publicly viewable profile.

As far as Facebook Groups, the social network can provide a list of all users in the group, contact information and the current status of the group page, the 2006 document states.

Importantly, though, Facebook points out in the 2006 document that it cannot provide any user data that has already been deleted by the user before the time of the request. That’s seemingly at odds with the deleted data that Facebook turned over to an Austrian user upon request, who later filed a list of complaints with the Irish Data Commissioner, which is now auditing the social network. The 2010 document contains no mention of deleted data.

In addition, Facebook can reportedly provide law enforcement agencies with a user’s Internet Protocol (IP) logs, including the user’s unique IP address, the Facebook usernames associated with that IP address, and the most recent times that IP address viewed Facebook. The 2006 document states that Facebook “generally” retains IP logs for the past 30 days.

Finally, the documents state that the “Facebook Security Team,” may respond to “special requests” for information not contained in the above provisions, as well as provide “emergency disclosures.”

The 2010 document contains a notice that Facebook will immediately disable all user accounts that have been accused of illegal activity, although law enforcement agencies can stop the network from doing this in their request, at least temporarily, by writing “DO NOT DISABLE UNTIL [DATE],” and filling out a corresponding date. This provision is to allow agencies the freedom to continue pursuing an investigation that would otherwise be hindered by shuttering the Facebook account(s).

As Public Intelligence notes, these are actually just the fifth and sixth versions of documents purporting to be the “Facebook Law Enforcement Guidelines” going back to 2007.

Facebook declined to confirm authenticity of any of the prior versions of the documents to Reuters, but the documents contain valid Facebook email and mailing addresses, and the 2010 document contains a Facebook copyright notice.

In addition, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an advocacy group dedicated to protecting users’ digital rights, obtained several copies of the Facebook guidelines from the Justice Department. The EFF commended Facebook for taking a zero-tolerance approach to enforcing its “no fake accounts” policy, even against law enforcement.

That said, the EFF has also pointed out how a November 10 court ruling ordering Twitter to hand over user information to the Justice Department without a warrant or subpoena could also apply to Facebook.

And the Obama Administration was this year supposed to submit to lawmakers a bill that would allow federal law enforcement agencies the ability to use “back doors” to observe all online communications under wiretap orders, even encrypted communications, according to a New York Times report in October 2010. That legislation has yet to be introduced. 

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Merck accuses US firm of Facebook page larceny

 

German pharmaceutical giant Merck KGaA has charged that US rival Merck and Co. somehow got control of its Facebook page and won’t give it back. To make matters worse, the company says the social network won’t help resolve the situation.

According to the Handelsblatt newspaper, the German Merck alleged in a New York court filing made an agreement with Facebook in 2010 for exclusive use of the Facebook.com/merck site.

It never developed the page but discovered last month that Merck and Co. has been using it.

Facebook had been “uncooperative” in response to its complaints, Merck KGaA complained in the court filing, explaining that the site could be a valuable advertising tool, according to Handelsblatt.

It has asked the judge to make a legal determination of who actually has ownership of the site and was considering further action against Facebook for breach of contract, the newspaper wrote.

Neither Facebook nor Merck in Germany immediately responded to The Local’s requests for comment.

But in a curt statement, Merck told Handelsblatt: “We confirm we have asked Facebook to clarify why we now no longer have a site that we had before.”

Merck and Co. was founded as a subsidiary of the German firm Merck in 1891, but the two companies split up after World War I under the Treaty of Versailles. They are now completely unrelated but have grown into two of the world’s major pharmaceutical giants.

 

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