Archive for February, 2008

The teenager has died because of snowball

28 February 2008

The neighbor has shot the teenager from Philadelphia because of a snowball which hit him, informs local TV-channel CBS 3.
16-years Tavin Ruthlege snowballed with friends in a court yard of the house in his birthday. One of the snowballs hit the neighbor, who then run in the house and returned with a pistol in hands, […]

Almost 2 thousand legal sites are closed on suspicion of pornography

27 February 2008

The Finnish police has launched the system of struggle against children’s Internet-pornography – as a result 1700 legal network resources have been blocked, writes The Register referring to the fighter with Finnish censors Matti Nikki.
The majority of the resources checked by system appeared lawful porno-sites, 2 from 700 resources contained children’s pornography.
In the […]

Thousands British top-managers are suspected of dishonesty

25 February 2008

About four thousand heads of British companies appear in the international lists of suspected of swindle, money-laundering and financing of terrorist groupings.
Such results were received in the research carried out by British non-governmental financial service World-Check.
World-Check’s list of top-managers includes, in particular, 154 suspected of financial frauds, 37 – of drugs trafficking and 13 […]

British parents will be allowed to trace paedophiles

21 February 2008

British Home Office is going to allow parents to check to in police, whether the person, who has access to their children, was condemned earlier as a pedophile, informes BBC News.
In particular, single mothers can check their new boy-friend. Also it would be possible to get the information on the neighbors who agree to look […]

Terrorists are Internet–mapped

20 February 2008

Museum of Modern Art in New York within the framework of an exhibition “Design and quick mind” will present site Global Incident Map, which in real time shows on Google Maps sites of the last bomb attacks, nuclear, ecological and other threats, writes Tech.co.uk.
The data on the event is get from the news sources. The […]

Swindle with credit cards

18 February 2008

Swindlers have cloned in ATM and Chip and PIN devices cards of almost every fifth British.
While the Internet remains one of the main sources of swindle, holders of credit, debit and ATM-cards run the risk in streets. According to the new data, the most dangerous city is London.
The research conducted by company CPP, has […]

British legislators have decided to punish pirates

15 February 2008

British legislators work above the bill, which will force providers to disconnect users, who illegally download films and music, writes The Times. The document is expected to be submitted in second half of February.
The law obliges providers to take measures against the subscribers who have received access to pirate materials. Such users will be notified […]

Chinese authorities introduce Internet - censorship

13 February 2008

Chinese authorities have introduced new rules which provide for the state control over the Internet-space to keep development of the Chinese nation in a healthy direction.
The Ministry of information science of Chinese People’s Republic has informed, new rules will induce operators of video- and audio-sites to place in Internet only positive information which is in […]

Illegal bug in British prison

11 February 2008

The lawyer of the prisoner of the British prison Littlehey in County Cambridgeshire has uncovered, that his telephone conversations with the client had been tapped.
Dialogue’s printout of the lawyer Creighton with Harry Roberts, who services the penitentiary for murder of three policemen, was among the documents, officially directed to the lawyer.
The lawyer has told, […]

The group of doctors is tried on charge of murder in Paris

8 February 2008

In Paris on Wednesday, February, 6, began the hearings on the case of manslaughter of more than 100 people, who died as a result of treatment by growth hormone, informs the French mass-media.
Seven people are accused of negligence, committed in 1980s in the process of manufacture, preparation for use and distribution of growth hormone, used […]

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