A judge sentenced the man in his 30s, whose name was not revealed, to 10 days in prison and a 40 euro fine.
An Italian man was given a suspended jail sentence for staring too intensely at a woman sitting in front of him on a train.
A judge sentenced the man in his 30s, whose name was not revealed, to 10 days in prison and a 40 euro fine after a 55-year old woman filed a complaint for sexual harrassment.
His lawyer said on Friday he would appeal the sentence. The court will explain its verdict later.
The two met on two separate occasions in 2005 on a commuter train going from Lecco, a town in northern Italy, to Milan.
The first time, the man sat next to the woman but she felt he had moved too close for comfort. The next day, the man sat in front of the same woman and according to her complaint, stared at her for the whole journey.
The two did not speak.
Sunday, April 20, 2008
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What should you do with your web-cam or the WEB-CAM TUTORIAL
A webcam is a digital camera that connects to your computer. The images taken by the camera can be transmitted and displayed on a web site with the use of software.
You will need the following:
a computer
a connection to the internet
a web camera
webcam software
a webpage and web host
The Camera
A webcam is a digital camera designed to take digital photographs and transmit them over the internet. The camera connects to your computer and takes a snapshot image that gets saved to your computer's hard drive. Webcam software allows you to control how often the camera takes a photo and updates(sends) that photo on your web server. It uploads a photo (.jpg) to your web host. A web host is a company that provides you with server space to host your web site files. The web hosts and serves (displays) your web pages to visitors who request your web page by accessing your Domain Name (http://www.yourname.com/).
A Snapshot or a Streaming Webcam?
Snapshot webcams take a snapshot image and refreshes that images (uploads) at set intervals. Image quality is very sharp and they are very easy to set up.
Streaming webcams: the nice part of the streaming webcams is that they stream (or at least try to). Streaming means you see the images of the webcam in a continuous motion (like in a TV) but the reality is that the image quality tends to be poor and the motion is not as smooth as the TV. This method consumes a lot of resources and it's not as easy to set up as the snapshot webcam...
LittleBeasts.com uses a Logitec Quickcam Pro 4000 and SpyCam webcam software by Bill Oatman.
The SoftwareNow that you have your webcam, the next step is to publish your images on the web. You need to tranfer the image saved to your computer to your web host. This is done with webcam software (Spycam, Chillcam) Some cameras include trial versions or full versions of their own webcam software.
How does the software work?
The software uses your Internet connection (dial up, DSL, cable, satelite) to upload via FTP (File Transfer Protocol) a single snapshot captured from the camera set up on your computer. You can set the file transfer to occur at set intervals (every 30 or 60 seconds). You will connect to your webhost using your username and password issued by your web hosting company.
The Web Page
How will your viewers see your webcam?They will visit your webpage. You create a webpage (webcam.html) that has your webcam image inserted into it.
Once you have created the HTML page that displays the webcam image in it, you need to know how to make the HTML page refresh the image. The webcam will be uploading a new image and anyone already viewing your HTML page will want to see the new images as they are updated.
Refreshing the Image
To get the latest shot captured by the webcam, users connected to your page will have to reload it or hit the refresh button to see the new image. If you add some extra HTML, Javascript code or Java applets to your webcam HTML page you can make it auto-reload the picture after a user-definable period.
META tag command: The simplest and oldest method (still in use though) of refreshing a webcam image on a webpage is made via a set of HTML commands set in the tag of your page.There is a META tag than can make a web page to auto reload after a period of time (in seconds) is reached. The syntax for this tag is as follows:
Set the "seconds" to equal the number of seconds it will take the browser to Reload the current page. The disadvantage of this method is that the whole page is reloaded, If you are using this method it is recommended that you keep the HTML page simple and with limited graphics so the page will reload quickly.
If you're new to HTML you may want a template to start your webcam site as soon as possible. Here are two resource sites that offer free templates.
LittleBeasts webcam page template
Genericam webcam page templates
Webcamworld webcam page templates
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
The Pirate Bay Moves to Egyptian Desert Island
Written by Ben Jones on April 01, 2008
As part of their efforts to fight against ever increasing restrictions regarding intellectual property in Sweden, the Pirate Bay has moved from their long-time home in Sweden for pastures new.
Their new residence is the rolling dunes of the Sinai. In a blog posting they explain the move “Due to the new copyright legislation that are going to take effect from today we had to move all of the system outside of Europe.”
“We decided to move to the desert of Sinai in Egypt since we feel that we’ll be safe there.” Connectivity in Egypt should be uncongested, with only about 1 in 13 of the population regular net users, despite modern infrastructure investments by Telecom Egypt. Meanwhile, the sun should do wonders to counter the typical pasty-faced stereotype of the typical computer addict.
In other news, there’s egg on the face of ABC, as a pre-air episode of the popular TV-show “Lost” hit the net. Apparently, the episode is from a DVD screener, and proves, yet again, that the problems come from members of the industry, who are often claimed to be the victims.
There is more breaking news today, as the popular OiNK replacement Waffles.fm now accepts new members. For months thousands of users have waited to get an account at the popular private BitTorrent tracker, and today this may become reality.
Unfortunately, things have not been so rosy for all BitTorrent sites. BT-chat, a popular torrent site has closed it’s torrent operations, to concentrate on its Bluetooth based IM client.
BT-Chat owner NBtX told TorrentFreak “ Server costs we’re starting to get too much, and the ads were making everyone mad. We have since then decided to stop providing torrents, and focus solely on the Bluetooth instant messaging program.”
However, the worst news comes for users of the private BitTorrent tracker BitHQ. Like EliteTorrents before them, they have been raided and shut down by US Federal Officers. No comment from any party involved has been forthcoming so far.
What a day….
The Olympic Torch Has Arrived to Alma-Ata
Yesterday, on April 1, the Olympic torch has arrived to Kazakhstan, to Alma-Ata comes on April 2 to continue the baton
The first phase will begin in Sport Medeo. The second phase will take place on several central streets of the capital of Kazakhstan. All culminate will be in the square "Astana".
The ceremony the start of the baton will be opened with the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev.
According to the media, the baton on the Kazakh territory will cost 2.5 million dollars.
After Alma-Ata, April 3, the torch will Istanbul. In St. Petersburg, it will arrive on April 5 and April 6 in London.
Today the baton is comin' from Alma-Ata to 22 starts - 130 cities of the world.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
How to Order a Beer in 50 Languages
"Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza." --Dave Barry
If there's one universal constant in human society, it has to be alcohol. Rare indeed is the culture that hasn't worked out the tricksy process of fermenting and/or distilling some type of vegetable matter -- be it malted barley, potatoes, honey or grape juice -- into a brew containing a significant percentage, as the dictionary puts it, of an "organic compound in which a hydroxyl group is bound to a carbon atom of an alkyl or substituted alkyl group." In other words, booze.
Among the mildest and most variable of these alcoholic beverages is that fine elixir known as beer. A true beer connoisseur would never pass up an opportunity to try the local brew, no matter where on Earth where they found themselves, and so it behooves the serious beerologist to know how to order a beer in as many languages as possible. That's why we've taken it upon ourselves to provide you with a handy guide on how to order a beer in 50 different languages. Where the pronunciation isn't obvious, or in which the term is normally written in non-Roman characters, we've rendered it phonetically. Cheers!
One beer, please!
| Afrikaans | A beer, ah-suh-bleef! |
| American | Brewski here, please! |
| Arabic | Waheed beera, meen fadleek! |
| Basque | Garagardo bat, mesedez! |
| Belarusian | Ad-no pee-vah ka-lee lah-ska! |
"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer." -- Frank Zappa
| Bengali | Eka handoiya, doya koray! |
| Bulgarian | Edna beerra, molya! |
| Catalan | Una cervesa, si us plau! |
| Cheyenne | Nok hee-sevo-tamah-peh, mas-eh-met-ah-no! |
| Chinese | Ching gay woh ee bay pee joh! |
"Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink, I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, 'It is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver.'" -- Jack Handy
| Czech | Pee-vo, pro-seem! |
| Danish | Yay vil geh-neh heh en url! |
| Dutch | Un beer, ahls-yer-bleeft! |
| Egyptian (Ancient) | Wekha henqet! |
| Esperanto | Unu bieron, mi petas! |
"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer." -- Abraham Lincoln
| Estonian | Ooks ur-loo, pah-lun! |
| Finnish | O-loot moolek kee-tos! |
| French | Une bière, s'il vous plait! |
| German | Ein Bier, bitte! |
| Greek | Mee-a beer-a paraka-loh! |
"Remember: I before E, except in Budweiser." -- Anonymous
| Hawaiian | 'Ekahi pia, ho'olu! |
| Hindi | Eka biyara, krupaya! |
| Hungarian | Edj pohar shurt kayrek! |
| Icelandic | Ay-dn byohr, tahk! |
| Interlingua | On bira, per favor! |
"He was a wise man who invented beer." -- Plato
| Irish | Byohr awoyn, lyeh doh hull! |
| Italian | Una birra, per favore! |
| Japanese | Bee-ru ip-pon, ku-da-sai! |
| Korean | Mayk-joo hahn-jahn, joo-se-yoh! |
| Kurdish | Dan min yek bire! |
"Give me a woman who loves beer, and I will conquer the world." -- Kaiser Wilhelm
| Lakota (Sioux) | Wan-jee m'nee-pee-gah, ee-yo-kee-pee! |
| Latin | Cervisiam, sodes! |
| Lithuanian | Pra-shau vie-na, al-lows! |
| Norwegian | Ehn url, tahk! |
| Old English | An beor, nu! |
"24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?" -- Stephen Wright
| Pig Latin | One-ay eer-bay, ease-play! |
| Polish | Yed-no peev, proshe! |
| Portuguese | Uma cerveja, por favor! |
| Romanian | Oh beh-reh ver rohg! |
We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old. -- Martin Luther
| Scots Gaelic | Lyawn, mahs eh doh hawl eh! |
| Serbo/ Croatian | Yed-no pee-vo, mo-lim! |
| Slovene | Eno pee-vo, pro-seem! |
| Spanish | Una cerveza, por favor! |
| Swahili | Moja pombe, tafadhali! |
"I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety." -- Shakespeare, Henry V
| Swedish | Ehn irl, tahk! |
| Twi | Mah-me bee-ye bah-ko, mee pow-che-oo! |
| Turkish | Beer beer-ah, luht-fen! |
| Welsh | Koo-roh ohs gwel-ookh-un-thah! |
| Yiddish | A beer, zeit a-zoy goot! |
"Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer." -- Dave Barry
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Nike workers in Vietnam earn $59 every month
Factory Workers demand wage increases of 20%, as well as improved nutrition in company canteens. The average monthly salary of a factory employee is $ 59.
The plant produces shoes since 2002. The biggest part of the workforce are young women from rural areas. Despite the fact that their wages by 14% more than the minimum salary in the country, inflation still "eats" this allowance.
In Vietnam there are 10 factories producing Nike shoes, annually producing about 75 million pairs of jogging shoes, passes Associated Press.
Gmail April Fools Not Very Funny: Started A Wikipedia War
Gmail Custom Time lets users send emails with a custom date in the past, putting it in the recipients inbox at the old date.Right on schedule: Google is releasing their April Fools jokes onto us as the calendars hit April 1 on the east coast (here’s last year’s efforts). Google Australia got a head start earlier today with the very funny Future Search. Gmail’s effort this year isn’t in my opinion as funny.Gmail Custom Time lets users send emails with a custom date in the past, putting it in the recipients inbox at the old date: How do I use it? Just click “Set custom time” from the Compose view. Any email you send to the past appears in the proper chronological order in your recipient’s inbox. You can opt for it to show up read or unread by selecting the appropriate option. Is there a limit to how far back I can send email? Yes. You’ll only be able to send email back until April 1, 2004, the day we launched Gmail. If we were to let you send an email from Gmail before Gmail existed, well, that would be like hanging out with your parents before you were born — crazy talk.Funny? You decide. The team did better last year in my opinion.But the joke has started a minor Wikipedia war, which makes it more interesting. In describing the technology Google says “Gmail utilizes an e-flux capacitor to resolve issues of causality (see Grandfather Paradox)” and links to the Grandfather Paradox on Wikipedia. Someone changed the words “time travel” to “gmail” in a revision, along with the comment “Gmail starts a wiki-war by linking directly to this article on April 1st…”The change was quickly put down by the Wikipedia police, of course. And then changed back. And then reversed. You can watch the drama in real time on the article’s revision history page (or feel free to participate with your own flourishes).I wonder who’ll get tired first.
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