Killer bacteria claims 16th victim in Europe

"E. coli is found in large quantities in the digestive systems of humans, cows and other mammals. It has been responsible for a large number of food contamination outbreaks in a wide variety of countries. In most cases, it causes non-lethal stomach ailments.
But enterohaemorrhagic E.coli, or EHEC, causes more severe symptoms, ranging from bloody diarrhea to the rare hemolytic uremic syndrome. In Germany, at least 373 people have come down with the syndrome, or HUS, in which E. coli infection attacks the kidneys, sometimes causing seizures, strokes and comas."

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43222918/ns/health-food_safety/

Hungarians are schocked about this. Media said one day: It was a spanish pepino but there is no commercial in Hungary, next day: probably Hungary bought some of these pepino. third day: it wasn't pepino...

ElcomSoft Breaks iPhone Encryption

"Explaining what we did to break this encryption is not exactly easy. In a word, we found a way to decrypt bit-to-bit images of iOS 4 devices. Decrypted images are perfectly usable, and can be analyzed with forensic tools such as Guidance EnCase or AccessData FTK (or any other tool which supports raw drive images and HFS+ file system). Decryption is not possible without having access to the actual device because we need to obtain the encryption keys that are stored in (or computed by) the device and are not dumped or stored during typical physical acquisition."

"All Apple devices starting with iPhone 3GS and running iOS 4 are affected, including iPhone, iPod and iPad devices."

Source: http://blog.crackpassword.com/2011/05/elcomsoft-breaks-iphone-encryption-offers-forensic-access-to-file-system-dumps/

Hungarian Viktor Kassai to referee Champions League final

"The Uefa Referees Committee today announced the referee for the 2010-11 Uefa Champions League final between FC Barcelona and Manchester United FC, to be played at Wembley Stadium on Saturday May 28 and kicking off at 20.45 CET.

"The match will be handled by 35-year-old Hungarian referee Viktor Kassai who made his international debut in 2001. He has officiated more than 60 Uefa matches in his refereeing career."

Source: http://www.goal.com/en/news/1716/champions-league/2011/05/26/2504155/breaking-news-hungarian-viktor-kassai-to-referee-champions

Egyptian pyramids found by infra-red satellite images

"Indiana Jones is old school, we've moved on from Indy, sorry Harrison Ford."

said Dr Sarah Parcak.

"We were very intensely doing this research for over a year. I could see the data as it was emerging, but for me the "Aha!" moment was when I could step back and look at everything that we'd found and I couldn't believe we could locate so many sites all over Egypt. To excavate a pyramid is the dream of every archaeologist."

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-13522957

Harold Camping: The world will end quickly on October 21

"The world will end quickly on October 21 without any build up,"
"Every delay means that more will be brought to salvation,"

"If people want me to apologize, I will apologize,"
"I did not have all that worked out as accurately as I should have had it,"
"that doesn't bother me at all"

Source: http://newyork.ibtimes.com/articles/150689/20110523/doomsday-may-21-harold-camping-new-judgment-october-21.htm

Mark Zuckerberg: Kids under 13 should be allowed on Facebook

"Education is clearly the biggest thing that will drive how the economy improves over the long term."
"We spend a lot of time talking about this."
"In the future, software and technology will enable people to learn a lot from their fellow students."
"That will be a fight we take on at some point,"
"My philosophy is that for education you need to start at a really, really young age."
"Because of the restrictions we haven't even begun this learning process."
"If they're lifted then we'd start to learn what works. We'd take a lot of precautions to make sure that they are safe."


source: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/05/20/zuckerberg-kids-under-13-should-be-allowed-on-facebook/

Larry Hagman: 'Everybody has got a jerk like JR in the family'

"Romania put on Dallas to try to show how corrupt the American system was and it ended up with them lining up Ceausescu, who was the dictator, and shooting him 500 times."

‘They wanted all that stuff they didn’t even know was out there. Ceausescu let that show in to show how decadent we were and they said, “Yeah we want some of it”.’

"Everybody has got a jerk like JR in the family" said Larry Hagman.


source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1388977/JR-Ewing-says-Dallas-helped-overthrow-Ceausescu.html

Stephen Hawking: "philosophy is dead"

“Most of us don't worry about these questions most of the time. But almost all of us must sometimes wonder: Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.”

“Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.”

said Stephen Hawking at Google’s Zeitgeist Conference in Hertfordshire

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/8520033/Stephen-Hawking-tells-Google-philosophy-is-dead.html

Microsoft will continue

"Microsoft will continue to invest in and support Skype clients on non-Microsoft platforms." 

Said Microsoft about Skype acquisition

Source: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/05/microsoft-will-invest-and-support-skype-on-linux/