French Translation
This probably isn't real, but it's sure funny. This is "apparently" a US-made laptop bag. Check out the French translation for the washing instructions:
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This probably isn't real, but it's sure funny. This is "apparently" a US-made laptop bag. Check out the French translation for the washing instructions:
South Koreans are demanding regulators put more bite into food safety laws after reports some food makers may have for years used spoiled vegetables in their hugely popular dumplings.
The discovery has prompted a public outcry and calls for harsh penalties.
Four dumpling stuffing suppliers had been charged for food safety violations after raids on processing plants, a police officer involved in the case told Reuters by phone on Friday.
Police would only give the name of one of the four stuffing suppliers and that company did not answer phone calls.
So far, there have been no reports the dumplings have made anyone sick.
French actress turned animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot has been convicted of inciting racial hatred and ordered to pay 5,000 euros (3,300 pounds) -- the fourth such fine for the former sex symbol since 1997.
The Paris court sentenced Bardot, 69, on Thursday for remarks made in her book "A Scream in the Silence", an outspoken attack on gays, immigrants and the jobless which shocked France last year.
In the book, she laments the "Islamisation of France" and the "underground and dangerous infiltration of Islam".
Women are significantly more likely to have sex during the fertile part of their monthly cycle, suggests new research.
"If you're a couple trying to get pregnant, that's great news. There's a hidden biological process working in your favour," says Allen Wilcox, a reproductive epidemiologist at the US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in Durham, North Carolina, and lead researcher of the study.
"If you are not trying to pregnant the news is not so good," he told New Scientist . The work indicates that having unprotected sex once is more likely to result in pregnancy than previously thought.
The underlying reason for the coincidence of intercourse and heightened fertility is not clear. Previous research suggests women feel sexier in the days before ovulation, which may increase their own libido or make them more attractive to their partners. And men have been found to be more attentive to their female partners around ovulation.
However, those studies did not determine whether these loving feelings actually resulted in more sex. And Wilcox's group have some evidence that sex may actually act as a trigger for ovulation, and not the other way around. "But that would need to be confirmed in a larger study," he says.
A law that the government said would clamp down on those who send millions of unsolicited junk emails is instead causing more hassle for anti-spam campaigners
Pioneering anti-spam organisation The Spamhaus Project has begun receiving threats from spammers, many of whom appear to have moved into Britain following the establishment of controversial UK laws that ostensibly outlaw the spamming of personal email addresses.
Spamhaus founder Steve Linford revealed told the Openwave messaging anti-abuse conference in London this week that this legislation has had a counterproductive effect. "For the first time we have very tenacious spamming gangs setting up in the UK," said Linford. "And, for the first time, we have spammers threatening us with legal action."
Red Hat's latest hobbyist version of Linux stops some users' systems from booting Windows
Red Hat's newest hobbyist and developer version of Linux, Fedora Core 2, caused trouble for some who found they couldn't start Windows after installing the Linux upgrade side by side with it.
The bug had cropped up in testing, but after Red Hat released Fedora Core 2 in May, many more users reported their systems no longer would boot Windows.
No data on the Windows side was destroyed, and some manual hard drive reconfiguration fixed the problem.
Microsoft's plan to reduce spam by forcing an email sender's machine to solve a puzzle may be defeated by the Internet's army of zombie PCs, say security experts
One of Microsoft's plans to fight the spam epidemic is unlikely to adversely affect spammers or reduce the quantity of spam, according to security experts.
Microsoft's chairman Bill Gates has been calling for the IT industry to work together and eradicate the spam problem. About six months ago he unveiled an initiative called Penny Black, which was a method for reducing a spammer's ability to send large volumes of unsolicited emails using Hotmail and MSN accounts. He suggested making the senders' computer process a complicated mathematical puzzle, which takes approximately 20 seconds, before each message is released. The puzzle's result is attached to the email's header, so that a receiving gateway can recognise emails that have been through the process and allow them to pass.
A lawyer was sentenced Wednesday to more than three years in federal prison for smuggling thousands of fine Cuban cigars...
Weather for about the next 15,000 years should be warm and stable -- barring human interference -- according to scientists.
They have drilled three km (1.8 miles) into the Antarctic ice to produce the oldest-ever continuous climate record, from an ice core dating back 740,000 years.
It shows eight ice ages, or glacials, followed by shorter interglacial periods and changing concentrations of gases and particles in the atmosphere.
The period that corresponds most to the present interglacial period, which started 12,000 years ago, was about 400,000 years ago and lasted roughly 28,000 years.
"Our data say we won't go into another ice age. We have 15,000 years before that is coming," Dr Eric Wolff, of the British Antarctic Survey, told a news conference on Wednesday.
But concentrations of greenhouse gases such as methane and carbon dioxide (CO2) today are the highest seen in the last 440,000 years.
Reclusive actor Marlon Brando is in final negotiations to star as himself in "Brando and Brando", a low-budget movie about disenfranchisement and broken spirits.
The 3 million pound project details the story of a young innocent with a fascination for the American dream -- embodied by the iconic Brando -- on a journey of hope to the United States. Brando has played an active role in the development of the project, which is scheduled to shoot this summer on location in Tunisia and Los Angeles.
Writer/director Ridha Behi describes his screenplay as "a path to explore the desperately unfair conflict between Western technological and materialistic power and those many human beings whose only weapons are their identity and their timeless values."
Brando was last in cinemas with "The Score", a 2001 heist movie starring Robert De Niro and Edward Norton.