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Comment Re:What an irresponsible move! (Score 1) 898

Wow, someone should be fired. Preferably the entire line of people who knew about how low and where those planes would be flying didn't stop and think for one second, but more realistically the person who instigated the e-mail notification.

This is one of those cases where leaking to the press should be considered a good thing.

Comment Re:Great (Score 1) 446

When the databases leak (and they all leak, who are we kidding here) at least with the government I'm more convinced it's due to incompetence rather than mallice.

At least I've got the power to try and replace the people in charge of government every now and again. My only option with the ISP would be using a gun.

I get your point though, worlds a messed up place. :(

Comment Re:A little sad. (Score 1) 510

Which might have been relevant if Australia didn't have lower energy consumption than the US (per capita) as does the United Arab Emirates.

Places that have a higher (again per capita) consumption include Iceland, Norway, Finland and Canada

So in essence you are pulling that argument out of your ass. (mod me flamebait all you want, it's true. See: http://earthtrends.wri.org/searchable_db/results.php?years=all&variable_ID=574&theme=6&country_ID=all&country_classification_ID=all)

Comment Re:So what? (Score 4, Interesting) 410

You should be ashamed for modding parent up as he clearly is clueless about what it takes to be real party in a country with more than two parties.

The pirate party has more members than three parties that currently has seats in parliament and might by the the end of the weekend have more than four of the seven. That's with a fair margin too as they got twise as many people as of two of them while *only* having 19,790 members in total. 3000 members out of 19,790 is quite a lot.

Also due to the low voter turnout for the EU election the pirate party would need about 100,000 votes to get a mandate and I'm quite confident the 20,000 party members who care enough to take stand on the issue can bring those numbers in.

Comment Re:Let me be the first one to ask it ... (Score 1) 1870

Why wouldn't it be? They have to actually prove you've pirated something specific to get a verdict on you. It's not like people walk around with ID cards attached to their faces whilst the government sends in the police to write down who attended what party when. Then again I'm not sure what fascist country you live in.

Comment Re:Gold selling is a good idea (Score 0, Flamebait) 424

The only reason why these companies should be pissed is because it saves the users time, thereby possibly shorting their monthly subscription.

Yeah, I only pay for two days of my monthly subscription.

It smells alot like sudden "morality" of gambling, sex, and drugs. Governments don't want you to buy it unless you're buying it from them. Then it's A-Okay

I wish my government would sell me sex and drugs, it's quite frustrating and highly inneficient having to troll 4chan to figure out where the back channels are. Judging from your insight, I guess the first step is to replace our current one with a game company.

Also,
Your moms A-Okay.

Networking

Grad Student Project Uses Wikis To Stash Data, Miffs Admins 268

Anonymous writes "Two graduate students at the Ivy League's Brown University built a P2P system to use abandoned wiki sites to store data. The students were stealing bandwidth from open MediaWiki sites to send data between users as an alternative to BitTorrent. There was immediate backlash as site operators quickly complained to the University. The project appears to be shutdown, but many of the pages still remain on the web. The project homepage was also taken down and the students posted an apology this afternoon." The same submitter links to two different forum discussions on the project.
Music

Spotify Releases a Linux-Only Client Library 96

f0rk writes "Spotify, a popular music streaming service, has just recently released libspotify. An official, binary-only, only for subscribers, library to 'enable and inspire you to build some really cool stuff.' The first release only has support for x86-32 Linux, the only major platform Spotify does not run on. It looks like the Spotify team is trying to be nice to the Linux community and hope someone will use their restricted binary-only library to write a Linux client."
Books

Submission + - Amazons Begins Sorting and Censoring Adult Content (fictioncircus.com)

Miracle Jones writes: "Amazon has instituted an overnight policy that removes books that may be deemed offensive from their search system, despite the sales rank of the book and also irrespective of any complaints. Bloggers such as Ed Champion are calling for a "link and book boycott," asking people to remove links to Amazon from their web pages and stop buying books from them until the policy is reversed. Will this be bad business for Amazon, or will there new policies keep them out of trouble as they continue to grow and replace bookstores?"
Microsoft

Submission + - IE8 will be pushed through automatic updates (msdn.com) 1

Celc writes: IE8 will go out through automatic updates, hopefully this means web developers will finally put the body of IE6 in the grave they dug for it oh so long ago. This is one case where this reader don't mind if Microsoft force feed their software too people using. From the bottom of my heart: Thank you, now implement canvas you lazy sods.
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - ACTA - Wikileaks has a draft from July 7, 2008 (wikileaks.org)

dan of the north writes: ""Summary — The file presents US, Japan and EU drafts of the controversial international copyright and patent trade agreement, ACTA ("Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement"). The documents were obtained by Wikileaks staff. The material is significant, both for those countries involved in the negotiations and those who have been excluded from them, such as China, Russia and the nearly all of the developing world.""
Social Networks

Submission + - Iranian blogger dies in prison

blind biker writes: The Iranian blogosphere had its first casualty on the 19th of March when Omidreza Mirsayafi died in prison where he was incarcerated. Most of his blog was about traditional Persian music, but he did dab occasionally into politics, and the topic of "freedom". According to a doctor who is himself incarcerated "The death of this young blogger is entirely due to a failure to provide assistance." What got him into trouble, I think, are statements like "I feel like a stranger in my own house...Is it really the ancient Persia I am living in? Is it the land of Cyrus the Great?... It must be a nightmare I am having. This is not Persia. This is the Islamic Republic."
Networking

Submission + - Controversial P2P research project

Anonymous writes: Two graduate students at the Ivy League's Brown University built a P2P system to use abandoned wiki sites to store data. The students were stealing bandwidth from open MediaWiki sites to send data between users as an alternative to BitTorrent. There was immediate backlash as site operators quickly complained to the University. The project appears to be shutdown, but many of the pages still remain on the web. The project homepage (http://graffiti.cs.brown.edu) was also taken down and the students posted an apology this afternoon. Interesting discussion on http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4219227 and http://www.mwusers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10490.

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