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Submission + - DHS scaremongering while Anonymous actually gettin (pastebin.com) 2

ClemensW writes: While the DHS released a scaremongering report on Anonymous yesterday, Anonymous has silently and unnoticed by any mainstream media taken down 40+ child porn websites, deleted the largest collection of childporn on the internet and published the usernames of almost 1600 pedophiles. Makes one wonder who the bad guys actually are...

Submission + - Secret Acta Hearing In Sweden, Pirates Not Welcome (activepolitic.com)

bs0d3 writes: A closed door hearing was held in Sweden today. Its purpose: "The issues that Government needs to consider at this stage is whether the Council should decide that ACTA will be signed on behalf of the EU and on a draft decision approving the ACTA will be referred to Parliament for treatment there, and if Sweden is to sign ACTA. The hearing aims to provide invited parties to present their views on these issues."

Gustav Nipe, chairman of the Pirate Party Sweden, and CEO of the pirate isp has been told he is not welcome to the hearing and that he was not invited. Of those invited all were industry copyright holders which shows a bias to how the hearing will play out.

Submission + - CCP to lay off 20% of its staff, refocus on EVE (eveonline.com)

zergl writes: CCP games just announced that 20% of its staff will be laid off due to their overextension on developing three titles at the same time while bleeding subscribers on their flagship title EVE Online. The World Of Darkness MMO will be put on the back burner while remaining resources will be put towards EVE and getting Dust 514 launched successfully.
This comes as not much of a surprise considering the financial situation CCP was in with liquid assets about to run out well before the Dust launch next year which was discovered when the 2010 financial report was analyzed on a community forum.

Comment Re:More 3D (Score 1) 191

Indeed, though I feel the industry will call it something inane like 4D, because 3D has been done already. This is regardless as to what it truly is, such as true 3D projection with hopefully 360' viewing. Seriously, four-dee, I wouldn't put it past them.
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Submission + - Did ICE 'Pirate' Its Anti-Piracy PSA? (techdirt.com)

An anonymous reader writes: You may have seen that the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) division of the Department of Homeland Security has been seizing domain names. When it eventually takes over those domain names permanently, it replaces the seizure notice with a YouTube video. Some people noticed that the YouTube video was just a recut video that New York City was using. Since the whole point of the video is that people who work on films have to get paid, Techdirt wondered how much ICE paid for the video. After asking both NYC and ICE and receiving no responses, Techdirt filed some Freedom of Information Act requests. While they turned up that the videos were actually owned by NBC Universal (though neither government entity publicly admits that it's running NBC Universal propaganda films as its own), ICE appears to have no evidence that it properly licensed the videos or that it paid anyone involved in the making of the videos. Since the original video, featuring comedian Tom Papa, claims that "there's no such thing as a free movie" to define "piracy," is it possible that the federal government "pirated" this anti-piracy video?

Comment Re:So you can hit your data cap... (Score 1) 121

Indeed, when I had Virgin, I found them very bursty. Yes I'd get what was 11Mbit on my line but it would only hold that for a few hundred megs or so, then it slipped down to around 3, never did much uploading but downloading would cause Virgin to strangle the line.

I'm currently on BT ADSL (which is, fineish except for a drop out every night for a few seconds) on a line outside my control (I don't pay for this one so I don't choose providers). It is at least consistent with the data rates at around 7Mbit for full file transfers, so in essence I can shift larger data transfers faster on a slower line due to the absence of (obvious) throttling. Mind you I don't use (read: trust) BT's DNS and use an alternate one.

Comment Re:!OS (Score 1) 216

Yeah, that's simcity 4 minus the disaster menu.

Well you could always add in a disaster menu if you wanted, to keep with the theme of things. I'd think the easy ones to implement would be: Financial Crisis, Power Plant Meltdown, Flash Flood and possibly Food Shortage. Then just use some random number generator to trigger them and bob's your uncle, SimCityRL.

Comment Re:you don't want this (Score 1) 404

Luckily they operate over a relatively short range, comparative to firearms or lasers anyway and in a controllable manner, such as fireproof suits for the user in-case of wind direction change. There's also the ability to check the area of use prior to operation for unwanted recipients (checking a few acres for hiding people only takes a few minutes, checking a few miles is nearly impossible).

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