And his laptop and an external HD were taken. Police in Europe (at least in Germany and here in Austria) are allowed to raid your house when they believe there is imminent danger to the security of the state or other citizens ("Gefahr im Verzug"). They don't need a judge's permission/order for this. If they don't find anything, they can just file a simple 2 page report and be done with it.

This was used in the case of wikileaks.de - the police didn't read his rights to Mr. Reppe and when he insisted the police add a witness name to the report, they didn't do so.

Basically it's just spreading fear among the people. The problem is, since the blacklists contain links to child pornography pages, you're not allowed to publish the list, as you would also make links to child pornography publicly available. Which is the whole point of the black list:

The government could just take down the child porn sites. But instead they create filters and blacklists for those pages as well as other websites that might be against their ideals. You're not allowed to check those lists for any illegitimate censorship because then you would also look at child porn. You're also not allowed to distribute them. Voila! They successfully used peoples hatred agains child pornography to censor anything they want.

Apparently you've never been married.

Use the modified one, SRWare. If you don't want to, there's always privoxy.

Or, if you don't want to maintain a HOSTS file yourself, but still don't want any other software, there's this excellent ad-server list which can be downloaded in all kinds of formats (yes, even as a HOSTS file). If you're REALLY lazy, you can use this link along with a 1 line shell script and a crontab entry (or windows scheduler or whatever it's called) to automate updating your HOSTS file.

So they pay their fines and promise never to do it again. Still, I liked the demonstration. It's good for educating the not so technically inclined people among us.

Seeing someone else changing things on your computer, even if it's just the wallpaper is pretty scary for many people. More so than hearing anonymous reports about botnets and how their computer could be infected too. If you actually see it happen, you're more likely to be more cautious in the future.

I don't get it.

They assume the theory that says it exists is correct. Let's just assume the particle does in fact exist.

How can you then devise a strategy that has a 96% chance of finding the particle with unlimited time (or time required to execute said strategy). If I can give a number to the chance of finding it, I can also devise 1-n other strategies that cover the remaining 4% and thus have 2-n strategies which in total give me a 100% chance of finding the particle.

What I'm saying is, once I know the exact chances of finding something with strategy A, I also need to know which other strategy or strategies could cover the remaining percentage.

Define "work". Unfortunately there is still software (i.e. games, but also other very specialized software) that only works on windows.

I work on Macs and yet I have a Windows (XP) machine in my office and at home which only gets turned on if a certain program refuses to work on OS X. Running Cedega/Wine/etc. is often just too much of a hassle and/or doesn't work well enough.

Or take Office programs for example - you can't honestly expect all office assistants to learn to use something else than Word. I know a lot of assistants that had a hard time even learning that and still take MS Office classes every 2 years. Learning a new OS AND a new word processing program is going to confuse the hell out of a lot of people.

This isn't trolling and it doesn't make Windows appear better than it is of course, nor is it a justification for a broken OS. I'm merely saying that Windows will be around for several more years because of the software that exclusively exists for Windows.

You must be new h

We only shower. With coffee.

Why would I? I could also do it in Sumerian measurements but they are equally obsolete. Go find some converter...

Then again, that's half a liter... but still an awful lot.

I have a Nespresso machine at home and the typical Nespresso capsule contains between 55 and 65 mg of caffeine, so that's what I'm used to.

You could also just shoot 10g of pure caffeine IV ;) Then chance of dying is only 50% after all :>

caffeine tablets contain between 30 and 100mg of caffeine. So even if he took the strongest ones, that would still require him to eat 30 tables within a few hours.

You'd have to be insane to do that.

In fact, the LD50 is about 200mg per kilo of body mass. If you weigh 90kg, that means the LD50 is about 18g which is an awful lot. You'd probably have to drink 150-200 cups of coffee in a very short time. The time is dependent on the half-life of caffeine, which, in a health adult is around 3 hours.

So, basically you'd have to drown more than 50 cups of coffee every hour for 3 hours straight to reach the LD50 limit. That's nearly one cup every minute.

In other words, drink as much as you want, you'll be fine*.

Also, assuming 100mg of caffeine in a large cup of drip coffee (and 100mg is a DAMN lot, most coffees usually have 40-60mg), you claim to have had 30 large cups of coffee in less than 3 hours? That's nearly 10 liters of coffee.

*) fine meaning you won't die :>

I see you have NO idea about basic electricity concepts.

Yes they do. They also transmit more power. If you wanted to say that they lose more power relative to your home wiring system, then you you are either very, very wrong or your home wiring is made with gold cables and plugs.

The general idea why electricity is transmitted at 110kV to 200kV is that the loss of energy is minimized. If it wasn't, we would transmit the power at 110V/230V (there is no 250V line by the way) and save the converters.

I'm not saying you shouldn't do that. I'm only against a broad-band banning of all ads as a default feature in a web browser.

As with everything, there are legitimate uses and honest people not exploiting the options.