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Best Man Rigs Newlyweds' Bed To Tweet During Sex 272

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 17, 2009 @09:40PM from the nice-feed dept.

When an UK man was asked to be the best man at a friend's wedding he agreed that he would not pull any pranks before or during the ceremony. Now the groom wishes he had extended the agreement to after the blessed occasion as well. The best man snuck into the newlyweds' house while they were away on their honeymoon and placed a pressure-sensitive device under their mattress. The device now automatically tweets when the couple have sex. The updates include the length of activity and how vigorous the act was on a scale of 1-10.

Comment Re:It stands to reason (Score 1) 142

by neongrau on Saturday November 07, 2009 @07:08AM (#30013448) Attached to: KDE Founder Receives Highest German Honor

there are mayn variations of it, but it's still always a cross. even if named medal officially. its commonly named "Bundesverdienstkreuz"

you can see on the photo that he is wearing this one: http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Bundes-Verdienstmedaille.JPG&filetimestamp=20090210164105

Comment Re:He deserves it more than Obama / Gore do. (Score 1) 142

by neongrau on Saturday November 07, 2009 @07:01AM (#30013410) Attached to: KDE Founder Receives Highest German Honor

i wonder, do you see it as a farce because you think he hasn't deserved it (yet)?
Or because they gave it to him with the idea to put some kind of pressure on him to actually do something?

I fully agree that it was questionable. But hopefully it'll work out for a greater good.

Comment why not throttling? (Score 1) 501

by neongrau on Sunday October 11, 2009 @04:17AM (#29709517) Attached to: Why AT&T Should Dump the iPhone's Unlimited Data Plan

In Germany where T-Mobile runs the iPhone. They give you 1GB per month at 3G speeds (or 4GB for the highest priced subscription) everything above gets throttled to GPRS speeds (64k max). I'm sure AT&T could find a proper rate to get their network stable.

Comment Re:Insert (Score 1) 939

by neongrau on Saturday October 03, 2009 @07:34AM (#29625649) Attached to: The Most Useless Key On My Keyboard Is...

if you dare to try, this registry key will disable the insert key without the need to rip out the key physically.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout] "Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,00,00,52,E0,00,00,00,00

Comment Re:Sigh (Score 2, Insightful) 419

by neongrau on Thursday September 03, 2009 @08:26AM (#29297935) Attached to: Airborne Boeing Laser Blasts Ground Target

i was under the impression that lasers in the visible spectrum are the least powerful so for the purpose they'd use a spectrum that's not visible.

so have fun finding an appropriate mirror for that spectrum ;)

and i bet noone wi'll get blinded by it either.

Comment Re:Locks only keep honest people honest (Score 1) 273

by neongrau on Friday June 19, 2009 @03:42AM (#28386517) Attached to: German Parliament Enacts Internet Censorship Law

i agree that (sadly) the majority of germans seems uninterested in any sort of politics. (although many other countries share the same problem).

what adds up to this misery is that the biggest newspaper in germany was somehow supporting the censorship by spreading propaganda by dissing everyone opposing the the law as "child-porn-supporters" including but not limited to a few politicians from established political parties but also CCC / AK Zens_ur / Piratenpartei (german Pirate Party). with the main stream media incompentent of realizing the consequences and actively working against the freedom and rights of the citizens all we can hope for is the "Bundesverfassungsgericht" (german constitutional court). If they don't prevent this law i'll lose the last bit of hope for this country as the german constitution says "There is no censorship."

Comment Re:That was 2 Euros of course (Score 1) 469

by neongrau on Wednesday May 13, 2009 @11:06AM (#27938079) Attached to: Intel Receives Record Fine By the EU

works for me (tm) € € €

Comment Re:But where does all that money go? (Score 4, Interesting) 469

by neongrau on Wednesday May 13, 2009 @11:04AM (#27938047) Attached to: Intel Receives Record Fine By the EU

even US antitrust experts say that intel deserves that fine.

the law says they can be fined for 10% of their turnover which was 37+ billion euros.

so intel can consider themselves lucky for not having to pay 3.7B euros or about 5B USD(!!!).

but depending on intels reaction the whole case could be brought up again (since more and more "witnesses" or "intel business partners" are speaking up now) possibly ending in the 5B fine.

best move for intel will be to swallow the fine and keep a low profile in the future. or it will turn out even more expensive.

Comment Re:small change... (Score 1) 237

by neongrau on Monday April 13, 2009 @12:30PM (#27558085) Attached to: Microsoft's Price Fixing Penalty, 9M Euros

Awesome! After that many posts the first one that seems to have understood for what MS was fined.

Their wrongdoing was to give a single retailer an unfair advantage over all other retailers who could have made similar cheap bundle offerings.

Not because they like milking the MS cow. It's the law in the germany. MS surely has enough lawyers, so they should've known better.

The risk seemed low. They had been caught. MS swallowed the fine.

End of story.

Comment let's form the "Worldwide Church of Atheism" (Score 1) 1

by neongrau on Saturday March 28, 2009 @03:14AM (#27368405) Attached to: UN Attacks Free Speech

and then sue everyone badmouthing us "unbelievers".

should work since i never heard of the requirement of a proof existance of a "real" god to form up a church or religion.

:P

The State of UK Broadband — Not So Fast 279

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday November 26, 2008 @06:29AM from the but-you-have-actual-competition dept.

Barence writes "The deplorable speed of British broadband connections has been revealed in the latest figures from the Office of National Statistics, which show that 42.3% of broadband connections are slower than 2Mb/sec. More worryingly, the ONS statistics are based on the connection's headline speed, not actual throughput, which means that many more British broadband connections are effectively below the 2Mb/sec barrier. Better still, a separate report issued yesterday by Ofcom revealed that the majority of broadband users had no idea about the speed of their connection anyway."

Comment Re:Classes, Races & Professions (Score 1) 504

by neongrau on Tuesday October 07, 2008 @03:26AM (#25282381) Attached to: Ask Blizzard Employees About Things That Matter

Achievement Unlocked: You killed 100 Trolls!

Achievement Unlocked: You died 100 times!

Achievement Unlocked: You killed 100 Players in RvR!

Achievement Unlocked: You realized RvR is as much fun as grinding Boars in WoW!

Achievement Unlocked: You realized there are no quests except kill X of mob Y and collect Z random items!

Achievement Unlocked: You looted the 100th Green Watering can without noticing you never looted any useful gear!

Achievement Unlocked: You can now tell a players level by recognizing the weapon and armor from the Renown Merchant!

Achievement Unlocked: You came to the conclusion that WAR is boring after your 1st weekend!

Submission + - EVE Online to Linux

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 11, 2007 @10:37AM

An anonymous reader writes: Linuxlookup.com is reporting CCP Games, one of the world's largest independent game developers, today announced a partnership with TransGaming Inc., a leading developer of software portability products for the electronic entertainment industry. The strategic relationship will enable CCP to deliver its popular massively multiplayer online game (MMOG), EVE Online, with Linux and Macintosh platforms later this year.

Study Says No Future for Video iTunes 189

Posted by samzenpus on Monday May 14, 2007 @10:56AM from the video-wants-to-be-free dept.

eldavojohn writes "Reuters is running a story on a study that claims "Online video sites that sell shows and movies such as Apple Inc.'s iTunes will likely peak this year as more programming is made available on free outlets supported by advertising." Many channels have wised up to offering their content hosted from their own sites for free — with commercials — to cut out iTunes as the middle man. End result? Predictions that services like iTunes-Video have no future."

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