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Mininova Removes All Copyright-Infringing Torrents 352

Pabugs writes with news that popular torrent site Mininova has abandoned their attempts at filtering and simply deleted all torrents other than the legal ones they facilitate through their Content Distribution service. According to their blog post, they were left "no other option than to take [their] platform offline" after a court ruling from August. "The judge ruled that Mininova is not directly responsible for any copyright infringements, but ordered it to remove all torrents linking to copyrighted material within three months, or face a penalty of up to 5 million euros."

Comment Anyone remember that gif? (Score 1) 538

Reminds me of the man without a face, the one that tried to commit suicide by shotgun to face, but failed. He was alive all right, but he literally had no face, his jaw, eyes, cheekbones, cheeks were all blown to bits. He had a large gaping hole in his head for a face. I'm too lazy to look up the article but the gif image of him after he blew up his face was pretty gruesome, almost made me puke so be warned before you go off searching for it.

Comment Re:"Committed Suicide?" (Score 1) 538

I think if the people who wrote the bible saw how terminally ill people suffer extended periods of medical treatment before they die in modern times they would have written the bible differently. Back then you didn't need to commit suicide when you were terminally ill because you would die quickly enough that it didn't matter.

Comment Re:"Committed Suicide?" (Score 1) 538

Death is a complete unknown. Rather than face the pain he knows, clinging to another few years, days, hours with loved ones, he instead walked headfirst into what could very well be worse pain and debilitation (think any religion's hell), yet clearly in a desire to avoid the pain and debilitation that he knew.

Back in the day when the bible was written if you got a terminal disease, you would die quickly. Today we have hospitals and medical treatments that drag on the process. The people who wrote the bible back then probably lived in a world where suicide was mostly done by people running away from things not related to health, therefore they despised those people who committed suicide. People back then simply didn't commit suicide because of health problems because they would die shortly anyways if they got a disease. I think if they saw how people with terminal diseases have their lives dragged on by medical treatments wouldn't have wrote that you go to hell for suicide.

Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft Poland photoshops black guy to white one (microsoft.com) 1

wanted writes: "If you look at Microsoft's Poland business solutions website you will probably not notice anything wrong with the main picture. However, when you compare it with the original English version, it clearly shows that someone decided showing black people in Poland is not going to be that convincing to business. They just photoshopped the head of the black guy with a white one, in an amateur style leaving his hand unchanged. There's also a mirror just in case."
Image

Man Glued to Public Toilet 7

A 58-year-old, North Queensland man didn't find the humor in the prank that left him stuck to a shopping center toilet seat. The man had to be taken to the hospital with the seat still attached after he found himself caught by a fast-acting adhesive that had been smeared on the toilet. Hospital staff were able to remove the seat with the help of some industrial strength solvents. Cairns City Council community safety committee chair Di Forsyth said, "I'm disgusted that a gentlemen has had to go through that because someone thinks it's funny — it's a sick joke. I think the community would be outraged and quite rightly so ... it's quite a dangerous prank." Police have a few leads in the case, but nothing that will stick.

Comment Total waste of time for the author (Score 1) 410

Ridiculous, people need to learn to not drag on something that is done and over with. If you're a good author you don't continue a dead guy's novel series which he ended, you write a new story with new ideas perhaps drawing inspiration from hitchhikers guide. Continuing a series that was ended is just a total waste of time. The series was completed, get over it! (also fans of hitchiker need to reed dirk gentlys wholistic detective agency if you havnt already)
The Internet

Submission + - Teen Killed at Chinese Internet Addiction Camp (globaltimes.cn)

eldavojohn writes: Sixteen year old Deng Senshan was tragically beaten to death by three of his instructors in an internet addiction camp in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China. Reportedly it was for not being able to run fast enough. An article in the Wall Street Journal also says that, 'China's netizens have played a key role in drawing nationwide attention to recent cases of deaths in prisons and detention centers, so it should be no surprise that they are up in arms over the fate of one of their own. Many questioned the fairly new diagnosis of "Internet addiction" as a mental disorder.' Although it is difficult to find reliable sources reporting other deaths prior to Senshan. You may recall electroshock treatment being banned from use on internet addicts in China. According to Xinhua, more than 100 juveniles remain being 'treated' in the camp as it stays open. Perhaps for Senshan it would have been better to endure his cruel affliction instead of having his parents pay over $1,000 to be beaten to death?
Hardware Hacking

Submission + - DIY CPU thermal grease - using diamond dust! (inventgeek.com)

tygerstripes writes: "The dysfunctor has spotted an impressive project over on InventGeek.com; an innovative chap has developed his own thermal compound for improved CPU cooling, using diamond dust — the best available material for thermal conduction — as the key ingredient.

In spite of the quick-&-dirty DIY nature of the project, the gains in cooling performance are remarkable, especially considering the material cost was only $33. Given the price many enthusiasts will pay for a top-end cooler, it's easy to imagine this product coming to market quite soon."

Comment This would make the best space mmo (Score 1) 86

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SubSpace_(video_game) This game + 3d graphics and joystick controls + newtonian physics ( as in, once you start spinning, you keep spinning and once apply thrust, you keep moving ) would be spend-money-worthy. Actually any space game with newtonian physics would buy spend-money-worthy. There was something like this made by the guy who made X-Plane that you can download for free but that isn't really a game although you can fly around and shoot asteroids with a ship that handled like the space shuttle. With a joystick the setup would be your joystick 3d movement ( the 3rd "d" being twist / rudder ) would control the rotational thrusters, meaning that if you thrust in one direction you'll keep going in that direction until you thrust in the opposite direction to stop rotating. The " " axis would control rotational thrusters meaning if you push the joystick -----> you would spin clockwise and ---- would be counterclockwise. Pushing and pulling the joystick would control attitude, the rudder / twist would do the same thing that an airplane does, turning left and right. The hat-switch would be used to control lateral thrusters. I played the above mentioned game made by the guy who made X-Plane ( Austin Meyer I think? ) with this setup and it was quite a robust and awesome way of controlling a space ship. It's a little more complicated than controls for a plane like vehicle since you now have the option of using lateral thrusters to control the way you move, an analogy would be like saying a plane gives you 3 degrees of freedom but this setup gives you 6 degrees of freedom, well the analogy is not entirely correct but if you play that game mentioned by Austin Meyer or "Orbiter" or any space-flight simulator you will notice the difference. I think this kind of physics / control system would be just pure awesome in a multiplayer combat environment as there are pretty much boundless diversity in ways you could maneuver such a space ship. Also realistic weapons the behave like real lasers and gatling guns found on fighter jets with realistic spread would be cool. Also the fact that the velocities of the bullets would be added to relative velocities and that kind of realism, also the fact that moving fast through a debris field would make relative velocities of debris fast enough to damage the ships etc etc blah blah blah you get the idea...
Space

Submission + - Fermi Paradox = Fewer than 10 ET Civilizations? (technologyreview.com) 5

Al writes: "The Fermi Paradox focuses on the existence of advanced civilisations elsewhere in the galaxy. If these civilisations are out there--and many analyses suggest the galaxy should be teaming with life--why haven't we seen them? Carlos Cotta and Álvaro Morales from the University of Malaga in Spain add an another angle to the discussion about the speed at which a sufficiently advanced civilisation could colonise the galaxy. Various analyses suggest that using spacecraft that travel at a tenth of the speed of light, the colonization wavefront could take some 50 million years to sweep the galaxy. Others have calculated that it may be closer to 13 billion years, which may explain ET's absence. Cotta and Morales study how automated probes sent ahead of the colonisation could explore the galaxy. If these probes left evidence of a visit that lasts for 100 million years, then there can be no more than about 10 civilisations out there."

Comment What about all the other torrent websites? (Score 1) 224

Is TPB the only torrent tracker? I'm pretty sure that there are lots of torrent websites out there that either link to websites and serve as a torrent search engine or host their own torrents but I'm not sure how many trackers there are. What about mininova, isohunt, torrentz, demonoid, etc etc. A lot of torrents have TPB as a tracker even though they are downloaded from different sites. If I download a torrent from mininova, and TPB goes down, is there a chance the torrent wouldn't work because TPB is down?

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