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Submission + - Video Game Is Blamed In Triple Homicide in New Mex

Submitted by zasos on Tuesday September 26, 2006 @12:10PM

zasos writes: From i-wanted-a-piece-of-them-gaming-industry-for-a-lon g-time dapartment:
Years after little Cody Posey shot and killed three family members on the southern New Mexico ranch, several other family members filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Cody and the makers of a popular video game Grand Theft Auto -- a game, attorney Jack Thompson said, played a role in Cody killing his family members. The game's maker Sony, Take 2 Interactive Software, and Rock Star games are defendants in the suit. Monday Take 2 Interactive Software and Rock Star games said the suit had no merit and they would strongly defend their company.

Submission + - Set-top box consumes almost $80/year in electricit

Submitted by zasos on Monday September 11, 2006 @07:28PM

zasos writes: The 'never-really-off' set-top box for your cable TV needs the juice to bring your favorite TV show at a whim of a moment. Reuters points out that it may cost you about $80 a year... Another reason to cut the cable?..

Submission + - German police seize TOR servers

Submitted by zasos on Monday September 11, 2006 @03:22AM

zasos writes: From the i-fook-u-i-fook-u department
BoingBoing picked up a report that German police has raided and seized TOR server rooms. TOR is a service that allows one to anonymize his or her internet experience (web, chat, etc). BoingBoing writes: “We need support, lots of people are chanting the same stupid arguments against anonymization over and over again... "You dont need to be afraid if you have nothing to hide" ... "Only criminals have the need for anonymity." [] AskMefi has a great list of responses to that infernal "if you have nothing to hide..." question.

soultcer.net : "According to an owner of one of the servers, who talked to a public prosecutor, the public prosecutors office knew that the server owners had nothing to do with the child pornography case. Regardless they confiscated some hard disks so that the TOR servers were unusable. As reason they stated that they wanted to scan for traces (e.g. log files). Even though TOR does not keep any logs? I dont really believe them...
Why have the hard disks really been confiscated??"

citizen428.net: :Don’t get me wrong, child pornography is one of the worst crimes I can think of, and I wish the German authorities all the best in finding the people they are after. I do however feel that the route taken here wasn’t ideal, as it may well lead to a negative perception of Tor in the general public."

itnomad: "One operator whose server was seized as well wrote a letter to all the TOR-operators in Germany he was aware of, reaching me as well; he wrote that he is not aware of any charges pressed against him at the moment and that his provider, whose server-room was raided, was not avilable for a real comment on the weekend."

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