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Submission + - School shooting at .fi after YouTube videos

Submitted by on Wednesday November 07, 2007 @10:44AM

An anonymous reader writes: Today a school shooting took place in Finnish school of Jokela, Tuusula. My big condolences to all families and friends of its victims. :(

A student with obvious mental problems took lives of seven people (status at 15:51 +2UTC, one critical with head wound in hospital) with .22 caliber pistol. His is now in police custody. According to his now closed youtube account his previous account got removed: YouTube suspended my previous account but I am back now :) My new account name is German and means "Stormspirit" in English. — reasons that it was full of similar videos showing that he is planning this massacre. People at Youtube and its users surely think that they should have done more than close his account. The question is, how many others are out there, and will we learn something about this? How this will change our access to online services like youtube and goverment reactions to such cases in the future? Finnish PM Matti Vanhanen already stated that it's extremely difficult to prepare to such incidents but I don't fully agree with him as there were clear evident in youtube days before and lot of people saw it.

A really sad story indeed. :(

Submission + - Vista DVD cover: Who Are Those People? (blogspot.com)

Submitted by Pete on Tuesday June 12, 2007 @06:00AM

Pete writes: A picture of three guys have been discovered on the Windows Vista DVD cover. Who are they? There are three more holographic pictures, but it hasn't been possible to reveal more details about them yet. Do you have a Vista DVD and a microscope?

Submission + - Patient bleeds dark green blood (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by

throup

on Friday June 08, 2007 @05:55AM

throup writes: "BBC News is reporting a story (originally from The Lancet — registration required) about a patient who bled dark green blood in the operating theatre. Unlike Mr Spock, this case is nothing to do with Vulcan heritage but apparently linked to a medical condition, brought on by the patient's medication, where sulphur is combined in haemoglobin molecules."

MPAA and FBI Help To Train Swedish Police 165

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @07:24AM from the Pirate-Bay-not-obvious-enough? dept.

Several readers let us know about a program in which a US FBI agent and employees of the MPAA led a seminar for Swedish police officers in methods of finding and stopping illegal downloading from the Internet. The writer at zeropaid.com says, "I bet the Swedish people are going to love to find out that the US government and a US lobbying group now have a hand in training their police personnel. So much for the notion of national sovereignty." Reader Oxygen provided a bit of translation from an article in Swedish on IDG.se: "According to Bertil Ramsell, responsible for the course, the purpose of the visit was to give the invited speakers a chance to explain to the students what their organization's purpose was. But in a report from the IIPA, the purpose was to educate students in anti-piracy."

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