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Comment Re:Is there a killmail? (Score 1) 620

yes here: http://mofo.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=7309710

the articel on massively has quite some facts wrong anyway. the alliance that guy was in had an active war declaration going (during that their opponents are allowed to shoot them even in the normal safe "empire"). So it was in fact sheer stupidity to undock with such valuable cargo in such a fragile ship during an active war. The attackers didin't even knew that he was carrying the PLEX's. Without checking they also blew up the wreck. But that didn't matter anyways since they all blew up anyway (there is a chance for the cargo to drop intact and then it'd be retreivable from the resulting ship wreck).
In game news reported the victim already left the game for good. No wonder, he's now the laughing stock for almost the whole playerbase. *g*
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Best Man Rigs Newlyweds' Bed To Tweet During Sex 272

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:Insert (Score 1) 939

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

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

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

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.

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The State of UK Broadband — Not So Fast 279

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."

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