Comment Really? (Score 1) 262
Yet another reason that users might think twice before depending on Facebook for photo storage.
There are actually people using Facebook for storage? That's scary...
Comment Good thing... (Score 1) 210
Good thing we Europeans were warned before one of our member countries did something stupid...
Oh wait...
Oh wait...
Comment Missing option (Score 1) 459
"What would be the point?"
Submission + - The French government can now censor the internet (google.com)
Psychophrenes writes: A new episode in french internet legislation.
French ministers have passed a bill (original in french) allowing the government to add any website to a black list, which access providers will have to enforce. This black list will be defined by the government only, without requiring the intervention of the legal system.
Although originally intended against pedo-pornographic websites, this bill is already outdated, as was hadopi in its time, and instead paves the way for a global censorship of the "french internet".
French ministers have passed a bill (original in french) allowing the government to add any website to a black list, which access providers will have to enforce. This black list will be defined by the government only, without requiring the intervention of the legal system.
Although originally intended against pedo-pornographic websites, this bill is already outdated, as was hadopi in its time, and instead paves the way for a global censorship of the "french internet".
Comment Missing option... (Score 1) 162
My most productive day is Octeday, you insensitive clod!
The proud Ankh-Morporkian that I am is shocked by the Earth-centrism of this poll.
The proud Ankh-Morporkian that I am is shocked by the Earth-centrism of this poll.
Comment New product!!! (Score 1) 98
We're also releasing the Care-free Fedora!
This new model shrinks more and more as you reach your daily thought quota. If you're starting to have personal opinions, an HD tv-screen comes up in front of your eyes and cannot be switched off or removed for 12 hours!
But here's the best feature of this item : if you try to formulate disagreement or political opinions, or try to remove the hat, a mecanical arm reaches out and puts a bullet in your brain! To add a nice touch, it even places the gun in your hand to disguise it as suicide.
Buy now! Hurry!
Comment What a shame... (Score 1) 107
They could have found a new target for Alzheimer's, but no, it had to be its evil counterpart Alzhiemer's!
Damn Alzhiemer's, hogging all our scientists' efforts...
Damn Alzhiemer's, hogging all our scientists' efforts...
Comment Octeday! (Score 1) 510
You just can't compete with a good old octeday
Comment Re:Really? (Score 1) 387
Suspenseful?
As in "has the same structure as any other Hollywood movie" suspenseful?
I admit that the design and visual effects are great, but I'm sorry to say that's the only reason the film is worth watching.
I admit that the design and visual effects are great, but I'm sorry to say that's the only reason the film is worth watching.
Comment Easy... (Score 1) 212
It's hard to believe people will accept this kind of thing being installed on their computers, so I can't wait to see how Hadopi moves forward with it.
Easy! If you don't comply, they'll pretend you're not french.
The best thing is, by the time this crap makes it to users' computers (if it ever does), most downloaders will have moved on to non-P2P systems.
So this thing will only bother legal P2P users, nice...
Comment In other news... (Score 1) 110
75 dead, 150 wounded as haptic vest is tested during Die Hard movie
Submission + - Gigantic spiral of light observed over Norway (dailymail.co.uk) 6
Ch_Omega writes: A mysterious light display appearing over Norway last night has left thousands of residents in the north of the country baffled. Witnesses from Trøndelag to Finnmark compared the amazing display to anything from a Russian rocket to a meteor to a shock wave — although no one appears to have mentioned UFOs yet. The phenomenon began when what appeared to be a blue light seemed to soar up from behind a mountain. It stopped mid-air, then began to circulate. Within seconds a giant spiral had covered the entire sky. Then a green-blue beam of light shot out from its centre — lasting for ten to twelve minutes before disappearing completely.
The Norwegian Meteorological Institute was flooded with telephone calls after the light storm — which astronomers have said did not appear to have been connected to the aurora, or Northern Lights, so common in that area of the world."
Article in English here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1234430/Mystery-spiral-blue-light-display-hovers-Norway.html
More pictures here(in Norwegian): http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/distrikt/troms_og_finnmark/1.6902392?index=false
The Norwegian Meteorological Institute was flooded with telephone calls after the light storm — which astronomers have said did not appear to have been connected to the aurora, or Northern Lights, so common in that area of the world."
Article in English here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1234430/Mystery-spiral-blue-light-display-hovers-Norway.html
More pictures here(in Norwegian): http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/distrikt/troms_og_finnmark/1.6902392?index=false
Submission + - NASA Hacker McKinnon must face trial in the US (computerweekly.com)
bossanovalithium writes: UK Hacker Gary McKinnon has to be extradited to the US to face charges. The charges were bought againt the hacker after he gained entry into some 90 computers on a NASA and DoD network. McKinnon, diagnosed as suffering from Aspergers syndrome has confided to friends that he would rather die than go to the US and face jail time.
Submission + - Plasma Device Kills Bacteria on Skin in Seconds
Ponca City, We love you writes: "In medicine, plasma, the fourth state of matter, is already used for the sterilization of surgical instruments as plasma works at the atomic level and is able to reach all surfaces, even the interior of hollow needle ends. Now BBC reports that researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics have demonstrated a plasma device that can rid hands, feet, or even underarms of bacteria, including the hospital superbug MRSA, by creating cold atmospheric plasma that produces a cocktail of chemicals that kills bacteria but is harmless to skin. "The plasma produces a series of over 200 chemical reactions that involve the oxygen and nitrogen in air plus water vapor — there is a whole concoction of chemical species that can be lethal to bacteria," says Gregor Morfill. "It's actually similar to what our own immune system does." The team says that an exposure to the plasma of only about 12 seconds reduces the incidence of bacteria, viruses, and fungi on hands by a factor of a million — a number that stands in sharp contrast to the several minutes hospital staff can take to wash using traditional soap and water. Morfill says that the approach can be used to kill the bacteria that lead to everything from gum disease to body odor and that the prototype is scalable to any size and can be produced in any shape. "One can treat plasmas like a medical cocktail, which contains new and established agents that can be applied at the molecular level to cells in prescribed intensities and overall doses.""
Submission + - Microsoft actively stifling Win 7 complaints
aybiss writes: Aside from failing to provide support for its medium grade server OSes, Microsoft seems to also be directly working to keep bad publicitiy about Windows 7 down. Not only have they closed (or rather renamed) the Windows 7 general discussion forum, they've been removing posts and forcing the closure of topics about Windows 7 that seem to get a little hot. For anyone who hasn't been watching the forums, you may find it interesting to see how many cases are closed by an MSFT, and there are cases all over the forum that are marked answered but are clearly unresolved.
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