Submission + - RIP Robin Williams (buckinghampost.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The 63 year old renowned actor has passed away. Death linked to suicude.
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Comment Most common professions for politicians (Score 5, Informative) 188
According to this article from The Economist the most common background for politicians word wide is Law (surprise!) and then comes (in order) Business, Diplomacy, Military, Journalism, Economics, Medicine, Academia, and Engineering.
Almost 20% of the politicians had a Law background while about 7% had an Engineering background.
Almost 20% of the politicians had a Law background while about 7% had an Engineering background.
Submission + - Wikileaks founder suspected of rape (www.svd.se)
while(true) writes: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested in his absence for two counts of rape by a swedish prosecutor. Assanges current whereabouts are unknown. Two women approached the swedish police on friday describing two different instances of rape. The women where "too afraid" to press charges, but the prosecutor has decided to arrest Assange in his absence on suspicion of rape. The link is in swedish.
Comment No... (Score 2, Insightful) 518
No. Piracy is holding back PC gaming. PC sales are ridiculous low for most single-player, non-casual, PC games. Game publishers are doing the natural thing; focusing on consoles where the problem of piracy is much, much smaller.
IMHO the industry should be commended that it, unlike some other industries, fight piracy by changing it's way of doing business instead of choosing the path of litigation and legislation.
IMHO the industry should be commended that it, unlike some other industries, fight piracy by changing it's way of doing business instead of choosing the path of litigation and legislation.
Comment Checks?! (Score 2, Funny) 187
You americans are funny!
Comment Already taken care of (Score 1) 144
Google already has a opt-out solution for all you privacy-doubters.
Comment Re:I wonder (Score 1) 256
Don't know about searching, but 9/11 caused several of the worlds largest news sites to be inaccessible for over an hour.
Submission + - The Pirate Party wins 2 seats in EU parliament
while(true) writes: The Swedish Pirate Party has secured around 7% of the country's votes in the election to the European Union parliament. This means it likely has enough votes to claim 2 seats in the parliament. The Swedish Pirate Party has as it's only agenda "to fundamentally reform copyright law, get rid of the patent system, and ensure that citizens' rights to privacy are respected".
Comment The actual article in The Sun (Score 5, Informative) 240
The actual article:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2284752.ece
