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« Last post by wraith808 on January 21, 2012, 10:32 AM »Hmmm... shouldn't it be ammo, then jury? 
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I could hardly find the list of achievements, so I dug it out, it's here-Ath (January 20, 2012, 11:44 AM)
If you think the people behind the Patriot Act, DHS, and Gitmo will let this stand? You're insane.
http://rt.com/usa/ne...ion-authorities-231/American authorities helped issue arrests on Thursday for four people in New Zealand that they say are responsible for the website.
Ahem... Since when do "American authorities" have jurisdiction in New Zealand?
Does anyone get where this is going? Global police? Police state? Police planet?-Renegade (January 19, 2012, 08:26 PM)
The agency said it executed more than 20 search warrants in the United States and eight countries...
Yesterday, it was black picket signs that blocked visitors from accessing the content.-app103 (January 19, 2012, 03:05 PM)
Feds Shutter Megaupload, Arrest Executives
Megaupload, the popular file-sharing site, was shuttered Thursday and its executives indicted by the Justice Department in what the authorities said was “among the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought by the United States.”
Seven individuals connected to the Hong Kong-based site were indicted on a variety of charges, including criminal copyright infringement and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Four of the members of what the authorities called a “racketeering conspiracy” were arrested Thursday in Auckland, New Zealand, the authorities said.
One of those arrested was Kim Schmitz, aka Kim Dotcom, Megaupload’s founder. His attorney, Ira Rothken of California, said neither he nor his 37-year-old client, who resides in Hong Kong and New Zealand, was given the opportunity to surrender. Schmitz was arrested without notice, he said.
“We’re looking into what’s going on,” Rothken said in a telephone interview.
Visitors to the Megaupload site, which gets about 50 million hits daily, were greeted with a message from the Justice Department. ”This domain name associated with the website Megaupload.com has been seized pursuant to an order issued by a U.S. District Court.”
The government said the site facilitated copyright infringement of movies “often before their theatrical release, music, television programs, electronic books, and business and entertainment software on a massive scale.” The government said Megaupload’s “estimated harm” to copyright holders was “well in excess of $500 million.”
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For the most part, the "little people" really don't have time (because they're not supposed to...) to babysit these evil pricks.-Stoic Joker (January 19, 2012, 12:03 PM)
They'll sneak it into an appropriation bill while nobody's looking during recess, because there's too much lobbyist money at stake for them not to.-Renegade (January 19, 2012, 04:17 AM)
No, the fido.net was not a mistuk.
It exists and, if you read the background and related material, you will probably see why it's called that. It doesn't appear to be a scam riding illegitimately on Fidonet's coattails, or anything similar.-IainB (January 14, 2012, 10:07 AM)
http://www.fido.net-IainB (January 14, 2012, 09:13 AM)
That guy there -- he's a hero.-Renegade (January 14, 2012, 08:18 AM)
As if the USA were some world police. Bah.-Tuxman (January 13, 2012, 03:54 PM)
A bit of anti-aliasing will clear that right up...Since we appear to be on a pirate ship — and I have the peg leg, the eye-patch, but no parrot — I must ask, where's my polygon?-wraith808 (January 13, 2012, 04:46 PM)-cranioscopical (January 13, 2012, 10:23 PM)
what can I say, it's friday night-tomos (January 13, 2012, 04:29 PM)
And to force using it, e.g. Spotify.-Tuxman (January 12, 2012, 05:35 PM)
Since most of my applications do have a GUI, I begin there, designing it in my head, imagining myself as the user and using the application mentally. When I feel comfortable with the mental image, I begin drawing it on paper, with notes as to what each control will do when activated and other text based notes about its unseen inner workings.-app103 (January 13, 2012, 11:44 AM)
Surov warns against jumping to early conclusions. He said, “It is quite possible that the GMO does not cause these effects by itself.” Surov wants to make the analysis of the feed components a priority, to discover just what is causing the effect and how.
I'm at Softlayer. They do dedicated servers, so... Not sure... I have to move to get a VPS.
At the moment, I'm working on moving everything on one server to another just to consolidate them. That way I can drop the old server, and save on those costs. Then get a VPS (or another server) and move everything from the other server there.-Renegade (January 10, 2012, 12:34 AM)
These things are specifically and intentionally designed to produce toxins/poisons.
