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88106 No.7951   [Reply]

"Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered an end to military operations against Georgia, the Kremlin says.

He told officials he had decided to end the campaign after restoring security for Russian citizens and peacekeepers in South Ossetia. "

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7555858.stm


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14767 No.7943   [Reply]

"The Pirate Bay" banned in Italy.
The popular site has been obscured in Italy.
However, the site is now accessible thanks to a new domain.
This is part of a message to the italian users of the site made by the guys of The Pirate Bay.

Fascist state censors Pirate Bay

We're quite used to fascist countries not allowing freedom of speech. A lot of smaller nations that have dictators decide to block our site since we can help spread information that could be harmful to the dictators.

This time it's Italy. They suffer from a really bad background as one of the IFPIs was formed in Italy during the fascist years and now they have a fascist leader in the country, Silvio Berlusconi. Berlusconi is also the most powerful person in Italian media owning a lot of companies that compete with The Pirate Bay and he would like to stay that way - so one of his lackeys, Giancarlo Mancusi, ordered a shutdown of our domain name and IP in Italy to make it hard to not support Berlusconis empire.

>> No.7944  

http://labaia.org/

>> No.7945  

And another step is taken towards to 2012 goal:
A pay per view internet resembling TV cable where outside of a few core package of websites, you are charged per page view of each site.


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16677 No.7936   [Reply]

"ALHAMBRA - The Sunday morning drive took a bizarre turn today after a bag with $2,000 cash fell from the back of a Harley Davidson on the San Bernardino Freeway, sending people into high-speed traffic to try to catch the flying bills. Seriously.

The incident occurred after a canvas backpack came loose from the motorcycle while the driver, identified by police only as "Mr. Yee," was riding down the 10 Freeway near Garfield Avenue about 11 a.m.

The contents of the bag, including the cash and a laptop computer, spilled onto the eastbound lanes of the freeway.

Risking life and limb to scrounge up a couple extra bucks, people stopped for several minutes. To pick up the cash. On the freeway. "

http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_10159547

>> No.7940  

Sounds like something a villain would do in a movie, like the Joker spreading money around a crowded football stadium just to induce chaos.

>> No.7941  

>>7940
Some day I shall do just that.

>> No.7942  

>>7941
Goddamn yippie.


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18192 No.7915   [Reply]
>US singer-songwriter Isaac Hayes has died at his home in Memphis, Tennessee, at the age of 65, police said.
>Police were called to Mr Hayes' home after his wife found him unconscious. He was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead at 1408 (1908 GMT).

Why are all the cool black people dieing?

>> No.7916  

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7552986.stm

>> No.7918  

In before failed OT powers.

>> No.7919  

>>7918
didn't make his payments.

>> No.7920  

One less scientologist.

>> No.7921  

>>7920

>One less scientologist.

While that is always good this one is one of the few exceptions.

>> No.7922  
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217523

'Bye Chef.

>> No.7923  

>>7922 Oh, wait. Is he Chef from Southpark?!

>> No.7924  

>>7923
yep

>> No.7925  

>>7923
Was. He got upset over them mocking his cult and left.

>> No.7937  
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Get up, Isaac. We mean it. David Miscavige doesn't allow dying at the Celebrity Center. You don't see Tom Cruise acting like that. Now improve that condition of yours, STAT, or we'll bring the guys from Ethics to go all Xenu on your ass!


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29771 No.7935   [Reply]

"A federal judge ordered three college students to cancel a Sunday presentation at a computer hackers' conference where they planned to show security flaws in the automated fare system used by Boston's subway.

The temporary restraining order, issued by a U.S. district judge in Massachusetts, prevented the Massachusetts Institute of Technology students from demonstrating at the Defcon conference in Las Vegas how to use the vulnerabilities to get free rides."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080810/ap_on_hi_te/subway_hack


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49070 No.7776   [Reply]

"The New Zealand town of Whakatane has found itself censored in cyberspace because the pronunciation of the word is close to the offensive F-word.

The censorship was uncovered when a visitor to the tourist town on the east coast of the North Island tried to connect to the local council's wireless service called Freenet.

His Internet searches for "Whakatane" were rejected, with the Freenet website offering the explanation that: "The content is filtered so this service is for legitimate use."

Whakatane District Council spokesman Barney Dzowa said the problem lay with the pronunciation of the town's name where the "wh" takes an "f" sound.

"The content filter is an American-based product, and it does a phonetic analysis of what has been typed in," he said.

"Whakatane, to the system, sounds like an F-word.""

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>> No.7778  

>>7776
Just wait until governments decide to ensure that all ISPs make sure their service is for legitimate use only.

>> No.7779  

>>7776
How the hell does a computer do a phonetic analysis? And who the hell spells ANYTHING "Fuckatane?"

>> No.7780  

I am so confused. What >>7779 said! Even if the name of the town was Whuck or Guckyou. Certainly if it was Phuck or Fack or Fook. But Whakatane? Sounds like somebody wrote a glitchy filter.

>> No.7782  

There's no such thing as a non-glitchy filter. They're modern-day snake oil bought only by moronic governments trying to keep employees/hobos/students away from porn and by Jesus freaks because they're...well, Jesus freaks.

>> No.7784  

>>7782
Can't we get a filter to keep Jesus-freaks away from employees/hobos/students instead?

>> No.7785  

>>7779
Soundex matching. Oldest trick in the book. Also really really primitive especially for content filtering.

>> No.7789  

in school i used to search for "ponography" because porn was filtered

>> No.7810  

>>7789

I used to just look over a dopey teachers shoulder, nick the password, and use an admin account for anything I didn't want filtered. Proxied so the idiots wouldn't get fired for surfing crap or otherwise draw attention to my illicit use.

>> No.7850  
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>>7780

Just like those who spell it 'WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!', but pronounce it 'REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!', amirite?

>> No.7933  

>>7779
>>7780

What about a certain city in Thailand? If people want to search for travel information to there, they'll be Phuket.

...I'll get my sarong.


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5657 No.7909   [Reply]

"Intel says it plans to roll out a bevy of midrange processors, all built on its new 45-nanometer manufacturing process, on Monday."

"The Core 2 Quad Q9650 heads the list of updated chips, according to Intel. It has a core clock speed of 3GHz, a 12MB level-2 cache, a 1333MHz front-side bus, and is rated at 95 watts. Generally, the larger the level-2 cache memory, the better the performance. The front-side bus (FSB) carries data between the processor and other silicon."

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10011940-64.html

>> No.7917  

Intel's next-generation desktop processors will be branded "Intel Core" with an "i7" identifier for the first wave of products.

The i7 identifier will apply to the first crop of high-end desktop processors, according to George Alfs, an Intel spokesperson. Other identifiers will come later that will "complement" the i7, said Alfs.

There will be a separate black logo for the highest-end offering called the Extreme Edition. Model numbers will differentiate each chip.

"The Core name is and will be our flagship PC processor brand going forward," Sean Maloney, Intel executive vice president and general manager, said in a statement.

Intel is trying to simplify branding. In the past "it's been Core Duo, Core Solo...Basically, we're going to simplify Nehalem down to just Core," Alfs said.

Currently known by the code name Nehalem, the desktop Core i7 processors are slated to ship in the fourth quarter and will be based on a new microarchitecture that will have faster chip-to-chip communication and be better at doing multiple tasks simultaneously--what Intel calls hyper-threading, among other improvements.

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>> No.7932  

That's actually two 6-megabyte L2 caches and a shared 1333mhz FSB. Dual-socket dual-core SMP in one socket, essentially, much like the dual-core netbursts were just two P4s slapped together.


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10548 No.7260   [Reply]

"The US has agreed to scrap immunity for foreign security guards in Iraq, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari says.

The US embassy in Baghdad has not confirmed the announcement, which comes as the US and Iraq are negotiating a controversial security pact.

Foreign firms employing thousands of guards won huge contracts in Iraq after the 2003 US-led invasion, but were not subject to Iraqi or US military law.

Iraqi frustration became fury last year when guards killed 17 people in a day.

Correspondents say a deal on scrapping contractors' immunity brings the two countries closer to signing the long-term security pact. "

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7484969.stm

>> No.7270  

Good, Fucking cowboys.

>> No.7273  

"Security guards". Hired guns, is what they actually are.

>> No.7282  

Modern day Pinkertons.

>> No.7927  

Good. Fucking sociopaths.

>> No.7928  

Time to arrest some black water boys and put them on trial for murder, let's see where this leads.

>> No.7930  

>>7928
I'd prefer they receive field executions.


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34172 No.7719   [Reply]

http://www.nme.com/news/my-chemical-romance/38392

Emo to be made illegal in Russia?

New laws planned to stop 'dangerous teen trends'

* Jul 23, 2008

A new Russian law could make being an emo kid illegal in the eastern European country.

Legislation is currenting being formulated in Russia to heavily regulate emo websites and ban emo and goth dress style in schools and government buildings.

The new laws are apparently being driven by fears that these "dangerous teen trends" encourage depression and suicide.

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>> No.7775  

>>7754

That list is only reliable when compiled from sources that can be described as accurate. Obviously there is a higher rate of reporting in an industrialised country such as ireland than in say Angola.

>> No.7797  

>>7770
Blow things way out of proportion much?

>> No.7799  

>>7797
Frog in water being brought to the boil slowly much?

>> No.7808  

>>7770

It's enough to make you want to start a new country. But then it would be full of people like us, and I think we all know that a chan nation would end up starting WW3. It would make the Dutch look socially repressed, though.

>> No.7825  

This is a parody article, right? Like The Onion?

>> No.7838  

>>7825
Like stories of this kind usually are, it's most likely a proposal for a law being reported as a done deal. Possibly even a proposal by the opposition, in which case it's got about a snowball's chance in a bonfire of passing.

I mean, we've had reports of the value of pi being legislated as 3 in the US too. Didn't turn out to be true, did it.

>> No.7849  

>>7770

>America lets religious freaks beat the crap out of people to 'exorcise demons'
>America lets religious freaks beat the crap out of people
>America lets religious freaks

Even more reason why religion should be banned in America. Indeed, it should be banned EVERYWHERE in the world.

>Germany bans holocaust denial and, ironically, fascism

They're banning $cientology, which proves Germans have intelligence & common sense.

>Canada bans loli.
>Russia bans teen culture
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>>7849
You say that as if loli is a BAD thing?

>> No.7859  

>>7853

It is? :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

>> No.7911  

>>7859
Loli ??

This could form it's own debate and hijack the subject so all I'll say is that really, drawings don't require abuse of children to produce, thus harmless and victimless.

>>7719
Banning emos could be partly the chemo for curing teenage culture.

I don't know about goth though. Since when have they done anyone any harm or irritation?


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21694 No.7805   [Reply]

[b]Do they really think the earth is flat?[/b]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7540427.stm

In the 21st Century, the term "flat-earther" is used to describe someone who is spectacularly - and seemingly wilfully - ignorant. But there is a group of people who claim they believe the planet really is flat. Are they really out there or is it all an elaborate prank?

Nasa is celebrating its 50th birthday with much fanfare and pictures of past glories. But in half a century of extraordinary images of space, one stands out.

the Apollo 8 mission took a photo now known as Earthrise. To many, this beautiful blue sphere viewed from the moon's orbit is a perfect visual summary of why it is right to strive to go into space.

Not to everybody though. There are people who say they think this image is fake - part of a worldwide conspiracy by space agencies, governments and scientists.

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>> No.7828  

>>7807

>Because needing 4GB of ram for the OS to waste on pretty pictures and spinning cubes is really the way forwards.

Not to mention 20GB

>> No.7829  

Why are you here still here?

>> No.7840  

>>7805
Hey ISM, nice to see you're still fighting the good fight now that /n/ has been taken over by trainfags

>> No.7841  

Go away, ISM

>> No.7842  

>>7840

>Hey ISM, nice to see you're still fighting the good fight now that /n/ has been taken over by trainfags

An enemy of reason is an enemy of me.

>> No.7847  
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758674

Hey, Flat-Earthers - chew on THIS fact: If the Earth is 'flat', then why are the supporting towers of the Humber Bridge one inch wider at the top than at the bottom? Could it be... because they were designed like that, to take into account the curvature of the Earth? CURVATURE. As in the Earth being SPHERICAL.

Besides, Terry Pratchett created his Discworld to take the piss out of the Flat-Earthers, and how stupid they are.

>> No.7852  

>>7847
Absolutely not. The supporting towers are wider at the base as the structure needs to be stronger there to support the weight of the tower above it. Hence they are thicker at the bottom. For the side the "experts" are supposedly on, you sure don't know a lot of elementary physics.

>> No.7861  

let them make a journey around the world, they will understand then that the earth is ether flat, or they will be lost forever

>> No.7881  

>>7807
Because ignorance is AWESOME.

>> No.7906  

So let's insult the very people you want to win over.

I never thought Microsoft could possibly do anything stupider.


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