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Re: News topic

Post by JHawkNH » June 19th, 2009, 3:41 pm

Zeratul2k wrote:Internet Censorship in Germany: next China? http://netzpolitik.org/2009/the-dawning ... n-germany/
The only good thing about this is to see the people riase up against it. It shows that people won't take the erosion of their rights without a fight.

On another note I just saw that Germany passed a law banning all Violent video games. (Any violance agains a human or human like creature)

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Re: News topic

Post by Sakura » June 19th, 2009, 7:20 pm

Japan I guess
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Post by Zeratul2k » June 19th, 2009, 8:40 pm

Interesting article showing how (as suspected by everyone except the Supreme Court) the 1.9 million USD the jury awarded the recording industry in the Jammie Thomas case may be unconstitutional: http://techdirt.com/articles/20090618/1950315285.shtml

Of course, taking into account previous rulings, there's no such thing as "constitutional" to the Supreme Court when the myth of copyright is presented to them.
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Re: News topic

Post by Zeratul2k » June 19th, 2009, 8:53 pm

This article (although not news) gives a very interesting (and easy to read) insight on the state-of-the-art of space travel and the current theories that could "get us off this rock". Very recommended, if only for the amusing "Star Trek-style Warp Drives may be possible" stuff: http://gizmodo.com/5247705/why-we-need- ... nd-we-will
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Re: News topic

Post by Dechant » June 20th, 2009, 7:28 pm

JHawkNH wrote:I just saw that Germany passed a law banning all Violent video games. (Any violance agains a human or human like creature)
Nope, there's no law like that in Germany (yet).

However, the censorship ('stop sign to fight child abuse') as well as politicians who try to blame 'killer games' and even paintball for a brutalisation of the youth exactly shows the depth of efforts of our government for a better society. I know other countries have much much worse problems than Germany though.

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Post by Zeratul2k » June 23rd, 2009, 4:18 pm

Yet that's no excuse to let them censor the tubes. Please sign the petition, everyone: Signing the E-Petion for Non-Germans
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Post by Zeratul2k » June 24th, 2009, 12:49 am

Developer copied source code for buggy Xbox 360 Shooter: http://kotaku.com/5297410/developer-cop ... 60-shooter

Shame on them!
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Post by Zeratul2k » June 25th, 2009, 5:47 pm

And Data for All: Why Obama's Geeky New CIO Wants to Put All Gov't Info Online: http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerig ... -07/mf_cio

And, again, "Microsoft Cots Off Its Nose": http://www.computerworlduk.com/communit ... tryid=2307
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Re: News topic

Post by Elvin » June 25th, 2009, 6:21 pm

We need space travel to get us off Earth before global warming kills us all XO

And I expected more from 5pb :(

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Re: News topic

Post by Zeratul2k » June 26th, 2009, 2:15 am

2009 Declaration of the Anonymous Netizens (towards China's censors, but could well be sent to anyone who tries to censor the tubes): http://docs.google.com/View?id=ddp7hnsf_3ktp563gh
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