It seems as if “Kim Dotcom” is still active and going to show the copyright
holders the big middle finger after the imprisonment that happened in 2012
against him in new Zealand. As for now, he is free again and planning to bring
up a new, improved Megaupload service. What it will be, is yet unknown.

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As already posted last year, Starlight Events has again taken the idea to make
the Bundeshaus Bern a giant screen. This year’s show deals with the topic
technics, science, lifestyle of Switzerland. An impressive lightshow is ahead of
you. This show is 22 minutes long. Simply said: Fascinating and enchanting!

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The storm is over but the real disaster is just now visible. The following pics
show what Sandy has left. And if you think, a giant city like New York is safe
against mother nature, well… think again! All pictures are copyright of their
respective owners.

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Hello people, my blog is back again. The downtime has based on the lack of
ability to process a payment for the webspace between two banks. After some
haggling and several phone calls, the two banks were finally able to process
my transaction without any unwanted surprises. Now I have peace for 1 year!

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While in Switzerland snow dominates the current weather situation, the east
coast of the USA is facing a big tropical hurricane. Sandy, as the monster is
called is approaching and the people in New York expect massive damage.
As a result of the storm, most shops and even the Wall Street stay closed.

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The iPhone 5 is just out for a month and now the first problems are already
reported. Scratched aluminum-backsides, scratched and caved sideframes
and purple-balanced picture quality under certain circumstances are the
most mentionned problems so far. Grim outlooks for a 900$ product.

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When it comes to Home Security, the USA is willing to take every step to
reduce any possible threat. As read here. Huawei was rejected when it came
to a public tender for network equipment dealing with the overseas
connections. Huawei offered the lowest prices, but the USA still refused.

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Mess with the best, die like the rest. In today’s case, this is what Google could
have said to the french government that has planned a fee for linking to
media sites containing multimedia and press content. France has just dis-
cussed such a fee as Germany already has set up plans for the government.

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When thinking about GPU, one has only one thing in mind. When does the
next generation GPU come out and how will it outwit it’s predecessors?
According to some ideas of the EU, GPU classes determine how much power
they’re allowed to consume. There are seven classes of GPUs.

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You can’t tell for sure what this truck driver has thought. But maybe he
thought, he was playing “Need for Speed – Most Wanted” or GTA… But
speeding with such high velocity into such a harsh turn is for sure not a
good idea, especially when your vehicle is a truck and not a Laborghini.

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As if the situation for Assange doesn’t look grim already, the activists called
Anonymous have turned their backs on him as Wikileaks has decided to
make some of the critical dossiers only accessible when interested users have
donated. Being annoyed by this, Anonymous officially declared their point.

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Alarm clocks come in a variety of flavors. Some are the old classical bellers,
others have a very annoying beep, again others need to be tossed around to
snooze down and again some use light to wake you up. All these clocks have
one thing in common. They are subject to fail on certain persons.

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The smartphone is today as essential as the daily newspaper or the E-Mail.
Communication seems essential to most of us. The upcoming generation
doesn’t even hesitate to use the gadget on the toilet. A recent study now
has revealed what happens on the toilets nowadays.

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Sorry for the late posting of the saturday. It’s been a very cool and amusing
Oktoberfest visit. As always, we had a couple too many beers. Yet it was
funny. Although the cell network was stable, my fingers weren’t too skilly
enough to properly write the post at the time intended.

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When you go by train with Deutsche Bahn, the sentence above is one of these
you´ll hear at each station the train is about to stop. Annoying when the train
is late (again!). In my case just that happened. I am sorry that my blog entry
didn´t show up yesterday as intended. But it´s the cellphone net, you know…

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About 4 years ago, Bluray discs came into the stores and finally eradicated
it’s archrival HD-DVD. Meantime, there are also Recordables that allow you
to burn 25 or 50(dual-layer) GB of data onto them. Quite a lot of space for
Photos, Movies or the like if you use this medium for backup purposes.

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Water taps are for humans only? Nah! There’s a little critter that develops
a distinctive taste for water and how to utilize it. Looks kinda funny when
an everyday item is not used from humans but from an animal.
With this, I wish you a nice sunday. Enjoy the weekend.

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What happens if our beloved Mario goes berzerk because he’s pissed of
rescuing Princess Peach all over and over again? Well… let’s say, he IS
the new Duke Nukem hero although he’s not armed with a big gun and
shooting his way to the goal.

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Nature always has spectacular moments. But when two phenomenons
meet, then it’s good when you’re equipped with a camera. In this case,
a bushfire has started in Australia and caused the air to twirl up forming
a tornado. The fire itself uses the funnel to climb up into the smoke clouds.

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hardly announced, the first people in New York are already waiting for
Apple’s new gadget. Although the phone will be available on Friday, there
are some people already camping at the Apple store just to be first in line
to get the new iPhone. How long are you willing to wait?

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The hunt for world records is always active. And Hot Wheels seems to see
the Guinness Book Of World Records as a good marketing instrument.
In this video, wou’ll witness the World record for a 4wheeled quad doing
a corkscrew spin using a specially slanted ramp.

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It’s not often that you se fascinating things. But walls that do 3D shaping to
display objects and patterns are not seen everyday. In Korea at the
Hyundai Motor Group Pavillion a room having 3 sides equipped with
movable squares was shown at the EXPO 2012.

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When discussing about climatic changes caused by man with a co-worker,
she told me that New York has been struck by a tornado. I just thought,
she was shittin’ me but Google taught me better: On September 8th, 2012
a tornado has struck the NY borough Queens leaving some destruction.

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Holtzbrinck, the former owner of StudiVZ, once being a popular social
network in germany, has sold the whole StudiVZ network to the capital
investor Vert Capital. StudiVZ has been formerly known to be part of
Poolworks. Holtzbrinck Digital still reserves the rights on schuelerVZ.

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While many people think, Nokia’s dead, it seems as if Nokia brings up a
new smartphone with Windows 8 Mobile. Slim, sleek and fast, that’s what
the Lumia 920 is said to be. But is the newest phone really the resue for
the already-buried Nokia company?

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Initially planned for opening in 2011, the schedule was set for June 2012,
now it seems as if the new airport BER won’t open before autumn 2013,
Flights that have already been planned for BER in 2012 have now to be
managed by Berlin-Tegel (TXL) and Schönefeld (SXF).

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The fight never stops… As Apple and Samsung have a still ongoing patent
fight, there seems another light ray for Samsung. As recently known, the
jury seems not to have checked the validity of Apple’s patents properly.
The questions concerning the check process have not been answered.

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Driving sometimes can suck if you’re in a traffic jam for example.
There are several drivers developing some sort of odd workarounds to
evade the traffic jam. Many are successful but some end in epic fail!
This driver has chosen the second option. Overtaking and monorailing!

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Definitely a bad idea to drive a bulldozer while having too much alcohol.
This bulldozer driver had one, two, too many drinks and still decided to
mount his vehicle and start driving. I am not sure whether he tried to
evade the car that’s heading towards him or if he wanted revenge.

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Nothing much to laugh for kids in the russian Federation. All in the name
of saving their children from “bad influence”. What sounds sort of crazy
has become true just recently in Russia. Besides Tom and Jerry, there are
already The Simpsons off the Air and Winnie The Poo Bear.

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The New Zealand High Court has now officially confirmed 6 million NZ$
to be given back to Kim Schmitz so that he can pay the lawyer costs, the
lawsuit has generated so far. Also, cars have been released so that he can
sell these, too. It seems as if the Kim Schmitz story will soon come to end.

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They bite & fight, they bite & fight & bite… bite bite bite, fight fight fight,
THE APPLE AND SAMSUNG SHOOOW…. Sorry, could not resist to make
a simpsons parody out of this but the battle between these two is ongoing
for such a long time. Apple has officially stated to let sales stop for…

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