But the UK accounted for just 4% of the download activity, with 47% coming from the United States.
Yet we are the ones that are going to be fined and banned from the net. Labour = Epic Fail.
Weird things you have read about. Page 84
Quote: DaButt @ August 28 2009, 4:04 AM BSTArmadillo cam!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/museumofanimalperspectives/3360365788/in/photostream/
See, not all Americans carry guns as a means of self-defence. Some carry samurai swords and chop off burglars' hands.
(CNN) -- A Johns Hopkins University student killed an apparent burglar with a samurai sword after discovering the man in his garage, police said Tuesday.
Baltimore, Maryland, police received a phone call shortly before 1:30 a.m. Tuesday about a suspicious person, and an off-duty officer arrived at the scene with campus security, city police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said.
When authorities arrived, they heard calls for help and for police, he said. They discovered a suspected burglar with a severed left hand and severe lacerations to his upper body, Guglielmi said.
The suspect died at the scene, he said.
The man had entered a home where several Johns Hopkins students lived, Guglielmi said. Four students, one armed with a samurai sword, had confronted the suspect in the garage.
The man "lunged" at the students, and the student with the sword defended himself, severing the man's left hand and cutting his upper body, Guglielmi said.
Police did not release the name of the suspect, who Guglielmi said had a long criminal history, or that of the student.
Police questioned the three witnesses, Guglielmi said, and released them. It was not immediately clear whether all four students lived at the house, he said.
Authorities are determining whether the student will face criminal charges, Guglielmi said.
Burglars had taken two laptops and a Sony PlayStation from the students' home Monday, Guglielmi said.
The burglary suspect had been released from prison Saturday, Guglielmi said.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/15/samurai.sword.killing/index.html
Quote: DaButt @ August 28 2009, 2:57 AM BSTDefinitely interesting to see real facts and figures. I wonder what the Usenet figures are?
I expect they'd be pretty close. Usenet is still a pretty niche protocol here though. The Government are only catching up to it now.
Quote: Gavin @ August 28 2009, 7:36 AM BSTYet we are the ones that are going to be fined and banned from the net. Labour = Epic Fail.
That's roughly how it works, yes. You can largely blame the Dark Lord for it.
Quote: DaButt @ September 15 2009, 10:52 PM BSTSee, not all Americans carry guns as a means of self-defence. Some carry samurai swords and chop off burglars' hands.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/15/samurai.sword.killing/index.html
Flipping NORAH. 
Quote: Aaron @ September 15 2009, 11:07 PM BSTUsenet is still a pretty niche protocol here though. The Government are only catching up to it now.
Same here, but it's served me well for the last 15 years.
Perhaps file sharers should have their right hands cut off? It'd satisfy the media companies and the sharia proponents. 
60% of usenet is probably porn, so that might be more effective than you think.
Quote: Aaron @ September 15 2009, 11:19 PM BST60% of usenet is probably porn, so that might be more effective than you think.
<-Just call me "Lefty."
Aww. Double 
Blimey.
Quote: zooo @ September 17 2009, 3:17 PM BST
Blimey.
You think that's bad I made a similar pact with my best mate, whoever dies first, the other has to come to the funeral in shorts and a T Shirt that say "Happy to be alive" on it.
He smokes and drinks a fair few pints more than me so I'm not looking forward to that...
Al Qaeda's New Butt Bombs
(CBS) Al Qaeda has developed a new tactic that allows suicide bombers to breach even the tightest security, as CBS News correspondent Sheila MacVicar reports.
Inside a Saudi palace, the scene was the bloody aftermath of an al Qaeda attack in August aimed at killing Prince Mohammed Bin Nayef, head of Saudi Arabia's counter terrorism operations.
To get his bomb into this room, Abdullah Asieri, one of Saudi Arabia's most wanted men, avoided detection by two sets of airport security including metal detectors and palace security. He spent 30 hours in the close company of the prince's own secret service agents - all without anyone suspecting a thing.
How did he do it?
Taking a trick from the narcotics trade - which has long smuggled drugs in body cavities - Asieri had a pound of high explosives, plus a detonator inserted in his rectum.
This was a meticulously planned operation with al Qaeda once again producing something new: this time, the Trojan bomber.
More:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/09/28/eveningnews/main5347847.shtml
The Sun deescribed him as a suicide bummer.
Quote: sootyj @ September 29 2009, 5:46 PM BSTThe Sun deescribed him as a suicide bummer.
Surprised they didn't go with arse bandit.
Cops: Feces-covered nude man jumps into man's pool
STUART, Fla. (AP) - A Florida man is facing charges after authorities said he was naked and covered in feces when he broke into a resident's backyard and jumped into the pool. A Martin County Sheriff's Office report shows 21-year-old Robert Stark Higgins was charged with burglary to an occupied dwelling, disorderly conduct and misdemeanor theft.
The resident told deputies he heard Higgins crash through the screen of his pool and take a splash Saturday night. Authorities said Higgins took a towel and fled. Deputies used a K-9 to track Higgins to a home. Higgins told deputies he had been drinking.
He was being held at the Martin County Jail on $10,500 bail. Jail officials said he did not immediately have an attorney.