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According to this article "the MOH (Singapore Ministry of Health) revealed that some 1,900 names in the leaked data were of people who had already died."
Out of 14,200.

Less believable? See:
http://www.thestar.com.my/News...
http://www.malaysia-chronicle....
http://www.straitstimes.com/ne...
for a demonstration of Goebbels' and Stalin's idea that if a big lie is repeated often enough it becomes the truth.

And they really have no excuse to plead ignorance in my opinion. A comment on a related Slashdot article linked an article indicating Mikko Hypponen, "chief research officer" of F-Secure is friends with these guys. You'd think these issues have come up once or twice in conversation.

From the following linked article:
"During a recent interview session I had with Mikko Hypponen, the chief research officer for digital security company F-Secure Corp, he shared that he was friends with the men behind Rovio, the creators behind another massive success story--Angry Birds."

http://www.thestar.com.my/stor...

A couple of years ago I tried, in earnest, to inform Mikko Hypponen of evidence I had acquired (first-hand) that proved that Sony Entertainment was gathering data from computers that had Sony software installed, after being referred to him by Mark Russinovich (of Microsoft/Sysinternals fame). I was stone-walled completely, even after providing crash-dumps that held all the evidence he needed to go public-- now, I know why.

She is an avid supporter of UMNO - a RACIST ORGANIZATION which is still practicing APARTHEID in the country that it rules over (Malaysia, in this case).

Citation please?

She is an active player in an organization which supports the global jihadist movement.

Plus even if she is an UMNO member you'd have to show she is "an active player".

Otherwise you could tar all Democrat and Republican members with a similar brush.

Plus the last I checked the US was still friendly with the leader of UMNO.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/10/02/readout-president-s-call-prime-minister-najib-malaysia
  http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2013/10/11/John-Kerry-US-Secretary-of-State-Najib-Tun-Razak.aspx

Is Najib on the no-fly list too?

Yeah, because the *reputation* of the software companies doesn't matter at all. (roll eyes)

Not when you can just buy it with a marketing campaign it doesn't. Or do you think they spend tens of millions because they like hearing the sound of their voice?

What a load of crap. A fat handout? Do you have any clue at all what you're talking about?

Living under a rock and missed the Too big to fail fiasco that landed our economy in the longest recession in US history?

rove it by showing some instances of the government giving money to companies because of claimed losses due to piracy.

Check.

I can't think of any companies that have made a bunch of money by "beating people in their homes until money falls out".

You need to think harder. But snark aside... There was that raid in Guatemala, and this one in George Town, and oh hey look... here's an article in Business Week offering advice because it happens so often CEOs need to be aware of it. But if you don't believe them, ask Kim Dotcom how things are working out for him.

You're seriously in fantasy land with this one. But, hey, whatever fantasy makes you feel good about pirating other people's hard work without paying a dime. You're a real hero. The world owes you everything for free.

I'm no hero. I'm just the girl with all the facts on her side.

Oh, so if a malware infested piece of software is uploaded, Bittorrent will make sure you're downloading the same malware-infested software that someone uploaded? That's reassuring.

As opposed to a malware infested piece of software downloaded from the company's official website? Because if you think that's never happened, Google for 'Sony' and 'root kit'.

Bill Gates prefers you pirate his software over someone elses because it helps block other people out of the market.

The one thing you actually got right. Here's a cookie.

My Sony cd/dvd player dvp-s535d still works and I bought it 12 years ago.

Literally just yesterday I finally threw out my Sony DVP-S7000 DVD player http://sites.thestar.com.my/audio/story.asp?file=/1997/5/15tydvd that still worked perfectly. Been using that sucker since 1997 so it was 15 years old and showed no signs of dying.

Of course that was from the days when companies were still willing to build a DVD player that weighed 7kg and sold for $1200.

The whole story is one steaming pile of bullshit and crap. It's only aim to take over the internet and create a 1980 mass media version of it, where half a dozen corporations control what is allowed on it and 7 billion people are censored 24/7/365.

Want proof, http://www.castanet.net/news/Canada/72606/Experts-worry-over-household-debt, http://biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2012/3/20/business/10946706&sec=business, http://www.whocrashedtheeconomy.com/blog/intro/household-debt/, http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/27880.html. Stories from all over the world of household debt at record unsustainable levels.

Just were in the fuck is are those RIAA and MPAA dickwads meant to be getting that money from, who are the imaginary folk left to spend money on content instead of food, or rent, or clothing or medical expenses.

Quite simply there is no money left in the economy especially for parasitical parts of it. It is gone and based on current economic realities it is more than gone the ability to generate further personal debt is gone. So the question to bullshit politicians and governments exactly which parts of the economy do they wish to crash to feed the insatiable greed of the pigopolists.

These corporations are basically trying to launch an economic and political war on the majority of humanity. Establish a global big brother internet, where the monitor, censor and control every man women and child that is not part of their elite circle of psychopaths.

the costs are insane" is not a cost figure. 64MW plant $266mil. A nuclear power plant would cost..? Add up the cost of the fuel too, by the way...

Here is an article for you:

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/6/26/focus/4197991&sec=focus

Forget coffee. Do what this guy does.

Excuse me? Someone is living in dreamland

Photos at The Star.

It's pretty crude, but there wasn't just one "axe" there. They're man-made.

"I've read that Qantas outsourced the maintenance of their planes to a Malaysian subsidiary of Malaysian Airlines, so chances are both planes were serviced by the same group of people"

Not necessarily:

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,24152399-5017323,00.html

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/8/15/nation/20080815171659&sec=nation

As for the 777, the Malaysian pilots were lucky or did a better job of handling the incident - no injuries:

http://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/2005/AAIR/aair200503722.aspx

I won't say it's the only one, but a big reason the US exports so much food is because agricultural businesses receive billions of dollars in subsidies, which causes havoc with the economies of Third World Nations. For instance, corn is native to Mexico however because US companies get billions of US taxpayer dollars businesses like Archer Daniels Midland and Cargill are able to export corn to Mexico and sell it there for less than Mexican farmers spend on growing corn. This is neither fair nor free trade.

And even more no good. Cold war, anyone? But there's no commies to fight!

With headlines like: Price war with Apple slashes Creative's quarterly profit
Creative Technology Ltd, the maker of Nomad and Zen MP3 players, said yesterday its quarterly net profit plunged a worse-than-expected 72% due to a price war with Apple Computer Inc's iPod.

That looks like harm to me.

For the record I think the patent is BS, but (if it wasn't)this is pretty much what these injunctions are designed for.

Well, when I said it was used less in American English I should perhaps have mentioned where it is used strongly: not so much in Britain as in the remnants of the old empire.

Wiktionary lists it as Australian English, and archaic elsewhere. Being a New Zealander I can say it's quite backed by usage here, as well as over the Tasman. Keeping with the less authorative sources, there's a mention in this article of "Australian speakers who use 'span' as the past tense of 'spin'", and this article (from a Malaysian English newspaper) mentions its use.

As far as more prescriptive sources are concerned, I've only got the concise version of the Oxford Dictionary of New Zealand handy which doesn't list most conjugations anyway. I guess I can say pretty confidently, though, that, amongst the 25 million-odd English speakers in Australasia, nobody would bat an eye upon hearing 'span'.

Your mean like this or this?

This is just 10 minutes of searching in one news site in one muslim country. Leaders are taking a visible stand, but you got to know where to look. Also, never assume a particular definition of civilization as the best or only solution. Look closely, read between the lines.

Your mean like this or this?

This is just 10 minutes of searching in one news site in one muslim country. Leaders are taking a visible stand, but you got to know where to look. Also, never assume a particular definition of civilization as the best or only solution. Look closely, read between the lines.

However, I have a problem with a statement like this.

But if we in the West, with our liberal political culture and our attempts to build open societies, do not engage with China then we lose the opportunity to influence them and convince them of the benefits that this brings. If the Chinese government fears instability then we should offer help and advice and support, not closed borders and locked doors.

China boasts 111 million Internet users http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?typ e=internetNews&storyid=2006-01-18T030843Z_01_SHA66 703_RTRUKOC_0_US-CHINA-INTERNET.xml and 393 cell phone users http://biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/200 6/1/24/business/13197510&sec=business. That's a lot of information flowing around. Chinese know what Western cultures bring, good and bad, probably more than Western people do. To think China as a big dark corner of the world which The West must shine its democratic and liberal lights on, is quite romantic, but is naive.

The DOE show that the prewar production levels were on the order of 2.5 m bbl/day (peak) and 2.0 m bbl/day now.

CIA World Factbook shows Iraqi production as currently 2.25 million bbl/day (2004 est.); note - prewar production (in 2002) was 2.03 million bbl/day (2004 est.)

And the Iraqi gov't says they can return to prewar levels sometime in 2006.

Hmm, I guess people read it and realized they'd better stop having so many kids? ;^)

I find it rather interesting that people who still complain about Earth being "overpopulated" fail to mention the declining growth rate.

That's a bit of a non-sequiter, isn't it? If the Earth is overpopulated, even a zero growth rate wouldn't change that fact. You'd need a negative growth rate in order to shrink the population back to less than the maximum sustainable size. (As to what that size actually is, I won't try to guess, but I do note that fish populations are declining drastically and that many species are becoming extinct in a short period of time. To me, that suggests that we are already past that point)

Not Fischer, who's all set for a long stay in prison.

To compare the two is so rediculous I can't even come up with a better word than "rediculous".

How about "ridiculous".

Are you willing to go to jail or take a bullet just so you can download Britney?

Someone already has taken a bullet for copyright infringement. See here http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/1/ 15/nation/9906321&sec=nation

Linkified

Your link was broken..

Here is the link:
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/1/ 14/nation/9901032&sec=nation

Link to story, also found via google news search

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No kidding! That house totally rocks. It was designed by an *architect* over 4 months, and was constructed with an experimental climate control system - for $70k.

I'm cashing out my retirement funds and moving to Malaysia, the US sucks.

Hmmm, take a look at this links here and here

I know I'm supposed to be patriotic (being a Malaysian myself ;-) but sometimes these guys stretch things a bit far... But what do you expect from Bolehland (Boleh in malay means can or can do so literally, it's the land of anything possible ;-)

They have a website to support the event, unfortunately it is in malay, but maybe there's some info in english somewhere.. Look here

But all started from the English Channel Challenge 2003, check it out here!

The whole idea of copyright in the first place was to encourage creativity. Even if "big music" goes belly up, there would still be plenty of music being created and distributed by people: many would do it purely for the love of it. Ask yourself why copyright exists in the first place. Should it exist to support the big record companies? Does society really need "big music"?

Even though people would create music for the love of it, that's not to say that there wouldn't be any $$ in music production any more. When copyright was introduced, the world didn't have the mega-marketing-advertising industry that we have today. How often do you see music used in some way to push products? The advertising industry is one of many factors that overcomes the market failure that existed when copyright was introduced. (Music created for procucts can be protected by trademark law.)

Also, the technology we have today to create and mass-distribute music is another factor that mitigates the market failure that may have prevented creativity centuries ago.

I think i found this article in an earlier /. post. It discusses how and where the money is shifting in the Asian music market in response to high levels of piracy.

wonderful world, isn't it? How many years before we can't publish this kind of stuff on magzines?

It's time to change the forum where us intelligent individuals talk. Take a look at the current state of Slashdot and the stories they publish on the frontpage.

..And this story about humanoid robots got rejected (by CmdrTaco):
HONDA'S HUMANOID ROBOT ASIMO MADE IT'S FIRST PUBLIC APPEARANCE:
Honda's two-year old humanoid robot Asimo made its first public appearance in Malaysia at an event launched by Science, Technology and Environment Minister Datuk Seri Law Hieng Ding here yesterday. Take a look at these impressive movies of Asimo in action!

A Cambodian policeman who shot a suspected temple looter in the testicles has been rewarded for his crime fighting skills, an official said yesterday.

>In my language, it means "testicle"

I didn't know there were languages that used numbers in the spelling of words. Wonders will never cease to amaze...

Well, at least your name doesn't translate to New Ching Shit in another language.

Don't forget 'propaganda'. I sometimes read a moslim newspaper just to get the 'other' side of the story. In my opinion, DWord has an important point. One of the most important democratic foundaitions is "everybody is equal", although sometimes we - the west - absolutly don't care about our direct or indirect involvements of massive deaths abroad. Will Saudi Arabia ever be convicted of harbouring terrorists? Do you know what kind of government they have? Having the US army stationary in S.A. gives the US cheap oil. So while you're driving your car without a worry, thousands of people die because the S.A. government kills its own opposition.

C'mon, it's only about the almighty buck. Even the war on terrorism is just simply part of the old Anglo-Saxen interest. DWord *has* a point, the war on terrorism is easily an excuse to eliminate all US foes, while the US has that monopoly. Other countries screeming that they have a problem with terrorism have the obligation to the US, to ask them whether their problem will be recognized.

DWord has a point, this conflict has no clear truths, it's just a matter of interpretation.

Funny you should mention that...

...after all, a motorist was booked for doing 773kph....

Available here

To be taken with a grain of salt as it does come from a Malaysian press.

In another development Malaysia's power company Tenaga Nasional Bhd. will be offering telecommunication services over their power lines using DPL technology starting next July. See the article in The Star (Malaysia) newspaper. I hope they won't have similar problems to Norweb :)