This is a great example of what Google does, when I write an e-mail and use the words “I have attached a file…” and tries to send the e-mail without attaching a file Google tells me! Awesome. 
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Google finally implemented its images of Norway to Google Street View last week and we’ve seen a few amusing shots. Finn is a company in Norway who also creates street views and one day they met. Check this out:
Link to Google Street view: The Finn car.
A group of youngsters got into a fight earlier today in Oslo, Norway – after a quarrel on Facebook. Many say “oh what have Internet come to” but I think they should reconsider what they think of Facebook. Youngsters today are born with keyboards under their hands, for them Internet is as real as the world we grew up in. The problem I think is that they doesn’t learn to respect and care about eachother the same way “we” were taught – they grow up to think Internet is theirs, no rules. Because their parents are too distanced to Internet and don’t teach them to respect and care about other humans like we do in “real life”.
I think its time to say that life on Internet is the same as real life – otherwise we will never get rid of bad behaviour on Internet. Do you agree?
On Facebook the youngsters agreed to meet in Oslo to settle the quarrel, it ended up with a large fight with weapons. Not firearms but I guess that is next.
The Pirate Bay has had their share of up and downs lately, a few days ago their ISP Brein closed them down but now they are up again. From a bunker! It looks like they are preparing for a long and tiresome war. Even if this is just a silly PR stunt its kind of funny.
From the Wiki:
During the Cold War the NATO maintained various top-secret hardened facilities all over western Europe. In 1955 a large command bunker was constructed just outside the small town of Kloetinge in the south of the Netherlands. The facility was designed to house 72 people in case of a nuclear attack and was used as a NATO Radio Base Band Relay Station, as well as local (counter) espionage. It has been kept a secret for many years, for the reason that it is where NATO and military commanders would have administered the country in the event of a war.
The facility underwent a complete rebuild in the 1970’s as part of the ASCON early-warning system, but the localized system soon was rendered obsolete.
The building contains six dormitories capable of housing 72 people sleeping in hot beds and extends four stories below ground.
In 1996 NATO decommissioned the facility, all furnishings and equipment were removed.
Around 1996 the bunker complex was up for sale and it was bought by its current owners and became a datacenter in 1998.
Many hardened biometric-protected doors stand between the outside world and the data floors. The bunker was constructed to function at energy saving capacity, totally cut off from the outside world for over 10 years. The four level facility is over 5 000 m2 in size.
- Entire complex is equipped with airlocks for an independent atmosphere.
- Fully redundant air handling/cooling systems.
- Air tight rooms.
- Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) shielding to military standards.
- Up to 5 meters thick reinforced concrete subterranean construction.
- Designed to survive a 20-megaton nuclear blast at 5 kilometers.
- Backup 750 KW diesel generators.
- Large diesel fuel reserves. (How long the diesel engines will run stays classified)
- 10 000 liters freshwater reserve tank.
- 240 000 liters freshwater reserve stored at a remote backup bunker.
- All critical equipment shock-mounted on isolation pads.
- Nuclear/Biological/Chemical (NBC) air filtration.
Link to cyberbunker.com
Links to articles: telegraaf.nl
Bands are not getting what they were promised by Spotify, take Racing Junior for instance; 55100 plays gave about $3! The record companies does it again, they have found a new way to milk the artists. I guess Spotify doesn’t have enough users who pay, I also notice that more and more people drop Spotify because of the annoying ads.
Comon artists you can do better than this, boycot the music industry and form your own distribution networks – hire some geeks to set up a store.
I read in a Norwegian newspaper today that mobile applications will be bigger than Internet, isn’t that a funny way to put it? Most mobile applications use services on Internet and Internet as a transportation for traffic between the application and the server. How can “mobile applications” then be bigger than Internet? Or did I miss something?
They are talking about how popular Apple’s App Store is, having 65000 applications and people have downloaded 1,5 billion apps. Is that why they call it bigger? To use their own way of saying this, I think The Internet has more than 65000 apps.
This came to my mind on the subject, an awesome episode of the IT Crowd :
Link to the article (in Norwegian) : VG
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