Germany is notoriously privacy-minded, and services such as Facebook Friend Finder and Google Street View has been scrutinized by the courts. The criminal latest to raise the ire of Germany Bing Streetside, a photo style Street View service. Microsoft has taken the feature in the country following complaints about Streetside sample households. By default, the houses are visible, although Microsoft is hidden images when users complain. However, citizens were apparently unhappy with this process, which led to the company's decision to ax the service while responding to privacy concerns. Street View if you still need your dose of disorder-out buildings in Berlin in the meantime.

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EXCLUSIVE: On the 25th anniversary of the genesis of his Metal Gear series creator Hideo Kojima back on a career devoted to the fight against the stigma of working in video games, in the first of two interview rooms

Six months later, he joined Konami Hideo Kojima, one of the studio's most respected games in Japan, is asked by a college friend to be best man at his wedding.

"The boyfriend stood up to introduce He said:" Welcome to all This is Mr. Kojima is a very talented and beautiful way, but sorry to say that, for some unknown reason. .. who decided to join a video game company Everybody laughs Looks: .. work in the gaming industry has been regarded as a low status job at that time was not even a word in Japanese post game creators, then I slept in the evenings telling people ... I worked for a financial company ... "

Born to well-to-do parents, Kojima - the creator of the Metal Gear series of multi-million selling and Vice-President of Konami Digital Entertainment - was the youngest of three children and a winner at a young age. But he was also a dreamer.

"When I was little, I always thought different worlds in my head," he says, as we sit at breakfast in a shop in Soho in London to discuss his life and his career in the 25th anniversary of the genesis of Metal Gear.

"was constantly invent stories about the things around me. I find myself laughing or crying for seemingly random things and people do not understand why. Japan strings storm on both sides of the main roads. There were many times when I fall into these ditches because it was lost in the stories as he walked along.'s always dangerous for me to drive. 'have driven in the door entrance to my house several times.

"Even now, as we speak, I think my mind wanders, if I did not care," he said with a warm smile. He waved cappuccino intact on the table before him. "Take this cup of coffee, for example"

"OK. What is the history of coffee?" He asked.

"I am a story in which there is a huge cup of coffee that we are all sitting inside. Not really a story, I suppose, as an array. But it! Here's how it works my mind. "

a born storyteller, Kojima parents encouraged the donation, at least not through their own love film. "I was born in a small town," he said. "But when I was four years old, he moved to Osaka. Was a huge environmental change and after I spend more time at home, watching TV or doing numbers.

"It was during this time that my parents introduced a family tradition Every night, we all watch a movie together, was not allowed to go to bed until the film was finished:. The opposite for most children. My parents were big fans of westerns, European cinema and horror in particular. They not only showed me films for children. I even like to see sex scenes. "

At the age of 10, parents encourage Kojima began to film by yourself. "They gave me money to go to the movies by myself," he said. "I was allowed to go as long as I got home and discussed the film with them after the prospectus had to buy film and then bring it back with me about the problems in the film and address .. What I felt. "

love to see this film as soon combined with Kojima own creative spark and a friend 8mm video camera, he and his high school friends began making his own short films. "To be honest, my friends were not really want to make movies like me," he said, laughing. "But I convinced everyone to zombie movies with me.

"You see, every year, there was a cultural festival organized in our school. My idea was to make a zombie movie, show there and sell tickets to earn money which we could buy more movies to watch. ''ve sold tickets for about 50p., but we do not have enough money to buy even a movie. "

Kojima is known for his theater plays, his most famous title - 1998 Metal Gear Solid - pioneer kind of grand narrative in 3D games which is very common nowadays. As a kid, there were glimpses of the creative ambition motivation.

"There was a movie that tried to settle in the island," he said. "My idea was that there had been a plane crash and a group of high school students had survived. Wanted it to be as Robison Crusoe.

"We managed to fool our parents give us money to go to a four-day trip to an exotic island off the coast of Japan. But when we arrived, we spent the first three days of swimming in the sea. On the last day, we realized how little time we had left, so I changed the plot ... another zombie movie. idea remains that the plane crashed and had survived high school. But this time, with zombies found on the island. "

"No," said with a laugh generous.

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In a short article on a group of staff members of the Congress to the NCTA show essentially admitted that any new "anti-piracy" law may be hard to beat - with a staff member said that the protests SOPA " poisoned the well. "But perhaps more interesting are the comments of Stephanie Moore," senior Democratic House Judiciary Committee, "which apparently still refuses to believe that the public has actually ruled against bill of its own will:

"What happened was a disinformation campaign," said Mr. Moore. "People have been deceived essentially in contact with members of Congress whose claims have been extraordinary. There was a real concern, but as far as him being a genuine popular movement home-grown-street opposition, I agree on this point. "

always find this line of reasoning quite extraordinary. If you look at the history of copyright - especially during the last 40 years, has been a "disinformation campaign" after another by the RIAA and MPAA lobbyists. As we have said, Congress has made it impossible to pass 15 laws against piracy in the past 30 years - each driven by the lobbying industry how they collapse and die without that laws are passed, and how not to create not contain such laws. they have been wrong every time. So even if

was a disinformation campaign, on the other hand, in the best of all that you do is the same ground. Moreover, by examining the arguments in favor of SOPA and PIPA, were so full of misinformation obvious that I do not think any amount of disinformation against the Bills to score.

But to be clear, since I am very close in efforts to put an end to these dangerous bills, I can tell you from experience that the claim that it was a disinformation campaign "" and it was an "up-to-the street-opposition "nonsense by a person speaking from ignorance, anger or jealousy for his own pet commands invoice. working people against the project worked very, very hard to paint a clear and accurate invoice. Although there were many people who helped guide the process along protests do not take the life of different communities of people took them and ran with them - starting with Tumblr and Reddit users (followed closely by Wikipedia).

course, when you have a large group of Internet users, not all of them will understand the nuances or details. therefore without doubt disinformation entered the discussion. To be fair, however, most of the "misinformation" that I saw on the side was anti-SOPA people do not realize that (serious public pressure), Lamar Smith published a modification of a manager to remove the worst of the worst of SOPA (even leaving a lot of trouble). Some people mistakenly focused on the impact of the original invoice to claim later. It was, in fact, a mistake, but not the result of "misinformation." After all, these problems

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in the initial project were clearly part of what staff Judiciary Committee the Chamber was time
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telecommunications company can be divided into two, said the Minister Chi Onwurah shadow

have to split into two companies, the shadow minister, Chi Onwurah warned because the company built a new monopoly on high speed. "BT should understand that if high bandwidth is a monopoly, is not allowed to enjoy," said Onwurah the House of Lords in evidence in an investigation of the selection committee in broadband.

"I think that structural separation is something we'll see," he said. "This is an important intervention and BT rightly complain, but the provision of monopoly broadband is not an acceptable option. "

a total of £ 980m has been allocated to improve the broadband network in Britain, the upgrading of the son of former copper to fiber, including £ 530 million during this legislature, to be spent by local councils to ensure that each household receives a database connection 2Mbps.

Rivals complained that money is likely to go to BT. Japan's Fujitsu and BT are the only two listed companies compete for contracts with 35 municipalities have signed a framework agreement which is responsible for the development of broadband in the Government of the United Kingdom (BDUK) team . New tips are managing their own bidding process, and BT took two contracts awarded so far in this second group.

Australia spends EUR 23 billion, of which £ 18 billion from taxpayers to overcome the fiber optic cable from the phone and 93% of households in 2021, and has Telstra network is a public company who do the work.

pass £ 2.5 billion of their own money to improve the links between telephone exchanges and street cabinets, replacing son of copper with fiber much faster in an area covering two thirds of the population of the United Kingdom in 2015. It has now reached 10 million households. The money that the government intends to extend the update last third of the population in 2017.
But Onwurah worth more investment was needed to ensure that the fiber is run directly from the plant to the house, saying it was the only way to reach speeds test the future. "Fiber To The Home is the ultimate goal. Unlimited communication capabilities will transform our lives and reduce costs. "

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Timo Vuorensola

Nazi romp space is the film as a profile to use crowdsourcing to develop and finance. Is this because of mixed reviews?

If you've ever imagined yourself as the star of a Hollywood scriptwriter, the producer or the film section of the site IndieGoGo crowdfunding might be the place for you. Browse through the budding film projects boasting of money in recent months, and he could have come to opportunities to pick up a writer's credit of $ 50 on the remains of British post-apocalyptic drama of a disaster, or a credit as executive producer on the God of kiwi, the documentary is incredible $ 500. The director of history Book Day comic super recently promised to shave his head if the campaign of the film achieved its goal of $ 3500, with donors allowed to scribble their names on the bald bald new.

Amid the stupidity, the site meets a real need. Movies cost a lot of money to be made, and not everyone who wants to make movies a lot of money. Some of these features can be an opportunity for the next Kevin Smith or David Lynch to take their first steps on the ladder of filmmaking. Yet I can not imagine the offer above supersede the rights of creators of Eraserhead or clerks for less than the cost of dinner for two in a half decent curry house for at least one project IndieGoGo recently promised.

A change in terminology, even perhaps in order: crowdfunding, through which the filmmakers to get help with the financial costs of a particular project, is increasingly blurred with crowdsourcing, through which producers aspiring to attract fans on the Internet to be part of the creative process of building a new film. Separate, each has its place. When you get to be subordinate to the other, creating a "crowdeverything" hybrid, offers film projects involved an unpleasant air of desperation trade.

"There is a very dark side emerging," says the producer of independent film and British screenwriter Ant Neely. "I see crowdfunding campaigns that offer" a line in the film represents credit "for a donation large enough. The idea of ??throwing someone because they can pay, contrary to his ability, is really very sad. "

Neely and his wife Sloane U'Ren (director) took a different approach to getting their periods of science fiction movie-cum-theater dimensions: a line, a loop, a tangle of son, the big screen - you simply sold the house. While accepting that getting a film financed is an extremely difficult process, do not believe Neely crowdeverything approach is the way forward.

"It's an interesting concept and certainly a filmmaker connects directly to the audience," he says. "But you are not comfortable with films made by the committee . I'm not saying that selling your home is a sensible strategy, if "

If a film has a chance to escape the ghetto crowdsourcing / financing, Iron Sky, a comedy romp Nazis space, the Finnish director Timo Vuorensola and the support team of thousands of online persons which is published Wednesday in cinemas in the UK (over that later). ? 7.5 million the movie screens in over 70 countries this year and has a good chance of making profits for their legions of financial sponsors. Despite its origins, says his film Vuorensola approach avoided the credit money.

"In our film, the idea was to use the community to develop ideas and issues that are problematic, rather than have them work on the script. Necessary words of the anthem Nazi moon, and I t speak German, so it was something that puts us in the community. They knew what I wanted, and they were able to let me know if someone had written something that has was to come. "

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When it comes to urban life, architectural innovation has to be done to maximize the use of space. This example of architects based in London Hogarth firm doing just that by adopting a simple apartment and turn it into a luxury multi-level home ... Read more A one bedroom apartment in London transformed into a luxury two-story


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research finds users with black patches, exposed copper lines and having to move home to keep the companies afloat

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British are paying for services that are more than 40% slower than advertising, a Guardian investigation has found, with thousands who complain of being cheated by their providers Internet services.

In just three days, over 3,000 readers participated in the online broadband speed test The Guardian. Generalized differences were observed between the speeds promised and those delivered.

customers pay an average of 12 megabits per second, but actually receives 7 Mbps, a difference of 42%.

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black spots broadband in urban centers, the copper lines are not exposed to the weather and having to move the business outside the home because of bad connections.

"If you buy a dozen apples and you have three, would not have endured," said Hugh Colvin, an organizer of art that lives on the border with Wales and leases two phone lines for more than one family member can use the Internet at a time. "It is outrageous that I pay the same as someone who is in central London, receiving 10 times the speed . "

The survey, part of the vision of Broadband Britain campaign to improve infrastructure in The Guardian online, found that TalkTalk and Sky customers reported a deficit of 60%, the biggest difference between the median and actual services advertised. TalkTalk subscribers who promised an average speed of 8 Mbps, but received 5 Mbps, and Sky customers had promised an average of 12Mbps and 4.8Mbps received.

customers of Virgin has reported a deficit of 41% - that promised 30Mbps but received 17.7Mbps. BT customers did better, the payment of 8 Mbps, and receive a quarter less than 6 Mbps. The difference was 27% of the budget for the service from BT, Plusnet.

Since advertising rules changed in April, the ISPs can not claim "to" speed if at least 10% of users receive. The threshold has been criticized for being too low, even for business broadband and away from general advertising to offer different rates for each customer.

TalkTalk says its ads refer to average speeds, and everyone is an individual appointment before signing. A spokesman said: "No one enters into a contract with us without an estimate of speed for them."

A spokesman for Virgin Media, said: "Virgin Media has long argued for greater clarity in advertising and broadband, while changes in April were long, but the ISP Welcome, we have seen continue to hide behind generic terms or capture of all claims. We are committed to continue leading the industry, which is why we do not advertise speeds that our customers can reasonably s' actually expect to receive. independent and thorough investigation of Ofcom shows us consistently deliver what we say, our 30Mb service actually provide nearly 31 MB on average. This does not mean that we are satisfied. continue to offer the fastest in the United Kingdom of broadband are widely available and in the process to increase the speed for our customers with improved replication and the introduction of 120Mb media. Virgin now offers super-series broadband to millions of homes in UK and we have increased expectations of what consumers deserve from your ISP. "

BT, that the copper network is used by every major telecommunications retailers in the UK fell £ 2.5 billion to improve service by installing fiber optic cables in the foreign exchange dealers streets. Its goal is to reach two thirds of the UK in 2014 and the end, with the help of taxpayers, 90% of households by 2017.
Those fiber optic cables to the cabinet in the street could get speeds up to 76Mbps, but experts say that the service may not be reliable for further properties of telephone exchanges, because they are based on copper wiring for last mile.

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