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Yeah, I'd love to go but honestly I don't bother anymore.

I'll just go and watch the livestreams in a hackerspace and have some fun there.

cf0ed2aa-bdf5on Apple’s iOS 5 Update Now Available For iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch

Are there any unofficial mirrors yet? I have a 100mbit connection but the download is just awfully slow.

cf0ed2aa-bdf5on German Chaos Computer Club analyzes and releases government malware

The latest surveys show the Pirate Party at about 8% while the FDP (the smaller one of the governing parties which got 14.6% in the state elections in 2011) is at 3%

http://www.infratest-dimap.de/umfragen-analysen/bundesweit/s...

However I don't really think that the German public is strongly opposed to surveillance, especially since the media tried making a big deal out of the few incidences where some assholes decided to beat up people on the Munich and Berlin subways lately.

cf0ed2aa-bdf5on Pirate Party Germany gets into the parliament for the state of Berlin

True, however there are lots of 'Briefwähler' (absentee voters) in Berlin who voted weeks ago and the Piratenpartei just got a lot of traction in the last few weeks. Additionally there's a rather weird 5% clause in Berlin that differs from the rest of Germany. Parties have to get 5% of all votes cast, not just 5% of the valid ones. (http://blog.zeit.de/zweitstimme/2011/09/16/aus-der-kategorie...)

However they will probably still be in Parliament, I'm not really sure if they will get as many seats as predicted right now.