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The British and French are reported to have pushed for weak encryption in cellular phones (A5/1 and A5/3) to make snooping easier for law enforcement. http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/uriks/Sources-We-were-pressured-to-weaken-the-mobile-security-in-the-80s-7413285.html.

Apparently, these governments didn't want to bother with having to serve warrants to telephone companies... Which would require, you know, legal warrants. So we ended up with 54-bit encryption (A5/1) when the engineers involved were pushing for 128.

So what happened?

What virtually everyone here will already have guessed: The back doors left for convenient government snooping made it easy for *anyone* to snoop, effectively rendering the encryption worthless. (http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/3g-encryption-cracked-in-less-than-two-hours/.

Modular arithmetic is not a crime. If you make it one, French law will suddenly sit in conflict with privacy laws around the world *and in France*. And will it be illegal to transmit random bits? What about SSL?

Idiots.

http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Henrik_Alexandersson_FRA_Swedish_spying_documents
http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Swedish_communications_intelligence,_F%C3%B6rsvarets_Radioanstalt,_overview,_2009
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Intelligence_and_Security_Service

Its methods and authorities include
telephone and internet taps authorized by the minister of internal affairs (as opposed to a court order)

http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/Har-avslort-ulovlig-PST-overvakning-av-norske-muslimer-7183429.html

That's just from a 2 minute googling of translated keywords, I can bet native speakers will find more.

From what I know a tenure-track position at a decent university can average around 200 applicants per spot. I have difficulties imagining that more candidates apply for a warehouse assistant post.

I couldn't find the source but here's one (in Norwegian of course) where they got 119 applicants from friday afternoon to wednesday morning, no report on what the total ended up as. Maybe it was the final figure for this one or a similar one or my memory is off, but yes they do get very many applicants. Did you get the first 100+ applications in half a week? At 3% unemployment and maybe 1 million people in Oslo+surrounding areas that's 30,000 unemployed. If we say this is a position practically everyone can apply for and 1% do, there's your 300. It's not that unreasonable actually.

Does Norway also have the Mob and gangs that will murder the other prisoners in their sleep?

Anders Behring Breivik, the Utøya shooter, is kept away from the other prisoners so they won't kill him. (A price tag has been put on his head) At the moment the prison is planning to build a high security department (article in norwegian) for him. So the problem is here but it's not as big as in the USA (yet).

Crisis in Fukushima and Japan is far from over. It's just begun. Expect to see "lost decades" due to all kinds of sicknesses due to radiation exposure. Please study the material below, also for your own knowledge and safety:

MUST SEE VIDEO: Japanese officials confronted with question wether people in Fukushima has the same rights as other people to protect themselves against radiation, and their surprising answer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rVuGwc9dlhQ

VIDEO: Fukushima children forced to drink radioactive milk at school:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Aq4JG9ULVNE

Fukushima-get up to date on repressed news:
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/much-of-northern-japan-uninhabitable-due-to-nuclear-radiation
http://www.independentaustralia.net/2011/media-2/fukushima-meltdown-caldicott-says-japan-may-become-uninhabitable-media-silent/
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/06/10/japan-deal-radioactive-sewage-crisis-produce-cement-25231/
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/remember-fukushima-its-back

Secret pacts to NOT check for radiation in imported goods and foods from Japan (made after Fukushima started melting down):
http://www.nuclear-news.net/2011/08/20/hillary-clintons-pact-with-japan-to-downplay-fukushima-radiation-risks/
http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/radiating-americans-with-fukushima-rain-food-secret-clinton-pact

Experts: Fukushima 'off-scale' lethal radiation level infers 100 millions dying:
http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/experts-fukushima-off-scale-lethal-radiation-level-100s-millions-deaths

Closer to home:
http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/uriks/article4151087.ece

Independent measurements (uncalibrated, non-discriminatory - but shows no "need" for global mass-panic yet):
http://www.radiationnetwork.com/Message.htm

Independent news (only ones still covering Fukushima):
http://www.fairewinds.com/
http://enenews.com/

Japanese government changing the "safe health standards" just moments after disaster struck. Now includes absurd amounts of radiation 20-30 times more than previously, which were already 2-10 times more than most Western countries'. The change document is of course provided, also with a "safe" limit of "plutonium and other ALPHA emitters". Plutonium! The most toxic substance known to life!

Raising the exposure limits were allegedly done to increase safety for citizens, something you'd expect in a Hitchcock movie..

"Becquerels" and Japan's changing "safety" standards for radiation in food and water
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc6FPIK1VaY

"Evacuate Children!" Rally & Demo in Koriyama City, Fukushima Pref. on Oct. 15, 2011"

MUST SEE VIDEO!!:
Japanese officials confronted with question wether people in Fukushima has the same rights as other people to protect themselves against radiation, and their surprising answer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rVuGwc9dlhQ

VIDEO: Fukushima children forced to drink radioactive milk at school:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Aq4JG9ULVNE

Fukushima-get up to date on repressed news:

http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/much-of-northern-japan-uninhabitable-due-to-nuclear-radiation
http://www.independentaustralia.net/2011/media-2/fukushima-meltdown-caldicott-says-japan-may-become-uninhabitable-media-silent/
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/06/10/japan-deal-radioactive-sewage-crisis-produce-cement-25231/
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/remember-fukushima-its-back

Secret pacts to NOT check for radiation in imported goods and foods from Japan (made after Fukushima started melting down):
http://www.nuclear-news.net/2011/08/20/hillary-clintons-pact-with-japan-to-downplay-fukushima-radiation-risks/
http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/radiating-americans-with-fukushima-rain-food-secret-clinton-pact

Experts: Fukushima 'off-scale' lethal radiation level infers 100 millions dying:
http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/experts-fukushima-off-scale-lethal-radiation-level-100s-millions-deaths

Closer to home:
http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/uriks/article4151087.ece

Independent measurements (uncalibrated, non-discriminatory - but shows no "need" for global mass-panic yet):
http://www.radiationnetwork.com/Message.htm

Independent news (only ones still covering Fukushima):
http://www.fairewinds.com/
http://enenews.com/

Japanese government changing the "safe health standards" just moments after disaster struck. Now includes absurd amounts of radiation 20-30 times more than previously, which were already 2-10 times more than most Western countries'. The change document is of course provided, also with a "safe" limit of "plutonium and other ALPHA emitters". Plutonium! The most toxic substance known to life!

Raising the exposure limits were allegedly done to increase safety for citizens, something you'd expect in a Hitchcock movie..

"Becquerels" and Japan's changing "safety" standards for radiation in food and water
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc6FPIK1VaY

"Detoxify or Die: Natural Radiation Protection Therapies for Coping With the Fallout of the Fukushima Nuclear Meltdown":

http://www.health-matrix.net/2011/03/19/d

KSat(Kongsberg Satellite Services AS) are the ones maintaining communication with the satellites from Svalbard. The manager there said that they haven't been contacted by NASA about the issue, and they have also not found any evidence that that they have been hacked. http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/Ble-denne-satellittbasen-p-Svalbard-hacket-6681937.html

According to this article (in Norwegian), they sometimes use transfer data via the internet, but they use dedicated connections for communication, and as such it should not be possible to hack into the satellites using an internet connection, according to the president of Kongsberg Satellite Services, which runs SvalSat. They heard about this when the commission contacted them, but they didn't find anything which could indicate the systems had been hacked when they checked the systems (article in Norwegian). Apparently, the source of the hacking claim is the USAF.

And now _YOU_ can search the documents here thanks to the Norwegian newspaper that got hold of the cables.

Just wait until they get leaked to someone outside of WikiLeaks, just like the diplomatic cables: http://www.aftenposten.no/spesial/cablegate/

According to an article in the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten[.no] the format also has extra cool features:

Rough cut'n'paste from google translate:
"- Unlike today, where you only get the disc and song titles, the Music DNA could provide descriptions of tempo, mood, energy and rhythm of the song. This makes the music file is extremely searchable"

If those features could be incorporated in a .mp3-format (non-DRM) then that would be great.

Links:
http://www.aftenposten.no/kul_und/musikk/article3483050.ece
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aftenposten.no%2Fkul_und%2Fmusikk%2Farticle3483050.ece&sl=no&tl=en

http://media.aftenposten.no/archive/01011/SPACE-CHANDRA-NEBU_1011148x.jpg

I believe it's an ongoing legal battle. I only have Norwegian links, but still: It's an obvious attempt to misuse the trademark laws to use someone else success to their own benefit.
http://www.aftenposten.no/kul_und/article3118267.ece
http://www.kampanje.com/markedsf_ring/article472545.ece

No, and I'm delighted to find out that it was a normal Swedish newspaper.

Scandinavia just has some sense of humor which is great. Aftenposten had some pretty funny articles in the past too.

Here is a second hand example:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1706617.html?menu=

and another

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/business/article709784.ece

In Scandinavia, there are no "federal pound-in-the-ass" prisons. The prisons are top-notch, just google around: here is a couple of articles.

Group 1, the smallest group, are fugitives, or people who claim to be fugitives. They are often unskilled, sometimes lacking even basic schooling, don't know any language common in Norway, these are indeed a drain. Particularily the first year, sometimes much longer, particularily if the integration fails to work.

Lumping these two groups into one sack is unlikely to enligthen anyone.

Do you really need a warning that a link labeled "emergencyporn.com" is not work safe?

As a Norwegian, I can only say that you are completely unaware of the things that go on in my home country. There are essentially two Norways, one internal and one external, and the external one is the one that's presented to tourists and the outside world.

For example, there was the case when the ruling and massive Labour party had written false "letters to the editor". Essentially, what they did was write things like 'I am a single mother and I hope for the sake of my three children that the opposition's policies will never be implemented because they would fill my life with so much pain. My youngest daughter cried when I told her what might happen'. Or, a bit more advanced, writing arguments that purport to be in favour of the opposition, but very poorly worded, and then they "refute" them in a reply with their own brilliance. Noone has ever been criticised, "fired" or in any way had their politics influenced by this, and it stayed in the (local only) media for all of a week.

Norwegian article: http://www.bt.no/lokalt/bergen/article393005.ece
Translated title: "Knows about false letters to the editor in the newspapers. Former Labour party member Audun Holme says he is aware that fictitious letters to the editor under the direction of the Labour party has reached the newspaper columns". Incidentally, this happened in Sweden as well, though there the secretary (who had done all of this independently and without anyone's knowledge, of course) just had to resign.

And oh, there was the case when the biggest newspaper and TV organisation (A-Pressen) in Norway was going to get a new chairperson, and a panel had been set down to judge between the selection of candidates according to how they scored on a set of formal criteria. The head of the panel had assessed one person as 'weak' or 'very weak' on four out of six criteria. Shortly after this, however, the Prime Minister (Jens Stoltenberg) and Foreign Minister (Jonas Gahr Støre) went on a private home visit to the head of the panel, and argued very warmly for the person in question, praising his personal qualities. They say they were simply going as private individuals to provide a personal character reference, of course.
http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kommentarer/article2193377.ece

And oh, there was the case when the military and defense advisor of a supporting party to the ruling and massive labour party (incidentially, the Socialist Left), sat at a luxury restaurant in Oslo (the one where a full night costs ~$400 p.p. sans wine) and discussed airplanes. Effectively there is an ongoing evaluation of fighter airplanes in Norway, whereby the Eurofighter competes with the Joint Strike Fighter. This evaluation is supposed to be assessed by a strictly neutral objectives as to efficiency and performance. A journalist present however heard the politican in deep discussion with two advisors for the Swedish billionaire Wallenberg family, and the politician promised that, not only would the Swedish JAS Gripen airplanes also be considered, they had actually as much as won the contract already!

"I like this fucking bad!" is the headline, quoted. Some exchanges are,

Paper: We saw you at Statholdergaarden yesterday evening and wonder what you were doing there?
Advisor: (laughter) You see, I don't think I have any reason to say who I have dinner with.
Paper: No?
Advisor: Nei, do you think so? Who did you have dinner with last night?
Paper: A colleague.
Advisor: Oh yes. At the Statholdergaarden. Who paid for you?
Paper: We did ourselves.
Advisor: You did? You make that kind of money in Dagbladet ('the daily times')?
Paper: The question to you was, what were _you_ doing there?
Advisor: But dearie you, I really have no intention of telling you.
http://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/2007/08/30/510484.html

Norway has the same kind of list.

It seems to be more lenient, though. Lapsiporno isn't blocked, and out of a sampling of the least offensive sounding sites, "only" three out of eight were blocked.

Yes, I'm sure that thousands of people would rise up in anger against the .doc format. Using any kind of electronic format is like requiring all citizens to own a computer. With all the stuff that's going on in the world, I find it hard to make my electronic document format a major priority. As for Norway, I think they have other issues to deal with as well: http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1118479.ece

And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.

The media reported on a case in Norway where former UK SAS special forces soldiers was hired by a Norwegian company. It is claimed that the special forces unit got into the office building of a company they tried to buy. The goal was to eavesdrop on activity related to the potential takeover.

It is also reported that Russian company that also tried to buy the same company was using former KGB agents and organized crime groups to get the same kind information.

"The police report even claimed that Odin officials found evidence of the alleged bugging, which police also suggested was carried out with the help of personnel from the British special services SAS."
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/business/article1974585.ece

Sounds relatively close to the ninjas. How to protect your infrastructure from special forces soldiers and government intelligence agents?

Or the other way round... In Norway, denying services due to e.g. nationality is illegal.

In fact, a similar situation occurred at one of the hotels of the Scandic chain, that had been recently bought by Hilton. They refused to host a Cuban commercial delegation to Norway, with the dubious claim that, whereas Norwegian law prohibits to discriminate people based on nationality or ethnicity, they were not "people" but a "delegation".

According to these two articles, there were quite a few protests and authorities stated the behaviour was not acceptable. Furthermore, in another article (sorry, this one in Norwegian), it is stated that Hilton in Sweden follows the same discriminatory practice against Cubans, whereas in Denmark there is no such policy, even in hotels directly owned by Hilton.

Or the other way round... In Norway, denying services due to e.g. nationality is illegal.

In fact, a similar situation occurred at one of the hotels of the Scandic chain, that had been recently bought by Hilton. They refused to host a Cuban commercial delegation to Norway, with the dubious claim that, whereas Norwegian law prohibits to discriminate people based on nationality or ethnicity, they were not "people" but a "delegation".

According to these two articles, there were quite a few protests and authorities stated the behaviour was not acceptable. Furthermore, in another article (sorry, this one in Norwegian), it is stated that Hilton in Sweden follows the same discriminatory practice against Cubans, whereas in Denmark there is no such policy, even in hotels directly owned by Hilton.

Or the other way round... In Norway, denying services due to e.g. nationality is illegal.

In fact, a similar situation occurred at one of the hotels of the Scandic chain, that had been recently bought by Hilton. They refused to host a Cuban commercial delegation to Norway, with the dubious claim that, whereas Norwegian law prohibits to discriminate people based on nationality or ethnicity, they were not "people" but a "delegation".

According to these two articles, there were quite a few protests and authorities stated the behaviour was not acceptable. Furthermore, in another article (sorry, this one in Norwegian), it is stated that Hilton in Sweden follows the same discriminatory practice against Cubans, whereas in Denmark there is no such policy, even in hotels directly owned by Hilton.

LO! Reality rears its ugly head! http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article189 1543.ece It's always great when someone else pays, isn't it? Note to the Trendy Lefties: WORK HARDER! Strive to achieve the Five Year Plan! Be happy with your Mud Hut! CW

A new report from Rosatom, the Russian government's highest nuclear authority, shows that there is a grave danger that the stockpile can explode. For Norway the consequences could exceed the fallout from the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, and no one knows how imminent the danger is - if it is a question of years - or hours.

Only if you hijack a plane. or a convicted terrorist who threatens the host country with terrorism

Only if you hijack a plane. or a convicted terrorist who threatens the host country with terrorism

You are almost correct - it happened in Norway a year ago. The man was furious because he was in a relationship and had nothing to do with the woman that "raped" him. People might make fun of it - but he felt violated. .

I'll assume you're a fucking moron, because you are. If Norway sent its infantry abroad, it would not equip them with AG3s.

Irony? The committe was appointed by three right-leaning parties.. What's new?

In other news, Moose drama unfolds in Østfold (with pics!)

Well,, the large Norwegian ISPs already have the infrastructure in place to do this: The norwegian child porn filter.
This is implemented at the largest ISPs in Norway. Allthough I must say that this proposal in particular is in no way going to happen, It's my belief that there is enough sensible people in this country, making an uproar if this ever comes to pass.

read about it here

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article155 9489.ece
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=2006 1206-073127-3179r

Sugar=>fat americans=>diesel

The Consumer Ombudsman and the Market Council (CO) and corresponding groups in Sweden and Denmark agree that local laws are violated by Apple protectionism

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article158 8670.ece

I think that the worst thing in both examples, online gambling and targeting Cuban tourists, is that the law that the US is trying to impose on citizens of other countries is basically bad laws, done for the wrong reasons. Laws introduced by paying hard cash or by political postering, not for making the country function better.

In related news, a Norwegian company promises cheaper high-purity silicon:

International Herald Tribune: Norway's Orkla group to build new plant to produce high-purity silicon for solar cells

Aftenposten: Orkla goes solar

Massive lawsuits may now be in the offing, from various sources of funding, national and international, that have financed his forged findings for years.

Brazilian babes at the World Cup
Swedish babes
Trinidad & Tobago babes
Italian babes

Brazilian babes at the World Cup
Swedish babes
Trinidad & Tobago babes
Italian babes

Brazilian babes at the World Cup
Swedish babes
Trinidad & Tobago babes
Italian babes

Brazilian babes at the World Cup
Swedish babes
Trinidad & Tobago babes
Italian babes

6.7 Asteroid Mitigation System
Brief Description
The asteroid mitigation system protects the Earth/Moon system from earth-crossing objects (ECO) by either deflecting or fragmenting ECO they no longer pose a threat. Deflection could be accomplished using nuclear explosive devices.

Capabilities
Deflects or destroys objects in space having the size and trajectory to threaten the Earth/Moon system An Operational Analysis for Air Force 2025: An Application of Value-Focused Thinking to Future Air and Space Capabilities (page 135)

According to this article, an astronomer at the nearest observation station thinks it was a 10-12 kg meteorite, and he thinks the comparison to the Hiroshima bomb is "a vast exaggeration".

Here's an image of the meteorite and possible area were the impact happened.

Have you looked at the picture link that someone else posted? It looks like it'd at most damage one building.

Followed through to the link mentioned earlier: http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article134 6820.ece

From that article, this one line jumped out at me: "Enorm fart."

Now granted, I don't speak the native tongue up there in Norway, but I think we all can translate that.

Also found this sesmic data on the web: http://www.norsar.no/NDC/bulletins/gbf/2006/GBF061 57.html

  NORTH OF SVALBARD
            Origin time Lat Lon Azres Timres Wres Nphase Ntot Nsta Netmag
    2006-157:02.13.21.0 83.81 2.84 5.25 0.18 1.49 2 2 1 0.04

    Sta Dist Az Ph Time Tres Azim Ares Vel Snr Amp Freq Fkq Pol Arid Mag
    SPI 668.3 346.0 Pn 02.14.50.4 0.2 349.0 3.0 10.1 5.2 50.5 4.93 1 345124
    SPI 668.3 346.0 Sn 02.15.55.8 0.2 338.5 -7.5 5.8 4.1 34.0 8.43 3 2 345125 0.04

>>Here is the website of the newspaper and pictures of the meteorite in the sky and the impact: http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article134 6820.ece Did anybody else notice the cutie on the bottom of the page?... I'm sorry but i found it "difficult" to concentrate on the pictures of some unsexy meteorite and ended up spending over half an hour looking at the "bilder" posts... Well, i guess that's what slashdot is all about.