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Did they forget a metric conversion or somthing?

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

Steve Jobs's giant wallscreen sparkles to life. A visibly pale and shaken Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg appears with a panicked situation room full of Norwegian officials behind him.

"Ah, Prime Minister, good," Jobs says with a trademarked smile. "I see you got our little message. Let's finish our chat about DRM regulations...."

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Gee, when I opened it up in Opera, the headline read "Meteorite hits Norway".

While this may yet be a bad thing for the Americans - depending on what their elected officials actually do commit as law - it could open up opportunity in other countries. Rather than the US having the advantage that it does now with the open internet and the mass of wealth and technology, this could help shift the scales so that other nations have a more competitive footing.

A lot of modern cinema has got us cheering for the bad guys. I love a good diamond robbery tale.
And look at the NOKAS robbery here in Norway. If they hadn't shot that police officer and been caught, they'd be somewhat heroic. It's because we all like to see major, titan systems exploited by one cunning little thief. We like the idea of hacking.
Now they even may make a series about the robbery.

It's just horrible when it ends in death, tho. Just my 2 cents.
Mor about the robbery: Aftenposten English ed

It's legal to buy music from allofmp3.com in Norway. This have been cleared with Norwegian Government.

Source: (in Norwegian)

http://www.aftenposten.no/forbruker/pengenedine/te leoginternett/article1146078.ece

something is very very wrong if a country can "spare" 50 policemen to work on a case where they are not even sure if a crime has been committed or not(!)

That didn't stop the Norwegian police from spending three years investigating DVD-Jon. And pushing it through two courts only to be shot down in flames. Btw, the same fruitcake was recently in the news for wanting to give copyright holders direct access to subscriber information. Basicly the same right as in the "Patriot Act" except to private corporations. I just loved the MPA (intl. MPAA) quote "Then we would not have to go through the police or the courts, which would make our job considerably easier." Exact quote for those that understand Norwegian:

"- Da ville vi slippe å gå veien om politi eller domstol, noe som ville gjort jobben vår betraktelig enklere, sier Tøndel."

Tyldis, you are simply dead wrong! Norway pays peanuts to the EU! Germany annually pays 8.5 billion, little Norway is committed to transferring 1 billion over FIVE years! Not to mention the fact that Germany has ALWAYS been the largest net contributor since the contributions are based upon the size of the economy. Germany's economy is far, far greater than Norways - exactly because they're 80 million people. You, my friend, are misinformed.

http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/uriks/article974 557.ece
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/europe/04/mo ney/html/who_pays_what.stm

The Sellafield nuclear reprocessing facility has been controversial for years.

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article103 5400.ece

In Soviet Russia, water cools you!

And yes, that's Mozilla, not Firefox, and I probably should either upgrade to 1.7.12 or else use real Firefox, but it's convenient to have a browser install that has all the parts and most of the plugins working with it. I haven't hunted down the offending pages, or tried them in Opera yet to see if they crash it; if I'm going to bother doing that, I should upgrade the browser first.

That thread is mostly about name calling, so and so is a [wo]man hater.

Instead of attacking people, ask simple question and make brief statments that are falsifiable.

For example, a comment from that link you gave stated:

"the truth is that it is men who hate women, not the other way around. Women do not rape and beat and incestuously violate and impoverish and sexually harrass and kill men in vast numbers every year. It is men who do these things to women"

However, it seems there are more women sexually abusing males, young boys to be exact, in Norway as suggested in these recent articles:

http://www.mensactivism.org/articles/05/09/18/1339 240.shtml
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article110 4694.ece

So, only men are the rapists...apparently not.

http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/uriks/article110 6293.ece Unfortunately only in Norwegian. but there are some pictures.

"How about pointing to some proof of this?"

You are required to understand a gibberish language called Norwegian to understand these links. If you do, however, you will find absolute proof that it is in fact not legal to allow anyone to use a cell-phone network without having a record of their real name and address in Norway.

http://odin.dep.no/sd/norsk/dok/regpubl/stmeld/028 001-040008/hov005-bn.html
http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/nett/article9078 03.ece
http://www.jus.no/?id=21324
http://amobil.no/art.php?artikkelid=17260

Unfortunately that misconception feeds itself because your sexuality/masculinity can be challenged if you don't agree with it. Not all men are willing to be volunteers as seen here: http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article102 7927.ece

My friend saw the video that this article is talking about... umm, and I have to say that if there are young women in Norway that are wiling to do THAT, there's probably more than a few that wouldn't mind being a booth babe. Just dare them to and give them a test afterwards ;).

And more, how easy are your women?

Well... Apparently, relatively easy.

main stream press keep their daily schedule of reporting fairly amazingly trivial and non-important 'news

I call bullshit! The new INFOSOC compatible copyright law, made to comply with EEA, has been very well covered in the mainstream media in Norway. Just because it's not on the front page every day, ot's not equal to bad coverage. All the large papers have done several stories on the law. Like the ones here, here, here, here, here and here.

main stream press keep their daily schedule of reporting fairly amazingly trivial and non-important 'news

I call bullshit! The new INFOSOC compatible copyright law, made to comply with EEA, has been very well covered in the mainstream media in Norway. Just because it's not on the front page every day, ot's not equal to bad coverage. All the large papers have done several stories on the law. Like the ones here, here, here, here, here and here.

Do you mean that Google is the first in the industry to have satellite images on a map-site?
Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten have had this on their map-service for almost a year now. At any time in the map-search you can switch between a vector-based map and the satellite images. Very neat :)

The incompetent idiots running this country has done again.

Please remark that elections are next year and it's quite unlikely the current right-wing government (Right party, Left party which is actually more centre, and Christian people's party) stands. Next government should likely be Worker's party, Socialist Left, and Centre Party (former Farmer's party). None of these should be especially inclined in favour of this law, and even inside the government there is criticism.

So, in brief: this is going to be like the time they proposed to move rusbrus (light vodka-based drinks) to the Vinmonopolet (if you don't know what it is you probably don't want to): talked about it, seen that everybody was insanely pissed off (taking alcohol from a Norwegian is like taking guns from a Texan), and forgot the matter as they probably noticed the current situation does not allow them to lose voters.

PS- you might notice there is a large party I did not mention, the Progress Party; they have a political attitude similar to American republicans, and therefore nobody wants to have any business with them. An alliance for the right-wing majority with the Progress party would likely result in massive voter defection. So until they get to 51% they count little.

With the Conservatives now at 18.7 percent and the Kr.F at 8.0 percent, the alliance would not even have a parliamentary advantage against the red-green alliance with the assistance of the populist Progress Party, currently the second most popular party with 19 percent support.

Full Article

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Yeah, because death/black metal musicians are really a crowd to fuck with

For assuming that we could unleash cool advanced new technology like internet commerce onto the general public without our having built-in safeguards against the criminal element who would use this new technology to prey on people.

I didn't do it! It wasn't me, I swear! :-)

Seriously, while I certainly (proudly) advocated web technology for banking, I never envisioned what the suits were going to do with it. I did warn about some phising type scams in an e-mail to my bank aroun 1999, I think, long before I heard that it was actually done. Seemed like a natural extension of spammers obfuscation techniques.

Furthermore, I have told everyone who is willing to listen that the phising scams of today is just the beginning: Just imagine if you can replace the browser of a few victims, or just add a root certificate. Say that an attacker controls the network between the bank and a customer of a company, and the network between the bank and this company. Customer places an order to company. Pays, but the payment is snapped up by the attacker. Attacker sends confirmation of payment to company, company sends goods. Everybody's happy, but in fact, company never got money. Unless they have in place a source of information that attacker doesn't control, they can't figure this out.

I've been on the phone with my bank with this, trying desperately to realize how serious this is. I've written e-mails, and I tried to get the press to understand this. I have failed miserably, and I have made the scenario much more elaborate than above.

Frankly, I think I have done what I can.... The suits simply don't want to listen on that ear. There is always "we'll take that when it happens", also after the fact. I've given them enough free consulting. I have had a bit more luck with the press, but on nothing controversial.

The belief of the 1960s progenitors of US affirmative action programs (most notably the late Sen. Moynihan) was that a period of #2 would permit #1 to succeed. I believe the last 40 years have proven him rather misguided. I don't know what the solution is - and I doubt there is one - but enforced discrimination isn't it.

You probably just implemented it wrong. Here in Norway it works just fine. At the last election for the student representatives at the university's board at NTNU, a male was quoted in because two girls were first and second.

That's a bit extreme since the quotes are 50/50 for only two seats, but today Norwegian society is much more egalitarian than what would have been decades ago. In politics, two out of four main parties are run by women (Kristin Halvorsen for Socialist Left, Erna Solberg for the Right), and even the populistic Progress Party plans to appoint a woman, Siv Jensen, when current Führer Carl I. Hagen steps down. Another smaller party with a female leader is the Centre Party. You can look at this recent poll to check that 50/50 is approximately respected, even though there is no law saying that 50% of the voters have to vote for a party led by a woman.

Note: I'm not a nationalist Norwegian. I'm born and grown up in Italy, where there is only one woman in the parliament for every 9 men.

Google wins battle for '.no' domain

Google Inc WON round two in court. The offender has till the 29th this month to turn over the domain.

But /. didn't care to mention that when I submitted the story the same day.

Google wins battle for '.no' domain

If /. is waiting for many submissions of the same story, then I really don't get the purpose of this site.

Well of course they do. Svalbard is the best connected part of Norway. Actually every house has a free multi megabit VDSL connection. This is then connected through a very long subsea cable to mainland Norway.. Now why would they do that for 1500 ppl? Well they have a very large Satelite download station that requires it and the residents are just tagging along for free :) More info here: Norway to wire North Pole

The municipality of Bergen has recently decided to move to Skolelinux (Sorry, Norwegian) and throwing out Windows and other UNIXes (Sorry, Norwegian again).

The municipality of Bergen has recently decided to move to Skolelinux (Sorry, Norwegian) and throwing out Windows and other UNIXes (Sorry, Norwegian again).

Bergen is also going over to Linux (article in Norwegian)

War crimes

Yeah, I know this has nothing to do with biometric data, but it has something to do with conducting survey after survey and playing around with statistics until you get what you want. This includes surveys showing 80% of the UK population in favor of national identity cards containing biometric data.

May I suggest, that neither the SETI@Home, nor Chessbrain.net, is the best place where one can find a Mate.

Oh, I don't know; I thought the same thing about Slashdot articles, but stranger things have happened...

"The appellate court holds the opinion, as did the first instance court, that there has not been offered any evidence for anybody else having used DeCSS for illegally acquired DVD movies..."

AFAIK Oekokrim had decided to drop the case, letting him win... There's no way of starting an appeal trial at the supreme court without an accuser.

No, Okokrim lost again, and its too late to file a new appeal.

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article.jh tml?articleID=466797

Ah, the good old days. But seriously, if people strongly felt that the annoyances caused by cell phones outweighed the benefits, I doubt they would be such a ubiquitous technology today. As far as your perception of increasing stress, check out this article. It's about a recent study which found that "the [primitave] Mangyan way of life produces the same types of stress that modern technological living does - only more so."

Here's the, er, "genuine article".

and... what do you know... after spending 10min translating the thing, this appeared.

Damn you Murphy :)

The Norwegian paper Aftenposten as an english article online: DVD-Jon wins new legal victory.

English Aftenposten article

By the way, the verdict against DVD-Jon is NOT going to be appealed!
This is a copyright issue, so it is on topic. Here's a link.

I remember there being a public outcry in Norway when certain cd's would not play on computers etc. I was expecting to see this appear in a Norwegian court, but a Belgian one will do!

No, the verdict was expected TODAY at 1 p.m. This was stated by chief judge Wenche Skjaeggestad (for some reason Slashdot seems to insist on replacing the correct letter with "ae") on the very last day of the trial. She also stated that she was somewhat surprised to have read in the papers that the verdict was expected in mid-January. Why the Norwegian press has stuck to this erroneous report I have no idea.

Foreign press seems to have gotten it right.

Some examples:

DVD Jon appeal ends: verdict before Xmas [11 Dec 2003]
Verdict in 'DVD Jon' appeal expected Dec. 22 [12 Dec 2003]

From the article:

Prosecutors from Norway's white-collar crime unit Oekokrim said they would "carefully evaluate" whether they'd appeal DVD-Jon's latest acquittal to the country's supreme court.

"We now want to take some time to think about this and study the grounds on which the verdict was based," Oekokrim prosecutor Inger Marie Sunde told news bureau NTB.

She believes Johansen would have been convicted if the court had believed he intended to use his decryption program for pirate copying.

GAAAAWWWWWD! Did she learn anything in law school, or did she get in (and her job) on the dumb bimbo quota? If you want to get someone convicted on something, if you want the court to believe your claims, PROVIDE THE EVIDENCE!

Why does the press always uncritically report that DeCSS "cracks DVD copy protection codes"? It is clear that CSS is about preveting changes to region coding and the extraction of media. It doesn't prevent copying of the original DVD in any way, shape or form. As long as the DVD industry can sustain the spin that CSS is about copy protection they are winning the hearts and minds war.

How can we get the press to report these issues in a more intelligent way?

• Dog robs gas station
• Cows rampage in Norway
• Children asked to sell new naked sports calendar

• Dog robs gas station
• Cows rampage in Norway
• Children asked to sell new naked sports calendar

• Dog robs gas station
• Cows rampage in Norway
• Children asked to sell new naked sports calendar

Aftenposten has an english article here .