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In other news, beer, especially the dark English varieties, can prevent or inhibit the growth of cancer cells.

Italian coffe and English ale, I knew I had it right from the start! ;-)

http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/halsa/story/0,2789,7 30462,00.html
Apologies about the link, it's in Swedish...

Here's one to the institute that discovered it:
http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ncs/newsarch/2005/Oct0 5/beerandcancer.htm

It might be interesting to note that in this newspaper article (sorry, only in Swedish), the Swedish CEO of Sony states that the copy protection is not used for CD:s sold in Europe and that "no copy protection will be introduced before it works well both for consumers and copyright owners" (which can of course be interpreted in many ways).

I always use the Adblock Firefox extension. This is mostly due to the large flash ads that often are very obtrusive.

If the ads were slightly less obtrusive, say like the Google text ads, I would consider turning the blocker off.

For example, looking at the website for a Swedish magazine called Aftonbladet without blocking ads will easily distract me from the main content because of the large flash based obnoxious ads.

Hello!

In the same spirit, in sweden our justice minister Thomas Bodström said that they wont allow the music companys to have DRM on cd's.

If the music companys dont follow them, they will considering adding laws to allow people to make copies.

If you can read Swedish, here is an article about it: http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/nyheter/story/0,2789 ,647278,00.html

Here is my translation of it, beware of errors!

[Translation]
Justice minister Thomas Bodström demands that record company's stop locking down cd's against pirate-copying.

If the pirate protection is not removed, it will be laws, he threatens.

Copy protected cd's, is a one way for the record company's to stop the spreading of music over the Internet.

But according to Bodström it is unreasonably that the record buyers are unable to make a copy for their own use, or move over music to their mp3-players.
- Obviously should it be possible to make a copy of your new bought cd to a mp3 player or make a extra copy of the cd to have in the car. The business must see to it that the possibility to copy for own use is not hindered by technical measures, he writes together with some politicians: Hillevi Larsson(s) and Tasso Stafilidis (v) in a debate article on SVT's homepage

If the record company's don't remove the copy-protection, the government will step in.

- We wont hesitate to return with new laws should the possibility to make copy's for own use be hindered.

By Hanna Blanksvärd, date: 2005/May/19, Aftonbladet.se
[End translation]

Yep, you're lucky Håkan Lans never patented the computer pointing device aka "mouse" he constructed (ie: XEROX Parc may have attached it to a computer, but not invented it). Otherwise it could have gone as with color screens for PC:s. Huge license fees. Oh, wait. Most companies don't pay them, and when they were taken to court, judgement was against Håkan Lans!)...

You heard right, most PC vendors don't pay their license fees. This means Håkan Lans has been losing around 1 billion SEK (about 1e8/$1.5e8!) Read more here, here, here and here (sorry, some links only in Swedish).

I guess if it's that hard for small companies to get licenses fees paid for hardware patents, I don't want any software patents. Hope the EU parliament keeps them off of Sweden in the future too (swedish law didn't allow software patents before, if I remember correctly).

Whats absolutely hilarious about this story is that apparently the antipiratbyrån that initiated the raid of bahnhofs office is also a customer of bahnhof. More about that here (in swedish only, sorry)http://aftonbladet.se/vss/it/story/0,2789,61 5494,00.html

The presence of antipiratbyrån of course inspired some swedes to create piratbyrån which is a swedish site propagating against copyright laws. They are also related to thepiratebay.org the biggest torrentsite in sweden.

the site jihadwatch.com might be biased? yeah, i guess it might; the creative invention of eurabia is kinda a giveaway, ain't it?

i went ahead and read this linked article, and besides what is quoted on the jihadwatch site, the chief of police for that particular area (rosengård, a suburb with high immigrant population) say that criminality isn't higher there than in other parts of the city.

most people interviewed in the article claim that the problems are due to unemployment and segregation (sweden has a moronic way of putting all immigrants and refuges in the same suburbs), not jihad.

the other people interviewed speak of their personal experiences (an ambulance paramedic, a cop), and don't do any analysis as to the causes of criminality in Rosengård.

now compare this to the outline on jihadwatch:

Malmø, Sweden. The police now publicly admit what many Scandinavians have known for a long time: They no longer control the situation in the nations's third largest city.

It is effectively ruled by violent gangs of Muslim immigrants. Some of the Muslims have lived in the area of Rosengård, Malmø, for twenty years, and still don't know how to read or write Swedish.

Ambulance personnel are attacked by stones or weapons, and refuse to help anybody in the area without police escort. The immigrants also spit at them when they come to help. Recently, an Albanian youth was stabbed by an Arab, and was left bleeding to death on the ground while the ambulance waited for the police to arrive.

The police themselves hesitate to enter parts of their own city unless they have several patrols, and need to have guards to watch their cars, otherwise they will be vandalized. "Something drastic has to be done, or much more blood will be spilled" says one of the locals.


nowhere in the above mentioned original article is the word 'muslim' found, and the person who did the translation committed so many errors that i cannot believe they are unintentional.

i imagine people reading jihadwatch either want to comfirm what they already think of islam, or they, no wait, that would be the only reason.

f64

disclaimer: i realized i could read and comment on every article linked from jihadwatch so that i don't base my whole argument on one (maybe false) translation, but fuckit.

anyone with more patience than i is welcome to do so.

Here is more information on several ongoing tests in europe:

It says that in Reykjavik (iceland) and Stockholm (sweden) the hydrogen is produced by electrolysis of water using "clean" electicity. (wind, hydro and solar energy). Another clean energy carrier+source many busses use are ecologic "ethanol"-fuel (a paper industry by-product).

One cool thing with these hydrogen-busses, except that they are absolutley silent and environmental friendly, is that they produce a white smoke (I saw one such bus when it was cold). It looks as if it has a steam engine, and they acctually look more bad to the environment than gasoline powered busses :) I cant understand why they dont have some sort of condensor for the steam, so they vent water instead of steam?

See here.

One has got to wonder if there will be unhealthy air humidity (can result in fungus, diseases, etc) in cities instead of smog in the future, when nearly all busses/cars are hydrogen powered.

here

For the record: for several hours this was top news on the front page of aftonbladet.se, the most visited Swedish news site, with the headline "Don't use Internet Explorer". Hopefully at least a few people followed their link to mozilla.org...

... so here is one from some swedish news: a bunch of urns

Surprisingly that picture doesn't seem very common in related stories from a Google News search.

This is what the sky looked like for a few minutes in Sweden yesterday: Norrsken

Personally I missed it, but I've seen the phenomenon 100s of times before because I'm initially from the middle/north parts of Sweden. It's really beautiful and surrealistic when it's constantly moving and morphing like an Amiga-demo plasma-effect in the sky. ;)

Lefties?? Huh??

In most of the world Democrats are not regarded as "lefties", where I live none expect the Democrats to act much different than the Reps, but what pisses everyone off is the weirdness of the US election, if the #1 democracy in the world can't handle an election (no ID-check, weird machines, no papertrail etc etc) where will that leave the rest of the world??

The US has an RESPONSIBILITY (thats what I feel...) to act civilized and could (and should) be something beutiful, an alternative to communism and non-democracy societys in general. DON'T YOU GET IT?? BE ALL YOU CAN BE!!

Now, don't let the tin-foil hats, the anti US anti everything fight this battle!! For gods sake, PRAVDA is reporting this stuff, and make fun of the US election!!
!!!

The SANE AMERICANS should fight this one!! IF there has been funny stuff going on, which it looks like.

P.S
A poll made in one of the biggest swedish news-sites shows that 79% didn't trust the american election-system...I belive that this is a normal view outside US.

If slashdot was based in Sweden then that would most likely be the case, there was (IIRC) a similar case involving Aftonbladet a while back before all discussions there became moderated, someone wrote some nazi crap there that a court found was illegal to publish and the publisher of Aftonbladet was from a legal standpoint also to regard as the publisher of all content on the website.

/Mikael

More pics:

big product picture: http://premium.uploadit.org/dsn2000/ps25.JPG

four views: http://img63.exs.cx/img63/2233/7178.jpg

another big picture: http://www.playfrance.com/news/images/7,7958379/zo om/4645.jpg

what's included: http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20040921/ sce03.jpg

size reference: http://www.aftonbladet.se/spela/0409/21/litenps22. jpg

fliptop open: http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20040921/ scej24.jpg

circuit board top: http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20040921/ scej29.jpg

circuit board bottom: http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20040921/ scej31.jpg

cover removed: http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20040921/ scej30.jpg

These are all from Gaming Age Forums:
http://forums.gaming-age.com/showthread.php?t=1535 1&page=1

...weeks ago that the site was a fake. The story in Swedish is here.

Dagens Nyheter, morning paper

Svenska Dagbladet, morning paper

Aftonbladet, tabloid

Computter Sweden (paying subscribers only)

Yelah

Gnuheter, /. clone

I have read that this story is false. Her dad is not a nuclear physicist. She has not been driving around freely on the "frost-damaged" roads this is just a good story.

My source(swedish): aftonbladet

According to the Swedish Aftonbladet Elena Filatov hasn't ridden a motorcycle in the zone (in Swedish). She hasn't got a father who's a nuclear physicist. The pictures were taken by Elena and her husband Igor under the supervision of the zone's administration.

According to the Swedish Aftonbladet Elena Filatov hasn't ridden a motorcycle in the zone (in Swedish). She hasn't got a father who's a nuclear physicist. The pictures were taken by Elena and her husband Igor under the supervision of the zone's administration.

After you look at the pics here and here you can see that she is obviouslly a geek chick. It also looks like she could be kinda cute if she let her hair down, frillied up a bit and took off the glasses (though, for me, the glasses are an actractive feature). How many girls out there are geek enough to handle this level of techieness? I don't care if her "proof" turns out to be 100% correct or not. Just the fact that she can understand this level of geekness is enough for me. If I wasn't twice her age and in the wrong hemisphere you know I'd have to seek her out and ask her on a date. (And you also know that even if I was a local 22yo geek guy she'd still wouldn't go out with me).

Sweden, for some very strage reason, has three providers offering symmetrical, 10 Mbps or bigger connections for less than 65 USD a month. I'm not a swede, and don't have information in English, but you should be able to decipher what matters here. The yellow box below the headline has the speeds and prices. One Swedish krona is roughly 13.5 US cents, prices are per month and anslutningsavgift is the one-time hookup fee.

As you can see in the Aftonbladet article, Telia has just entered the fray. They were literally forced to do so, by competition from Bredbandsbolaget and Bostream.

Bredbandsbolaget, apparently not content with losing their edge (their connections are generally considered better than Bostream's, dispite the bandwidth advertised), are preparing to roll out a 100 Mbps service next year, with a 300GB/mo traffic limit, rumored to cost in the neighbourhood of 120 USD/mo; I wonder how people will survive such terribly restrictive limits, heh.

In most urban scenarios, there isn't any divide and conquer going on. Having many providers competing in the same areas has its advantages.

I've never even been to Sweden, but happen to know a lot of Swedish netizens. Most of those are hard-core gamers, the most demanding users you'll find; anything short of 1MB/sec downloads and 10ms latency domestically, and they'll be screaming.

The result of this is that people start using popup blockers, and black out off-site images, disable flash etc. Looking at for example Sweden's largest newspaper website these days, you could have a hard time even finding the actual news. If you don't have flash, you will be reminded to get it, about seven times before the page has loaded.

If I read this without flash, and with no off-site images, the page is ok, but if we all did, the site would either have to adapt (i.e. use less annoying ads) or disappear.

The same I think goes for tv shows. Commercial breaks are not half as frequent in Sweden as they are in the U.S (I guess because when Letterman says "we'll be right back after this", there's only a 50% chance of a commercial break :). If they were, I'd just not watch the shows. I guess the maximum acceptable number of breaks is one every 30 minutes. That means one break in a normal sitcom, and about 3 in a movie. And even that is almost too much. But at that rate I could accept their business model and not get some ad-avoiding device. At least it's better than having full screen closeup's at every product and brand name in the scene...or having things like

Ross: "Why isn't that laser beem cutting through the paint!?"

Link in swedish: Cellphone exploded in the hand of a 17-year old

This is from an article at Aftonbladet (swedish);

- It will still be allowed to make a "few" copies of CD/DVD's for personal use, and also to use VCR's and similar devices.

- You will only be allowed to copy parts of a book (right now, I suppose you can copy entire books), to prevent the large scale copying of those especially on universities.

- A quote from the swedish minister of justice: "We have not done this to meet the demands of the international movie and music companies. Ultimately, it is about preserving earlier views on copyrights, and when the technology evolves, so need the laws to do."

- The penalty for violating them by sending or receiving illegal copies on the internet will normally be fines. If it's about organized violations (read: warez groups, etc), the penalty can be prison for up to two years. The law will mostly be used to give copyright holders a right to demand compensation from the person violating the law.

- The swedish minister of justice hope that these laws will frighten people from using file sharing software. He admitted that the law will not get a high priority by the swedish judicial system, and continued: "It's not like the police will run into peoples' homes to look for these things. It is also obvious that some persons will continue, but that is not a reason to not do anything".

So it seems like this will be another low-priority law that won't be very enforced, which mostly just adds unnecessary complexity and "grey zones" to the judical system. :-( The minister of justice even admits the law is created to spread fear (!). It's a very controversial law that judge people before they violate it (much like the discussed $4 CD fees) and I especially don't like how they seem to be willing to ban an entire software genre (P2P software). Amazing...

Here's the coverage (in Swedish) from all the four major newspapers:
Expressen
DN.
SvD
Aftonbladet

Some great quotes from Mr BodstrÃm (Minister for Justice) include:
"We have not done this to satisfy the big record companies"
"The police will not come running into people's homes looking for these things"
He is clearly completely clueless. I bet he has no idea that it's even possible to trace people with their IP address.

This law is unenforceable and will not be enforced. The police can't even keep child porn off the p2p networks here, so really, this is ridiculous.
The real enforcers will be Antipiratbyrån, the anti piracy bureau, a group of lawyers representing a number of companies. You can see a list of the member companies here. Most should be familiar to non-swedes too.
This is the only organisation activiely looking for copyright infringement online. (and their efforts so far has been very sporadic, even they have the sense to mostly go after CD bootleg sellers). In practice this all means that if you are careful not to share anything from the member companies of Antipiratbyrån on your favourite p2p network, you will not get caught.

I think the Segway needs more gyros to be G.W.B. compatible?

Maybe he should stick to horses?

I think the Segway needs more gyros to be G.W.B. compatible?

Maybe he should stick to horses?

I think the Segway needs more gyros to be G.W.B. compatible?

Maybe he should stick to horses?

I think the Segway needs more gyros to be G.W.B. compatible?

Maybe he should stick to horses?

I think the Segway needs more gyros to be G.W.B. compatible?

Maybe he should stick to horses?

MJ's true face - reconstructed digitally here.

Some key highlights:

MMS - multimedia messaging service - though this one is capable of MMS'ing video/audio taken off of the device to another MMS capable device.

Java runtime env - kewl

XML - yeah.

bluetooh - werd i wont have to toss my hbh-15

4096 colors on a 176 x 208 pixel display - suckier than the palm yet in a cooler form factor.

4MB RAM card + open slot - rumour has it it is expandible to 64megs -- thats more mp3 than my original RIO held.

Best yet is the 4 hours talk time, 8 day standby, not bad for a nokia :P

Yet, i dont know where ya'all are getting this polymorfic ringtones, what this says is that you create advanced ring signal system where you can receive songs. The translation here is sketchy, but untill somone writes an mp3, or better yet an ogg parser for it i dont see this doing p2p.

The old nokia 9110 does .wav ringtones and although it uses the earpeice headset for those rings and not the internal ringer that was quite a neat solution.

The Tech is getting there, yet the developer base for these things are tiny, despite the fact that GSM/GPRS/2.5-3.0G phones are out selling pc's 2:1. Hey all you l33t-hax0rs go out there and write us some warez for these hot toys! ...untill i can get some shareware apps for these I'm going to continue to roll with my T39m and HBH-15.

Well according to this its gonna cost $1000(10000 SEK)

There's two pictures of Britney Spears soaked in urine!

The problem starts when people ONLY read biased news, and don't know about it. CNN is a good example here - if you have access to other sources you trust, you probably know as well as I do that the current affairs in Afghanistan are _very_ US-centric reported by CNN. When others say there are confirmed reports about civilian casualities, CNN still claims there are no such reports etc.

There's a saying that americans are ignorant - can't point out Egypt on a map, don't know that Sweden and Schwitzerland aren't the same countries etc. With the risk of immideate "flamebait" moderation, I must confess that I agree with that view. Do a test sometime, and compare your knowledge (if you're american) about the world affairs with someone from Europe or Asia ..

I submitted this a couple of days ago, but it was never posted. We actually had mobile phones in the 60's. In 1950 the first fully automatic mobile phonecall was made by an engineer at Ericsson. By 1955 the first commercially mobile phone system were in use in Sweden. The base stations had a coverage of 25-30km, and the phone equipment weighted about 50 kg. It was called MTA, and was later followed by MTB. In 1981 the first analogue cellular network was in use in the scandinavian countries. It was called NMT (Nordisk MobilTelefoni). (I realise that a mobile phone network is not necessarily a cellular network, but this seems relevant anyway.) Look here for more info (in swedish). /Trynis

To get the password of another hotmail user, all you have to do is to send a forged mail to hotmail staff and claim you have lost your password. The only information you are asked for is your victim's real name and birthday.

Hilariously, when asked to comment, a Microsoft representative stated that "Your hotmail address should not be distributed to unknown people."

And, let's not forget the "read anyone's mail" Hotmail incident some time back.

Microsoft has already sued a swedish company called Excel for their use of the name. I am glad to report that M$ lost! (Yes, I know it's in swedish (bork bork bork))