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http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=572&a=468 440&previousRenderType=6Original article in Swedish, from the swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter.
http://www.sweden.gov.se/sb/d/3212/a/51058Original article translated, on Goverment offices of Swedens official site.

Now take it with a grain of salt. The article was written for the political debate section of a newspaper, during an election year.

According to a newspaper I read (its swedish, sorry folks) http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=597&a=513 113&previousRenderType=2 the systems can work together. They pretty much said that twice the satelites means better coverage.

Another clip here: http://europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/energy_transport/gal ileo/international/cooperation_en.htm
"This includes, quite naturally, co-operation with the two countries now operating satellite navigation systems. Europe is already examining a number of technical issues with the United States related to interoperability and compatibility with the GPS system. The objective is to ensure that everyone will be able to use both GPS and GALILEO signals with a single receiver. Negotiations on co-operation scenarios with the Russian Federation, which has valuable experience in the development and operation of its GLONASS system, are also ongoing."

Also, from http://europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/energy_transport/gal ileo/international/global_en.htm :
"Once again, the GALILEO system will be fully compatible with the existing American GPS system. The objective being pursued by Europe is to reinforce the satellite navigation infrastructure by providing an additional, state-of-the-art system ensuring a more robust, precise and continuous service to users worldwide."

So basicly, they will not compete, more like complement each other.

http://www.sandstorming.com/index.php/2005/08/250- kmh-crash-pictures

http://www.dn.se/content/1/c6/15/89/97/upplandsbro bil463.jpg

Yep, it's the same crash...the secund url is a picture right from the scene, the first url is a more detailed look from a traffic fair...

It's _not_ a good idea to park your motorcycle inside a Volkswagen...

According to this article, one of the basic themes behind Buffy is that it's a B-horror movie in reverse. Buffy is exactly the type of girl who would get slashed within the first few minutes of such a movie - here it's the other way around.

It just wouldn't be the same with a girl of any other age. That same assumption of helplessness wouldn't be triggered in the audience.

(Warning, it's in swedish!)
http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=1058&a=47 0468&previousRenderType=1

New laws are being considered there that would help crack down on sites like the pirate bay, but they are not there yet.

Well, tomorrow is July 1st.

Apparently the villain was a 16-year old kid.
http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=678&a=413 232

A few years ago there was a big political upheaval about eugenics in a scandinavian country.

Many Western countries used to do forced sterilisation and other "treatments" like electro-convulsive treatment, but there's not been much of a stir.

This is happening here in Sweden to. A company called elib has monopolized the emerging ebook market.

Elib made a user poll and it turned out that 4% (IIRC) of the users were reading the books on their cell phones.

Here's an article (in swedish) I wrote a while back on the ebook situation over here.

Test http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=678&a=372 592&previousRenderType=6/

Here is a home video of the wave crashing into the beach of Patong.

Dagens Nyheter, morning paper

Svenska Dagbladet, morning paper

Aftonbladet, tabloid

Computter Sweden (paying subscribers only)

Yelah

Gnuheter, /. clone

>Now taking bets on how often gasoline ends up in the
>washer fuild or vice versa!

just thought i'd nitpick: the hole for the washer fluid is smaller, and judging from these images, it should't be hard to avoid mistakes. maybe.

f64 : top of the pot

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.

There is one small problem with space elevators. The cable has to carry it's own weight. If you were to use a steel wire of a few millimeters in diameter at the surface, the diameter at geostationary orbit would be about the diameter of the solar system. This is not including the counter weight.

This might seem like complete nonsens but that is from a theoretical physicist and writer, Dr Hans-Uno Bengtsson. The original reply from a "ask the expert column" in swedens biggest newspaper. Fungerar en rymdhiss?.

BTW: If the wire were to be made from kevlar it would only have to be a few hundred meters in diameter. With more exotic materials you could shrink it to less than a meter.

When his family made inquiries in 1975, Congress paid $750,000 in damages to the family. What was really weird was that during this time, a letter was sent between Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, who were working for Gerald Ford at the time, saying that if there was a trial, it could be "necessary to disclose top secret information concerning national security".

These guys are at the top today, and since assassination and cover-ups (even specifically regarding biological warfare) clearly are not foreign to them, I don't see why the default theory should be an extremely improbable coincidence.

In related news, i.e. April fools jokes, a Swedish newspaper reports that it today introduces a way to pay per page viewed. It consists of a little device that you attach to your monitor in which you can put coins as you surf.

Every month someone from the newspaper will come to your home to retreive the coins.

Image showing the neat little device here:
http://www.dn.se/DNet/articles/255500-25559 9/25554 6/mynt.jpg

Maybe something for /. ?

I'm not sure it's such a good thing a trademark can be lost just on the basis of being a common word. I mean, a common word where, exactly? It's really not easy to think of a new name that doesn't sound utterly stupid, and then you run the risk that whatever you came up with actually _is_ a common word in some language. You could end up with many product names that can't be used in all the markets you want to use it.

And where do you draw the line? Is 'Red Hat' too common? 'Dell'? 'Ford'?

Of course, some due diligence is always required anyway: Honda apparently tried to name one of their models 'Honda Fitta', but found out what it meant in Swedish in time... With slogans like "Small outside but large when you're in it" or "It's a daily pleasure" it could have become a very real embarrassment for Honda.

/Janne

Unfortunately many (but not all) environmentalists seem to focus on the things that aren't significant even if things go wrong -- or they cause people to build coal power plants which will cause environmental damage instead of nuclear plants. I have seen claimed that the environmental movements are trying to block the safe storage of nuclear waste because it would remove one of the arguments against using nuclear power (this was in Sweden, in particular.)