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Cesium radiated boars were found in northwestern Italy last year(Google translated article), and Chernobyl was blamed. However I still wonder what the cesium levels were before Chernobyl: perhaps it's just that boars are like bananas and tobacco.

... that is unless you're one of those assholes who likes to say a file is 16305067 bytes in length instead of just saying 16.3mb

16 305 067 bytes = 15.5497236 megabytes

Yes, some jerk objects and wants to define 1M as 1000000 instead of 1024*1024 bytes: the file is in RAM. HA!

(whoever thought that mass memory could use different units than volatile memory, should have been tarred gzipped and feathered)

I think they changed the code a while back and you can't achieve it any-more.

Still, googling it you can find some very amusing posts labelled +5 troll https://www.google.it/#hl=it&rlz=1C2GPCK_enSI363&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22score:+5+troll%22+site%3Aslashdot.org&oq=%22score:+5+troll%22+site%3Aslashdot.org&gs_l=hp.3...62009.64450.4.65019.8.8.0.0.0.0.89.645.8.8.0...0.0...1c.1.bm1TZaT9-M4&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=3c7dfe9879c598ed&bpcl=35466521&biw=1680&bih=989

For the curious ones, just try google for "fake iphone"!

Mussolini - 'Mussolini publicly reconciled with the Pope Pius XI in 1932, but "took care to exclude from the newspapers any photography of himself kneeling or showing deference to the Pope." He wanted to persuade Catholics that "[f]ascism was Catholic and he himself a believer who spent some of each day in prayer..." The Pope began referring to Mussolini as "a man sent by Providence." Despite Mussolini's efforts to appear pious, by order of his party, pronouns referring to him "had to be capitalized like those referring to God..."'

Mussolini was a radical socialist (Communism was born in 1921), he founded Fascism as an anticlerical movement and he was a self proclaimed atheist. The "Fasci da combattimento" (hence the name fascism) were a paramilitary formation born to repress the socialist and catholic trade unions. However most of Italy was deeply religious at the time and he could not gain a complete control of the Italian society without a truce with the Catholic Church. But that was Realpolitik, yeah: he was atheist and a hypocrite.

Just confront what you posted with this text about the Second World War in USSR: "Stalin abolished the League of the Godless (founded in the 1920s) and arranged a temporary truce with the Orthodox Church; in return, the Metropolitan of Moscow publicly announced in 1942 that Stalin was "the divinely anointed leader of our armed and cultural forces leading us to victory over the barbarian invasion." Church reopenings were attended by multitudes of devout believers. The regime proudly communicated news about fund-raising efforts by churchmen and congregations to purchase tanks for the army; Ehrenburg openly described people praying, and Simonov wrote poetically and movingly of "the simple crosses on Russian graves." .

I don't know what Wikipedia says but I can assure you that Stalin was in fact an atheist.

Napoleon - 'As an adult, Napoleon was described as a "deist with involuntary respect and fondness for Catholicism." He never believed in a living God; Napoleon's deity was an absent and distant God, but he pragmatically considered organised religions as key elements of social order, and especially Catholicism, whose, according to him, "splendorous ceremonies and sublime moral better act over the imagination of the people than other religions".'

He was so fond of Catholicism that he crowned himself as emperor and doubted that Jesus was a divine being. Citing Dupuy, reported by Bainville: "We are fooling Egyptians with our pretended interest for their religion; neither Bonaparte nor we believe in this religion more than we did in Pius the Defunct's one (that is Pope Pius VI)".

Again he was pretty much an atheist and a hypocrite ("It is by making myself Catholic that I brought peace to Brittany and Vendée. It is by making myself Italian that I won minds in Italy. It is by making myself a Moslem that I established myself in Egypt. If I governed a nation of Jews, I should reestablish the Temple of Solomon"). Nothing new.

Hitler - 'After his move to Germany, Hitler did not leave his church. Historian Richard Steigmann-Gall concludes that he "can be classified as Catholic", but that "nominal church membership is a very unreliable gauge of actual piety in this context."' His interest in the occult is also widely documented.

Considering Hitler a Catholic is risible. Hitler's position is ambiguous but it's well documented that he mocked transubstantiation (a Catholi

His spokesman - Silvio Sircana - was found enjoying a party with a transsexual about two years ago.

Well, there's google.it, for starters. Not sure if any EU laws/regulations would come into play, but if they do it's a sure bet that Google isn't interested in writing off Europe.

While you have valid points, in my mind the OP is for the most part correct. I tried visiting the following sites to get an impression of each:

http://news.google.com/
http://news.google.fr/
http://news.google.de/
http://news.google.es/
http://news.google.nl/
http://news.google.it/
http://news.google.es/

The biggest difference I see is that the German site has way more capitals. That aside, everything else looks on the surface (ie: when not actually trying to read anything) to follow the same general pattern. From a linguistics perspective, I don't doubt you're correct and many alterations have been introduced into each language as it diverged from a common root... but to an untrained eye scanning over the text of the sites above I'm not seeing a lot of variance.

I'm sorry to say this, but there's an astonishingly high number of facts that show that your forecast is just wishful thinking. The first that comes to mind: the sex scandals of Noemi Letizia, D'Addario, the infamous Lodo Alfano. And these aren't nearly the worst ones, just the ones people know about, and just go "meh, we can't do anything about it".

Just so that you know: with astonishingly perfect timing, the "assault" helped covering the privatization of the Italian Army, hidden in the Finanziaria. No television obviously has spoken about it, and a google news search brings up four (4) results about it.

If this Internet censhorship thing goes on, I'm confident it will easily be worked around by anyone with a little bit of computer knowledge, because they're too stupid to do things with the help from people that know what they're doing. But that's a puny consolation, because most of the people won't be willing/able to do what will be necessary to work around it.

I f$%&/n' hate being italian.

I'm sorry to say this, but there's an astonishingly high number of facts that show that your forecast is just wishful thinking. The first that comes to mind: the sex scandals of Noemi Letizia, D'Addario, the infamous Lodo Alfano. And these aren't nearly the worst ones, just the ones people know about, and just go "meh, we can't do anything about it".

Just so that you know: with astonishingly perfect timing, the "assault" helped covering the privatization of the Italian Army, hidden in the Finanziaria. No television obviously has spoken about it, and a google news search brings up four (4) results about it.

If this Internet censhorship thing goes on, I'm confident it will easily be worked around by anyone with a little bit of computer knowledge, because they're too stupid to do things with the help from people that know what they're doing. But that's a puny consolation, because most of the people won't be willing/able to do what will be necessary to work around it.

I f$%&/n' hate being italian.

You said that: nothing happens to these people.

Prevalent reasons are two:

1) the Mafia IS in Rome. Which incidentally is the where the Government resides. And the Papal State too.
Why this? Where there's money to be made and/or power to be gained, there's Mafia.

2) if for some pervert reason some of these people get caugth and prosecuted, what happens to the other dozens publicly known dumpings?
I know and explicitly referring to the Phosphogypsum, Pyryte ashes and Bauxite sludge dumps occurred in the '70 and '80 all over the Venetian hinterland, where later entire residential districts were built, as well as over all the northern Adriatic sea, performed by a wide variety of firms gravitating around the local chemical processing plant.
And the same ones,not satisfied with all this mess, then crossed the borders: first reports are from '80s (google translation), and entire regions (google translation) gained some non invidiable records.

That's all in the name of the God of Profit: dumping stuff here and there is always cheaper than a correct disposal.

Disclaimer: yes, I live in Venetia hinterland and I, as almost the rest of the population, am aware of all this from decades. Moral: that's the way it goes. Get used to that or migrate.

You said that: nothing happens to these people.

Prevalent reasons are two:

1) the Mafia IS in Rome. Which incidentally is the where the Government resides. And the Papal State too.
Why this? Where there's money to be made and/or power to be gained, there's Mafia.

2) if for some pervert reason some of these people get caugth and prosecuted, what happens to the other dozens publicly known dumpings?
I know and explicitly referring to the Phosphogypsum, Pyryte ashes and Bauxite sludge dumps occurred in the '70 and '80 all over the Venetian hinterland, where later entire residential districts were built, as well as over all the northern Adriatic sea, performed by a wide variety of firms gravitating around the local chemical processing plant.
And the same ones,not satisfied with all this mess, then crossed the borders: first reports are from '80s (google translation), and entire regions (google translation) gained some non invidiable records.

That's all in the name of the God of Profit: dumping stuff here and there is always cheaper than a correct disposal.

Disclaimer: yes, I live in Venetia hinterland and I, as almost the rest of the population, am aware of all this from decades. Moral: that's the way it goes. Get used to that or migrate.

what exactly a search should prove? http://www.google.it/search?hl=it&rlz=1C1CHMG_itIT291IT303&q=%2Bsymbian+not+work

give numbers, to convince anyone. (And I agree with your point, but that doesn't make a useful discussion out of it)

also:http://www.google.it/search?hl=it&rlz=1C1CHMG_itIT291IT303&q=elephant+squirrel+nut

what exactly a search should prove? http://www.google.it/search?hl=it&rlz=1C1CHMG_itIT291IT303&q=%2Bsymbian+not+work

give numbers, to convince anyone. (And I agree with your point, but that doesn't make a useful discussion out of it)

also:http://www.google.it/search?hl=it&rlz=1C1CHMG_itIT291IT303&q=elephant+squirrel+nut

First label them with random labels such as "Child Porn", "Gangbang Demo", "My michael Jackson music collection", "Best of Metallica", "Old Napster", "NewContryLawyer incriminating evidence" and then put some random material downloaded from the Pirate Bay and some porn of your choice of course.

Then it comes the brilliant suggestion: Load and install on them the nastiest malware you can find on the web,don't install the same malware on all disks, be creative and be sure that it's current. It should go undetected by the average computer user in a corporate environment: a idiot, word-excel monkey, 35-70 Years Old with absolutely no idea nor interest in how computer works.

Finally head to this address and leave some of the disks in the starbucks most visided by lawyers, make sure they look like forgotten. Places like toilets and the water dispenser are a must.

For additional fun label part of the disks as "PAYBACK" and leave them at starbucks at this address.

Good Fun, your family wouldn't be happy this chrismast but we will be much gratefull !

First label them with random labels such as "Child Porn", "Gangbang Demo", "My michael Jackson music collection", "Best of Metallica", "Old Napster", "NewContryLawyer incriminating evidence" and then put some random material downloaded from the Pirate Bay and some porn of your choice of course.

Then it comes the brilliant suggestion: Load and install on them the nastiest malware you can find on the web,don't install the same malware on all disks, be creative and be sure that it's current. It should go undetected by the average computer user in a corporate environment: a idiot, word-excel monkey, 35-70 Years Old with absolutely no idea nor interest in how computer works.

Finally head to this address and leave some of the disks in the starbucks most visided by lawyers, make sure they look like forgotten. Places like toilets and the water dispenser are a must.

For additional fun label part of the disks as "PAYBACK" and leave them at starbucks at this address.

Good Fun, your family wouldn't be happy this chrismast but we will be much gratefull !

"VMware" will announce its first layoffs in June. Microsoft is now hovering like a vulture, waiting to scoop up "VMware".

Microsoft does not want to spend its cash hoard of $25 billion when the interest rate on bonds is essentially at zero -- relative to inflation.

That means also that its 25 bn cash hoard is yielding 0 as well, so adding up to the cash hoard is losing them money.
I work in the financial world, and I see no immediate logic to the move. they have cash in hand, they are still producing cash after investments, and any acquisition target is either small enough to be considered petty cash, or big enough to warrant a stock swap offering. Furthermore, why tip you hand? they issued about 5bn, say that a comfortable cash level is 10 bn after the acquisitions, and all the pundits will scramble for tech companies with a market cap between 12 and 18 bn market capitalization ( I am assuming a premium of 40% over the current price).
Not a particularly smart move.

One possible explanation, which currently does NOT bear contemplating, is that they'vee seen in the crystal ball the day when they won't be cash positive, and starting to build the name amongst bond investors is sensible anyway. one added plus is that bond investors have been left holding the short stick recently, so paradoxycally the stock owners feel better off when there are bond investors in the company instead of the other way around, as it should be according to logic and law.

.it already exists, being the country-code domain for Italy. http://google.it/ already exists, too, as a matter of fact.

I'd be happy with a TLD system based on language. Why do we need the com/net/org thing anyway. Lets just have something like

http://google.en/
http://google.it/
http://.name.language/

oops, wrong video link, here is one of the complete video without a download requirement from the site:

http://video.google.it/videoplay?docid=-1053309060448851979

http://www.google.it/search?q=%22a+website+where+I+can+get+free+kittens+and+other+pets%22

hey everybody, stop for a moment and think (or, at least, google around) before you write. Nowhere does the original article, or the Flynn research team (AFAI could find), say that this enginge produces more energy than it receives.

(The original article says "You should not be able to get more out of a system than you put into it and when someone claims to have invented something which does otherwise, skeptics are quick to challenge the validity of any claim that appears to violate conservation." and "A Parallel Path motor uses magnets...this ability to manipulate the magnetic flux in the core of a motor is what provides the exponential increase in efficiency with Parallel Path technology.". The phrasing of the above may be misleading, but it is not saying that "A Parallel Path motor generates more energy than it consumes".)

What the tecnology is about is that a "parallel path design" can help keep the magnetic flow around the rotoro, right where it is needed.

And what about the "over 100% of efficiency" statement?
I have a true clear-cut example for you. I have recently bought a new heat system for my house; when I started browsing models, I came across the realm of "caldaia a condensazione" (english: see condensing high efficiency boilers)) that claim to feature up to 106.5% efficency.
Here the brainded ./er would say "106.5% efficency? Perpetual motion! That must be b.s.".
The intelligent one says "106%" w.r.t. what ?. In Italy, it is "106% w.r.t. the theoretical limit of a standard design of a boiler". So it is not b.s.

So, by comparison, I may assume that the "parallel path" design exceeds 100% of the theoretical efficiency of the "standard electrical engine design". And this is scientifically reasonable, and yet it does not mean that a "parallel path" design is a perpetual motion engine

Which explains why:
GIS in AU
GIS in CA
GIS in FR
GIS in UK
GIS in RU
GIS in PL
GIS in IT
GIS in ES
GIS in JP

Are all so different, right?
That's not "cultural differences", mate. That's censorship.

It should not surprise anyone.
Has someone tried a search for blog personal diary?
IMHO this is strictly related both to the age shift in the Internet audience AND to the competence shift, meaning that the percentage of technical gurus who once loved to contribute to the global knoledge has dropped down, leaving room for personal contributors.

Why only French and German to the exclusion of Italian [...]?

Well, you're free to buy the search terms for your own company's name and your competitor's name as well, so I don't see the problem, even if I can certainly understand the annoyance. It creates the potential for a bidding war where none existed before.

I wonder if this means that OSDL or someone could sue in France to have MS not pay for the 'Linux' search term. MS are currently doing that in Italy (look at the ads on the right, and maybe click on it to transfer a few cents from Microsoft to Google:-)

http://www.google.it/search?hl=it&q=linux&btnG=Cer ca+con+Google&meta=

The client develoeprs have to recognize that yes, sharing is nice and leeching is bad, but disrupting the users' connection is a Very Bad Thing

Disrupting user connection ? Like throwing a bomb on a thing may disrupt the thing, but the inet connection of the user isn't disrupted at all.

What really happens is that the download/upload speed are tied in Bittorrent, but you can use Opera Explorer YouNameItProgram at the same time and there will be no disruption at all.

If by "disruption" you mean that the use of bittorrent will take some of the bandwidth avaiable to the user, then even Explorer is a "disruptive" application, any application would be "disruptive".

The fact that customers with Asynchronous DSL lines (aka ADSL) will have their download speed limited when they upload -at the same time- is not a Bittorrent fault ( easy explanation, very technical explanation)

once again, lame technologies seek to imitate what the One True Editor has been able to do for years.

next!

I think he's refering to the fact that by default www.google.com presents its interface in English, while www.google.de presents its interface in German and www.google.it presents its interface in Italian.

www.google.co.uk is another English interface, but unlike www.google.com it offers a mode to search only UK sites. It's likely presumed that English-speaking users use their own localized Google site rather than the USA site for better performance.

Well they already have Google Deutschland, Google Italia, and even Google Lietuvos, so google.cn makes the most sense.

Come on please.. what are thos kind of "intelligent" robots?

A google search doesn't tell me anything interesting about that.. unless it's the "magna adventure center" which the author is talking about. Or whatever.

Could anyone provide more details about those bots? How are they programmed, how do they "think" (bah..) or anything else more interesting than a gossip? Thanks.

I get similar results result for the Italian version but not the German results.

Though I must admit I have no idea what "In risposta ad un reclamo ricevuto ai sensi del Digital Millennium Copyright Act, abbiamo rimosso 2 risultato/i dalla pagina. Se si desidera, è possibile leggere il reclamo DMCA che ha portato alla cancellazione dei risultati." means.

In this case, it doesn't. It's being used against a company in the United States (Google).

I don't think it's affecting Google in Italy, for example