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Firstly, Microsoft has invalidated the cert (at least to my knowledge).

Your knowledge is incorrect. At the request of the Dutch government, Microsoft deliberately did NOT patch its systems from that country... until several weeks later when the government's request was made public and they retracted their request.

But Microsoft HAS pulled the cert, whereas your comment was written as if they have not yet done so. And my knowledge of this is not incorrect unless you are still implying that Microsoft has yet to invalidate those certs.

Secondly, it is not at all clear how moving to ipv6 tells the corporations to eat a bag of dicks

Perhaps not to you, but to the rest of us who have read the standard... end to end encryption means no man in the middle attacks, no certificate authorities, etc. Every organization has access to its own key in DNS, and if someone tries to replace it, anyone who has connected to it previously would know.

It does not mean no man in the middle attacks. Even with IPSec you still have to trust, whether you are trusting a CA or the DNS, you are still trusting. If your ISP is your DNS provider, and they are also the best positioned to implement MITM attacks, then unless you have a shared secret, using a CA in a country like Iran may actually be more secure.

Firstly, Microsoft has invalidated the cert (at least to my knowledge).

Your knowledge is incorrect. At the request of the Dutch government, Microsoft deliberately did NOT patch its systems from that country... until several weeks later when the government's request was made public and they retracted their request.

Secondly, it is not at all clear how moving to ipv6 tells the corporations to eat a bag of dicks

Perhaps not to you, but to the rest of us who have read the standard... end to end encryption means no man in the middle attacks, no certificate authorities, etc. Every organization has access to its own key in DNS, and if someone tries to replace it, anyone who has connected to it previously would know.

Indexing copyrighted material is only wrong if you're not paying corporate taxes: http://www.google.nl/search?q=site:kino.to+pirates

No, they're jealous that it's not livre des faces and twitteur

Well it does say can be required to, that doesn't mean they can't be convinced, paid, or otherwise motivated to filter the Internet.

Indeed.

Falkvinge.net says the exact opposite of what I read dozens of times today. All articles I read today say that that very same advocate general, mister Cruz Villalón, said that if individual countries make laws requiring ISPs to filter the web, there's nothing the EU can/will do. Only without those local laws, it would be illegal.

Some of my sources:
Translation of tweakers.net
Translation of nu.nl

Well it does say can be required to, that doesn't mean they can't be convinced, paid, or otherwise motivated to filter the Internet.

Indeed.

Falkvinge.net says the exact opposite of what I read dozens of times today. All articles I read today say that that very same advocate general, mister Cruz Villalón, said that if individual countries make laws requiring ISPs to filter the web, there's nothing the EU can/will do. Only without those local laws, it would be illegal.

Some of my sources:
Translation of tweakers.net
Translation of nu.nl

Latine scribere quivis Google translate...
http://translate.google.nl/#en|la|who%20watches%20the%20watchmen

They have no case yet, they think, it needs to be bigger. So they torture Bradley. See http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/accused_wikileaker_bradley_mannings_torture_by_isolation_20101215/ or even http://www.google.nl/#hl=nl&source=hp&q=bradley+manning+torture

...with any kind of accuracy. Apples can't self pollinate, which means you'll never get the same variety of apple out of its seeds. Sure, you'll get an apple, but not the same apple you were expecting.

Google for more info:

http://www.google.nl/search?q=growing+apples+from+seed

As far as tomatoes go I was refering to certain popular crop tomatoes which, as I understand it, do not produce viable seeds.

I understand that a lot of the varieties grown commercially have similar problems. They've either been designed to be sterile, or they involve splicing one plant onto another (see: apple tree) or something similar...

The pilot with the spray was already announced in november 2008, and over I believe 60 stores in Rotterdam have been using it for a while now. McDonalds only recently installed it as well. But to supplement the original article, the DNA-spray has not yet caused a criminal to be nabbed, probably because stores that are outfitted with the spray haven't been robbed in the first place since they installed the spray. Though it still has to be seen how effective the spray is at catching robbers, it for now seems to be at least a great deterrent. Source (translated): http://translate.google.nl/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=nl&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nu.nl%2Fbinnenland%2F2332929%2Fwinkels-met-dna-douche-niet-meer-overvallen.html&act=url

I've just been in the Bay Area last week (downtown SF) and prices were less than 4$ a gallon.
in the Netherlands we already pay 1,56 € (2$) per litre. http://www.nu.nl/brandstof/index.html, which is about 7,5$/Gallon. http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&q=1,56+euro/l+in+usd/gallon&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=/

2 years ago our prices were even higher, at least twice the US gas price. most of this is due to tax.

just saying that your ideas aren't that far-fetched..

http://www.google.nl/search?q=ps3+jailbreak+reverse+engineered

Say what? You claim all or many edible plant have a common ancestor?
Well, if you go back far enough...
But measured against the existence of Homo Sapiens that's just bollocks.
Some suggested literature on the origins of edible plants:

http://books.google.nl/books?hl=nl&lr=&id=BqNOAAAAIAAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR11&dq=origins+of+edible+plants&ots=xnN2MNoBjm&sig=NuquAyZxYlR85GlKe2LCTc4O6w8

What ever happened to eyes and intuition? If one way streets confuse you as a driver, you shouldn't be driving and are a menace to society. If you look up directions to somewhere, and upon actually driving there you realize that the area is all one ways, doesn't intuition tell you that you might have to actually drive an extra block or two so that you can make your way back to your destination without driving the wrong way? Personally, I would think the big signs that say ONE WAY and have a large arrow pointing in the direction of traffic would be enough, but apparently people are too glued to their navigation screen to bother actually looking at the world around them.

I dare you finding this route:
http://maps.google.nl/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Apeldoornseweg%2FN784&daddr=51.9811,5.912704&hl=nl&geocode=FS2RGQMdfmdaAA%3B&mra=dme&mrcr=0&mrsp=1&sz=15&sll=51.985699,5.913262&sspn=0.017999,0.038581&ie=UTF8&z=15
By hand, without knowing the city. Some places are one-way mazes. Just drag the destination around a bit.

Well, technically zombie would be the correct term... since you cannot kill what has already been killed. But still, he's the most loved zombie in the world, with statues of his dead corpse hanging in churches and houses around the world. And people eating pieces of zombie-flesh and drinking zombie-blood on a regular basis. And in light of recent events the photo's found of Jesus and the children are dubious: http://images.google.nl/images?q=jesus+children&safeui=off

Damn, Christianity is really morbid if you think about it.

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.

Well said. This reminds me of the reactions when the K-foundation burned a million pounds of their own money.

Somehow there is this assumption that money is holy and all must bow to it's power. Well it isn't and what he chooses to do or not to do with it is his own fucking business.

I doubt they would put in so much effort if it wasn't with the best of intentions.

Well than, just google this: Al Gore carbon. His intentions are quite obvious, and to some this is the 'inconvenient truth'.

LMGT4U;
http://www.google.nl/search?q=overworrying&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:nl:official&client=firefox-a

It may be a cultural difference, but in the Netherlands, a great cycling nation, (seriously: http://images.google.nl/images?q=amsterdam%20bikes) pretty much no-one wears a helmet. The only people I see wearing helmets are the racing bikers (but by no means all of them) and some soccer moms.

You can take that for what it's worth.

Bono can only afford 5 houses because he doesn't pay tax like anyone else does. Funny how someone stealing from his own country can critisize people that don't even steal, but copy.

I guess you did not bother to actually check the search results, right?

Because I can't find any report about a real virus in the wild.

I wonder if you didn't do the same you accuse GP of not doing. The second result for http://images.google.nl/search?q=osx+virus+in+the+wild is Mac users face first OS X virus in the wild. Now anyone who knows what they're doing shouldn't get infected. As New MacOS X trojan/virus alert, mostly a non-event says it takes some clicking and seems to be a "proof of concept". Now Tech Q and A: Are Macs Vulnerable to Virus Attacks? is an interesting read.

Falcon

Ooh, don't get the idea I'm a shill, for MS, Linux, or anybody else and don't like Macs. I'm typing this on my MacBook Pro and of the 7 new computers I've owned it's the best.

I can't, but google can:
[...]
http://images.google.nl/search?q=osx+virus+in+the+wild

I guess you did not bother to actually check the search results, right?

Because I can't find any report about a real virus in the wild.

Oh, by the way, Google says Barack Obama is a Jew:

http://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q=barrack+obama+jew

(Hint: He's not.)

Yeah? Can you point to ONE virus in the wild that has ever bitten any Mac or Linux user?

I can't, but google can:
http://www.google.nl/search?q=linux+virus+in+the+wild
http://images.google.nl/search?q=osx+virus+in+the+wild
More than one, actually.
So yeah, thinking you're safe from virusses simply by using a different OS is still as stupid as it ever was.

Yeah? Can you point to ONE virus in the wild that has ever bitten any Mac or Linux user?

I can't, but google can:
http://www.google.nl/search?q=linux+virus+in+the+wild
http://images.google.nl/search?q=osx+virus+in+the+wild
More than one, actually.
So yeah, thinking you're safe from virusses simply by using a different OS is still as stupid as it ever was.

http://www.google.nl/search?q=malware+mac says it all. Now get those ads off the air.

Why? Because that brings up some "Malware on the Rise" and "Malware proof your system" articles? http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=linux+malware Brings up some articles just like that. Should we then assume that Linux is a growing haven of security holes and seedy malware? I don't think so and I don't know why you got modded informative.

http://www.google.nl/search?q=malware+mac says it all. Now get those ads off the air.

This guy 'connect2raza' I see spamming almost all Iran discussions seems to have his CAPS key stuck for at least a year! This has to be some kind of record!!!
Just google his name and you'll find his little upper-case-copy-paste diamonds of high-pressure-brainwashing everywhere (most on press TV): http://www.google.nl/search?q=connect2raza

Is this the best netwar-soldier from the Iranian government, a loser with a broken-ass-keyboard?

Good news everybody!
Why oh my yes, its right here.

*sliver*

just the same processor manufacturer

And even that's not true. We had to buy an older server type because even if we bought a newer server with -in this case- AMD cpus it wouldn't mix with the others.
The CPU has to be functionally the same, otherwise you'll have to resort to cpu masking.

Who is this North Winds Software of which you write? I did a quick google search for it, and only fielded a small collection of what really look like malware bait sites (so don't click any unless you have noscript).

http://www.google.nl/search?q=%22North+Winds+Software%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a

Seriously, I was just trying to learn more about their niche. I've just unburied my head from GnuCash on Linux, and I wonder what's possible. Aside from reports, GnuCash is solid once you get going with all your accounts. Reports work too, once you get what amounts to a few work-arounds because development just isn't mature there yet. Still, a nice book-keeping app on GTK/Ubuntu.

Intuit/Quicken wants my local Dutch banks to pay a ransom to associate with Quicken, and all banks decline. I foolishly kept buying Quicken thinking this'll be the year. Until I realized Intuit expected cash from both me and the banks, and that's when I realized Intuit didn't serve me like I expected to be served; especially since Intuit was holding me, the customer, hostage until the banks ponied-up their share, which is never gonna happen here.

Why does this matter? Because until this year I had to enter every damn transaction by hand, and then balance the books given my input errors. UGGH! NOW, I can download my bank's transactions, like a human being. GnuCash has been an investment for me. I'd like more people to know about the developers' solid work, and I hope to see reports improved upon.

I live near the largest 'robot' in the world, the Maeslantkering, also part of the Deltawerken: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maeslantkering

http://maps.google.nl/?ie=UTF8&ll=51.954211,4.166136&spn=0.02301,0.06403&t=h&z=14

Last summer they tested the 'arms'. Very impressive. Takes more than half an hour for it to be fully closed. Last year it was automatically activated for the first time since its creation. Yeah, i feel safe too :)

Parts of Holland may be below sea level, but:
1) This part is not: http://maps.google.nl/maps?f=q&hl=nl&geocode=&q=hengelo&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=12
2) Being below sea level never stopped us before from draining to the sea (we have known about pumps for quite some time now)

McCain wants to see a manned mission to mars:
http://www.google.nl/search?num=100&hl=en&q=mars+site%3Ajohnmccain.com&btnG=Search&meta= as senator he has tried to get more funding for advanced engines that would make it more of a reality.

Obama I dont know, google returned a bunch of stuff relating to veronica mars, a fictional tv character, and mars PA, the city. Nothing obvious was on just "www.barackobama.com" so he may not have an official position on this issue.

What did I do to deserve this? Could I have handled this better?

1. Nothing whatsoever. The world has always had a dose of 'Poisonous People'. For reasons of 'Human Rights' they are much more visable these days. One of them has just happened to bumble into your forum.
2. Yes. It's so simple. You just don't feed them, ever.

   If your forum users are getting annoyed, then a single big notice "Please don't feed the troll." usually works wonders.
   ( The antique unix 'banner' utility program is useful to generate the notice. )

See this 55 minute Google Talk on how to survive these horrible individuals. Although this video is about PPs in a free software setting, the principles are the same for your forum.

A whole different problem which I encountered myself several times is that everyone was allowed to spout of several amounts of FUD without ever being told that they did so. Worse yet; the stories sometimes never changed, but it /did/ have a nice "opensolaris" URL attached which has confused people numerous of times. A classic example right: here.

I've seen several people rant about how it wasn't possible to tell (Open)Solaris not to automatically update the hostname and as such you had to change a whole lot of system scripts in order to get this behaviour. This specific (officially accepted so it seems) howto even described on several pages how to best approach the patching of the system scripts.

Total Madness! the only thing people had to do was to change /etc/default/dhcpagent. I've written the author, I've responded in an OpenSolaris forum that this approach is utter nonsense and I've even seen this URL pop up in a few newsgroups here and there.

And this is just one obvious example... For me it was enough to stop taking the whole thing seriously (note: I am a veteral Solaris admin & user). And something tells me I wasn't the only one...

Obligatory:

http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=1628597280384324194

I can spot those TomTom users from a mile away.

On my daily commute there is a speed camera positioned under an overpass. It has not functioned for years, and all the regular commuters know this[1]. I judge the average speed on this bit of motorway to be about 120km/h, with a 100km/h speed limit. But at least thrice a week I see someone hit the brakes when approaching the overpass. And I used to share a car with someone who had downloaded such speed trap information, and damn if it didn't flag a speed trap at that precise point.

The local pejorative name for TomTom seems accurate (DomDom, aka 'DumbDumb').

Mart

[1] For our Dutch readers: the overpass on the A1 motorway going east, just past the Laren exit and just before the Eemnes junction. Google maps reference.

The Naked Scientist actully just had a Podcast [MP3 Link] about music and science.

A great example of a library as a public hangout is the new Amsterdam Public Library designed by Jo Coenen.
If you are visiting Amsterdam it is the perfect place to visit. It has 600 computers with free unfiltered internet access. A restaurant with a great view on the city and free wired and wireless internet. great collection of englisch books, magazines and literature. If you are a resident you can get a card offering access to the huge DVD and software collection, (computer games and Hollywood movies on lend!) It has books too : )

http://images.google.nl/images?hl=nl&q=openbare%2Bbibliotheek%2Bamsterdam

Definitely a video worth watching!

google has an answer

Damn, does the FUD never end? A small search on Google demonstrates that the EU fines domesitc industries at least as much as foreign ones (I read the official numbers ones, can't find the source now, but most 'income' was from domestic corporations). Just because Spanish Telecom, Fujifilm and Siemens don't reach the/your news, doesn't mean they're fined hundreds of millions of euros.

According to various high ranking official, there might be a factor that will not tolerate the weaponizing of space:

Short:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzwauVZu6QU

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/227929/the_eighth_witness/

Long:

http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=6552475158249898710

http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=-4694075066240662837

According to various high ranking official, there might be a factor that will not tolerate the weaponizing of space:

Short:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzwauVZu6QU

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/227929/the_eighth_witness/

Long:

http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=6552475158249898710

http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=-4694075066240662837

Some anecdotal evidence to go with this: When the Euro coins got released there was a study that tested all the coins heads/tails distribution. They found that for certain coins the outcome was unfair.

Of course if you realize that they tossed 250 times for each coin (from each country) it is not surprising at all that 1 or two of these had an abnormal result.

How about this one: when building a new suburb, execute all planners that don't factor in access roads, and instead expect all inhabitants to use the existing infrastructure.

Here in the Netherlands they just built some new suburbs as part of a national program. Around Leiden, situated near one of our busiest motorways, they expect people to use the only road leading to the motorway. A road that is already being used by about half the population of the town anyway. This was acknowledged as a problem in the planning stage, and waved away with "another access road will be built once development of the housing is done". Result: jams leading up to the motorway, jam-packed merge lanes, and worse jams on the motorway itself.

Amsterdam has a new development that depends for its motorway acccess on one of the main access roads leading into the city center. Do I have to spell out how bad the congestion gets these days? I cross that bit daily, and the onramps are packed. See Google Maps. The development is the bit on the right.

• GNOME (and Novell) do not support the standardisation of OOXML. They are both members of the ODF alliance, both use it as the default file format, and if it was even remotely realistic to have a decent office product without OOXML support (where the Windows desktop is unfortunately in such an insane over-dominance currently), then they would of course be all for it.
• The implementation of OOXML is all about interoperability. I don't see anyone (wrongly) trashing Samba as a project, and yet its existence and the effort to implement OOXML support is virtually identical in terms of free software.
• You like software freedom and hate the software patent system? Great, so do I. Free implementations of proprietary solutions, though, are a good thing; not a single one of my friends are going to be using Linux if they can't submit their assignments to their lecturers. We need interoperability, to ease the transition for people coming from the proprietary world.
• The KDE/Koffice developers issued a statement basically saying they didn't have the resources or the time to implement OOXML, and suddenly a lot of silly talk gets thrown at GNOME. If I volunteered to implement OOXML support in Koffice I doubt (i) that they would object, and for sure that (ii) any distribution would not include it.
• Even if you dislike Jeff Waugh, it's pretty tough to find a rational basis for criticising him based on the podcast or his approach to the problem other than (i) not getting the GNOME statement (again, which you really can't fault) out soon enough, or (ii) giving Roy the publicity he wants.
• The itwire article plays Roy as some sort of victim in the podcast talk. That is ridiculous. Unfortunately -- and to the detriment of the FLOSS community -- Roy is an incredibly prolific, poisonous person willing to do or say anything that might cook up some self-publicity, and with an irrational hatred of Novell. And in fact on the contrary, Roy skipped around every question that was directly asked to him; instead opting to just give background on Microsoft's "evil" nature and talking about how bad OOXML is (both of which we palpably know).
• Finally, even if you decide to ignore all the other above facts, please tell me why you're not also staging wide protests against OpenOffice.org or your distribution for including OOXML support, as well.

http://www.google.nl/search?q=body+scan+schiphol

Slashdot has covered these before as well, with the usual privacy concerns (omg they can see my schlong size! What if somebody posts pictures of hot young women from these scan on the interwebs? *starts bodyscan pr0n site*)

HARD EVIDENCE ... 3 Top UFO Documentaries 31 Dec 2006

http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=8285709939745631584

  ^-- As a skeptic as myself, I've got to say that his is *good* stuf --^