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> See for example: http://www.google.nl/firefox doesn't have the 'i'm feeling lucky'

Er, yes, because this is not the main Google page for your country. It's a subpage. Wow, http://www.google.nl/maps doesn't have an "I'm Feeling Lucky" either. Oh noes!

> See for example: http://www.google.nl/firefox doesn't have the 'i'm feeling lucky'

Er, yes, because this is not the main Google page for your country. It's a subpage. Wow, http://www.google.nl/maps doesn't have an "I'm Feeling Lucky" either. Oh noes!

See for example: http://www.google.nl/firefox doesn't have the 'i'm feeling lucky'

http://images.google.nl/images?hl=nl&q=gay%20porn& btnG=Google+zoeken&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=N&tab =wi

real proof is here: http://images.google.nl/images?hl=nl&q=gay%20porn& btnG=Google+zoeken&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=N&tab =wi

I don't agree with you. All auxilery modular options an an 'mech' with extensions make it look kooler.

http://images.google.nl/images?svnum=10&um=1&hl=nl &q=mech

I didn't know that! I love google's unit calculator: http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&q=(pi*10%5E9)+se conds+in+centuries+&meta=

Look at this video: http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=-4216011961 522818645.

It's a video of a talk given by two guys from Google who founded the Subversion project. The video is titled "How to protect your Open Source project from poisonous people".

Daniel

You're lucky, I'm an obsessive note-taker. You'll have to supply your own verbs, though.

Talk, How to protect your open source projects from poisonous people, Ben Collins-Sussman and Brian W. Fitzpatrick, January 25, 2007, Subversion developers from Google explain their experiences. Google TechTalks. http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=-4216011961 522818645

Open Source Developers Speakers Series, 4. Google engineers, Chicago.

"Abstract: Every open source project runs into people who are selfish, uncooperative, and disrespectful. These people can silently poison the atmosphere of a happy developer community. Come learn how to identify these people and peacefully de-fuse them before they derail your project. Told through a series of (often amusing) real life anecdotes and experiences."

Most important resource is the attention and focus of your community. Poisonous people can show up, distract your developers, cause emotional drain.

On purpose or accident. More often unintentionally.

Perfectionism. Design document went on forever.

Painting the bike shed. Enginers hand in huge document for design of the nuclear power plant, approved in 5 minutes. Week later, come in with blueprint of bike shed they want to build, debate for months on what color.

"Call bikeshed."

People want to put their stamp.

Habits that make healthy open source community: Politeness, Respect, Trust, Humility.

Pick a direction and limit it. Subversion mission statement, "To create a competing replacement for CVS." Could point to it when people wanted to expand it. That's not in the mission statement.

Google Web Toolkit. Ajax development environment in Java.

Mailing list, primary communication. Read archives first. If they don't, they're disrespecting everybody's time.

One vehement dissenter, half the messages from one person. Call people out on it, filibustering. Consensus-based community, consensus derailed.

Document history, including mistakes. Standard format, consistent log messages. Dealt with client in old job, guy said, I can't get my programmers to write in a standard format. Responded, I've got 30 volunteers off the Internet, they follow detailed format, and you're telling me you can't get your paid employees to folow a standard format?

Commit email.

No Powerpoints. Some people go off and write big Powerpoints, come back with big document later, nobody can go through it. We have to see what you're doing as you go along.

Bus factor. How many people would have to be hit by a bus for you to wind up in a pile of shit. Project that depended on one guy, assign him a collaborator, share expertise.

Egalitarianism, not owning, no names. Good coder insisted on name, blackmail, you can't use it if I don't get my name, refused his contribution. Not willing to sacrifice our community for your ego.

Expand community. Culture perpetuates.

Founder can be booted, too possessive of his code, voted him off.

Voting is a last resort. It shows consensus didn't work.

Identify people. Put them on Bozo list.

Good cop, bad cop. Guy can turn out to be good, make valuable contributions.

Can identify them early on. Usually have a nick like CRAZYJOE, lots of different nicks, lots of caps, exclamation points.

Can't pick up on mood, ask questions they could look up, which disrespects other peoples' time.

Blackmail. Trolling. Hostility. Continually object.

"Patches welcome" is the open-source term by which you dismiss people. Send in your patch.

Is this debate worth it? Ignore them.

Concentrate on what they have to say, ignore the hostility.

One guy challenged basis of Subversion, people responded emotionally. Wasted 2 days of my time.

Good cop. Sometimes people look like trolls, actually miscommunication. Not native speakers of English. Give benefit of doubt, sometime

I wonder if there is a difference between US sites and European sites?

I know that our local nuclear power plant isn't smudged out. Go to google maps, and input 'borssele, nl'; the nuclear power plant is the structure just to the north-east of the village of Borssele. The large white round structure is the reactor dome, with the turbines in the rectangular annex. The smokestack to the northeast of that is for the coal-fired plant on the same grounds. Zooming in gives plenty of detail, no smudging at all

The next closest plant in Doel, Belgium (just outside Antwerp), on the other side of the Scheldt estuary is also visible in full detail. As is the research reactor of the Delft Technical University.

Triangel Hero

This works great in the Netherlands. Here's our Ministry of Defense and this is the air force headquarters. If you can't see it on Google Maps, you can't bomb it. </sarcasm>

There's more of this nonsense, but these two are close to home for me.

This works great in the Netherlands. Here's our Ministry of Defense and this is the air force headquarters. If you can't see it on Google Maps, you can't bomb it. </sarcasm>

There's more of this nonsense, but these two are close to home for me.

this in one company in serious trouble!

Heineken was first

http://www.google.nl/search?q=20*400GB/sqrt(2m*2/( 9.8m/s/s))in+Tbps

Rejected is great, but i don't see how it's so appropriate.

But now you started it: I'm feeling fat and sassy.

I started using Delphi a bit late in the game. A few years ago I chose Delphi 6 because it looked pretty decent and I liked the way it simplified the Win32 API in such a way that we could get to developing software without too much hassle. Delphi 7 came along which I passed over because I wanted to wait for Delphi 8 and jump on the .NET bandwagon. When Delphi 8 came out I bought it...

... which was the biggest mistake I ever made. Delphi 8 was a such a POS I was shocked that people actually released software that bad. Like they say in Southpark, "You see, I learned a lesson today..." and boy did I learn it good.

Ever since then Borland has been spiralling downwards into oblivion. Their best engineers walked out causing them to lag behind never being able to catch up again. Delphi 2005 was a POS and Delphi 2006 needed a couple patches before it actually worked. I never even bothered to upgrade and no I haven't tried the demos and no I don't give a shit.

I regulary check out the borland.public.delphi.non-technical to see what's going on in Delphiland. Half the comments are from .NET haters who constantly preach about how they don't use dot garbage and claim that native code is the best. My reply to those people is that if you don't understand the advantages of .NET over native code then you have no business writing software.

The other half of the comments are from the Delphi evangelists clinging on to the vain hope that Delphi will some day come back to its glory days and be the top IDE once more. All I can say to them is... can you feel the water around your ankles yet?

The only chance that Delphi has is pure and unconditional open source. I've suggested open sourcing Delphi several times but always my suggestions have fallen on deaf ears. I get short-sighted replies such as "and how can Borland earn their money"? and "oooh.. I hope not!". Too bad because it's been proven time and again that money can be made with Open Source and Borland is precisely at the right time at the right place to pull it off. Oh well, I guess they're going to miss the boat ... again.

END OF RANT

The screenshot section sais: Comming soon.

http://images.google.nl/images?q=openfrag+screensh ot&btnG=Zoeken&svnum=10&hl=nl&lr=&client=firefox&r ls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aunofficial

Thanks, but we've all seen Google China's tiananmen search vs The US version

However it's interesting to note that something censored in the US is censored all over the world

Not comparing what's been censored. Just where.

I suspect the been measuring for a couple hundred

Yes, no.
There are two methods of measuring temperatures WAAAY back: - Geographical/geological. E.g. take a slice of rock at the base of a mountain and read the history of temperatures in its layers. Also works with trees.
- Taxonomic zoology. If you look at tiny little critters of a certain kind all over the globe (their simplicity makes them easy to compare), for instance gammarus, you'll notice tiny variations. These are linked to events in history, such as increases or decreases in temperature, which caused tiny alterations in evolution.

Grrr, something went wrong with the link. I meant this one .

If the ACLU or The New York Times, which is breaking the story, were shocked by the Clinton administration's politically-motivated spying on innocent and often prominent American citizens, there is no easily discovered record of the same.[emphasis mine]

Anyways, someone stretching the term 'human rights' to also include calling out racist remarks/insults, is ridiculous. At least the Dutch can have their own choice considering the use of soft drugs... Something the world could learn off.

The Dutch are notorious for not caring about human rights. Did you know that it's illegal to use racist remarks there? Like, if you use the "N" word in public, they can fine you or throw you in jail.

Sure, then either the Dutch state must be filthy rich or the jails must be awfully full: 443.000 Neger (Nigger/Negroe) articles.

[Falls into trolls trap] And of course your real American problem is not with the N-word, it's with the *meaning* of the word. You can change words from nigger to black man to afro-american to whatever you like, that does not change anything as long as you don't change the racist stereotypes these words are referring to. Change your society, not your language. Or your candy.

ROFL!! WHOAHAHA!!!

This is just too much, I am in stitches..

Just have a browse through the good ol barrel a laughs..

http://www.google.nl/search?hs=9Xu&hl=nl&client=fi refox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=attri tion.org+aol&btnG=Zoeken&meta=

> Where, aside from Apple, can I buy a multi button mouse that is also a single button mouse that won't confuse my grandmother and will switch modes based upon my user preferences?

If your grandma is confused by two buttons that do different things you can set them in software to act the same. How exactly is something that looks like one button but acts like either one or two better that two buttons that act either like one or two? It isn't. As someone already pointed out, this Apple thing is not a real two button mouse as you can't click left and right simultaneously or perform some of Opera's mouse gestures.

> Where else can I get a mouse with a roller ball built in instead of a scroll wheel?

You mean like this?

and if Linux=Communism Microsoft=Fascism! http://images.google.nl/images?q=tbn:5urxsBJPEh4J: www.slothmud.org/~hayward/mic_humor/billgat2.jpg

Even weirder: compare

• query on google.nl - clicklogging redirects
• same query on google.com - no redirects
• same query on google.de - no redirects

This has to be the worst dupe ever. How often has slashdot covered this?

The *entire European union* will require biometrics stored in contactless chips (RFID) in a passport. The EU didn`t think of this all by itself, the US forced it. If the EU doesn`t go along fast with this billion dollar hype it`s citizens will have to get a visa to visit the US. (How are US plans for this coming along?)

The biometrics are two fingerprints and a digital portrait. The last one will be to low resolution for camera surveilance but ofcourse this wont stop people from trying. Face it(no phun), the words "false positive" sound complicated and no politician is going to bother to look like caring about these words. Ofcourse you can translate them to "huge lines at the airport", "tens of innocent people questioned on ever major airport every day" (So mister Bin Laden, how did you turn into an asian twelve year old?).

Want to hear some of the argumentation behind this? Yes you do! Implementing passports with biometric identifiers will be a great business opertunity, especially for the business that get to build the hardware for this stuff... Boy do I wish I was making this up.

Of course the people who sell biometrics are alway happy to tell how many people on this planet have the same fingerprint and face. wanna guess? Its always a very low number, like zero. In fact they keep saying this over and over. They never have any time left to mention that:
a. biometric comparisons always allows for lots of differences because no one want`s to hold up a line at the airport because of a mismatch due to some sweat.... every time someone sweats one these occasions.
b. cheap fingerprint scanners are fooled by gummy bear taste gelatine prints, pressing bags of water on the scanner.... or just blowing on it. Can you blame these vendors for not mentioning this? Maybe not, they are afterall, very busy in this "post 911 world". Or so they keep saying.

Ofcourse it doesn`t stop here. Other bright ideas going on the the EU:

• Giving US three leter ancronym agencies read access to all airline booking systems. If airlines refused they couldn`t land in the US, now they comply they might be send back midair from time to time. But hey, what are the chances of someone matching a name on a list of 70,000 names? (If you think this list sounds to short, don`t worry adding names is easy, no evidence of anything is required)
• Storing traffic data for every telephone or Internet connection in the EU... Depending on the phase of the moon this data consists of telephone call data, GSM location data and ofcourse URL`s of every site visited and headers for send and/or received mail. Yes I mean storing everything about the communication of everyone....

Meanwhile Italy, Germany and Sweden are investigating what heaponed to a some of their citizens. They where kidnapped by the CIA and sent to places that make abu graib look like the holiday in... Ofcourse these investigations arent about getting justice for these people, they are just about making things difficult for the national goverment for allowing these kidnap operations.

Anyway, it seamed like the right time for an European update on these things.

Definitions of art:
http://www.google.nl/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q= define%3Aart
That's a lot of definitions. Art is art when 'articians' say it is so.
Authoritarial justification.
Even extreme things, like burning crosses or crossdressed foetusses can be considered art. And before modding me down for this: I do not agree with the examples I just gave.

A quick search on reveals there are 32,100,000 .us sites at this time. Not bad, but far less than the number of .com (1,570,000,000) or .net (143,000,000) or even .nl (34,200,000)...

The original post can be found here

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems. (source)

The start page for Firefox isn't the default Google page, but rather a customized page with the Firefox logo. But you're right, there are localized versions of that available as well:

Google Firefox Netherlands

Google Firefox France

I thought he was talking about the "Firefox Start" pages.... Like this and this

I think he was talking about the firefox start page
That too, however, is available in multiple languages:
try, for example
Netherlands
or
France
Or if you want another language, like klingon, you can just set it in the preferences

If Google were to host the Start Page in different languages

FYI Google DO host the start page in different languages and heres a couple o them:

Google Netherlands

Google France

And, just so you know, when discussing one's strengths the proper French word is "fort", not "forte".

Contrast fort with forte . But hey, if you feel your reading skills are not a place that is strongly defended by military, that meaning is also fine by me :-)

And, just so you know, when discussing one's strengths the proper French word is "fort", not "forte".

Contrast fort with forte . But hey, if you feel your reading skills are not a place that is strongly defended by military, that meaning is also fine by me :-)

They get them started young...
They merchandise it too!!!
links thanks to a dutch buddy of mine that pissed in his pants reading this thread...

Gee, kids these days...

And your point is. I did google, and I didn't trust the sites claiming Rape at Abu Gharib any more than I would trust the list of sites you get if you search for: 'John Kerry gay Lover'

Show me a reputable organisation claiming this, not one full of entrenched fanatics, and I'll reconsider.

PS, Am I the only one to see the irony of these responses backing up something by saying 'It's true, Google has lots of links..' coming in an story related to online 'authorities'?

Defining Google is even easier: just do this...

http://www.google.nl/search?q=cache:5p4B1xNAGXkJ:w ww.asktog.com/Bughouse/10MostPersistentBugs.html+& hl=nl&lr=&client=firefox-a&strip=1

Good google cache (no images).

I'd recommend applied crptography by Bruce Schneier instead.

Not only does it cover the same ground, it also goes into detail a bit more about real tricky business; protocols (where most mistakes are made these days, since nearly everybody uses off-the-shelf algorithms like AES, DSA, RSA and ElGamal). This guy knows how to write, and succeeds in warning you of potential pitfalls in a humorous manner. Also, he knows his stuff; he submitted one of the AES candidates, Blowfish.

Bruce also publishes the most excellent Crypto-Gram newsletter.

Beware of not heeding Bruce's stern words of warning. You may end up in the doghouse! The humiliation! The shame upon your house!

Copyright infringement is not theft.
Copying software does not prevent the creator from having access to the source data, so technically, this cannot be theft. IANAL, but I strongly doubt that anyone of them would call copyright infringement 'theft'.
--
Campaigning for the right usage of these terms since well before 2001.

JUST SIGN THE CONVENTION OF KYOTO!!
http://unfccc.int/
(Are you UN or not?)

Almost every goverment of the UN has a difficult job by following the rules of this convention, while some other countries still have to find out everybody knows...

http://www.google.nl/search?q=influence+windpower+ environment

That's nothing. I'm typing this comment from my refurbished Sinclair ZX81...