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It might interest you to learn that the RM12 engine used in the SAAB Gripen fighter (which is used by the british ETPS, in fact) has a mechanical calculator as a backup if the electronics fail. Link in swedish unfortunately.

Some [suitably located] data centers, for instance this one, in Sweden do pump heat into the "remote heat" (fjärrvärme) grid, which then goes out to individual homes, apartment buildings etc

Get a heat exchanger and put it into good use somewhere else.

(Or lamer and more stupid I guess (if you don't combine it with a heat exchanger) do as Facebook do and build it up north: http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.475671/video-facebook-datacenter-fran-luften)

Wait what, there was news about this back in January in Swedish media, where as Facebook representatives claimed that these were messages written directly to each others walls (I have facebook, and looking back, I would not talk openly about vomiting, personal issues or anything of that sort). I want to recall Facebook later claimed that the chat function from the beginning was not a real chat, but rather "minifeed" posts which were hidden from the wall (so an update of some sort showed these posts, if they started showing with timeline or prior to that, I do not know). Looking back at the articles right now, I don't actually find any references to media abroad, but rather just swedish ones. Anyway, here are the sources I found (all in swedish, sorry). Origin afaik: https://www.flashback.org/t1763964 (requires login) A post that tries to list the facts among other things (a good read) http://www.joinsimon.se/facebook-buggar-och-din-privata-information-hur-star-det-egentligen-till/ Explanation by Facebooks Swedish representative http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.425636 And finally from aftonbladet (sensational articles deluxe) http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article14188881.ab Imo, the top three links are the ones worth having a look at.

You have a lot to learn about how consumer protection laws work over here. Yes, you can't claim one thing in the largest letters in the ads if the consumer can't reasonably expect it to be true. However, the reporting is a bit overblown as they're only thinking about starting an investigation. Quoting the Swedish Consumer Agency (my own error-prone translation of a MacWorld article at http://macworld.idg.se/2.1038/1.440631/konsumentverket-granskar-apple):

"- This is probably something we have to look into, it isn't totally obvious, says Marek Andresson, jurist at the Swedish Consumer Agency to the news agency TT.

- This advertisement might satisfy the demands of the law, but it could have been clearer. It needs to be correct and not misleading. It is only two countries on another continent where the product works according to the ads. But at the same time Apple isn't withholding information, says Marek Andersson."

Well maybe in the US. Over here in Europe we have seen speeds up to 90 Mbit/s over 4G(LTE) for quite some while. This article that compares different 4G networks in Sweden from January this year sheds some light (it's in Swedish but the graphs are readable): http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.364964/de-har-snabbast-4g

She's hot! http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.339673/adobe-reader-ar-en-oerhord-risk

Ah yes, the corporate environment with custom coded macros in various MS Office applications, a new version of Office comes out and IT installs on a few systems as a test, old Excel and Access macros stop working, new projects from the test systems fail to work on the older installs, confusion, chaos, and the solution, buy more licenses for the new versions and start recoding all the old macros.

Funny thing is I didn't envision all the built in idiocy in Microsoft's licensing and forced upgrade schemes when I read that quote from Ballmer, to me "We're not saints" was more of a confession that the questionable business methods and outright illegal ones will continue as they are not saints and are in fact the opposite, they are scoundrels.

In a Swedish article on IDG.SE they were waiting for the iPhone app before the US launch. Currently they expect spotify in the US before year-end.

You can a preview of the app here

Swedish Internet bandwidth reseller Black Internet has been ordered today by the swedish court Tingsrätten to cut of access to The Pirate Bay, or face a fine of 500000 SEK (approx. $70870.5).

http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.242518/pirate-bay-borta-fran-nate (link in swedish).

The same as above machine translated by Google

Earlier in the week BSA representatives here in Sweden all but admitted that the figures for Sweden were made up.
http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.229795/bsa-hoftade-sverigesiffror (sorry, link in Swedish only)
They used a combination of general estimates and figures for other countries. No Swedish businesses were involved in the study at all...

... and further to that; Swedish police are unable to confirm that this took place at all...
http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.216376/antipiratbyran-rekordtillslag-mot-svensk-piratserver ... and from the same source; servers in the ring where accessible by non-anonymous ftp.

I agree; likely to be an imaginary event.

I have been reading a lot about this trial, and found a quote that will haunt the speaker for long time to come, if the quote is acurate.

In one of the major IT-related new sites in swedish, they interview a number of people about this trial, among others Henrik Ponten who is a lawyer for the Swedish anti-piracy group.

In this interview he states "It is important that the Swedish state has brought forward these charges in order to establish that it is not OK to run commercial enterprises on other peoples' creativity."!

Now, I may be a bit misinformed about what record companies actually do, but it sounds very much like this guy is trying to get record companies outlawed.



For those with a knowledge of Swedish, the relevant page is http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.211605/branschen-och-piraterna--sa-slutar-rattegangen . It is the first sentence in Henrik Pontens first answer.

There are more things at stake here for Sweden. This article is well worth the read (english translation via google can be found here

Basically it says that Sweden has no choice. Even if The Pirate Bay is found not guilty, the laws will be changed and they will then go on trial again and loose, or alternatively Sweden will be thrown out of international trade agreements such as the WTO. The latter is not really a choice.

Personally I think TPB is wrong and I hope they loose. They have gone too far and they are risking a lot for an entire country. IMHO, it should not be up to them to endanger Sweden's membership in the WTO, amongst other things.
If they Swedish media did a better job at highlighting this and the consequences for Sweden as a country, maybe people would stop supporting TPB.

Apparently the operator Tre provides 21 Mbit at Ericsson's headquarter in Stockholm. Not for commercial use yet though. (In swedish, sorry...) http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.198793/tres-rekordbredband--bara-pa-ericssons-kontor

Two trailers with "thousands" of them were stolen from a harbour in Gothemburg/Sweden last weekend. According to a commenter the exact number is 18000, but [citation needed] on that one... Link in Swedish.

judging from this (swedish) article in idg.se, they're pretty much toast... They're planning to get rid of 200 of their 370 employees,ouch....

The nomic looks pretty cool, might be adding that one later. Don't know who posted it, kinda got lost :S From top to bottom: all in English except otherwise mentioned. I'm using google reader.
1. Swedish travel journals of friends from resdagboken.com
2. Job that fits my search criteria at monster.ie
3. The Vinyl Café at http://cbc.ca/podcasting
4. CDFreaks News http://www.cdfreaks.com/news
5. Friend's blog
6. Another friend, probably not updating anymore. Book in blog form about a helpdesk. In Swedish. http://contactcentret.blogspot.com/
7. http://www.idg.se/ Swedish Computernews.
8. Another friend's blog.
9. Another friend's, probably not updating anymore.
10. Detroit Red Wings news.
11. Slashdot.
12. The Goliath Expedition. This dude is walking around the Earth. http://blog.goliath.mail2web.com/ Stalled at the moment though due to Russian VISA issues.
13. http://musicvsmusic.blogspot.com/ Pop Rock Indie Blog. Usually a bit emo music but sometimes they get it right. Sparsely updated.
14. non-working RSS feed for a Cybernations Alliance.
15. Three Panel Soul http://www.threepanelsoul.com/ Comic
16. http://www.tjuvlyssnat.se/ Swedish overheardit version
17. http://www.wulffmorgenthaler.com/ Another comic.

If anyone wondered what FRA will be using its fairly new 13728-core, 102 Tflop/s (Rmax) Xeon cluster for, I guess this is it. When it was new on the previous list (November 2007), it held the fifth place. Here is an article about it in Computer Sweden (in Swedish). Maybe now is a good time to upgrade to 2048-bit keys...

here in sweden, I just got a new connection installed so now i can choose between cable, ADSL and fiber. The fiber is not own by one specific ISP and I dont know how many diffrent ISP I can choose from. I do know that the same ISP(comhem) is offering internet over all three diffrent technologies.

ADSL is 24/2,5(telia) 20/3(BBB)
cable is 24/1 (24/10 if I pay 60 kr extra)
fiber (don't know speed and prices yet)

and a while back we could read this in computersweden http://computersweden2.idg.se/
the municipal housing organization that has over 800 000 dwelling. has decided that every apartment should have 1Gb/s connections including the kitchen by year 2010.
google translation: http://translate.google.se/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fcomputersweden2.idg.se%2F2.2683%2F1.160850&hl=sv&ie=UTF8&sl=sv&tl=en

and no talk about caps

FF3 RC2 using 92MB of RAM at the moment on this XP SP2 machine, with 8 tabs (1 Slashdot, the rest http://www.idg.se/ ). Only extension I'm using is adblock.

There has actually been quite a lot of fuss around this law. For example, a seldomly used law paragraph enabled the social democratic minority to delay this proposal for a year, something which gained quite some attention when it happened. If that had not been done, the law would have passed a year ago. An update to what was happening during this period is available at http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.156736 (swedish only). IDG is the largest swedish news agency for technology-related news. At the national swedish radio homepage http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/ekot/artikel.asp?Artikel=1242136 you can read about finlands protests against the law. They also published news about the growing criticism of the law at http://www.sr.se/Ekot/artikel.asp?artikel=1240436 (both links in swedish).

30Mb/s doesn't sound like much, if you're after the world record... A lady in Karlstad (Sweden) had her son install(*) something a bit faster: 40Gb/s. (article in Swedish: http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.153268). Although she seems to have used this opportunity to do much more than dry her laundry. * I think the initiative came form the son, not the old lady.

They could perhaps be subject to contributory infringement though

for that to happend there need to be someone found guilty of copyright infringement, cant have one without the other.

And latelly someone who used to work for SÄPO has been showing up as a expert witness on the defendets side.
  http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.139212 sorry link in swedish

Unfortunately it's in swedish, but here's one http://www.m3.idg.se/2.1022/1.132631 (there's a link to a video and some stuff too). The test was initially mainly intended to assess plasma versus lcd, but that ended up not being nearly as interesting as the failure to reliably distinguish resolutions.

"I manage to pick 1080p/720p over 480p"

If you switch back and forth a few times it's certainly possible, but many need to use visual cues (like you mention, stubble) to do it. I assume you're not normally specifically watching stubble movies, or switching back and forth. What was noticable here was the initial reaction; going from nothing to movie, nobody thought it was SD. And that's pretty close to how you usually operate a TV.

"but 50" / 2m?"

Yes, some had difficulty. Not all eyes are created equal, even assuming they had whatever corrective lenses they'd require.

I'm not saying HD is useless. I'm saying dont pay too much extra, and prioritize other features like color and contrast (or the ability to rip and store content), because under normal viewing circumstances, watching a movie, most people wont actually notice, and some cant even notice the difference.

But that's for film. For still pictures HD resolution is a step forward. For anyone using their TV as a screen it's also a huge step forward. For anyone like me, wanting large computer screens, it's great that they're getting popular.

Still, I hate people getting jerked around by salesmen (and even more by media companies wanting to charge more and jam DRM down their throats in exchange for a difference in quality they cant even see), so I feel compelled to point this out.

And even more telling than what I've been able to find to support that point of view (this latest blindtest, some more I cant recall where they were, some articles on the capacity of the human eye) is the huge amount of material I'm not finding to disprove it.

First I was shocked, then I believed that someone was pretending to be Miguel, but when checking his profile and all it seems as it really was Miguel saying this. I also had hard to imagine that he would have been paid by Microsoft to say this, so I really don't understand his motives.

Here in Sweden we are currently arguing with Klas Hammar, who is business area manager for Microsoft Sweden. Recently, in a a debate article (7th Sept, in Swedish) he claimed that OOXML is "future safe" and in another article (today 11th of Sept, also Swedish), he says "one could ask why it shouldn't become a standard".

For him and others I collected the documents I had studied before the decision to reject OOXML and put them here (all in English). It is a collection of some documents from e.g. Google, Oracle, Spain FFII, Italian PLIO etc which very clearly describes the flaws of OOXML. This page could probably be useful for Miguel to read as well. This is not to compete with <NO>OOXML, it is just to illustrate how we have come to this conclusion on our own.

We are not opposing OOXML by principle just because it's Microsoft, in fact we looked forward to the Microsoft XML format a few years ago, but that was before we understood how bad an "XML" specification could be designed. OOXML is a rough draft, nothing to take seriously as it appears now. I also have a blog entry about this if you want to send me some comments. (I'm not a blogger, otherwise)

Apparently they tried to pull exactly the same stunt in Norway. (In Swedish/Norwegian, sorry) http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.118473

This article (in swedish) http://computersweden.idg.se/2.2683/1.118680 says that the decision to invalidate the vote was because of one voter voting twice, not because of Microsofts actions regarding the vote. Sweden will probably not have time to do another round of voting, so it looks as they will abstain.

Well, according to http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=281505&cid= 20383407 , none of the companies that voted YES in the Swedish vote "came in late" either. All were already members of the organization.

That doesn't match the Computer Sweden article which lists 24 out of 35 organizations in the working group as newcomers, 18 of these 24 being "Microsoft Gold Certified Partner", and cites a SIS representative saying there were eleven members in late June -- and that the big influx started on Thursday (two work days before the vote?!).

• Camako Data AB (Microsoft Gold Certified Partner)
• Connecta AB (Microsoft Gold Certified Partner)
• Cornerstone Sweden AB (Microsoft Gold Certified Partner)
• Cybernetics (Microsoft Gold Certified Partner)
• Emric AB
• Exor AB (Microsoft Certified Partner)
• Fishbone Systems AB (Microsoft Gold Certified Partner)
• Formpipe Software (Microsoft Gold Certified Partner)
• FS System AB
• Google
• HP (Microsoft Gold Certified Partner)
• IBizkit AB (Microsoft Certified Partner)
• IDE Nätverkskonsulterna (Microsoft Gold Certified Partner)
• IT-Vision AB
• Illuminet
• Know IT (Microsoft Gold Certified Partner)
• Modul1 (Microsoft Gold Certified Partner)
• Nordic Station AB (Microsoft Certified Partner)
• ReadSoft AB (Microsoft Certified Partner)
• Sogeti (Microsoft Gold Certified Partner)
• Solid Park AB (Microsoft Gold Certified Partner)
• SourceTech AB
• Strand Interconnect AB (Microsoft Gold Certified Partner)
• TietoEnator (Microsoft Gold Certified Partner)

Here's a link to an email conversation with the founder:
http://www.sweclockers.com/forum/showthread.php?s= e0a49aad6aaa76aa2abfe67cb4d4ec44&postid=7539927#po st7539927

The founder also has a column in a small Swedish paper:
http://www.jnytt.se/Read__7981.aspx (Swedish.)
He writes about life in Sao Paulo.

Here's an interview with the largest Swedish business paper, Dagens Industri:
http://tinyurl.com/38ju9l (Swedish.)

A couple of months ago they launched a laptop for 3000SEK (~$450), the same model now being sold for $150:
http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.100914 (Swedish.)

Could be fraud, could be simply bad business, could be an attempt to gain market share by calculated loss. No matter what, it could definitely have been launched in a more professional way. Bad karma on the founder. I'm waiting (at least) 6 weeks to put in my order.

Some people are really doing their best to research this scam-look-alike. From a swedish website:

----8http://www.cint.se/debatt//ShowPostFlat.aspx? PostID=62603 or http://www.sweclockers.com/forum/showthread.php?s= &threadid=696980 where these letters and answers are mirrored.

"1&2. How could you lower the price so much compared to the price of
3000 SEK that you mentioned in http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.100914 ?
1000 SEK is quite a bit lower. Why did you change the idea from not selling directly to customers as you staded in http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.100914

1&2) It is true that we went out in the first article on IDG.se telling
that the price for the end consumer would be around 3000 SEK. That is
because the companies we were discussing with wanted to have a big
profit on each laptop sold to the end consumer. Since we at Medison
believe it is better to offer a laptop so that everyone can afford to
buy a laptop, we decided to offer our Medison Celebrity to a very good
price where we have very, very low margin so that everyone can buy a
laptop rather than giving too high profits to other companies and have
less computers sold to the end consumers."

So the involved companies would just suddenly agree on not making any or have an extremely small margin?

----

"3. Why is this last change and sell-start rushed is such a way? I.E
companys started in just a few days, contracts created in so such
short notice that most of the companies you mention on your site
doesn't know anything about you?

3) There has not been any 'rush', but actually has been carefully
planned over some time. Any kind of registration of company name or
domain does not show wether a strategy is planned or not in a company.
This kind of information can instead be done on purpose to not reveal
to competitors what is going on. But then again, Medison has no
obligations to answer what its strategy is and therefore any kind of
interpretations made by people outside the company."

I would call it either a rush or a failure that the companies listed on your website dodn't know anything about you at first. Which one do you prefer?

----

"4. Why is your company adress sharing the exact same address as
several hundred others?

4) Medison is registered, as many other companies both in UK, USA or
any other European country on an address shared by many companies.
This is quite normal. Let me give you an example. In a high sky scrape
building with 41 floors, all of the people living there have the same
address. We do not see our common shared addres as something strange,
but rather normal."

I wasn't asking about why A company would have it like that. I was asking why YOUR company had it like this. Let me ask the question in another way: Would I correctly assume that your address stated on your site is just a forward or P.O Box like address, and that you don't really have any office in UK at all? If that is the case, do you have any office at all, and what would the visiting address be?

----

"5. Why do a serious company use a hotmail adress to register their
domain? Why is the phone number in the same registration going to
some random person in Malmö and not the registrar?

5) In USA it is VERY common that business people use a hotmail address
or yahoo address together with their business e-mail addresses. It is
common to do so as an insurance to not miss any important e-mails in
case a mail server would crash. Since the companies offering Domain
names have no rules that say a person or a company cannot use a
hotmail address when they register, then we don't see what relevance
your questions has. If the domain company has not updated their client

Some people are really doing their best to research this scam-look-alike. From a swedish website:

----8http://www.cint.se/debatt//ShowPostFlat.aspx? PostID=62603 or http://www.sweclockers.com/forum/showthread.php?s= &threadid=696980 where these letters and answers are mirrored.

"1&2. How could you lower the price so much compared to the price of
3000 SEK that you mentioned in http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.100914 ?
1000 SEK is quite a bit lower. Why did you change the idea from not selling directly to customers as you staded in http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.100914

1&2) It is true that we went out in the first article on IDG.se telling
that the price for the end consumer would be around 3000 SEK. That is
because the companies we were discussing with wanted to have a big
profit on each laptop sold to the end consumer. Since we at Medison
believe it is better to offer a laptop so that everyone can afford to
buy a laptop, we decided to offer our Medison Celebrity to a very good
price where we have very, very low margin so that everyone can buy a
laptop rather than giving too high profits to other companies and have
less computers sold to the end consumers."

So the involved companies would just suddenly agree on not making any or have an extremely small margin?

----

"3. Why is this last change and sell-start rushed is such a way? I.E
companys started in just a few days, contracts created in so such
short notice that most of the companies you mention on your site
doesn't know anything about you?

3) There has not been any 'rush', but actually has been carefully
planned over some time. Any kind of registration of company name or
domain does not show wether a strategy is planned or not in a company.
This kind of information can instead be done on purpose to not reveal
to competitors what is going on. But then again, Medison has no
obligations to answer what its strategy is and therefore any kind of
interpretations made by people outside the company."

I would call it either a rush or a failure that the companies listed on your website dodn't know anything about you at first. Which one do you prefer?

----

"4. Why is your company adress sharing the exact same address as
several hundred others?

4) Medison is registered, as many other companies both in UK, USA or
any other European country on an address shared by many companies.
This is quite normal. Let me give you an example. In a high sky scrape
building with 41 floors, all of the people living there have the same
address. We do not see our common shared addres as something strange,
but rather normal."

I wasn't asking about why A company would have it like that. I was asking why YOUR company had it like this. Let me ask the question in another way: Would I correctly assume that your address stated on your site is just a forward or P.O Box like address, and that you don't really have any office in UK at all? If that is the case, do you have any office at all, and what would the visiting address be?

----

"5. Why do a serious company use a hotmail adress to register their
domain? Why is the phone number in the same registration going to
some random person in Malmö and not the registrar?

5) In USA it is VERY common that business people use a hotmail address
or yahoo address together with their business e-mail addresses. It is
common to do so as an insurance to not miss any important e-mails in
case a mail server would crash. Since the companies offering Domain
names have no rules that say a person or a company cannot use a
hotmail address when they register, then we don't see what relevance
your questions has. If the domain company has not updated their client

Well the founder of Medison Valdi Ivancic lives in Brazil according to IDG.se. If the company is registered in Brasil as well the Swedes are smoked too. The legal info on their page is a rip off from apples. Well they could just be lazy...I don't know.

Mmmm FISH!

http://internetworld.idg.se/2.1006/1.100914 article about medison in swedish... according to the article their goal is to sell 2 millions of these.

A /. article had a post that linked here in April. It's an article (in Swedish) saying that only substance (except for crazy stuff like antimatter) more expensive per unit volume than OEM printer ink is pure Turkish heroin. If THAT doesn't put things into perspective, I don't know what will.

I'm surprised that no one has called me on my claim yet, but here's a sample demonstration anyway. Open the following the links in your favorite browser, in the order listed, keeping the IDG site at the top after you're done:
Shockwave site
Java site
Flash site

When I do that, VM Size goes over 150 MB and CPU usage goes over 20% in Firefox, IE, and Opera. It's not up to 250 MB and 50%, but you get the idea with just three tabs and a minute of browser usage. Just add a few more resource-heavy sites, and you can reach those numbers. Add in hours of heavy browsing on a variety of sites, and memory use in any browser can reach hundreds of megabytes.

Now it's time to provide the counter demonstration. Can someone provide a list of links that will cause Firefox to gobble up hideous amounts of memory, but not other browsers? If so, then finally we'll have some details about this problem once and for all!

http://www.idg.se/ had an article last month or so, regarding this issue. According to the article only pure turkish heroin was more expensive than original printer-ink.

Original article: http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.103164 (swedish)

http://www.idg.se/ had an article last month or so, regarding this issue. According to the article only pure turkish heroin was more expensive than original printer-ink.

Original article: http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.103164 (swedish)

Sweden is too. One of yesterdays headlines here was "Sweden named rogue state by the us". Here is the article in swedish:
http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.95577

Guess I should start bunkering food and batteries before our nice friends the americans start bombing. ;(

From 2004 : " Uppsala universitet betalar mindre än en tiondel av ordinarie pris för Office. " , which translate to English as "The University of Uppsala pays less than a tenth of the ordinary price for {MS} Office"

Word on the street was that UU was going to go completely FOSS, or at least completely non-MS, on its workstations. Many other institutions were heading that way until 2000-2002. Turku was a notable case, but there were quite a few others that weren't able to move even that far before MSofters flew in and thus didn't get as much press.

Other bad decisions were made around that time, too: People got sold a lot of junkj hardware, too: gross income deduction in exchange for last year's hardware, at this years full retail prices, delivered 6 to 12 months from now. That gross income reduction cuts rather deeply into the pensions, given the new pension system.

It would be useful, though nearly impossible, to find out all the places that have been trying to dump M$ junk since 1998, but have been threatened with raids, or threatened with audits, or given 95%+ discounts in order to keep or extend the lock-in. As you can see it's been part of the business model for a long time. The BSA/FAST raids seem not just about licensing but about even getting rid of non-MS commercial software.

Only to apply for another (sorry, only in Swedish). According to the article, Microsoft has applied for a patent for modular operating system upgrades, which sound quite similar to the various package management schemes (Yum, Apt, etc) used in Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.

This based on that a total of 3 accounts where used to access the network - all from a local socialdemocrat office - where a fourth account using VPN was unused.

Also providing credibility to this, is that the passwords on the used accounts are of sufficient complexity - although not commented on because of policies, by the security firm.

All from the article, read more on (swedish): http://computersweden.idg.se/2.139/1.75972

So, its intresting how something unconfirmed and almost on a "urban legend" level turns into news.....

It was apparently the TPB lawyer that had to submit to DNA sampling. That gets really interesting when you factor in that "the brain behind TPB" was denied an lawyer because he was not suspected of anything that could result in jail (the news article in swedish).

So the "brain behind TPB" (and owner of PRQ which was the webhost that was raided and stripped of all servers, even though most had nothing to do with TPB) is not suspected for anything that could give jail, but despite that they could get a warrant to take all the equipment. Additionally the lawyer has to be suspected of something that can result in jail or otherwise they could not legally have forced him to give DNA. So if all that is true then the lawyer is suspected of something worse than the webhost owner and person behind TPB. That sounds very fishy so either someone is lying or the police has committed several crimes during the raid and interrogations.

Sadly this is Sweden we are talking about so the government will do something bad, then investigate why they did it until people forget what happened.

In a swedish article on the same site, one of the pirates states that they will open again, abroad (outside Sweden, that is, duh).

This has also been reported by various sources in Sweden. These 2 links are unfortionately in swedish but they both mention a 20% drop in traffic after the shutdown.

http://idg.se/ArticlePages/200605/31/2006053119292 7_PFA/20060531192927_PFA.dbp.asp
http://aftonbladet.se/vss/it/story/0,2789,834356,0 0.html

I want the hypertext to be the most appropriate 2-3 words that tell you exactly what you're clicking on. I think that is absolutely essential. Every URL should matter, and every bit of hypertext should tell you exactly what it is you're going to get when you click that mouse button.

You (CmdrTaco) and the other editors are completely inconsistent about this -- possibly my single largest complaint about slashdot, even though I'm a grammar nazi and bothered by lots of things. If the article summary is borked, so what? -- as long I can get to the actual article. But many posts seemed to be linked in a way that obfuscates what the relevant article is.

Here's one you personally posted today:A test carried out by Pegasus Lab on account for Swedish magazine PC För alla showed that a normal PC keyboard was infected by more bacteria than a normal toilet seat. More specific it contained 33000 bacteria per square centimeter, compared to 130 on a ordinary toilet seat. The tests also showed occurrence of up to 3100 fungi per square centimeter.

You'll note that doesn't follow your standard of linking what the article is about, rather than the article provider.

How about this one that just popped up: Pennies, pipes, untold miles of CAT5 - they tie up a lot of copper. Unlike abundant iron and aluminum, copper is relatively scarce. But it's vital to electricity generation/transmission, plumbing, and other uses central to a modern standard of living. Scientific American is providing a quick overview of the situation. They report the conclusion that there simply isn't enough available....

Now surely that was not the relevant phrase. Surely the link is about SciAm's "quick overview of the situation" or their "conclusion." In this case it's the only link in the post so it's not hard to find, but in posts with multiple links it would be confusing to find a link to SciAm before actually mentioning it -- I would assume it's background.

This has gotten better in recent years; links used to be placed seemingly at random.

I don't think Microsoft is scared about the competition in the Office space, because they haven't started priceslashing Office yet.

When you have a monopoly, the most important activity is to, above all, maintain that monopoly. If you can, then there will always be time later to regain what you lost during any price cuts. The OpenOffice.org suite and, especially, the OpenDocument format have them in fear - MS' current business model is dependent on income from MS Office and without it, MS itself is likely not profitable in its current structure.

I don't think it is reasonable that a hardware company should pay for copyright infrignements made by the user of the hardware. Afrer all we don't charge gun manefactuerers with murder in case sombody should use their legally bought gun to kill sombody.

Even so, Jens of Sweden is not my hero.

He really know how to cut down costs. One of his way of doing this is by not honering warranty agreements to customers that have had the misfortune of getting a fawlty product.

According to an article in todays number of Computer Sweden, all the leading Swedish chains of stores in electronics have decided to stop doing business with Jens of Sweden due to a large number of dissatisfied customers.

The article also states that several complaints on Jens of Sweden to the Swedish National Board of consumer policies have been filed over the last year

For those of you that read Swedish the article is on:
http://computersweden.idg.se/ArticlePages/200509/1 9/20050919075347_CS084/20050919075347_CS084.dbp.as p

Even though ThePirateBay might not have to close down immediately at 1st of July due to the legislators really f*cking up the thing they were aiming for not thinking about outlawing BT-like techniques, it is still quite horrid.

Things that has been discussed in other part of this thread, like breaking copy protection mechanisms, are being made illegal, however crappy they are (shift key anyone?). Heck - even spreading information about how to crack them is made illegal.

Also, the levy on unrecorded media for fair use private copies (works just like the canadian systems) is being RAISED and applied to NEW types of media, not inherently specifically for audio or video (as it was before). In theory according to the law, the fee for a DVDRW might be as high as SEK20 (~=$3), even though CopySwede probably will put a rebate on that amount... Still - it really doesn't make sense (you're still allowed to make a copy of your non-copyprotected stuff - good luck to find such with "DRM" CDs and legally bought wma files, and encrypted DVDs).