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I've did a bit of research, and they were excavating for 8 years, the most valuable stuff is in the city museum and they had to reduce the parking space to 50% of what was planned and they are building an open air museum with the buildings in the same place they were found. If someone wants more information and can read spanish:
http://terraeantiqvae.blogia.com/2005/052802-ecija .-la-nueva-roma-surena.php
http://www.diariodesevilla.com/diariodesevilla/art iculo.asp?idart=1360975&idcat=1182
http://perso.wanadoo.es/historiaweb/antiqva/amazon a/arqueologia_en_ecija.htm
http://museo.ecija.org/

Anyways, Microsofts "innovation" is indeed different from the Gnome and KDE panel pagers, as they have clearly stated in their patent.

That does not mean, however, that there is no prior art, because KPager implements a pager that includes the backgrouns of all desktops and miniaturized screenshots of the windows on all the desktops. Created in 1998

The only difference that I see between KPager and Microsoft's "invention" is that, if you click a window in KPager the appropriate desktop is switched to, while at Microsoft the window you clicked on is moved to the active desktop.

To end with a good laugh, here a quote, and no, I made no quoting mistake:

[0008] In accordance with the present invention, a method and computer readable medium for presenting multiple virtual desktops on a display of a computer system for previewing by a user are provided. A preview button is displayed on a desktop. When the preview button is selected, multiple panes are displayed on the desktop in a tiled manner. Each pane contains a scaled virtual desktop having dimensions that are proportional but less than the dimensions of a corresponding virtual desktop. (...) The term "proportional
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[0009] In accordance with other aspects of this invention, the display includes first and second areas. (...) Preferably, the preview button is located in the task bar.

Not that I need to justify/explain myself to you

You've justified yourself to others, why not me?

but I'll point out that just because a company has private investors doesn't mean that it isn't govt. owned/controlled.

Frankly, I could care less if they are govt or privately owned. Doesn't absolve them from their responsibilities to control the abuse that comes from their network.

All I am trying to do is make sure I have accurate information, because what I have been told is that they are govt owned/operated.

Well perhaps the person who told you told you wrong? Why are you putting inaccurate information above that supplied to investors by the company's website? Now why don't you now go and read the investor information to find out that they are indeed a private company. On the About Telefónica page you will find "Telefónica is a 100% public company, with almost 1.7 million direct shareholders."

If you cannot get basic information like this right then you have shown that you do not understand what you are dealing with. You have to understand what you are dealing with before you pull the plug on it to understand the social impact it will have.

You are dealing with the ex-state monopoly that still has the majority of the Spanish market. There are other, smaller, Internet providers, however most of those (with the exception of Auna and ONO for the customer market) simply resell Telefónica's supply.

It is not simply a case of customers changing ISPs because it people are locked into contracts with a minimum commitment of one year. There is a high probability that end users would need to buy themselves out of their contracts, rip-out Telefónica's (or their reseller's) old feeds, and get new ones installed. As for dial-up, again it's resold except for a few notable exceptions like Wanadoo.

Let me put it in a context that you may be able to understand. It is like Bell's position in the US before it was broken up. It's a huge country-wide corporation with a practical monopoly on telephone and Internet services.

You have a responsibility to make every effort to avoid this situation where you simply blacklist the vast majority of a country through it's ex-monopoly provider's IP space. You have to get it into your head that your actions can have social repercussions that go beyond the mere '419 bad, must block'.

Allow me to quote another line from the press release:

However, should it become known that TDE is ignoring complaints, or playing games with the spam fighting community, their netspace will be relisted and not removed for a minimum of 6 months.

If you block it for six months then you are utterly irresponsible.

IBM did release publicly the Common Hardware Reference Platform, also known as CHRP

That upcoming (we're told...) Amiga thing is loosely based on this. But there are a number of commercially available mother boards based on CHRP, including a Linux vendor. Ports are available.

I am currently in Spain and prices for DSL are around 40Euro/month. I am using Telefonica DSL which costs me 39Euro/month which is 256k down & 128k up (as well as 24hour access). Also I don't need a contract or anything, this includes a USB modem. You can get a router/dsl modem as well as wireless stuff for about 30-100Euro more (one time charge). There is an option for 512k as well but I am not sure of the price.

There are other companies out there, Ya.com, Wanadoo which you might be able to get a better price. Keep in mind though that in Spain, Telefonica is the traditional government backed company and I am pretty sure they own most of the lines. I think that is why most of the companies have the same price for their DSL.

One final note you can find a few prices a little bit lower but they actually limit the service so you don't have 24hour access. So you can use it at night or offpeak times...I have never seen that before in the US, those were around 30Euro/month...to me the extra 10Euro was worth being able to be online all day. I hope this helps and if there ever is a website that would be awesome...it was such a pain to try and read Spanish and then call people and try and ask questions...so painful.

So what happens if I, a resident in Spain, wish to send email via a British mailserver to an American recipient? This is somethign I actually do regularly, as well as recieve email stored on a UK POP account. Where do I pay the tax? Could spammers just get around it by using offshore mailservers in countries that won't bother to put in a tax?

Hell, thinking about it, how would you define the sendign of email? A quick traceroute to my ISP's SMTP server shows that the packets from my machine get to that server via france, the UK, The netherlands, and belgium. This is *before* I even start esending the email. Would I end up having to pay 1 Eurocent to each of these jurisdictions just because my ISP doesn't have a local peering agreement with its ADSL provider?

The internet is a global phenomenon. Stop thinking in terms of US only.

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There's another list here, with some other ports mentioned, that a quick google search turned up.

PS: Hey, BTW, does anyone know of any attempts to put Linux on cell phones? (Just cause we can!) I've been looking around but haven't seen any info out there.