No. The update is recommended for all computers. The ballot screen itself is supposed to only appear when you have IF as your standard browser, and sure enough it didn't appear on any of my computers.
The best plugin as far as making your browsing more stable? PDF download. Acrobat reader used to crash my system all the time.
You need ap plugin for that? All my browsers do that on their own, once I told them to.
Ok, ir might help that I don't use the bloated Acrobat Reader but Foxit Reader, yet still - you can tell browsers to download any kind of file, if you so desire.
Your wrong. Scientology is NOT prohibited in Germany. But it is not considered a church and is watched by governmental organs in some states of Germany.
and a German bank account so they can automatically debit (Lastschrift) and don't worry, they never make mistakes when debiting your account! And organizations doing Lastschrift never get hacked because they employ magic warrior fairies.
I've been using Lastschrift for some 20 years and never had anybody draw money from my account without my conscent.
But even if that will happen some day: You just need to contact you bank that you didn't approve that transaction and they have to transfer your money back. Then the other party has to prove that you gave them permission to access you account AND that the transaction is question was valid.
Here in Germany we actually have consumer rights.
The O2 network is kind of a joke. It cuts out for ~minutes about once an hour, and ping times often exceed 30s.
That's your experience. I never had any major problems with the O2 net.
BTW, instead of using the O2 pakets you can use the O2 net via a reseller and get much better value for your money.
You are probably talking about somthing like the Pro7 offering (using Vodafones web sessions).
Well, I'm using that for a few weeks now, and I can say that they do NOT block everything but HTML.
When connecting you need to open your browser to select what option you want to use (hour, day, 3 days, week,...) and how you want to pay, but afterwards you have a normal data connection and can use all kinds of protocols and services like ssh, irc, icq, ftp,... Been there, done that.
When you disconnect and reconnect within the time period you paid for (hour, day, week) you do NOT need to open the browser again, but can directly use any program you like.
Those Governments are unlikely to lose votes or support when they crush you (a foreigner) for misbehaving despite you trying to use some loophole.
Why do Americans think that the EU is only crushing American companies? They apply the rules equaly to European companies as well. Last year a German and a French energy company where fined half a billion Euros each for violating antitrust laws: http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/09/1099
From the article: "Die Daten wurden durch den FlashCounter Statistik-Service bei mehr als einer Million deutschsprachiger Internetnutzer auf über 100.000 Webseiten ermittelt. "
Roughly translates to "the data was collect via the FlashCounter statistics service from more than 1 million German speaking users on more than 100.00 websites."
Being German and doing IT support for two of the biggest german companies, I beg to differ. Yes, almost any company does have internet access. But only a fraction of its employees can use the internet unrestricted. Many can only access certain sites or none at all.
But then again: Even on the machines of the employees that have internet access, many of the security features of IE *shudder* are activated, so that those machines probably don't participate in the study.
I use an (older) version of AdSweep to get rid of more than 90% of the ads, and Opera's own block content function for the few things that still annoy me. Yes, it's not quite AdBlock+, but close enough.
The Federal President is also ideologically associated to the CDU (although he is not allowed to be part any party), and he would be part of it, if he hadn't been elected as President. He won his election because of the support he got from the CDU. So he, too, didn't develop some common sense but is just helping his mates.
While the current federal president was elected with by the CDU, he does not always agree with them. In the past he more than once showed mor common sense than them, so it is more than likely that he acts here on his own and not on behalf of the CDU.
(with the limitation that only parties that get >5% of the votes are taken into account)
There are a few exceptions I know of: - a party can get nto the Bundestag via one or more direct candidates, even if they get less than 5% of the total votes - if a party gets three or more direct candidates into the Bundestag, they are considered a fraction - in the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein, the party of the Danish minority gets into the parlament no matter what (they had only some 3% in the last election)
The short (and not really helpful) answer is: It depends.
Not every depiction of naked (or half-naked) children is considered child porn, it depends on how it is presented. So family photos, art and (probably) advertisment are still ok, but if a picture or film is presenting a child in a sexual way it's considered child porn.
Obviously, it is sometimes hard to decide what is what, and subjective interpretations open the door for a lot of problems.
Strangely enough, my experience is exactly the opposite: When I say that I work in IT, people instantly assume that I'm a programmer, and it takes some time for me to make them understand that I don't know Jack about that. (Well, I do a little PHP and C at times, but that doesn't make me a programmer.)
But yes, "IT guys" is the correct term for all of us: Programmers, admins, security specialists, tech support
The German policemen have a handgun, that's it. As far as I know they don't have a shotgun in the trunk or anything. Policemen with more armament are the German equivalent of SWAT or riot troops (say when a major league soccer game is on or a high profile demonstration).
No, they will not. And for a simple reason: Google does neither have a monopoly in the OS nor in the browser market, so bundling their browser with their OS doesn't unfairly push any product and thus doesn't break any anti-competition laws.
> and when they piss off enough people, competitors will arise, and will run the monopolist into the ground.
That's how it would be in an ideal market. But the reality is that the monopolies have the money to buy out or drive out or hold down any competition, so that the customers don't really have a choice.
And thus we need governments to control the monopolies.
Currently being worked on. Unprotected WiFi with an Atheros card works, drivers for other cards will be easy later on as Haiku has a compatibility layer for *BSD drivers.
3 - GCC2
There is GCC4 support
4 - kernel code in the hands of "relative newbies"
You know that the guys who started developing Linux where "newbies" as well, do you?
I guess that Bill Fawcett did what you seem to never have done: Read the fucking acknowledgment in any of Feist's books.
He almost always mentions the Thursday Nighters and Friday Nighters or singles out some of them, in "Wrath of a Mad God" he mentiones the "original creators of Midkemia" and so on.
Oh, and this is also mentioned in the wikipedia article about Raymond Feist.
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German computer magazine c't started a very similar project called http://www.heise.de/ct/projekte/Sicheres-Online-Banking-mit-Bankix-284099.html (German) a few years ago. It's not set up for any one bank, obviously.
No. The update is recommended for all computers.
The ballot screen itself is supposed to only appear when you have IF as your standard browser, and sure enough it didn't appear on any of my computers.
The best plugin as far as making your browsing more stable? PDF download. Acrobat reader used to crash my system all the time.
You need ap plugin for that?
All my browsers do that on their own, once I told them to.
Ok, ir might help that I don't use the bloated Acrobat Reader but Foxit Reader, yet still - you can tell browsers to download any kind of file, if you so desire.
Your wrong. Scientology is NOT prohibited in Germany.
But it is not considered a church and is watched by governmental organs in some states of Germany.
and a German bank account so they can automatically debit (Lastschrift) and don't worry, they never make mistakes when debiting your account! And organizations doing Lastschrift never get hacked because they employ magic warrior fairies.
I've been using Lastschrift for some 20 years and never had anybody draw money from my account without my conscent.
But even if that will happen some day: You just need to contact you bank that you didn't approve that transaction and they have to transfer your money back. Then the other party has to prove that you gave them permission to access you account AND that the transaction is question was valid.
Here in Germany we actually have consumer rights.
The O2 network is kind of a joke. It cuts out for ~minutes about once an hour, and ping times often exceed 30s.
That's your experience.
I never had any major problems with the O2 net.
BTW, instead of using the O2 pakets you can use the O2 net via a reseller and get much better value for your money.
T-Mobile and Vodaphone are the way to go, all the other providers often don't have UMTS/HSDPA or throttle it to 384kbit.
Bullshit.
O2 invested a lot of money in their net. Their net is now almost as good as the nets of Vodafone and T-Mobile, but still a lot cheaper.
E-Plus is behind in terms of HSPA, right.
But they don't aim on high performance users but concentrate on offering cheap basic services.
You are probably talking about somthing like the Pro7 offering (using Vodafones web sessions).
Well, I'm using that for a few weeks now, and I can say that they do NOT block everything but HTML.
When connecting you need to open your browser to select what option you want to use (hour, day, 3 days, week, ...) and how you want to pay, but afterwards you have a normal data connection and can use all kinds of protocols and services like ssh, irc, icq, ftp, ...
Been there, done that.
When you disconnect and reconnect within the time period you paid for (hour, day, week) you do NOT need to open the browser again, but can directly use any program you like.
The article says "The EU's Working Time Directive gives workers in all member states a minimum of 20 days paid leave."
I'm from Germany and I have 24 days of paid leave.
Maybe you count official holidays towards your paid leave, we don't do that over here.
Those Governments are unlikely to lose votes or support when they crush you (a foreigner) for misbehaving despite you trying to use some loophole.
Why do Americans think that the EU is only crushing American companies?
They apply the rules equaly to European companies as well.
Last year a German and a French energy company where fined half a billion Euros each for violating antitrust laws: http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/09/1099
From the article:
"Die Daten wurden durch den FlashCounter Statistik-Service bei mehr als einer Million deutschsprachiger Internetnutzer auf über 100.000 Webseiten ermittelt. "
Roughly translates to "the data was collect via the FlashCounter statistics service from more than 1 million German speaking users on more than 100.00 websites."
Being German and doing IT support for two of the biggest german companies, I beg to differ.
Yes, almost any company does have internet access. But only a fraction of its employees can use the internet unrestricted. Many can only access certain sites or none at all.
But then again: Even on the machines of the employees that have internet access, many of the security features of IE *shudder* are activated, so that those machines probably don't participate in the study.
I use an (older) version of AdSweep to get rid of more than 90% of the ads, and Opera's own block content function for the few things that still annoy me.
Yes, it's not quite AdBlock+, but close enough.
The Federal President is also ideologically associated to the CDU (although he is not allowed to be part any party), and he would be part of it, if he hadn't been elected as President. He won his election because of the support he got from the CDU. So he, too, didn't develop some common sense but is just helping his mates.
While the current federal president was elected with by the CDU, he does not always agree with them.
In the past he more than once showed mor common sense than them, so it is more than likely that he acts here on his own and not on behalf of the CDU.
(with the limitation that only parties that get >5% of the votes are taken into account)
There are a few exceptions I know of:
- a party can get nto the Bundestag via one or more direct candidates, even if they get less than 5% of the total votes
- if a party gets three or more direct candidates into the Bundestag, they are considered a fraction
- in the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein, the party of the Danish minority gets into the parlament no matter what (they had only some 3% in the last election)
The short (and not really helpful) answer is: It depends.
Not every depiction of naked (or half-naked) children is considered child porn, it depends on how it is presented.
So family photos, art and (probably) advertisment are still ok, but if a picture or film is presenting a child in a sexual way it's considered child porn.
Obviously, it is sometimes hard to decide what is what, and subjective interpretations open the door for a lot of problems.
The German President is the "pet" of our Chancellor Merkel.
Actually, he is not.
While ha was elected with the votes of Merkel's party, he more than once criticized the politics of Merkel's government.
Strangely enough, my experience is exactly the opposite: When I say that I work in IT, people instantly assume that I'm a programmer, and it takes some time for me to make them understand that I don't know Jack about that.
(Well, I do a little PHP and C at times, but that doesn't make me a programmer.)
But yes, "IT guys" is the correct term for all of us: Programmers, admins, security specialists, tech support
I call bullshit.
The German policemen have a handgun, that's it.
As far as I know they don't have a shotgun in the trunk or anything.
Policemen with more armament are the German equivalent of SWAT or riot troops (say when a major league soccer game is on or a high profile demonstration).
No, since Dropbox only transmit the parts of a file that changed.
No, they will not.
And for a simple reason: Google does neither have a monopoly in the OS nor in the browser market, so bundling their browser with their OS doesn't unfairly push any product and thus doesn't break any anti-competition laws.
> and when they piss off enough people, competitors will arise, and will run the monopolist into the ground.
That's how it would be in an ideal market.
But the reality is that the monopolies have the money to buy out or drive out or hold down any competition, so that the customers don't really have a choice.
And thus we need governments to control the monopolies.
> 2 - no WiFi
Currently being worked on.
Unprotected WiFi with an Atheros card works, drivers for other cards will be easy later on as Haiku has a compatibility layer for *BSD drivers.
3 - GCC2
There is GCC4 support
4 - kernel code in the hands of "relative newbies"
You know that the guys who started developing Linux where "newbies" as well, do you?
I guess that Bill Fawcett did what you seem to never have done: Read the fucking acknowledgment in any of Feist's books.
He almost always mentions the Thursday Nighters and Friday Nighters or singles out some of them, in "Wrath of a Mad God" he mentiones the "original creators of Midkemia" and so on.
Oh, and this is also mentioned in the wikipedia article about Raymond Feist.
So, this is old news.
Any examples you care to give about > $1.45B fines to EU companies?
Ever tried do, say, put the fine in relation to the size of the company?
Oh, right, that would totally destroy your argument.
But they only act that way towards foreign countries.
FACTBOX-EU slaps 1.1 bln euro fine on E.ON, GDF Suez