Camilla Linberg (fp) was the only right-wing MP to vote no. (be sure to send her a thank-you note, I did) Birgitta Ohlsson (fp) abstained, the only MP to do so. She said that she would have voted no if there was enough opposition to bring down the proposition though.
There is no constitutional court in Sweden. The law can be tried in the European Court of Justice though. So if the law, as has been claimed, violates the European Convention it can be still be overturned.
Also the left party and the green party wants to rip up the law when power shifts (the right-wing government isn't very popular right now and this isn't going to make them any more popular), the question is if the social democrats will agree to that.
This is truly the worst behaviour of any Swedish government I've seen yet. The government didn't really have any arguments for the law, just the general "The terriorists are coming to get you" propaganda.
To add to that, the law was voted to go back to committe this morning, and by nightfall, the "new" law, with minor modifications was passed.
The Left Party made an official complaint about the law and the government to the constiutional committe, but it would appear that they didn't do what they should have.
Right now there are two parties in parliament that I can trust. That would be the left party and the green party. The social democrats won't say no to wiretapping, they just said no to this specific proposition. The left and green parties and some great people up there debating against this and really kicking right-wing ass, not that it mattered in the end.
The only right-wing party where some members had the courage to stand up to this proposition was Folkpartiet (aka Peoples Liberal Party, though I certainly wouldn't call them very liberal after this), where one member voted no and one abstained.
1. There is no "President of the EU" 2. Jose Manuel Barroso is the president of the European Commision. He, and the rest of the commision, is nominated by the European Council (ministers from member countries) and confirmed by the European Parliament (elected by the people) 3. The european commision has executive power, yes, but it only has leislative initiative, it doesn't vote on legislation, that's up to the Council and the Parliament. 4. Jose Manuel Barroso is not a socialist, he's a conservative.
Not that I like the way the EU is run, I do think there are some reforms needed, but the bullshit you're spewing is so utterly wrong I have to call you out on it.
Actually it's quite normal for european members of parliament to be forced to go along with their party's stance. Yes but that doesn't make his position right. If he has the principles he said he had when he was elected (he was elected with person-votes, where if a person gets at least x% of party votes he/she is automatically included among the partys MPs (assuming of course the party gets over 4% of the vote).
Some issues are worth getting thrown out of the party come next election for, this is one of them.
One member of parliament (Fredrick Federley) who was elected on a privacy platform, among other issues, abstained from voting and took so much heat from his party that he'll be voting yes this time around. What a f*cking coward.. The only parites that have had a consitently negative attitude towards this proposal has been the left party and the greens. One of the will get my vote in the next election.
I haven't tried to get the drive parking working, too much of a hassle to patch the kernel.
The GTK fan control is really quite simple to use, just drag the bars to where on the temperature scale you want the fan activated, you can also split the scale into several intervals by clicking an interval and selecting split. By clicking the interval you can decide how the fan should act in that particular interval. In my experience it's worked very well. I believe I just added the repo and installed from that.
I couldn't care less whether cellwriter is integrated. I can put it in my system tray and click that icon when I need it, how much more integration would I need?
Chromium worked great. I did just remember however that I'm using the most recent Intel drivers, 2.3.0. Maybe that's why. They can be downloaded here: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-April/034864.html No deb to my knowledge, at least there wasn't any when I installed the driver.
I do agree that a tablet-specific distro would be cool.
I also have an X61 Tablet. Your first point is valid, there is a patch for thinkpad harddrive protection, but its not in the mainline kernel.
The power management out of the box is decent at best, but use powertop and go to lesswatts.org and it'll drop considerably. I can get up to about 6 hours out of my 8-cell battery with the screen dimmed.
Rotation works fine for me without disabling DRI. I don't use compiz though.
I tend to take the stairs instead of the elevator too. But the best way to stay in shape IMO is to drop the car. Walk, bike, and take the subway/bus for longer distances (to use them, you still have to walk to the subway/bus stop, and sometimes stand on the subway/bus).
By that definition, there is no desktop ready operating system. There will always be some applications that require the use of a terminal to install, that's not a shortcoming of the OS, that's the choice of those who publish the application.
As long as the results are verified by a manual count under supervision of all concerned parties and citizens. Corrupt counting machines are as dangerous, if not more so, as electronic voting machines.
Secret ballots are used in all (that I know of) democracies of the world for a reason.
What if someone threatened to kill you or do other harm to you or your family if you didn't show them a receipt showing that you did in fact vote as they wanted.
Having a receipt of who you voted for also opens the door to selling votes to the highest bidder. As it stands, there would be no way for the buyer to verify that they did vote as they wanted.
Not to mention the fact that counting votes manually really doesn't take that long, at least in Sweden. The preliminary count of party-votes (done on a district level) is usually finished by the end of election night. The ballots are then shipped to county election offices where they will be counted again, including counting person-votes and write-ins (this process can take more than a week).
You do know you can just hold the alt-button and the left mouse button to move a window in both GNOME and KDE? A hell of alot easier than your Windows equivalent..
Twitter obviously has alot more to say than you do, looking up your posts, all you ever do on slashdot is complain about twitter. What is up with this crusade? Don't you have anything better to do than to stink up slashdot with your assertions about twitter without any evidence?
It's pretty obvious that the grandparent exaggerated in order to make a point. The US incarceration rate is still very high however, last I heard it was around 1% of the adult population, and was thus higher than that of Russia. Compare this to an average around 0.1%-0.2% in Europe, and an even lower rate in Japan. (and for an example from a perhaps more comparable nation, look no further than to your neighbor to the north)
It's simple, the US is (still, for some reason) afraid of the "communist" boogieman, and dismisses anything even remotely good for society as a whole, instead of rich individuals corporations, as communist propaganda.
True, but the machines still couldn't be trusted, even if it was open source. The code cannot be examined once its been compiled, and it would have to be verified that the compiler works correctly. You could compare hash sums of the compiled programs, but then the hash generating program would have to be verified as secure as well. And even then, there is the hardware to consider.
All told, relying on electronic voting where the machines are trusted to tally the vote correctly is simply not possible. Voting machines could be used to print ballots for the voter to verify and put in the ballot box as usual. They could even tally votes, as long as that tally is verified by a complete manual count (under supervision of partisan and neutral observers as per usual) of all the paper ballots. This way "e-voting" could even make fraud harder, as any discrepancy between the paper ballots and the machine tally would be a cause for investigation.
That doesn't even add up to circumstantial evidence though. It could just as well be 4 users with similar interests, you have to admit that among a million Slashdot users there are bound to be thousands of these coincidences.
It looks like you're out on some kind of witch hunt. Don't you have anything better to do with your time than analyse Slashdot posting patterns and compare them to twitter?
Why the low upstream cap? It doesn't appear to be a technical limitation, according to Wikipedia DOCSIS 3.0 should be able do up to 123 Mbps upstream. And why the high price?
(My connection is 100/100 Mbps for about 30 Euro/month, speedtest.net says 73/52 to a server in Malmo about 600 km to the south)
OT: Why does the Euro sign never work on Slashdot? What charset is the server running, ASCII?
Looks like you didn't even bother to check out Jambi. I've never heard of it before but it appears to be an implementation of QT for Java. Only Java is required and it's completely platform independent, no separate installers for different operating systems as you claimed. Check out the demo: http://dist.trolltech.com/developer/download/webstart/index.html.
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No, that's the social democrats. The left party and the green party have been against this from the start.
Yeah but parliament is free to ignore them..
Camilla Linberg (fp) was the only right-wing MP to vote no. (be sure to send her a thank-you note, I did)
Birgitta Ohlsson (fp) abstained, the only MP to do so. She said that she would have voted no if there was enough opposition to bring down the proposition though.
There is no constitutional court in Sweden. The law can be tried in the European Court of Justice though. So if the law, as has been claimed, violates the European Convention it can be still be overturned.
Also the left party and the green party wants to rip up the law when power shifts (the right-wing government isn't very popular right now and this isn't going to make them any more popular), the question is if the social democrats will agree to that.
This is truly the worst behaviour of any Swedish government I've seen yet. The government didn't really have any arguments for the law, just the general "The terriorists are coming to get you" propaganda.
To add to that, the law was voted to go back to committe this morning, and by nightfall, the "new" law, with minor modifications was passed.
The Left Party made an official complaint about the law and the government to the constiutional committe, but it would appear that they didn't do what they should have.
Right now there are two parties in parliament that I can trust. That would be the left party and the green party. The social democrats won't say no to wiretapping, they just said no to this specific proposition. The left and green parties and some great people up there debating against this and really kicking right-wing ass, not that it mattered in the end.
The only right-wing party where some members had the courage to stand up to this proposition was Folkpartiet (aka Peoples Liberal Party, though I certainly wouldn't call them very liberal after this), where one member voted no and one abstained.
1. There is no "President of the EU"
2. Jose Manuel Barroso is the president of the European Commision. He, and the rest of the commision, is nominated by the European Council (ministers from member countries) and confirmed by the European Parliament (elected by the people)
3. The european commision has executive power, yes, but it only has leislative initiative, it doesn't vote on legislation, that's up to the Council and the Parliament.
4. Jose Manuel Barroso is not a socialist, he's a conservative.
Not that I like the way the EU is run, I do think there are some reforms needed, but the bullshit you're spewing is so utterly wrong I have to call you out on it.
Some issues are worth getting thrown out of the party come next election for, this is one of them.
The only parites that have had a consitently negative attitude towards this proposal has been the left party and the greens. One of the will get my vote in the next election.
Buy one and put the AT&T SIM card in the phone?
Slashdot really needs to get an edit button, at least for changing a post within a few minutes of posting...
I just noticed that the most recent Intel drivers are now 2.3.1, and can be downloaded here: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-May/035318.html
I haven't tried to get the drive parking working, too much of a hassle to patch the kernel.
The GTK fan control is really quite simple to use, just drag the bars to where on the temperature scale you want the fan activated, you can also split the scale into several intervals by clicking an interval and selecting split. By clicking the interval you can decide how the fan should act in that particular interval. In my experience it's worked very well.
I believe I just added the repo and installed from that.
I couldn't care less whether cellwriter is integrated. I can put it in my system tray and click that icon when I need it, how much more integration would I need?
Chromium worked great. I did just remember however that I'm using the most recent Intel drivers, 2.3.0. Maybe that's why. They can be downloaded here: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-April/034864.html
No deb to my knowledge, at least there wasn't any when I installed the driver.
I do agree that a tablet-specific distro would be cool.
I also have an X61 Tablet. Your first point is valid, there is a patch for thinkpad harddrive protection, but its not in the mainline kernel.
The power management out of the box is decent at best, but use powertop and go to lesswatts.org and it'll drop considerably. I can get up to about 6 hours out of my 8-cell battery with the screen dimmed.
Rotation works fine for me without disabling DRI. I don't use compiz though.
Pen input works fine for me.
For better fan control, install thinkpad fan control, ubuntu packages available here: http://www.gambitchess.org/mediawiki/index.php/ThinkPad_Fan_Control
I tend to take the stairs instead of the elevator too. But the best way to stay in shape IMO is to drop the car. Walk, bike, and take the subway/bus for longer distances (to use them, you still have to walk to the subway/bus stop, and sometimes stand on the subway/bus).
There is no need for Linux box to crack the pathetic copy protection schemes out there. Windows users appear to do that just fine on their own.
By that definition, there is no desktop ready operating system. There will always be some applications that require the use of a terminal to install, that's not a shortcoming of the OS, that's the choice of those who publish the application.
As long as the results are verified by a manual count under supervision of all concerned parties and citizens. Corrupt counting machines are as dangerous, if not more so, as electronic voting machines.
Secret ballots are used in all (that I know of) democracies of the world for a reason.
What if someone threatened to kill you or do other harm to you or your family if you didn't show them a receipt showing that you did in fact vote as they wanted.
Having a receipt of who you voted for also opens the door to selling votes to the highest bidder. As it stands, there would be no way for the buyer to verify that they did vote as they wanted.
Not to mention the fact that counting votes manually really doesn't take that long, at least in Sweden. The preliminary count of party-votes (done on a district level) is usually finished by the end of election night. The ballots are then shipped to county election offices where they will be counted again, including counting person-votes and write-ins (this process can take more than a week).
You do know you can just hold the alt-button and the left mouse button to move a window in both GNOME and KDE? A hell of alot easier than your Windows equivalent..
Twitter obviously has alot more to say than you do, looking up your posts, all you ever do on slashdot is complain about twitter.
What is up with this crusade? Don't you have anything better to do than to stink up slashdot with your assertions about twitter without any evidence?
It's pretty obvious that the grandparent exaggerated in order to make a point. The US incarceration rate is still very high however, last I heard it was around 1% of the adult population, and was thus higher than that of Russia.
Compare this to an average around 0.1%-0.2% in Europe, and an even lower rate in Japan. (and for an example from a perhaps more comparable nation, look no further than to your neighbor to the north)
It's simple, the US is (still, for some reason) afraid of the "communist" boogieman, and dismisses anything even remotely good for society as a whole, instead of rich individuals corporations, as communist propaganda.
True, but the machines still couldn't be trusted, even if it was open source.
The code cannot be examined once its been compiled, and it would have to be verified that the compiler works correctly.
You could compare hash sums of the compiled programs, but then the hash generating program would have to be verified as secure as well. And even then, there is the hardware to consider.
All told, relying on electronic voting where the machines are trusted to tally the vote correctly is simply not possible.
Voting machines could be used to print ballots for the voter to verify and put in the ballot box as usual. They could even tally votes, as long as that tally is verified by a complete manual count (under supervision of partisan and neutral observers as per usual) of all the paper ballots.
This way "e-voting" could even make fraud harder, as any discrepancy between the paper ballots and the machine tally would be a cause for investigation.
That doesn't even add up to circumstantial evidence though. It could just as well be 4 users with similar interests, you have to admit that among a million Slashdot users there are bound to be thousands of these coincidences.
It looks like you're out on some kind of witch hunt. Don't you have anything better to do with your time than analyse Slashdot posting patterns and compare them to twitter?
Why the low upstream cap? It doesn't appear to be a technical limitation, according to Wikipedia DOCSIS 3.0 should be able do up to 123 Mbps upstream.
And why the high price?
(My connection is 100/100 Mbps for about 30 Euro/month, speedtest.net says 73/52 to a server in Malmo about 600 km to the south)
OT: Why does the Euro sign never work on Slashdot? What charset is the server running, ASCII?
Looks like you didn't even bother to check out Jambi. I've never heard of it before but it appears to be an implementation of QT for Java.
Only Java is required and it's completely platform independent, no separate installers for different operating systems as you claimed. Check out the demo: http://dist.trolltech.com/developer/download/webstart/index.html.