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  1. Re:Suggestions... on Learn a Foreign Language As an Engineer? · · Score: 1

    It is considered something between a dialect and a language. Most Germans and Austrians can barely understand it. It is often easier for a Swede and a Norwegian to understand each other, and they are always considered different languages. However, all Swiss can change to standard high German at any time, and written Swiss German is only used in very colloquial settings.

  2. Re:Surprising? on Google Abandons the Gmail Name In Germany · · Score: 2, Informative

    Except if you run a service called Gmail yourself, that is.

  3. Re:We haven't had faxes for 20 years on Schneier Asks Why We Accept Fax Signatures · · Score: 1

    "PostvÃxel", similar to a cashier's check between people. Invoice and wire transfer between companies, or companies and people.

  4. Re:Fry. on MediaDefender Explains Itself · · Score: 1

    A clarification, i meant the criminal case here. There is usually no separate civil case, damages are awarded in the criminal court. The government is always the plaintiff in criminal cases. I don't know how it works in your example, I've never heard about that happen.

  5. Re:Fry. on MediaDefender Explains Itself · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Off topic but, in my country it works the opposite. If you sell fake crack, you can get arrested for fraud. But not for selling drugs. This has happened, I read about one case where the victim (buyer) turned in the dealer. Both were eventually convicted for different things.

  6. Re:US jury system does it again on Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder · · Score: 1
    Yes, and also in Norway, Germany and Iceland i suppose?

    http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs2/r234.pdf

  7. Re:i am no luddite on NYT Notes Flaws In Current Electronic Voting Methods · · Score: 1
    In my country there is no marking involved, instead there is different ballots for each party, similar in color, layout and size. You put the ballot of the party of your choice in an envelope, walk to the two officials and show your ID. They check you're in the list of voters, takes your envelope (to make sure you haven't got two) and put in in the box.

    When they close at eight, the box and all the envelopes are opened, and it's made sure there is only one ballot in each envelope. It's checked that the number of votes matches the number of ticked names in the list of voters. Then all ballots are counted by hand. Usually everything is finished before two in the night. Then there is recount by the central committee in the next week, the differences from the preliminary count are usually minute.

    If you want you can make sure the box is empty in the morning, hang around the whole day, and the supervise the count. *Some simplifications are made.

  8. Re:mod parent up. on US To Extinguish (Most) Incandescent Bulb Sales By 2012 · · Score: 1

    And the customer gets 1/5 of the energy cost!

  9. Re:Not sure how "secure" this scheme is... on 'Extreme Security' Web Browsing · · Score: 1
    My bank uses a "digipass", a device in which you enter a challenge code and gets a answer code back. The log-in goes like this
    1. Enter your id number at the website of the bank (id number is a national administrative number and is not confidential)
    2. Unlock the digipass with your four-digit PIN (of your own choice)
    3. Enter the challenge code provided by the site
    4. The digipass then provides an eight-digit answer code
    5. Enter the answer code at the site of the bank
    6. You'r in!
    You also have to do a similar procedure when confirming payments etc, but then with entering the reciever's account number.

    This has been safe so far, but I can think of a possible attack when a phising site follows the same steps at the site of the bank as it leads the user through and thus logs in.

  10. If you put it that way... on Student Given Detention For Using Firefox [UPDATED] · · Score: 1

    ...then you should check this!

  11. Mirror of the picture on Will ISP Web Content Filtering Continue To Grow? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Mirror of the hi-res picture: http://forum.pigvj.se/uploadfiler/37/rogers-google.jpg OK, i admit putting i there mostly to mess with my friends web hotel account. :)

  12. Re:About the unlocked phones... on German Court Rules iPhone Locking Legal · · Score: 1

    Another common way is to cooperate and push one "pilot case" though the courts, and then if it loses, pay the court costs for that person together. And if it wins, the defendant will usually choose to settle with all other plaintiffs at the same terms as the pilot ruling.

  13. Re:Presumably on AT&T To Decommission Pay Phones · · Score: 1

    Telia in Sweden is doing this right now. Too bad there hardly arent any left. And also it's kinda pointless with outdoor wifi in our climate, at least 6 months a year.

  14. Re:What right do they have to limit crawlers? on Publishers Seek Change in Search Result Content · · Score: 1

    As I understand it the main purpose of robots.txt is to prevent crawlers from consuming excessive amounts of network resources, not to "protect content".
    And also help the crawlers to avoid pages which are meaningless to index and only will fill upp the search results with nonsense, like short-lived temporary pages, search results etc.
  15. Re:How can I tell what my phone does? on Worry Over VZW, Sprint Phones' 911 Alarm · · Score: 1

    At least in Sweden, you can make an emergency call on another network if the phone can't reach your own. So trying other calls isn't a wouldn't work.

  16. Re:112 is the GSM international emergency number on Worry Over VZW, Sprint Phones' 911 Alarm · · Score: 1

    I discovered that on my SonyEricson once, and has always wondered what it is? Anyone who knows?

  17. Re:wrong way to eliminate accidental 911 calls on Worry Over VZW, Sprint Phones' 911 Alarm · · Score: 1

    The system had got a lot better in the last few years. There is a GPS built into every phone now and your location of transmitted with the 911 call. Er, no. Only a few expensive smartphones have GPS built-in. And there is certainly no standardised way to transmit this information.

    Positioning via GSM uses propagation time, phase differences etc to triangulate the handset from the base stations. According to this report, accuracy down to 100 m can be achievable with these methods.

  18. Re:Wrong Message on Database Finds Fugitive After 35 Years · · Score: 1

    If it was my son that was murdered by this woman, I'd be pretty happy that we have better tools to catch bad people. This was a huge win for law enforcement. I'm glad we're finding these people and not letting them chortle day after day about how they "got away with it."

    And how does that give your son his life back? What does that bring you, except the sweet feeling of revenge?

  19. Re:Has she offended since? on Database Finds Fugitive After 35 Years · · Score: 1

    In my country, the two stated aims are 1) Deterrence 2) Rehabilitation I have always seen courts and the corrections system ("criminal care" in Sweden) as means to avoid vengeance, which was prevalent before the system of today was established.

  20. Re:Of course... on Database Finds Fugitive After 35 Years · · Score: 1

    The big difference is that you don't hurt anyone. There are a few crimes which don't hurt anyone, such as prostitution, and these are very controversial. The motivation is usually that they brings some kind of "collateral damage". I guess, in the case of escaping this ground is not deemed enough.

  21. Re:Of course... on Database Finds Fugitive After 35 Years · · Score: 3, Informative

    Dunno where he's from, but that applies to Sweden. Here you are usually given parole after 2/3 of the prison time (if you behaved well in prison etc), but of course fleeing removes that chance. It is however proposed by some politicians that it should be punishable.

  22. The Tubes on Single Nanotube Becomes World's Smallest Radio · · Score: 1

    Now there will be great confusion about what "listening on radio over the Tubes" mean...

  23. Re:Illegal evidence? on The Pirate Bay Files Suit Against Big Media · · Score: 5, Informative

    In Sweden there is no such concept as "legally obtained evidence", any evidence can be presented in court and then it's up to to the judge to weight the different sides evidence against each other. The procedure with admission of evidence mostly exist in common-law countries, with a layman's jury.

  24. Re:Not yet your can't on Ubuntu Dell Now In UK, France, and Germany · · Score: 3, Informative

    The corresponding German and French sites exist too, with the same 404 errors.

  25. Re:Will it be water-cooled? (nt) on Sun To Release 8-Core Niagara 2 Processor · · Score: 1

    None of the current Niagara servers is water-cooled, so most likely no.