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  1. GMail account on Gmail Adds Features · · Score: 1

    I want a gmail account! :)
    Anyone know when they will move it out of beta?

  2. Re:18-35 #12 ENVIRONMENT on Help Select Questions for Bush and Kerry · · Score: 1

    Maybe you could ask them how they now view the Kyoto accord seeing the massive destruction in Florida. This seems to be part of the concequences of warming up the world.

  3. Quattro cards on FourHead: One PC, Four Users · · Score: 1

    Wouldnt it be better to use a Quattro card or something that supports more displays on one card? Seems to be a waste of to use one for each.

  4. Re:Hmmm... Germany is looking better and better... on Encryption For All Sponsored by German Govt. · · Score: 1
    I've been to Europe a couple of times in a number of countries. There is no question that Europe is a great place to visit, but there's no way I would ever live there. They have absolutely no concept of freedom.

    Where i live in Norway our goverment is a coalition of Liberals, Christian Democrats and Høyre (Right). Høyre is dominant, but this is not your normal right-wing party. Their slogan is "Frihet under ansvar", which means freedom with the responsibilities that come with that. It's a individualistic party which puts the single person in center.
    Christian Democrats are almost the same, but with a christian touch :) (They still allow female gay priests and the like). Our finance minister is gay too. Abortion is legal as long as you do it before 12 weeks. The upper limit for jail is 21 years and 10 years watch.

    I'd say we have pretty much freedom here. And now drug legalization is on the agenda.

  5. Re:This may be hard to take... on RMS Asks Miguel to Explain Himself · · Score: 1
    Say I want to play a video game. Some games, like Counterstrike and Q3, I could play online for years. Some games I finish in a week or two and then un-install. Those games I would rent.

    At a local video store here you can actually rent games :)
    CD's and all..

  6. Re:One simple reason why it won't work: on The Euro · · Score: 1

    16
    Norway is also part of the Schengen agreement :)

  7. Re:Quote on Microsoft FrontPage License Prohibits Anti-Microsoft Speech · · Score: 1
    In an old norse poem you have a verse which sais:
    Uklok mann
    mellom andre folk,
    for ham er det tryggest og tie;
    ingen vet
    at han ingenting kan
    holder han tungen i tømme

    Roughly translated it means:
    Unwise man between other people, for him it's safest to keep silent;
    noone knows that he does not know anything if he can heep his mouth shut. (Thungue in check).

    There are a lot of old stuff like that written all over the world. It's still very applicable :)

  8. Re:Boo Hoo on Trident Micro Changes Policy Toward XFree86 · · Score: 1

    I'm sitting on a laptop running XFree86 4.1.0 with ATI RAGE Pro MOBILITY. It works great :)
    And i think there is some work going on in the dri section (3d work with utah-glx). Anyway, i don't use 3d apps on my laptop so this is not a problem :)

  9. Re: Missing the point on Sklyarov Bail Hearing Monday · · Score: 1

    Didn't eBoook use ROT-13? How can that use a key?
    Or does it rotate by a certain key?

  10. Re:Yeah (and the answer is obvious) on DMCA Worldwide: Canada, New Zealand, USA · · Score: 1

    I saw something on the news some weeks about a couple of germans beeing executed in the US, and they told the germans like 1 week after they were executed. Can't quite remember when it was, but it's not even a year.

  11. Re:damn dmac on Fallout From Def Con: Ebook Hacker Arrested by FBI · · Score: 1

    YMCA? :)

  12. Re:Huh? on The Glories of Red Bull · · Score: 1
    - red bull and moonshine (you won't fall down, just get more drunk)

    And techies in Norway drink it... (along whith the above mixes :)

  13. Re:AOL-Linux on Microsoft to Change OEM Licensing · · Score: 1
    "Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk?"

    Shouldn't it be "Who is General Failure, and why is he reading drive C?"

  14. Re:How long? on Deciphering Windows Product Activation · · Score: 1

    He was not convicted due to "lack of evidence", and he is now working in a software company in the south of Norway :)

  15. MS still sponsoring him? on YAPSLP: Yet Another Private Space Launch Plan · · Score: 1

    I saw a small shot about him on Discovery some time ago, and i noticed that there was a Microsoft banner next to the rocket.
    Let's not hope his craft is pushed to "release" as fast as Windows =)

  16. Re:This would only benefit spammers on Norway Bans Spam · · Score: 1
    how does the RIAA get a norwegian kid arrested for decss? how does a french court prevent yahoo.com from auctioning off nazi memorabilia?

    His case has actually been dismissed by the court. So there is no more RIAA cloud hanging over him :)

  17. Re:Surplus on Discovery Docks At International Space Station · · Score: 1

    Every modern country has debt.
    Hmm... we don't have any dept in Norway :)

  18. Re:This is also much bigger than their last releas on Red Hat Linux 7 Infested With Bugs · · Score: 1

    I use Slackware on desktop and OpenBSD on servers :)

  19. Re:So, we have another case of the stupids on Linux Drivers For Free Barcode Scanner Cease-And-D... · · Score: 1
    Why on earth do courts (yes, I know it is not in court yet, I am just proving that I am psychic;-) even bother to hear cases based on this crap?

    In normal countries in Europe the judges would just laugh if anyone brough up cases like DeCSS and this one (and all the claims for money. e.g. the macdonald and hot coffee case) :)

    Øyvind

  20. How are these gonna compeate in the future? on AMD Releases X86-64 Architecture Programmers Overview · · Score: 1
    I wander what happpens when amd and intel gives out a 64 bit chip each. Will windows be out for each processors?
    If not one of them is surly gonna beat the crap out of the other and we suddenly have monopoly on CPU's again.
    I know at least that if they're not compatible i'll go for Intel as a standard.
    Does anyone have any info regaring this issue?

    Øyvind

  21. Re:Linkage on RIAA Sued By MP3Board.com Over Right To Link · · Score: 1
    Well, I've heard a story about a guy approaced by an undercover officer
    at a party and asked if he had some ${ILLEGAL_DRUG}



    If the police buys drugs from you in Norway, the stuff they take is not legal so you can't get charged for it. It's because they say that the police is causeing the crime to happen. I.E. if the police was not there no crime would have taken place.

  22. Re:PCD Files on Microsoft Develops Security-Path for Outlook · · Score: 1

    Nope.. in the listing it actually called it
    Kodak PhotoCD Image. Hmm.. a image format that
    can execute arbitary core :)
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    TyFoN

  23. PCD Files on Microsoft Develops Security-Path for Outlook · · Score: 1

    How can PhotoCD Images execute malicious code?

    I think it's very odd to have a image file format
    on that list.
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    Just say no to .sig(arettes)

  24. Long term effects?? on Comments On The DMCA Published · · Score: 2

    Consider this... US bans all production of hardware that omits copyright. But that is only in the US.. Won't Japan/Europe get a profound advantage in making hardware since they are not under such serious restraints? (I.E. It is not legal to make the hardware you want). You can apply this to software as well. I think that the US Goverment is getting very restrictive... It is NOT a free country anymore IMO.

  25. Re:Why the Dune movie failed on First Pix From New Dune Miniseries · · Score: 1

    Wasn't David Lynch (or something) the director?

    Øyvind