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  1. Re:Firing in US on Interview With TSA Screener Reveals 'Fatal Flaws' · · Score: 4, Informative

    France and Italy != "most of Europe"

    Most European nations have decent laws around job safety. Firing employees is not usually a problem at all, unless:
    - mass firings often require some form of "social plan" (i.e. help them a bit getting a new job)
    - it's obviously abusive, as in this case

    Also not entirely sure what you mean about innovation, development and other "important functions" not working well in Europe, as there are almost always European nations that perform better than the US around innovation, education, stability, credit ratings, GDP per capita, etc.

  2. Why care? on Facebook Asserts Trademark On "Book" In New User Agreement · · Score: 2

    As far as I know, almost every single section of any legal text by Facebook violates one or more laws in the EU and other European countries and are thus completely irrelevant (ignorig the fact that at least in my country, sections like this would most certainly also be considered as unexpected and therefore abusive, making them legally irrelevant).

    Hence, why care?
    Unless you're American, that is.

  3. In my company it actually does on Cloud To Create 14 Million Jobs? Not So Much · · Score: 1

    ... but on my counting, the result is not *more* jobs, but simply *more interesting* ones.

  4. iOS/Andorid+WIFI control != professional on From the Nuremberg Toy Fair, a New Linux System For RC Cars · · Score: 5, Informative

    In order to control any RC device like a car or some multi-copter even remotely professionally you need precise controllers, reliable connectivity and low latency, all of which any iOS/Android touch devices seriously lack, by design.

    Even intermediate hobbyist senders (actually bidirectional these days for telemetry, FPV etc.) have precise and adjustable mechanical contol sticks, come with specialized circuits to bypass the controller's CPU where low latency is of importance and use frequency hopping RC for more reliability and to allow hundreds of pilots in a close range.

  5. Re:Socialized Medicine on Norway Brings DNA Sequencing To National Healthcare · · Score: 1

    Isn't drug and alcohol use much less liberal in the USA than in these countries?

  6. Re:HAHA on Nokia CEO Blames Salesmen For Windows Phone Struggles · · Score: 1

    There's no such thing as WP6.5. There was Windows Mobile 6, and there is Windows Phone 7, but they have less in common than Mac OS X and Windows 7.

  7. Re:Centralized on Mozilla Offers Alternative To OpenID · · Score: 1

    Almost all allow you to specify a different email address on every website though. I personally do that, for all kind of reasons. This also works fine with OpenID, as long as your provider allows you to configure it such that it does not provide any email address (afaik doesn't work with Google) - you're then usually asked for your email address after the first login to complete the profile, if needed.

    Although BrowserID allows multiple email address, it looks like this workflow wouldn't work well in practice (with hundreds of aliases) - since instead of a neutral claim as in OpenID (which the site then maps to your profile there) you're forced to use an email address as claim instead.

  8. Re:What is wrong with OpenID? on Mozilla Offers Alternative To OpenID · · Score: 3, Interesting

    An email address is exactly what I do NOT want to provide to every second website where I just need some simple customization/profile. And where I do provide an email address, I always use a unique address (essentially allows me both automatic organization into folders but also to get less than 1-2 spam mail per year, simplify by blacklisting aliases which either leaked or obviously have been sold to some spammer (happens usually about a year after some web service/sites shuts down)). This works very well with OpenID, at least with decent neutral providers.

    But then I guess BrowserID does not primarily target tech people...

  9. Re:"Cyberwar" on Israel Faces Escalating Cyberwar · · Score: 1

    If a nation-state or organized political entity orchestrates a campaign over time to destroy an enemies assets, be they economic, social or military, it's a war.

    By that definition, the USA would be declaring war on the rest of the world if it would indeed enforce SOPA (including the DNS parts).

  10. Re:convenient for microsoft on Microsoft Scraps 'Where's My Phone Update?' Site · · Score: 1

    More details (but not more content):

    Update 7.10.8107.79 indeed "Fixes a Google mail syncing issue."

    http://www.microsoft.com/windowsphone/en-us/howto/wp7/basics/update-history.aspx

  11. Re:convenient for microsoft on Microsoft Scraps 'Where's My Phone Update?' Site · · Score: 2

    Can't be very serious. I have multiple gmail accounts configured on my WP7.5 and never even heard there is supposed to be an issue with gmail, even though I do follow WP7 news actively enough.

    A quick google search does indeed reveal some people having issues around the end of 2010, or something related to syncing with google accounts without gmail (i.e. bound to some other email address).

  12. Re:MS-PL on GPL, Copyleft Use Declining Fast · · Score: 1

    It's actually not that popular in Microsoft projects either. Even Microsoft itself doesn't really use them, their recent open source projects mostly use the Apache license.

  13. Re:Just what market needed... on Google Music Goes Live With Google+ Integration · · Score: 1

    No, you can't even load the website outside of US: "We're sorry. Google Music is currently only available in the United States"

  14. Re:No, it would not work on Could Crowd-Sourced Direct Democracy Work? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The majority of people, in general, are not as stupid as you may think (usually only about a third of them).

    Looking at currently established direct 100% democracies, most of them:
    * agree (democratically) to limit their own rights to put human rights on top (other than say the US that doesn't really care about them)
    * often priorize education very highly (as opposed to e.g. military expenses)
    * are politically very stable (middle ground, instead of back and forth between extreme positions)
    * are economically very stable (even these days)
    * have almost no strikes
    * sometimes even agree to increase taxes (yes, they can essentially vote on how much taxes they want to pay)
    * have low unemployment rates
    * do not start any wars or threat other countries (seek diplomatic solutions and cooperation instead)

  15. Re:Unbundle "Skype" on Microsoft-Skype Deal Poised To Win EU Approval · · Score: 2

    Indeed, it is much more likely to be bundled with Xbox Live, Windows Live and Windows Phone than with Office.

  16. Re:Typical jumping to conclusions on Microsoft Kills Skype For Asterisk · · Score: 1

    You are of course aware that Microsoft's own VoIP Stack (Communication Server/Lync, Communicator etc) is fully based on SIP and RTP?

  17. Re:Only available in the United States on Google Launching Music Service Without Labels · · Score: 1

    Yes, this is indeed what I don't understand: Google Music is about allowing me to upload and stream my music that I bought in my country, hence the copyrighted content is already made available to me in my country. Besides, most of the music I'd upload would be of non-US artists.

    I certainly understand how these services work technically, but I do not understand what's the difference in offering such "unlicensed" services in the USA and say Canada or Europe, at least in countries with more liberal copyright laws.

  18. Only available in the United States on Google Launching Music Service Without Labels · · Score: 1

    "We're sorry. Music Beta is currently only available in the United States"

    Just like Amazon and all the others. Of course, nothing else was to be expected...

  19. Re:What are google's ToS? on Bing Is Cheating, Copying Google Search Results · · Score: 1

    Good thing that Google check's every single site's ToS before indexing them and tracking their users in any way (including Google Toolbar, Analytics) ...

  20. Re:And that boys and girls on Some Hotmail Accounts Wiped · · Score: 1

    Yes, indeed. Yet you're not always responsible for loosing data on your own machine either (e.g. accidentally deleting vs. theft or fire)

  21. Re:And that boys and girls on Some Hotmail Accounts Wiped · · Score: 1

    Yeah, nobody ever lost data on their own machines

  22. Re:Blind people using a touchscreen? on Microsoft Backtracks On Accessibility In Windows Phone 7 · · Score: 1

    Microsoft recently filled a patent for a new technology that can add a texture layer to traditional touch screens. One of its uses could be to turn it into braille pad.

  23. Re:wikileaks != press on US To Host World Press Freedom Day · · Score: 2

    Everything published by Wikileaks was redacted by "the press" (NYT etc). Hence yes, it is.

  24. Re:WTF??? on Wikileaks Founder Arrested In London · · Score: 1

    Switzerland has one of the strongest laws and practices against money laundering in place. Knowing where large amount of money comes from is thus essential.

  25. Re:His Swiss bank account has been frozen? on Digging Into the WikiLeaks Cables · · Score: 1

    Technically, PostFinance is not a bank (they don't have a banking license).