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  1. Re:Haven't read TFA on Sweden Imports European Garbage To Power the Nation · · Score: 1

    When did it start?

  2. Re:French != France on France Applies Tax Pressure To Google For Republishing News Snippets · · Score: 1

    There are international agreements on the issue. Targeting a French audience is well understood, that does not mean speaking French but also applies to English content.

  3. Re:Standard for Vote Theft on IEEE Standards For Voting Machines · · Score: 1

    In particular you want voting machines to talk with each other.

  4. Re:Why bother? on IEEE Standards For Voting Machines · · Score: 1

    So you regard your province Texas supreme to international law? Nice try. That is how rednecks greet high level OECD diplomats, by presenting their state as a banana republic.

  5. Re:Independent Audit on IEEE Standards For Voting Machines · · Score: 1

    Do you consider the US elections process fair?

  6. Re:There is a more immediate problem on IEEE Standards For Voting Machines · · Score: 1

    The article sdays "based on the Election Markup Language (EML) already recommended for use in Europe." In fact in most European nations the voting machines got sacked and Dutch hackers trolled the machine manufacturers by runniong chess on the machines. The bare minimum is full disclosure of source code but in reality no one uses these machines anymore for security reasons. Newertheless it seems useful for remote nations with bad political systems because it raises the costs of forgery.

  7. Re:Freifunk on EFF And Others Push For Open Wifi APs Everywhere · · Score: 1

    Don't be so negative.

  8. Re:Hmmm on EFF Wants Ubuntu To Disable Online Search By Default · · Score: 1

    They are opportunist lawyers with a thing for a principle or two.

  9. Re:I'm waiting for the calls... on New York Data Centers Battle Floods, Utility Outages · · Score: 1

    The Fukushima one was an US model, oh, and a twin reactor is found in the nice earthquake zone of California.

  10. Re:Freifunk on EFF And Others Push For Open Wifi APs Everywhere · · Score: 1

    The situation is as follows, the techie scene develops the protocols and firmware for mesh, in reality freifunk firmware is mostly about connection sharing. But there you fin the tinkerer scene of people who build antenna and install firmware. It is a vibrant community with a lot of gatherings and highly skilled hackers. This month there was a wireless summit in spain.

  11. Re:Banned from Google? on France Applies Tax Pressure To Google For Republishing News Snippets · · Score: 1

    Google settled in Belgium, they will do the same in France and Germany and...

  12. Re:Banned from Google? on France Applies Tax Pressure To Google For Republishing News Snippets · · Score: 1

    The same applies to English publishers delivering to a French audience. When you operate your services for France comply with their laws.

  13. Re:Banned from Google? on France Applies Tax Pressure To Google For Republishing News Snippets · · Score: 1

    Well, they had the same debate in Belgium and settled with the publishers. As simple as that: When in Rome do as the Romans do. When you want to make business in France etc comply with their laws or leave.

  14. Re:We should know better after Deep Impact on New York Data Centers Battle Floods, Utility Outages · · Score: 1

    You could also have data centers in a Swedish bunker, a Berlin palais or in a Switzerland bank.

  15. Re:No big deal. It was a cat1 storm on New York Data Centers Battle Floods, Utility Outages · · Score: 1

    Within the next 80 years 7 billion deaths are expected.

  16. Re:No big deal. It was a cat1 storm on New York Data Centers Battle Floods, Utility Outages · · Score: 1

    Marriage? That was a sign from god!

  17. Re:I'm waiting for the calls... on New York Data Centers Battle Floods, Utility Outages · · Score: 1

    Exactly, it survives the impact but the damage to the building is done.

  18. Re:I'm waiting for the calls... on New York Data Centers Battle Floods, Utility Outages · · Score: 1
    The damage is done to the foundations of the building and the electric appliances. I was told the construction sites of WTC got heavily damaged. Of course you can't have salt water in the foundations.

    Do you believe the stories from the nuclear power plants? http://www.nei.org/newsandevents/newsreleases/nuclear-energy-facilities-prove-resilience-during-hurricane-sandy/

    New York: Indian Point 2—continued operating at 100 percent power Indian Point 3—manual safe shut down from 100 percent power on Oct. 30 due to an electric grid disruption Ginna—shut down for refueling outage Fitzpatrick—continued operating at 100 percent power Nine Mile Point 1—manual safe shut down from 100 percent power on Oct. 29 due to an electric grid disruption Nine Mile Point 2—continued operating at 100 percent power.

  19. Re:Hmmm on EFF Wants Ubuntu To Disable Online Search By Default · · Score: 1

    I guess the answer may be rather that Shuttleworth does not fund EFF operations anymore. The EFF simply jump on board of criticism directed against Canonical. That is a cheap shot. What did the EFF do to stop the Amazon business practices, or to combat their rogue software patents? What did EFF do to advance Linux software?

  20. Re:Hiring the right people on Want a Security Pro? Get Politically Incorrect and Learn Geek Culture · · Score: 1
    Beating up overdue dictators in no time and without a proper mandate does not count. But from a Carl Schmittian perspective you don't have to actually fight the war, you just have to unite your base, your people with a common enemy. Disunite with the enemy to rally your base. Bush felt atrap to his own national enemy scheme and actually removed Saddam from power, a total waste of time and ressources.

    No one believes that a nuclear armed Iran would actually attack the (inofficial) nuclear power Israel and both sides cannot be expect even a hot conflict. Iran hasn't attacked a single nation but gets peppered as a response to its apartheid policies in the middle east. North Korea could hardly feed its own people.

    We don't have many rogues left. When the United States would confront China, good luck with that.

    Islamism may be an enemy worth to fight against but even there the United States don't go after the funding source of orthodox islamisation and islamic radicalism, the Saudi sheiks.

    Leaves Syria, oh well, who cares who wins the civil war, that is an internal matter of that nation. In the worst case the Turkish army would invade it. The Syrian situation is hypocrite. The West is perfectly fine with the same tactics in Bahrain and everyone knows that the US arms the rebels. There is nothing wrong for a state under international law to crack down on an armed uprising.

  21. Re:They're forgetting existing law. on EFF And Others Push For Open Wifi APs Everywhere · · Score: 1

    That may well be but you know, the rest of the world is moving on. Your politicians and regulators are free to get bribed by the telcom lobby, I don't care. It is your nation, your state and it is upon you as a citizen to accept it or fight for freifunk technology including civic disobedience. As Gorbatchev famously said in Berlin in 1989: When you arrive late you get punished by life.

  22. Freifunk on EFF And Others Push For Open Wifi APs Everywhere · · Score: 1

    They are catching up with the European freifunk movement developments, as simple as that. Basically connection sharing is a matter of choice and convenience. When you apply mesh networking you move towards a situation where networks are independent from ISPs. In the aftermath of US hurricane Katrina also some US wireless mesh services provided backup networks. With mesh networking the internet becomes what is was supposed to be, a peer to peer communication service without the need of intermediaries and telcos. We will probably see the same debate after Sandy to get internet up and running again. Mesh networks are better defended against single points of failure.

  23. Re:It comes down to cost on EFF And Others Push For Open Wifi APs Everywhere · · Score: 1

    In Germany, or better: in Berlin the Freifunk movement started like 10 years ago. The movement around mesh networking protocols spread all cross Europe and from there also to developing nations. The technology is available, the only remaining problems arise from liability risks. Berlin is going to launch a city-wide Wifi service soon. The Pirate Party strongly advocated for Piratenfreifunk, that is rebranded Freifunk technology. We also need to fight for good unlicensed spectrum. The Prague based OpenSpectrum Alliance does a great job to promote more access to spectrum and non-profit internet providers like Guifi.net advance customer services.

  24. Re:Huffington Post on Sandy Sinks HMS Bounty, Knocks Off Gawker Websites · · Score: 1

    I see, the flood on the Wall! Now even Google "502. That’s an error. The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request."

  25. Re:Bloody socialists on Sweden Imports European Garbage To Power the Nation · · Score: 1

    But Sweden does not have enough submarines and all its UFOs are on a mission to Venus!