The person(s) behind this must surely be able to supply you with a worked out analises of why P2P in general or BT specifically is not legal, demand a copy.
Only informed people can properly react to such a troublesome statement, on a universety they should understand this...
Yeah, a shame that these so called "representatives" aren't even elected, so they don't even answer to the citizens of the countries they "represent".
This is a story spread by, mainly, the British tabloid "press".
These people are appointed by elected governements that can be recalled at the next election.
Nor is this the fault of US influence, it is only natural they (the US companies and their bought politicians), try their best on getting their way.
What makes me realy sick is that especially the British and to an extend the French governements are disallowing full rights to the European Parliament. A parliament with full rights would not have to stand by and see this happen.
To further strenghten our position as a nation of researchers and scientists, we have one of the most expensive but crappiest primary school systems in the western world - which is one thing, but the fact that anyone refuses to do anything about it
But even your own minister of social affairs sends her children to a school of the German minority in the south.
"People" don't buy Windows XP, it comes pre-installed on the majority of PC's.
And then the majority of those "People" get WinXP Home, not Pro.
It all depends what error message and "help" the users of this XP RME are given by MS when they click on a not supported extention, a straight link to the MS download site might be a breach of (at least the spirit of) the European ruling...
In The Netherlands there is a thing called "Beeldrecht", the right to charge for the image/picture/display of an object.
A prime example is the large suspension bride called De Zwaan (The Swan) near the city centre, any commercial use of picture(s) of it has to be paid for.
Indeed utterly rediculous once you talk about publicly funded objects and public places.
Sometimes it's the owner, sometimes it's the artist/builder that gets the proceeds.
If I remember correctly in the case of the Rotterdam bridge it's the city as owner that gets the benefits.
I could have moderated you down but I rather explain why I think you are wrong.
In the present case it is scientists that are applauded, not politicians or soldiers.
When the US get scoffed by non-Americans it usually is because of actions by these last two categories of USAsians.
Not because they are soldier or politician but because the actions they take show little or no R.E.S.P.E.C.T. for the opinion of the rest of the world.
Just because the US government does it more stealthy through for example "defence contracts" that for "reasons of national security" cannot be shown to the public?
Although the legal mess that came about after the contract negotiations for new tanker planes is encouraging. At least this is some sign the US military is willing (or is it forced?) to look further than domestic manufacturers.
Unveil it? What the hell? This is not even remotely new information.
So?
The roll-out is a landmark and can be signalled as such by tech sites like/.
I'm interested in the aircraft industry but don't frequent their news sites as much as some other fields of interest.
Then when such a landmark comes along I find it nice to be reminded, especially when in a discussion forum people can give their opinion about what is no doubt a new class of airliner.
completely ignorant of the fact that the storage industry has consistently bested Moore's Law for at least a decade
I have not calculated if Moore's law applies but I distinctly remember using 2 Mb Winchester drives that were horribly expensive and then a large department store in town announced they had 10 Mb 'Hard Cards' for sale...
It's probably 15, not 10 years ago but still.
The external 2.5" 60Gb USB2 drive I have in front of me is indeed a world away from those large 2 Mb HP drives.
What has not changed is the time it takes to fill 'em up:-)
(if they carried around a white powder in a bag, they would expect to get arrested by the police if its discovered - wheres the difference?).
Do you have to ask??
The difference is the defense of the vague property claims of a few by their own vigilante vs. the threat to life for many by our legaly sanctioned police.
Remember that Huygens was to sink beneath the waves rapidly, but as it sank, it would take pictures of the ocean? So much for the wisdom of the scientists!
I don't know where you've got that bit of info but on the ESA/NASA sites it's claimed the thing would float.
How could you transmit pics once it would be submerged?
Better yet, why say "Thank You" to people that have fixed a probe that I do not care about? Unfortunately, this is all useless information to me.
"XaviorPenguin", is that a reference to a Linux hobby or even job?
Why should Linus have bothered to start a new OS, why do people bother to invest lots of time in this OS when there are alternatives?
Is'n curiosity what drives science and the advancement of humanity?
And isn't space technology one of the pinacles of science and human endeavour?
If I've ever seen a dumb remark on/. then this is probably one of the dumbest.
The system as a whole might not work but as the article states there are salvageable parts in it for the FBI
This is a prime example why public funded software ought to be open source, that way the community as a whole can pick bits and pieces out of it for further use.
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Only informed people can properly react to such a troublesome statement, on a universety they should understand this...
It must be!
Or is it in the abundance of non-evolutionary, i.e. Genetically Modified food that only the US sprouts these people.
This is a story spread by, mainly, the British tabloid "press".
These people are appointed by elected governements that can be recalled at the next election.
Nor is this the fault of US influence, it is only natural they (the US companies and their bought politicians), try their best on getting their way.
What makes me realy sick is that especially the British and to an extend the French governements are disallowing full rights to the European Parliament. A parliament with full rights would not have to stand by and see this happen.
But even your own minister of social affairs sends her children to a school of the German minority in the south.
You can do something about it!!
And then the majority of those "People" get WinXP Home, not Pro.
It all depends what error message and "help" the users of this XP RME are given by MS when they click on a not supported extention,
a straight link to the MS download site might be a breach of (at least the spirit of) the European ruling...
Why else do you think everyone with rocket technology is trying to build a bomb as well?
A prime example is the large suspension bride called De Zwaan (The Swan) near the city centre, any commercial use of picture(s) of it has to be paid for.
Indeed utterly rediculous once you talk about publicly funded objects and public places.
Sometimes it's the owner, sometimes it's the artist/builder that gets the proceeds.
If I remember correctly in the case of the Rotterdam bridge it's the city as owner that gets the benefits.
In the present case it is scientists that are applauded, not politicians or soldiers.
When the US get scoffed by non-Americans it usually is because of actions by these last two categories of USAsians.
Not because they are soldier or politician but because the actions they take show little or no R.E.S.P.E.C.T. for the opinion of the rest of the world.
Well, at least since about four years ago...
This is obviously another nasty M$ ploy de get at Linux, next time Linus travels home to Finland they hope he gets lost.
Just because the US government does it more stealthy through for example "defence contracts" that for "reasons of national security" cannot be shown to the public?
Although the legal mess that came about after the contract negotiations for new tanker planes is encouraging.
At least this is some sign the US military is willing (or is it forced?) to look further than domestic manufacturers.
So? /.
The roll-out is a landmark and can be signalled as such by tech sites like
I'm interested in the aircraft industry but don't frequent their news sites as much as some other fields of interest.
Then when such a landmark comes along I find it nice to be reminded, especially when in a discussion forum people can give their opinion about what is no doubt a new class of airliner.
I have not calculated if Moore's law applies but I distinctly remember using 2 Mb Winchester drives that were horribly expensive and then a large department store in town announced they had 10 Mb 'Hard Cards' for sale...
It's probably 15, not 10 years ago but still.
The external 2.5" 60Gb USB2 drive I have in front of me is indeed a world away from those large 2 Mb HP drives.
What has not changed is the time it takes to fill 'em up :-)
Do you have to ask??
The difference is the defense of the vague property claims of a few by their own vigilante vs. the threat to life for many by our legaly sanctioned police.
Anyway, answers are in the questions I posed.
When talking about a Monopoly I really don't understand they (MS) have not sued about this.
Anyway, I really appreciated the nice compositions you guys made.
I don't know where you've got that bit of info but on the ESA/NASA sites it's claimed the thing would float.
How could you transmit pics once it would be submerged?
"XaviorPenguin", is that a reference to a Linux hobby or even job?
Why should Linus have bothered to start a new OS, why do people bother to invest lots of time in this OS when there are alternatives?
Is'n curiosity what drives science and the advancement of humanity?
And isn't space technology one of the pinacles of science and human endeavour?
If I've ever seen a dumb remark on /. then this is probably one of the dumbest.
Now if it had been Linus who found spyware on his box, that would be interresting
from venture capitolists
Damn, they are everywhere!
Security by Obscurity has never been a solid idea.
This is a prime example why public funded software ought to be open source, that way the community as a whole can pick bits and pieces out of it for further use.
But then why do they imclude anti virus software??
Sounds like some MS product to me...
Yep, then prime minister Kok aimed the mouse at the screen as if it were a remote...
Is this a multiple choice question?