The UK hosts the 0 Meridian, the home of the Universal Time Coordinate.
Yet the UK is mostly on Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), a sytem that is typically something like a whole second off with UTC...
Why the Fu** are they investing in "a 1000 times more accurate"?
The story says that it's a deal between Firefox and Ebay, so Ebay is paying into the Firefox foundation.
The Swiss marketing company Metaspinner has only supplied a server and is not using the IP numbers or other information and are not collecting the data for their own use.
Even when the premises on which the KYOTO treaty is based are wrong there still is every reason to become more economic with natural resources like fossil fuel.
As well from a religious / moral point of view there is an obligation to not spoil the worlds reserves the way the western world is presently doing it.
The level of energy consumption in the US is not just high, it is blatantly wasteful.
And it is outright hypocritical how the Bush administration says it bases its moral on the bible yet squanders the resources of future generations.
However good Google might be, this is just a proof of why not to trust a single source.
Because we've started to see Google as The Best, this is The Best proof of why not to trust a single source.
We all know that Google has a sort of Moral Conduct Policy (like no gun advertising) but maybe they should make it optional like with is the SafeSearch option to limit the exposure to, of all thing, people in their natural state.
At least their wish for Moral Conduct should make them set up an easily accessible list of things they have 'banned', be it on request or following their own standards.
I don't laugh, and I think Japan can make a nice bomb in just a few weeks if not just days.
I think there's even a history of them announcing this capability.
I could be spreading a few moderator points in this tread but prefer to second your remark.
Even though the election process in the US favours the one with deepest pockets Bush DID win.
I hope some common sence and ordinary humanity will creep into his next government.
Claiming to be the leader of the Free World and at the same time being all by yourself is not very convincing on the world's stage...
In the last 4 years all he has shown politically is that he's a magnet for terrorists and has an unrivalled way of upsetting old friends.
Some say he got elected because he's a religious man.
Judging by the national deficit that he uses to finance his government (at the cost of next generations) and the neglect of the environment (God's creation) by that government he still has a few things to discover about what makes a Christian.
Yep, Colin tells me that's nucjular reesatch just off the coast of North Korea, a bad omen for the Free World
I call for a US export ban on Memory to protect the Homeland's national security.
Ow! Dr. Condoleezza just informed me they make Memory all by themself, lets pre-emptively nuke 'em!
the country in question has to have "adequate level of protection"
Sounds good but commissioner Bolkestein considered the US statements about data protection sufficient. For this great feat he has just earned himself the Dutch Big Brother Award for 2004.
See Bits of Freedom.
The European Parliament has called on the European Court of Justice to declare the agreement null and void, a ruling by the Court can at the earliest be expected by next year.
I just had a look at their offering of a free calculator:
Important Notes:
1. This application is a free product and is not supported by Microsoft PSS.
2. Use of the Microsoft Calculator Plus ("Calculator") is completely voluntary on the part of the end user. The information, calculations and/or conversion estimations generated from use of the Calculator are for informational purposes only and Microsoft makes no warranties, express or implied, with respect to the Calculator or the accuracy of any information, calculations or conversion estimations generated as a result of its usage.
Yep, Microsoft surely supports it's products!
And don't forget the lame-ass relpy that it's the OEM manufacturer that you have to contact for a problem with the MS-OS.
Sorry for the late reply but in case of the UK I refer to the obligation to hand over the key when authorities ask for it.
Kind of dammages the reason for using encription.
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In Denmark hardly anyone is jailed for anything.
But like in many European countries libel is punishable.
Far worse is that nearly all Danish papers are in the hand of one man/company; A.P. Moeller a.k. Maersk.
A journalist that manages to sneak a Maersk-critical article into print is almost certain to lose his job, and so is his boss.
Maersk even sold a whole paper off to the Norwegians after some critical articles!
It is obvious that most of the mainstream press has a left wing slant to it. I find it funny that because fox is either in the middle or slightly to the right it is all the sudden some tabloid that shoudl be discredited.
In Europe a large number of people (probably a majority) consider CNN right wing.
Nearly everyone in Europe considers Fox News (if they at all know it) comical until they realise it's actually considered a News Channel in the USofA.
The rift between the US and Europe is greater than many US citisen realise and Bush/Cheney/Fox are in the eyes of many Europeans doing everything in their power to increase that rift.
And it pains us Europeans to see the great country that after the Nazi years helped us get back on our feet slide in the direction that we learned to dispise.
In Europe we are so fortunate as to be able to sample news from many sources and countries, for me that is the only way to stay properly informed.
And Fox is one of those sources, not for the news as such but for the opinions.
Look at Europe again with its outrageous papers like the Sun or Pravda. Just because the press is free does not mean that the information is better, just more voluminous.
Wrong #1
I don't know about the present day Pravda but The Sun is not a Newspaper, it's a tabloid for amusement at best.
Wrong #2
According to the publisher it is a bit of a stretch to call The Sun European.
The term 'Troll' fits the idiot that marked this observation as Troll.
I can see the financial and bandwith drain international visitors may have on the site but that's just part of claiming to be the leader of the free world.
Ok, slashdot, let's see who can come up with the best off-the-wall looney conspiracy theories to twist this around as a malicious, underhanded tactic, and some kind of "proof" that Bush is evil incarnate!
No problem!
Allthough I'm offshore Europe the oilcompany I work for still gets access to the Bush site, The Official Re-election site for George W. Bush.
I'm GLAD that those features aren't available in the US
Yet in the USofA it's still legal to use your hand held cell phone while driving, in most developed(!) European countries only hands free phones are allowed.
Big companies like BP and Shell have now disallowed hands free as well because statistics show they're just as distracting and dangerous as hand helds.
So it's only a matter of time for these European countries to follow suit and write it into law.
But I can say that just about every trip I make on the I-10 between say Houston and Lafayette I see people driving while watching portable DVD players. And that road is, compared to Europe, full of cops.
Proprietary software zealots are always saying that open source programs are likely to contain backdoors, but is this situation truly what they mean when they say that?
That's new to me, what I've read has always been the other way around, we have to worry about backdoors in closed source stuff, and that's by design!
The best thing that could ever happen to Free Software would be if people were no longer able to steal software from their companies an no longer able to buy cheap pirated versions.
Though I agree with the possible effect on free software I have to disagree with the notion that the copy is stolen from their company, they are not the one losing out.
Slashdot Mirror
The UK hosts the 0 Meridian, the home of the Universal Time Coordinate.
Yet the UK is mostly on Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), a sytem that is typically something like a whole second off with UTC...
Why the Fu** are they investing in "a 1000 times more accurate"?
The Swiss marketing company Metaspinner has only supplied a server and is not using the IP numbers or other information and are not collecting the data for their own use.
Is this maybe a bit like www.google.com/firefox?
Liberals: Kill children, save murderers.
Hmm, dreaming again?
In the Real World:
Conservatives: Fuck the Kyoto treaty, let the kids suffer.
Liberals: Decrease the deficit, tax the super rich.
Even when the premises on which the KYOTO treaty is based are wrong there still is every reason to become more economic with natural resources like fossil fuel.
As well from a religious / moral point of view there is an obligation to not spoil the worlds reserves the way the western world is presently doing it.
The level of energy consumption in the US is not just high, it is blatantly wasteful.
And it is outright hypocritical how the Bush administration says it bases its moral on the bible yet squanders the resources of future generations.
Clearly.
I have one adress that's about 6 years old, use(d) it everywere, and it gets regular esp. 'Ebay' queries.
I think politics cannot be avoided on Slashdot, "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters" shows the way to for example the following:
U.S. district to teach creationism
That *is* Stuff that Matters!
Btw, to get On Topic, I'm not so sure Google is knowingly 'censoring' these pics or for that matter any other news, it could be corporate suicide.
Because we've started to see Google as The Best, this is The Best proof of why not to trust a single source.
We all know that Google has a sort of Moral Conduct Policy (like no gun advertising) but maybe they should make it optional like with is the SafeSearch option to limit the exposure to, of all thing, people in their natural state.
At least their wish for Moral Conduct should make them set up an easily accessible list of things they have 'banned', be it on request or following their own standards.
No, the people that got busted have mainly been the ones that UPloaded the content.
I think there's even a history of them announcing this capability.
And so can most European countries.
Even though the election process in the US favours the one with deepest pockets Bush DID win.
I hope some common sence and ordinary humanity will creep into his next government.
Claiming to be the leader of the Free World and at the same time being all by yourself is not very convincing on the world's stage...
In the last 4 years all he has shown politically is that he's a magnet for terrorists and has an unrivalled way of upsetting old friends.
Some say he got elected because he's a religious man.
Judging by the national deficit that he uses to finance his government (at the cost of next generations) and the neglect of the environment (God's creation) by that government he still has a few things to discover about what makes a Christian.
I call for a US export ban on Memory to protect the Homeland's national security.
Ow! Dr. Condoleezza just informed me they make Memory all by themself, lets pre-emptively nuke 'em!
Sounds good but commissioner Bolkestein considered the US statements about data protection sufficient. .
For this great feat he has just earned himself the Dutch Big Brother Award for 2004.
See Bits of Freedom
The European Parliament has called on the European Court of Justice to declare the agreement null and void, a ruling by the Court can at the earliest be expected by next year.
Important Notes:
1. This application is a free product and is not supported by Microsoft PSS. 2. Use of the Microsoft Calculator Plus ("Calculator") is completely voluntary on the part of the end user. The information, calculations and/or conversion estimations generated from use of the Calculator are for informational purposes only and Microsoft makes no warranties, express or implied, with respect to the Calculator or the accuracy of any information, calculations or conversion estimations generated as a result of its usage.
Yep, Microsoft surely supports it's products!
And don't forget the lame-ass relpy that it's the OEM manufacturer that you have to contact for a problem with the MS-OS.
Kind of dammages the reason for using encription.
But like in many European countries libel is punishable.
Far worse is that nearly all Danish papers are in the hand of one man/company; A.P. Moeller a.k. Maersk.
A journalist that manages to sneak a Maersk-critical article into print is almost certain to lose his job, and so is his boss.
Maersk even sold a whole paper off to the Norwegians after some critical articles!
In Europe a large number of people (probably a majority) consider CNN right wing.
Nearly everyone in Europe considers Fox News (if they at all know it) comical until they realise it's actually considered a News Channel in the USofA.
The rift between the US and Europe is greater than many US citisen realise and Bush/Cheney/Fox are in the eyes of many Europeans doing everything in their power to increase that rift.
And it pains us Europeans to see the great country that after the Nazi years helped us get back on our feet slide in the direction that we learned to dispise.
In Europe we are so fortunate as to be able to sample news from many sources and countries, for me that is the only way to stay properly informed.
And Fox is one of those sources, not for the news as such but for the opinions.
Wrong #1
I don't know about the present day Pravda but The Sun is not a Newspaper, it's a tabloid for amusement at best.
Wrong #2
According to the publisher it is a bit of a stretch to call The Sun European.
I can see the financial and bandwith drain international visitors may have on the site but that's just part of claiming to be the leader of the free world.
No problem!
Allthough I'm offshore Europe the oilcompany I work for still gets access to the Bush site, The Official Re-election site for George W. Bush.
He knows where to find his 'friends'.
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(OK OK, the server is in the US)
Europe has never made an issue of strong encription.
(OK except the Brits, but they live in denial of Europe anyway)
I'm in international waters right now, accessing the internet via a company server in the US, how to deal?
Yet in the USofA it's still legal to use your hand held cell phone while driving, in most developed(!) European countries only hands free phones are allowed.
Big companies like BP and Shell have now disallowed hands free as well because statistics show they're just as distracting and dangerous as hand helds.
So it's only a matter of time for these European countries to follow suit and write it into law.
But I can say that just about every trip I make on the I-10 between say Houston and Lafayette I see people driving while watching portable DVD players. And that road is, compared to Europe, full of cops.
That's new to me, what I've read has always been the other way around, we have to worry about backdoors in closed source stuff, and that's by design!
At least you get some use from your car when it burns fuel.
This is about having a computer just sitting there burning money.
Though I agree with the possible effect on free software I have to disagree with the notion that the copy is stolen from their company, they are not the one losing out.