The Pirate party may not reached the Riksdag, but they have already caused ALL parties to reconsider their position on file sharing.
The Greens just published a policy document named "Free the files" which is basically a copy of the Pirate partys program.
The leaders of the Moderates and the Social Democrates (the two largest parties) have stated that the the much critizied law from last year that outlawed file sharing should be reconsidered.
ALL youth leagues of all parties are pro-filesharing.
In the school elections the party got 4.5% of the votes, even without preprinted ballots. In short, the pirate party has shown that a large portion of the youth are interested in these issues, and no party can afford to alienate entire generations.
So while it didn't get into parliment, the pirates did already influency policy and debate- much more than any of the other small parties.
In that case, we in Europe want full control all our inventions that we so generously have shared with the rest of the world. How about all your cars, radio, the english language, the web, democracy and the whole concept of science to begin with?
The fact is, the Internet is no more propery of the US than the worlds phone system is. The US certainly didn't chip in when I dug the fiber to my house. Arrogant fucks like you are the very reason why the DNS should not be controlled by any one nation.
If the MS tried to pull a stunt like that, they would be destroyed within a decade. EU is the worlds largest economy, no significant company can ignore it. Period. For better or worse, the EU decides the rules of the global marketplace.
So your choice is really simple. Either you play by EUs rules or you remain a regional player.
I'm not surprised that a nation, which unlawfully invades other countries, tortures prisoners of war, detains people indefinitely without charges and bullies and threatens other nations and generally tells the world to fuck themselves whenever their opinion isn't immediately accepted isn't trusted by other nations to maintain something as vital as the internet.
Given the way the US has acted the last few years, I think the world is entirely justified about beeing worried about the US being in control of the internet. In the last few years, the US has had a worse international relations track record than even notorious offenders like Libya, China, North korea, Russia, you name it.
In my opinion, the US first needs to get its act together and start acting like a responsible nation before it expect to be trusted.
Bruce Schneier estimates that a SHA-1 collision finding machine, built along the same lines as the old DES cracker would cost $25M-$38M and could do the needed 2^69 calculations in 56 hours. distributed.net has already completed a 2^64 operation challenge a few years ago, which along with Moores law puts 2^69 ops into the realm of the possible.
No, they did indeed break it. An attack is now practical for a well funded adversary, where it wasn't before - practical attacks being known is the very definition of when a cryptographic algorithm is considered broken.
But still, I get a symmetrical 10Mbit up/10Mbit down, no download caps for roughly $40/£20 a month here in Sweden - pretty much a mainstream connection.
My parents have me beat though: they have 100mbit fiber for ~$30/month. There are even some places that are supposedly selling gigabit connections to consumers, but I don't know anyone that actually has it.
Just means that location is everything when it comes to getting speedy internet access. You have to be lucky enough to live in a decent spot.
oh wait... its kinda like getting your ass saved in a world war, then spitting on the graves of those that saved your ass a scant 40 years later.
Geez! When will you please stop beating that old horse? Dudes, you only get a limited amount of fucking gratefulness for every good deed. And I hate to break it to you, but we-saved-your-asses-in-WW2 is all used up by now. You don't see us whining about how we saved your ass in the revolutionary war, now do you?
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Horrific. I just donated $150 to the red cross. I had been thinking about it, but it was that image that pushed me over the edge.
All Athlon 64:s have exactly that feature - AMD calls it Cool'n'Quiet. Make sure your motherboard supports it, and your Athlon 64 will dynamically underclock itself when idle and lower the RPM of the CPU fan. In many cases, the CPU fan can be completely shut off when the system isn't doing any taxing work.
I've noticed that all those people that cry "But they're just emulating windows" never make any concrete suggestions on how a superior desktop would look like.
Just a thought..
Unfortunately this means I'll have avoid visiting the US from now, which is a shame, because I was planning a trip to visit a few friends fairly soon.
Most americans I've met are friendly, open, decent, people whom I've really enjoyed meeting and getting to know in my past visits. It's a shame that I can't come and see them any more, or visit any of the great places in the US, but I refuse to be treated as a criminal and have my photo and fingerprint in some foreign nations database over which i have absolutely no control.
So, I'll do the only thing I can and try to stay out. Hope you won't miss my tourist dollars. I'll sure miss the friendly and nice people.
Since most spammers live in the US, advertise american products I belive bombing the US would be a better idea if you wanted to stop spam.
After all, almost all spam is in English, not Chinese.
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- The Greens just published a policy document named "Free the files" which is basically a copy of the Pirate partys program.
- The leaders of the Moderates and the Social Democrates (the two largest parties) have stated that the the much critizied law from last year that outlawed file sharing should be reconsidered.
- ALL youth leagues of all parties are pro-filesharing.
In the school elections the party got 4.5% of the votes, even without preprinted ballots. In short, the pirate party has shown that a large portion of the youth are interested in these issues, and no party can afford to alienate entire generations. So while it didn't get into parliment, the pirates did already influency policy and debate- much more than any of the other small parties.In that case, we in Europe want full control all our inventions that we so generously have shared with the rest of the world. How about all your cars, radio, the english language, the web, democracy and the whole concept of science to begin with?
The fact is, the Internet is no more propery of the US than the worlds phone system is. The US certainly didn't chip in when I dug the fiber to my house. Arrogant fucks like you are the very reason why the DNS should not be controlled by any one nation.
If the MS tried to pull a stunt like that, they would be destroyed within a decade. EU is the worlds largest economy, no significant company can ignore it. Period. For better or worse, the EU decides the rules of the global marketplace.
So your choice is really simple. Either you play by EUs rules or you remain a regional player.
I'm not surprised that a nation, which unlawfully invades other countries, tortures prisoners of war, detains people indefinitely without charges and bullies and threatens other nations and generally tells the world to fuck themselves whenever their opinion isn't immediately accepted isn't trusted by other nations to maintain something as vital as the internet.
Given the way the US has acted the last few years, I think the world is entirely justified about beeing worried about the US being in control of the internet. In the last few years, the US has had a worse international relations track record than even notorious offenders like Libya, China, North korea, Russia, you name it.
In my opinion, the US first needs to get its act together and start acting like a responsible nation before it expect to be trusted.
Ah well, I got enough karma. Do your worst.
For setting an example I would like to follow, if I ever have the fortune to have the resources to do so.
Bruce Schneier estimates that a SHA-1 collision finding machine, built along the same lines as the old DES cracker would cost $25M-$38M and could do the needed 2^69 calculations in 56 hours. distributed.net has already completed a 2^64 operation challenge a few years ago, which along with Moores law puts 2^69 ops into the realm of the possible.
Fighting the FUD, indeed.
No, they did indeed break it. An attack is now practical for a well funded adversary, where it wasn't before - practical attacks being known is the very definition of when a cryptographic algorithm is considered broken.
But still, I get a symmetrical 10Mbit up/10Mbit down, no download caps for roughly $40/£20 a month here in Sweden - pretty much a mainstream connection.
My parents have me beat though: they have 100mbit fiber for ~$30/month. There are even some places that are supposedly selling gigabit connections to consumers, but I don't know anyone that actually has it.
Just means that location is everything when it comes to getting speedy internet access. You have to be lucky enough to live in a decent spot.
Horrific. I just donated $150 to the red cross. I had been thinking about it, but it was that image that pushed me over the edge.
Ah, but who said war was civilized? Necessary it may sometimes be, but civilized it's not.
Try Bookmarks Synchronizer.
All Athlon 64:s have exactly that feature - AMD calls it Cool'n'Quiet. Make sure your motherboard supports it, and your Athlon 64 will dynamically underclock itself when idle and lower the RPM of the CPU fan. In many cases, the CPU fan can be completely shut off when the system isn't doing any taxing work.
Swedish for one. Probably most other germanic languages as well.
90% of the spam I get is written in english, directed to an american market, advertising products sold by american companies.
Blocking all mail from the US would do far more to help me get rid of the spam problem than blocking china.
I've noticed that all those people that cry "But they're just emulating windows" never make any concrete suggestions on how a superior desktop would look like. Just a thought..
Unfortunately this means I'll have avoid visiting the US from now, which is a shame, because I was planning a trip to visit a few friends fairly soon.
Most americans I've met are friendly, open, decent, people whom I've really enjoyed meeting and getting to know in my past visits. It's a shame that I can't come and see them any more, or visit any of the great places in the US, but I refuse to be treated as a criminal and have my photo and fingerprint in some foreign nations database over which i have absolutely no control.
So, I'll do the only thing I can and try to stay out. Hope you won't miss my tourist dollars. I'll sure miss the friendly and nice people.
65nm.
No, most spammers operate from the US.
Since most spammers live in the US, advertise american products I belive bombing the US would be a better idea if you wanted to stop spam. After all, almost all spam is in English, not Chinese.
People and countries can do both good and bad things.
They own 5% of Trolltech. They're not in control of that company in any way.
Assuming you live in the US of course..
And that was five years ago..