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  1. Re:Democracy on US Activists Oppose US Govt Calls To Weaken EU Privacy Rules · · Score: 1

    I don't think you understand how the EU works.

    I pretend I do

    What the Commission has is known as a legislative initiative, not the right to impose laws.

    And it also has the ability to strip amendments from EU parliament before giving the text to the EU council, we saw that for the now dead Computer Implemented Inventions Directive (CCID) for software patents

    But the monopoly of legislative initiative is also a powerful tool. Remember the Laval case? After the EU parliament removed the country of origin principle from the Directive on Services in the internal market, the EU court of justice ruled that since nothing was said in the directive, then the country of origin law could apply. MEP were outraged and asked the commission to submit a new text so that they could explicitely write that the country of origin principle was forbidded, but the commission refused

  2. Democracy on US Activists Oppose US Govt Calls To Weaken EU Privacy Rules · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Another practical example of how undemocratic the EU became: no need to lobby elected Members of European Parliament, just lobby the unelected European Commission. I got the feeling that a single US lobbyist weight more on UE politics than any number of EU citizens.

  3. Architect fad on Dutch Architect Plans 3D Printed Building · · Score: 1

    I have seen many building that were architect fads, but that one tops anything I can recall.

  4. Technical details? on Kim Dotcom's 'Mega' Storage Site Arrives · · Score: 1

    Do we know what distributed filesystem they are using? Is it a special purpose development, or did they reuse some software?

  5. Re:Hurray for French internet users! on French Telecom Claims To Have Forced Google To Pay For Traffic · · Score: 1

    If it was capitalism then someone could actually start a company to compete with them.

    I am not sure of how to take your comment, but just in case you meant that: There are multiple telecom operators in France.

  6. Another failure, or smart marketing? on Dean Kamen Invents Stomach Pump For Dieters · · Score: 1

    We have a standard form for spam solution failures, we should really have the same for tricks to loose weight.

    That solution is likely to help loosing weight, but as soon as the user will stop using that tube, (s)he will regain weight, thanks to the negative feedback the body maintains on its adipose stocks. But perhaps this is not a bug, but a feature : once someone use it and gets satisfied by the results, this is a product that will be hard to put down.

    Good solutions to loose weight on the long term are to modify the diet forever (eat less carb if you want to give your body a chance to burn fat), or to modify exercise habits forever (building muscle is especially interesting as it burns fat even when one is not exercising)

  7. Alternative on Indiana Nurses Fired After Refusing Flu Shots On Religious Grounds · · Score: 1

    Many scientific papers have concluded that vitamin D is efficient for reducing the risk of getting flu. But I bet that a non patentable natural compound is of little financial interest compared to Flu vaccine.

  8. Abuses? on Google Wiring New York City's Chelsea For Free Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    So this will be a free (as in beer) and anonymous WiFi? I wonder how there are going to cope with abuses.

  9. Re:Let's not get over ourselves, shall we? on Teenager Makes Discovery About Galaxy Distribution · · Score: 1

    they put his name forward in their article (rightly so) for having programmed the tool needed to show their hunch.

    Another way to tell the story is that labs have a huge lack of engineers capable to writing code

  10. Re:Grad students? on Forbes 2013 Career List Flamed By University Professors · · Score: 1

    I don't think any of the OWS claims were satisfied (if there are any, it's kind of difficult to discern whether they agreed about anything at all)

    As I understand, they went to far in their own movement theory that that failed to produce any claim. That reminds of western european trotstkists that cannot agree on anything. Given the support OWS had from the public, this is a huge missed opportunity.

  11. Re:Grad students? on Forbes 2013 Career List Flamed By University Professors · · Score: 1

    In my opinion, [OWS] definitely shifted the politics of the country more to the left.

    What are OWS claims? What OWS claims were satisfied?

  12. It just works on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deploy Small Office Wi-Fi SSIDs? · · Score: 1

    Multiple AP with same SSID just works, and moving client switch from an AP to another smoothly. You just have to take care about channels used by your AP: try to have as few overlap as possible.

  13. Re:So much for democracy on European Commission Support of FRAND Licenses Hurts Open Standards · · Score: 1

    The Commission does not decide anything.

    Did you heard about latest EU treaties and directives? The commission now validates budgets that member states are allowed to present to their parliaments. They do decide things.

  14. Re:So much for democracy on European Commission Support of FRAND Licenses Hurts Open Standards · · Score: 2

    You're forgetting the European Council and the Council of the European Union, both consisting of democratically elected individuals

    True, but theses council operate in non public meetings. It is almost impossible to discover the exact position of your representant and hold him accountable for it

  15. The Men Who Stare at Goats on Researcher Warns That Military Must Prepare For "Mutant" Future · · Score: 2

    Prepare for sci-fi grade stuff the ennemy may prepare? This remind me of The Men Who Stare at Goats.

  16. market invisible hand will wreck it on Panda Blood May Hold Potent Assailant Against Superbugs · · Score: 1

    Yes, it will work, therefore it will be given on large scale to cattle, and it will be done whether cattle is sick or not, because it is easier to just add it to cattle food. Fungus and bacteria in cattle gut will become resistant, and will move to human. This is what happened for previous antibiotics.

  17. Re:Same tired argument from government bureaucrats on Going Off the Fiscal Cliff Could Mean Missing the Next Hurricane Sandy · · Score: 1

    Note: I'm not claiming here that Keynesians or the real Socialists or any other particular economic theorists are definitely right and have all the answers

    The point is that all theories are right if the enjoy the right situation. And in the current situation, supply side policy is just going to make things worse.

  18. Opensource governance on Linus Chews Up Kernel Maintainer For Introducing Userspace Bug · · Score: 2

    All open source project have harsh contributors that will flame a fellow developer that made a mistake. But there is something particular with projects that adopted the benevolent dictator governance-style (Linux, OpenBSD): you get flamed by the chief, with no possible appeal or mediation.

    In projects that adopted the round table governance style (NetBSD, FreeBSD), you may be flamed, but you never get flamed by the chief, since there is no single chief. Heat is easier to handle, IMO

  19. Re:NetBSD on Debian m68k Port Resurrected · · Score: 1

    Mhm. Can the kernel image be changed, like with config(8) -ef /bsd on MirBSD/OpenBSD, to not do that?

    You would need to rebuild the kernel (it is easy to cross-build from any POSIX system, it would save some time). But I do not think this is the reason for the single user drop

    I think something in /etc/rc drops me to single user when INSECURE is set, but itâ(TM)s been quite an amount of months, so I do not remember precisely.

    Then it would be easier to patch /etc/rc, but it would definitively help to see your boot messages

  20. Re:In the workplace... on Want a Job At Google? Better Know Microsoft Office! · · Score: 1

    Which is fine, until a client sends you a document from MS Office and wants you to send back your changes with change tracking turned on, so that they can see what has changed in the document.

    This gives me an idea: next time I work with a company that sells me something, I will send them a git-based TeX document. Do you thing they will adapt?

  21. UN Human Rights article 17 says that "No one can arbitrarily be deprived of his ownership.", which implies there are legitimate reasons to deprive someone of its ownership. 1789 french's Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen goes further, noting the public necessity as the reason:

    Property being an inviolable and sacred right, no one can be deprived of it, unless demanded by public necessity, legally constituted, explicitly demands it, and under the condition of a just and prior indemnity.

  22. Re:Another crap article on Krugman: Is the Computer Revolution Coming To a Close? · · Score: 1

    For technical reasons I would point out most of Europe and the world uses a parliamentary system which is based around strategic party mechanisms. In other words, the US' 2-party system is strange but democratic and has no effect on republicanism.

    Let me go further with bipartism. It is created by electoral system where a single person (president, member of parliament) is elected from a given territory. That cause many citizen that have no representant because they are a local minority. In the worst case scenario, you can have party A that makes 49% in all territories, party B makes 51% in all territories, and you get a parliament where 100% of members represent 51% of the population. This is a flawed democracy

    For instance, in french last parliamentary elections, we had 94% of parliament members representing 68% of the citizen that voted. If you count the citizen that did not vote, 94% of MP represent 38% of the citizen. Do you agree there is a problem here?

    The fix is known: an electoral system where you vote for a list of candidate for the whole nation, not for a single candidate in your local territory

  23. Re:NetBSD on Debian m68k Port Resurrected · · Score: 1

    IIRC, that wasn't it: it did find the root filesystem but was hardcoded to single user and securelevel -1 (I should note that this is the same kernel as was used for the installation).

    The INSECURE kernel option does that, and indeed all atari kernels in the distribution have it, but it should not drop you in single user at boot time.

  24. Re:NetBSD on Debian m68k Port Resurrected · · Score: 1

    the kernel seems to have hardcoded booting into securelevel -1 and single user, so the system doesn't come up afterwards without some manual effort on each boot.

    No NetBSD® person I asked could help

    Some help from an unexpected place: I suspect it cannot find the root filesystem, then drop into single user and asks you where it is. Is that the case? If this is your problem, you can patch the kernel with gdb (or rebuild a kernel, but that takes longer) in order to hardcode the right root. Send me a private message if you need assistance.

  25. fluoroquinolones for cattle on UK Milk Supply Contains New MRSA Strain · · Score: 1

    Well, if they give fluoroquinolones to cattle, we can be confident it will be unefective on most bacteria soon, and therefore that it will not be prescribed anymore. Given the toxicity of the thing (it destroy tendons), that is a good news.