Linux users and members of the EFF worldwide are gving massive support to the DVD arrested Jan Johanssen for Vestfold. Many people are talking of launching an E-mail campaign against the Prime Minister.
Monday, Johanssen and his father were interrogated and arrested for crimes against copyright and criminal law. After seven hours in interrogation at the Economic Crimes Division, he was allowed to notify his liasons at slashdot.org of what had happened.
I haven't eaten
"I've barely got back, I haven't eaten, and someone is clearly going to pay for this. I've already takled to my lawyer. Did someone say countersuit?", he writes.
The reactions came immediately. For the following hours declarations of support and suggestions for countermeasures were pouring in.
Countersuit
Many want to help, some want to send money, and there is a call for an E-mail campaign against the Norweigan government. One of the debaters even suggest litagating against the Norweigan government.
"Send E-mail to theis man" (Bondevik), says one of the many supporters of Jan Johansen on website slashdot.org (knows as./ among its users).
Before long, Johansen's cyber-friends had found the E-mail addresses of Kjell Magne Bondevik, the film industry's lawyer in Norway, Espen Tøndel, and the Economic Crimes Division.
In additions, pointers to norge.no/english, okokrim.no, and Bondevik's home page are distributed.
Actually, I tend to just fire up SidPlay and listen to some of the classics of computer music. The mind-clearing qualities of Delta's in-game theme, Wizball's bonus level theme, or even demo music like Mixer's SurSumTheme are not to be underestimated. The 12000+ songs (many with sub-tunes) at your fingertips are sort of nice as well. B-)
What do you mean, silly name? After the disasterous delays and the entire rambus bruhaha, it's only appropriate that they choose a name with immediate connotations to the world's most famous shipwreck.
If they (the psych community) starts labeling it a condition or syndrome, I'm not going to be very happy. Remember what happened to the homosexual community when they started becoming more main stream, there were those (and still are) that feel they can "cure" it.
Autism and Aspereger Syndrom are very much syndroms in the medical sense. They're caused by indentfiable abnormalities in the brain, and much points to them being hereditary. This is not merely weirdness or personality traits we're talking about, it's a neurological disease.
I believe many people would be happy if there was a cure. If not for the ability to communicate more freely, but because of the situations you encounter in everyday life. Even ordinary geeks that display some of the symptoms without having the actual disease are going though sheer hell being bullied in school and misunderstood elsewhere.
Archon did rock... but I must say, by far, the best game ever was M.U.L.E.
I still think of the soundtrack and get all teary-eyed over it. Boom boom buh buh boom...
As a big time Commodore nostalgiac (I run a web page dedicated to it), I have to comment that Wizball happens to be the best C64 game out there.
It took the computing power of three Commodore 64s to put a man on the moon. It takes the computing power of 1000 Commodore 64s to run Microsoft Word. Something is wrong here, and it ain't NASA.
This is a
mystical force you're dealing with here. Your conventional defenses are useless! It's a threat unlike anything the Linux's distributed fault-tolerant open source coumminity has faced. Underestimating the potency of the Amiga Curse, and arrogantly proclaiming immunity, is the surest way to succumb to it.
Ah, but you forget the pattern that the Amiga Curse follows:
Amiga
Commodore
Escom
Gateway
See the pattern? Every second letter from A on. Thus, the next company affected will be one beginning with the letter I, then K. After that, we can rejoice. =)
I do not want to make fun of this matter, but some things just cannot be accesible to everyone. While I see no reason to no be available where possible, these articles don't give enough depth to allow us to see possible pitfalls in their implementation.
The difference here is that HTML was designed from the beginning as a logical markup language like LaTeX, intended to be adaptible to a any display device. HTML is an excellent tool for assuring accessibilty, provided it is used correctly.
You have to try hard at abusing HTML to get a site which is not accessible, especially with HTML 4.0, which mandates the ALT attribute on images. It's a sad fact that web design tools generally try their best not to write proper HTML.
Properly thought out sites are also a great benefit even to those who are not diabled, since ALT attributes allows modem users to turn off image loading and get to the content much easier.
I wholeheartedly support this initiative. IMHO, if you don't know how to write HTML which degrades gracefully, you have no business running a web site.
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Linux users and members of the EFF worldwide are gving massive support to the DVD arrested Jan Johanssen for Vestfold. Many people are talking of launching an E-mail campaign against the Prime Minister.
Monday, Johanssen and his father were interrogated and arrested for crimes against copyright and criminal law. After seven hours in interrogation at the Economic Crimes Division, he was allowed to notify his liasons at slashdot.org of what had happened.
I haven't eaten
"I've barely got back, I haven't eaten, and someone is clearly going to pay for this. I've already takled to my lawyer. Did someone say countersuit?", he writes.
The reactions came immediately. For the following hours declarations of support and suggestions for countermeasures were pouring in.
Countersuit
Many want to help, some want to send money, and there is a call for an E-mail campaign against the Norweigan government. One of the debaters even suggest litagating against the Norweigan government.
"Send E-mail to theis man" (Bondevik), says one of the many supporters of Jan Johansen on website slashdot.org (knows as ./ among its users).
Before long, Johansen's cyber-friends had found the E-mail addresses of Kjell Magne Bondevik, the film industry's lawyer in Norway, Espen Tøndel, and the Economic Crimes Division.
In additions, pointers to norge.no/english, okokrim.no, and Bondevik's home page are distributed.
Actually, I tend to just fire up SidPlay and listen to some of the classics of computer music. The mind-clearing qualities of Delta's in-game theme, Wizball's bonus level theme, or even demo music like Mixer's SurSumTheme are not to be underestimated. The 12000+ songs (many with sub-tunes) at your fingertips are sort of nice as well. B-)
What do you mean, silly name? After the disasterous delays and the entire rambus bruhaha, it's only appropriate that they choose a name with immediate connotations to the world's most famous shipwreck.
I believe many people would be happy if there was a cure. If not for the ability to communicate more freely, but because of the situations you encounter in everyday life. Even ordinary geeks that display some of the symptoms without having the actual disease are going though sheer hell being bullied in school and misunderstood elsewhere.
It took the computing power of three Commodore 64s to put a man on the moon. It takes the computing power of 1000 Commodore 64s to run Microsoft Word. Something is wrong here, and it ain't NASA.
- Amiga
- Commodore
- Escom
- Gateway
See the pattern? Every second letter from A on. Thus, the next company affected will be one beginning with the letter I, then K. After that, we can rejoice. =)You have to try hard at abusing HTML to get a site which is not accessible, especially with HTML 4.0, which mandates the ALT attribute on images. It's a sad fact that web design tools generally try their best not to write proper HTML.
Properly thought out sites are also a great benefit even to those who are not diabled, since ALT attributes allows modem users to turn off image loading and get to the content much easier.
I wholeheartedly support this initiative. IMHO, if you don't know how to write HTML which degrades gracefully, you have no business running a web site.