Maybe some hope for you, from TFA: Jonathan Adelstein, a Democratic member of the Federal Communications Commission, said Spitzer "appears to have found a whole arsenal of smoking guns." "We need to investigate each particular instance that Spitzer has uncovered to see if it is a violation of federal law. This is a potentially massive scandal," he said. The FCC has power over the nation's radio stations, which are licensed to use public airwaves. Maybe if the FCC starts hurting the radios some of them will be less inticed to the practice?
Maybe not, becasue look what being a DJ offers: In one case, an employee of Sony BMG's Epic label was trying to promote the group Audioslave to a station and asked: "WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO TO GET AUDIOSLAVE ON WKSS THIS WEEK?!!? Whatever you can dream up, I can make it happen." In another case in 2004, the promotion department of Sony BMG label Epic Records paid for an extravagant trip to Miami for a Buffalo DJ and three friends in exchange for adding the Franz Ferdinand song "Take Me Out" to the DJ's station's playlist.
Does anybody if it's that black'n white, recently the organisation of ISPs in Belgiul struck a deal with IFPI (local branch of RIAA) that they will remove access to any newsgroup with illegal music.
Are they now liable for all content that passes through?
In any case it's a stupid move to lie to your customers.
From the union site: "Customers who use telus.net as their Internet Service Provider are unable to access this website due to censorship by TELUS. When support is called they claim not to be blocking access. Television station BCTV Global did a story on the 6:00 o'clock news on this issue. Radio station CKNW also had as story on censoring TELUS customers, after receiving calls from numerous TWU members. Both media outlets are in British Columbia. In both cases, the company admitted to censoring TWU members and their customers."
emphasis mine
From the site of telus: "Throughout this time, we will work hard to minimize the service impacts of the TWU's activities. We apologize for any inconvenience you may experience and thank you for your patience." emphasis mine
Never thought I would ever read about the van der Beurse family on a foreign site, let alone Slashdot.
For years I lived right across from their building in Bruges, Belgium.
It amazes me because when I told tourists (foreign and domestic) about them nobody had ever heard of them, while they have giving their name to the stock exchange. Beurs is the Dutch name for stock exchange, but also for fair,... It's the same in French and German. It all originates in the fortheenth century when Bruges was a major European trade hub. The Italians (from Venice and Genua), Basks, English,... all had houses (like an embassy/hotel) in the city centre.
The van der Beurses had two inns where traders used to gather to hear the latest and do business, change their currency or buy merchandise and/or businesses (legal and commercial advise were on hand at the inn).
being a Belgian as well, I feel your pain,
new cards are 4 times as expensive as the old ones and only last for half their time (5 years to 10),
and for the time being you have to have a paper with you with your adress and stuff because most administrations can't read the card
oh and Billy boy said it was "the most secure identityverifaction Microsoft ever saw ".
rant I tried to post this story, but got rejected. (Don't know why, my summary was better)/rant
As you can read here and in the register one of the main applications for the eID is to fight back the abuse of under aged chatters by adults. MSN Belgium closed its chatrooms last year due to that issue. The Belgian Federal Computer Crime Unit in 2003 registered 39 cases of children harassed by paedophiles on the web. Our government (wouldn't ICT if it farked him in the ass) secretary for eGov thinks this will help the situation.
Bin Laden says he intends to bankrupt the USA, just like he bankrupted the USSR with their protracted misadventure in Afghanistan. He's succeeding again. We can't afford 4 more years of Bush, but that's what we've got. And Bush is just stupid enough to fall into every trap Bin Laden sets. America is dead.
Very true, your debt is already close to the $7.4 Trillion limit.
The war in Iraq, Afganistan,... is far from over. Maybe Bush would like to expand the taxcuts. 4 more years of the same and the USA is bankrupt and Own3D by foreigners.
Vincent: Yeah, It breaks down like this, ok, it's legal to buy it, it's legal to own it, And if you're the proprietor of a hash bar, it's legal to sell it. It's legal to carry it, but...but that dosen't matter, 'cause, get a load of this; all right, If you get stopped by a cop in Amsterdam, it's illegal for them to search you. I mean that's a right the cops in Amsterdam don't have.
obligatory reference
Buy your music from any download service... well, almost any. The Virgin Player 5GB runs music purchased from: Virgin Digital, Real, MusicMatch and coming soon, any Plays For Sure compatible service. Songs downloaded from iTunes are not supported. It's their choice, not ours.
Well, it isn't, now is it?
If iTMS is first and they make the device second, it is Virgins choice not to make it compatible to the iTMS (even if it's only MP3 they play).
I am Belgian (VERY bright on the map). In Belgium, all motorways are lit by lampposts all of the time (don't ask why).
I'm Belgian as well and the majority of the lampposts are shut off around midnight, loads still burn, but I think that's a side-effect of rely for 80% on nuclear energy (always on).
The lines going through eastern Russia (most likely not Russia anymore, but I'm not up to date with the current *stans there), are they based on roads or railroads?
Yes, the line matches for a big part with the trans siberian railway.
You can also notices how Moskou is the centre of a star, Paris has a bit of the same effect in France (both very centralised governments).
I think your fears are real,the timing for this is shit.
Everybody's on holiday and the only thing that really gets anybody's attention these days is who'll be the new commissionars and what assignments will they get.
Furtermore is still some more weeks untill the EU parliament convenes in it's new form.
EU commisioners are generally very law-abbiding citizens,
we've had a few who used their function to get personal gain,
but there has been an inverstigation (a limited one, I agree) and some still have to face the court(s).
But more importantly, those commissioners don't come into play on this one now, now it's a thing between EU parliament en the council of the ministers (of commerce I believe) of the memeber states.
Ask yourself: Why would the FFII do this research if it hinders the proces of linux in Munich?
Altough their document has the following statement:
In May the EU Council and Commission have reached "political agreement" to legalise software patents and reject all limits of patentability for which the European Parliament had voted in September 2003., software patents aren't already decided, the newly elected european parliament have to have their say and I think this is an effort to keep everybody focused.
I'm thinking this focused maily on the ministers of the member states,last meeting they had this was past silently, but lateron the Dutch minister got some noise from the Dutch parliament.
Now seeing Munich has much the same coalition as the German government, this might be directed to the German minister who's in that meeting.
But a bit later on, when they tried to fly higher with the american bomber, the noticed that they didn't get as far as they taught with the fuel. At that time they discovered the jet stream as well.
I saw it as well, they did more than that. They remade one of the balloons and tested it in Switzerland. I tried googling like crazy but did even find the name of the show. If anybody knows, please post it here.
The article states that ONE of the three remaining failed: The station originally had four gyroscopes, but one of them failed two years ago. It was to have been repaired last year, but the shuttle Columbia accident grounded the three remaining shuttles and postponed that repair.
So instead of 1/3 it's now 2/4.
The Belgian system is crooked, last time they used it, there were several mistakes, in so far as that they decided that for the coming elections a paper trail is not desired.
Read about it here in dutch and french .
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Maybe some hope for you, from TFA: Jonathan Adelstein, a Democratic member of the Federal Communications Commission, said Spitzer "appears to have found a whole arsenal of smoking guns."
"We need to investigate each particular instance that Spitzer has uncovered to see if it is a violation of federal law. This is a potentially massive scandal," he said.
The FCC has power over the nation's radio stations, which are licensed to use public airwaves.
Maybe if the FCC starts hurting the radios some of them will be less inticed to the practice? Maybe not, becasue look what being a DJ offers:
In one case, an employee of Sony BMG's Epic label was trying to promote the group Audioslave to a station and asked: "WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO TO GET AUDIOSLAVE ON WKSS THIS WEEK?!!? Whatever you can dream up, I can make it happen." In another case in 2004, the promotion department of Sony BMG label Epic Records paid for an extravagant trip to Miami for a Buffalo DJ and three friends in exchange for adding the Franz Ferdinand song "Take Me Out" to the DJ's station's playlist.
Does anybody if it's that black'n white, recently the organisation of ISPs in Belgiul struck a deal with IFPI (local branch of RIAA) that they will remove access to any newsgroup with illegal music. Are they now liable for all content that passes through?
In any case it's a stupid move to lie to your customers.
From the union site: "Customers who use telus.net as their Internet Service Provider are unable to access this website due to censorship by TELUS. When support is called they claim not to be blocking access. Television station BCTV Global did a story on the 6:00 o'clock news on this issue. Radio station CKNW also had as story on censoring TELUS customers, after receiving calls from numerous TWU members. Both media outlets are in British Columbia. In both cases, the company admitted to censoring TWU members and their customers." emphasis mine
From the site of telus: "Throughout this time, we will work hard to minimize the service impacts of the TWU's activities. We apologize for any inconvenience you may experience and thank you for your patience." emphasis mine
As I'm Belgian, I zoomed in and saw that besides the country names, some nature parks/lakes have their name indicated in Belgium/France.
Never thought I would ever read about the van der Beurse family on a foreign site, let alone Slashdot. ... all had houses (like an embassy/hotel) in the city centre.
For years I lived right across from their building in Bruges, Belgium.
It amazes me because when I told tourists (foreign and domestic) about them nobody had ever heard of them, while they have giving their name to the stock exchange.
Beurs is the Dutch name for stock exchange, but also for fair,... It's the same in French and German. It all originates in the fortheenth century when Bruges was a major European trade hub.
The Italians (from Venice and Genua), Basks, English,
The van der Beurses had two inns where traders used to gather to hear the latest and do business, change their currency or buy merchandise and/or businesses
(legal and commercial advise were on hand at the inn).
developments: Computerised inventions: the Commission refuses to budge
being a Belgian as well, I feel your pain, new cards are 4 times as expensive as the old ones and only last for half their time (5 years to 10), and for the time being you have to have a paper with you with your adress and stuff because most administrations can't read the card
oh and Billy boy said it was "the most secure identityverifaction Microsoft ever saw ".
well to be honest, there are packages for "untrusted" platforms, even an SDK kit, check it out here .
rant I tried to post this story, but got rejected. (Don't know why, my summary was better) /rant
As you can read here and in the register one of the main applications for the eID is to fight back the abuse of under aged chatters by adults. MSN Belgium closed its chatrooms last year due to that issue. The Belgian Federal Computer Crime Unit in 2003 registered 39 cases of children harassed by paedophiles on the web. Our government (wouldn't ICT if it farked him in the ass) secretary for eGov thinks this will help the situation.
eID card is physical object, if you don't want in your computer, pull it out of the cardreader, see here
Bin Laden says he intends to bankrupt the USA, just like he bankrupted the USSR with their protracted misadventure in Afghanistan. He's succeeding again. We can't afford 4 more years of Bush, but that's what we've got. And Bush is just stupid enough to fall into every trap Bin Laden sets. America is dead.
Very true, your debt is already close to the $7.4 Trillion limit. The war in Iraq, Afganistan,... is far from over. Maybe Bush would like to expand the taxcuts. 4 more years of the same and the USA is bankrupt and Own3D by foreigners.
Vincent: Yeah, It breaks down like this, ok, it's legal to buy it, it's legal to own it, And if you're the proprietor of a hash bar, it's legal to sell it. It's legal to carry it, but...but that dosen't matter, 'cause, get a load of this; all right, If you get stopped by a cop in Amsterdam, it's illegal for them to search you. I mean that's a right the cops in Amsterdam don't have.
obligatory reference
Buy your music from any download service... well, almost any. The Virgin Player 5GB runs music purchased from: Virgin Digital, Real, MusicMatch and coming soon, any Plays For Sure compatible service. Songs downloaded from iTunes are not supported. It's their choice, not ours. Well, it isn't, now is it? If iTMS is first and they make the device second, it is Virgins choice not to make it compatible to the iTMS (even if it's only MP3 they play).
Do you mean Moscow? I'm sorry if I confused you, you were thinking of ... what exactely? Yes, I was thinking of MOCKBA ; )
I am Belgian (VERY bright on the map). In Belgium, all motorways are lit by lampposts all of the time (don't ask why).
I'm Belgian as well and the majority of the lampposts are shut off around midnight, loads still burn, but I think that's a side-effect of rely for 80% on nuclear energy (always on).
The lines going through eastern Russia (most likely not Russia anymore, but I'm not up to date with the current *stans there), are they based on roads or railroads?
Yes, the line matches for a big part with the trans siberian railway. You can also notices how Moskou is the centre of a star, Paris has a bit of the same effect in France (both very centralised governments).
Had it on my desktop, but noow I would rather have a realtime picture where I can see the light /darkness barier moving.
I think your fears are real,the timing for this is shit. Everybody's on holiday and the only thing that really gets anybody's attention these days is who'll be the new commissionars and what assignments will they get. Furtermore is still some more weeks untill the EU parliament convenes in it's new form.
EU commisioners are generally very law-abbiding citizens, we've had a few who used their function to get personal gain, but there has been an inverstigation (a limited one, I agree) and some still have to face the court(s). But more importantly, those commissioners don't come into play on this one now, now it's a thing between EU parliament en the council of the ministers (of commerce I believe) of the memeber states.
Ask yourself: Why would the FFII do this research if it hinders the proces of linux in Munich? Altough their document has the following statement: In May the EU Council and Commission have reached "political agreement" to legalise software patents and reject all limits of patentability for which the European Parliament had voted in September 2003., software patents aren't already decided, the newly elected european parliament have to have their say and I think this is an effort to keep everybody focused. I'm thinking this focused maily on the ministers of the member states,last meeting they had this was past silently, but lateron the Dutch minister got some noise from the Dutch parliament. Now seeing Munich has much the same coalition as the German government, this might be directed to the German minister who's in that meeting.
But a bit later on, when they tried to fly higher with the american bomber, the noticed that they didn't get as far as they taught with the fuel. At that time they discovered the jet stream as well.
Unfortunately we see quite the opposite, when there's a technical or mechanical failure, terrorism is always there as a quick explanation.
I saw it as well, they did more than that. They remade one of the balloons and tested it in Switzerland. I tried googling like crazy but did even find the name of the show. If anybody knows, please post it here.
The article states that ONE of the three remaining failed: The station originally had four gyroscopes, but one of them failed two years ago. It was to have been repaired last year, but the shuttle Columbia accident grounded the three remaining shuttles and postponed that repair. So instead of 1/3 it's now 2/4.
The Belgian system is crooked, last time they used it, there were several mistakes, in so far as that they decided that for the coming elections a paper trail is not desired. Read about it here in dutch and french .