Given that the results still show up when you search for these names in the EU, it was likely someone else that was at some point in time mentioned on this page (correctly or not, it is Wikipedia after all). So now when you search for this other person, this specific Wikipedia page will not show up.
If I make a page now writing that you are a pedophile, with your name and address on top of it, and I am outside of your jurisdiction, there is absolutely nothing you can do. If you are a European, you can at least get this page disassociated from your name in search engines.
Lets leave it to the justice system to do justice, please, we've seen what vigilante justice brings us.
Right, spoken like someone that has never had all their clients cut off from emailing the rest of the internet because one other client at a different ISP had an issue. You are not forced to use RBLs much in the same way you are not forced to use a metal detector in the airport. You don't use it, they use it on you. They are happy to block (oh sorry: list) an entire ISP for having a single problem that may not even be under their control.
Having said that, they also provide a valuable service, but accurate isn't the word I would use.
That's what I said, tweak the defaults. I know you can change the options or install plugins... however, that gets really tiresome if you use enough different machines.
So how about a fork of Firefox for sane people? Just some defaults tweaked.
Some suggestions - Ask me where I want to save things instead of just dumping things in a folder - URL bar with konqueror style commands like 'ggm:' for google maps, 'gg' for google, 'imdb' for imdb... - One click pass through when an SSL certificate doesn't match (yes, tell me, but probably I knew this already) - One click toggle of plugins - history off by default (who uses that?)
Using Holland to mean the whole country is widely accepted usage, also in the Netherlands. Some people from outside of the two Holland provinces (and also some pedantics, and Belgians) have a misplaced sense of inferiority and dislike it when you call them part of Holland.
Anyway, I'm happy to Netherlands is at least putting some effort in to get to automated driving. With my skills, if I drive myself I will be dead within the day by some stupidity.
If I can see or hear it, I can copy it. This might stop people from forwarding casually interesting letters, but the things where it matters will be copied anyway. I don't see the point. If they do find a way to do this well, I'd love to have this possibility, otherwise it's just yet another way to make people feel secure without actually being so.
Just checked this, you're right, most BIOS's can't be restored with a jumper when mis-flashed. I guess I read that for an expensive mainboard and figured it was standard. Don't know about Dell but I guess this goes for them too. Shouldn't post if I don't know everything about the subject I guess.
Erm, I'd rather think it would cost Dell money to explain all their customers with warranty how to reset their BIOS. It's usually a simple jumper switch, or you can take the battery out for some minutes, but try to explain that to $average_user in an economically viable way... not a good reason to buy Dell stock IMHO.
Well, if the UK gov can use open source as a weapon to slightly reduce Microsofts profit margins, that's great! But look at what the German government has contributed in paying developers for improving KDE's colaboration functions, some governments really are serious about open source. Having the UK government making a move towards this direction is nice.
Usage of open source products is rising in nearly all sectors, it's not just Linux and Apache, projects like MySQL and KDE are increasingly mature, and can keep up with - if not blow out of the water - much older proprietary products that have been protected and improved by huge corporations (no names necessary).
The heydays of the open soure community are nearing fast - maybe just a few years from now. Lets be there for the community to keep them as long as possible!
Oh man, I hope this will turn MS into a friend in the anti-software-patents game. And I DON'T hope that this is just a smart move to get a monopoly on in-browser media players - by making Flash, real and other plugins illegal. Making only MS's integrated windows media standards legal in IE.
Tom Clancy makes me insane. Whenever theres some sort of political or military conflict, all the CNNs and FOX News stations scramble to get Clancy to come on and comment. And he has no military or political experience, just a vivid imagination.
I agree that his books aren't exactly high literature and you do have a point there. But Clancy does have - or is said to have - more access to the military than you will ever get. And as 95,3434% of the slashdot-population knows, he did write a book about a plane hitting the capitol. That Clancy is popular doesn't mean it's fair to dismiss his work as totally unrelated to political and military reality.
Perhaps you should check vergelijk.nl before buying hardware in Holland next time. Their hardware search function is excellent to find low prices (even when compared to tweakers). Unless you were speaking about SCSI-disks and some higher-end memory, you really could come out a lot cheaper than that here. (I'm way too lazy to search for some example prizes for the hardware you mentioned)
NVidia is into a head 2 head fight with ATI ( ATI is probably going to come out as the winner )
I sure don't hope ATI will come out as the winner, considering NVidia actually makes working and quite fast graphics drivers for linux and ATI seems to ignore Linux as much as they can get away with (I'm speaking about 3D support, I am aware about the 2D support for ATI cards being pretty nice). IMHO, the more market share to NVidia, the better...
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Given that the results still show up when you search for these names in the EU, it was likely someone else that was at some point in time mentioned on this page (correctly or not, it is Wikipedia after all). So now when you search for this other person, this specific Wikipedia page will not show up.
If I make a page now writing that you are a pedophile, with your name and address on top of it, and I am outside of your jurisdiction, there is absolutely nothing you can do. If you are a European, you can at least get this page disassociated from your name in search engines.
Lets leave it to the justice system to do justice, please, we've seen what vigilante justice brings us.
Amazon is so horribly money-losing that the founder is a billionaire and has his own space travel company?
Fact is that Amazon could run a profit if they wanted to, just deciding to invest everything back.
Right, spoken like someone that has never had all their clients cut off from emailing the rest of the internet because one other client at a different ISP had an issue. You are not forced to use RBLs much in the same way you are not forced to use a metal detector in the airport. You don't use it, they use it on you. They are happy to block (oh sorry: list) an entire ISP for having a single problem that may not even be under their control.
Having said that, they also provide a valuable service, but accurate isn't the word I would use.
That's what I said, tweak the defaults. I know you can change the options or install plugins... however, that gets really tiresome if you use enough different machines.
So how about a fork of Firefox for sane people? Just some defaults tweaked.
Some suggestions
- Ask me where I want to save things instead of just dumping things in a folder
- URL bar with konqueror style commands like 'ggm:' for google maps, 'gg' for google, 'imdb' for imdb...
- One click pass through when an SSL certificate doesn't match (yes, tell me, but probably I knew this already)
- One click toggle of plugins
- history off by default (who uses that?)
Anything else?
Using Holland to mean the whole country is widely accepted usage, also in the Netherlands. Some people from outside of the two Holland provinces (and also some pedantics, and Belgians) have a misplaced sense of inferiority and dislike it when you call them part of Holland.
Anyway, I'm happy to Netherlands is at least putting some effort in to get to automated driving. With my skills, if I drive myself I will be dead within the day by some stupidity.
If I can see or hear it, I can copy it. This might stop people from forwarding casually interesting letters, but the things where it matters will be copied anyway. I don't see the point. If they do find a way to do this well, I'd love to have this possibility, otherwise it's just yet another way to make people feel secure without actually being so.
Just checked this, you're right, most BIOS's can't be restored with a jumper when mis-flashed. I guess I read that for an expensive mainboard and figured it was standard. Don't know about Dell but I guess this goes for them too. Shouldn't post if I don't know everything about the subject I guess.
Erm, I'd rather think it would cost Dell money to explain all their customers with warranty how to reset their BIOS. It's usually a simple jumper switch, or you can take the battery out for some minutes, but try to explain that to $average_user in an economically viable way... not a good reason to buy Dell stock IMHO.
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Well, if the UK gov can use open source as a weapon to slightly reduce Microsofts profit margins, that's great! But look at what the German government has contributed in paying developers for improving KDE's colaboration functions, some governments really are serious about open source. Having the UK government making a move towards this direction is nice.
Usage of open source products is rising in nearly all sectors, it's not just Linux and Apache, projects like MySQL and KDE are increasingly mature, and can keep up with - if not blow out of the water - much older proprietary products that have been protected and improved by huge corporations (no names necessary).
The heydays of the open soure community are nearing fast - maybe just a few years from now. Lets be there for the community to keep them as long as possible!
(yeah yeah, I can't spell, shoot me)
Oh man, I hope this will turn MS into a friend in the anti-software-patents game. And I DON'T hope that this is just a smart move to get a monopoly on in-browser media players - by making Flash, real and other plugins illegal. Making only MS's integrated windows media standards legal in IE.
That Clancy is popular doesn't mean it's fair to dismiss his work as totally unrelated to political and military reality.
Perhaps you should check vergelijk.nl before buying hardware in Holland next time. Their hardware search function is excellent to find low prices (even when compared to tweakers). Unless you were speaking about SCSI-disks and some higher-end memory, you really could come out a lot cheaper than that here.
(I'm way too lazy to search for some example prizes for the hardware you mentioned)
I sure don't hope ATI will come out as the winner, considering NVidia actually makes working and quite fast graphics drivers for linux and ATI seems to ignore Linux as much as they can get away with (I'm speaking about 3D support, I am aware about the 2D support for ATI cards being pretty nice). IMHO, the more market share to NVidia, the better...