I just watched the Swedish news (01.06.2006 Rapport on SVT1). The Pirate Bay story was headlining, and what they said was this:
(Paraphrasing, and forgive sloppy translations of departments and whatnot. Assume more or less Swedish equivalents.)
The US organisations (*AA) had gone to the White House, to ask the White House to get something done about those evil Pirate Bay guys. The White House talked to the Swedish government.
A delegation from Swedish Justice Department, Attorney General and police (or various types of the sort) went to the US and talked to the Americans.
When they came back, they concluded that they had shaky legal grounds upon which to take action (this had been looked into closely by the Swedish Attorney General's office earlier), and they told the government so.
Upon which they were ordered by the relevant Swedish minister of [something or other] to take action anyway. So they did.
Also, they have in fact used the word "CD-discs" in the wording of the law.
A disc is in fact not a CD-disc, when it has the copy protection stuff on it (as mentioned by Mr. Hannemyr).
heh. if this law gets passed in the current format, i'm seriously considering taking my laptop, my mp3 player and a new CD down to the police station, and do rip-and-transfer of the CD over to the mp3 player right there....
>Any digital charge that has a bigger punishment >than rape is a signal to the lawmakers that >something are really fucked up.
The proposed (stupid!) bill also indicates fines, which presumably will be the common form of punishment. Jail sentences would only be used in very extreme cases.
The police have already said that there's no way
they're going to be able to enforce this law...
And yes, our PM is in fact an ordained priest. At least he keeps his religous views private when he's doing his job!
But Skype isn't Kazaa!
Skype are the folks who invented the basics (or whatever) of Kazaa, before it was sold out by a "friend" to the current bloatware Kazaa company...
(See earlier thread about Skype.)
And yes, this is probably Off-Topic.
No, but he instituted the Nobel prizes (including the peace prize) as a sort or penance, honouring those who truly try to improve the world. Or something.
I use the S-video output from my PC and plug it into the TV.
Sure, it's probably lossy and everything, but as long as the original source was HDTV it's still great. And no problems on expanding it to full size on my 37" screen.
In Norway, we've had this for ages. Here's a link to the central registry that handles this. (Sorry it's in Norwegian only, but there are other parts of the site that is in English, and tells you about the other stuff they do.)
It works very well, and offers consumers protection against telemarketers and also targeted snailmail advertising.
The individual's right to privacy is very strong here, btw. There are a lot of restrictions on correlating data from different databases, and using data for other than their original intended purpose (for instance using the information stored with toll booth companies to track your movements as you drive through various toll booths (paying as you go with your electronic transmitter thingie, so they know where you've passed)).
Creationism seems to be a peculiarly American phenomenon, certainly in the Western Christian World (i.e. parts of the world where the cultural heritage is mainly Christian - no, I don't intend a major discussion on that!).
I mean, Europe is Christian too, and we don't see any creationism over here.
Does anyone know why this is? No troll - I find this a fascinating thing to observe, and wonder WHY it is so...
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Here is the interface to NRK 's (Norwegian Broadcasting Corp.) teletext service.
Still widely used to get news overviews, sports results, wheather information and tv guides.
We don't have piped natural gas available to us here (which is slightly ironic, since we're pumping(?) it out of the North Sea in vast quantities, and selling it on to other parts of Europe).
Norwegians are used to getting cheap electricity from hydroelectric plants. Prices are rising these days, mainly due to increased demand (all those added dishwashers, microwaves, TVs, computers, playstations, what-have-you, compared to 10-20-30 years ago), so I'm sure we're going to have to change our ways.
The other option for us is usually oil-based generators.
In Norway, where we typically spend energy during the winter to heat things up (and where double-glazing has been the norm for the last 25 years or so), we are often advised NOT to change the bulbs to fluorescent ones on indoor lights, since they contribute to heating the room during the colder parts of the year...What you gain in energy-savings on the light bulbs you loose in heating costs.
Fluorescent lights are usually kept for rooms not used very often, and outdoor lights.
Oh, and we quite often don't bother with turning the lights off, since the lighting costs are dwarfed by the winter heating costs. (Yay heated tiled bathroom floors!) Well, at least I don't. But I probably have bad habits. And electricity IS getting more and more expensive.
>Many trackers are starting to go private because of leeching. (suprnova.org has started doing this on some.torrents).
Strictly speaking, it's not SuprNova that is doing this - it's the trackers. SuprNova is just telling you that they know that the tracker for the torrent requires registration.
Well, that's kind of the common way of greeting visiting (or roaming) subscribers.
When travelling in Europe, if you go outside the area of your home operator (for instance by crossing the border to another country), your roaming operator(s) usually sends an SMS saying "Hi, we're $operator - please use us when calling".
When I travel from Norway to Sweden, I usually get 3 such welcome messages, one from each of the network operators...
And hey! we're friendly! We like for Swedes to come to Norway and spend their money! It makes a nice change from all the Norwegians crossing the Swedish border to spend theirs:)
Also note that there were four Americans in the Cannes jury (with Quentin Tarantino as the boss), and one English. Also one French, and the remaining 3 (?) from somewhere else that I don't remember. (Vaguely recalling a New York Times article I read earlier today)
(yeah, yeah, I know it's on the 1900 band (frequency? whatever) instead of the European 900/1800, but hey - most high-end GSM phones are tri-band these days anyway)
Also, check out the Astronomy Picture of the Day, which deals with the strange phenomenon of the "increased intensity" of April Fools-ishness on Mars...
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I just watched the Swedish news (01.06.2006 Rapport on SVT1). The Pirate Bay story was headlining, and what they said was this:
(Paraphrasing, and forgive sloppy translations of departments and whatnot. Assume more or less Swedish equivalents.)
The US organisations (*AA) had gone to the White House, to ask the White House to get something done about those evil Pirate Bay guys. The White House talked to the Swedish government.
A delegation from Swedish Justice Department, Attorney General and police (or various types of the sort) went to the US and talked to the Americans. When they came back, they concluded that they had shaky legal grounds upon which to take action (this had been looked into closely by the Swedish Attorney General's office earlier), and they told the government so.
Upon which they were ordered by the relevant Swedish minister of [something or other] to take action anyway. So they did.
Conspiracy++?
In Norway, it's been done by piping up and damming waterfalls.
Not pretty either, but at least it's not flooding large areas.
Why are people from Denmark called Danish?
A disc is in fact not a CD-disc, when it has the copy protection stuff on it (as mentioned by Mr. Hannemyr).
heh. if this law gets passed in the current format, i'm seriously considering taking my laptop, my mp3 player and a new CD down to the police station, and do rip-and-transfer of the CD over to the mp3 player right there....
Stupid law. stupid politicians.
The proposed (stupid!) bill also indicates fines, which presumably will be the common form of punishment.
Jail sentences would only be used in very extreme cases.
The police have already said that there's no way they're going to be able to enforce this law...
And yes, our PM is in fact an ordained priest. At least he keeps his religous views private when he's doing his job!
But Skype isn't Kazaa! Skype are the folks who invented the basics (or whatever) of Kazaa, before it was sold out by a "friend" to the current bloatware Kazaa company... (See earlier thread about Skype.) And yes, this is probably Off-Topic.
But isn't this, too, lack of leadership? On the government (client/customer) side?
No, but he instituted the Nobel prizes (including the peace prize) as a sort or penance, honouring those who truly try to improve the world. Or something.
Norway: "And Svalbard (including Spitsbergen) is ours!"
Sure, it's probably lossy and everything, but as long as the original source was HDTV it's still great. And no problems on expanding it to full size on my 37" screen.
So, this probably doesn't answer you question...
(See strips for about a week or so before the one in the link)
Replying to self here - found this describing the Central Marketing Exclusion Register (to sign up, you still go to the Norwegian page).
It works very well, and offers consumers protection against telemarketers and also targeted snailmail advertising.
The individual's right to privacy is very strong here, btw.
There are a lot of restrictions on correlating data from different databases, and using data for other than their original intended purpose (for instance using the information stored with toll booth companies to track your movements as you drive through various toll booths (paying as you go with your electronic transmitter thingie, so they know where you've passed)).
I mean, Europe is Christian too, and we don't see any creationism over here.
Does anyone know why this is? No troll - I find this a fascinating thing to observe, and wonder WHY it is so...
Still widely used to get news overviews, sports results, wheather information and tv guides.
Norwegians are used to getting cheap electricity from hydroelectric plants. Prices are rising these days, mainly due to increased demand (all those added dishwashers, microwaves, TVs, computers, playstations, what-have-you, compared to 10-20-30 years ago), so I'm sure we're going to have to change our ways.
The other option for us is usually oil-based generators.
In Norway, where we typically spend energy during the winter to heat things up (and where double-glazing has been the norm for the last 25 years or so), we are often advised NOT to change the bulbs to fluorescent ones on indoor lights, since they contribute to heating the room during the colder parts of the year...What you gain in energy-savings on the light bulbs you loose in heating costs.
Fluorescent lights are usually kept for rooms not used very often, and outdoor lights.
Oh, and we quite often don't bother with turning the lights off, since the lighting costs are dwarfed by the winter heating costs. (Yay heated tiled bathroom floors!)
Well, at least I don't. But I probably have bad habits. And electricity IS getting more and more expensive.
Strictly speaking, it's not SuprNova that is doing this - it's the trackers. SuprNova is just telling you that they know that the tracker for the torrent requires registration.
When travelling in Europe, if you go outside the area of your home operator (for instance by crossing the border to another country), your roaming operator(s) usually sends an SMS saying "Hi, we're $operator - please use us when calling".
When I travel from Norway to Sweden, I usually get 3 such welcome messages, one from each of the network operators...
And hey! we're friendly! We like for Swedes to come to Norway and spend their money! It makes a nice change from all the Norwegians crossing the Swedish border to spend theirs :)
...from the musical "Chess", by Bjørn and Benny (I get their last names mixed up) from Abba. Big hit in the West End.
Also note that there were four Americans in the Cannes jury (with Quentin Tarantino as the boss), and one English. Also one French, and the remaining 3 (?) from somewhere else that I don't remember.
(Vaguely recalling a New York Times article I read earlier today)
(yeah, yeah, I know it's on the 1900 band (frequency? whatever) instead of the European 900/1800, but hey - most high-end GSM phones are tri-band these days anyway)
(Norwegian)
"Sorry, I'm busy that day."
(English)
*The 'o' isn't really an 'o', but an 'o' with a / through it. Silly Slashdot, not supporting essential characters.
Elin
Sheesh.