Actually, in most of the EU, you cannot be punished for holocaust denial. In Germany you can - but they have rather special historical reasons for this limitation of free speach. In Denmark and many other EU member states, denying holocaust is absolutely legal, though naturally most often laughed upon, when it occurs.
Actually Americans have all their money. The US has been running a huge trade deficit for years, and it's all been financed through loans from other countries.
China is one of the leading providers of capital on the international market, due to their enormous trade surplus.
Usually the problem with Ubuntu on labtops it the framebuffer. Try to remove the "quiet slash" from the boot options in grub. Do it manually during installation, and edit/boot/grub/menu.lst after installation.
Once installed, update the system, and you will most likely be able to reenable frambuffer bootup if you like.
We've read a lot about the network wiretapping technologies in use by the intelligence agencies, Carnivore, and similar
At least one of the technology providers allows us to take a closer look at the actual technologies used. Unispeed openly claims to provide solutions to police and intelligence agencies. They'll even let you try the stuff for yourself
I, being a citizen of the European Union, can certainly understand the concern of our politicians. US citicens should be able to sympathize with our worries - imagine if some foreign country could cut off access for US citicens to official US sites... At the present, my ability to locate www.eu.int could be effectively cut off (or the site could be replaced) by the US administration. Not that I believe the US would ever interfere with the operation of the internet for any purpose, but the mere possibility is somewhat frightening. On the other hand, EU may be aiding the devil. I would trust the EU to operate the root server without interference, maybe even more than the current US set-up. But that's really not the option. If control was given over to an international setup, it would inevitable mean that nation states around the world would have more control of their local DNS services. This is almost certain to be abused by less than democratic countries to limit access to information. Ideally, democratic countries around the world would set up an organisation to manage centralized internet services like DNS in an independent manner. However, since this option is not on the table, for the sake of citicens in living under oppressive regimes, the outcome is to leave the DNS service under US control.
Slashdot Mirror
Actually, in most of the EU, you cannot be punished for holocaust denial. In Germany you can - but they have rather special historical reasons for this limitation of free speach.
In Denmark and many other EU member states, denying holocaust is absolutely legal, though naturally most often laughed upon, when it occurs.
Actually Americans have all their money. The US has been running a huge trade deficit for years, and it's all been financed through loans from other countries. China is one of the leading providers of capital on the international market, due to their enormous trade surplus.
Usually the problem with Ubuntu on labtops it the framebuffer. Try to remove the "quiet slash" from the boot options in grub. /boot/grub/menu.lst after installation.
Do it manually during installation, and edit
Once installed, update the system, and you will most likely be able to reenable frambuffer bootup if you like.
We've read a lot about the network wiretapping technologies in use by the intelligence agencies, Carnivore, and similar At least one of the technology providers allows us to take a closer look at the actual technologies used. Unispeed openly claims to provide solutions to police and intelligence agencies. They'll even let you try the stuff for yourself
I, being a citizen of the European Union, can certainly understand the concern of our
politicians. US citicens should be able to sympathize with our worries - imagine if some foreign country could cut off access for US citicens to official US sites...
At the present, my ability to locate www.eu.int could be effectively cut off (or the site could be replaced) by the US administration. Not that I believe the US would ever interfere with the operation of the internet for any purpose, but the mere possibility is somewhat frightening.
On the other hand, EU may be aiding the devil. I would trust the EU to operate the root server without interference, maybe even more than the current US set-up. But that's really not the option.
If control was given over to an international setup, it would inevitable mean that nation states around the world would have more control of their local DNS services. This is almost certain to be abused by less than democratic countries to limit access to information.
Ideally, democratic countries around the world would set up an organisation to manage centralized internet services like DNS in an independent manner. However, since this option is not on the table, for the sake of citicens in living under oppressive regimes, the outcome is to leave the DNS service under US control.