Nah.. That is called a trojan. Virus' and worms replicate without user intervention. Trojan requires users to explicitly run the software (maybe posing as useful).
I stand my ground in stating that a lawsuit would most likely require a direct possibility of copyright violation. So far all the cases in court have had this as one of their criteria.
Decss was first dealt with as a leaked trade secret but later it was successfully attacked as a copyright protection circumvention device. There was no question that this was a specific application of this tool to specifically copyrighted material(there are no dvd's that are scrambled and not copyrighted!)
Sklyarov case is very similiar. This tool was specifically targetted against material that was undisputably copyrighted. I doubt that any of the ebooks(or whatever) that adobe sells are not copyrighted.
So that is what is has come down to so far. Copyrighted material produced by big corporations and a tool that basically has as its primary purpose the circumvention of these specific copyright protection measures.
In this case there are no big companies that specifically use 802.11 encryption as their copyright protection measure. Anyone implementing copyright protection measurements is going to make them specific to that data independant of transmission medium(when open transmission mediums are concerned). Thus it seems very unlikely that this case will end up in a courtroom..
According to dmca it is illegal to circumvent electronic copyright protection measurements. Since a lot of cryptography is used to protect something that is also copyrighted dmca is almost universally used as prosecution tool against encryption cracking hackers..
However, In this case there is no clear copyright violation involved, so applicability of dmca is more than questionable. The purpose of this encryption was not to protect specific copyrighted material.. that is, unless all the packet headers contain some copyrighted strings or something..
I vote for the following addition to slashcode: Whenever the word patent or trademark is mentioned in an article or submission people who haven't already done so should be forced to read a short introduction to the general legalities involved and answer a short quiz before being allowed to view the article.
In other words: validity of patents is not dependent on their enforcement. You can be as selective as you want. Trademarks, however, are invalidated by lack of enforcement..
How is xinerama support in kde nowadays? I'd love to use it but since enlightenment seems to be the only window manager/desktop environment to reasonably support two or more monitors I think that I'm stuck with it..
Actually the previous poster had a more plausible explanation. I suggest you try to find that recent scientific american and read the article. I have it somewhere so maybe I'll post a more detailed comment tomorrow(too late now).
Basically it refutes the way bernoulli's principle is taught(according to my recollection) by simply stating that there is no scientific reason why the air travelling on top would have to arrive at the end of the wing at the same time as air on bottom.
As a matter of fact they don't arrive simultanously although top still travels faster. The real reason planes stay up is due to the tendency of fluids(air counts) to stick to surfaces. Basically air travelling on top of the wing sticks to the wing and, as it is curved, is directed downwards. According to newtons laws this force has to be countered, and it is, by what we experience as lift. So as long as airflow around the wing has a downward component there is lift.
Bernoulli's law, however, does work good enough that it can be used as an approximation..
I remember reading about the russian made crew-module and how russians didn't quite follow nasa's wishes with regards to the sound proofing. Meaning that it is impossible to sleep without ear plugs. I can imagine that alone making it quite a hell. Original specs, if followed, would have provided a considerably better enviroment but then again russia never really though about their cosmonauts' comfort level as priority number one.
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It may sound hypocritical at first but, for the record, I've lived in the US for almost 4 years now and I stand my ground saying that most americans have a really distorted world view.
That said.. Yes, landlines are horribly expensive in europe, but what do you really need them for aside faxes and internet? If landlines are charged per min and cell phones are charged per min at a comparable rate which one would you choose? I'd rather have the cellphone anyway so this just simplifies the decision..
As for the pricing: once you call outside your local calling area in US all bets are off. Local calling areas don't cover full areacodes and prices depend on your provider. Most of the time in europe prices for calls within the areacode are same. Simplifies things a little. Also there is a different price for calls during business hours and calls outside business hours.. And per minute charges generally make longer calls more expensive than short ones.. Not too complicated.. definetly easier then trying to make any sense of US cell phone calling plans..
In US if you get a cellphone plan you first decide your local calling area(small=cheap, large=expensive) and how many minutes(little=cheap, alot=expensive) you want to have per month. After this you find out that although you have 1000min/month you can only talk on an avrg. 10min/day between 9-7 or otherwise you'll be charged a lot extra(minutes when you are awake=expensive, minutes when you sleep=cheap, reflects on the quota). Rest of the minutes are usable in the middle of the night or during the weekend. You've got anytime minutes, night/weekend-minutes, daytime minutes, promotonial minutes, local minutes, long-distance minutes, etc.. Who the hell is going to keep track of all of them.. Why don't you just scrap the freaking quotas and charge per min based on areacodes..
Sure you might alse get free nationwide long-distance(for extra money) but once you exit your local calling area you get a horrific roaming charge(to be fair.. europe's roaming charges are bad too when you hop countries). Receiving calls while outside your local calling area is also expensive. In Europe "local" calling area(for cellphones) is generally the country you live in and not the couple of surrounding counties around you. If you want something like the whole east coast as your local calling area prepare to give out triple digits/month..
Since you might already have to pay extra for calling within your areacode(calls outside local calling area) why not impose the same thing for cell phones and making receiving calls free like almost all of rest of the world does. Receiving calls on a cellphone is most of the time for the convenience of people calling you so make them pay for it.
Btw. My cellphone back home costs about 4-5$/month to have active so even though I've been to US for almost 4 years I still have my mobile abroad working. Whenever I go home I can just borrow a phone from someone, insert my sim-card and be off. Any calls I make are charged per min(10-15c) and receiving is free.. Most of time I use the latter..
I think that in a lot of these tests single questions as such have no meaning whatsoever but rather full answer patterns are the thing to look for. Also a lot of times they repeat the same question several times with a little different wording. Inconsistency probably scores low..
Once a test has been administered several years and answers of several thousand people have been recorded with the actual information about how these people are outside the test (based on observation or known facts) you can start matching new answer patterns with old ones.
An alarm should go off if your pattern is very similiar to a known rapist/murderer.
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Where I live local calls are free only in local calling area which is not the same as my area code(calls within the county are free). Fortunately my internet provider has a dialup in my local calling area... So I do have some appreciation for free local calls..
And here we have the cultural differences popping up. For you cell phone is your convienience whereas for where i come from it is the convienience of people trying to reach you. Thus, they are willing to pay a little extra for it.. Most of the people I know in US have a cell phone so that they can use it for calling, not so that people can reach them and thus it ends up being turned off quite often.. vey irritating when you need to talk to someone.
Like I said, if you really use up your minutes on a regular basis it is worth it but I still haven't found a plan comparable to europe. Some providers give you 1000 minutes/month and then you can use 200 of these during the business hours. It comes down to something like 10min/day between 9-5 and extra minutes are charged heavily. Not my kind of plan.
Some plans do have free local calling but charge accordingly. Some have free local calling for an introductory period but after it runs out you're screwed. There are also plans that offer free calling within their network but then when you want to call someone outside the network you're paying big bucks.. Price of the plan also depends on your home calling area which is ridiculously small for the cheaper ones.. Get out of the county and you might be roaming. I'd much prefer a unified paying plan(use a minute, pay for a minute) but I suppose it comes down to personal preference and cultural differences.. US is also quite a bit larger than any european countries so comparisons are difficult..
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Yeah.. Leave it to the americans to have a distorted world view... But honestly, I've never heard of any other place than US where you pay for airtime instead of only originating calls/min.
All of europe to my knowledge pays normally per minute in the originating end and per message for sms(it takes like what, umm.. 0.5sec to send the sms?). I think that in Russia you have to pay for receiving calls too but most of the countries(unless you're roaming) offer free receiving.
In my opinion US system is screwed up. You get a ton of minutes you can only use at certain times of day or certain days and have to pay for all of them even if you end up using none.. Paying for what you actually use and getting free receiving makes much more sense(unless you really use all of your monthly quota up every month).
It is very unlikely that anyone else than the group of six freelancers in question would benefit from past internet publishing violations. Generally when a law or a ruling is made it takes effect only on future issues.
If someone were to make it into a law that picking your nose while walking in an office hallway is illegal and punishable by 50$/violation payable to the ceo of the company in question in cash before dawn it certainly wouldn't enable them to make up for the lost ipo-millions by looking at the past security camera tapes..
However any current and future violators would have to pay up or they might choose to cease their illegal practices such as picking ones nose(or publishing copyrighted works without proper compensation). It seems that a lot of them are choosing the latter option..
You made your point with capitalized letters but still.. If everything has failed and you have nothing to loose why not give it a shot? This is exactly the situation that these people were in! It might not work and you've lost what, a couple of minutes.. But, it might work and your day is half saved..
Just because someone screwed at your work doesn't make your mantra a universal rule.. Especially when dealing with something like a router or a switch.. These things are normally not meant to be user serviceable and will take a reboot just fine(no hot swappable drives there).. You could have hit a 1ppm problem and rebooting just brings everything back online until statistics kick in again. Little uptime is better than none.
Sure it won't fix anything per se, but getting things normalized enables you to start concentrating on the problems at a less hectic pace..
What I'm more curious about is how is this going to affect AMD! Amd either licensed or bought the rights for alphas bus architecture and uses it in all of it's new processors. What if Intel suddenly decided not to renew their license, etc..
In the end of the program they did try the sandbox method on a large obelisk(probably 30ton) and it worked. They had a quite a few people working at an american granite mine pulling it up the last 15 degrees...
How ironic.. Just few days ago I saw a documentary on tlc/dsc/pbs (one of them anyway) where people were trying to put up obelisks..
One way was to have a huge platform over the landing area and then use ropes to tilt the obelisk over the platform and hopefully land it in it's place.. This experiment took a full day to set up, another day to try and work out and in the end modern machinery to save the day.
There was also a separate experiment going on at the same time(although, with a minitaure obelisk) where a sand box was used.. It worked beatifully. They had a high platform with a sand box in front of it and as the sand was removed the obelisk tilted down gracefully onto it's place.
Later in the show they did an experiment with a full size obelisk at a granite mine in usa (first part was filmed in egypt) using first miniature prototypes and after a full size obelisk and a sand box(with dry sand vs. the damp one used in egypt).
Once the old-style(no modern machinery used here, except to set up the box and obelisk) ropes were gently released the obelisk practically pushed the sand away from underneath it and lowered itself into the right place. Final adjustement of about 15 degrees was performed by pulling the ropes.. Everything worked beautifully..
I believe the program was called Secrets of the Angient Egyptians, etc..
The reason why most u.s. based companies don't accept international credit cards is the verification part. I live in u.s. but have a foreign credit card(so all the bills go to my mom across the sea). Several times I've had issues buying products on internet because of the international aspect even though everything was to be shipped within u.s. to a verifiable address.
Without exception the answer I come across is that the automatic verification process most of the time only works on domestic(to u.s.) credit cards and the main reason is matching the billing address with credit cards billing address. About one third of the times I've been able to cheat and call the company and have them punch in the credit card number thus bypassing the automatic verification system. One time they faxed me an authorization sheet and I had to reply with a signed authorization form and copy of the front and back of my credit card before anything could be billed.
Nowadays approximately one third of the webstores do accept international credit cards. Almost none of these accept international orders but as long as the shipping address is within u.s. they'll happily bill your card. However, since about once a month they have a marketpro computer show(almost pricewatch prices) 5 min from where I live and Delaware has no sales tax it is about as cheap to just shop locally. So I haven't really bothered shopping online recently..
Btw. if the original poster is willing to pay 500 usd for 900mhz athlon/w mb he is being ripped off.. I recently bought a system for my sister that included 700mhz duron, motherboard with integrated sound, ethernet&video, 20gig hd and 128megs of ram and all of this was under 300usd. I took it overseas so no case etc, but even with a case bought overseas the total cost was about 340usd.
I've often looked at those signs at the gas pump that say octane calculated according to (ron+mon)/2 and wondered how it compares to europe. Now after some research on internet your figure seems about right.. I stand corrected..
There is a considerable improvement with mpg over this guys original estimate but being a european car they naturally use metric(si) system for their calculations.
This guy seemed to be referring to usa mostly and as such it is natural to assume US gallons when doing conversions. See my post above for a little more detailed discussion..
Just about nobody uses imperial gallons anyway, not with miles per gallons calculations in any case. Even the british are using mostly metric system excluding pub owners etc..
Sigh.. You got it off as much to the other direction.. 1 gal (US) amounts to 3.7854 liters. An imperial gallon is 4.5461 liters but that really has nothing to do with this..
3 liters is 0.792 gallons. 100 km is 62.1 miles. Actually this car did a round the world trip on an average of 2.38 liters / 100km, which is about 0.63 gallons / 62.1 miles. Flip it around and you have 98.8 mpg. Even with a more realistic 3l/100km you get 78.4 mpg.
Yes, gas in europe is a lot more expensive and I can say two primary reasons. First, there is about 300% tax on gas in europe. Second, the octane level is generally much higher than in US. In usa I fill my car up with 87 but in europe generally the normal grade is 95.. It has to be more expensive to use something that you yanks call super extra hyper premium gasoline (I've yet to see 95 anywhere in usa, 94's been the highest octane) as your normal gas.. Price for 94 versus 87 is about 50% higher..
Lack of short term price fluctuations during rapid changes in oil prices is because of the high taxes that create kind of a buffer zone where you can regulate the price to some extend. US gas prices follow the actual price of oil very closely and with little delay.
But when was the last time you actually filled up in usa? Prices are now closer to 2$/gallon in the cheap places and expensive ones are way over.. I remember two years ago filling up for 0.79$/gallon. This was cheaper at the time than the cheapest gallon of store brand water at acme.. Now you get two gallons of water for the price of one gas gallon. Water still costs the same..
uhh.. That's a lame analogy. If you're not going to make it as a basketball player then you're not.. No choices. You really don't need to "make it" as a programmer or get drafted into one of the major programming groups to make a living..
If major league basketball had the same overall level as an average computer worker nobody would watch it. Yet you can be only a decent computer programmer and still get a job with good pay.
Yes, programming takes dedication and is not suited for everyone but who knows, maybe that kid will actually get excited about programming instead of just wasting his time on games(you know, like basketball and stuff..).
whattafuck are you using for a command line? Howabout just sticking to cd 'mozilla dir';./mozilla or./run-mozilla.sh. Hasn't crashed not once.. Not even the latest version..
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Rephrase: Even if you know the subject material inside out and back to front it really doesn't make you a good teacher. You need to know how to teach!
Of course knowing the subject material extremely well is a requirement but certainly not enough to make you qualified.
Nah.. That is called a trojan. Virus' and worms replicate without user intervention. Trojan requires users to explicitly run the software (maybe posing as useful).
Decss was first dealt with as a leaked trade secret but later it was successfully attacked as a copyright protection circumvention device. There was no question that this was a specific application of this tool to specifically copyrighted material(there are no dvd's that are scrambled and not copyrighted!)
Sklyarov case is very similiar. This tool was specifically targetted against material that was undisputably copyrighted. I doubt that any of the ebooks(or whatever) that adobe sells are not copyrighted.
So that is what is has come down to so far. Copyrighted material produced by big corporations and a tool that basically has as its primary purpose the circumvention of these specific copyright protection measures.
In this case there are no big companies that specifically use 802.11 encryption as their copyright protection measure. Anyone implementing copyright protection measurements is going to make them specific to that data independant of transmission medium(when open transmission mediums are concerned). Thus it seems very unlikely that this case will end up in a courtroom..
According to dmca it is illegal to circumvent electronic copyright protection measurements. Since a lot of cryptography is used to protect something that is also copyrighted dmca is almost universally used as prosecution tool against encryption cracking hackers..
However, In this case there is no clear copyright violation involved, so applicability of dmca is more than questionable. The purpose of this encryption was not to protect specific copyrighted material.. that is, unless all the packet headers contain some copyrighted strings or something..
In other words: validity of patents is not dependent on their enforcement. You can be as selective as you want. Trademarks, however, are invalidated by lack of enforcement..
How is xinerama support in kde nowadays? I'd love to use it but since enlightenment seems to be the only window manager/desktop environment to reasonably support two or more monitors I think that I'm stuck with it..
Basically it refutes the way bernoulli's principle is taught(according to my recollection) by simply stating that there is no scientific reason why the air travelling on top would have to arrive at the end of the wing at the same time as air on bottom.
As a matter of fact they don't arrive simultanously although top still travels faster. The real reason planes stay up is due to the tendency of fluids(air counts) to stick to surfaces. Basically air travelling on top of the wing sticks to the wing and, as it is curved, is directed downwards. According to newtons laws this force has to be countered, and it is, by what we experience as lift. So as long as airflow around the wing has a downward component there is lift.
Bernoulli's law, however, does work good enough that it can be used as an approximation..
I remember reading about the russian made crew-module and how russians didn't quite follow nasa's wishes with regards to the sound proofing. Meaning that it is impossible to sleep without ear plugs. I can imagine that alone making it quite a hell. Original specs, if followed, would have provided a considerably better enviroment but then again russia never really though about their cosmonauts' comfort level as priority number one.
That said.. Yes, landlines are horribly expensive in europe, but what do you really need them for aside faxes and internet? If landlines are charged per min and cell phones are charged per min at a comparable rate which one would you choose? I'd rather have the cellphone anyway so this just simplifies the decision..
As for the pricing: once you call outside your local calling area in US all bets are off. Local calling areas don't cover full areacodes and prices depend on your provider. Most of the time in europe prices for calls within the areacode are same. Simplifies things a little. Also there is a different price for calls during business hours and calls outside business hours.. And per minute charges generally make longer calls more expensive than short ones.. Not too complicated.. definetly easier then trying to make any sense of US cell phone calling plans..
In US if you get a cellphone plan you first decide your local calling area(small=cheap, large=expensive) and how many minutes(little=cheap, alot=expensive) you want to have per month. After this you find out that although you have 1000min/month you can only talk on an avrg. 10min/day between 9-7 or otherwise you'll be charged a lot extra(minutes when you are awake=expensive, minutes when you sleep=cheap, reflects on the quota). Rest of the minutes are usable in the middle of the night or during the weekend. You've got anytime minutes, night/weekend-minutes, daytime minutes, promotonial minutes, local minutes, long-distance minutes, etc.. Who the hell is going to keep track of all of them.. Why don't you just scrap the freaking quotas and charge per min based on areacodes..
Sure you might alse get free nationwide long-distance(for extra money) but once you exit your local calling area you get a horrific roaming charge(to be fair.. europe's roaming charges are bad too when you hop countries). Receiving calls while outside your local calling area is also expensive. In Europe "local" calling area(for cellphones) is generally the country you live in and not the couple of surrounding counties around you. If you want something like the whole east coast as your local calling area prepare to give out triple digits/month..
Since you might already have to pay extra for calling within your areacode(calls outside local calling area) why not impose the same thing for cell phones and making receiving calls free like almost all of rest of the world does. Receiving calls on a cellphone is most of the time for the convenience of people calling you so make them pay for it.
Btw. My cellphone back home costs about 4-5$/month to have active so even though I've been to US for almost 4 years I still have my mobile abroad working. Whenever I go home I can just borrow a phone from someone, insert my sim-card and be off. Any calls I make are charged per min(10-15c) and receiving is free.. Most of time I use the latter..
Once a test has been administered several years and answers of several thousand people have been recorded with the actual information about how these people are outside the test (based on observation or known facts) you can start matching new answer patterns with old ones.
An alarm should go off if your pattern is very similiar to a known rapist/murderer.
And here we have the cultural differences popping up. For you cell phone is your convienience whereas for where i come from it is the convienience of people trying to reach you. Thus, they are willing to pay a little extra for it.. Most of the people I know in US have a cell phone so that they can use it for calling, not so that people can reach them and thus it ends up being turned off quite often.. vey irritating when you need to talk to someone.
Like I said, if you really use up your minutes on a regular basis it is worth it but I still haven't found a plan comparable to europe. Some providers give you 1000 minutes/month and then you can use 200 of these during the business hours. It comes down to something like 10min/day between 9-5 and extra minutes are charged heavily. Not my kind of plan.
Some plans do have free local calling but charge accordingly. Some have free local calling for an introductory period but after it runs out you're screwed. There are also plans that offer free calling within their network but then when you want to call someone outside the network you're paying big bucks.. Price of the plan also depends on your home calling area which is ridiculously small for the cheaper ones.. Get out of the county and you might be roaming. I'd much prefer a unified paying plan(use a minute, pay for a minute) but I suppose it comes down to personal preference and cultural differences.. US is also quite a bit larger than any european countries so comparisons are difficult..
All of europe to my knowledge pays normally per minute in the originating end and per message for sms(it takes like what, umm.. 0.5sec to send the sms?). I think that in Russia you have to pay for receiving calls too but most of the countries(unless you're roaming) offer free receiving.
In my opinion US system is screwed up. You get a ton of minutes you can only use at certain times of day or certain days and have to pay for all of them even if you end up using none.. Paying for what you actually use and getting free receiving makes much more sense(unless you really use all of your monthly quota up every month).
If someone were to make it into a law that picking your nose while walking in an office hallway is illegal and punishable by 50$/violation payable to the ceo of the company in question in cash before dawn it certainly wouldn't enable them to make up for the lost ipo-millions by looking at the past security camera tapes..
However any current and future violators would have to pay up or they might choose to cease their illegal practices such as picking ones nose(or publishing copyrighted works without proper compensation). It seems that a lot of them are choosing the latter option..
Just because someone screwed at your work doesn't make your mantra a universal rule.. Especially when dealing with something like a router or a switch.. These things are normally not meant to be user serviceable and will take a reboot just fine(no hot swappable drives there).. You could have hit a 1ppm problem and rebooting just brings everything back online until statistics kick in again. Little uptime is better than none.
Sure it won't fix anything per se, but getting things normalized enables you to start concentrating on the problems at a less hectic pace..
What I'm more curious about is how is this going to affect AMD! Amd either licensed or bought the rights for alphas bus architecture and uses it in all of it's new processors. What if Intel suddenly decided not to renew their license, etc..
In the end of the program they did try the sandbox method on a large obelisk(probably 30ton) and it worked. They had a quite a few people working at an american granite mine pulling it up the last 15 degrees...
One way was to have a huge platform over the landing area and then use ropes to tilt the obelisk over the platform and hopefully land it in it's place.. This experiment took a full day to set up, another day to try and work out and in the end modern machinery to save the day.
There was also a separate experiment going on at the same time(although, with a minitaure obelisk) where a sand box was used.. It worked beatifully. They had a high platform with a sand box in front of it and as the sand was removed the obelisk tilted down gracefully onto it's place.
Later in the show they did an experiment with a full size obelisk at a granite mine in usa (first part was filmed in egypt) using first miniature prototypes and after a full size obelisk and a sand box(with dry sand vs. the damp one used in egypt).
Once the old-style(no modern machinery used here, except to set up the box and obelisk) ropes were gently released the obelisk practically pushed the sand away from underneath it and lowered itself into the right place. Final adjustement of about 15 degrees was performed by pulling the ropes.. Everything worked beautifully..
I believe the program was called Secrets of the Angient Egyptians, etc..
Without exception the answer I come across is that the automatic verification process most of the time only works on domestic(to u.s.) credit cards and the main reason is matching the billing address with credit cards billing address. About one third of the times I've been able to cheat and call the company and have them punch in the credit card number thus bypassing the automatic verification system. One time they faxed me an authorization sheet and I had to reply with a signed authorization form and copy of the front and back of my credit card before anything could be billed.
Nowadays approximately one third of the webstores do accept international credit cards. Almost none of these accept international orders but as long as the shipping address is within u.s. they'll happily bill your card. However, since about once a month they have a marketpro computer show(almost pricewatch prices) 5 min from where I live and Delaware has no sales tax it is about as cheap to just shop locally. So I haven't really bothered shopping online recently..
Btw. if the original poster is willing to pay 500 usd for 900mhz athlon /w mb he is being ripped off.. I recently bought a system for my sister that included 700mhz duron, motherboard with integrated sound, ethernet&video, 20gig hd and 128megs of ram and all of this was under 300usd. I took it overseas so no case etc, but even with a case bought overseas the total cost was about 340usd.
I've often looked at those signs at the gas pump that say octane calculated according to (ron+mon)/2 and wondered how it compares to europe. Now after some research on internet your figure seems about right.. I stand corrected..
This guy seemed to be referring to usa mostly and as such it is natural to assume US gallons when doing conversions. See my post above for a little more detailed discussion..
Just about nobody uses imperial gallons anyway, not with miles per gallons calculations in any case. Even the british are using mostly metric system excluding pub owners etc..
Sigh.. You got it off as much to the other direction.. 1 gal (US) amounts to 3.7854 liters. An imperial gallon is 4.5461 liters but that really has nothing to do with this..
Yes, gas in europe is a lot more expensive and I can say two primary reasons. First, there is about 300% tax on gas in europe. Second, the octane level is generally much higher than in US. In usa I fill my car up with 87 but in europe generally the normal grade is 95.. It has to be more expensive to use something that you yanks call super extra hyper premium gasoline (I've yet to see 95 anywhere in usa, 94's been the highest octane) as your normal gas.. Price for 94 versus 87 is about 50% higher..
Lack of short term price fluctuations during rapid changes in oil prices is because of the high taxes that create kind of a buffer zone where you can regulate the price to some extend. US gas prices follow the actual price of oil very closely and with little delay.
But when was the last time you actually filled up in usa? Prices are now closer to 2$/gallon in the cheap places and expensive ones are way over.. I remember two years ago filling up for 0.79$/gallon. This was cheaper at the time than the cheapest gallon of store brand water at acme.. Now you get two gallons of water for the price of one gas gallon. Water still costs the same..
If major league basketball had the same overall level as an average computer worker nobody would watch it. Yet you can be only a decent computer programmer and still get a job with good pay.
Yes, programming takes dedication and is not suited for everyone but who knows, maybe that kid will actually get excited about programming instead of just wasting his time on games(you know, like basketball and stuff..).
oops.. my mistake.. blame it on the six pack.. and bad formatting..
whattafuck are you using for a command line? Howabout just sticking to cd 'mozilla dir';./mozilla or ./run-mozilla.sh. Hasn't crashed not once.. Not even the latest version..
p.s. try memtest..