Comment Re:Easy grammar (Score 1) 626
I vote for Indo-European.
Comment Re:I wouldn't be so sure... (Score 1) 298
I am about 2.04 meter and let me assure you that length does matter.
Comment Re: Not France vs US (Score 1, Insightful) 309
If Google wants tot do business in France they should obey the laws of France, not frustrate the lawmakers. That is just not professional.
Comment Re:Poor example (Score 5, Informative) 250
4 weeks= 1 ovary cycle. Think about it.
Comment Re:Hmmm... (Score 1) 983
A couple of thousand Dropbox accounts.
Comment Re:Hmmm .... (Score 2) 116
The information in the documents could be considered trade secrets. Google has a right to keep them sectret.
Comment Re:Muslims (Score 1) 330
Oh, is that the reason you are eavesdropping on my conversations?
Comment Re:nerd life (Score 1) 823
That's what average people usually think. But it's not that hard, really.
Comment Re:Well, Yeah (Score 1) 268
It looks like you are trying to make a joke. Do you want help with that?
Comment Re:Learn to spin news like this... (Score 0) 208
Well, at least it is a good way to destroy science.
Submission + - EU Officials Propose Internet Cops On Patrol, No Anonymity & No Obscure Lang (techdirt.com)
king.purpuriu writes: The leaked document contradicts a letter sent from CleanIT Coordinator But Klaasen to Dutch NGO Bits of Freedom in April of this year, which explained that the project would first identify problems before making policy proposals. The promise to defend the rule of law has been abandoned. There appears never to have been a plan to identify a specific problem to be solved – instead the initiative has become little more than a protection racket (use filtering or be held liable for terrorist offences) for the online security industry.
The idea is that "virtual police officers" will be keeping an eye on you — for your own safety, you understand. Other ways in which users will be protected from themselves is through the use of filters.
And where there are laws, it must be OK for law enforcement agencies (LEAs) to ignore them and have content taken down on demand: "It must be legal for LEAs to make Internet companies aware of terrorist content on their infrastructure ('flagging') that should be removed, without following the more labour intensive and formal procedures for 'notice and take action'"
Due process, who needs it? The plans also require some interesting new laws, like this one criminalizing merely posting certain hyperlinks: "Knowingly providing hyperlinks on websites to terrorist content must be defined by law as illegal just like the terrorist content itself"
Incredible though it might sound, that seems to suggest that less common foreign languages would be banned from the European Internet entirely in case anybody discusses naughty stuff without the authorities being able to spy on them (haven't they heard of Google Translate?) You could hardly hope for a better symbol of the paranoid and xenophobic thinking that lies behind this crazy scheme.
The idea is that "virtual police officers" will be keeping an eye on you — for your own safety, you understand. Other ways in which users will be protected from themselves is through the use of filters.
And where there are laws, it must be OK for law enforcement agencies (LEAs) to ignore them and have content taken down on demand: "It must be legal for LEAs to make Internet companies aware of terrorist content on their infrastructure ('flagging') that should be removed, without following the more labour intensive and formal procedures for 'notice and take action'"
Due process, who needs it? The plans also require some interesting new laws, like this one criminalizing merely posting certain hyperlinks: "Knowingly providing hyperlinks on websites to terrorist content must be defined by law as illegal just like the terrorist content itself"
Incredible though it might sound, that seems to suggest that less common foreign languages would be banned from the European Internet entirely in case anybody discusses naughty stuff without the authorities being able to spy on them (haven't they heard of Google Translate?) You could hardly hope for a better symbol of the paranoid and xenophobic thinking that lies behind this crazy scheme.
Comment Re:Oh, wow. (Score 1) 154
And it's back: http://www.xbian.org/
Comment Re:first post module (Score 1) 340
Disclaimer: I used to work there.
Comment Re:Timeline is off (Score 1) 195
Or they were using Babelfishes. Seems logical, if you think about it.
Comment Re:Contractor wear (Score 1) 432
Have you tried growing a ponytail? It's a good substitute for the beard.
