Comment Re:Put him away... (Score 3, Insightful) 1079
If you consider the border patrols trustworthy, sure. I don't. I'd bet the only "crime" Peter Watts committed was of arguing back.
Submission + - Last.fm: The hardware powering the music (cnet.co.uk)
CNETNate writes: Last.fm has streamed an incredible 275,000 years of audio around the world, and it's most popular songs are packed onto SSD-powered servers to completely eliminate some of the problems associated with streaming from platter-based hard disks. This detailed interview with Last.fm's Matthew Ogle, the company's head of Web development, explains some of the facts and figures behind the global music service. From the article: "We stream all music directly off our servers in London. We have a cluster of streaming nodes including a bunch of powerful machines with solid-state hard drives. We have a process that runs daily which finds the hottest music and pushes those tracks on to the SSDs streamers that sit in front of our regular platter-based streaming machines. That way, if someone is listening to one of our more popular stations, the chances are really good that these songs are coming off our high-speed SSD machines. They're fast because every song is sitting in memory instead of being on a slow, spinning platter."
Submission + - Hackerspace under attack (forskningsavd.se)
An anonymous reader writes: The hackerspace in Malmö, Sweden has been raided by a large number of police. While police claim the raid to be directed at suspected illegal alcohol sales in connection with underground club activity, this rhymes poorly with the seizure of computers and tools from the separated space the hackerspace resides in, as well as failing to explain the presence of IT-specialized police, and eyewitness reports of ISP technicians involved in the raid.
Submission + - Swedish Hackerspace raided by the police (forskningsavd.se) 4
intedinmamma writes: At 20.45 on Saturday the 28th of November the police raided the social centre Utkanten in Malmö, where the hackerspace Forskningsavdelningen is housed. Twenty officers in full riot gear and ski masks broke into the space, using crowbars. The official reason for the raid was to do a “pub check” because of the suspicion that there was illegal selling of alcohol going on at a punk concert. After the raid the cops confiscated a lot of stuff, being indiscriminate as to whose effects were removed. A lot of equipment from Forskningsavdelningen were taken, and also some personal belongings, even though the hackerspace was unaffiliated with the group arranging the concert downstairs.
Comment Re:In a related question (Score 1) 327
Magnet link is an URI, your browser is supposed to send it to it directly.
http links are URI:s to, but rtorrent supports those (using libcurl). But libcurl does not support magnet-links
Comment Re:Haul down the competition (Score 5, Informative) 165
You summarize my thoughts exactly. And I would also add that this deal is flamed by another party: the FSF. (fsf.org seems to be down atm, but here comes the link: http://www.fsf.org/news/2009-09-google-book-settlement-objection )
"But under the proposed settlement, works released under the GFDL and similar licenses are lumped in with works under full restrictive copyright. Google would therefore be given permission to display and distribute these works without abiding by the requirement to pass the freedoms guaranteed under the GFDL on to Google Books readers."
Comment Re:BFS is the Brain Fuck Scheduler. (Score 1) 333
... named after the language it was implemented in.
Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 315
They can face ongoing fines for non-compliance.
Comment Swedish TLD arbitrators (Score 1) 415
Monique Wadsted and the judge are both arbitrators for the swedish ccTLD (.se) Registry IIS/.SE's Alternative Dispute Resolution program.
Comment Re:Some crazy conspiracy? (Score 1) 443
Thank god we still have Lund, where you can get 100mbit for $7/mon. Gotta love it.
Comment Re:Some crazy conspiracy? (Score 1) 443
GP was talking about colo etc.. Swedish consumer connections are unmetered (with the exception for 3g).
Comment Re:Wow.... (Score 1) 410
it should be below 18 yrs, ofc.
Comment Re:Wow.... (Score 3, Informative) 410
Micro howto for signing up in the swedish Piratpartiet:
1. Go to piratpartiet.se
2. Sign up as a member
3. Done.
So, they are definitly not "paying supporters", and most probably won't lift a finger for "The Cause" (???). I'd probably guess that most are 18yrs, so they can't even vote in the upcoming election for the EU parlament.
Comment Re:FINALLY !!! (Score 1) 62
Saying Ubuntu is more ready than XP is
Ready to get hacking on that printer problem!
French Record Labels Go After Limewire, SourceForge 326
An anonymous reader notes that TorrentFreak is reporting: "French record labels have received the green light to sue four US-based companies that develop P2P applications, including the BitTorrent client Vuze, Limewire, and Morpheus. Shareaza is the fourth application, for which the labels are going after the open source development platform SourceForge. ... Putting aside the discussion on the responsibilities of application developers for their users activities, the decision to go after SourceForge for hosting a application that can potentially infringe, is stretching credibility beyond all bounds." SourceForge is Slashdot's corporate parent.
