Fruny - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Not slightly altered (Score 1) 159

by Fruny on Monday July 13, 2009 @08:05AM (#28674555) Attached to: French "3 Strikes" Law Returns, In Slightly Altered Form

My personal opinion is that this is a face-saving law. The new law is 99.9% inapplicable in practice. There is just no way thousands of people can go through the court system every month as is the government's plan. Plus people are *very* likely to put up a good fight, like they have done everywhere. There are no possible settlement.

As I understand it, the plan is to use the same expedited process as for parking or speeding tickets, which has little trouble dealing with thousands of violations each month. In that regard, IP logs might be admitted in the same way as photographic evidence from speed-trap cameras.

Submission + - Is America still free?

Submitted by chameleon3 on Saturday April 07, 2007 @03:42PM

chameleon3 writes: Slashdotters are wont to bemoan the slow erosion of personal freedoms in the United States, and I am not inclined to disagree. My question is: how will you know that America is no longer the Land of the Free? What event would be necessary for you to declare Freedom officially dead in America? Or, if you believe it has already occurred, what event caused it?

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by mikesd81 on Wednesday March 07, 2007 @04:55AM

Journal Journal: Software announcements (or: how to irritate JD) 3

Journal by jd on Wednesday March 07, 2007 @03:14AM

Yes, back to the grumbling again. I do not enjoy this. If I could write about stuff I liked, I would vastly prefer it. However, that will have to wait until there's stuff I like happening.

Submission + - Decline In Pet Ownership Because Of Videogames

Submitted by

Gerard Fuller

on Wednesday March 07, 2007 @12:16AM

Gerard Fuller writes: "A new study by the Australian Veterinary Association claims that children are increasingly choosing computer games over pets, and that this is a major factor in the decline of pet ownership.

But can't pet simulators offer all the good lessons of owning a pet (caring for an animal, discipline) without the drawbacks (poo on the sofa, barking and howling at 3am)?

Fortunately the study also identifies the trend toward medium-density living as a major factor in the findings. See, games aren't all bad."

Feed Searching for Michael Jordan? Microsoft Wants a Better Way (nytimes.com)

From feed by nytfeed on Wednesday March 07, 2007 @12:12AM

Trying to catch up with Google, Microsoft says it will change the way computer users search.

Submission + - Contact Information Management

Submitted by nnkx00 on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @11:33PM

nnkx00 writes: Between all my peripherals and all my applications (across more than one operating system), I have a lot of places I need to keep various contact information. Unfortunately, its currently spread across all the aforementioned devices and locations. I'm looking to consolidate. How do you guys and gals keep your contact data up-to-date?

Journal SPAM: Bishops equate Israel's actions to Holocaust 1

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @10:08PM

Hours after historic visit to Jerusalem holocaust museum, group of German bishops tour Palestinian Authority, say Israel behaving like Nazis

Submission + - HP Sees Huge Linux Desktop Deals

Submitted by Anonymous on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @10:08PM

Anonymous writes: With all the talk about Dell and desktop Linux, HP has quietly been cutting some deals to provide "multi-thousands" of Linux-installed desktops, and, according to CRN, is suggesting factory-loaded Linux PCs are getting closer by the day.

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by tangledweb on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @09:40PM

Journal Journal: 12 year old faces criminal charges for pictures of herself. 2

Journal by twitter on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @09:05PM

The criminal justice system is reaching for a new low, this time threatening a 12 year old for taking pictures of herself. There is a victim in this case, unlike the recent cases, where a 15 year old girl and a 17 year old couple were threatened with hard time for their own protection.

Submission + - What Bosses should know: software requirements

Submitted by

Esther Schindler

on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @08:19PM

Esther Schindler writes: "CIO.com asked developers to name the ONE thing that they wished the CIO understood about software requirements. The summary is several pages long, but it pulls no punches: from the role of requirements, to defining who creates the requirements (and in how much detail), to the need to shake the boss to get him to understand that requirements change, to paying attention to the process. It's all here, in Five Things CIOs Should Know About Software Requirements, with a few dozen developer's voices loud and clear. For instance, one developer comments, "The CIO has to realize that if there is no bad news, there is something very wrong. Smiling people nodding 'Yes' in meetings is not a sign of great intelligence at work.""

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