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Comment Re:Duh (Score 1) 522

You don't know any countries that import water?
In the UK Evian and Volvic are two popular brands of bottled water that come from France. I've even seen bottled water from Fiji, despite having a plentiful supply of water ourselves.
Check the water shelves next time you're in a supermarket. I bet there are foreign brands there.

Comment Would Government approve and open mesh? (Score 3, Interesting) 108

Please correct me of I'm wrong, but an open mesh network would completely decentralise internet connectivity leaving the Government with no way to implement website blocking and three-strikes laws etc.
While a truly democratic government would support open mesh in the public interest I doubt our lot would approve it.

Comment Re:His nationality is important why? (Score 1) 363

While we're at it - why do red antique phone booths represent the UK?

For the same reason that Malt Shops represent the US.

Ignorant foreigners picking up on something that used to be a part of the nation but have long since passed into obscurity.

The whole world knows that here in Scotland EVERYONE plays the bagpipes.

Comment Re:This Is Ridiculous (Score 1) 210

What makes for a free society? One where each of us is free to murder and imprison each other, or one where the only restriction on your personal freedom is that you may not restrict the freedom of others?
I prefer the latter social paradigm.
That's why I prefer GPL.

Open Source

Linux 2.6.37 Released 135

diegocg writes "Version 2.6.37 of the Linux kernel has been released. This version includes SMP scalability improvements for Ext4 and XFS, the removal of the Big Kernel Lock, support for per-cgroup IO throttling, a networking block device based on top of the Ceph clustered filesystem, several Btrfs improvements, more efficient static probes, perf support to probe modules, LZO compression in the hibernation image, PPP over IPv4 support, several networking microoptimizations and many other small changes, improvements and new drivers for devices like the Brocade BNA 10GB ethernet, Topcliff PCH gigabit, Atheros CARL9170, Atheros AR6003 and RealTek RTL8712U. The fanotify API has also been enabled. See the full changelog for more details."

Comment Conflict of interest (Score 1) 225

There is clearly a conflict of interest here. Two groups of people are paying these companies.

Their customers are paying for net access and don't want someone else getting more bandwidth than they are because of their choice of websites / software.

But then others come along and say we'll pay you to prioritise our traffic.

These ISPs should decide who their customers are.

Comment Re:Sad Clown:( (Score 2, Interesting) 457

Sure stealing is wrong, but copying data is not stealing. If I take code written in house for in-house use from one employer to another how has the old one lost anything if the new one starts using it in house?

My own fall back is that some useful software that I have written for my current employer is now GPLed because I asked them if it could be. If I ever lose this job I'll be hawking my skills in setting up that software from one end of the country to the other.

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