One word: Diginotar.

That may be true for some lists, but definitely not all.
I'm running a confirmed opt-in list that sends out 40.000 mails every day. Every NDR is processed automatically and sets a flag. If an user gets 4 flags within 10 days, the email-adress is unsubscribed automatically.

If legitimate lists have too much invalid addresses on them, the lists value decreases. It may even affect sending mail to the addresses that are still valid as spamfilters may think that my mailserver is just bruteforcing those addresses.

Indeed. The car's location will be known to the authorities 24x7. Combine that with the fact that all your movements with public transportation are soon tracked with the chip-card, and it means that the government knows where you are any time of the day unless you're walking.

But how the hell do you accidentally vote on a piece of legislation?
They were running down a list.
"Who agrees to point 1, please raise your hands. Okay. Who agrees to point 2, please raise your hands." Somewhere around item 8, the labour party mistakenly thought they were agreeing to another point. And just one second after the chairwoman had counted, the party corrected. But then it was too late, because "rules are rules".

However, the article above is a little misleading. The law proposed does not allow every single ISP to block whatever THEY like for "network maintenance reasons". It allows people with certain beliefs to use specialized providers like www.filternet.nl to keep them away from pornography and other things that their religious beliefs forbid. So it's not a type of censorship that this law could allow, but this law is supposed to enable end users to say "please filter my internet to keep my conscience clear". The choice of the end user him-/herself.

No, they're jealous that it's not livre des faces and twitteur

If I am deliberately sharing my internet connection, I AM a defacto service provider.
Tell that to the SWAT guy that's pointing his Heckler & Koch MP5 to your head in your own bedroom at 4am.

A Car GPS system like TomTom is used by a small fraction of the population as compared to iPhones or other smart phones.
I know about 4 people with an iPhone and dozens with car GPS.

A lot of those people use TomTom because they don't know where they are, implying that they just moved or are on a trip.
I even turn my Garmin on every single day when I drive to work. I known damn well where I am, and I know 10 alternative routes. But I can't look over hills and around corners to see if there's a traffic jam. That's why the traffic information supplied by my GPS is more than welcome.

Got one that doesn't call home, btw.

Well it does say can be required to, that doesn't mean they can't be convinced, paid, or otherwise motivated to filter the Internet.

Indeed.

Falkvinge.net says the exact opposite of what I read dozens of times today. All articles I read today say that that very same advocate general, mister Cruz Villalón, said that if individual countries make laws requiring ISPs to filter the web, there's nothing the EU can/will do. Only without those local laws, it would be illegal.

Some of my sources:
Translation of tweakers.net
Translation of nu.nl

I could already block experts exchange... using greasemonkey to remove all entries that link EE. I recently unblocked EEm because using the google "in cache" function usually shows some useful hints.
Just wondering why google doesn't punish EE for serving other data to googlebot than what users get.

So, about 50% of the IE6 users worldwide are chinese... Actually, the top 10 countries with the highest IE6 usage are non-english... and they didn't think of approaching IE6-users in their own language? *sigh*

Indeed. Years ago the address bar was even re-introducted on popup windows to make it harder for badguys. I hate that it takes the space, but it is neccesary to protect users. TFA suggests it'll be optional to hide the address bar, I think it's just foolish.

Sorry, I don't agree with that. MSIE may be insecure, but as long as it's updated through WSUS it's definitely more secure than the firefox some random user installed and forgot to update for about 2 years. So unless centrally managed, I agree that other browsers should not be installed. (This goes for any part of software, not only browsers.)

it crosses the line to hacking and that's criminal to in most jurisdictions.
Nope, it's not. It would be if you or I backdoored someone elses hardware, but multibillion dollar organisations can pull this off.

That's not so bad. You're only missing the first few letters. I've been reading slashdot on my thunderbird 2 rss for years. With the new design, the sidebar is positioned across the middle of the text. (I'm running Centos 5.5 with the newest Thunderbird 2 release. And no, i'm not switching to TB3)

It's not all FUD... open source is actually a security risk... for mr. Chang's wallet.
Remember the lawsuit against clamav? And of course, there's the fact that if everyone ditched windows for an open source OS, trend micro wouldn't have many customers anymore.