The stockholm stock exchange is part of the NASDAQ-OMX group ( http://www.nasdaqomx.com/aboutus/whatisnasdaq/ ) . Do they use the same software?

I can help but imagine zonked bees saying "BzzZZzzzt!?" and flying into trees...

Loudspeakers are all and well, but no-one under the age of 30 should be allowed to own one. Especially not my neighbors.

Even if they didn't do it themselves, they would be bound by the EU Data Retention Directive to do it.

Sweden has already got threatened with the EU high court for not implementing the directive.

Ok, that's about the most amusing hack since someone wrote a fully working web server in postscript: http://www.pugo.org:8080/

(Still think the postscript web server leads the list of odd hacks)

The same clause is present in swedish 3G TOS from for example Teliasonera. I'm forbidden to use any voip service on my android phone, although I don't know if they actively try to detect such use.

http://xkcd.com/927/

If there is any value left in either the oracle code base or the IBM code base, the only sane thing for apache to do would be to commit it to the LibreOffice code tree. That's where the development is happening at the moment, and I don't see why Apache would be interested in maintaining a lesser competing product when there already is a blooming open source one around.

The answer is not all that simple and straight-forward. First you have to decide what level of "cloud" it is you want? Is it platform-as-a-service (PAAS) or infrastructure-as-a-service (IAAS)? Your situation will be very different depending on what you choose. Assuming you are interested in going all out cloud and insist on going for microsoft products, you should read up on Azure and then decide if the gains are worth it. You should especially read up on the pricing model and see if it fits with your model for generating income.

I have gotten my SOE account "hacked" (using SOE's terms). So has a close friend, and several other people I know of. Ok, if it had only been me I would have assumed it was an isolated incident even though I can't even begin to guess how my password got out in the wild. When this many people got their accounts taken over in such a limited time, I do no longer believe this was a problem on my side. However, trying to get anything other than "update your antivirus" out of the SOE customer support is an exercise in futility.

My qualified guess is that the recent security breaches aren't in any way exceptions: Most likely Sony/SOE have had security problems for several months now and have tried to keep a lid on it. But as said, that's just my guess.

Having seen the "stable" 11.04 release crash simply upon booting the live-cd and noting that the list of "known issues" is four screen pages long, I'd say they have some distance left to go.

The EU area controls about 16% of the total world economy. That may sound small, but when an area like that takes a considered and coordinated stance like the one in the OP, and (knowing EU) is prepared to put significant legislative effort behind the decision, it would have a significant impact. 16% of the world market is too much to ignore, even discounting the manufacturers actually living in the EU area (for you foreign barbarians, about 500 million people lives here).

A decision like this would cause great market incitement for thinking up and selling new "green" products.

Anyone else see the death star at 01:33?

Actually they got 20 seats and a tipping point position, where they in theory could get power to deseat the sitting conservative/liberal government.

But I agree with the point... the interesting (and scary) part about the election is that I can expect that one in every twenty people I meet down town actually voted for a nazi party.