Why did you have to tell them about nmap for?

Yes. Nexus One is the third developer phone with (slightly modified versions of) HTC Dream and HTC Magic being the first and the second.

There is at least one Swedish company that does deny them, SF Bio (the largest movie theater chain in Sweden). However, in their case there is a good reason; to get the tickets you've bought online with your credit card you have to swipe the same card in their ticket printing machines. You could definitely come up with another way to get the tickets once they are bought, but as long as you have to have the credit card with which you paid to get the tickets, one-time cc numbers are probably out of the question.

"The Swedish Pirate Party did its best election campaign ever. We had more media, more articles, more debates, more handed-out flyers than ever"

How does he figure that? I (a Swede) haven't heard or seen anything from them since the election for the European parliament. I think it would be more correct to call it their worst election campaign ever.

Both deci-metre (dm) and deci-litre (dl) are really common units of measurement in Sweden at least.

How do you figure that? There is nothing saying that you have to do it the way Opera Mini et al are doing it. Of course you can implement a complete web browser in J2ME (it might however not be practical depending on the specifications of the target devices).

Prostitution (i.e. selling sex) is legal, buying it, however, is not.

But, does it have a good text editor?

Why should this be any different from what research scientists do all the time (with actual security holes to boot)? Just write up a research paper (or a blog post or whatever) and describe the problem and give some thoughts to possible solutions (user not being mindless idiots anymore) and release it. There is definitely nothing ethically wrong with it in my book (and there shouldn't be in anyone else's either).

Here in Sweden a blogger (without any income from the blog at all) got the verdict that blogging is an occupation and therefore he must either quit blogging or loose his unemployment check.

http://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/arbetslos-bloggare-kraver-besked-om-a-kassa-1.842969

Sure, for every 100 people starting the M.Sc. programme in Computer Science over here in Stockholm, only around three of them are girls, but hey, I got one of them.

Other than that, there ought to be some nerdy clubs around. Here we've got at least two, Syntax Error and Mikrodisco. The former specializing in videogame music, dance mats and Buffy quizes and the latter in 8-bit music and the like (there's nothing that will draw out the girls like a live music performance on a Gameboy accompanied by a banjo, right...).

Well, still no lipstick, but a start anyway... http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SPpWp0E7Th8/SGJjHYjA_oI/AAAAAAAAAVI/e0wWURoKzHY/s400/brezhnev.jpg

A Swedish source (Google translation) says that there where a tax loss of 3.6 million SEK and the total income amounted to 40 million SEK, not that the tax loss was of 40 million SEK. The Swedish source also says nothing of these numbers being annually.

Yes, that seems to be the goal shouted most often, but I for one think it's the wrong one. I think the goal should be to have an operating system that work as we want it to work, not one that works in such a way that as many people as possible will want to use it, when that way very well might conflict with the way we want it to work.

And this is a complaint I've heard once to many from people who only want to have something to complain about. This all comes down to circumstances. The primary reason to why it's sometimes easier to get troublesome/exotic hardware to work with Windows is that you probably have the driver disc that came with the computer. Once you lose that disc, it's not nearly as easy anymore.

I just can't count the times that I've been called over to a friend to help them fix their computer and having to search the web for hours just to find Windows drivers for every piece of hardware in the computer when everything just works when popping in a Linux live CD (and if it wasn't for the Linux live CD, I wouldn't have been able to connect to the internet and find the ethernet driver to begin with).

Selectively quoting does not change what was originally written. If you read on, you will see that PitaBred does in fact provide arguments to why Linux does not lack consistency.