Submission + - Countries in Django (commandline.org.uk)
Marcion writes: Django still doesn't provide an out of the box countries field. However I found one abandoned and sad in the bug tracker. Happy days.
Submission Summary: 0 pending, 7 declined, 2 accepted (9 total, 22.22% accepted)
Submission + - What the Pirate Bay trial really means (commandline.org.uk)
Zeth writes: "The Pirate Bay trial ended this week, however what most commentators have missed is that filesharing cannot be judged in court, it has already won. The future of entertainment is the digital world will have to be different in a world where, like it or not, filesharing is unstoppable."
Submission + - EU fines Microsoft another $1.3 Billion (time.com) 1
Marcion writes: "The EU today peel back another layer of the onion that is Microsoft anti-competitive behaviour, fining Microsoft for unreasonable terms in accessing accessibility information. Microsoft says the smell is from past behaviour, "past issues that have been resolved and the company was now working under new principles to make its products more open". Meanwhile the EU will press on with peeling back the next layer."
Submission + - Student Posts to YouTube, shoots hangun at school (bbc.co.uk)
Marcion writes: "In normally sleepy Finland, an 18-year old atheist extremist, posted violent boasts to Youtube over two weeks (since removed) and then went to school and shot the headmistress and six students, then himself. Is there anything YouTube could have done earlier? Or is the question equivalent to asking what the water company could have done?"
Submission + - How to bring down Internet Explorer in six words (commandline.org.uk) 1
Marcion writes: "Some handy Japanese guy called Hamachiya discovered a bug in Internet Explorer. Under certain conditions, an asterisk when used as a wildcard can crash IE as soon as the user attempts to go to another webpage. Feel free to add the code to your stylesheet too!"
Submission + - The Linux Desktop in 2007
Marcion writes: "While other platforms will have to deal with upgrade issues involving Vista and OS X Jaguar, for the Linux desktop, 2007 promises to be a year of consolidation and expansion, a year where many of the long standing problems get resolved. My blog article covers 3D effects, a resurgence of Java in the open source world, improved wireless support, refugees from Windows Vista and whether Adobe will open source Flash."
