To be clear, a lot of Belgians didn't want this, but the Green Party in our government pushed this on the agenda a long time ago. Rest assured, they will pay the price next election.

This reflects my experience too. I am not an athletic European developer (cough cough) but at least when I am in Bern, Breda, Brussels or Berlin , I often walk with my local colleagues to lunch outside their campus: everywhere there are maintained pavements, pedestrian shortcuts and traffic lights. Only when crossing car lanes you have to watch your surroundings, otherwise we chat all the way. But when I visit our US sites (mid-west, south) it is mayhem: "no car" means no respect, neither from the drivers nor the local government (by not providing infrastructure).

Wow, call me shocked. A user puts 9 years of her life on a free social platform and expects it to be there? What's next? Facebook bans a user because his/her art shows a nipple? Google removes your emails because it thinks it is spam? Don't trust your shit to the evil big boys... it's that easy!

A bit harsh at the end, but totally nailed it.

I live in Europe, and I like to know what authority this FCC has?

oooohh.. it's 1.011 lightyears. My bad!

Are there Slashdot readers that believe that the Earth is flat? Or what demographic are we speaking of: Luddites that only read bibles and watch youtube on their Walmart PC?

100 million degrees celsius? I hope the containment system will hold... I know the dangers of extreme heat: I burned my tongue on a microwaved chocolate milk once.

The real deal is this: The french-speaking Parti Socialiste (PS or Socialist Party) was in government for 30 years or so. They always tried to hold back any laws that would grant more power to the regions (dutch-speaking, a.k.a. Flemish , french-speaking a.k.a. Wallonia and the mixed language capital of Brussels), but ultimately could endanger the financial transfers from the richer Flemish part to the poorer and big spending Walloon side, but this policy backfired the last decade when Flemish people (60% of the population) voted en masse for a more confederate-orientated party. Scaring their populace with stories of Flemish people wanting to tear the country down thereby dumping the royalties and throwing overboard any solidarity between the regions, a deadlock was created. Until the liberal french party (MR) was found to run the federal government with the Flemish parties and together they started cleaning out (or attempting to) the immense Socialist dump: a massive debt, a wildgrowth of departments etc... Now, the waning PS is only strong in it's bastion: Wallonia. And how do you think they can make themselves 'necessary'? Right, by blocking the CETA for a bit and showing the federal government, their electorate and the Europe: "See , we still have power! We are necessary! We are the conscience of Belgium". But what they tend to forget to say is that the CETA deal has already been on the table for 2 years: plenty of time to voice their opposition. Can someone please show the Walloon people what has been changed in the CETA agreement? Nothing, nada, noppes, nichts, rien!

LinkedIn is the most idiotic brain dead company I've ever worked with.

I had a simple question: tell me how i can get the number of jobofferings that my customer's company has posted so i can show this number on their corporate site with a linked to LinkedIn. There must be an API for it, i've got OAuth2 credentials and a signed letter from the God/Darwin..

"Ah, but yes, but no, but yes, but no..."

Long story short, i've written a small program to check the LinkedIn site and get the value manu militari and it works great.
And I know this is not the same level as the bad-ass scrapers do, but I like to see LinkedIn tear in its own flesh...

As a Flemish Belgian ( I am not Flaming about it, wink wink) , I use QWERTY and Mac OS X English International. Always have (since OS X came out) and always will , and this , among others, due to the keyboard shortcuts that correspond to the info found in books and on internet. There's vastly more info in English than in Dutch. The funny thing is, about 50% of Mac owners I know, also have the English version, but alas, the suffer from that French-influenced disease called AZERTY.
(Long time ago, some asshat introduced AZERTY to ALL Belgians because... feck those Flemish people)

We have a simple saying in Belgium amongst developers: If you use an AZERTY-keyboard, you are NOT a developer.
Also, the Dutch have QWERTY, but the Dutch-speaking part of Flanders uses AZERTY, because we are part of schizophrenic country...

Exactlly: but that dissolving is met with fierce resistance from the French-speaking part of Belgium. Just recently, the leading party (a pro-secession Flemish party that has vowed to delay their already well known secession plans during their appointment in order to get the country back on track) has publicly announced they will look into the confederalistic matter INTERNALLY as a long-term strategy: just to make it clear they do not intend to do it now.
Immediately and will all guns blazing, the French-speaking parties except the Liberal Party talk of nothing short of a revolution in the Belgian Parliament. Of course, every Flemish person understands it is in their best interest to keep Belgium (an artificial country created by the imperial powers of the 19th century) together as they 'think' the fruits of Flemish labour (a.k.a. money transfers from Flemish to Walloon part) is their due payment for the past 2 centuries of pampering those peasant Flemish farmers with their Germanic-based language into the industrial age.
I for one think Europe should be about people in regions with their own culture but under the umbrella of a bigger organisation (EU) but without the blooper-government (Greece, Merkel-Migrants, ....)

Finally we can start building proper websites without IE8 hacks.

For some reason or another, Slashdot does not like your French Fancy Accents. Unless Ãlisée is a cool nerdy l3t3spe4k cafe.
Guess they never heard of UTF-8 storage...