Caching??

He could publish a signed certificate of "ComodoGateHackerOwnsDiginotar.com". Or he could sign a domain name consisting of e.g. a base64 encoded compressed message.

I've used (the paid version of) Spotify for a couple of years now and I absolutely love it. I can listen to an uninterrupted ocean of music all day long (both at work and at home), keep offline copies of playlists on my cellphone for running etc. and recently I've started to discover a lot of new music by simply browsing recommendations, different labels and so on inside Spotify. I'd say it's pretty rare to see a Party in Norway these days where the music doesn't come from Spotify. (They also have a native Linux client, which is a plus.)

The only complaints I have is:
1) Some music is not available. Sometimes single tracks, albums or even entire artists (e.g. metallica).
2) Some music switches between being available and not. It's annoying to see a part of a playlist I've made suddenly grayed out because "the artist or label has chosen not to make these songs available in your region". And suddenly they're available again for whatever reason.

But overall I'm very happy. Oh and it's also easy to share music. Example: For those who have Spotify, check out these playlists I've published (if the browser doesn't automatically open Spotify, just copy the spotify-url into the search bar of Spotify):
http://open.spotify.com/user/cronius/playlist/7yitDSr8e6uLORAkdA3mxm (Chilli)
http://open.spotify.com/user/cronius/playlist/3flYNN5Oe7dhW3Vths0D7J (Electronica)

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From the link above:

Regarding fsck, from: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talk:Features/F16BtrfsDefaultFs#Recovery_strategy

Would be nice if this speeds up the work on btrfs.fsck.

I know, I just thought it was nice that there's now a milestone pegged to the 3.0 release as opposed to "just the normal fixes and new drivers" kinda thing. I understand that it's a complete coincidence.

Just when Linus finally started convincing people that Linux 3.0 would be a "normal time based release" with "no major changes" they whip this milestone feature out from under the rug.

Xen out of the box? Linux 3.0.

More info here:

IANAL, but I believe this is the Norwegian law in question (translation courtesy of google):

Emphasis (for what I think is relevant) mine. The law was probably written in good intent, but I think cartoons (which this basically is) being illegal is just crazy, it should count as free speech.

It does define children as persons though, so I would say it's not actually illegal (since a fictional character is not a person).

As stewbacca commented above, it's not easy to find out how someones learning skills are. There are several reasons why an applicant might not have a lot of useful knowledge related to the position. For example (in IT): Coming straight from school you might not know any of the latest technologies required by the current IT trend, but still know all the basic IT stuff taught in school. IT is a big field, perhaps the applicant is applying for a job outside his or her primary knowledge base (applying out of interest instead of acquired skill).

When I applied for my first full time job after college I listed Java as my primary skill (which it was), but said during the interview that I wanted to learn other programming languages and technologies. I was hired, and put on a perl assignment (a language that I had never touched before) at a client together with a mentor, and it was a very positive experience for me (I'd say my learning capabilities is probably average, but I was very enthusiastic at the time, which may have given me a mental boost).

I agree that "learning by understanding" as opposed to "learning by memorizing" is definitely the way to go. Asking a lot of questions (even about basic stuff) is no problem, as long as the same questions don't pop up again and again.

I usually say that it doesn't matter what you know, what matters is how fast you learn. Someone who you can teach and tell how to do things once, and they actually understand the message and do it right from then on is much more valuable in the long run then someone who has a (short and) static merit list in my opinion.

I was venting my frustration that little attention was given to renewable energy in the midst of the nuclear disaster debate. I realize now that my view on world energy politics was a little ... naive.

Yeah I know since no one is dying everything must be just sweet and dandy in Japan right about now. I think that's what the article said too, level 7 = sweet and dandy, now and for all foreseeable future.

Measuring the nuclear crisis at Fukushima in deaths is missing the painfully obvious.

I agree that there's no quick fix here, but if people think that "coal vs. nuclear" is the only alternative, we'll simply never come to the point ever where 50% of the worlds energy is from renewable sources.

More attention needs to be diverted into renewable energy. It would be horrible if this accident went quietly into the history books and the world just continued on with "coal vs. nuclear" debates.