sekra - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:Luddites (Score 1) 506

by sekra on Thursday September 23 2010, @07:46AM (#33674124) Attached to: When the Senate Tried To Ban Dial Telephones

In Germany the service of gasoline pumping is outlawed because of the health issue.

Citation please. I live in Germany and Shell is actually offering the service of gasoline pumping in some stations I know. So you're saying what they do is illegal?

Google's new open source programming language-> 0

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angry tapir

on Tuesday November 10 2009, @08:20PM

angry tapir writes "Google has invented a new programming language designed to reduce the complexity of coding without compromising the performance of applications. Called Go, the language has been tested internally at Google but is still at an experimental stage, so the company is releasing it as open-source code in the hope that it will get help with its future development."
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Comment: Please let the auto-rotate feature be configurable (Score 3, Insightful) 312

by sekra on Wednesday May 06 2009, @01:10PM (#27848915) Attached to: Amazon Kindle DX Details Revealed

I don't want the reader to rotate into landscape mode when lying down in bed on the side to read.

Judge in Pirate Bay trial unlawfully biased-> 0

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neanti

on Thursday April 23 2009, @05:15AM

neanti writes "The Swedish daily 'Svenska Dagbladet' reports (in Swedish) that the judge in the Pirate Bay trial has been discovered to be unlawfully biased. According to the article the judge has close ties to at least two associations that actively work for improved copyright protection, being a member of the board in one of them. He also has extra curricular ties to several of the representatives on the plaintiff side. To make matters even worse, before the trial one of the jurymen was dismissed because of his membership in an artist association (Föreningen svenska tonsättare). The trial might now be declared a mistrial and sent back to be retried."
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Judge in Pirate Bay trial accused for bias-> 0

Submitted by Superkonna on Thursday April 23 2009, @05:09AM

Superkonna writes "One of the biggest cases in file-sharing history ended last week with The Pirate Bay Four sentenced to huge fines and jail time. Today it is revealed that far from being impartial, the judge in the case is a member of pro-copyright groups — along with Henrik Pontén, Monique Wadsted and Peter Danowsky. There are loud calls for a retrial."
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Comment: Re:In Europe (Score 1) 395

by sekra on Monday April 13 2009, @10:27AM (#27557143) Attached to: ISP Capping Is Becoming the New DRM

In particular in Belgium, there are just a few ISP's that do not have any capping.

That might be true for Belgium, but in Germany it's actually the opposite case. Basically every decent ISP offers unlimited connections, often they don't even have a capped line. Maybe it's because cable providers for whom the internet might hurt TV products only have a small market share. The by far biggest share of the market goes to phone companies with DSL who actually try to enter the TV market with IPTV. Introducing caps would just hurt their own IPTV products, maybe that's why by now I haven't seen any big ISP trying to introduce caps by default.

If you actually want a capped connection, you can find it (and it's really cheap), but not many people use these.

Apple Cuts Linux iPod Users Off-> 0

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Will Fisher

on Friday September 14 2007, @12:50PM

Will Fisher writes "New iPods will no longer be able to work with Linux. iTunes now writes some kind of hash (SHA1, md5?) to the iPod database which new iPods check against. If this check fails then the iPod reports that it contains 0 songs. This appears to be protection against 3rd party applications writing out their own databases. We haven't found out how to generate our own valid hashes (but we do know the hash includes the database itself, and possibly the iPod serial number), and are looking for help."
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The GIMP UI Redesign 0

Submitted by sekra on Friday September 14 2007, @11:49AM

sekra writes "The GIMP UI Redesign Team has created a blog to collect ideas for a new design of the most popular image manipulation program. Everyone is free to submit suggestions to be published in the blog. Will a new GUI finally get more users to choose The GIMP as their program of choice?"