Ahmen. I'd very much like to se an EU governed the same way e.g. Sweden is governed. That is:

A _short_ constitution (= a few pages), readable and understundable and read by the majority of the population.
A directly elected assembly with all the power (no council, no comission).
The constituition should only be changeable with two votes with absolute majority, with a general election in between.

As an addition to how Sweden works, the constituition should also directly govern what powers belong to the individual states.

So far, all the nasty surveilance laws have come from the council.

What I wonder is why the designers of DNS put the name in reverse? If the name had been in most-significant-first order, one could have tabcompleted it properly (using history and maybe zonetransfers of smaller zones). Also, if http had included a way to get _parsable_ directory listings, the tab-completion could have gone even further...

http://edu.wu<TAB>
http://edu.wustl
http://edu.wustl.wu<TAB>
http://edu.wustl.wuarchive
http://edu.wustl.wuarchive/p<TAB>l<TAB>d<TAB>f<TAB>
http://edu.wustl.wuarchive/pub/linux/distributions/fedora

But, thinking of that.... many many pieces of software allows you to write URLs directly in a body of text, no tags needed, and finds the URLs and turns them into links, but searching for "://". So, what would you regexp for if all you had was a ":"? Normal text quite often does contain colons....

Or remove support for ports and use SRV records to find the port. Which would have saved us tons of work with named virtual hosts, and allowed us to run multiple SSL sites on the same IP...

"But you can't call that sexism, because that would imply that women were in charge, and making the rules."

And what is your argument against that? Women are after all the ones selecting men for the top price of life - creating a family. As men are the ones selecting women. (I disregard homosexuals here as that is about 5% of the population, and an error of 5% most likely won't destroy my argument)

Women certainly are making the rule that men needs to be macho.

The distribution of power need not be the same in all parts and functions of the society. Average power isn't important, what's important is the power distribution in the context where the sexist behavior occurs.

And sexism does not _have_ to have anything to do with paid-for-employment and industries. You can as well be a sexist at home, or there might be sexist policies in government, education, at the hospital or in NGOs.

There is no such thing as original sin. You are not guilty unless you intentionally, knowingly did it. I grew up with that shit. It made me the strange, over-sensitive person I am.

You do realize that "Linux distros" contain, well, everything you'll ever need? Ref. Ubuntu Studio :P

And the Photoshop equivalent is ZinePaint if you didn't know... :P

The question is'n what the Free Software equivalent is to some unfree software, the question is the other way around; Please tell me what the unfree equivalent to FontForge is... or to Pidgin/libpurple (well, I don't know of any with nearly that many supported protocols), or to Firefox (well, maybe Opera, IE definitely isn't), or Apache (Duh, IIS isn't), or sqlite

And by the way, windows as a server OS? Without LVM and software raid? Come on... And Solaris with ZFS is well, free nowdays...

(Yes, I'm a troll today :)

Gives "exploding laptop" a whole new sense...

This is only the beginning. PP has shown that change is possible, that it is possible to reach positions where you can affect actual policies:

The swedish Pirate Party has one member in the European Parliament since this summers' election. This MEP is now one of the 14 MEPs in the group working with the european commission to work out a final solution for the Telecom package.

That'd be damn hard. Python isn't made for sandboxing (google python and sandboxing, or restricted execution, and you'll see). If you did the script language=python implementation the "obvbious" way and just linked in the python interpreter into mozilla, you'd have a security hole big enough for a supertanker. There is Python support for extensions though - google PyXPCOM.

a) Most likely. Some programs, like the Linux kernel, needs some hacks (but they already exists for ARM :)

b) Nope, but see c

b) Nope, but qemu would work. However, as the x86 instruction set would be emulated on ARM, there would be a performance hit

d) Nope, but see c

For b and d it is at least theoretically possible to write some kind of wrapper code that run the x86 binaries on qemu but had them interface with the surrounding ARM-based Linux directly. I don't know if anyone has done this, but it would be sort of similar to misc binary support + java vm...

"For added fun (when there's more than one computer involved), consider something like this [kd85.com]"

Bah! You just buy some $20/ea USB-serial cables, a $10 USB-hub and plug it into any old junk of a computer ($0), then plug the other ends (The serial port ends) into each of your servers. DONE :) No need to make stuff complicated/expensive.

This sounds like something you could improve by something analogous to "generational GC"?

http://winscp.net/ works like a charm! And as an extra bonus, it works with the pageant ssh-agent from the putty telnet/ssh suite...

You have your software patents. We have our Piratpartiet.

US - land of the free, home of the brave.