This is not about public archives. The newspaper archives have do not need to be altered or anything.

The real problem here is that after all these years the German law still has no concept of this thing called "The Internet". According to German courts the internet is something like a newspaper (sometimes a TV show or a mail-order catalogue) that gets published every time someone watches the page. And that is the real problem here, they apply laws that were made decades ago to regulate something completely different to the internet. That is what leads to highly idiotic and often contradictory court decisions. This specific case is just one example of many.

Another far worse example is that some courts (I'm looking at you here, OLG Hamburg) think that someone hosting a forum is responsible for everything posted in this forum, even if you remove it the second someone complains about it. Of course easily offended lawyers know this and will sue you in Hamburg.

Ignoring for a moment whether or not rights are subjective.

Earlier on you awkwardly defined rights as "things that it is wrong for the government to interfere with its citizens doing". Rights are much better defined as entitlements or permissions granted by agreement.

As another poster pointed out this is an issue about freedom of speech versus the right to privacy.

In this case you clearly seem to value freedom of speech over the right of privacy. However, that doesn't make it right (no pun intended) for you to say that the original poster doesn't "understand what a right is".

I don't have a F-Lock key either and didn't even know something like this existed until reading this poll. But then again, my keyboard doesn't have have of the keys in this poll (Windows Key, That key that opens the context menu, F-Lock, One of the Media keys). Am I missing out on something here? Well, probably not. Good ol' IBM. Voted for Pause, that one doesn't really do anything these days. I don't think I've ever used it after leaving DOS behind.

You should update your system, that bug was fixed years ago. To get the old, broken behaviour with new versions of rm use "rm-rf /*". Ok, not exactly the same, this one won't remove files/directories beginning with a ".". But close enough.

reinforce:~# rm -rf /
rm: cannot remove root directory `/'

Because RAID5 is the footgun of storage solutions. It sux. It always did. It always will. Don't use it. Ever!

Now, I'll admit, with SSD a few of the arguments against it do no longer apply, but there are still enough arguments left. http://www.baarf.com/ has a nice list.

> Your OS doesn't always have time to shut down properly. Don't think anyone's fond of the idea of having their last couple of saves go poof because Windows crashed.

So, what happens if my PC crashes because of some hardware failure and I have to plug in a different HDD for some reason? Or plug the HDD into a different mainboard? All the things I thought I wrote to the disk will be gone. In fact, the file system might be inconsistent if this thing doesn't honor flush requests. But if it does honor flush requests then nothing is gained, it'll still be the OS that does all the caching.

Well, it'll still be a great read cache, 4-16GB read cache is more that most people have as RAM caches, so it'll be good for something.

/looks at his Vista machine that he uses everyday, since the very day Vista hit MSDN with absolutely no anti-virus...

Yup, you can! I do an online scan (switching provider everytime) every couple of months, and no virus. I'm not particularly careful, either. Just leave UAC and memory protection on (brownie point if you're running 64 bit and have the hardware version on... I don't. Oh, and more brownie points if you don't run as admin at all, so the UAC popup will ask for a password instead of just a mouse click), and you're pretty much safe, unless you do something stupid explicitely, but hey, thats true for all OS anyway.

This is the kind of thing I like to see on slashdot. Somebody actually building something, and documenting it. That Arduino microcontroller sure looks interesting.

That's what I always thought, working in a company of vi maniacs. And then suddenly the new guy was also a joe user. And now for some trollin': joe > pico > emacs > * > vi