First, that's an exaggeration. Second, the icelandic banks followed the regulations put forth by the EU/EEC.

While this is most certainly true, software like Haystack can prevent iranian intelligence from discovering "new" dissidents through surveillance of known ones.

When there are wind farms in enough places around the globe, we can be sure they will generate a certain minimum at all times - this can probably be modeled based on wind patterns, so that use of other sources (hydro, hydrogen reservoirs, nuclear) can be planned and adjusted accordingly.

Because your paging algorithm will be much less tested, used and bugfixed than any OS paging algorithm. And the memory you allocated might be swapped out by the OS anyway.

TFA writes about how the norwegian newspaper VG replaced 10 squid machines with 3 varnish machines and got much better performance. That switch was done 5 or so years ago, before varnish was first released as open source. He's not writing about beating squid _now_.

Open the link in a new tab, or copy-paste the adress linked to, in order to circumvent the evil javascript :)

Pretty stupid that Apple doesn't have a "view anyway" button on the warning message, though.

Well, yeah, not that many sites have a moderation system like slashdot's :P

http://www.google.com/pacman

It doesn't really matter how stupid these users were, or how little privacy they had to begin with. Google seems to systematically collect personally identifiable information, and export it to a jurisdiction with weaker privacy laws.

The export part is crucial. As I understand it, that's what makes this a crime.

You're confusing possible with legal. It should be obvious to anyone that breaking an encryption in order to see other peoples data, no matter how weak that encryption might be, is criminal.

It's not catching the data that is the problem. It's storing it and exporting it to a country with weaker privacy laws than Germany. If any of the data is found to be private, then this is specifically forbidden.

Actually, a more interesting way of fining publically traded companies might be to disallow and/or heavily tax payouts to shareholders for the next few years.
That would create a _real_ incentive to follow the law.

Unless you want to help debug and/or develop, I doubt anyone expects or even wants you to.

I think yours is a silly post. This isn't the gubbermint coming to kill your favorite BBS.

The law specifically concerns itself with entities that store information such as SSNs, account numbers or state ID numbers. Read the law if you're actually curious.

Of course, IANAL.

oh save me, they stole the name.