No, but slamming the US for proposing a law that includes censorship (regardless of the approach) while permitting their own members to censor their own citizens' access, is hypocrisy.

Reminds me of our beloved four horsemen.

At the same time they release a directive that includes optional web censoring. For the sake of our children, of course!

There was an awesome Extra Credits video exactly about this issue, very worth watching: http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/metrics

This paper is freakin hilarious. Wonder why it didn't make it to /., yet.

Seriously, they should start thinking about changing business after this.

Anyone remember this?

No, but we also have occasional earthquakes. Oh, and the Fukushima meltdown had started before the tsunami hit.

At the moment there is a project involving an under-sea cable to Norway which produces 99% of their electricity from renewable sources. Unfortunately this project is being hindered by some stupid bureaucracy (involving some awkward definitions...never mind) and the oligopoly of four big power corporations owning the net.

And there are lots of projects done by local authorities and smaller companies, for example using CHP in district heating plants or in your own basement, just to name a few examples.

So, it looks like Germany won't have to import that much of its energy, once the oney formerly being used for nuclear subsidies is being put into good use.

Actually, the tabloids (okay, mostly BILD) did the best they could in order to escalate those parties by supplying Facebook links, date, time and address of some of those parties to their readers. And of course they sent some of their own reporters, too. Servicewüste Deutschland my ass!

Luckily a growing portion of applications for Windows bring their own Powershell cmdlets for low-level access, nowadays. I was told that Office 2010 is basically a (huge) bunch of Powershell cmdlets and the GUI just wraps around them.

Got a link to that one?

Yeah, but during the first three of those four years the only reason was piracy why people would want to break it. Which is clearly not the intention of those guys. So, technically it was only twelve months since SONY removed the OtherOS mode.

I suppose that every Dollar you invest in tax law enforcement should return thousand-fold its value.