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Comment Anti-ACTA PVV/UKID MEPs walked away? (Score 1) 255

by Djofulinn on Thursday November 25, 2010 @06:43AM (#34341306) Attached to: Once-Secret ACTA Copyright Treaty Approved By EU

It looks like that ACTA is going through because of some kindergarden-esque quarreling between MEPs.

The British UKID MEP Bloom was removed from the meeting because he accused the German Schulz of being a 'fascist'. Subsequently the Dutch PVV MEPs left the meeting because Schulz has called the Dutch Van der Stoep a fascist earlier and was not punished for that.

None of the PVV and UKID MEPs voted. I expect the 4 Dutch PVV MEPs to have voted for the proposal (anti-ACTA). It seems that the UKID MEPs walked out as well, because they didn't vote either. Does anyone know what the UKID MEPs would have voted?

BTW, it was a very close call: 306 against 322: http://votewatch.eu/cx_vote_details.php?id_act=1189

Comment Re:Here's Oracle's Example (Score 1) 675

by Djofulinn on Thursday October 28, 2010 @04:27PM (#34055832) Attached to: Oracle Claims Google 'Directly Copied' Our Java Code

About half of the variable names are almost directly from RFC 3280, page 67:

(1) The valid_policy ...
(2) The qualifier_set ...
(3) The criticality_indicator ...
(4) The expected_policy_set ...

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3280.txt The camelcase and prefix 'm' are not that far fetched. Variables named 'parent' and 'children' seem to make sense. Only mOriginalExpectedPolicySet seems troubling to me.

Researchers Find 70-Year-Olds Are Getting Smarter 115

Posted by timothy on Sunday October 24, 2010 @02:09AM from the watch-how-they-drive dept.

Pickens writes "AlphaGalileo reports that researchers from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden have found in a forty-year study of 2,000 seniors that today's 70-year-olds do far better in intelligence tests than their predecessors, making it more difficult to detect dementia in its early stages. 'Using the test results, we've tried to identify people who are at risk of developing dementia,' says Dr. Simona Sacuiu. 'While this worked well for the group of 70-year-olds born in 1901-02, the same tests didn't offer any clues about who will develop dementia in the later generation of 70-year-olds born in 1930.' The 70-year-olds born in 1930 and examined in 2000 performed better in the intelligence tests than their predecessors born in 1901-02 and examined in 1971. 'The improvement can partly be explained by better pre- and neonatal care, better nutrition, higher quality of education, better treatment of high blood pressure and other vascular diseases, and not least the higher intellectual requirements of today's society, where access to advanced technology, television and the Internet has become part of everyday life,' says Sacuiu."

Comment Re:The Netherlands (Score 1) 2349

by Djofulinn on Wednesday October 25, 2006 @10:32AM (#16577748) Attached to: If Not America, Then Where?

Just as the sibling poster states, I'm also ashamed to be a Dutchman..

they tell that to their own citizens too.. not just foreigners

My cousin is planning to move to Ukraine because there he can live with his wife and kid, although there seems to be some progress for her with moving here. With all these new policies we are actively chasing away our own people. Oh another thing, he asked for a permit (months in advance) for her to stay here from Jan. 1 to Jan. 31. He was granted the request and could pick the permit up on Jan. 27!

like how to flush a toilet (yes they taught me that useful skill),

Living in a student dormitory with a lot of foreign students I learned this is actually a good subject to treat. Some of my Chinese floor mates actually did not know how to use the toilet when they first arrived here. Poo all over the place except in the toilet.. However, the test is really bad. They showed it on national television and more than half of the Dutch native citizens failed, I know I failed.

Some more reasons to not go to the Netherlands: Our biometric passports, our compulsory id, our defunct voting machines. And our 'culture of complaining' :-).

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