I heard it on the live radio from the court. Check some of the live reporting sources, it's bound to be there. Also, not that it was file count, not torrent count. If, for instance, someone posts 500 amateur porn shots of themself, that's 500 legitimate files. If someone posts a movie with a SFV file, a couple of NFO files and a readme, that's one file under copyright protection and a a handful of files which are posted with the consent of the author.

One thing that has emerged in this trial is that about 80% of the files which the torrents point to are not material under copyright protection. A lot of people use TPB and the bittorrent protocol as a smart way to host files withouth having to bear the entire weight of the needed traffic.

No, the first thing on our agenda must be to uphold our law, and our law does allow linking to and indexing of copyrighted content, which is all TPB (and, for example, Google) does. If that pisses of some other nation, so be it.

The ones who wants to shut it down do not have the power to do so. The only ones with that power is the people who runs it, and they are not going to shut it down, especially not as they've been continiously harassed by the ones who want it shut down.

They have redundant servers spread all over the world, some of them in server halls at ISPs that will not allow the police to just enter and shut them down. They also have several servers that are not active now, but which could be activated if need be.

Add to this that the last time they tried to shut them down, they recieved donations of new servers, money, server hall space and fast internet connections from both ordinary people and companies, emerging stronger than before and was running within three days. Now, they are prepared, and the same pattern will happen again. If attempts are made to shut them down, they will get more support and emerge stronger.

I can even tell you how the trial will go:

* They will be found guilty in the first trial, as the judge and "nÃmndemÃn" (not a jury, but an advisory group of "trustworthy people") are politically appointed, and will get orders from their parties to convict.
* They will appeal. The next court is not politically appointed, so it will instead look at the law. Swedish law allows linking to possibly illegal content, and there are precendents showing that such an interpretation holds up in court. In other words, they will be found not guilty. This is also in line with tradition, as everyone accused of file sharing who have appealed to this court has been found not guilty.
* The public attourney may appeal, and once again get his butt spanked. It's not entirely sure that he will do this, though, as this court has the power to set precedents. Another file sharer have been paid large sums of money by the media industry to not appeal, as they do not want to lose here.
* The case will go to the European court, which, at least on paper, should test if the Swedish courts have followed Swedish law. If it does it's job, they will once again be found not guilty.

Also, don't forget that these guys are activists, they will not back away from a fight. I wouldn't be surprised if they were to appeal even if they won in the first trial, just to make sure that they won in a court high enough to set a precedent.

Worth noting is that there are strong evidence of taking bribes against Jim Keyzer, the corrupt police who headed the investigation. Roswall, the public attourney, similarly is also suspected of various kinds of corruption and breaches of protocol. BodstrÃm, the minister of justice who initiated this spectacle broke three out of our four constitutions in order to make this happen, and this will also taint the case.

Yep, and I have a solution for that as well. I pick the laptop out of the bag and place it on the table and turn it on. Then I get the other stuff out and start connecting power, network cable, mouse and get out a mouse mat. When I'm done with that, boot is already complete. No lost time, you just have to do things in the smart order.

Although, nowadays, when laptops are cheap, I've switched to simply having one in each place where I use a laptop (bedroom, TV room, kitchen, at work, server room (as a remote desktop client for managing the servers) and so on), and simply revert to the habit of not turning them off. I have one laptop when I travel, as I obviously can't have a laptop in each hotel room, but for that, I revert back to the order of startup outlined above.

It's all a matter of planning

Why this obsession with boot speed? I have a very, very simple solution: I never turn my machines off. Linux is stable enough to run 24/7, there is no reason to turn them off. Problem solved.

Programmers love programming and hate paperwork. Try to shield them from practical details of the daily office life, and give them as much room as possible to do what they love and what they were hired to do: programming. Also, try to make it interesting. The programming tasks needs to compete with other stuff that wants attention, such as the internet. When a programmer finds his task interesting, he is extremely productive, but when it gets boring, productivity immediately drops. One way to accomplish this is to allow them to divide the tasks between then as they see fit. Also, give them a certain creative control. Make sure they learn about how the product is to be used (most likely, most of them already knows more about the subject than the users...) and allow them to make design decisions and suggest future development. Listen to them.

Rexx is an ideal beginner's language: * Simple but powerful syntax * Weakly typed * Readable code * Free * Platform independent * Interpreted script language, no compilation needed It has the best syntax rule ever: It's a syntax error if the first line of a program is not a comment. Not a warning, an error!

I've done a lot of development in VB on Windows. Yeah, I know a lot of people don't like it, but if you, like me, have worked with assembler, C, C++, Pascal, PHP and most other languages under the sun and understands what's going on under the hood, it's an excellent tool to quickly whip up a useful little program with a nice GUI in almost no time. For instance, it took me eight hours to whip up a tool for batch renaming of files based on about 40 parameters, complete with a script engine for customization (it was for my own use, so I cut a few corners on documentation, validation and all that stuff).

So far, I've not seen any tools for Linux with similar capabilities. Most are to slow to work in (for instance, C variants), the few that I've seen that comes close lack too many features. Examples I've tried: RealBasic, MonoBasic, Gambas, Lazarus, KBasic.

If I'll make a device driver, a file system, a game or something like that, I'll use C, but for high level stuff, I want a tool that is efficient with my time, even if it's at the expence of CPU time. CPU time is cheap, my spare time is not.

Suggestions?