That would not be fair unless the range of the counter is a multiple of 20.

Same for me. I cannot understand why Tree Style Tab is not the default. It is obviously much better than the default way to organize tabs.

Of course they are just as vicious as a large corporation. That's because they are a large corporation.

If it is incompetence, then it is criminal incompetence. Someone should be jailed for this.

What is the difference?

Err, I mean 52 in 60 months.

True, but once you get up to speed, they can give you almost a baby each month. Assuming no twins, you could get 9 babies in 17 months, and if you keep going, 52 in 50 months.

Actually I'm pissed off because Spain got off the list :-(

You both are talking about Sarko and his friends, right?

You may be Spanish, but don't seem to know shit about what you are talking about. There is no much fearmongering in the linked articles. The point of the law is precisely to bypass the due process that you claim that exists in Spain.

Thanks to this law, any copyright holder can ask to have a website closed without having to prove before a judge that there is an actual copyright infringement. There is a judge involved somehow, but he does not get to judge the case before closing the site (as was the case until now). This law opens the gates for American style corporate censorship (like when US Immigration and Customs Enforcement decides that a web site should have its DNS stolen because Warner Bros or Universal say that it hosts "illegal" content).

And the change in government has very little to do with this law. Both PP and PSOE agree with it. Both voted for it.

However, the guy is a member of the green party. If he thinks that linking to something is the same as publishing it, I would not want him near any position of power. Hence, I would only consider voting for the greens if they expelled him from the party (and if I were German).

I am European, but I am sick of reading claims like this one in Slashdot and elsewere. It makes no sense to pretend that we are better than the Americans, or that our laws are more fair or that our politicians are better. In most areas we are almost as bad as the states (and copyright is one of them), while in other areas we are even worse.

And we both (Americans and Europeans) are seeing our laws changing continuously for the worse, and we will end up with a very similar set of laws in the end: those that are good for the people in power (i.e.: the corporations).

You think "the spirit of the law" counts for something in Europe? Do you trust those currently in power in your country to uphold it? Do you think the European Comission cares about "the spirit" of anything?

This comment is to undo a wrong moderation. Slashdot interface sucks.

They disgust me as an European, too.