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Comment Re:Luddites (Score 1) 506

In Germany the service of gasoline pumping is outlawed because of the health issue.

Citation please. I live in Germany and Shell is actually offering the service of gasoline pumping in some stations I know. So you're saying what they do is illegal?

Comment Re:In Europe (Score 1) 395

In particular in Belgium, there are just a few ISP's that do not have any capping.

That might be true for Belgium, but in Germany it's actually the opposite case. Basically every decent ISP offers unlimited connections, often they don't even have a capped line. Maybe it's because cable providers for whom the internet might hurt TV products only have a small market share. The by far biggest share of the market goes to phone companies with DSL who actually try to enter the TV market with IPTV. Introducing caps would just hurt their own IPTV products, maybe that's why by now I haven't seen any big ISP trying to introduce caps by default.

If you actually want a capped connection, you can find it (and it's really cheap), but not many people use these.

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Will Fisher writes: "New iPods will no longer be able to work with Linux. iTunes now writes some kind of hash (SHA1, md5?) to the iPod database which new iPods check against. If this check fails then the iPod reports that it contains 0 songs. This appears to be protection against 3rd party applications writing out their own databases. We haven't found out how to generate our own valid hashes (but we do know the hash includes the database itself, and possibly the iPod serial number), and are looking for help."
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Submission + - The GIMP UI Redesign

sekra writes: The GIMP UI Redesign Team has created a blog to collect ideas for a new design of the most popular image manipulation program. Everyone is free to submit suggestions to be published in the blog. Will a new GUI finally get more users to choose The GIMP as their program of choice?

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