"The seats Southwest has put on nearly its entire fleet are 31 inches apart, about an inch less than before"
" Boeing says. American's newest 777s are set up 10-across in coach"

I'm 6'6" (198cm) and on behalf of tall people everywhere can I express a warm and heartfelt welcome to this policy of even further reducing the amount of room available, if this trend continues soon the we tall people will only be able to fly coach by adopting the Dwi Pada Sirsasana pose which if nothing else should please yoga instructors.

"World Wide Web was an alternative to Gopher"
Hang on while I look up World Wide Web on Gopherpedia

Perhaps a poachers pocket would do the trick?

The demise of Happy Penguin will for me at least be a sad day as I have discovered many fun distractions on the site over the years. It is probably the most complete database of Linux games around (that I know of).

I just read through the summary translated into English.

It seems they are proposing

1: The introduction of a digital identity to be used for public as well as private services on the Internet.

2: That automatic security updates are encouraged (this is slightly different to what the original poster mentioned).

3: Compulsory PC inspection "to develop and introduce a PC inspection which will in future be required when using public services on the Internet" (yep, this is the scary one)

4: Compulsory mail filtering

5: Security rating for software

6: Blocking of websites that are without doubt works as an active part of the IT crime

7: That the use of online data storage be promotes and that "public authorities give the rights, that include data stored on third-party servers, a critical view".

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As to proposal 1, whatever they do if it's adopted by bank and financial service companies it will be hacked in under a fortnight.

As to proposal 2, encourage all you want but companies will only do what makes financial sense.

As to proposal 3, show me your warrant/court order - I think Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights could come into play here.

As to proposal 4, again I'm pretty sure Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights could come into play here.

As to proposal 5, no comment

As to proposal 6, It's easy enough to use a dns sever other than your ISP's if you want to see what your missing.

As to proposal 7, A persons data should have the same rights and legal protections wherever they choose to store it but in many countries this is not the case so yes a review is probably in order.