Reeaallly … this should be a lesson for those that try to cuddle with the US. Another win for US unilateralism.
AP - A senior U.S. official rejected calls on Thursday for a U.N. body to take over control of the main computers that direct traffic on the Internet, reiterating U.S. intentions to keep its historical […]
Sign up now while you can — VIPmusic.org! I did.
Seems like a budding mp3 community, hopefully it can grow and become as good as Oink and some of the other specialized trackers. Registered users at the time of writing this, 1550. Oink is around 42.000. But VIPmusic seems to have restricted signups for some […]
I noticed that the Swedish Animal Welfare Agency has made its ruling regarding Halal and Kosher practises in Sweden. Thankfully they still enforce the basic idea that animals have to be put to death in a way that they “be spared unnecessary discomfort and suffering.” So the deal is either for the animals to be […]
How right he is.
The Local - In the week before this year’s Nobel laureates are announced, the great great nephew of Alfred Nobel has reiterated his criticism of the Nobel Economics Prize, which he says is “a PR coup by economists to improve their reputation”.
Nobel despised people who cared more about profits than society’s well-being, […]
To be freeze-dried, powdered and made into tree mulch sounds fine to me. Very neat and clean.
Telegraph - A town in Sweden plans to become the first place in the world where corpses will be disposed of by freeze-drying, as an environmentally friendly alternative to cremation or burial. Jonkoping, in southern Sweden, is to turn […]
Thankfully. It was part of the “comprehensive Counter-terrorism package” and indeed supported by Sweden’s own foolish opportunist and minister of justice. No one is more surprised than me that Bodström not only supported the idea but was one of the people who suggested it in the first place. From what I understand, not even the […]
Installed it but I have to say I’m not impressed. Not with the new functions of which I’ve discovered none and not with the GUI which seems stale and unbending. Not to mention what a bloatware it is if you install the entire package.
And that Nero Scout thing? WTF is that all about. I suggest […]
Business Week surprises with a sort of ambitious analysis of how the American employment market has gone haywire and how the work week has increased for many with very few added benefits over the last decades.
More than 31% of college-educated male workers are regularly logging 50 or more hours a week at work, up from […]
Progress or sell-out? Irrelevant development for the rest of us “illegal file sharers?” Probably.
Business Week - BitTorrent, the maker of popular file-sharing software used to distribute movies, music, and games both legally and illegally, is going commercial. The company has raised $8.75 million in venture capital from Menlo Park (Calif.)-based Doll Capital Management and […]
Slashdot brings us up to speed on the 15 year old Lucent Technologies & US government vs Philip French, Charles Monty and Steven Van Keiren.
Wired recently ran a story about a group of inventors that found themselves unable to sue Lucent Technologies for infringement of a patent they held on a novel design for a […]
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