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A Corrupt Jens Stoltenberg , FAST Search Transfer , Microsoft

Kredittilsynet (The Financial Supervisory Authority of Norway) reported FAST, on the 24th April, to Økokrim (The Norwegian National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic Crime). Despite noting that the case was incredibly serious and in principle very important, Økokrim dropped the case because they didn't have the resources.

Exactly who does have the resources to investigate Microsoft today?
EU Commission is pretty much alone on that one.

Sure, we're innocent until provide guilty, but Økokrim's message here is that there's definitely enough reason to suspect that FAST is corrupt.

So then Kredittilsynet reported FAST to the police. The first time ever a listed company has been formally reported by Kredittilsynet to the police.

So what the hell is Jens Stoltenberg doing getting involved?

Hey Steve Balmer, come to norway, hire a few hundred people, and we'll make sure we don't investigate you!

UPDATE 16th October: Økokrim raided FAST, without warning, seizing all accounts.

Console keymap all screwed up

It appears the gentoo's kbd package comes with too no.map.gz files: /usr/share/keymaps/i386/dvorak/no.map.gz /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/no.map.gz

So only having KEYMAP="no" in /etc/conf.d/keymaps wasn't enough to separate these too and my keyboard thought it was dvorak.

As the bug report mentions you can specify an absolute path to the keymap file.

So KEYMAP="/usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/no.map.gz" fixed the problem :-)

wpa_supplicant breaks iwl4965

Everytime i emerge nm-applet it also installs wpa_supplicant and all subsequent attempts to start the wireless interface fails:

wmaster0: read_interface: Cannot assign requested address

Unmerging both nm-applet and wpa_supplicant fixes it nice and simple.

Safety procedures in disarray at Finland's Olkiluoto 3 nuclear construction site

Documents seen by Greenpeace show that French company Areva is failing to implement vital safety procedures in the troubled construction of its prototype European Pressurized Water Reactor (EPR) in Olkiluoto, Finland. As well as being 2-3 years behind schedule, 70 per cent over budget, and experiencing 1,500 construction defects along with a damaging fire, the reactor's safety cannot be guaranteed.

The full story: http://weblog.greenpeace.org/nuclear-reaction/2008/08/breaking_news_safety_procedure.html

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a place to call home

Our new Toyota Prius

Toyota Prius

No ooxml

...jeg produserer dokumenter i et ganske stort omfang. Disse dokumentene er mitt levebrød. Og jeg ønsker dem på et filformat jeg føler meg trygg på, i dag og i fremtiden.

Filformater angår i dag folk flest. De burde også oppta våre folkevalgte. /../ Kan det være så vanskelig å enes om et åpent format for alle dokumenter? Ingen kan i dag si meg hva som er fordelen ved OOXML. Jeg ser ingen annen vinner i dette spillet enn dette ene store amerikanske datafirmaet. Jeg har brukt utelukkende fri programvare i mange år. Alle mine manus blir til i programpakken OpenOffice, som er fritt tilgjengelig for alle å bruke. PC-ene mine kjører alle Linux, som også er fri programvare. Og jeg lagrer helst manusene mine i formatet ODF.

Hva er så viktig med denne saken? Den er etter mitt skjønn viktig både av rettslige og økonomiske grunner. Den har med vår felles fremtid å gjøre. Den har med fattige og rike land å gjøre. Filformater er bærere av all informasjon i vår moderne verden. At disse skal dikteres av en verdensomspennende "avgift" til ett enkelt selskap, må da være innlysende galt i alle frittenkende menneskers øyne - uavhengig av nasjonalitet og politisk oppfatning?

Rudd vows to end secret donations

Må møte behovet for å laste ned

FBI did balance the program by the emphasis how users valued the usability of downloading music whether illegal or not.

But FBI failed to balance between what is legal and what is ethical. There is a growing movement amongst people, especially young, that believe that there is no such thing as illegal downloading, that it is infact only sharing. This has been re-enforced by politicians (eg in both sweden and france) now, there's even a political party in sweden fighting for the rights of users to share.

This movement comes with a lot of common sense. For example:

• looking at the history of copyright we see that it was intended to protect authorship, not to diminish ownership,
• we are brought up by parents, kindergarten, and schools instilling in us that sharing what we own is a positive attribute,
• for thousands of years, music has been freely shared and performed and this exists in every culture,
• we know that artists always make most of their money through the sale of the 'experience' and not of the medium. Artists make most of their money from concerts and performances. An artist (with less than 5 records) makes between 5 and 25 few cents per record sale.
• copyright as we know it today has been grossly exaggerated by the film and music industry to maintain their income selling an outdated medium,
• recent surveys have shown that active 'pirates' are the people that buy more CDs, in essence they are the people who most actively listen and experiment with new types of music.

Think about when you were children and used to record your favourite songs from the radio onto cassette tapes and make composition tapes. This was illegal copying even back then but could you ever imagine being sued for it? It was believed in society that it was not really illegal until you turned such practise commercial, ie you started selling your composition tapes. What has happened in the last 30 years? An establishment is threaten and is trying to stop the advancement of technology for the general public. The whole story is as ridiculous as if photo-express shops started suing people for printing out at home their own photos.

i hope you can appreciate the growing population of users that believe their exists no such thing as piracy.

sincerely, michael semb wever.