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At first I thought this was about Google image search and artists having problems with that but I don't really understand why this is newsworthy. Google called asked and got turned down, seems perfectly reasonable and unobtrusive to me. Now I'm not an artist but if Google called me and asked to feature something I've coded I'd be absolutely thrilled if I was (well I am) an unknown struggling coder.

What you are saying for about kids working is definitely not true for my part of Europe. I've had plenty of friends from rich families growing up and if anything they tend to be more likely to get a summer job and I can't in the slightest imagine anyone getting embarrassed over their children having a blue collar summer job.

Just because you are rich it doesn't mean you get everything you point at and even still it's quite satisfying for any young person to know hes earned something.

I on the other hand come from the lower classes, pretty much as low as it gets in Sweden and I've never felt the need to have a summer job because of income.

While not as high profile as any of the above they have committed to jQuery http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/09/28/jquery-and...

I'm surprised by the operating systems graph, I didn't think Mac OS would have gone up that much and I especially thought "Other" would be much higher or at least increasing by any amount.

I wonder how that relates to what type of school University of Virginia is as I know nothing about it. It would be interesting to see how that compares to Stanford, MIT and the like.

Hes given two talks at google on the subject that the course covers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTHvs3V8DBA and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRUqVyP27Hw

Silverlight or not I think most of will live without all the secret knowledge contained in those videos unless we want to fork out a $600 tuition fee to see more than three of them according to: http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2009/05/20/stanford-videos-...

Who, Steve Souders? Hes on the working group and has been for a verry long time: http://getfirebug.com/workingGroup/

It's not like you've got six democratic or republican parties in government in a giant pit fighting each other it's more like you've got two blocks with an internal cease fire that yell at the other group and occasionally slip and complain about a block partys politics.

Are you kidding, how many ministers did the current government go through in the first couple of weeks in power because of scandals? I know I lost count.

Then there's the whole case with the tsunami tapes going missing.

The case with bodströms possibly advocating direct control of the police to raid TPBs hosting company.

I remember a whole array of ministers getting kicked out head first because of various visits to strip clubs in the 90's.

Then you've got Mona Sahlin cheating on her taxes as well as a wide array of scandals with Gudrun Schyman and alcohol.

That's just the things I can remember on the top of my head and I have just about barely payed attention to local news for the last couple of years until recently.

I think that we might be less sensationalist and have a shorter memory but we do have plenty of scandals. You have to realize though that we are only made up of 9 million people, their scandals should be both greater size and of greater numbers.

As for the two opinions thing, Americans are much more extrovert than Sweeds are. They like to yell at things, it's their thing. We like to sit and whine about things, that's our thing. I do think however that our politicians don't blatantly lie as much, our minister of finance isn't standing there telling us everything is great when it's obvious we hurting and going down deeper.

Now I happened to find Swedish media pretty boring, but that's another thing entirely.

As a student that uses Google scholar quite often "almost everyone" is a lot lower than you think it is. At least in computer science and related fields, I have to use my schools access to journals almost every time.

I can imagine a non-lethal version of that could be pitched to prisons in the future assuming it could be made to be reliable. No need for giant walls and several layers of perimeter when you have a virtual walls to keep the inmates from escaping.

Pubb is right, it's the same for me. It works from /privacy and /courses. Clicking on it from the landing page returns 422 "Unprocessable Entity" as a response to the ajax call.

Chrome/XP.

In constrast "Is God Real" Says it only takes 2 hours and 35 minutes betwee God, hungrary and Real, portugal. :) http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Is+God+real%3F

Despite all the misses I'm pretty impressed it knew about my university http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=University+of+Skövde at all, considering it's tiny even by Swedens standards.

I'm literally amazed that you have managed to get away from those thought, I didn't think people that held such extreme views could be convinced. Congratulations, I'm happy for you.

I'm a student so going to a tailor is out of the question although I'm not so sure I'd even think of that on my own if I had bundles of money. I guess I should try that sometime.

I've been fairly happy with the clothes I've bought by mail order though, there's been a few snags sure but you can send them back and it tends to be cheaper. I do go to the store sometimes, especially for jeans as it's hard to find pairs that fit me since I've got skinny long legs.

As for the skin color thing, I can honestly say that I have no idea whatsoever on how to judge that.

That was really interesting to read and I think I agree but I'd like to offer one criticism, it was really hard on the eyes with the lack of paragraphs.

"What have I missed here?"

They don't have to check 1.7 million users to see if they have @replies on, if they maintain a list with "@reply subscribers", there's little overhead as far as I can see. If a something rarely changes but is checked a lot, it's a pretty good idea to have it pre-calculated.

Edited: "No overhead", was a bit to absolute thanks jpwagner.

Re-Edited: Oh look there was a commenting feature on the blog, was pretty hard to find.

I wish there was this for regular clothes. I virtually never go out and buy clothes (lack of time, interest etc.) until my old ones starts to wear, it's pretty much a maintenance thing for me. I'd just like to put in my measurements, maybe rate a few clothes I so it knows what I like and then have stuff magically appear every now and again. I'm sure a random fashionable person would improve my looks by actually having taste. :P

http://shirt.woot.com is nice for T's at least but I don't think it would work well for anything more expensive or less expressive than that.

It's only dirty if Intel isn't guilty but AMD is somehow influencing the ruling against Intels favor. Assuming AMD is indeed doing that, it's still only the corporate version of reporting a crime to the police.

Oh I couldn't agree more, it's only the "adds nothing other than humor"-type of comments I'm talking about.

I'm curious do a lot of people feel they need to restrain themselves from writing insults on the internet? My personality doesn't change between online or offline mode, I only adapt to the company I'm with with. If anything I'm more likely to get annoyed offline by the lack of Google and the inability to verify other peoples assertions.

The problem as so many people have pointed out and I agree with is that funny comments at the root aren't intellectually valuable. One of the problems with making funny comments at root (beyond that they are just useless) is that I think people like me don't always read the article before the comments so they don't have much of a context. I can skip a thread by jumping to the next root comment if the thread is uninteresting, but I can't skip a root comment and they offer more context buildup to make funny remarks in.

Now don't get me wrong I love humor but I think it's better served within the context of slashdot, reddit, digg and so on.

To the people who voted parent up: You do realize you are encouraging comments like this that doesn't add anything to the discussion or the article, right? It's only mildly better than "first".

To the commenter: There's an easy way of saying you found something interesting; vote it up.

EDIT: Oh, I completely failed to consider that it was sarcasm, thanks for pointing that out. I did notice the commenter only had 5 karma and figured he was just new but yeah sarcasm seems more likely.

I think that if people followed your advice academia would essentially be deserted and not only by students but by teachers as well. :)

I don't procrastinate because I don't care, I procrastinate because there are multiple things I care about. A few of those happens to be playing games, reading hacker news, having a god awful many feeds in my newsreader, drinking beer and having more then one project at any time. Although I have the personality type that does things at the end of a deadline and I know people who aren't like that think of us as lazy and unstructured but it's not like that at all. I found this to be extremely insightful once: http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/

I also doubt there are many (if any) that has a job that's interesting all the time. :)

I'm not sure why you are opposed to the 1GB of storage, a book is fairly small.

My to-read folder on this computer has 248 pdfs in it most of which are academic papers a few (maybe 10 or so) are books. Even a 500 page imagescan of a book is 63 megs.

I found a bibliography of cryptography on a university page (I think it was MIT or Berkley) a while back which was 700mb over about 2 728 pdfs large.

I wouldn't be so worried about 1GB, the amount of dead trees you can fit on there will keep you busy for months. Unless I guess you want to have massive amounts of audio books but then I'd wonder why you wouldn't just get an iPod instead.

"We should be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brain falls out." -- Richard Dawkins

(Hes got various versions attributed to him)

Well whatever you think about if TPB is illegal or not the ruling was also against the the fourth person a 45 year old business man Carl Lundström. He had no involvement with the tracker after consulting a lawyer who warned that it might not be legal before getting into buissness with them.

Also the €2.7 million in fines is unheardof as we don't do punative damages in Sweden (now you might think that's absurd but that's an issue on it's own). The verdict is also about accessory to spreading a handful of copyrighted material and not about the site in general.

Then there's the whole issue with the judge possibly being biased, the police investigating the case getting a job at the movie industry, an entity in the European Union announcing its support for a verdict against TPB, the plaintiffs lawyers knowing the verdict long before anyone else including the accused did, the original raid on TPB took all the servers the webhost had (which was a lot) not just TPB servers and I don't think they ever got to the bottom of if our old minister of justice Thomas Bodström had told the police to perform the raid to begin with (it's highly illegal for a minister to directly order or otherwise use his influence).

I happened to think what TPB is doing isn't illegal however I'm not a lawyer and I do place my trust in the Swedish legal system, so if the case is found to be illegal in the last instance it can appeal to then obviously it is. It would be nice however if this whole thing didn't ooze of corruption so much it's disgusting.

There's a fee attached to receiving money over a postgiro-account as the article explained, the hack is that the fee is larger than the money they receive and not that they could keep it. Your ability to (maybe) get the money back is just an extra step you could take if you wanted to cause more harm.

In Sweden there are laws that if you transfer money to someone by accident they are required to return it and this is a Swedish bank account and a Swedish law firm. I have no idea if those laws would actually apply in this case though, seeing how I'm not a lawyer or anything.

On a related note it's nice to know those laws exist when you accidently pay the rent to your webbhost.

When we register a plusgiro-account to make a payment to it you see the name of the account holder. Since this has been making the rounds around the Swedish blogosphere for one or two days now I'm sure someone would have noticed especially considering how paranoid my fellow pirates are.

Even if it was a scam the scammer would essentially make himself loose money by the nature of the action.

Some say this is infantile like the previous poster said, some think it's awesome. I'm not sure it's either, I can't decide if this is civil disobedience or a weird form of vandalism. I'm by no means on the fence on the issue of piracy and I think the ruling in the case was absurd but I can't bring myself to take part in this action.

Maybe if this action was targeted at the plaintiffs rather than the law firm I'd think differently but it's destructive to punish those who choose to represent those we don't agree with.

I just can't shake the feeling it's wrong, I don't like it.