wildebaard

> it's not usable for Europeans as we tend to use dots.

We do? As a fellow European, I hardly see dots: mostly slashes or dashes.

I think most people do not see how this is somehow worse than being bankrupted for being sick. For the record, I don't either. I'll eat my dry bread if it means I can then continue to not spend the rest of my life paying back the bills.

Do you have examples of sites that do not work in Safari but do in Chrome, then?

If I understand you correctly, this censorship only applies to Facebook. If that's correct, then I still do not agree with the statement 'there is no free speech' unless Facebook is your/the sole source of information. However, I do agree that it's problematic.

Well, if the definition of free speech is 'it should be allowed on Facebook' then that's a horrible definition :)

It does point toward a bigger issue, where Facebook is used and trusted by so many users that they do not access alternative sources of information.

What makes you say there is no freedom of speech in the EU? I also live there but I do not experience it like that.

That could be. I also have zero scientific backing for it but for me, I would probably not have commented and indeed thought "oh, neat!" had it not been for the negative comments already made. That is also because "oh, neat!" on its own is not a very useful comment to make on a site like this, imho.

While I get that it's easy to hate on and make fun of Microsoft, why not applaud them for making stuff like this that apparently is 'a given' in the linux-world.

What's wrong with a good idea, even if, especially if, others are already doing it. It's not like stealing IP; it's about making tooling nicer.

I for one actually like this (granted, I use PowerShell regularly).

That's the whole point: you cannot use the car the same way as during the tests, even if you exactly match speed, acceleration, distance, friction, temperature and any other variable. The software that limits emissions is disabled during "normal" operation, ie. driving.

How is embedding software that changes the way the engine behaves during tests versus during actual usage not fraud?

The numbers may have been accurate _for an engine with the 'limit emissions' mode enabled_ but it's still fraudulent if you do not make that explicitly clear.

I don't think the point of the article was that EFF should _not_ fight government on privacy, but that it _isn't_ also fighting the same fight, for the same privacy, against corporations. At least, that's how I read it. It then goes on about how current copyright laws are broken and that SEPA was an attempt to fix that, which should have been heralded. Personally I do not fully agree with this, but the main point of the article (again, for me) was the "hypocrisy".

I agree. I've always held the EFF in a "they battle for good" light, without really researching their history or motives properly. So, it seems their marketing is at least effective.

While I appreciate the sentiment, justicedemocrats has exactly nothing to do with (this) European law proposal.

Which is ironic, for a blog named 'Last blog standing'.