kiiski

> ... it must be litres or millilitres...

Why would it have to be one of those? Obviously it's centilitres; at least here in Finland that's the size of a regular drinking glass (although usually it's called "2 desilitres").

I don't think all (probably not even most) suicides have anything to do with having made a mistake that needs apologising in the first place.

The deadline is August 13th, and the winner (if any) will be announced on the 20th. (According to an Helsinki Times article, but the English translation[1] doesn't have the dates)

[1]: http://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/domestic/11...

> ... Portugal to Finland ...

Not without going through Russia. There is no longer any passenger train connection between Finland and Sweden, so that would require either going through Saint Petersburg or crossing the Baltic by ship. You can however do the trip by car; it's just going to cost _a lot_.

I would assume that all first world countries have stored food/medicine/oil/etc. for emergencies. At least Finland keeps enough for six months consumption (was 12 previously, but with the current economic troubles it was dropped to 6 a few months ago). Of course that wouldn't include all the luxuries, but enough to keep people alive and the important industries running. And I suppose there would still be trade with countries that are known to be safe.

Apparently about a thousand. http://www.helsinkitimes.fi/business/11224-microsoft-plans-c...

From what wikipedia says[1], it seems that in India you can't get information that would affect national security, but I highly doubt you can get that in USA either. You brought up BND and SäPo earlier, and from the same article it appears that both Germany and Sweden do guarantee access to all official federal information.

[1] http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_information_laws_by_cou...

  Location:            Finland, but hoping to relocate.
  Remote:              No.
  Willing to relocate: Yes, I'd prefer to.
  Technologies:        - (I've played around with several, but haven't done 
                          anything significant with anything.)
  Resume:              Contains nothing relevant.
  Email:               juha.a.kiiski@gmail.com

I'm a self-learned(/ing) young hacker, who is looking for a junior/entry level software developer position. I don't have any relevant experience or degree, and while I have some knowledge of several technologies, you should assume I'm starting with a blank slate; nothing but a strong desire to learn.

I have practised programming with several languages - Javascript (/HTML/CSS), Python, PHP, Common Lisp, and a little Java - as well as having basic understanding of Git, Apache, and MySql. I'm sure I'll be able to pick up whatever language/stack you use very quickly.

I'm not too picky about what to work with, as long as it provides a change to learn about different technologies and industry practices. That said, my main interest is in web development, and I would particularly like to work with natural language processing. I'm hoping to one day found a start-up, making software for writers and publishers.

I speak Finnish natively. My written English is fluent and spoken is good, although perhaps a little underpractised.

I currently live in Finland, but I wish to relocate to a foreign country. I'm looking for a chance to learn a new language while working there, so I would prefer a non-English speaking one. The top countries would be Sweden (Stockholm), Germany (Berlin) or Iceland, but the country is not the most important factor. For the nearby nations - Sweden, Estonia, etc. - a face-to-face interview would be possible, especially if the company can compensate travel expenses, but otherwise I think a video call would be most practical.

I don't want remote work, because I wish to get feedback on my work, as well as having a chance talk with other developer. My main interest is after all learning new things.

Send me an email if you think you could use me at your company, or if you want to ask about something.

In Finland we have a system based on authenticating through your bank (TUPAS[1]). It works pretty well, and is easy, at least for the end-user, to use (you just select your bank and get redirected to their login site; the banks system then passes your info to the site). I don't know what kind of requirements there are for businesses to use it though.

[1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TUPAS

Isn't this just about monetizing the videos? So they could still have videos there for promotion, but they won't get money (without directing the viewer to wherever they are selling their music at).

I'm not very well versed with Android related things, but isn't a Google account required for Android anyway? If so, using it to sign in to an Android app seems like a reasonable choice.

The Helsinki Times article[1 english] says they suspect it was an ex employee.

"Information obtained by Helsingin Sanomat from two different sources indicates that Nokia believes the blackmailer to be a Finnish citizen who participated in the development of the user interface. The suspect was able to obtain the highly-classified encryption key due to a data security vulnerability."

[1] http://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/domestic/10...

It wasn't actually Helsinki police (this didn't even happen in Helsinki), but the National Bureau of Investigation (KRP).

I suppose any argument in the internet can feel hostile if you care about the subject, but my apologies for any distress I may have caused anyway. My message is not intended to be about whether you are wrong, but whether the example you gave is valid. I did read your explanation, and I find it mistaken. Let me rephrase my argument, and you can point out the part you think is wrong.

If we say that a problem is caused by half-assed adoption of X, it implies the problem can be solved in two ways: (1) Properly adopting X, or (2) Reverting back to no adoption at all. The example you gave can only be solved by 1, because it is an inherent problem of the imperial system. If you take metric out of the equasion, the situation is not affected. While you may have meant to say "the imperial system has problems, let's use metric", one can also understand it as "the transition to metric is causing problems, let's stop it".

What's with the hostility? I was pointing out that WalterBright was down voted for the perfectly valid point that the problem you spoke of is not caused by half-assed use of the metric system. No matter how much I use my brain, it won't become such either. There may be other problems caused by that (I wouldn't know; I'm not American), but you specifically brought up one that is not related to metric in any way.

But both oz and gallon are still imperial units. In metric they would use liters. So this isn't caused by half-assed use of the metric system, but rather by not using it at all.

It depends on the country. Guessing from the username, sampo is propably Finnish (like myself) and in Finland you are allowed to make a few private copies of any legally produced and distributed books/media (such as a book borrowed from a library) unless it's protected by an "effective technical protection" (so, if you download a non-DRMed movie from a site where it is legally distributed, you can make private copies). Private copy means a copy used by yourself, your family or close friends.

A Macbook Air is about 1 kg. A regular laptop 2-3, and a tablet 0.5-1.

Maybe "well educated, highly intelligent Chinese" are dime a dozen, so it doesn't matter if some of them work abroad.

I live in a small city of 75000 people (in Finland), where the city has ~4400 employees.

People who use adblockers probably aren't people who would click ads anyway. Showing the ads to such people might allow the website owner to leech more money from advertisers, but it wont actually provide any value to anyone. One might even argue that if there were no adblockers, the views/clicks ratio of ads would go down enough to make advertisers less likely to spend so much money on them. Thus ad-supported services might not even make much more money after all.

If we are talking about installing these to rural parts of Africa, having to eat more may be a valid consern.

On the other hand, wearing a clown costume when working as one might be a good idea. Not all documents that contain text are "job interviews".

But isn't that exactly a result of trying to be more "USA" (by having an economic union)? Besides, comparing US with a single European country is pretty pointless. One could easily turn the table around by choosing Norway instead of Greece.

I think it's mostly USA and UK where people are afraid of the police by default. I certainly haven't have any problems with them here in Finland.

Freenet[1] does actually have a decentralized social network plugin, sone[2]. It's not exactly user friendly, but at least it seems to prove that if people care about these things enough, they will use a solution even if it is difficult. By making the user experience simpler (less technical), one should be able to lower the bar significantly. It's worth noting that everything in the sone-guide[2] could be done automatically; freenet just isn't designed for simplicty.

[1]https://freenetproject.org

[2]http://freesocial.draketo.de/sone_en.html

I don't think that is correct. I can access the page, but I can't see any comments there. I have 393 karma at the moment.

What do you mean? It _is_ an airship. Just a big one.

Suicide like that is not unheard of. EgyptAir Flight 990: 217 dead[1] SilkAir Flight 185: 104 dead[2]

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EgyptAir_Flight_990

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SilkAir_Flight_185

What makes you think these hypothetical terrorists are after Americans, not Chinese? And why is religion the only reason they could be doing this?