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The review comments on Amazon tell you everything you need to know.

Surprised the article made no mention of the EV Rieu translation published by Penguin Books. I would have thought that was one of the, if not 'the', most well known one.

This is the correct link to the report: http://daccess-ods.un.org/access.nsf/Get?Open&DS=A/HRC/34/51...

The UN has a bizarre and archaic document management system that it is difficult to link to (and to search, for that matter).

Minor correction: Google was summoned to appear before a committee of the UK Parliament, not the Government.

A link to the meeting: http://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/ecd59f92-64b6-4450-96b6...

This has been done so many times already. One example is Coffitivity:

https://coffitivity.com/

Although the idea of a 'United Democracies' or whatever it gets called sounds appealing, it has many flaws.

One of which you highlighted regarding what constitutes a democracy - some could even argue that the Electoral College in the USA means it isn't a true democracy!

Others are what legitimacy it would have in relation to countries that aren't members. Why should those countries care or co-operate with the organisation? Likely it would end up with UD trying to impose its will by force, which is a backwards step.

Furthermore, just because a country is a democracy doesn't mean it is automatically superior to every respect and entitled to adopt the high ground. Many democratic countries around the world have engaged in human rights abuses, started wars and interfered with other sovereign countries to install leaders who push their interests over that of the citizens. There is the danger that said countries in the UD would end up turning a blind eye to each other abuses because they, by definition, "wouldn't do that sort of thing".

After disabling my adblocker to visit the site I was greeted with an auto-play video (with sound) that took up half the page. This is not what I would term 'ad light'.

Hmm. Somewhat biased presentation in the article with use of the words "the latest in a growing number of competition investigations targeting American technology companies."

Gives the impression the EU is deliberately going after US companies when in fact the majority that are investigated for anti-competitive acts are European.

The equivalent for the UK: http://gridwatch.templar.co.uk/

I've just installed it from the Ubuntu 15.10 Software Centre (v3.0.1-2).

Who decides that and is it true or fair? If the CEO earns 25x the average employee salary would it be clear that they add 25x more value to the company than any other employee?

... but what percentage of current C code is C11. More importantly, how much new code is written according to C11?

Don't suppose anyone has an equivalent for Linux?

Get searching:

http://ec.europa.eu/competition/elojade/isef/index.cfm

I think you'll find the overwhelming majority are European companies.

Maybe the site should use something like http://www.pingtest.net/

It would be interesting to see how much traffic localhost.com gets too :)

Indeed. I think whenever 'hacked sites' stories are posted here, the poster should include a screenshot given that the site will likely be fixed very quickly.

I have visited the USA a dozen or so times over the past decade and, as well as having a great number of friends there, I've found the people really friendly and welcoming.

The only exception to this are US immigration officials who I dread dealing with everytime I arrive. All my paperwork is in order and I've never visited any of those 'dodgy' countries but they are just so unfriendly and standoffish that it spoils my arrival. I get the impression they assume every arriving person has no right to enter and should be treated almost like a criminal.

I wonder how many climate-changer denier politicans will attempt to legislate to prevent Metro-North from considering climate change in their future planning - the same way NC did that:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/north-carolina-bans-latest-science-...

Another solution is to put the URL into Google Translate, set the 'To' language to English and the 'From' language to something like Arabic or Chinese so nothing on the page will actually get translated.

> * There was almost zero bullshit reality TV manufactured drama

The bit in the article that astounded me was where he talked about sections of the contract everyone was expected to sign: "Another clause allowed for willful misrepresentation for the sake of drama..."

I'm shocked I tell you - I had no idea such things went on!

Both the font size and colour scheme on that page hurt my eyes.

The GiraDora manually powered washing machine was announced a couple of years ago - I don't know what happened to it, e.g. did it never get funding?

http://inhabitat.com/human-powered-giradora-washer-needs-no-...

Looks good, and seems simple to get going.

Two comments:

- I set the background image but it didn't appear (the dialog box for that seems to have no 'OK' or 'Save' button)

- It would be good to have a microphone level indicator, so I can see whether my microphone has been properly detected and working. There is one in Google Hangout but is rather small and not very good IMHO.

I'm on Virgin Media in the UK and it starts loading the page in Firefox (the title changes to the title of the page) but never actually completes, so I get a blank page.

Worth pointing out that they can't make an application to the ECtHR until all legal appeals have been exhausted in the UK (Supreme Court?). Otherwise the application will be immediately rejected.

The cynical reaction would be to say this is all about damage limitation to their brand since it appeared on HN, as they meant to do it rather than it being a 'clerical error'.

Good thing I'm not cynical.