Action Alliance against Spam. And involved are the eco Association (yes, exactly those with the great Whitelist Project that ensures that the advertising of their members also lands in your mailbox undisturbed by provider filters) and the WBZ (yes, exactly those who issued a warning to eleg.antville.org in 2003 due to missing imprint). Uh - hey, how about the job as a gardener?
Ok, maybe the Federal Association of Consumer Organizations has a positive influence in this story, but I can't imagine that anything really meaningful will come out of it ...
Found in the young world: Bayerns Blinde sollen gefälligst zu Hause bleiben. As a blind person, you probably feel really well taken care of with a health insurance like that ...
There is no other way to interpret the lies about the position of the Ministry of Economic Affairs on the patent directive. There is a clear and unanimous resolution of the Bundestag. But the Ministry of Economic Affairs shits on the opinion of the parliament as well as the experts.
By the way, the given example of "time and space-saving data storage" is exactly what indicates the problems: there have always been problems with patents on compression algorithms that de facto sealed formats for use in open source programs - which is a considerable obstacle to the interoperability that is being discussed everywhere. Microsoft would only have to store the XML formats in a proprietary binary XML format and could thus prevent, by patent, open source software in Europe from reading the documents.
Other - older - examples of exactly this problem are GIF storage and the LZW algorithm. Both have caused massive problems with interoperability and exactly that is what we will also face in Europe with the current directive.
The claim of the Ministry of Economic Affairs that there is nothing to fear is therefore nothing more than a stupid and transparent lie. Ultimately, the federal government is playing into the hands of the industry giants here, and at the expense of the middle class and open source software.
More on this, as usual, at the FFII.
Those who want to play with XMLHTTPRequest and Common Lisp should check out CLiki : cl-ajax, which provides the necessary framework for easily integrating Common Lisp functions into web applications based on Araneida.
I have never understood what the fact that a Java applet has a signature has to do with trustworthiness and why it should then have extended rights. In my opinion, the whole concept of signed applets with extended rights is a dumb idea - even if the user is specifically pointed out what this means (the extended rights) - on the basis of which facts should he decide whether he trusts the applet?
Mark Pilgrim developed a user script for Greasemonkey called Butler that attaches to Google pages (unfortunately only google.com - it doesn't work with google.de) and, for example, adds links that refer to other search engines, removes Google ads, and works a bit on the typography.
In principle, it's something like autolinking, but functionally goes far beyond that - with Greasemonkey you can fix shortcomings with small user scripts (in JavaScript, which must be activated for this purpose). And that's exactly what Mark does with the Google search results pages.
There is an entire repository with further user scripts for Greasemonkey. I particularly like the script for creating "persistent searches" in Google Mail. It integrates so well into Google Mail that you hardly notice it's not from Google at all.
Naked Objects are not indecency and impropriety, but simply the idea of exposing your objects in Smalltalk directly to the world - each object thus has its own mini-GUI so to speak. As a result, users work directly with the actual objects and many problems of GUI frameworks are eliminated - there is no longer a need to explicitly mediate between GUI and object, the objects do this themselves.
O2 warns oxygen fillers - yeah, of course. What a blatant nonsense ...
And for those who don't like or can't use Lisp, perhaps SAJAX - Simple Ajax Toolkit by ModernMethod - XMLHTTPRequest Toolkit for PHP can help, which supports not only PHP but also Io, Lua, Perl, Python, and Ruby.
SCO OpenServer 6 with a lot of Open Source - yes, this also means Open Source: that companies like SCO are allowed to use it. It's also fine: when SCO customers have first switched to all the Open Source applications and platforms, the switch to Linux will be much easier for them.
Usable XMLHttpRequest in Practice is an interesting little article that explains the use of XMLHttpRequest using an example and discusses usability aspects.
