Great. Hesse now has official auxiliary police officers. I'm curious to see when Koch's close friend SteinbrĂĽck will want to introduce this great new idea in North Rhine-Westphalia as well. You can find the original article at das Netzbuch.
Jens Voigt was simply superb in his breakaway action. It's a shame that things didn't quite work out at the end, but CSC can really be satisfied with such a rider. Just like with Basso, who showed an incredible performance today.
But the real top rider for me today was Thomas Voeckler, the way he defended his yellow jersey again. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that he keeps it through the rest day - with a flat stage tomorrow that's quite likely. And maybe he'll manage it in the Alps again, even if that's already less likely.
And otherwise? Andreas Klöden showed great form again. The same with Georg Totschnig - although people had expected that more from him than from Klöden. Tyler Hamilton has dropped out - a shame, but understandable. Zubeldia also out - still in 5th place last year. Heras and Mayo have shown that they probably won't have anything to say in the overall standings this year. Ullrich either - but he looked better today than yesterday.
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That I could actually agree with Deutsche Bank on a topic ...
I found the owrede News and the original article.
... things also become clearer on this tour:
Has Armstrong already won the Tour? No, it would be too early for that. But this year he probably has different rivals than last year. And Ullrich too: he's not fighting for victory this year. He's just fighting for a podium place overall.
Weird. He even aligned himself with Attac — regarding the topic of welfare state and the American model — on the same side.
This reality is broken. Can I please have a new one?
What nonsense. If the church wants to provide isolated counseling that is purely church-motivated, it should pay for it itself. Squeezing taxpayer money for that is absurd. Whoever wants to opt out of the consequences of pregnancy counseling must also be excluded from the financing.
At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD there's the original article.
In any case, the results are impressive:
I'm already looking forward to the weekend, then I can watch the stages live again
In the MacGuardians forum, the patent attorney speaks grandly about how nice it is when his assessment—that patents are there for everyone, small and large companies alike—is confirmed. However, the Heise article mentions something about how the small company only achieved success (before that it was nearly bankrupt) after it teamed up with SportFive, an agency from the RTL-Bertelsmann group. But RTL-Bertelsmann is certainly no small company.
Aside from that: I also find the patent itself rather questionable, because it does nothing other than translate the ancient concept of faxback machines to mobile phones.
Send a number code to a central hub and send something else back. Evaluate which number codes you received. Incredible creative height—you couldn't possibly come up with something like that without being a genius.
And what do we learn from this: Patent attorneys see the world with blinders on. And patents are simply not for everyone—because if they were, the student wouldn't have needed help from RTL-Bertelsmann ...
The original article can be found at MacGuardians.
About the discovery of the fifth taste sensation umami (besides sweet, sour, bitter, and salty).
A nice story about my favorite physicist's work on the Connection Machine (my absolute dream hardware).
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I've had a Gmail account for a few days now. To play around with it, I thought I'd just load a bunch of emails into it and check out the search and filter functions. Hacked together a little Python script that dumps my archived mail via SMTP into my mail server, which then gradually passes it on to Google. The script ran smoothly. 1305 emails were successfully sent to Google without any error messages (it's only the 1998 archive, which is why there are so few).
Only 640 arrived. Where's the rest? My server sent all the emails to two servers. gsmtp171 and gsmtp57. The first got 556 emails, the second 749. No error messages for these 1305 emails. But I'm missing a large chunk. And the numbers don't add up to either of the two mail servers - so it wasn't a single server either. All emails come from one mail system - so they're syntactically correct, after all they made it to my mailbox. Besides, syntactic rejections should show up accordingly - if attachments were executable, the email would be rejected directly on the mail server (I had 4 of those).
Strange. Somehow this doesn't really give me much hope that Google built something really good here...
Honestly. Somehow it would have been nicer if Hushovd had grabbed it one more time.
But damn tight that finish. Wow. But somehow already frustrating for the two breakaway riders to be caught just a few meters before the finish line.
Many beautiful songs from one of the best songwriters (cheekily linked into the frame). Shine on, you crazy diamond.
Somehow sympathetic. Well, it has to be, after all it comes from MĂĽnster
I found the original article at Radsport-News.com.
Tjaja, the so-called experts from the chip lab. At Industrial Technology & Witchcraft you can find the original article.
I find it hard to believe that prostitution in Thailand is a problem of lack of abstinence. It's already cynical when something like this is spouted by a head of state at an AIDS conference, or when the US government focuses on it.
Of course, behind this lies the usual notion that women choose prostitution voluntarily - something only people who are very out of touch with reality or very cynical could believe. As if it weren't bad enough that in many parts of the world, young girls and boys hardly have any other chance of survival than prostitution - which ultimately leads to death through AIDS.
I found the original article at NETZEITUNG.DE Wissenschaft.
Actually, it would be time to send UN election observers to the US presidential election. Especially after last time election results were manipulated, there was the scandal around voting machine manufacturer Diebold in between, and now this story is coming up ...
At Der Rollberg you can find the original article.
And the extortion continues - so that employees have to pay for the incompetence and horrendous salaries of the executive level ...
At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.
A Wysiwyg editor for HTML source that runs in a browser textarea, implemented using DHTML (so Javascript, not as a Java applet) and should work on IE, Mozilla and Firefox.
I actually wanted to write something positive about it, but then Firefox crashed on me ...
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Good decision. And best to really close the RFC for wildcards at the top-level domain. Sorry, but the top-level domain is always a point of power concentration - and thus fundamentally of course tempting. But it should generally be kept free from commercial interests, at least insofar as they go beyond the normal registrar service, since it's immensely important for operations. There's no room for silly games - these oh-so-great new services are simply nonsense at that level. Just because paint manufacturers would like to sell more paint doesn't mean we paint the highways either ...
At heise online news there is the original article.
And again, a stupid US patent. This time on content management workflows like they occur in pretty much every CMS. Great prospects for EU software patents
Marlais Sourceforge Project - portabler Dylan Interpreter
According to the news magazine "Profil," 40,000 photographs and numerous films containing "partially depraved sexual depictions" were seized on computers at the St. Pölten seminary. In addition to sexual intercourse with children, the photos allegedly also showed homosexual acts between seminary participants and their superiors. Bad enough on its own. But then the reactions to it are pretty strange:
Everything related to homosexuality or pornography has no place in a priestseminiary, the statement read. - So sexual intercourse with children does have a place in priesterseminaries? Is homosexuality something bad? That's a funny sentence.
However, the responsible Bishop Kurt Krenn sees it differently. While he confirmed to the ORF that he had seen a photograph in which seminary director KĂĽchel touched another clothed man's genitals, and that deputy Rothe was shown sharing an intimate kiss, he argued that this was in no way "something to do with homosexuality," but rather "boys' foolishness." - he really takes the cake with this one. Yeah, just boys' foolishness. Sure. And once again it seems that homosexuality is much worse than the aforementioned abuse...
Somehow the whole thing is pretty absurd and dishonest. But the church will sweep it under the rug again...
At tagesschau.de - The news from ARD you can find the original article.
If you're wondering where the spam comments are being produced: not by the dummy who's looking for a programmer on rentacoder to write him such a spam bot
Perhaps the meaning crisis simply lies in wanting to see a deeper purpose in blogging at all? Whoever doesn't look for meaning in blogging doesn't have to miss it either ...
At M. Kniebes Journal you can find the original article.
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Actually, only one paragraph in the article matters regarding the entire reverse lookup at directory assistance: If you can do well without your own phone number landing in the databases of information brokers and being "reverse-translated", you can lodge an objection at 01375/103300. This works automatically, quickly and conveniently. Important: Be sure to use the line you want to exclude when calling, as the phone number is determined automatically and not requested.
So simply call from the appropriate line, listen, wait for the signal tone and pay 12 cents. Even though I find it absurd that I have to explicitly object to something I never agreed to in the first place ...
At WDR.de you can find the original article.
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Will Rogowski get the boot now? It would certainly be about time ...
At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.
Sure, the sprinters at the Tour, that's not a knitting circle. But McEwen's behavior is still inexcusable. Especially as a sprinter, he should have much better control over himself – after all, sprinters are more prone to crashes than any other professional cyclists due to the chaos in the sprint. Insulting an injured person on the ground and still not finding anything wrong with it the next day shows little sporting spirit.
I found the original article at Radsport-News.com.
A truly high-tech solution for cleaning chip surfaces of digital SLR cameras: statically charged brushes. One brush stroke, then recharge the brush with compressed air to build up static electricity for 5-10 seconds. That sounds like very time-consuming work for cleaning the chip. Somehow I would find it better if manufacturers finally tackled the problem directly in the camera, the way Canon does with apparently less electrostatically charged CMOS sensors or Olympus with their ultrasonic cleaning system.
No, that's not me. It's someone else with my name (or am I the other one with his name? Is this all confusing here). He has some really nice photos online, so I thought I'd pass some of my Google PageRank along to him (after all, I have 6/10 on the homepage)
And Menno, don't break Tyler for me, he's needed as competition for Armstrong!
And please leave Phonak intact too, they're bringing a new color to the sport. And they can ride well too!
I found the original article at Radsport-News.com.
Ouch. That's really brutal. It's pretty strange when it's considered lucky if only 3 ribs and the nose are broken... Hopefully he'll get through this without major problems. He really got hit hard - the images from the crash looked severe, like the entire field behind him ran/fell over him...
On Radsport-News.com I found the original article.
And here people usually get upset if just a branch of a fruit tree grows over the property line. I wonder what they would do if 100 elephants immigrated from the neighboring property?
At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.
Oh man, ridiculous patents again. If you actually read the patent:
Well, I recommend studying the CVS Trees of wget - I've linked the history of the Makefile.in here. That goes back to 1999 in the CVS. wget has a parameter -m that implements exactly the algorithm described. Mirroring itself - and that's what this great and oh-so-innovative patent is about - is as old as FTP and the mirror script. Only here it's about web mirroring. Of course, that's incredibly innovative and naturally has to be protected by patent.
Yet another example of why we don't want software patents and why the industry minister is lying when he calls software patents innovation-promoting.
At heise online news there's the original article.
Cute. He just wanted to see how the source has changed since his departure. Sure. And Microsoft wanted to see that perhaps too?
At ResearchBuzz there's the original article.
Two sprinters out. Ok, Petacchi was clear - his crash and the shoulder injury are bad preconditions. But whether Domina Vacanze gets another Tour nomination, I consider doubtful. In any case, not because of Cipollini ...
At VeloNews: The Journal of Competitive Cycling there's the original article.
And once again a sign of where extensive empowerment of any law enforcement agencies can lead. Something like this certainly threatens us too if all the plans from surveillance-Schily are actually implemented - because eventually the authorities will always have to search for ever more absurd reasons why, despite far-reaching possibilities, they still have no clue what's going on around them...
At heise online news you can find the original article.
Man, the SCO lawyers are really going crazy. Give us everything you have in documents. We're looking for something, we don't know what and not where, but we want all your data. Sure, IBM will certainly review this request very favorably. I'm curious to see IBM's response in court.
But it's really audacious how persistently SCO insists on this extremely broadly worded disclosure, even though the judge herself has already clearly rejected it and called it excessive.
At heise online news there's the original article.
After the hearing, it was rumored that they met in a nearby courthouse bar to celebrate the conclusion of the proceedings with a couple of beers and schnapps ...
At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.
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And now the covetousness begins: The ITU, being the only standards organization that practically brings together all international governments and private entities at one table, would be very well suited for this. Sorry, Mr. Hill, that's wrong. Private at the ITU is equivalent to large corporations. But quite amusing: At the protocol level, a solution would basically be needed that lies between the X.400 standard, which failed in the IP world, and SMTP, Hill said. Ouch. No. Nobody wants anything that even remotely lies on or in the direction of X400. That's one of the stillbirths of the ITU's design-by-committee philosophy. A pile of garbage. Mountains of paper. Far too complicated.
At heise online news there's the original article.