Well, in the case of Al-Jazeera's presence, one can almost assume it was intentional. In the first Gulf War they already tried something similar. The press is inconvenient, especially when it doesn't report what the war effort would like to see reported ...
Also see a report at Telepolis.
At Hexentanz I found the original article.
This is probably more of a guide "How to make a fool of yourself in front of a knowledgeable customer in 10 easy steps"
At heise online news there's the original article.
The scanner sounds very interesting. When I think about the quality of the Minolta scanners I had direct or indirect contact with (Scan Elite, Scan Dual III, and Scan Multi II), the new Minolta could be a real dream device for 35mm. (Of course, it doesn't work for me because of medium format - I need the 6x9 cm scanning area of the Multi II).
At PhotographyBLOG I found the original article.
Dear RP-Online editorial team: When archaeologists find flint daggers, they discover them if they want to emphasize the Indiana Jones factor. If they want to highlight the work involved, they excavated them.
But they absolutely never have "ausgebuddelt" them!
At RP-Online: Science I found the original article.
Astonishing. 2.3 million US dollars to a Canadian war opponent for improving his operating system. Probably only worked because Rumsfeld didn't catch wind of it, otherwise he would have sent the Marines immediately.
For the OpenBSD project this is of course great and raises hopes for the rest of the open source world (OpenSSH was also a project from the OpenBSD environment).
I found the original article on heise online news.
And the war of the Americans against their allies continues. Interesting in this regard are also figures I found at [[ t e c h n o c u l t u r e ]][0]: in the first Gulf War, 53 of the 146 killed Americans were killed by the Americans themselves. And the Americans killed more British soldiers than the Iraqis did in the same conflict.
Somehow one almost gets the impression that the Gulf Wars are a continuation of the War of Independence against the British
At tagesschau im Internet there is the original article.
New offensive in terms of the inhumanity of the pot lid hairstyle. The unemployed are just lazy bums who don't even try to find work. That's why they need to be motivated. At tagesschau im Internet there's the original article.
Achherrjeh, Crosspoint. Terrible memories of ergonomic software with strange bugs come back up. I don't know if I should be enthusiastic about the memories
And the peathead didn't mention MausNet with a single word, not even in the list of supported protocols! Shame on him!
At kuro5hin.org there's the original article.
That would indeed be a very sad world without primates anymore :-(
At RP-Online: Wissenschaft I found the original article.
"My goal is victory in May 2005," said Jürgen Rüttgers today at the CDU state party conference in Bochum. - yet another horror scenario. First Koch threatens that he wants to become Chancellor (the Bavarian perpetual threat is still at the ready), Merkenix wants to cut pensions for singles, Möllemann wants to start his own party and Rüttgers wants to be allowed to run down NRW. All that's missing is Karl Dall running for Federal President ...
At WDR.de you can find the original article.
I'm passing along the tip about the Monitor report on Bush and religion. The report was really very interesting. Though the connections between Moon and the Bush administration (and Bush family!) are also quite noteworthy - apparently all a tangled mix of pseudo-religion, apocalyptic fantasies, and good old megalomania.
Jutta has written a few articles on the Moon sect and its connections to the Bush administration: What does the Bush family have to do with the Moon sect? and Bush appoints Josette Shiner as deputy in US foreign trade office. And then there's the strange circumstance that a very large part of the Bush administration is connected to the oil or chemical industry. At Der Rollberg you can find the original article.
An interesting article by George Lakoff about the metaphors that define this Gulf War and how these metaphors shape the depiction of the war. Language has great power. Or as George puts it: Metaphors can kill. Here you can find the original article.
The article essentially says everything that needs to be said. But as long as there are politicians who don't blame the warring parties for the outbreak of a war, but instead blame those who protested against the war and refused to participate in it, we will continue to live with diminishments and downplayings of murder and manslaughter in our language.
I found the original article on RP-Online: Wissenschaft.
An article about the effects blogs have on Google PageRanks. The author is upset that a term — "The second superpower" — is being redefined from its original meaning of public opinion through Google rankings to a blog and an article, both written by James Moore. He equates this with an erasure of the original meaning and an overwriting with a new meaning caused by a small list of A-List bloggers (there is no cabal). Fair enough. Google rankings are vulnerable to attack through links — we've known this since Google bombs. But what does that mean for terms and meanings?
I think the author is shooting way over the target by treating Google as a meaning-defining authority. Google is first and foremost just an automaton, based on arbitrary algorithms, operated by a company that wants to make money through embedded advertising blocks and selling its technology.
Just because Google is currently the most commonly used search engine (is it even?) doesn't automatically make it meaning-defining. It's not an expert team that scientifically analyzes queries. It's not even a system based on democratic consensus. It's simply based on a series of algorithms with which it calculates the relevance of a result.
As one can see, for example, in Kasparov's battle against chess computers, even in a highly deterministic environment like chess, correctly evaluating a chess position (and that's all a chess program does — evaluate positions relative to other positions that arise from a series of moves) is extremely difficult.
The contents of search engines, on the other hand, are human-authored works with all the usual problems: ambiguities, irony, typos, deliberate lies and whatever else people come up with. How is an automaton supposed to reliably determine the relevance rating of a document based on the user's input and the available alternative documents? It can't. There are only approximate solutions. And in these — necessarily, since nothing else exists — technical information and structural information are added and weighted according to predetermined rules.
The automaton doesn't grasp meaning and content. Therefore, an automaton simply cannot be meaning-defining for an expression.
The only thing Google-washing proves is the vulnerability of Google's algorithms. Nothing more and nothing less. And that one should reasonably work with meta-search engines if one wants a broader and more balanced mix of information. In the end, this is probably just someone who is pissed off for relying too much on technology.
I'll spare myself an assessment of the sometimes rather apocalyptic conclusions drawn in the article, as well as the slight hint of paranoia that shines through.
Too small for a decent sea monster, but already quite impressive.
I found the original article on Spiegel Online: Science.
Super. No wonder they're so pissed off about the alleged persecution of the Moon sect in Germany. Well, it fits well with this president ... At MEHRZWECKBEUTEL you can find the original article.
But the braking distance ...
At RP-Online: Wissenschaft I found the original article.
Yeah great, Microsoft has a patent on statistical spam filters
At Gary Robinson: Gary Robinsons Spam Rants I found the original article.
That sounds really quite interesting, like a digital replacement for an Mju II. But it's not an option as a replacement for my Contax T
I found the original article at PhotographyBLOG.
Now a Senator is calling for Peter Arnett to be charged with treason because of his interview on Iraqi television. What absurd forms is the war against the public that the USA is waging taking on?
The land of the free and the brave - where you get fired for having your own opinion and charged as a traitor. It doesn't help either if you have freedom of the press written in your constitution...
I found the original article at Ben Hammersley.com.
A LA Times photographer composited images in Photoshop because they looked better together that way than the two originals separately. And that's why he's now a former LA Times photographer. The wonderful world of digital...
Great. A few threatening gestures and simple blackmail and Belgium caves in to the USA.
I found the original article at tagesschau on the internet at tagesschau.
And what kind of training is that supposed to be then? Shoddy work/IHK? Or maybe insolvency assistant? State-certified bankruptcy vulture?
Sorry folks, but obtaining trainer qualification isn't that difficult, that's hardly the reason for the shortage of apprenticeship positions. And apprenticeship positions without proper training don't benefit any apprentice - in the end that's just exploitation of cheap labor.
When I hear the usual reasons against hiring apprentices, it's more like statements that it would be too much work.
Well, if you want fully trained skilled workers, you have to train them at some point. But you can't do that in the small backyard shop without a trainer - and those who weren't trained properly (or were simply used as cheap labor), are out on the street after their apprenticeship.
At tagesschau im Internet there's the original article.
Well, that's quite a savings plan, surely easy to communicate to the base and citizens. And this wonderful unity between SPD and CDU, absolutely delightful.
At RP Online: Politik I found the original article.
Hmm. Möllemännchen is now wearing blue with white doves
I found the original article at RP Online: Politik.
Our terrorist problem in Germany is just sooooo big, so we definitely need even stricter laws.
I found the original article at RP Online: Politik.
And the patent madness continues
At Imaging Resource News Page I found the original article.
Clear answer: Nope.
At Zickenterror I found the original article.
Question: (Why do I actually have a Unix kernel if I have to restart the machine anyway?)
Answer: Because Apple didn't build more sophisticated mechanisms (restart server process, reload services, update frameworks, etc.) into the installation routines, but only a restart of the entire computer.
Yes, that's stupid.
I found the original article at Der Schockwellenreiter.
Now that's quite an innovative approach! I found the original article at Lambda the Ultimate.
I recently finally tracked down the last important piece for the Polaroid 600 SE: a 6x9 roll film back. Now the camera is complete. I think I'll take some photos of all the equipment soon and post them here. Really fine gear!
So when they posted it, it was still March 31st and not April 1st.
At heise online news there is the original article.
Hmm. A US American colony with military rule. Hmm. So far the USA has only supported such governments through the CIA, but hasn't established them itself ...
(Quite apart from such trivial matters as the fact that the USA first has to win the war)
At tagesschau im Internet I found the original article.
Ok. So to clarify once more: the state whose soldiers are currently killing people in Iraq without a UN mandate and firing on civilians, which locks up hundreds of terrorism suspects in camps without trial, without a lawyer, or contact with anyone, and has its own citizens arrested by the FBI and then allows them no contact, doesn't even tell them why they were arrested in the first place—this state is complaining that we discriminate against Scientology (a fascist sect) and Moon (ditto)?
So "complete loss of reality" is still far too positive a description for what people in the States are suffering from...
I found the original article at RP Online: Politik.
And that's just one innovation: I could fit a second program in Python's indentations
I found the original article at Lambda the Ultimate.
Bitter. That's a really bitter April Fool's joke
I found the original article at Lambda the Ultimate.
So this is how one imagines dealing with the press in the land of the free? Or where did the soldiers learn such a sensitive approach?
And further judicial arbitrariness in the land-of-the-free
I found the original article at Warblogs:CC.
And another piece of evidence for what free press in the land-of-the-free really means. No Pulitzer Prize helps with that. I found the original article on Telepolis News at this link.
Sorry esteemed colleague, but with apt-get install mozilla, apt-get shows you exactly what it will do, including which packages will be deleted and which will be installed. Whoever carelessly answers "Yes I want to" to that, please press ctrl-c very quickly in case of justified error or suffer forever
At das Netzbuch - ralles Weblog you can find the original article.
First signs of dissolution?
At tagesschau im Internet there is the original article.
Extremely precise and intelligent cruise missile that lands in Kuwait instead of Baghdad. If the US military keeps this up, it will soon have won the war against its allies...
At New York Times: NYT HomePage you can find the original article.
Hmm. Should the dolphin have more intelligence than its trainer?
I found the original article at Warblogs:CC.
Oh yes, the FDP keeps trying to prove how much they were screwed by the Möllemännchen
At RP Online: Politik there's the original article.
A rather interesting analysis by John Robb about the Bush Doctrine.
I found the original article at lies.com.
Great class. Is Rumsfeld already preparing the next war?
At tagesschau im Internet there's the original article.
A thoroughly pigheaded attitude and in my view unlawful. After all, Americans who go to a doctor in Rendsburg are certainly not automatically war criminals just because of their origin. He should read our Basic Law, what it says on the subject of discrimination based on origin...
Apart from the fact that he's degrading himself to the level of American eBay sellers who refuse to ship to Canada or old-Europe, the Freedom Fries and -Toast and similar stupid, narrow-minded actions.
At RP Online: Politik there is the original article.
"Umm Qasr is a city similar to Southampton," UK defence minister Geoff Hoon said yesterday. "He's either never been to Southampton, or he's never been to Umm Qasr" says a British Squaddie patrolling Umm Qasr. Another soldier added: "There's no beer, no prostitutes and people are shooting at us. It's more like Portsmouth."
Hehe
At Industrial Technology & Witchcraft you can find the original article.
A tale about the early beginnings, people and projects that ultimately led to Java. Exciting to read.
Yes. I am in favor of establishing a health insurance secret service. It could then spy on doctors and patients. And anyway, with the patient card you can play many more games. Best to set up an online database and book everything right away. And anyone who goes to the doctor more than once a month is a malingerer anyway. And the Americans in their data collection frenzy certainly have an interest in this, so send it straight to the USA. Chronic patients are surely actually hidden terrorists who use the time to prepare attacks. Welcome to the world of madness. Sarcasm accidentally found in this posting should please be discounted by yourself and presented to the inspectors on demand.
At tagesschau im Internet there is the original article.