Schäuble: Trojans should also search private diaries - in my opinion, Schäuble's attitude towards the democratic basic order and the constitution is no longer questionable. He has, in my opinion, long since completely left the framework to which he swore an oath of office.
Archive 23.1.2007 - 9.2.2007
Yahoos kleine Mashup-Revolution - Zombies are just not dead to kill. How often I have seen programming systems that claimed "not to have to be able to program" and instead relied on the much-invoked flowcharts - none of the projects really survived. ProGraph was an early data flow language on the Mac with graphical representation and at least really usable as a complete language - but of course difficult to understand for non-programmers. Novell's AppWare was once again brewed and sold as Mindbrew, but that is also bankrupt. Labview is probably one of the few providers of a comparable solution, which, however, is also used in rather special areas (measurement and control technology, laboratories, etc.), but even there programming knowledge is required. And now all of this as Web 2.0. Cute.
» Wi-Fi hacking, with a handheld PDA - I hope that soon the WiFi hacking tools will be ported and running on the Maemo platform, so that you can get something like this for less than 3500 US$. I already have the hardware ...
The Pi-Search Page - search for numbers in Pi up to 200 million digits. Has been around for 10 years, this time waster.
Useless Account - get a useless account, change your password, forget it, reset it. Everything for free!
Linux-Vserver on Debian Testing (Etch), the easy way - almost too easy ...
Adium - now 1.0. I should really take another look at it, even though I'm actually satisfied with Psi. But Psi somehow consumes too many resources ...
DocuColor Tracking Dot Decoding Guide - Color laser printer technology and code decoded. What they embed in an image to enable tracking of prints (you didn't know they do that? Well...)
'Electric Slide' on slippery DMCA slope - his dance fool sends DMCA takedown notices to video sites that allegedly show "his" dance incorrectly. Among others to an employee of LindenLab (the makers of Second Life), because the dance was shown in a machinima. Totally nuts.
Secret online searches are inadmissible - This follows, on the one hand, "from several provisions of search law in favor of the accused" (the BGH counts the right of presence and the calling of witnesses among these), which represent mandatory law and "are not at the disposal of the investigating authorities." The political response to this: Schäuble had already announced that, should the BGH deny the admissibility of online searches based on the current legal situation, corresponding adjustments to the laws would be made.
Schäuble heats up debate on online searches after BGH ruling - As the superior authority of the police, Federal Interior Minister Schäuble demanded the rapid creation of a legal basis for online searches. The Police Union demanded that the new legal regulation also eliminate the obstacles caused by data protection law. - Yes, that really gives you courage. On to the police state.
Slimbox, the ultimate lightweight Lightbox clone - nice JavaScript toy for displaying images in a gallery.
Gothia Gazette - Steampunk galore!
ModWsgi - an Apache module for WSGI applications (WSGI is a python standard for web applications).
Non-Terrorist Embarrassment in Boston - Blinkenlights-Panic.
We need to remove this access barrier before it gets put up. (Incandescent lighting ban in California.) - a point that was new to me, but ultimately makes sense. Fluorescent tubes (including the new energy-saving lamps) flicker. This can cause seizures, irritation, and problems in some people. Here, the affected person is an autistic individual, for whom massive irritation and migraines are the result.
An Iron Curtain is Descending: And Most Americans Don't Know - about the treatment of American political critics by U.S. border police upon exiting to Canada.
Courtney Love does the math - how the music industry squeezes musicians. Read it - music piracy gets a whole new definition there.
King Mojo - Blues. 4 CDs. For download. Groovy.
US urges scientists to block out sun - instead of reducing CO2 emissions, simply reflect part of the sunlight. Another stupid idea of the Christianist mullahs in the US of Absurdity ...
Worldmapper: The world as you've never seen it before - fascinating!
Yes - in 10 years we may have no bananas - it is a freakish, doped-up, mutant clone which hasn't had sex for thousands of years.
Off to the surveillance state - a chronology.
'Hobbit' human 'is a new species' - Pendulum swinging the other way this time. Well, there will probably be a lot of discussion, but my money is on "own species" and not on "sick individuals of known species".
Legal wrangle puts India's generic drugs at risk - Novartis is trying to influence patent legislation in India to prevent the production of generics. This would affect millions of Africans suffering from AIDS, as the costs for the necessary medicines would suddenly skyrocket. Profit before human lives, that is the motto of the pharmaceutical industry.
Microsoft copies BlueJ, admits it, then patents it - rip off ala Microsoft. That's probably what they call development work and why they think only Microsoft is capable of innovating - funny twisted vocabulary at Microsoft ...
Blogs with Link Redirector have stupid ears
Decided that blogs (and webpages) that deface outgoing links through a redirector for the purpose of (potential) evaluation of visitor off-clicks are stupid. And therefore unsubscribed from some of those blogs. Even if the content is interesting - if I have to register the clicks on further information with the blog owner first, they can kiss my RSS feed.
Yes, there are sometimes technical reasons why one might want to do this - my link postings have their own GUID, but they are redirects to the original (since I only have a short comment there, which was already included in the RSS feed). But as a general measure? No.
Life Is Complicated - Tim Bray on the OOXML vs. ODF discussion regarding Wikipedia. And he draws a nice comparison to the XML Working Group and how Microsoft reacted to him: "Netscape hired me to represent their interests, and when I announced this, controversy ensued. Which is a nice way of saying that Microsoft went berserk; tried unsuccessfully to get me fired as co-editor, and then launched a vicious, deeply personal extended attack in which they tried to destroy my career and took lethal action against a small struggling company because my wife worked there.".
Minimum wages in Europe - except of course in our country, because it's supposed to ruin the economy. And the union's demand is even below many European neighbors.
Music industry: Government wants to turn copyright into a "toothless tiger" - the stupid wailing of the music industry - especially their stupid babble that they represent the interests of the artists, these lying crooks - really gets on my nerves. And has led to the fact that I now only shrug at the possible closure of iTMS (as possibly upcoming in Norway). Thanks to Jamendo.com, Magnatune.com, Garageband.com and other netlabels ...
Willard Wigan :: Micro Sculptor - wow. just that.
Exotic deep-sea shark caught in the net - interesting, this is a living fossil that I didn't know about yet.
frozen waves - wow!
Interview with muslix64, Developer of BackupHDDVD - "With the HD-DVD, I wasn't able to play my movie on my non-HDCP HD monitor. Not being able to play a movie that I have paid for, because some executive in Hollywood decided I cannot, made me mad... After the HD-DVD crack, I realized that things where "unbalanced" by having just one format cracked, so I did Blu-ray too. "
"Münstersche Zeitung": Publisher puts entire editorial staff on furlough - yes yes, the Münster local press. The MZ was at least somewhat usable - at least compared to the Westfälische Zeitung, which only passed on DPA reports and whose local editorial staff was simply terrible. And now the MZ has simply fired the entire local editorial staff, because you don't need such things. The difficult market situation? Well, that was simply the stupidity of management. As everywhere in the field. The arrogance and stupidity of the store is one reason why I never subscribed to the paper - the "better than Westfälische Nachrichten" is just a relative quality statement ...
Reddit.com User Agreement - "You agree that by posting messages, uploading files, inputting data, or engaging in any other form of communication with or through the Website, you grant us a royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive, unrestricted, worldwide license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, enhance, transmit, distribute, publicly perform, display, or sublicense any such communication (including your identity and information about you) in any medium (now in existence or hereinafter developed) and for any purpose, including commercial purposes". Web 2.0, my ass.
Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple And Fast - why grep and awk match faster than Perl or Python.
The Text Editor sam - interesting historical document. Some ideas are still brilliant today - the integration of text commands and mouse operation is much better than in many other editors.
The truth about working in the IT industry - just like a prostitute.
Literature and Latte - Scrivener - interesting concept for an editor specifically designed for authors. Convincing features and nice interface.
Pando (tree) - Aspens form colonies through offshoots. Actually logical, many plants do this, only I was not aware of this in trees so far. The collection of aspens under the name Pango is currently considered the largest living organism (and the oldest living organism with over 80,000 years), although it is suspected that there are larger and older colonies.
Bundestag: Eavesdropping devices in MP's office? - only concerns an MP from the Left Party. Will probably fizzle out or be covered up ...
IronPython and libsecondlife
libsecondlife is a C# reimplementation of the SecondLife protocol. IronPython is Python on .NET. They should be able to be used together. They can be. However, IronPython is not Python - most of the standard library is missing (although many of the pure-Python modules would certainly work). External libraries are also handled differently. The following makes one happy:
import clr
clr.AddReferenceToFile("libsecondlife.dll")
import libsecondlife
With this, I got everything loaded together. Maybe a start for me to play around with it.
macfuse has received a small enhancement. There are simple installers and two ready-to-use filesystems for easy use: sshfs (with a small connector GUI and command-line tool) and SpotlightFS. The latter offers trivial simple ad-hoc Spotlight searches even on the command line. Genius!
.NET Languages - Programming languages that work under .NET (if it has to be .NET, you can at least take a human-worthy programming language)
News -Anfängerfehler in Mac OS X - I think it's good that the Month-of-Apple-Bugs is running and Mac OS X is being looked at more closely. Because a company that develops its software outside of external control will always make mistakes like the one linked.