Converting Pi to binary - DON'T DO IT!
Archive 16.10.2006 - 31.10.2006
Electronic Voting Machines - a different point of view. Very different.
Leica M8 Review - 2 second startup time? Hmm. I'll cling to the reason not to buy it ... (for now?)
SDU-Wahlcomputer excluded from Dutch parliamentary elections - and when will this madness be completely stopped? And here too? I am in favor of a Europe-wide ban on silly voting computers. Sorry, but counting the classic way is really not that hard that we would need a computer for it ...
Six Word Stories about Programming Languages - literary!
Scandal about private health insurance protest action - what do you expect from an industry whose main goal is to avoid providing the sold services and get away with it?
Small crimes against the planet - stupidity galore. Extra Virgine Olive Oil aus Neuseeland? My ass ...
Prosecutor's office not allowed to involve GVU in copyright investigations - first signs of reason?
Alice and Bob - Eve is not the attacker.
Good Math, Bad Math : Pathological Programming: Ignorance is Bliss, or at least control. - ok, and this language is so absurd, one has to go and take a look. Although it reminds me a bit of sick Snobol, in terms of format ...
Good Math, Bad Math : Prime Number Pathology: Fractran - Programming language that consists only of prime numbers. Ouch.
Molecule of the Day: L-Methamphetamine (Would you believe this is over the counter?) - Mirror molecule to D-Methamphetamine. Same chemistry, but rolled up differently. One (D) is a drug, the other (L) a cough medicine ...
"Push! push! push!" - Ironman in a wheelchair. Wow.
WebSnapr - Thumbnail images for links. Interesting concept.
Switchman sick: Railway line blocked for hours - sorry? The Düsseldorf-Cologne rail connection depends on the existence of two officials?
German government wants customer data for preventive crime fighting - on to the internet surveillance state! We've already slipped drastically in terms of press freedom, and we'll manage to do the same with internet freedom! Roll up your sleeves, monitor, and denounce! Every citizen is called upon! Or maybe it's time to think about using tor, JAP, and other tools for encrypting and, above all, anonymizing communication?
The Voting Booth - exactly. The annoying counting only bothers.
Dubious association massively warns eBay traders - Scam warning at Heise.
Miss Congeniality - data mining at it's best.
OpenGL Tools for Serious Graphics Development - does the OpenGL Profiler allow capturing textures?
Oracle Linux uncovered - shows how Oracle wants to attack market leader Red Hat: with Red Hat Linux, where all the red hats have simply been removed ...
The elephant and the event horizon - what happens when an elephant falls into a black hole.
The Victorian Internet - Comparison of the telegraph network with today's Internet, including cultural impacts.
Analysis of SpamThru - nice trojan that has everything modern software needs: antivirus protection (against the competition, of course), P2P protocol for communication (for redundancy when the control server changes), strong encryption (in its own communication), template-based spam (text and graphics) ...
Report from the CCC Election Observers Group on the Mayor Election in Cottbus - no need for extensive comments. Read for yourself.
Electrosmog: Hot Topics - Effects of Microwaves on Cells. Yes, this also affects cell phones.
LEG wird privatisiert - which will bring in 2.5 billion once, which politicians will quickly squander. But the lost control, the sold-out foothold in the real estate market, through which the state could still intervene - that's gone for good. Stupid.
Mac OS X "Leopard" with extended access control - MAC for Mac OS X. Nice.
new snapshot tarballs finally - OpenMCL gets Unicode support.
Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords - speechless.
Köhler stops privatization of air traffic control - to take in a billion (which could just fill a small tributary of the German billion-dollar hole) to change the Basic Law and hand over air safety to corporations. Great idea, right? Selling off the family silver is nothing compared to this ...
Ogoglio - 3D worlds in the browser. Sounds interesting, let's observe.
Pi - in pixels. One pixel per digit, the digit as color. Cool. (and yes, I know, only a snippet of Pi)
Press freedom increasingly threatened - off to Scandinavia or Bolivia, which rank significantly ahead of Germany (and far ahead of the supposedly free USA). But we still think our Western culture is so wonderfully liberal ...
Towel Incident At The Westin Tokyo - for a change, the hotel "stole" the towels from the guest ...
Fefe's Blog - here with a nice collection of links about the voting machine debacle in Germany. Mainstream press? They don't care. It's just a few crackpots making noise ...
Fefe's Blog - about the (admitted) use of (banned) phosphorus bombs in Lebanon. It's just an additional agreement that you didn't sign ...
Category Consumer Protection: Association of German Insurers — BigBrotherAwards - exemplary picked out from the Big Brother Awards because it so nicely shows how little the economy cares about the rights of customers.
Unmut über Honorarsystem: Ärzte schließen Praxen - am I actually the only one who sees this whole thing a bit as extortion? With the patients as hostages?
Apartments to be removed from REIT law - the real competitive disadvantage for Germany are just the lobby-controlled politicians ...
Bundestag Petition against voting computers - I just signed it. Would it be something for you? Don't be surprised about the address - if you go through the Bundestag pages, you also end up on this .uk server for the e-petitions. Actually a poor performance that they apparently cannot be operated in Germany ...
Even at Bildblog, milkmaids are doing the math - yeah, that bothered me too. This silly Eschonda argument. Cars just fall from the sky and are given to people or something ...
The Dictatorship of the Meritocrats - a critical look at the current underclass discussion.
Ralph Griswold died - Snobol and Icon were long my preferred languages for string processing and tools. His Icon Analyst Newsletter was a long-time favorite read. His book on the implementation of Icon is a well-read read on building bytecode interpreters and compilers.
Addressbook X LDAP - interesting tool that can replicate data from the OS X Address Book to an LDAP server.
Edelentmant: Lies, Bribery, and Defamation Instead of Dialog - Don is doing investigative journalism again. Good stuff, that.
Companies return penitently from the East - politicians will certainly not talk about this, because you cannot justify social cuts, reductions in benefits, wage cuts and increased working hours with it.
Glos wants more flexible apprentices - what a windbag. Of course, prospective trainees who are not yet fully grown, fresh from school, why do they make a fuss, they should just travel all over the republic. Do the Prolethicians in Berlin ever think about the nonsense they talk?
Innen-Staatssekretär: Internet wichtiges Mittel für Islamisten - oh yes, the evil Internet and the bad users who download things there. By the way, this Hanning guy is with the SPD, just in case someone might think that he is from the right-wing camp because of his outbursts. He is. The SPD was never really left-wing, but nowadays it has also left the center to the right ...