Unencrypted WLAN and Störerhaftung: LG Hamburg opens Pandora's box - because we haven't had a strange ruling for a long time ... this could be the death knell for free WLAN in cafes if this catches on ...
Archive 3.8.2006 - 11.9.2006
Study: Heavy chatters often have mental disorders - in 61 people recruited through an outpatient clinic for internet addicts, a scientist found internet addiction and mental disorders. Wow. Likely the same scientist would also find increased alcohol consumption in alcoholics ...
elektrosmog: Flickragentur - this is how business works. Utilization of images from private users in a print medium. Without paying the photographers. Convenient. Have you already canceled your Flickr account and deleted the pictures?
FireWire-Ultra SCSI Converter FR1SX[RATOC] - Use SCSI devices with Firewire.
Going for a Walk - walking on a treadmill in Second Life.
Pluto no longer a planet - Rewrite textbooks. Pluto is now just a dwarf planet, along with Ceres and Xena. And Charon remains a moon. Too bad - a double planet would have been cool for our solar system.
Kiel's Justice Minister criticizes anonymization service - hasty activism and populist bleating instead of serious concepts.
SPD debating cutting the widow's pension - to improve women's earnings situation. Because, instead of forcing the economy to implement quota regulations (and thus ensuring that women in underrepresented professions are promoted more strongly), it is of course a good idea to blackmail the women themselves. Either go to work or perish. Women are just too lazy to work because of the widow's pension and the splitting of spouses. Is there actually any stupid idea that a German politician hasn't had?
Tom Cruise soon unemployed? - Paramount has fired him. It's about time.
Boom of the Riester pension continues - just to clarify: the Riester pension is a private pension insurance model that is co-financed with tax money. What is there to celebrate here? The stupidity of voters who accept such nonsense? If the money went directly into the regular pension fund, it would be used more efficiently. But once again, tax money is used to subsidize the private sector ...
Sternwarte Bochum has original recordings of the Apollo mission - only part of it, and certainly recorded differently than at NASA, but it still helps as a bulwark against all the moon hoax fanatics.
Kurt advises Telekom to talk about VDSL - you can think what you want about Telekom, like or not, but doesn't it seem strange to anyone but me that a supposedly now private corporation is being forced to make millions of investments, to which other large corporations like British Telecom (which was also subsidized for a long time, just by the British) expect "unrestricted access"? Is that all that the alleged free marketeers can come up with - forced giving away of services that are pushed with our tax money and built with our contributions? To foreign corporations that are also well subsidized themselves?
Uncertainty about the legal validity of ElsterOnline - handcrafted errors, my Ass.
Vampire sea spiders suck on prey - Deep-sea monster spiders.
Fishermen missing for nine months rescued - wow. The three fishermen should sell the film rights as quickly as possible.
Basic mit Come From - written in Lisp. Insane.
DM's Esoteric Programming Languages - Piet Samples - Sample programs in the Piet programming language, whose source code looks like Mondrian paintings. Insane.
OFF - Owner Free Filesystem. An interesting idea where only XOR-diffs between files are stored in a distributed manner and are designed so that each block of numbers can be combined with others to create various original files - which, according to the authors, makes the individual blocks of numbers not copyrightable, as they belong to different originals at the same time.
A naive idea - not even that naive. Probably too obvious for politicians. Well, one thing is clear: our politicians hate our freedom far more than the attackers - because our politicians constantly attack our freedom. Again and again. At all levels.
Merlin XU870 3G HSDPA 7.2 ExpressCard - Direct UMTS in the MacBook Pro?
AMD talks about ATI - possible open-sourcing of the drivers?
Bill Biggart's Final Exposures - Images from the WTC attack by a photographer who was killed by debris on that day.
Idaho Observer: Aspartame - The World’s Best Ant Poison - Diet Cola? Perfect Ant Poison. At least the sweetener used - developed as ant poison, but as a sweetener it makes more money ...
An AOL Searcher No. 4417749 Is Identified - it's one thing to say that the search queries published by AOL can be traced back to names. Another thing is to actually do it - the NY Times can not only fake photos, but sometimes also be investigative ...
O'Reilly's list of the most popular programming languages - absurd, how a publisher, who has long been facing competition in its core area from others (e.g. apress and manning), still acts as if they could provide some definitions. And not just trying to boost their own sales and define the market by selecting the topics published.
Update accelerates Parallels Desktop for Mac OS X - hopefully the support for non-US keyboards will finally be worth something. That is currently the most severe drawback of Parallels.
ApplicationRepositories - Maemo Wiki - a list of all currently known application pools for integration into the installer on the Nokia Tablet.
Star Trek Inspirational Posters - brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.
BS Exporter for Blender - export interactive VRML from Blender (static VRML is already supported by default)
David Byrne(yes, the one from Talking Heads) blogged. Among other things, against American Christianist madness.
The state is leaving, the economy is coming - Education is the most important asset of society. We are selling it off.
MacWeb3D - everything about virtual worlds on the Macintosh
Synthetic testosterone - in Landis' blood samples. Well, that's that then. It will certainly drag on for a long time, but the career is probably suspended for now.
Voigt in Yellow - class. First he wins a stage victory and now he at least has the yellow jersey for one day (by the way, taken over from Zabel!).
VRML Primer and Tutorial - free book about VRML97
How the railway is being dismantled - Silverware. Especially cheap.
QAvimator - extended animation software that also allows the integration of reference objects for better positioning.
Hackers Clone RFID Passports - oh, great, the blackhats have demonstrated how easy it is to clone a German passport with RFID (i.e. the RFID part of it). Result? A blank piece of paper with an RFID chip that looks like the original ID to the electronic reader.
New "Web'n'Walk" data options at T-Mobile - the bureaucratic nightmare (which still seems to be rampant at telecoms) would neigh if it could handle the application form and the 100-page instructions for filling it out ...
SLStats: Is Big Brother Watch-ing? - we all have nothing to hide, even in virtual worlds. It's strange somehow, how willingly people give out data, even if it's other people's data, or very personal data.
The scientist whom history forgot - Emilie du Châtelet.
Official pre-formulated text on the right of withdrawal is invalid - yet another example of our federal justice bungling ...
Girllovers - Behind the Mirrors - click and read. I mean it!
Kinderschutzbund: "Insurance companies must pay for anesthetics" - please what? Professional anesthesia should be removed from the service catalog? Have they completely lost their minds in Berlin?