At the current development in copyright law, the demand for self-justice of the music industry was simply only logical. And with the currently sick thinking in Berlin, it would not be surprising if this were granted ...
I've heard that Paranoia can indeed be treated within certain limits.
Eiffel development environment becomes Open Source - yes, there was another object-oriented language.
Man Was Enduring the Dentist's Drill 9,000 Years Ago - a 9,000-year-old dentist? Scary ...
Patent Busting: EFF against patent on online exams - and no end in sight for the ridiculous patents.
Python 3000 - Adaptation or Generic Functions? Wow. GvR sees the light! Generic functions in Python 3000! Hell freezes over, third time ...
What you never wanted to know about the South Pole, but you get told anyway.
Maemo Development Platform Roadmap - where the Nokia tablet with version 2.0 of the system is heading.
Colorblind Web Page Filter - a filter with which you can check websites for compatibility with various forms of color blindness.
Wow, I didn't realize that Apple is transitioning the XServe to AMD processors. I wonder if Intel agrees with their assessment of server performance?
Deutsche Bahn becomes a DSL provider - ok, this is definitely one of them. For the WDR, this is damn good.
IP addresses for vanity - yes, the date can sometimes be important.
WordPattern - probably the next one for today?
The Prolethicians in Düsseldorf have finally lost their minds, as they are advocating for a reference to God in the education law:
A draft law by the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia intends the following reformulation for §2 of the school law: "To awaken reverence for God, respect for the dignity of man, and willingness for social action is the highest goal of education."
As an atheist, I feel personally attacked and offended by such nonsense. We have a separation of state and religion in Germany - and it should stay that way. The demand for reverence towards a superstitious institution is an absurdity and an insult to every atheist and has simply no place there.
IBM offers bounty for Exchange customers - clear message (although Notes vs. Exchange is like "driving out the devil with Beelzebub" to me)
python-constraint - had I already seen this? Doesn't matter, there's a new link and everything is repeated on TV anyway. Constraint solver in Python. Could definitely be interesting for projects.
Geogen - a funny thing, even if it's quite boring with my common name (ok, at least rank 13 in the ranking!). But with the names of my grandparents, it's already easier ...
Merquery, Text Indexing and Search with a Focus - a full-text search engine in Python specifically for RAD frameworks? Let's see what comes out of this.
The Spider of Doom - ouch. Destructive GET and "security" through JavaScript, cookies, and redirects. You have only yourself to blame, one might say.
In response to the demands of Transparency International, Udo Vetter from Law Blog certifies the lawyer of the association a disturbed relationship to freedom of the press and freedom of opinion. With something like this, one would almost wish for an RSS feed for a possible court hearing to take place.
Münte sends agreement on protection against dismissal back to the coalition committee - is his rudimentary conscience speaking up, or is it all just show again?
Ullrich postpones season debut - that won't happen anymore. He probably won't be able to take his last chance at the Tour victory either.
Microsoft threatens with patent lawsuits in the USA - a warning signal for Europe - but will the bureaucrats in Brussels understand the warning signal? I have my doubts.
Seed: Prime Numbers Get Hitched - about the distribution of prime numbers in the universe of numbers. And why the answer is 42 after all.
IQ researcher calls Germans smartest Europeans - sorry, but if we're so smart, why do we have Merkel as chancellor?
SPD-Fraktion lehnt neues Urheberrecht ab - they will probably flip-flop again. Or will simply be ignored, as with software patents.
NASA probe makes super photo of Mars - new image material on the way!
ajaxWrite - everyone's talking about it, so I am too. Word-compatible, web-based, Ajax included. Enough buzzwords? It will probably be bought by Google or Yahoo ...
The Mac OS MUD Zone: Clients - lots of MUD clients for OS X.
Transparency International doesn't like criticism and sends in the lawyer - an employee was fired, the circumstances seem a bit rude on the company's part. A blogger reports on this. And the lawyer from Transparency International pulls out the big stick. Well, ix has a fitting compilation of further facts about this NGO. Everyone reads for themselves and judges for themselves what to make of it.
Only one thing should TI have considered: if the main goal is to present oneself and one's members as pioneers against corruption (why just present oneself? Why not be?), then one should not make such blunders at the same time. Because otherwise, one presents oneself as something quite different in the long run ...
I agree with Ralle from Netzbuch - Riya and similar ideas are definitely very strange and the reaction to them, or rather the enthusiasm for them, shows a very unreflective use of these systems by users. I find it surprising how much information users voluntarily put about themselves into the various allegedly social software products - and thus give themselves and their environment to the advertising partners and potentially everyone else with access to the data (law enforcement agencies, burglars, data thieves). More and more networking and less and less privacy, that seems to be the motto of Web 2.0 for some.
This federal windbag is really starting to get on my nerves. Is it now a prerequisite for a ministerial position to be completely brainless and not understand anything at all? The impact on private individuals is not the lawsuits of the public prosecutor's office - but the collection of personal data by the public prosecutor's office (which they still have to do even if they do not file a lawsuit themselves). That's what the mass claimants are after - so that they can then sue on a private basis. Where private individuals are left alone because copyright issues are not covered by many legal protection insurances.
A real blockbuster, how in Berlin once again the interests of citizens are traded for a dilapidated and money-greedy industry and their legal apparatus ...
The outrage of politicians over the impending death sentence against an ex-Muslim is already a bit absurd - what did you actually believe would emerge as a legal system in Afghanistan? Fiddled around for decades, then bombed to pieces, and now you're outraged about the madness they're pulling off there?
Not that I wanted to defend the verdict - any religiously motivated verdict is an audacity to me, because religion has no place in the state. But the outrage is quite hypocritical. Do they really believe that a great democracy has suddenly emerged there?
The current development was long foreseeable, but no one cared back then. Now there's outrage. But taking action against the madness won't happen anyway.
Everything is just social engagement, very clear. That's why you also register domains from others that become available and put sex images on them. And that's why you have a social tool that works like a Trojan horse and uses other people's computer resources. Clear, super social the whole thing. Fortunately, a court has now put an end to this.
Open Source Web Design - a bunch of web designs to download and use. Ideal for design losers like me
Just because it fits, Neil Gaiman is also being warned - for a link from one website to another website. Which in itself is nonsense - after all, the entire web consists of links (and no, the target website is nothing forbidden). The particularly absurd thing: he is not the one who placed the link. He only appears in a report on the website with a picture, that's all. With a tomato. And somewhere else there is a link to the website for the cult trash "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes". And the latter rights holders are probably the cause of the warning ...
The quality of research in the context of warnings seems to be suffering outside of Germany as well.
... when Ajax, JavaScript, Web 2.0 even make it into the Tagesschau newsfeed. Well, the Schieb, of course - the revival of Wolf-Gang, only thinner and no duet. And with less destructive tendencies towards technical equipment.
No idea what other services Euroweb Internet GmbH uses to make money, but publicity stunts should not be one of them, as they are currently reaching new lows with their approach to dealing with unfavorable criticism. Somehow, I don't understand such companies and their lawyers. On the one hand, it is constantly being said that the internet is not a lawless space - but through the massive approach and the potentially high costs, such actions make the internet de facto exactly that lawless space. And from the political side, there are at best drafts to escalate the whole situation, instead of providing useful tools against obvious excesses such as mass cease and desist letters. Or even considering to what extent the means of cease and desist against privately operated websites make sense at all, or whether the means of cease and desist should not be focused much more strongly.
... sues Google Kinderstart - because they are not ranked number 1 on Google, unlike other search engines, when searching for the term "Kinderstart". Is this somehow a permanent full moon?
First, they wanted to ban private copies and P2P software, then legalize private copies, then ban them again, and now they want to ban the distribution of P2P software:
According to him, up to three years imprisonment and a fine of up to 300,000 euros should be imposed on anyone who "knowingly" and publicly distributes software that is "obviously designed" to allow unauthorized access to protected works or other objects. Even the distribution of information about such programs can be punished just as severely. The article, which is clearly directed against P2P software, is not intended to affect programs that enable telecooperation, research, or the exchange of works that do not require compensation, according to Christian Vanneste, the parliamentary reporter responsible for the law.
With their back and forth, one gets quite dizzy. And apparently, common sense is left by the wayside ...
Wow, the Münsterland is getting its own professional race:
Münster is having a professional race again. At a press conference on Friday, the "Münsterland-Giro" was presented, which was immediately classified into the UCI category 1.1 and will take place on October 3rd.
Very nice. Groningen-Münster wasn't really a hit - the starting lists were rather poor. But if a race in the same category as Henninger Turm or Rund um Köln takes place, you actually have a chance to see some of the top riders.
PS3 to ship with Linux, Sony confirms:
Sony President Ken Kutaragi confirmed that the Playstation 3 (PS3) has been delayed, at a press conference in Tokyo earlier this week. Kutaragi additionally confirmed that the gaming console will ship with an upgradable 60GB hard drive pre-installed with Linux, according to in-depth coverage at 1up.com.
Wow. This is already an amazing thing if it actually happens - at Sony, you only know what they are doing when they have done it. Wouldn't be the first plan that is quietly dropped. But a gaming console with an "official" Linux would be interesting.
After so many people have cried to me that SAP has such a great corporate philosophy that is incompatible with works councils, there is now a clear statement from the company management:
SAP would then see the possibility of establishing research laboratories in Latin America or Eastern Europe, and of intensifying the competition between the ten laboratories currently existing worldwide. One would then be global enough, but nevertheless more than half of the world's development capacities would still be concentrated in Walldorf.
Yeah, people, keep telling yourselves you don't need a works council. Dreamers ...
So, for example, the complaints of the Guantanamo detainees? Quite simple in the USofAbsurdity: one simply forbids the detainees from filing complaints.
Somewhere it was to be expected, nevertheless the way Dave Winer is now completely nuts is pretty rare even for him. I mean, with Rogers Cadenhead he had someone who, despite all his troublemaking (especially around the RSS Advisory Board), tried to make him look somewhat good. Well, that's over now. Dave Winer is just the prototype of an internet sociopath. Shitty Software. Shitty Manners.
Google has acquired SketchUp - a manufacturer of 3D software. This makes you think, especially if you've just been dealing with virtual 3D worlds. Could something like Second Life from Google be on the horizon in the long run? If you look at what multi-user 3D virtual environments need: render farms, disk space, network bandwidth, distributed architecture, delivery of massive amounts of data, user management, chat architecture, accounting system, payment processing - Google already has all of that. And the subscription model could be interesting for Google, as it is similar to the advertising stories.
TUD:OS - TU Dresden Operating Systems - a few determined individuals keep the idea of the microkernel alive. Good so!
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