Camera phones are also used by voyeurs
How - besides perverts, is there another buyer segment for this junk?
At heise online news there's the original article.
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Lenin Shines
The question remains: does it also glow in the dark?
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
Railway Managers Fly
Ok. Form an orderly group, megaphones out, everyone together please: "Me-dorn-out! Me-dorn-out! Me-dorn-out!".
At Der Rollberg you can find the original article.
New pricing system: Railway fires two managers
Well, as long as Mehdorn remains in charge, I don't really believe that a new pricing system will be any better than the mess that Mehdorn has piled up...
At WDR.de I found the original article.
Clueless and cynical politicians
Particularly amusing are such proposals when you consider that we have too few jobs, not too few workers. Could it be that someone has stopped thinking?
At Der Schockwellenreiter you can find the original article.
Matrix Reloaded features nmap
Cool, in Matrix Reloaded, there's actually real hacking in a hack scene: first finding a host with nmap and then using an ssh exploit to break into the host. No more of the silly Stone Age login screens with nonsensical commands and ridiculous text, but a somewhat realistic situation with actual programs. Cool! On http://insecure.org there are a few screenshots with explanations. On bbums rants, code & references I found the original article.
dot.comical
Poor commercial sites. Maybe it will eventually dawn on them what the problem is: they're sometimes so boring that nobody wants to link to them. And then down they go in the Google ranking, because the pages are simply and plainly not relevant.
At Der Schockwellenreiter you can find the original article.
Court bans domains with city names
Hardly has a court issued a sensible ruling on Internet matters ( Court clarifies liability for Internet forum operators), when the next one comes along and does very strange things again. Let's look forward to a good wave of nonsensical lawsuits and cease-and-desist letters. You can find the original article at heise online news here.
Marvin Minsky: Artificial Intelligence is Brain Dead
Minsky is right. Sure, today's AI solutions uncover credit card fraud: but they are narrow specialists. Only capable of attacking tightly defined problems.
The big goal, the creation of artificial intelligence (and dealing with the big picture and the overall question of what intelligence actually is) has receded into the background, replaced instead by a focus on details and fragments of the world.
Logically, there's money for this from the business sector - in times when government funding for research without a specific purpose is declining further and only purpose-driven private funding (or from the business sector) is available, researchers eventually have to deliver something as a result that can be put to use.
And that's why real AI research is falling by the wayside. We now understand in much greater detail how computers can solve partial areas. But do we know more about how intelligence actually works? How we can replicate such a thing with machines? No. That part has receded into the distant future.
At heise online news there's the original article.
Texas bill: enviro = terrorist
In Texas there is a bill that would make Greenpeace (or other environmental activists) a terrorist organization and donations to Greenpeace a punishable act.
I found the original article at Warblogs:CC.
Rail long-distance traffic continues to decline
It is of course not the fault of the pricing system, because that is Mehdorn's doing and Mehdorn knows everything and can do everything and is right anyway. Please dear Deutsche Bahn, revert the pricing system or correct it massively and throw Mehdorn out before his great plans completely ruin the railway.
At tagesschau im Internet there is the original article.
Bianchi Team receives Coast license
Well, that was quick ...
I found the original article on WDR.de.
The Anonymous Packers
Well, what's really behind it all remains unclear. Just hot air? Or an attempted rip-off? Or simply political propaganda and preparation for the next election to create a suitable climate?
I found the original article at Telepolis News here.
Canned Meat II
Folks, have you all already forgotten what role lawyer Steinhöfel played in the D-Info affair, for example? I recommend doing a little research on Google. At Der Schockwellenreiter you can find the original article.
Court clarifies liability of internet forum operators
Very good decision.
Metablogging
But what about the lonely heroes who blog on a self-knitted community server with self-knitted software? Am I now a self-knitted community?
At Der Schockwellenreiter you'll find the original article.
Microsoft's Protocol Peepshow
In class. I'd rather look at the Samba sources if I need information about the Microsoft protocols, at least the sources are free.
At heise online news there's the original article.
Routing tables under Linux vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks
Ouch. 400 packets per second isn't much. Patching seems to be in order.
At heise online news there's the original article.
Police puts .NET search system into operation
Uh - .NET requires user authorization against Passport as a component. Are they using that now? Do all police officers now authenticate against the Passport server when making inquiries via mobile device?
I think this fancy toy is going to spark some entirely new hacker visions for some people
At heise online news there's the original article.
SCO declares total war on GNU/Linux
That sounds like the economic suicide of the SCO Group...
At Advogato there is the original article.
T-Mobile stops Windows phone [Update]
And once again a mobile network provider is backing out of Microsoft's mobile operating system. Seems like a really mature system if even T-Mobile doesn't want to have it
At heise online news you can find the original article.
BMWi stops OpenSource projects
In the Heise ticker, the true motivation behind the BMWi's open source activity is revealed: Linux is a "good bargaining chip" to also oblige Microsoft to adopt open interfaces and standards. "We're now getting everything delivered for free that we didn't even dare to wish for before," explained the government representative, alluding to Redmond's expanded Shared Source program and the recently granted discounts in licensing negotiations. They wanted nothing more. A bargaining chip for cost reduction. The BMWi never really understood the true purpose of open source — for example, the much more transparent software landscape with genuine verifiability of systems. That's exactly the problem that keeps coming up: companies decide on open source purely for cost reasons, then a dumping offer comes from Microsoft or another major vendor and — boom — open source is no longer a topic. And the real advantages are simply given up again.
The BMWi simply hasn't really learned anything from working with open source.
At Industrial Technology & Witchcraft, you can find the original article.
On Lisp Reprint
Cool. If you haven't got the book yet and want to dive deeper into Common Lisp: grab it and buy it! One of the best books on Common Lisp and definitely the best description of the possibilities of Common Lisp macros.
At lemonodor you can find the original article.
Python panic around Jülich?
Also sometimes Python panic also breaks out in our company, especially when I have to work with Python 1.5 again
At WDR.de there's the original article.
Ullrich separates from Coast
Oh my goodness. Will he quickly get a new contract to participate in the Tour? It would certainly be nice, who knows when he'll be in such good form again as this year ...
It's a shame about the Coast team itself though. Good people in it who now have to look for a new team.
I found the original article on tagesschau im Internet.
Velvia 100 due in August
Well, hopefully it will then finally be available to buy properly in Germany, not like Kodak Portra 400 UC or Fuji Neopan Acros, which are almost only available by mail order...
At PhotographyBLOG you can find the original article.
Inquiry Shows British Scientists Took Brains Without Families' Consent
Does that perhaps explain why Blair has been doing such strange things lately? Could he be part of the dark figure?
I found the original article at New York Times: Science.
Orchids Are Just Asparagus Too
So I'll be ordering orchids with ham at the pub soon
I found the original article at Spiegel Online: Wissenschaft.
Expert: VAT must increase
What has always puzzled me: whenever the economic situation seems serious, all sorts of experts eagerly come along and say that VAT needs to go up. Oddly enough, none of these experts ever come up with the idea of calling for a VAT reduction when the economic situation improves...
At RP Online: Politik there's the original article.
The Shockwave Rider's Nag Turns 50!
I'd like to congratulate right away
At Der Schockwellenreiter you can find the original article.
NRW nameserver circumvents blocking order
No need to comment on that separately, speaks for itself
At heise online news you can find the original article.
Mayor of Hanau Recalled
Well, even the cook can't help you there ...
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
Donald E. Knuth on Significant Whitespace
We will perhaps eventually be writing only small modules which are identified by name as they are used to build larger ones, so that devices like indentation, rather than delimiters, might become feasible for expressing local structure in the source language. Donald E. Knuth, "Structured Programming with goto Statements", Computing Surveys, Vol 6 No 4, Dec. 1974 Digest that, you Perl hackers!
(BTW: I'm a Perl hacker myself, so I'm allowed to gripe)
Great Barrier Reef
I took a look at the Profamilia site regarding the article. Wow - someone really has no idea about accessibility. Ok, my pages are also built with tables, but I don't claim that it's really barrier-free either. At least I test my pages with Lynx to see how a screen reader might render my pages - and they're usable. You really can't say that about the Profamilia pages. Not only do they use frames (which can already be a big problem with screen readers), their frame names are also so meaningless - just take a look at the main page (i.e. the frameset) in the LynxViewer. If you click through one after another (!) on the frames bv zw start.html , unten , f_inhalt and inhalt, then you actually get some content served. Yes, four levels of nested framesets. Before that, two redirects as well. Ridiculous. At Ligne Claire there's the original article.
Microsoft faces trillion-dollar fine
Did I already say that I find the bug they built in (funneling form data for expelling a participant through open parameters, making it easy to manipulate and causing the internal system to work with other expulsion data) highly embarrassing? May I dwell on it a bit longer?
At Spiegel Online: Netzwelt there's the original article.
My leg is a security hole
Cool. Rogers Cadenhead was injured in the leg by a Microsoft bug - there's only one reaction to that: sue Microsoft immediately!
At Workbench you can find the original article.
Ullrich back to Telekom?
So I think he should go to Bjarne Riis. But they probably don't pay well enough for him. That's a shame, really – a driver with that talent and a sports director with Tour experience, that could be really great.
At WDR.de I found the original article.
Web browser Safari slacks on SSL certificates
Hubbala, that's a pretty stupid bug.
At heise online news there's the original article.
Jan Ullrich on the Verge of Jumping
And come on, now let's finally settle this once and for all, I want to know whether Ullrich will ride the Tour or not. That Mr. Dahms must be a strange fellow ...
At WDR.de I found the original article.
Juice reduction
Stirring the shit - I think that's quite an apt description. I also like this one: And through some fluke of their evil software, they seem to get indexed really fast [...] - could someone please show me this fluke of my evil software? I'd like to know what it looks like
At The Doc Searls Weblog you'll find the original article.
(re)StructuredText
In response to my colleague's question (since he still doesn't enable comments on his posts and his forum requires registration and I don't want to sign up
): (re) Structured-Text is used with Python DocUtils. This is also used in the Python Desktop Server so that I don't have to write content in HTML. The Python Desktop Server also includes a module StructuredText.py that can be used for standalone deployment - it does have minimal dependencies on the Python Desktop Server, but these are automatically disabled when used standalone (it's mainly about enrichment and automatic linking to content from the weblog tool - so it could also be used in other projects). In general, I can only recommend (re) StructuredText, it's very convenient - in my opinion the most advanced text-to-HTML converter currently available for Python. There is a released version 0.2 and a CVS version 0.3 - the Python Desktop Server is based on the 0.2 version, so when trying out the module, make sure to use the correct version!
For the Python Desktop Server, on the other hand, the CVS version of the StructuredText.py module should be used because it contains massive changes from Garth T. Kidd that significantly expand the functionality - the previous release version of the Python Desktop Server still has an HTML converter I built myself with reduced functionality.
At Der Schockwellenreiter you can find the original article.
Will Google block weblogs?
Hmm. There are already two pure blog search engines based on blog content (more precisely on RSS feeds) (http://feedster.com and http://rss-search.com). And http://daypop.comm as well as http://popdex.com and certainly several other blog tools also offer searches on blog content (in that case probably on normal web content). So Google would just be another one in that regard. The idea isn't really new. However, separating blogs from the main index would be fatal - because blogs are often more than just the blog itself. Not all content is offered there for syndication and is therefore available in RSS form (for example, the Python Desktop Server is to my knowledge the only blogging tool that creates an RSS feed for stories as well - with Radio, stories remain excluded from the RSS feed).
Let's see how it continues and what will ultimately actually be implemented.
At Der Schockwellenreiter there is the original article.
Bush & Blair Nominated for Nobel Prize
What? Is there a more brainless suggestion than awarding the Peace Prize to warmongers?
At Industrial Technology & Witchcraft you can find the original article.
Nearly 100 Million for Victims of September 11
The claims are directed, among others, at Osama bin Laden, Al Qaeda and the Iraqi government under Saddam Hussein. - uh, what? Al Qaeda, okay, understandable. Osama bin Laden - well, as the intellectual originator (or instigator) I can go along with that. But who has ever proven a connection between Saddam Hussein and September 11 anywhere? That sounds to me more like someone is just looking for a reason to get their hands on Iraq's coffers - which they've already secured anyway.
As evidence of Iraq's connections to Al Qaeda, according to the plaintiffs' lawyer, they presented, among other things, the relevant statements by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell before the Security Council. - so it seems clear that the verdict is based on lies. And therefore has nothing whatsoever to do with the rule of law.
At RP Online: Politik there's the original article.
Patent Dispute over Spam Protection
Yes, brilliant, patent nonsense again. However, it should be easy to demonstrate prior art for challenge-response via email - many mailing list systems have been using this method for sign-ups for a very long time. At heise online news there is the original article.
Vulnerability in Microsoft's Passport
Ouch. That's an absolute beginner's mistake they made there. Embarrassing. Really embarrassing.
You can find the original article on heise online news.
Spam in the future 'unacceptable harassment'
About time. It was getting slow. Let's hope the draft passes soon, so at least action can be taken against German spammers.
The original article can be found at Industrial Technology & Witchcraft at den Originalartikel.
Jan Ullrich's team again without license
Somehow this is already more than embarrassing ...
At tagesschau im Internet I found the original article.
AOL Weblogs?
Yeah. That's still missing. A flood of millions of AOL weblogs that would then completely sink the Google index.
Well, fortunately it won't mean the same thing as the situation back then with newsgroups, since weblogs are fortunately a pull medium and not a push medium like news. Except that some central service might run into light problems if, for example, all AOL weblogs start pinging weblogs.com
At owrede_log I found the original article.