Currywurst can make mice addicted
May I use that as an excuse now?
At RP-Online: Science I found the original article.
Artikel - 1.4.2003 - 11.4.2003
Home is where CVSROOT is...
Not such a bad idea, simply synchronizing the home directory via CVS to a server and then updating from mobile devices.
And another thing: the Zaurus stores quite a lot as XML - you can use that wonderfully with CVS. And that would give you an exchange option for calendars and similar things with desktop tools. And via transconnect I could also synchronize that with the computer at the office.
Hmm ...
At [/ndy's Weblog][0] there's the original article.
The Save Farscape Library Project
Hmm. To be honest: that sounds a lot like library spam to me.
I found the original article on netbib weblog.
Office Software at No Cost
Hey, the WDR is advertising OpenOffice!
At WDR.de you can find the original article.
Christian Fundamentalists on the Rise
Found at Shock Wave Rider: an article in the Guardian about the quiet (or not quite so quiet) advance of creationists and other distortions of science in America. The new tactic is to attack weak points in established theories and through the back door open the same to absurd theories. It's shocking that such things actually find resonance in the scientific community and in education, and are even partially supported by law...
Hands up, who believed that with the third millennium perhaps a time of reason could dawn? Fooled.
At Der Schockwellenreiter I found the original article.
Jan Ullrich in good form
Getting off to a good start. Now it'll really be exciting to see how he positions himself in the Tour. Of course, he certainly won't have a chance against Armstrong this year, but it'll be interesting to see how he compares with other top riders (who would that be this year? Beloki again?).
I found the original article at tagesschau im Internet.
New risk assessment required
This could indeed represent a decisive turning point in assessing radiation risks.
At Telepolis News I found the original article.
Paul Graham speculates about programming languages in 100 years
Nice thoughts from Lisp Guy No 1 (ok, he's had the title only since Guy L. Steele defected to the Java camp).
Seehofer accuses Union leadership of mismanagement
Come on, Seehofer, stop the nonsense. Stop giving the Union any advice - eventually they'll listen to you and then things will get uncomfortable for us. After all - thanks to the SPD's relative incompetence - the even greater incompetence of the Union leadership is our only hope of still being spared a new Union government.
I found the original article at tagesschau im Internet.
World's largest digital camera delivers first images
A 340 megapixel digital camera - well Canon and Kodak, any idea how you want to top that?
I found the original article at Spiegel Online: Science.
Worldwide dumbest security measures 'honored'
With such absurd security measures, one could almost become paranoid
I found the original article on heise online news.
ARD team proves use of uranium-containing ammunition
Yes great, so they haven't learned anything from the recent deployments of this crap (not that that would surprise me - military and learning sounds a bit like Christmas and Easter on the same day)
At tagesschau on the Internet there's the original article.
Contax Tvs Review at Steve's Digicams
Well, it seems that TVS Digital didn't get good press from Steve's Digicams. And actually, he's not such a brand fetishist who would just trash a brand like Contax or Leica just because it has that name...
At PhotographyBLOG I found the original article.
Iceland wants to hunt whales again
Great. Now Iceland is also joining Japan and Norway in the circle of liars and whale murderers. Whaling for scientific purposes, that's a good one...
At Spiegel Online: Science I found the original article.
John C. Dvorak is a blithering idiot
That's exactly what I thought when I first heard his absurd prediction that Apple would switch to Intel processors within 2 years at the latest. Ok, now he's going even further and claiming that Apple will go bankrupt if they don't implement his great plan. Seems a bit confused in the head, this so-called tech journalist.
Although his great predictions and ideas contain a lot of errors: for example, his claim that with the x86 version of OS X all the Linux people could port their software. Has this nincompoop never heard of Fink or GNU-Darwin or similar projects that already allow porting Unix software to regular PPC Macs today?
At algorhythm I found the original article.
Empty Palace
I found the empty spaces fascinating too - it would really be amusing if the Americans had gone to all that trouble and effort (and deaths) to take an empty palace. What would they have to do for an occupied palace?
And as for the dead and injured: the bombing of Al-Jazeera is working on that too
At Hexentanz I found the original article.
Media hotel hit, several journalists injured
Well, in the case of Al-Jazeera's presence, one can almost assume it was intentional. In the first Gulf War they already tried something similar. The press is inconvenient, especially when it doesn't report what the war effort would like to see reported ...
Also see a report at Telepolis.
At Hexentanz I found the original article.
Microsoft's Guide Against Linux
This is probably more of a guide "How to make a fool of yourself in front of a knowledgeable customer in 10 easy steps"
At heise online news there's the original article.
Minolta Announce Dimage Scan Elite 5400
The scanner sounds very interesting. When I think about the quality of the Minolta scanners I had direct or indirect contact with (Scan Elite, Scan Dual III, and Scan Multi II), the new Minolta could be a real dream device for 35mm. (Of course, it doesn't work for me because of medium format - I need the 6x9 cm scanning area of the Multi II).
At PhotographyBLOG I found the original article.
Sensational discovery: Stone Age dagger excavated at Lake Constance
Dear RP-Online editorial team: When archaeologists find flint daggers, they discover them if they want to emphasize the Indiana Jones factor. If they want to highlight the work involved, they excavated them.
But they absolutely never have "ausgebuddelt" them!
At RP-Online: Science I found the original article.
U.S. Department of Defense Supports OpenBSD
Astonishing. 2.3 million US dollars to a Canadian war opponent for improving his operating system. Probably only worked because Rumsfeld didn't catch wind of it, otherwise he would have sent the Marines immediately.
For the OpenBSD project this is of course great and raises hopes for the rest of the open source world (OpenSSH was also a project from the OpenBSD environment).
I found the original article on heise online news.
BBC: US Bombs on Own Troops
And the war of the Americans against their allies continues. Interesting in this regard are also figures I found at [[ t e c h n o c u l t u r e ]][0]: in the first Gulf War, 53 of the 146 killed Americans were killed by the Americans themselves. And the Americans killed more British soldiers than the Iraqis did in the same conflict.
Somehow one almost gets the impression that the Gulf Wars are a continuation of the War of Independence against the British
At tagesschau im Internet there is the original article.
Merkel: One month no money for the unemployed
New offensive in terms of the inhumanity of the pot lid hairstyle. The unemployed are just lazy bums who don't even try to find work. That's why they need to be motivated. At tagesschau im Internet there's the original article.
OpenXP: From Shareware to Free Software
Achherrjeh, Crosspoint. Terrible memories of ergonomic software with strange bugs come back up. I don't know if I should be enthusiastic about the memories
And the peathead didn't mention MausNet with a single word, not even in the list of supported protocols! Shame on him!
At kuro5hin.org there's the original article.
Is the Gorilla's Final Hour Soon Approaching?
That would indeed be a very sad world without primates anymore :-(
At RP-Online: Wissenschaft I found the original article.
72 Percent for Rüttgers
"My goal is victory in May 2005," said Jürgen Rüttgers today at the CDU state party conference in Bochum. - yet another horror scenario. First Koch threatens that he wants to become Chancellor (the Bavarian perpetual threat is still at the ready), Merkenix wants to cut pensions for singles, Möllemann wants to start his own party and Rüttgers wants to be allowed to run down NRW. All that's missing is Karl Dall running for Federal President ...
At WDR.de you can find the original article.
George W. Bush's Morning Reading
I'm passing along the tip about the Monitor report on Bush and religion. The report was really very interesting. Though the connections between Moon and the Bush administration (and Bush family!) are also quite noteworthy - apparently all a tangled mix of pseudo-religion, apocalyptic fantasies, and good old megalomania.
Jutta has written a few articles on the Moon sect and its connections to the Bush administration: What does the Bush family have to do with the Moon sect? and Bush appoints Josette Shiner as deputy in US foreign trade office. And then there's the strange circumstance that a very large part of the Bush administration is connected to the oil or chemical industry. At Der Rollberg you can find the original article.
George Lakoff: Metaphor and War, Again
An interesting article by George Lakoff about the metaphors that define this Gulf War and how these metaphors shape the depiction of the war. Language has great power. Or as George puts it: Metaphors can kill. Here you can find the original article.
Politicians' Language in Times of War
The article essentially says everything that needs to be said. But as long as there are politicians who don't blame the warring parties for the outbreak of a war, but instead blame those who protested against the war and refused to participate in it, we will continue to live with diminishments and downplayings of murder and manslaughter in our language.
I found the original article on RP-Online: Wissenschaft.
Anti-war slogan coined, repurposed and Googlewashed... in 42 days
An article about the effects blogs have on Google PageRanks. The author is upset that a term — "The second superpower" — is being redefined from its original meaning of public opinion through Google rankings to a blog and an article, both written by James Moore. He equates this with an erasure of the original meaning and an overwriting with a new meaning caused by a small list of A-List bloggers (there is no cabal). Fair enough. Google rankings are vulnerable to attack through links — we've known this since Google bombs. But what does that mean for terms and meanings?
I think the author is shooting way over the target by treating Google as a meaning-defining authority. Google is first and foremost just an automaton, based on arbitrary algorithms, operated by a company that wants to make money through embedded advertising blocks and selling its technology.
Just because Google is currently the most commonly used search engine (is it even?) doesn't automatically make it meaning-defining. It's not an expert team that scientifically analyzes queries. It's not even a system based on democratic consensus. It's simply based on a series of algorithms with which it calculates the relevance of a result.
As one can see, for example, in Kasparov's battle against chess computers, even in a highly deterministic environment like chess, correctly evaluating a chess position (and that's all a chess program does — evaluate positions relative to other positions that arise from a series of moves) is extremely difficult.
The contents of search engines, on the other hand, are human-authored works with all the usual problems: ambiguities, irony, typos, deliberate lies and whatever else people come up with. How is an automaton supposed to reliably determine the relevance rating of a document based on the user's input and the available alternative documents? It can't. There are only approximate solutions. And in these — necessarily, since nothing else exists — technical information and structural information are added and weighted according to predetermined rules.
The automaton doesn't grasp meaning and content. Therefore, an automaton simply cannot be meaning-defining for an expression.
The only thing Google-washing proves is the vulnerability of Google's algorithms. Nothing more and nothing less. And that one should reasonably work with meta-search engines if one wants a broader and more balanced mix of information. In the end, this is probably just someone who is pissed off for relying too much on technology.
I'll spare myself an assessment of the sometimes rather apocalyptic conclusions drawn in the article, as well as the slight hint of paranoia that shines through.
Giant squid caught off Antarctica
Too small for a decent sea monster, but already quite impressive.
I found the original article on Spiegel Online: Science.
Ahhhh....
Super. No wonder they're so pissed off about the alleged persecution of the Moon sect in Germany. Well, it fits well with this president ... At MEHRZWECKBEUTEL you can find the original article.
Elephants can run quite fast
But the braking distance ...
At RP-Online: Wissenschaft I found the original article.
Microsoft patent on "probabilistic classifiers"
Yeah great, Microsoft has a patent on statistical spam filters
At Gary Robinson: Gary Robinsons Spam Rants I found the original article.
Olympus Stylus 400/300 Digital Reviews
That sounds really quite interesting, like a digital replacement for an Mju II. But it's not an option as a replacement for my Contax T
I found the original article at PhotographyBLOG.
Peter Arnett and treason.
Now a Senator is calling for Peter Arnett to be charged with treason because of his interview on Iraqi television. What absurd forms is the war against the public that the USA is waging taking on?
The land of the free and the brave - where you get fired for having your own opinion and charged as a traitor. It doesn't help either if you have freedom of the press written in your constitution...
I found the original article at Ben Hammersley.com.
Photoshop in War
A LA Times photographer composited images in Photoshop because they looked better together that way than the two originals separately. And that's why he's now a former LA Times photographer. The wonderful world of digital...
Belgium defuses genocide law
Great. A few threatening gestures and simple blackmail and Belgium caves in to the USA.
I found the original article at tagesschau on the internet at tagesschau.
Businesses should be able to train more easily
And what kind of training is that supposed to be then? Shoddy work/IHK? Or maybe insolvency assistant? State-certified bankruptcy vulture?
Sorry folks, but obtaining trainer qualification isn't that difficult, that's hardly the reason for the shortage of apprenticeship positions. And apprenticeship positions without proper training don't benefit any apprentice - in the end that's just exploitation of cheap labor.
When I hear the usual reasons against hiring apprentices, it's more like statements that it would be too much work.
Well, if you want fully trained skilled workers, you have to train them at some point. But you can't do that in the small backyard shop without a trainer - and those who weren't trained properly (or were simply used as cheap labor), are out on the street after their apprenticeship.
At tagesschau im Internet there's the original article.
Kiel State Parliament increases allowances by almost 50 percent
Well, that's quite a savings plan, surely easy to communicate to the base and citizens. And this wonderful unity between SPD and CDU, absolutely delightful.
At RP Online: Politik I found the original article.
Möllemann: Bush belongs before a tribunal
Hmm. Möllemännchen is now wearing blue with white doves
I found the original article at RP Online: Politik.
Red-Green agrees on new terrorism paragraph
Our terrorist problem in Germany is just sooooo big, so we definitely need even stricter laws.
I found the original article at RP Online: Politik.
Sony ordered to pay $25m in patent claim
And the patent madness continues
At Imaging Resource News Page I found the original article.
Does Merkel have anything to do with 'merken'?
Clear answer: Nope.
At Zickenterror I found the original article.
New QuickTime Version
Question: (Why do I actually have a Unix kernel if I have to restart the machine anyway?)
Answer: Because Apple didn't build more sophisticated mechanisms (restart server process, reload services, update frameworks, etc.) into the installation routines, but only a restart of the entire computer.
Yes, that's stupid.
I found the original article at Der Schockwellenreiter.
NewCode, a secure PL
Now that's quite an innovative approach! I found the original article at Lambda the Ultimate.
Polaroid 600 SE completed
I recently finally tracked down the last important piece for the Polaroid 600 SE: a 6x9 roll film back. Now the camera is complete. I think I'll take some photos of all the equipment soon and post them here. Really fine gear!
Series production for IBM's "Universal Business Adapter"
So when they posted it, it was still March 31st and not April 1st.
At heise online news there is the original article.
US Special Adviser Forges Post-War Plans
Hmm. A US American colony with military rule. Hmm. So far the USA has only supported such governments through the CIA, but hasn't established them itself ...
(Quite apart from such trivial matters as the fact that the USA first has to win the war)
At tagesschau im Internet I found the original article.
USA criticize treatment of religious minorities in Germany
Ok. So to clarify once more: the state whose soldiers are currently killing people in Iraq without a UN mandate and firing on civilians, which locks up hundreds of terrorism suspects in camps without trial, without a lawyer, or contact with anyone, and has its own citizens arrested by the FBI and then allows them no contact, doesn't even tell them why they were arrested in the first place—this state is complaining that we discriminate against Scientology (a fascist sect) and Moon (ditto)?
So "complete loss of reality" is still far too positive a description for what people in the States are suffering from...
I found the original article at RP Online: Politik.