Federal Council committees for clear expansion of telecommunications surveillance - because, the police state is not yet fully and perfectly established. I hear in the background the cool giggling of former Stasi officials. They are starting to feel quite at home.
Linkblog - 21.5.2007 - 31.5.2007
Dumb, Dumber, Bush? Mooo! - "The Bush administration said Tuesday it will fight to keep meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease."
Man described as a top spammer arrested - and now please get the others too.
Collecting Societies Criticize Commons Project as Copyright-Hostile - of course, works under CC licenses are no longer available for exploitation by collecting societies. And that's just not allowed. It's amusing how authors and artists are then put forward - and it's ignored that it's precisely the artists who are the ones who publish works under CC licenses ...
20 Ways to Use Gmail Filters - nothing groundbreaking, but a series of nice tricks for Google's webmailer.
ARD/ZDF want to not extend Tour contract for now - will the media ever face their part of the responsibility for all this mess? I mean, if coverage is only about hype and normal performances are more or less completely ignored, if only the ultimate victory counts - then one should not be surprised if athletes adapt to this ideal image. The athlete takes performance-enhancing drugs, of course. But somewhere the reason for this is laid - and the image of the athlete in the public is certainly an important factor.
German government specifies obligations for archiving web content - oh man, if I don't have work, I create some? Stupid people. My blog is available to everyone under a CC license. If the national library thinks it needs to be archived, they should move their virtual ass over and regularly scrape it, just like Google and others already do. Otherwise, they can leave me alone at my rear pixels ...
duplicity - encrypted differential tar archives. Sounds interesting for backups.
Court prohibits sending articles by email - always everything for the benefit of rights holders. Because they are, after all, an essential part of the education system and society. Quite the opposite of universities, which are just freeloaders. Such things must be fundamentally prevented, where would we end up if a non-profit association (founded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Science) had the right to supply universities with information cost-effectively and efficiently.
GVU and Investigations - "The employees of the GVU are not neutral experts."
Our oceans are turning into plastic...are we? - how plastic waste accumulates in the ocean and enters the food chain (and thus onto our plates) via fish. More plastic than plankton - shocking.
Park Place, the Amazon-S3 clone - in Ruby.
VI in JavaScript - yes, you read that right. VI. In JavaScript. In the web browser. The pain!
BKA investigators searching in the beer garden - rampaging federal agents on the wrong track. Embarrassing.
IT-Chronik - who is behind the eavesdropping interfaces. Are we selling our data, our conversations, and everything else to all those cooperating intelligence agencies. Parliamentary control only rudimentary and in the absence of the public. Big Brother Global.
New database class - HyperDB - that's what makes it possible to run WordPress in data centers under wordpress.com. Nice.
Study: Nuclear power - neither cheap nor good for the climate - because uranium mining is conveniently ignored by the nuclear lobby. Combined heat and power plants, on the other hand, are more efficient and better - but they don't require the monstrous equipment that energy monopolists would need.
RFC against Spam - will it help? Maybe, because an RFC tends to be implemented in mail servers. On the other hand, will the mail servers also be updated to the new versions with the feature?
Like you and me, a terrorist - that's how it starts. We are moving into a state that nobody really wants - except maybe Schäuble. This has nothing to do with a free democratic order in the long run. But about the Stasi, they all made fun of it. Nonsense, the whole thing. Pure nonsense.
Retailers rejoice: Biometric images for health card - can someone explain to me why we need biometric data on the health card? What's the point? The whole thing has become so absurd that you feel like you're living in a satire ...
Amnesty International condemns "politics of fear" - that's how far it's come, that Germany is being condemned by AI. But Berlin will also ignore this and continue. Because fear-mongering sells better than rational action.
The ARD sound disturbance named Godefroot (Update 3) - and even more information about the ARD "sound disturbance".
Dietz, Henn, Böltz, Aldag, Ullrich - and the team doctors and Godefroot didn't know anything about it? And the sponsor wasn't aware of any of this? When will Riis speak? Somehow, the entire cycling world is falling apart. Give the young riders a chance, those who haven't done all this nonsense yet.
Microsoft will identify the unknown internet user - let's build the transparent surfer and applaud it. Stupid. People, get yourself anonymizing proxies. Privoxy is quite easy to install on every system ...
NDR censors Dietz interview with Beckmann - if journalists and TV stations censor themselves, why do we need Schräuble?
Ornithopters to Revolutionize Aircraft Design - so far I have mostly associated ornithopters with steampunk and sci-fi.
Wiesenhof quits - too bad, because Wiesenhof has developed many young riders.
German Interior Minister warns of increasing cyber espionage - but forgets to mention that he himself is demanding expanded surveillance permissions for his department. Somehow already hypocritical, right? I mean, when the goat styles itself as the defender of the vegetables in the garden?
Cyborg-Feeling for everyone - if they have the 600 euros. Otherwise, wait for the mass-market version. Techno-phobias and warnings of the downfall of the Western world by the personal environment included.
Google turns the page… in a bad way. - how Google nests on Dell computers. No, not just the toolbar, but an additional tool for redirecting to ad pages.
Inside the Monkeysphere - interesting.
[Introducing Mahlee™](http://www.kirit.com/Introducing Mahlee™) - Multithreading for JavaScript.
PyCells - calculating memory cells. Basically something like a machinery for spreadsheet calculations. Hadn't I already seen that before? Never mind. It's still interesting.
Ex-Telekom-Profi beichtet Doping - well, that's probably the end of the clean record of Team Telekom.
Innere Sicherheit: The Scent of Terror - the use of tried and tested Stasi methods is certainly simply consistent with the current situation. Or so. (read while it is still openly accessible)
The Birth Control of Yesteryear - in ancient Greece. Fascinating.
Warner raises the stakes in EMI offer - Kids, don't mess up the DRM-free music with this nonsense.
Economics professor demands: "We need a regulated market for organs" - complete madness. There are good reasons why donor organs in this country may only be taken from deceased people. And exactly why this Pandora's box must not be opened. But what does an economic expert care. Presumably, he thinks he's particularly modern with this inhumane idea. One thing is clear: his brain is definitely not suitable as a donor organ ...
100-Dollar-Laptop: Negroponte sharply criticizes Intel - with good reason. The way business is being attempted there is outrageous. This is probably the biggest danger for OLPC: the arrogance and selfishness of the capital-driven society of the rich countries.
CIA's Harsh Interrogation Techniques Described - Torture. Plain and simple torture - especially the "Water Board" method is nothing more than a simulated execution. And this is applied - approved by the government - in a supposedly democratic state that makes such a fuss about its constitution. Because non-Americans are probably subhuman. Or something. Probably I'm just anti-American again. Just like ABC News, which as a well-known anti-American propaganda channel is not trustworthy anyway. Which is why their report on torture by the CIA can simply be ignored.
Diamonds Tell Tale Of Comet That Killed Off The Cavemen - Were Stone Age cultures set back in their development by a comet impact? Interesting stuff.
The Cerne Abbas Giant - the Brits. They were probably always a bit strange.
The Red Hot Erlang Blog - interesting blog software in Erlang. One should take a look at it, some of the features look nice.
Uffington White Horse - and there are horses too. A 3000-year-old image, and they still measure the size in feet.