The top data protection officer must by now feel like the proverbial tree falling in the forest that no one hears. And the impact of his warning will probably be as insignificant as the proverbial bag of rice falling in China ...
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
Cool. Now I just need more Macs at home
At Industrial Technology & Witchcraft you can find the original article.
The audacity of Microsoft is almost admirable (but only almost). You can find the original article at heise online news here.
Reduced from 14.9 to 14.7 - that's really something. That brings so much. And where is the reduction below 14 percent that was promised by the federal government? The whole thing is ridiculous. In the end, we all pay for it again.
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
It's quite fascinating when a company whose main product is a proprietary compression format for audio and video data calls on another company that uses an open, standardized format (AAC is after all just the audio layer from MPEG4) to open their device.
At The Macintosh News Network you can find the original article.
Of course Mr. Sony wasn't fired because he was a failure in his position. That can't be right. All the antics during his time at Telekom are certainly just figments of imagination. Just like the catastrophic stock price collapse of a share that was once promoted as a people's stock. A complete loss of touch with reality really does seem to be a job requirement for managers...
At heise online news you can find the original article.
The price for reducing working hours is high - for example, civil servants forgo both vacation pay and Christmas bonuses. For employees, at least part of the Christmas bonus is likely affected too. Of course, Tagesschau doesn't mention anything like that in their report, and suddenly the impression is created that people are simply being given a few hours as a gift. So much for professional journalism...
However, I wouldn't object to a 34-hour regulation with my salary. Unfortunately, my employer did it the other way around: changed from 38.5 hours to 40 hours without wage compensation and by eliminating overtime premiums.
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
Great. Combined with the fact that you can no longer purchase tickets on board in regional trains since there are no more conductors walking through the train, in the event of a ticket machine failure, you're left with no choice but to travel without a valid ticket...
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
Cheers!
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
loaf - Interesting implementation of a Bloom filter
XMLmind XML Editor: XMLmind XML Editor - Interesting XML WYSIWYG editor, for example for DocBook
Honestly, the behavior of the blogger generation representatives doesn't strike me as particularly clever either. Written a book and botched it. Tough luck, you have to learn from that. But then making others responsible for the flop instead of looking for errors in one's own writing is definitely strange ... But the failure is only due to a conspiracy of publishers with readers anyway. Or the SPD is to blame. That's what Rudi Carell said back then.
At das Netzbuch there's the original article.
Now even people from his own camp (after all, Clarke was appointed under Reagan) are starting to accuse Dubya of lying. At das Netzbuch you can find the original article.
500 million. A record fine perhaps for the EU - but will that bring Microsoft to change its business policy? I don't think so...
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
This is supposed to secure peace? Laughable.
The only goal a government can pursue with such an approach is further escalation. The reaction of the Palestinians is deliberately provoked in order to gain further leverage through the attacks that will certainly follow.
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
That explains a lot ...
At NETZEITUNG.DE Wissenschaft you can find the original article.
... and just like Windows I'm not particularly fond of MoveableType either
At das Netzbuch you can find the original article.
Spamassassin Custom Rule Emporium - Directory of Spamassassin custom rules
As much as I would welcome the law in theory, the reality of the bill will need to be analyzed more closely - I fear that it won't really accomplish that much. Sure, German spammers will be dealt with, but the fact is that a large portion of spam comes from abroad. There's also the question of what happens with fake emails, where someone pretends an email comes from someone else - will courts be able to understand this technical complexity, or will fabricated emails soon be enough to haul someone before the judge?
Still, I really do welcome the fact that legislation here is finally addressing the nuisance of spam, especially since there are already EU-wide directives waiting for national implementation.
At NETZEITUNG.DE Internet you can find the original article.
Another so-called spam-fighting bunch without technical competence: Spamcop. I've been upset with them since their existence because they are completely incapable of understanding even the most basic mechanisms behind email systems and accordingly adapting their nonsensical mechanisms ...
Digital Camera Battery - Manufacturers of the most powerfull professional camera battery on the market - Battery systems for digital cameras
I would advise this censored person to have their brain checked. If companies listen to this troll, soon there will be no buyers left for their overpriced cheap productions. And if German industry is sold off abroad, his position as top blowhard will very quickly become utterly superfluous. I keep asking myself when I hear such gross nonsense, what goes on in the minds of such people and who pays them to spout such rubbish.
What kind of trust in the economy is supposed to be built when production is to be relocated abroad and thousands of jobs are put at risk? And the investments of the economy - laughable, the only investments go into the pockets of major shareholders and managers. And if that's actually pointed out, these fat cats treat themselves to arrogant gestures in court.
For every mundane investment that actually goes into production facilities or similar, these people have themselves celebrated as if they had laid the golden egg. And they let themselves be pumped full of money from the federal government each time, or only do it if they're granted far-reaching concessions from state governments and municipalities. Exemption from business tax in exchange for jobs - every small business owner has to pay business tax. Every self-employed person is called to contribute. But large corporations extort their own conditions.
It's all just lies, rip-offs and fraud what's going on in the business associations and executive suites of large corporations and major banks. Trust cannot be imposed from above. And certainly one cannot demand trust-building measures from the government if one is only out to confirm all prejudices oneself.
Sure, the government is a bunch of fools stumbling around and having lost their footing in their own ideas. But still better than the other bunch who only say what the business bosses want to hear and would sell everything for a bit of power - even what still makes our society acceptable.
But one thing is certain: nobody trusts a bunch of talkers who secure their own position with million-mark salaries and networks that ensure at every failure that they can immediately jump into some big business again to mismanage it.
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
Does anyone need more proof of humanity's fundamental stupidity?
As if a surveillance state offers more citizen security. Quite the opposite. The terrorists just end up in another place: within the state apparatus. And that's exactly what's being demanded here. Total surveillance of public spaces. A standard presumption of guilt for all citizens - anyone walking around in public, using public transport, or standing in public places is fundamentally suspect from the start. When will the first person be convicted because the guardians of the public accuse them? How many hidden, invisible witnesses will soon exist for our actions in public, whose statements and claims we can no longer refute because they're invisible and uncontrollable to us?
We've already experienced attacks on private space through Schily and associates. I definitely don't feel any safer because of all this nonsense...
Brave new world. We ourselves are building our 1984...
At heise online news you'll find the original article.
Peeron: Robotics Invention System 2.0 (#3804-1) - Parts content list of Lego sets, here Mindstorms 2.0
Next stop: the ground behind the cliff ...
At WDR.de you can find the original article.
Tuple Space - Description of Tuple Spaces
Clarification of the legal situation regarding warranty and its exclusion in private sales
We're filling up Mars with garbage too
Deutsche Zope User Group - Solution for the Compile Problem with DCOracle2 and Python 2.3
A nationally adapted open source license is all well and good - but what can it really achieve? Open source is unlikely to be restricted to national borders. And Germany is only a very small part of the world. In my view, it makes much more sense to analyze the existing licenses and work directly with the license holders (such as the FSF for the GPL) to ensure that these general international licenses have full validity everywhere possible.
At most, it would make sense to develop a license addendum that can be attached to the GPL to clarify national peculiarities. Because this way, the exact opposite of the GPL problem could occur: the license is valid in Germany, but not valid outside or only restricted. And that would certainly be just as fatal...
OK, one could do dual-licensing of projects, but then it must be ensured that the licenses don't contradict each other, and that regional restriction is even possible. DFSG, for example, does not allow discrimination by location - and thus a package that is under GPL for international use but under the Bremen License for national use in Germany would potentially no longer be DFSG-compatible.
The original article can be found at heise online news (here).
Little Snitch - Connection monitor for Mac OS X
placenamehere.com projects pnhtoolbar - Web Tools Toolbar for Firebird and Mozilla
Alright, let me fire up the iPod then and do a random selection from it. I'll filter out the audio dramas though.
It fits surprisingly well with my mix, although Pink Floyd is missing - I've got pretty much all their albums on the iPod.
At das Netzbuch you can find the original article.
One daffodil does not a spring make. But a whole bunch certainly does ...
Unfortunately probably only available in English again. When will something like this finally come with usable pronunciation for German versions? A spoken interface would be interesting not only for the visually impaired.
The original article can be found at Industrial Technology & Witchcraft (here).
In P2019 I had already expressed my frustration about sorbs.net. Here now is the first bounce that came back from an email I sent: SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT TO:XXX@YYYYYY.de: host AAAAA.BBBBB.de [111.222.333.444]: 554 Service unavailable; Client host [62.153.201.130] blocked using web.dnsbl.sorbs.net; Exploitable Server See: http://www.dnsbl.sorbs.net/cgi-bin/lookup?IP=62.153.201.130
Well folks, I can assure you of one thing: I won't go out of my way to get my emails through to someone who rejects my mail based on such an incompetent blocklist. Anyone who thinks they need to work with such a botched blocklist will just have to do without emails from me.
And no, my mail server is not exploitable. And it's not been hacked either, as those clowns at sorbs.net claim.
Whenever you think the history around Amiga can't get any weirder and more confusing ...
At heise online news there's the original article.
And the test continues. This time the tester dealt with image quality. It's definitely better than with the Digilux 1. However, I still think that a camera that wants to be a Leica should be less noisy at higher ISO settings. After all, available light is one of the main application areas for Leica equipment. The troubling part is especially that the Digilux 2 delivers significantly worse results in JPG than in RAW, but in RAW it no longer has an image buffer ...
Found Transpluto at Last?
At NETZEITUNG.DE Science I found the original article.
Poor China. Nothing to see of the Great Wall of China from space. What a bother.
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
What does a provider do when his reputation gets worse and worse because his service gets worse and worse? Of course. He sends cease-and-desist letters to the critics. Actually fixing the problems would be a logical and sensible approach, but you can't expect that from a provider.
At heise online news there's the original article.
I must definitely try out whether it now handles the old Kodak RAW format properly (the one that was still hidden in TIFFs). It would be nice if I no longer needed three different tools for simple edits and conversions...
At The Macintosh News Network there is the original article.
Now that would be something if they could nail the rail demolition expert extraordinaire for corruption now.
The way he runs the railway, you often get the feeling that he only receives a small part of his salary from Deutsche Bahn AG...
The original article can be found at Industrial Technology & Witchcraft here.
I'm thrilled by the election result in Spain. Not because I trust one side more than the other, but because it shows that occasionally voters might not forget every lie and every abuse after all. After all, very large parts of the Spanish population were against the Iraq War, yet Spain still took a clearly pro-USA position in it. Surely this will have been brought back to mind again through the controversy over the presumption of guilt in the Madrid attacks.
In a commentary on the radio this morning, the commentator suspected that precisely the stance of the Spanish government on the Madrid attacks, particularly its information policy and insistence on assigning blame to ETA, was likely one of the essential factors.
At Wortfeld you can find the original article.
Kris from KI breaks down the licensing confusion around MySQL. Very interesting. Although I've been working with PostgreSQL for a long time and pretty much ignore MySQL. Not only because of the strange licensing stories surrounding it, but also because of its rather limited features. By the way, replication is now also available natively for PostgreSQL - the corresponding project was just released as an open source version last year (it was previously a commercial product - P1331). At Die wunderbare Welt von Isotopp you can find the original article.
