Nunja. Such a stupid idea - payment systems on a completely authentication-free protocol where not even the originator can be conclusively identified - can only come from Microsoft direction...
Of course Microsoft would be delighted to supply the necessary infrastructure, the necessary clients and of course the necessary proprietary SMTP extensions to grab another market for itself. Of course all purely out of humanitarian concern.
Ok, the alternative solution of finally throwing these unspeakable garbage mail processing programs out and replacing them with functioning tools - that would certainly be too simple and too logical.
At WDR.de there's the original article.
Regarding stupidity, corruption and arrogance ... Or does anyone know a better reason why the EU Council completely ignores the opinion of the EU Parliament and takes a direction that runs counter to all reason and all warnings and analyses?
At heise online news there's the original article.
A disassembled iPod Mini proves that the drive is a Hitachi Microdrive. This makes the iPod Mini probably the cheapest source for 4 GB CompactFlash memory cards.
So if you have a digital camera with FAT32 support, you might consider buying an iPod Mini and looking for some tools...
(and of course report back on whether the card works without any problems)
Here's the original article.
And what politicians make of it ...
Here is the original article.
Omniorb Python Bindings - Documentation of the Python bindings for OmniORB
Cuts to employee compensation and bonuses even though a company is profitable? It's completely normal these days. No matter what, employees' pockets are hit first. All it takes is the shareholder dividend not being as high as perhaps desired. Or whatever else — any flimsy excuse will do to take money from those who happen to be exactly the people who are supposed to be consuming. Of course they don't consume anymore. And suddenly the economy is complaining that sales are dropping, retail collectively goes bankrupt, and the next round of fleecing and cutting begins.
The fact that all of this is completely nonsensical and serves no purpose other than feeding the egos of stupid executives and lobbyists and filling the pockets of major shareholders apparently bothers hardly anyone. Even when these major shareholders themselves then lay off employees and cut compensation. Despite higher revenues.
And what's the end result? The companies go bankrupt anyway, because some managers would rather sell out their own employees for double-digit millions, or because stupid bosses hire even dumber management consultants to run a perfectly good company into the ground so that they finally have real reason to squeeze and fire employees. One last time...
The German economic location is run by stupidity, corruption, and arrogance. A lethal mix.
You can find the original article at tagesschau online at tagesschau im Internet.
