The hunt for copyright infringers will probably soon take up more space than the hunt for drug dealers and arms dealers. But then again, that's clear – the economy makes money from arms dealers and drug dealers keep the population down...
At heise online news there's the original article.
DPreview now has a complete review of the Olympus E-1. If you're interested in the camera that was at the forefront of press coverage for a long time, you can now read whether it can also compete in the technical front ranks.
At Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com) you can find the original article.
Wow. An online law attorney is demanding that Udo Vetter (the one with the Law Blog) provide a statement on the legality of his comment function in light of competition law for attorneys. The whole thing is already crazy. But Udo's response letters are nicely formulated Here's the original article.
Oh no - such a discussion early in the morning ruins your whole day. Let's hope the law bloggers jump into the discussion and untangle the whole thing a bit. In my (admittedly extremely layperson's) opinion, anyone who publishes something thereby gives consent to link to it - that was also established in the Paperboy case. And quotes in themselves are allowed. Just as expressing one's own opinion is allowed. And these are exactly the functions that a typical blog usually performs. Certainly there are limits - but I already see a difference between what a blog like mine does and what this Swede did. On the other hand, there's hardly any stupid idea that some lawyer somewhere hasn't represented at some point, and in Germany the decisions made as a result of such proceedings are sometimes a bit strange... Here's the original article.
Not bad. First opening your mouth and bragging. Then kowtowing to the USA. Then letting yourself be made a fool of. And then backing down.
I don't want to know what this embarrassment alone has cost ...
You can find the original article at tagesschau online at tagesschau im Internet.
Oh wow, that letter contains a lot of nonsense. SCO won't really have much of a chance with something like that.
Well - the green jersey could be almost more exciting next year than the yellow one. After all, with Hondo, Petachi, McEwen there are three young top riders, with O'Grady and Zabel two old hands, that will certainly provide plenty of excitement. Let's see how next year's Tour with its significantly changed profile will affect the sprinters. After all, the high mountains come late, which means the entire front part is sprinter work. And after the work then into the high mountains, right away with a mountain time trial. And the points winner is ultimately the one who also finishes in Paris ...
At RADSPORT-NEWS.COM - Nachrichten-GesamtĂĽbersicht you can find the original article.
Jo, that's already something very strange again. I can only agree with the reader in the Spiegel forum: since when does Spiegel report on end-user problems with consumer devices in the USA?
And the fact that a battery eventually dies with frequent use - and that 300-500 charge cycles (incidentally, only partial charge cycles count as full cycles for the lifespan of lithium-ion batteries!) don't last forever - anyone can easily calculate for themselves...
At MacGuardians there's the original article.
A blog with construction site photos and occasional commentary on construction sites from an employee of a company involved with those sites. Nothing particularly gruesome in itself - but management apparently isn't having any fun with the blog and now wants to shut down the blogger. That's the short version.
Regardless of how one feels about this situation, one thing becomes clear: when you publish something, you have to reckon with the fact that someone will read it. And might misunderstand it (or understand it correctly - depending on the content) and then react to it. Blogging is, regardless of what subject matter you cover - publication. Worldwide publication. With archives and backups. And a pack of sociopaths who have nothing better to do than suspect the worst in every person.
That doesn't mean bloggers shouldn't blog anymore - but it certainly helps to occasionally take a step back and look at your own blog with fresh eyes and think about who might be most annoyed by it and why. At least then you're not completely surprised when one of the above sociopaths strikes. Because unfortunately, what the colleague wrote elsewhere - I don't want to be a business person with journalistic responsibility, I just want to do my thing without anyone telling me what to do. this is private, if someone doesn't like it they can move on. - is simply not enforceable under German law. Public and private are mutually exclusive. Does this herald the end of blogging due to lawyer attacks? No, I don't think so. I do think we should continue to say and do what we want. However, one should assume that the innocence of the Internet no longer exists - if it ever did.
Every action has a reaction. Sure, if you only look at every action from the perspective of possible reactions, then you don't do anything anymore, you freeze in panic over problems. But let's be honest: who refuses to cross the street just because they might get hit by a car? Or doesn't go to the cinema because they might get mugged on the way?
We take risks every day, sometimes completely without being aware of them. But now and then something happens that reminds us of these risks. I live at a busy intersection with potential conflict between left-turning traffic and pedestrians. I'm regularly reminded that we live dangerously. Still, I go outside. It's the same with blogging. There are risks. These risks are real, denying them is silly. But it would be equally silly to let them paralyze us. However, things do happen that sometimes remind us that these risks are real. A blogger gets sued or receives a cease-and-desist letter - we remember that we take risks. But just as we shouldn't refrain from going out on the street, we shouldn't refrain from running our blog. At least not for that reason. Here's the original article.
Was already everywhere else, but as an old Smalltalker I of course have to blog about it too.
Once again, proof that you only need to leave a matter to the courts for it to become absurd, ridiculous, and nonsensical.
You can find the original article at heise online news and here.
That's cool. But simply relabeling the camera and lens doesn't really bring any real advantages - except that the camera will certainly cost twice as much because of the name.
The Contax name is becoming increasingly diluted and more of a pure commercial label. This certainly has nothing to do with the image quality and craftsmanship that Contax is normally associated with.
A shame. Instead of silly consumer products with the Contax name, Kyocera should rather bring out a successor to the failed N Digital, or perhaps finally an RTS IV for the N system. Because while the N1 is nice, it's definitely not an RTS IV.
At PhotographyBLOG you can find the original article.
Anyone wondering why I'm linking to my own comments—I was also surprised that a Harald Georgii posted the entire comment in the comments section. But anyway, here it is. Just click on the title. Hmm. I've only found his name elsewhere in connection with the SPD faction on the web (a Word file—dreadful) – is he now wandering through the web copying the text everywhere?
Ok, since I'm admittedly a heretic and someone who soils his own nest, I'm naturally wondering where in the above text one can find the opinion of the Union MPs from the committee – remember P1548, where the Union's opinion was worded somewhat differently. Here's the original article.
Many good answers to what politics and business are currently presenting as alleged facts and truths, and which so many people mindlessly repeat without thinking about it. Yes, Germany is regarded as immobile, rigid, a fettered giant, it has the red lantern. Even in that chancellor's speech it was repeatedly said: Germany must get back to the top! These are the sorts of slogans that are stereotypically repeated. But they don't hold true, they are deliberate deceptions of the population, who are being taken for a ride. A gloomy picture is painted using the method of hellfire preachers, a threatening image is thrown on the wall so that people tremble and let everything be done to them. But whoever influences people in this way and exercises power through threatening gestures does not take those affected seriously; he despises them. And that cannot go well in the long run.
At Der Rollberg I found the original article.
Great idea: a robot from the automotive industry is suddenly promoted to surgeon without sufficient tests being conducted on risks and problems. Who do you think made a quick buck on the approval at the expense of patients?
I found the original article at Spiegel Online: Science.
What's going on there? Have they completely lost it in Hamburg? Why am I even asking, it was almost to be expected from a Senate that's in cahoots with the Schill crowd...
Ouch.
At heise online news there's the original article.
So cool: Mrs. Weiss is making herself just as much an accomplice to the large, established film and music industry and brings the same stupid and mindless arguments as the corresponding representatives of the US government. Of course, here too there is no appreciation whatsoever for citizens' rights to protect their own interests (e.g. availability of films across hardware generations). Of course, here too immediately the general criminalization of all private individuals who have copied copyright-protected material—for whatever reasons—at some point.
Fits perfectly with the government's concept of bowing to business and trampling on the citizen.
At heise online news you can find the original article.
Is he still harping on those silly ideas? By now it should have become clear to him that they're just pipe dreams. Programming is a creative process that is significantly determined by the expressive possibilities in the language you program in. Nobody would demand that a poet practice their art using the vocabulary of a tabloid newspaper, while also having to strictly adhere to fixed meter and write the whole thing with primitive tools.
As long as software development clings to primitive languages like C++, Visual Basic, or Java, the problem won't be solved in any meaningful way - whoever has low-level languages at their disposal will always think low-level.
Solutions to this problem have been available since the 80s, it's time the software industry took a closer look at them...
At heise online news there's the original article.
I find it repeatedly shocking how stupid programmers are who work in supposedly security systems. Something like this is an absolute beginner's mistake! And such software is supposed to protect users from attacks from the Internet...
At heise online news there's the original article.
Ouch. Big hole in Moveable Type: the email addresses entered for sending entry notifications are not validated. This gives attackers the opportunity to abuse it - for example, according to this post, spammers have used the hole to send spam. A patch is also provided there that you can use to add validation, so that spammers can no longer easily abuse MT.
So, people, patch your Moveable Type! Or better yet: get rid of the script!
Not exactly new anymore, but perhaps worth considering for some of the current weblog spam fighters. I agree with Mark on many points: simple filter lists are the dumbest idea you can have when fighting spam, regardless of the medium. The fact that these filter lists are being positioned as a great new idea in the weblog space again is truly amusing.
It seems we humans are programmed not to believe that even the hundredth reinvention of the triangular wheel is still a stupid idea...
For Amiga users: an open source system aiming to be compatible with AmigaOS. And these guys are already making real progress. OK, for Amiga fans this might be old hat, but it was new to me. My Amiga, though, has only booted maybe a handful of times during my ownership.
That's cool - there's a potential procedure for detecting breast cancer through blood tests, and an American company has patented the genes associated with it and is taking action against the use of these tests. Sure, you can get it analyzed by them, but it's more expensive than previous procedures. And of course, Europe is stupid enough to grant such an inhumane patent as well.
At Telepolis News you can find the original article.
The rodent from Ice Age?
At Spiegel Online: Wissenschaft there is the original article.
Great. Simply great.
I found the the original article at Der Schockwellenreiter.
It would be easier to report only when he is supposedly invulnerable at the moment...
At heise online news there is the original article.
Oh yes, he who pays the piper calls the tune ...
At heise online news you can find the original article.
And he keeps spinning on. If indeed Linux 2.2 - and this is now a statement from SCO itself - had no problems, then Linux could still set up at that level without problems and continue on. The Linux 2.2 kernel was readily functional and usable. So if he were right (which would be absurd and silly - because so far he's done nothing but spout hot air), it certainly wouldn't be the catastrophe he's talking about.
Apart from the fact that he still hasn't grasped that Linux is the kernel and not the system - switching the kernel is really the least of all problems.
And also charming is the claim that suddenly there are millions of lines of code that SCO is now objecting to - if there are that many, why can't he produce even a single example so far that holds up to more than 10 minutes of analysis?
The guy is really amusing. Has certain similarities to the former Iraqi information minister, all of McBride's fuss and feathers.
At XMLMania.com - Google News Search: SCO I found the original article.
Well, but cutting social benefits is much easier than checking whether the state apparatus is actually doing what it should. Above all, politicians are not affected by the cuts, whereas they would potentially be actively involved in the control itself ...
At tagesschau im Internet there is the original article.
Remnants of summer follow-up processing - 6 images of Vischering Castle in LĂĽdinghausen. A beautiful, picturesque castle. Just as you imagine a castle to be, with towers, defensive walls, drawbridges, and moat.
Shot with the Contax RTS III and the Sonnar 2.8/180, the 1.4/50 Planar, and a 3.5/17 Tokina on Kodak Portra 400 BW. Developed and scanned, by the way, at the MĂĽnster Fuji Minilab. Only the post-processing (slight tonal value correction and highpass sharpening), of course, done myself.
This is how the economy is meeting the demand for more training places. That's why a non-training levy is completely far-fetched, as you can see the economy is making every effort to establish training positions ...
At WDR.de there is the original article.
Sharon doesn't have all his marbles together either ...
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
Telepolis on the trend of calling the lawyer instead of using reason...
At Telepolis News you can find the original article.
On the web, there is an answer to everything. So too to the exciting question of who drove on which side when, where and why, and who changed this in history and why. Why did I find this now? Do you believe me that I stumbled upon it while browsing through Python information? The ways of the web are inscrutable...
The authority rejected all allegations. - did anyone expect anything else? Nowadays, investigations don't happen when allegations come in anymore. Instead, you deny everything first. That way the press gets a chance to blow the whole thing up properly. Then you can quickly find a few scapegoats to let take the fall. So the citizen can forget about it all quickly and the summer news void is filled. Or something like that.
At tagesschau im Internet there's the original article.
This fits well with the recent discussion about blog spam: apparently there are currently a number of pseudo-blogs that have been set up solely for the purpose of building Google juice and then later being converted into porn sites once many Google results point there. I'm not sure if that's really the clever strategy — Google throws out the corresponding results at the latest after the next Google Dance (the reorganization of Google indices based on newer Google robot results). And a Google Dance happens often enough that you really can't build lasting results that way.
What would be a fairly insidious technique, however, is if the Googlebot continued to be presented with the pseudo-blogs (it's recognizable to the web server by its user agent specification) while only regular user browsers saw the porn sites. That way Google would continue to diligently index a pseudo-blog and direct users to the home page of this pseudo-blog, where they'd then see the smut.
Wow. Germany's biggest food price gouger is now even sending cease-and-desist letters to U-Bahn fans. We should compile a hit list of the most audacious cease-and-desist letters. This one would rank right at the top, alongside Mobilix-Obelix.
At heise online news you'll find the original article.
Bomb Iraq? Cool, we're in. Detain people against applicable international law? No problem, we'll look the other way. Lie and cheat to justify a war? No big deal, we do that too.
But heaven forbid the lawn gets damaged. And those poor traumatized flamingos ...
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
Interesting set of Photoshop actions under MIT license (so free) for reducing noise in digital images. The whole thing makes a good impression and is nice and easy to use.
At Telepolis News you can find the original article.
A bit more for the rumor mill - a rather detailed description of the LC1, which could possibly become a Digilux 2.
Red hats want to patent floppy hats. Stupid, that.
At heise online news there's the original article.
The attempt at cleaning up and distancing oneself. Just as unconvincing as the original appearance ...
At Telepolis News you can find the original article.
Oh how wonderful, another patented banality that's supposed to make money through litigation. The patent describes in great detail and confusingly the banal exchange of identifications (email addresses) and a third party who mediates between two others to process the payment. Incredibly innovative and of course a great intellectual achievement, so naturally one must absolutely prohibit others from implementing it, because surely no one could come up with such a grandiose idea. It's not like it happens in everyday life or anything ...
At heise online news there's the original article.
Grumble At heise online news there's the original article.
Information laggard.
At Telepolis News you can find the original article.
For those who haven't quite understood what an interim storage facility is. Although I was aware of the fact that above-ground storage for cooling purposes was used, I was not aware that the procedure for repackaging the waste from the Castor into the Pollux container does not even exist yet. I also could not have named the specific time period of over 30 years.
Propaganda works, we forget far too easily and far too willingly, and we are equally willing to believe...
The candidate for the Leica Digilux 2?