Na Class, another far-right party that wants to draw from the brown swamp. Founded and carried by people who didn't even seem acceptable to the Schill party. Why does such rabble have to meet precisely in MĂĽnster?
At Telepolis News I found the original article.
Well, here's someone writing again who doesn't know what he's talking about (no, not majo, but the scribbler from SĂĽddeutsche!) Because the first file-sharing system with greater distribution and encryption is FreeNet - all data and search queries are transmitted there in such a way that no one can tell where data is located and who wants it. Precisely a system that makes censorship absurd, because it's impossible in such a system. Not even the operators of nodes in FreeNet can see what data is stored on their nodes and what paths the data takes. Very interesting concept, all things considered, unfortunately a FreeNet node consumes bandwidth for breakfast. At Industrial Technology & Witchcraft you can find the original article.
I need to check this out, it sounds a bit confusing, but quite interesting. This might be a way to break up some of the rather tight couplings and bindings of modules in the Python Desktop Server. And since the Python Desktop Server is still in Beta, you're allowed to do that sort of thing.
I found the original article on Tao of the Machine.
Sounds absurd? It is: essentially a plastic construction with a couple of lenses that provide a 35mm focal length on full frame, with 3.5 mm shift travel. Various connections for the body. The fixed focus lens from them with the adapter for the magnifier is also quite amusing. And the prices are unbeatable – for 21 dollars I can't even get a body cap for my M-Leica
Today it finally worked out for MĂĽnster, with violent gusts of wind and above all a welcome thunderstorm. Hopefully the oppressive heat of the last few days is now over, it was really getting to everyone ...
At WDR.de you can find the original article.
Hmm. Too bad – there's a report about a Python library class that offers a much better alternative to readline (the input routine used in the Python interpreter). You can do multiline editing with it and, for example, use Tab to autocomplete Python names (modules and other globals). Disadvantage: it requires curses. And oddly enough, curses isn't generated when building the private Python for PyDS. Strange.
Ok, so I simply copied the files from the standard Python that comes with OS X 10.2, and it works. Nice module. Only: once again, the programmers have no idea about unusual environments like, for example, 8-bit character sets. Umlauts don't work. Backspace doesn't work; you have to use Ctrl-H instead.
But it's definitely more comfortable, even if it takes a bit longer to load. Let's see if it can possibly be integrated into the monitoring client in the Python Desktop Server, since that suffers mainly from its absolutely spartan input capabilities.
At MEHRZWECKBEUTEL you can find the original article.
Hmm. Does the Register realize that their structure is damn similar to a weblog - even if it's a community blog - is it? And that they would have to be locked out then?
At Der Schockwellenreiter there's the original article.
Oh shit. Hopefully they'll come up with an alternative. No idea if Contax (i.e. Kyocera) can weather the disaster otherwise - and whether Zeiss will go along with the circus.
You can find the original article at PhotographyBLOG here.
I don't know if I've mentioned it before, but even if I have: iComic is so cool that it can definitely be mentioned more than once
If you dig around a bit in the forum, you'll also find plugins for Userfriendly. My favorite comics now fresh on the desktop every day - Dilbert and Userfriendly.
I hope more comes out of this. Draining the swamp could catch one or two other politicians as well. Because I don't think Möllemann pulled all of this off alone - there were certainly others who knew about it too.
At Industrial Technology & Witchcraft you can find the original article.
At least they're doing delays quite well
At WDR.de there's the original article.
And when do we introduce mandatory brains for professional politicians? What that would all save ...
At tagesschau im Internet there's the original article.
Somehow, this age-old dispute between Apple Computer and Apple Records is really absurd. And the idea that multimillionaire Paul McCartney should rake in even more millions just because he named his record label after a piece of fruit is somehow even more absurd. The fact that Apple Computer is cast as the victim here doesn't really help either (even though they themselves are hardly innocent when it comes to absurd lawsuits - just think of the patented trash can).
At heise online news you can find the original article.
I'll spare myself the tasteless joke that he's finally made an impression. I also won't make any comments about him bouncing back up like a wobbling doll. And I'll refrain from speculating about who packed his parachute. Because that would all be tasteless and mean. And that's not who I am.
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
And once again an absurd patent that the world doesn't need
At heise online news there's the original article.
Well, I don't know if that's a good idea. Can a Pantani subordinate himself to a Jan Ullrich? Because it's clear to see that he no longer has the performance of his earlier days - and Bianchi probably won't be able to afford a double leadership. And Pantani as a loyal domestique - no, sorry, but I just can't imagine that...
Yeah, great. On the one hand, employers are constantly demanding higher flexibility from employees in choosing their workplace, on the other hand they want to cut the benefits that serve as compensation for this flexibility. The employment office considers a commute of 50 km to be reasonable, and the tax office is cutting the commuter allowance.
At tagesschau im Internet there's the original article.
Steve Ballmer is making a fool of himself again: Non-commercial software suffers from the lack of a central authority that takes care of "health, growth and innovation". - and why doesn't that work with Windows? Especially with health? Even more absurd: that's why Linux will never be as innovative as Windows. - I'm still waiting for Microsoft to implement innovative features like tabbed browsing in Internet Explorer, and for Microsoft to implement something as innovative as a functioning package management system for post-installation software like Debian apt-get or Red Hat rpm. Sorry, Ballmer, but that's only good enough as background material for the Monkeydance.
At heise online news there's the original article.
I wonder if this spider adheres to the robots.txt convention. And how to react if, for example, auction sites block it.
At heise online news there's the original article.
What? 30 days after receipt until the patch and then another 30 days to secure important infrastructure, and then - after 60 days! - only then the publication? Ridiculous! If the vendor is given any chance at all, it should be a maximum of a few days! After all, it's about security holes through which attackers can compromise a system.
At heise online news you can find the original article.
It's not about the victims anymore. It's only about the money being scented out.
For me, the whole thing is taking on really ridiculous dimensions. This US popinjay is putting on a show and throwing threats around. The US legal system perversion provides the necessary backing.
Funny actually - when Israel was supposed to be prosecuted in Belgium for human rights violations, Bush protested sharply. He doesn't just boycott the international court of justice, he even had himself authorized by the House of Representatives to intervene by force if necessary, should US citizens be prosecuted there.
That's all so dishonest.
I found the tagesschau im Internet with the original article.
And who protects us from sendmail?
At heise online news there is the original article.
And the farce of the economy continues. It's already audacious how the economy interprets the letter from Brussels - I can already see a clear difference between "wants to stop the deposit system" and "cannot advance the introduction", as it allegedly states in the letter according to WDR. But the economy has been blocking the whole thing for years anyway. They really took the cake when they complained before the introduction of the first stage that everything had come too quickly - and all those years before they simply ignored the topic.
Addendum: what's also remarkable is how the press handles it. While WDR and Tagesschau still point to the true content - namely that there is absolutely no contradiction from the EU Commission (or even a rebuke) - this essential detail is simply ignored in Pro7 news, for example.
At WDR.de there's the original article.
In my opinion, it is an absolute outrage that precisely given the financial situation of the federal government and the states, the bureaucracy does not disclose its data. There is constant talk of costs when something is taken away from citizens, but citizens are denied access to the corresponding areas - how are we supposed to accept that if we cannot verify it? The way this is currently being handled is highly unbelievable and of course provokes every form of suspicion of corruption.
When will we finally learn that transparency in communication is the only right strategy in the long run?
At Der Rollberg there is the original article.
The entire behavior of the district government in the dispute over the blocking orders is increasingly becoming a farce. I still hope that somewhere, someone will simply sue the entire district government and force them to finally conduct the whole matter openly. But I fear that such excesses have by now become rather the norm - competent politicians and political officials seem to no longer exist.
One thing is clear in any case: this massive defensive stance of the district government smells suspiciously like there is actually something to hide there - because otherwise the whole discussion could have easily been defused by the publication that was already promised.
So the only question that remains is whether politicians and bureaucrats simply want to conceal their stupidity, or whether there is actually more behind it.
At das Netzbuch - ralles Weblog you can find the original article.
Note: But it becomes particularly perverse when a theologian and advisor to the German bishops' conference strikes the same note. At Zickenterror I found the original article.
I had exactly this problem in the Python Desktop Server as well. So I wrote PyDS.Context for it. There flet is defined and activated as a new builtin. Using flet you can create a dynamic context:
> > > try: > > > _flet.begin(variable="wert") > > > ... > > > finally: _flet.end()
Not the most elegant version, but at least usable. However, I would prefer it if Python had real fluid lets like in Scheme.
At PragDave there's the original article.
That's really cool. A Smalltalk-80 running under an emulator for a Xerox Alto written in Smalltalk (Visual Works 7). Wow. The Dolphin mentioned in the article is one of Xerox's D-machines. I have two compatible systems sitting around here. Unfortunately, I never received the Smalltalk diskettes with the microcode and the image, but so far I've only had the Lyric and the Koto Lisp. Lyric is a nice Common Lisp environment, but Koto is really great: a pure Interlisp-D environment (ok, it's also included in Lyric and in the later Medley Common Lisp, but in Koto it's all pure Interlisp-D!).
I found the Cincom Smalltalk Blog - Smalltalk with Rants and the original article there.
Sure, they stand behind this concept just as much as they do behind all the other handheld and portable concepts they've botched and buried so far
(I still have a version of Pen-Windows 3.x at home on my Dauphin DTR-1)
At Spiegel Online: Netzwelt you can find the original article.
Sounds quite interesting, perhaps this could be an alternative to the Creative Commons license that has been the subject of quite a bit of discussion lately. I've also removed it from my sites where it was used, because of the liability clause.
At heise online news there is the original article.
Because I kept searching for it again and couldn't remember what it was called, here's a note link. For everyone who thinks they always intuitively assess their chances correctly, this might be an eye-opener.
Good. At least putting verbal brakes on this nonsense is a start.
At heise online news you can find the original article.
Another plugin. I haven't tried it yet and therefore don't know whether it works well or not. The principle sounds very useful though - and it might even make sense for the digital cameras. My other cameras don't have any problem with lens distortion
First, a drawback: the operation is somewhat awkward, as it doesn't integrate itself as a menu in the Filters menu where you would expect it. Instead, it's an automation plugin that you select, after which a small dialog box appears where you choose the effect group and the effect. Only then is this applied. However, the advantages outweigh this: all effects are placed in their own layer. The big advantage of this: they can all be combined well with the image via the transparency setting of the new layer and their strength can be influenced. Another advantage is the strict orientation of the effects toward photographic terms - albeit English terms. If you have problems with that, you might find help in the dictionary from http://contax-users.de/. Also nice about Photokit are the really good sharpening filters - luminance sharpening avoids color artifacts and the high-pass filter offers good variation of the effect through layer transparency. And last but not least: each effect is only one step in the Photoshop history - this makes the history clear and through multiple steps the effects can be well combined into your own more complex actions. Further tests were conducted at Digital Outback and at Luminous Landscape. The price of 49 US dollars is certainly not exactly small, but the tool saves a lot of work and since time is often short even in hobbies, and tedious standard tasks can be handled well by computers, it's a worthwhile addition. Here's the original article.
So we have a politician here who often stands out through intelligent comments and arguments against political opponents and by frequently demonstrating—for a politician—a pronounced sense of reality. What do we do with him? We make him pop commissioner. Is this supposed to ensure that he is never taken seriously again, because he contradicted the great Gerhard?
At tagesschau im Internet there is the original article.
Because Jutta now owns a Linhof Standard Press (basically a Linhof Technika III with limited front standard adjustments), I searched the web for Linhof information. The title links to what I consider the most comprehensive overview. Unfortunately, there isn't much information online about the special models. But the camera is beautiful - everything is mechanically robust, well-crafted, and in good condition even after 50 years. And the Polaroid 545 cassette fits behind the ground glass - now we just need 55 Polaroid film.
Well, the old question: who regulates the regulators. Well, our trust was more like "trust-foolish" than acting as a trustee. And that's still the polite assessment.
At heise online news there's the original article.
Smalltalk 80 is celebrating its 20th birthday. Let me congratulate it and have a quick laugh at Java's expense
At Cincom Smalltalk Blog - Smalltalk with Rants you can find the original article.
The Polaroid 195 is being re-released by NPC, but with an improved back: this time it's based on Polaroid's standard back for packfilm. Excellent - a revised and high-quality packfilm camera, with all the adjustment options you could wish for. And with a contemporary back. I'm in love.
Great, I didn't know there was a website for that either. Nice collection of links and data. Of course, nice material for an old Schleswig-Holstein fan like me. And Jutta will surely be interested in it too.
I found the original article at Der Schockwellenreiter.
Things are really getting embarrassingly ridiculous at this point. But here too, someone like Blair won't understand that his pro-Bush stance is just making him look ridiculous.
At tagesschau im Internet there's the original article.
The rumors about a digital back for the Leica R8/9 are heating up again. This time with various people who normally know quite precisely what's going on. It's going to be exciting. 7500 USD (or EUR?) and then a 1.3x factor and 10 megapixels aren't exactly groundbreaking, but certainly interesting. Not that I necessarily want to have an R system in addition, but the combination of a – admittedly high-quality – manual body with a good digital back would really just be amazingly cool.
So so. So performance improvement is nothing more than the castration of music sharing. Well, that's all the same to me, since I couldn't use it anyway (firewall) nor wanted to (security), but somehow I find that Apple shouldn't take its users for fools. They should rather leave that to Microsoft ... At heise online news there's the original article.
So let's summarize this one more time:
SCO has to this day failed to provide proof of where exactly these rights violations are
Have I forgotten any essential part of this farce, or is that already all of SCO's nonsense bundled together?
You can find the original article at heise online news here.
And work continues diligently on the next enemy image, so that no one notices how desolate conditions are in one's own country and what share the Bush administration bears in it.
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
This is something that bothers me more and more about students and university education: why does everyone believe it must be aligned with the demands of the economy? Do we really have to subordinate knowledge and scientific discourse to monetary interests? Is scientific work and education—which is supposed to be the purpose of universities—really worth so little?
I believe that university education should remain free from the constraints that the economy wants to impose on everything. Because if that happens, we'll quickly disappear from the top of the world stage.
Economic interests are short-term, science is long-term. Please continue to invest in the long-term; in the end, we all benefit far more from it than from short-term profits that go straight into the pockets of shareholders and investors anyway.
And to the students: yes, future work is important. Of course, especially in today's situation, you have to plan ahead for what you want to do professionally. But your studies should still be driven more by enthusiasm for a subject than by the question of whether it makes economic sense. Anything else would be a real shame. We already have far too many business administration students...
At Ligne Claire you can find the original article.
GMX's conclusion—namely to warn against using blacklists—is pretty stupid. The correct approach would simply be to close the hole, and then there would be no problems with blacklists. And ORDB isn't really problematic—you can start your own test anew and if it goes well, you get removed from the lists. And for anything more complex, there's a contact form.
In any case, there was a concrete reason why GMX ended up in this situation—using sender addresses as the sole qualification criterion for permissions is nonsense, since they can be forged arbitrarily.
At heise online news there's the original article.
Ridiculous. The competition is said to be suspended - where exactly is the serious competition if you come with fake bids? The doubts about such a last-minute offer are entirely justified - either they're paying extra, then it's not a legitimate bid, but price dumping. Or they're making money from it - why was the other bid so much higher then? If you can suddenly save 7 million in a bid without it causing major pain, then something is definitely wrong, one way or another.
At heise online news there's the original article.
Wow, Merkel really doesn't get it anymore, does she?
The reference to God in the Basic Law and in the oath formulas for civil servants is already absurd - what about a civil servant who doesn't believe in God? God won't help him, so what's the point of having "so help me God" in the formula? But to demand that for the EU as well - completely ridiculous. Europe should enshrine its Christian ties, but without disadvantaging other religions in any way - how is that supposed to work? Even now, other religious communities are disadvantaged, or does any religion besides Catholics and Protestants have state-backed tax collection? The state should stay out of the religion issue, period. By the way, there's a nice collection of links around the topic of political atheism at gottloses Ketzer. I found the original article at MEHRZWECKBEUTEL.