Great. Now some stupid American wants to prevent GSM from being implemented in the US anymore and use CDMA instead - because GSM was developed in France, after all. Good Lord, what a fucking idiot ...
I found the original article on Gizmodo.
Somehow that's a rather absurd stance. Just not closing a security hole. Well, if you put an NT server unfiltered on the internet, you probably deserve nothing better than to be screwed over by Microsoft.
At heise online news there's the original article.
Hey! If they're making this thing native Aqua now, that's a real killer - because so far there's only Macintosh Common Lisp, since Allegro doesn't come with a GUI. However, Lispworks is unfortunately not exactly cheap, so you could almost just use MCL again.
Or OpenMCL, which costs nothing
At lemonodor there's the original article.
I was asked to do so, so I've now implemented Trackback for myself. For now, just for incoming pings, but I will also tackle outgoing ones.
Update: Outgoing pings are working now, so I went ahead and pinged my colleague right away
Panorama is currently running and breaking down some alleged war reports, showing what's really behind them - in some cases just staged war games for the media, so they have flashy exploding tanks and soldiers firing wildly to show. And everyone showed them, each with appropriate commentary
An interesting opinion from a Security Focus columnist on the topic of secure software. His basic thesis – the macho posturing of programmers who think their code in particular has no bugs, and the excessive use of low-level languages – is correct. It's really sometimes absurd with what primitive tools programs are created. And then people wonder why bugs occur that have been known for decades – well, of course tools are used that have existed just as long.
What he overlooks in his article, however, is the main motivation of many programmers in the open source area: fun. Many things come into being precisely because someone has fun doing them – but they only have fun because they use the tools of their choice.
From that perspective, we in the open source area will have to live with the fact that there are both bus drivers and fighter pilots among programmers – even if that means that parts of the system have holes from time to time. Because someone who simply enjoys C programming is not motivated by the fact that buffer overflows keep occurring to switch to Perl or Python. Even if that would eliminate entire classes of errors.
At WorldWideKlein - The Daily Durchblick I found the original article.
Very dubious the whole thing. But it wouldn't be the first time Verisign messed up with domain changes - so I wouldn't be surprised. Or simply a stupid mistake when changing the domain by the sender - I see that often enough, where people just don't pay attention to what they're doing. But of course it's also possible that some wheeling and dealing is going on to slow down an unwelcome sender.
I found the original article on heise online news.
I find it quite absurd that someone who mismanaged a company, sold off that company and its employees, and even awarded themselves an extra large bonus for it, and who now faces court proceedings for various offenses, should have good prospects in another lawsuit for damages due to allegedly unjustified suspicion.
At tagesschau online you can find the original article.
Now that's efficient journalism
At Der Rollberg you can find the original article.
Not just the scratch-off ticket
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
What always amazes me about all this virtual machine talk: why don't these people look at where virtual machines have actually been used for a long time before implementing such things? I mean, Smalltalk has had a virtual machine since its existence and since the mid-80s a highly efficient garbage collector as well as a whole range of advanced features. Same with Common Lisp implementations - many use internally portable code based on virtual machines. There's also corresponding experience with closures and continuations. It's not as if these topics were so terribly new - on the contrary, they're pretty old hat.
But instead of looking at where there are not only working implementations, but also the full source code for study, people prefer to tinker with their own stuff and at best refer to the JVM or the .NET CLR - two of the most pathetic implementations of virtual machines that exist (among other things because their designers make exactly the same mistake and think they know better and don't need to look at the code and ideas of old hackers).
What's really ridiculous is this continuations and closure debate. Both are essential features of Scheme and addressed in all Scheme implementations, because nothing would work without them. And many of them have highly efficient implementations for virtual machines or real CPUs.
People, please look at what others have already done decades ago before you think you have the great new idea. Or don't be too surprised if you're not taken very seriously by those who know these old systems ...
At Squawks of the Parrot there's the original article.
What? There's no money for the social system, but there is for stupid weapons games?
The original article can be found at tagesschau im Internet - here.
Approval and agreement. Especially when these cliques are already enjoying book and record burnings. At MEHRZWECKBEUTEL you can find the original article.
Hmm. Well, if I look at the text and effects of the story and think about it a bit, I would draw the following conclusion: a Japanese porn site is using weblogs.com and the weblogs announced there for porn spam by mirroring these sites (apparently only part of the pages), removing all references to the original site and replacing them with references to their own content. As a result, Google not only finds the content of these weblogs on the blog itself, but also on the pornified mirror.
As a result, this porn site parasitically uses the content to climb higher in the rankings itself. But since they exchange all the links, the backlinks are lost - and of course nobody links to the porn mirror (okay, nobody except Ben Hammersley). This way they can't exploit the actual ranking factor of blogs - the high linking - for their own purposes.
So all in all it's actually a pretty stupid action, especially since the site primarily targets the Asian region - and who enters German search terms there, for example?
It's of course possible that when using Japanese search engines or restricting search results to the Japanese domain space, these sites climb to the top because of the content, since they apparently use the changes from weblogs.com to also change the mirror pages - and thus pretend to be frequently changing pages that rank higher in search engine scanning and thus possibly also in the ranking.
But does it really work? In any case, I haven't seen any porn spam mirrors in my search results. However, what this shows is that we have to reckon with spam appearing in completely different areas. Comment spam already exists in the blogosphere, but website spam is not yet so common. But it will come.
To what extent one can take legal action against this content theft is unfortunately questionable, since copyright doesn't apply everywhere.
The original article is at Ben Hammersley.com, here.
I'm thinking with horror about what would happen to our country if the broadcasters decided to do such a stupid thing. A whole day of nothing but folk music? Help!
I found the original article at tagesschau im Internet.
And once again we humans are destroying something that cannot be repaired. No, the fishermen themselves are not primarily to blame - they too just want to live. Like all other people. But for exactly that reason, the dugongs will soon be going the way of the dodo.
Will the world perish because of it? No. Will the world become poorer because of it? Yes! :-(
I found the original article on Spiegel Online: Wissenschaft.
How can you actually recognize violence-prone youth? Do they wear corresponding T-shirts?
Well, exaggerated police responses to demonstrators have a tradition in Hamburg, and Schill is quite a traditional ...
At tagesschau im Internet I found the original article.
Not by Volkswagen, but made by Nature. Although I have to admit I'm a bit puzzled when it comes to predatory water beetles that have forgotten how to swim. At first glance, it doesn't really sound like a good development strategy. Here's the original article.
Of course we should focus more on the processes that create software than on alleged metrics for evaluating a project and abstract absolute values that are not tangible. This is a general problem in software development: at universities, the process of creating software itself is presented as unimportant, and only the results of analysis and design are considered important. As if analysis or design were independent of the implementation process, as if they could be directly derived from the former two. In some cases, programming itself is even separated from the normal realm of software development and packed into courses that are required as mandatory credits - but in actual teaching, it is pointed out that analysis and design predetermine the software solution, and you can do the programming in any language anyway. Absurd.
Software creation is accompanied by many components. Of course, analysis and design are among them - and not entirely unimportant ones. Preferably, these two components stand at the beginning of development. But they also accompany development during the process. But just as naturally, the actual implementation - often dismissively portrayed as mere coding, as if you were just converting one formal language into another and could hand it over to some trained monkeys - is an essential aspect that is crucially responsible for success and failure. The tools also play a role, specifically the degrees of freedom they offer, but also the degrees of freedom that programmers actively use in realization, are an essential aspect. This is not about my language being better than your language - that is banal and boring. No, it's about the fact that languages provide means of expression, just as natural languages do. Languages offer models of thinking - with 40 words for snow and ice, you can discuss snow and ice far better, but in the desert, you run out of conversation. The same is true in programming languages - they offer models of thinking that you can use. Or you can rape the language and discuss the meaning of desert with 2 words for sand.
In my opinion, it is infinitely sad that especially in the software engineering movement and in modern software development strategies (perhaps with the exception of the XP movement and the Pragmatic Programmer - but they are also often regarded as outsiders), the programming language is often dismissed as mere tool. My creed: the programming language is more than a tool. It is a way to communicate with the machine. And this communication is certainly not dry or banal or primitive. It is an intellectual challenge and a creative activity. The activity is not coding - it is communicating. The language used reveals the focus that a community has - this also applies to programming language. Its abstraction mechanisms, its degrees of freedom and expressive variety show what directions were envisioned, how the developers who designed this language see the software world. These directions and idea spaces in which a language moves are important - if I go against them in communication, I lack the words. I have to resort to circumlocutions - ugly, inelegant code is often the result.
In my now almost 20 years of programming, 16 of them professionally, I have read a lot of old code. This is essential when you spend 10 years of your working time working on an old inventory management system. And what always struck me was that inelegant code - in the sense mentioned above, but also in its most mundane form as incorrectly structured and formatted code - was almost always the code with the most bugs.
It is often a very clear sign that the failure to understand the culture of a programming language and its ethos is reflected in programming through a failure to understand complex processes - and that leads to bugs.
Ugly language designs then contribute to the fact that programs actually remind one more of curses at the machine than of what they should be (and in my opinion, are): Programs are poems for the computer!
Many programs in this context, however, remind one more of failed limericks with incorrect meter and non-rhyming lines, to which the poet has written 5 pages of explanations on how the discerning reader is supposed to interpret the poem...
At PragDave there is the original article.
On class, just keep all options open for opportunism...
At tagesschau im Internet there's the original article.
Horror reading for the night ...
At Telepolis News I found the original article.
A very interesting detailed test of the Kodak camera with a few references to the Canon EOS 1Ds.
I found the original article at Imaging Resource News Page.
Hehe, not bad what was written in the neighborhood. Evil, but good. Ok, I'll admit it, as a Westphalian I particularly liked the Cologne beer jab
Hah! If I had had that earlier, I could have written the whole Python Desktop Server in Common Lisp together with the portable allegro store and maybe a port of Woods
I found the original article at CLiki Recent Changes.
Well, that's what you'd expect when you give Moore an Oscar and put a microphone in his hand. I kind of like Moore, he's always ready to insult the Bush administration.
I also like his answer to reporters' questions about why he did it: Because I am an american And here's the text of his acceptance speech.
I found the original article at Warblogs:CC.
Great. So now these highly precise American soldiers are also shooting at British reporters. But the Americans will surely talk their way out of that one too.
I frequently visit the grounds of the old zoo and photograph the remains of the zoo - melancholic mementos of something I loved as a child. Yes, I know that not every enclosure met the animals' needs (especially not the bear enclosures). But in my opinion, the problem could have been solved by giving the animals that could not be kept properly to other zoos and concentrating more on what made the zoo lovable. Such as the guinea pig village, which I had almost forgotten. Or the monkey rocks. Or the badger. True, the old zoo was a wild potpourri of quirky buildings and partially arbitrarily purchased and captured animals. But it had character. The new zoo only slowly began to develop that after many years and even today still has too much concrete and sterility in some corners (and the back then so clean concrete just looks shabby and ugly with algae and moss growth).
Also on the grounds is the Tuckesburg, which is mentioned in the text. One of my favorite subjects, even though the picturesque impression becomes somewhat less picturesque after learning of its former use. But it only caught the fat cats.
About all this talk about smart bombs, I have a few questions:
He's not entirely wrong about that. The ptrace bug has robbed Linux of some of its technical innocence with respect to viruses. Because it has impressively demonstrated what system administrators have known for a long time: all software sucks - every piece of software is garbage. Linux too, fundamentally in its kernel. Usually this garbage manifests itself in areas that are less interesting for end users, usually only kernel programmers curse about it (I'm thinking of the IDE subsystem). Sometimes - as with the ptrace bug - it breaks through completely. Then it's up to the distributions to make upgrades as easy as possible for the user and to make kernel installations in particular very easy to manage - because the kernel is after all the heart of a Unix system, and if there are vulnerabilities there, all the periphery doesn't help anymore. By the way, this is a point where Debian has an Achilles heel: because kernel versions can be combined arbitrarily and the kernel itself, while managed with the distribution tools, is not necessarily fully integrated into upgrades, many Debian systems will certainly remain stuck on outdated kernel releases.
In any case, I'm curious what other collateral damage will emerge in this area and how this bug will have further effects.
At heise online news you can find the original article.
The house of Prof. Landois, founder and first director of the MĂĽnster Zoo and planner of the MĂĽnster Aasee.
Well, just another sign that power games are quite common in open source projects too. Let's see what comes of it, but I'm firmly convinced that more open project structures will always prevail over more closed ones in the long run - even if only to the extent that they establish an appropriate alternative project. So XFree Inc. should prepare itself for the long-term prospect of no longer being the sole provider of X-Windows for free Unix-like systems.
The original article can be found at kuro5hin.org.
Wow. So there are the first American prisoners and Rumsfeld is completely outraged that they're being shown publicly, claiming it would violate the Geneva Conventions. Oh. Come on. And what about the repeatedly shown images of captured Iraqis sitting in barbed-wire-secured areas? What about the images of Al Qaeda members in American camps?
Some American broadcasters don't want to show images of American prisoners or the dead. Great - so we lie even more, we continue pretending that the war against Iraq is just a Disneyland for adults.
Of course, the same broadcasters have no problem showing images of captured Iraqis. And no, of course none of this is war propaganda.
So the Geneva Conventions don't apply to everyone after all. Neither do UN Security Council resolutions, so we shouldn't be too surprised.
This is really funny (translation by me): > Microsoft Software is carefully designed so that your company's data stays in and unauthorized people and viruses stay out. This means that your data couldn't be safer, even if you kept it in a safe. That's good news for a company's survival, but tragic news for hackers. So in the age of Outlook viruses, security holes as big as barn doors, and security patches after which the system won't boot up anymore, Microsoft really shouldn't make such statements
At WorldWideKlein - The Daily Durchblick you can find the original article.
At tagesschau im Internet there's the original article.
I'm sorry, Papyrus may have been innovative back then, but I'm still waiting for the OS X version of Nisus Writer
At Der Schockwellenreiter you can find the original article.
And the results don't look good for Kodak at all. Higher nominal resolution, but in the image comparisons rather lower effective resolution and noticeable artifacts and noise at 400 ISO. Not exactly an impressive result for the Kodak camera. Kodak will need to do significantly better than that.
Oh man, there really is no idea that's too stupid not to be realized. > Every step ignites one of the motors, which with a quiet hiss and rattling over two cylinders presses the sole weighing 450 kilograms downward and propels the wearer of the boots forward. The first steps may still feel unfamiliar to the owner of the seven-league boots, but after just a few minutes, the new gait can be mastered. The tester disappears in giant strides, leaving behind a small cloud of exhaust fumes. That sounds pretty wild somehow. Whether the Russians can compete with the Segway People Transporter with this, I doubt. Even if they are cheaper.
Ok, folks, if you buy CDs that are not labeled but contain copy protection: report them to ct's register!
At heise online news you can find the original article.
I feel discriminated against. I use Python scripts for my thought purges, not Perl or PHP. That's oppression. I want to belong to the privileged luxury people too.
At Der Schockwellenreiter there's the original article.
Nunja. We're not allowed to do that. So let's leave that to our colleagues at lies.com.
At lies.com you can find the original article.
It's already dreadful when the first reaction to such a message is "so what, people are being killed" - after a moment you realize what a fatal side effect of war is: you become desensitized to all the other atrocities that happen in war, because you can only think about dying people and violations of international law. Yet war becomes just as catastrophic for the environment there as it does for the people in Iraq - just think of this madness with uranium ammunition and other atrocities from the last Gulf War.
And likewise, cultural assets will suffer and disappear. And with the destruction of cultural assets, much is lost for us - memories of times that are no longer within reach. That too is fatal.
At tagesschau im Internet I found the original article.
Well, not much more intelligent than Masturbate for Peace
At Industrial Technology & Witchcraft I found the original article.
Michael Moore has a few truths for Bush on truth day.
At .::: [unsinnfälliges] I found the original article.
Robert C. Byrd also has some truths for Bush.
I found the original article at lies.com.
Extra 3 is on right now and Herta Deubler-Gmelin is a guest. I find this woman simply impressive. She has humor, she has intelligence and brings arguments. And to me, she stands for integrity and reason. Why do we have so few politicians of that kind? And why are the ones we do have pushed out because of stupid accusations? It's a shame, really.
Yes. We demand that the young generation become more political, take more interest in current events, and get involved, but when they do exactly that (and only say at the demos what many of us think too), we react like this: > A spokesman for the Bavarian Ministry of Education criticized the unexcused absence from class, but said that harsh sanctions such as reprimands should not be imposed. However, there should be pedagogical consequences, such as discussions in class or making up missed lessons. Saarland's Education Minister JĂĽrgen Schreier (CDU), on the other hand, demanded that the protesting students have the class absence entered in their report card as "unexcused absence." The cited education ministries certainly have a very strange idea of a more political youth. Are politically interested young people only supposed to be politically interested and engaged outside of school? It reminds me fatally of the button bans we had at school back then. Political expression of opinion has no place in the school building was the attitude of the school administration back then. An attitude that still seems strange to me today, especially considering that many church-affiliated schools have crosses hanging in classrooms ... At Industrial Technology & Witchcraft there is the original article.
How can German politicians still argue that this is not a violation of international law? There was no attack by Iraq on the USA, the position of the UN Security Council was blatantly ignored, and American interests were massively placed above those of the UN. It is not even certain that the attacked Iraq actually possessed weapons of mass destruction that could at least approximately confirm the potential threat indicated by the USA (on the contrary, UN weapons inspectors assumed that the threat was far less than portrayed by the USA), and the USA never cooperated with the weapons inspectors at any point (and did not, for example, provide them with the allegedly existing evidence of weapons of mass destruction). The entire war is based on propaganda material and claims made by the Bush administration. And that is supposed to not be a violation of international law?
At tagesschau im Internet there is the original article.
Viewing the little trick as a poem is one way to go about it. Though, to be honest, it was really more exciting back when Google was still indexing the page and search queries were directed to it, which then appeared as results solely because of the many search terms present there. That was a real feedback loop. At MEHRZWECKBEUTEL you can find the original article.
Well, this hype is getting on my nerves too, especially what makes it into traditional media sometimes. Too much focus on an allegedly new medium. But the decisive factor has always been the person expressing their opinion, not the form they choose for it.
Technology is just a tool here, nothing more. And a revolution is the virtual counterpart to the orange crate from which a lonely crusader preaches the end of the world—that's really not it.
But this slightly exaggerated form of self-importance also keeps popping up within the blogger scene itself, especially visible, for example, in an original blogger from the USA. Such colleagues seem to think they and their opinion are the best thing since sliced bread. Though I already find sliced bread pretty silly...
Sure, on the web it's easier to find a platform for expressing your opinion—but what's the point if someone writes something and no one reads it?
Sure, on the web it's easier to build networks and connections, to find things, to find people, to find opinions. But what's the point if you can find everything but no one is looking for it?
And even if people are looking for something, find someone, and read their statements—often it really just stays at the orange crate level.
Except of course for specialty blogs—that's a completely different topic. But the current media hype isn't interested in that—a shame really. There are already one or two small revolutions happening there.
Though I don't want to diminish orange crates: it's fun. And my orange crate is painted green. But it's not a media revolution.
Oh yeah. And a blog is not a diary. Just had to emphasize that again.
At das Netzbuch - ralles Weblog you'll find the original article.
Somehow I now have an image in my head of a flower with frog tadpoles hopping around croaking and fighting against fly agarics. And I'm not even playing anything like Super Mario Land or other jump and run games.
I found the original article at Telepolis News.