"Peinliche Pleite von Axel Schulz" - not everyone is a George Foreman.
Archive 8.11.2006 - 27.11.2006
Return of the Paper Disk: 256 GByte on A4 Sheet - this works well as long as no one calculates the bits, applies realistic compression rates, and then checks how many points a scanner can reliably read from it and how much remains. But then you would have to turn off your own tech faith in the editorial offices ...
Overzealous spam blacklist blocks Server4You addresses - SORBS again. Still incompetent, that place.
When the Anti-Corruption Department is involved in corruption - then it's called the economy.
EU may not transfer bank data to the USA - what do you want to bet they will find a loophole to pass the data on to the USA?
[FairGame](http://seidai.50webs.com/Seidai Software.html) - copies purchased songs via AppleScript and iMovie into new, unprotected songs (with quality loss due to the principle). Essentially, this is what you can also do manually by burning the CD and then ripping it - but no blanks are burned here.
Counterfeit goods endanger Second Life - claims the Netzzeitung. But it's not true. The CopyBot talk has been over for a long time, now only the oh-so-hip (but completely outdated) Netzzeitung notices. Previously proven damage caused by CopyBot: 0 L$. Great threat, especially gigantic inflation (strangely, the L$ has remained stable during this time). But "Copy machine for pure superficialities leaves no traces in the virtual economy of Second Life" doesn't sound nearly as dramatic ...
M8, a missed opportunity - ok, thanks Fazal, that saves me a lot of pondering (and a lot of money). Since Fazal thinks about photography in many ways similar to me, it's very practical when he does a "test" of equipment that would also suit me ...
Mannesmann trial coming to an end - because the bigwigs can simply buy their way out. That's how capitalism works.
StudiVZ: 700 Stalker and Data Protection - something from practice. Nicely researched and prepared by Don Alphonso. For all those who always come up with "I have nothing to hide, it's not that bad" when you find a vulnerability in an online system.
Owl Content
Owl Content has been around for quite some time now. It just runs alongside, doesn't make much of a mess, and simply does its thing. And it has now collected over 2300 articles! I just wanted to mention that. And for those who are now wondering what it is - surf over there. Read. Maybe even contribute yourself?
Thousands of criminal proceedings against Internet coffee buyers - Coffee tax. Of course. Why customs does not collect it directly from incoming packages (so far, customs has stuck its fingers into my packages - although not coffee - every time), no one has explained ...
Flickr: Camera Finder - common camera types on Flickr. What does that say? Not much, except that Flickr users use cameras.
Controlled heroin distribution on the verge of ending? - successful reintegration of heroin addicts, lives at stake (and demonstrably saved from the vicious cycle of addiction by the program), but what is politics doing? Riding on principles because such things just shouldn't exist. And presumably, all the Union bigwigs are at home getting drunk.
SAP Network use - Port numbers of the horror ERP system ...
The Rolex Awards: a cheap technique for food preservation, M. B. Abba - a refrigerator made of two clay pots and water. A modern rediscovery (2000, some say even invention) of a historical technique - can be made by hand. Genius.
United States Patent Application: 0060242178 - tagging, commenting, etc. on media, such as images, videos, etc. Will Yahoo then probably sell patent rights to Google (YouTube)?
3D Game Textures: Create Professional Game Art Using Photoshop: Books: Luke Ahearn - just blogged to remind myself to get it later (be careful, Amazon link).
Coccinella | Jabber client with integrated whiteboard - multiplatform, apparently in TCL (at least extendable in TCL).
Demands for banning killer games are getting louder - funny. I am absolutely sure that you cannot get firearms in a computer game that you can then use to shoot around in real life. But politics does not ask about the origin of the weapons, only that computer games must be banned (whereas games glorifying violence are already banned - banning more than banning somehow doesn't do anything, does it?). Activism instead of thinking.
The Dark Side of Game Texturing: Books: David Franson - another book (again Amazon, sorry) about textures.
Cracked it! - and what did they crack? The British RFID passport.
Getting Cute with the GPL - don't do it.
Online price comparison for dental patients banned - the panic fear of the informed patient.
Shooting at School in Emsdetten - Detten? School shooter? What's going on here?
Stopping spam with the Anti-Spam-SMTP-Proxy (ASSP) - hmm. Transparent SMTP proxy. Unfortunately in Perl - my experiences in that direction were rather negative so far.
If I dig a very deep hole, where do I end up? - cool Google Map Mashup - select a point and calculate where a deep hole through the Earth comes out.
The Zfone Project - Encryption-Proxy for VOIP Clients.
E-Mail account only with ID card? - ok, if this goes through, we can say goodbye to any form of reason on the Internet. And anyone who still offers services as a provider should think carefully about it ...
StudiVZ - The Hitler Screenshot and the Buyer Facebook - hey, hello toilet, here arm of fool. Or something like that. Up to the shoulder.
The Lotto Mandatory Proxy - once again, a huge drama. Due to the lottery monopoly, are we facing new nonsense blocking demands? In what kind of banana republic do we actually live here ...
E-Voting - the PTB in a state of explanation. The PTB director comes across as quite helpless in that interview.
Freie Wähler feel blackmailed: Koch dismisses allegations as "absurd" - something new from our strangest "democrat" from Hesse ...
Merkel advocates for more surveillance despite high security - they can't get enough. Meanwhile, they don't even bother to come up with lies anymore ...
JMRI Defense: Our Story So Far - about the fight of a model railway project against a scammer.
Richter strengthen data protection for insured parties - it would be nice if this also applied to other insurances (e.g. dental supplementary insurance) ...
Basso to Discovery - well, Discovery has experience with captains under doping suspicion. After all, they have won 7 Tours this way. The self-commitment of the Pro-Tour teams is worth nothing.
Croatia - Plitvicka Jezera National Park - waterfalls, Plitvicka, Croatia - very beautiful nature photographs.
Interior Minister Schünemann: T-Mobile obstructs law enforcement - cute. T-Online only accepts location determination orders from authorities via an expensive 0900 number.
TEH INTERNETS - Chat abbreviations explained graphically.
Woo Math: Steiner and Theosophical Math - Waldorf-Quark from a different angle.
CSSEdit - looks interesting, GUI editor for stylesheets. However, I am still a fanatical vi user when it comes to HTML and CSS ...
The Myths of Employers - about employer FUD.
Fefe's Blog about the endgame fantasies of the US military. Does this all sound damn familiar to anyone?
JumpBox - not such a bad idea: virtual machines with pre-installed software, not just for testing, but directly as a productive environment.
Perian - The swiss-army knife of QuickTime® components - free plugin to play a lot of video formats with the Quicktime Player.
Statistics on copyright infringements are exaggerated - never trust a statistic you haven't faked yourself.
Study: Every fourth German wishes for a single party of the "Volksgemeinschaft" - how we like to tell ourselves that this is all just a fringe phenomenon, and how wrong this claim is. Ultimately a failure of politics and the education system, but also of society itself.