RIAA Will Drop Cases If You Point Out That An IP Address Isn't A Person - open Wi-Fi seems to have helped in a few cases as an argument.
Archive 28.6.2006 - 31.7.2006
Wings 3d - 3D modeler. Open source.
Intershop continues to write losses - and Microsoft Word has bugs and in China a sack of rice fell over.
Landis positiv - if the B sample also tests positive and he doesn't have a good explanation (but sorry, even the best explanation would brand him as "stupid," because he could have registered the medication beforehand), then it's probably over for him.
Uncertain future for Fraunhofer Institute in Darmstadt - now begins the scrapping of the GMD remnants. Nothing will remain of what was once a top-class research forge. How strategically cleverly orchestrated by the politicians and the officials of the Fraunhofer Society ...
WPHP - Call PHP from Python via a FastCGI server. This could, for example, integrate PHP into Django.
RWE will Strompreise erneut erhöhen | tagesschau.de - Record profits. Of course, prices must be raised.
As T-Mobile Sports Director - well, I would have preferred to keep him as a commentator, his memories are still fresh enough to be interesting for commentaries. This makes the unbearable babble of the public broadcasters' sleeping pills a bit more bearable.
Employment Agency: Decrees on the Net - just a little more transparency. And even that you have to fight for in court. That's how our Freedom of Information Act looks like ...
The Computer Club is back - Revival of the Wolf-Gang. But if this is a podcast - how are we supposed to notice when the fat one breaks everything again?
Metasploit: Internet Drive-By Shootings - interesting article about the possibilities of exploiting browser bugs.
BlogHUD : Second Life blogging system - actually more like a del.icio.us for SL, as you can link and comment on positions in the world. Tagging would be nice, so an interesting catalog of inworld positions could be compiled.
My Boring Ass Life - Silent Bob (yes, that Silent Bob!) speaks. Writes. Whatever.
Woe betide my Dell - quality tech support by Dell.
Landis is back - and he's gaining time on his competitors again. The top three now within 30 seconds, and Klöden is also in a good position. That's weird. Absolutely weird.
Cheap and willing - Exploitation of volunteers. So that the fat cats can get richer. And anyway - the unemployed have plenty of time for volunteer work.
Rasmussen wins, Landis collapses - and the entire ranking is thrown into disarray. And I'm sitting (sweating) at the office and can't watch live.
The Ugly Truth: Our President is an Imbecile - Russia is big and so is China.
TLS Lite - a nice small Python-only lib for SSL, TLS and low-level X509 handling. Quite useful for quick-off projects and for larger systems it integrates with other PKI libraries for Python.
IT-Branchenverband will Zuwanderung gegen Fachkräftemangel - of course, immigration is important in today's world and should not be unnecessarily blocked. But still, I somehow believe that the shortage of skilled workers can be remedied through training in companies. Preferably then also foreign young people in the training positions, to get the curve back to integration. And at the same time address a series of social problems that are initially triggered by the hopeless economic situation of young people ...
Another opinion - on the crisis in and around Israel. I'm still missing the hint that politicians in Europe and the USA (and the former USSR) now see this crisis as a welcome opportunity for their image care ... (and everyone is busily selling more weapons to both sides)
Numbers station - these strange shortwave stations that only read streams of numbers.
Debian-Hack: Intruder exploited known vulnerability - quick reaction and resolution, that's good. Kernel on a several-hundred-user system not updated in time, that's rather bad.
Garfield: Permanent Monday - Garfield comics analyzed.
Gizmo – A free phone for your computer - now also available for the Nokia 770 tablet!
Magnolia Hall Victorian Furniture - don't ask.
beaTunes ~ build better playlists - automatically analyze and classify iTunes libraries.
Pink-Floyd-Co-founder Syd Barrett has died - shine on, you crazy diamond.
Blue People of Kentucky - strange ...
The Phrontistery: Obscure Words and Vocabulary Resources - exactly what it says on the tin. Fascinating.
Enigma Homepage - an Oxyd-lookalike for various platforms.
Galileo encryption cracked - and thus the door is open for free decoders.
Landis has osteonecrosis - Top favorite has an injury that prevents him from even getting on his bike properly: Floyd Landis has a bad hip and will get a new one in the fall.
Oxyd Extra - a continuation of Oxyd, the old marble game.
Patent on Social Networking - goes to friendster in the USA. Idiotic.
Suitable Systems / SeisMac - Record vibrations with the Sudden Motion Sensor of the MacBook Pro.
CLPython - an implementation of Python in Common Lisp - ok, that's already crazy.
The world champion in green and yellow - already crazy. World champion jersey, green jersey and then also the yellow jersey. Boonen's year.
Grand coalition agrees on tightening anti-terrorism laws - well, that was obvious. All the surveillance measures so far have not brought any significant success, so they cheer each other on in Berlin and expand them right away. Fits the picture of Berlin's intellectual poverty.
Well, that's how it's done! - Kessler wins the stage and Voigt does what he does best: break away, lead the race and get caught just before the finish line.
Basso also involved in doping scandal? - ouch. That would be a real shock if Basso is suspended as well. Then the Tour would become really exciting, as none of the favorites (Ullrich, Vinokurov, Basso) would take part.
Supreme Court: Guantanamo tribunals illegal - well, it's annoying that this was only determined at the end of Dubbya's term. It would have been nice if someone - for example, from the US opposition - had sued earlier.
Textureshop - generates tileable textures based on parameters for random generators. Interesting idea, can definitely deliver nice results with some tinkering.
Ullrich, Sevilla and Pevenage temporarily suspended - consistent with the self-commitment of the Pro-Tour teams, only logical if the Spanish police have sufficient initial suspicion for an investigation. But somehow I have the feeling that, regardless of the outcome of the investigation, Jan Ullrich will hang up his cycling shoes.
heise online - Google convicted for links to counterfeit products
Google sentenced for links to counterfeiters
Filtering out the pages of counterfeiters would have been possible, explained the Paris Court of Appeal. This has shown the filtering of politically undesirable pages in China.
Well, exactly what could be expected. One's own fault - if on the one hand you preach free opinion and how great everything is that you do and how un-evil, then on the other hand you should keep your fingers off state censorship ...
OMG Girlz Don’t Exist on teh Intarweb!!!!1 - hilarious.
Wells Grants in Part IBM's Motion to Limit SCO's Claims! In Large Part. - wow. SCO has been heavily rejected here.
Bank data extorted from SWIFT - Bank secrecy? Data protection? Pfft. Forget it. The question remains: which damage is greater: that caused by terrorism, or that caused by the alleged fight against terrorism.