AG Köln: Public singing is not a copyright infringement - uh ...
bananenrepublik - 10.5.2007 - 17.10.2007
Biometrics opponents charged with trespassing - 'According to the police report, a total of six people entered the swimming pool in the early afternoon – "disguised as regular bathers".'
Population aged 16 and above should provide fingerprints for ID cards - with absurd justifications and silly promises ("no storage"), which won't be kept anyway. Just further into the surveillance state - the demand for the "use of fingerprints already available" will certainly come very shortly after the rollout. Just like with the toll data.
Kirch is back on the big stage - because once cheating isn't enough for the DFL.
Outrage over EU plans for «web censorship» - latest from Looney Land. We have funny years ahead of us, with crazy politicians with control freak neurosis and the most absurd ideas about reality.
Netherlands: End for Nedap Voting Computers - and what about us? Everything is still being declared as totally secure. Keeping your head in the sand prevents you from noticing what's happening around you ...
Black money affair: Kanther gets away with a fine - not everyone is equal before the law. Or does anyone believe that as a regular citizen they could have wriggled out of it so easily? Against a clear violation of the law by a federal minister (who, like all officials, has sworn an oath to our constitution - but what is that worth these days)?
PIN-Code and fingerprint - it seems the idiots in Berlin still haven't quite figured out that the internet is international - and stores abroad will ignore their great control fetishism. But of course, they will continue to try to sell this to us as a great idea for consumer protection.
Police intervention at demo against the surveillance state - "The police command, which initially had 450 officers present, defended the use of force after half of the distance covered with the argument that there had been numerous violations of regulations, such as against the height and width of the permitted transparents and against the ban on covering faces, 'in relation to the entire history'. In addition, radicals had already caused 'evil destruction' at tables and chairs of the luxury hotel Adlon during pre-checks of bags." - great de-escalation strategy and very appropriate for the topic, right? Does anyone need a bucket of sarcasm?
Experts have significant concerns about data retention - but this will certainly not impress any politician much. The critics simply pay too poorly.
Merkel finds debate on online raids "concerning" - that's what you call democratic discussion, Mrs. Merkel. Have you looked in the Basic Law recently? The last time I checked, it still said we have a democracy. And something like freedom of opinion. And even that members of parliament are only bound by their conscience. But most of them have long since auctioned that off to the highest bidder. Funny enough, I find the ignorance of the prolethicians in Berlin towards facts much more concerning ...
Bayern will schärfe Strafen für Gotteslästerung - they're crazy in Bavaria. Maybe we can sell that to the Vatican? Probably no other state would want something like that ... the Union blowhards obviously haven't heard of separation of church and state.
Abmahnung: GEZ untersagt "GEZ-Gebühren", "PC-Gebühren" und "GEZ-Anmeldung" - actually still on vacation, but it was just too good to ignore. It has probably already been driven through the blogosphere (after all, it's 5 days old), but this is really a knockout. Society for Restricted Cerebral Function - or what does GEZ mean again? I must have forgotten ...
Under house arrest - how the blogosphere is silenced with cease and desist letters and court proceedings. Sure, you can sometimes win in the next instance - but it costs to get there first. And in many cases, the legal protection insurance has a clause in the contract that excludes the matter at hand. How convenient.
EU lawsuit against German data protection laws - because the data protection officers are not really independent. Will it have any effect?
Tough stance against drug offenders - naturally only against "hard" drugs. Such as hashish, for example. Because that is much worse and more serious than alcohol, which teenagers can already buy from the age of 16 in the form of beer. Because nobody becomes addicted to beer and no harm comes to society and the young people will cope with it very easily. But hashish, yes, that is much worse. The loss of reality among the prolethicians is really shocking ...
Top official of the Federal Police had his employees' emails monitored - "The chain letter 'additionally burdens our IT network and reduces processing speed,'" explained department head Fritzsch in an employee letter, justifying the online raid. Well, well, abuse in online searches is certainly excluded in such officials ...
"Amflora" comes: EU wants to allow BASF potato - "Germany, along with Sweden and others, is among the supporters - after all, BASF is a German company."
Bishop demands creationism in biology class - Creationist nutjobs in Germany. Will surely find support from the Hessian education destroyer. This bullshit has no place in biology class. None. This sanctimonious act that one would advocate for multiple ideas and the fixation on only one idea is unscientific is simply nonsense.
Schäuble demands "detention", internet and mobile ban for "potential threats" - I demand detention, internet and speaking ban for crazy politicians. We could just build a wall around the government district ...
Union threatens ARD and ZDF with advertising ban - because the public broadcasting internet offering is so terribly threatening. Or are the private media industry's donation funds just speaking again?
BGH facilitates telephone information disclosure of data - and goes with the argumentation Web 2.0. Opt-out instead of Opt-in. When will they finally understand that only Opt-in is fair and correct. No, data is not simply there to enrich companies, just because no one objected.
Company names in blog domains are problematic - "class" decision, LG Hamburg. Right away, the dirty masses have been silenced. When will Bildblog be shut down, by order of the authorities?
Karlsruhe: Lawmakers must disclose secondary incomes for the first time - well, that's something. Not much, but at least a small step towards transparency.
Freace - The Same Old Pattern - about the usual mindless madness from Berlin, where every failed "terror" attempt is used to justify further erosion of fundamental rights and freedoms. Even though the actual "attack" was banal and botched, and all the means demanded here did not help in prevention at all.
Zwangsausschluss von Aktionären verfassungsgemäß - well, there politics and the constitutional court pull together - a capitalist - string. Nice how it is suggested to major shareholders that it is a corporate participation and not a capital investment - in times when financial investors, for pure capital interests, strip mid-sized companies, such an idea is simply laughable.
Schäuble considers online searches "essential" - strangely, I feel far more threatened by the rolling madness in Berlin than by any Islamists. The Berlin Prolethicians, who support this nonsense, however, seem primarily threatened by their own population. Why else would they have such broad powers to investigate and examine any citizen at will? Does what is happening there still have anything to do with democratic order?
Top speed limit for all EU cars from the factory? - fittingly with panic comments. Because the freedom of the German is measured by the top speed. Screw privacy and surveillance state, if we are only allowed to speed, Germans are happy. No matter how stupid the idea is in terms of traffic and the environment.
Music industry wants unrestricted access to user data - because the music industry is above the law. When will this madness end? I have already drawn my conclusions - by largely ignoring the meager work results of the music industry and preferring to stock up on new songs at Magnatune or Jamendo. It's much more exciting there.
Expert report confirms manipulability of voting computers - will certainly be ignored by the prolethicians in Berlin, just like all other facts.
Reportage: Twenty in a Cage, 24 Hours of Light - "Many of the G8 critics taken into custody had to be released again. Because many were taken into custody solely due to 'suspicious hooded jackets, sunglasses, and scarves' or because of radios in their luggage, explains one of the duty lawyers."
Federal Council committees for clear expansion of telecommunications surveillance - because, the police state is not yet fully and perfectly established. I hear in the background the cool giggling of former Stasi officials. They are starting to feel quite at home.
German government specifies obligations for archiving web content - oh man, if I don't have work, I create some? Stupid people. My blog is available to everyone under a CC license. If the national library thinks it needs to be archived, they should move their virtual ass over and regularly scrape it, just like Google and others already do. Otherwise, they can leave me alone at my rear pixels ...
Court prohibits sending articles by email - always everything for the benefit of rights holders. Because they are, after all, an essential part of the education system and society. Quite the opposite of universities, which are just freeloaders. Such things must be fundamentally prevented, where would we end up if a non-profit association (founded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Science) had the right to supply universities with information cost-effectively and efficiently.
BKA investigators searching in the beer garden - rampaging federal agents on the wrong track. Embarrassing.
Like you and me, a terrorist - that's how it starts. We are moving into a state that nobody really wants - except maybe Schäuble. This has nothing to do with a free democratic order in the long run. But about the Stasi, they all made fun of it. Nonsense, the whole thing. Pure nonsense.
Retailers rejoice: Biometric images for health card - can someone explain to me why we need biometric data on the health card? What's the point? The whole thing has become so absurd that you feel like you're living in a satire ...
Amnesty International condemns "politics of fear" - that's how far it's come, that Germany is being condemned by AI. But Berlin will also ignore this and continue. Because fear-mongering sells better than rational action.
The ARD sound disturbance named Godefroot (Update 3) - and even more information about the ARD "sound disturbance".
NDR censors Dietz interview with Beckmann - if journalists and TV stations censor themselves, why do we need Schräuble?
German Interior Minister warns of increasing cyber espionage - but forgets to mention that he himself is demanding expanded surveillance permissions for his department. Somehow already hypocritical, right? I mean, when the goat styles itself as the defender of the vegetables in the garden?
Innere Sicherheit: The Scent of Terror - the use of tried and tested Stasi methods is certainly simply consistent with the current situation. Or so. (read while it is still openly accessible)
Economics professor demands: "We need a regulated market for organs" - complete madness. There are good reasons why donor organs in this country may only be taken from deceased people. And exactly why this Pandora's box must not be opened. But what does an economic expert care. Presumably, he thinks he's particularly modern with this inhumane idea. One thing is clear: his brain is definitely not suitable as a donor organ ...
Deutsche Telekom bids farewell to T-Com brand - one builds a brand for a lot of money. Then one crushes it and introduces another brand that again swallows money for advertising measures. At the same time, one wants to pay the service employees less money for more hours. So that one can squander more money on nonsensical marketing measures? The monkey dance that the Telekom is currently performing is simply ridiculous.
Friday 20 - It's about almost everything - why the Deutsche Telekom strike is more than just an attempt to save the company's employees. Much more.
Music industry and Udo Jürgens put pressure on Chancellor - the music industry has never been a pillar of the creative economy - the musicians are. Sometimes. And Udo Jürgens? I wouldn't even want him if someone paid me to have him ...