On this one I can actually agree with the health ministry. I think it's irresponsible too. This isn't about a strike by nurses or similar—I could understand that, they're employees like anyone else. But here doctors are deliberately exploiting their defined monopoly position to make a political point.
Of course, the demand makes sense: the patient should pay for everything, since none of the other parties involved is willing to give up even a fraction of their profit.
There's the original article at tagesschau im Internet and on their site.
Who, like me, doesn't yet have OS X 10.2 (and therefore doesn't have the new Mail.app either), or who generally wants to play around with PopFile under OS X, and who finds the Unix installation process for PopFile a bit suspicious, can read the linked text. It explains how to set it up, including automatic start/stop at system startup/shutdown.
Here's the original article.
What do they believe - that Jürgen will put himself in front of the party and quickly spill the beans? Sometimes politicians are really rarely stupid...
I found the tagesschau online and the original article.
A new version of OpenMCL with a whole stack of bugfixes. I'll have to upgrade again in the near future.
I found the original article at lemonodor.
Sometime I wanted to take a look at that too. With xmlrpc that could work well as a GUI for the Python Desktop Server. Hmm.
At Andrew Channels Dexter Pinion there's the original article.
Possibly of interest for the Python Desktop Server? TAL does have the advantage of being well-compatible with GUI designers. Hmm. We'll see. Actually, I'm quite happy with Cheetah and StructuredText.
At Vaults of Parnassus there's the original article.
Translation from German to English
What? Pay for T-Online not to mess with sender addresses? They're completely crazy.
Fortunately, I'm my own provider in more ways than one and don't need this crappy relay, but instead use a tunnel to my own static IP with full connectivity. But anyone who can't do such tricks but still wants to use their own domain (and uses mail forwarding for that, for example), will now be nicely ripped off by T-Online.
heise online news has the original article.
An article by the author of Paul Graham: A Plan for Spam. Here he examines whether and how mail filters will influence spammer behavior in the long term. Some really interesting stuff in it, definitely worth reading!
An excerpt (and my favorite part of the article): >The person who responds to spam is a rare bird. Response rates can be as low as 15 per million. That's the whole problem: spammers waste the time of a million people just to reach the 15 stupidest or most perverted. > > > >If we want to make spam stop working, we have to somehow prevent the 15 idiots from responding to the spams that are sent to them. Otherwise the spammers will keep sending it to everyone. So, strangely enough, whether or not filtering will kill spam depends entirely on what those 15 idiots do. >
So we are all dependent on the fate of 15 idiots per million network users. Wow. It's almost like real life.
Here's the original article.