BGH: Function of Hyperlinks Takes Precedence Over Commercial Interests
Strike! heise online news has the original article.
Archive 18. July 2003
File sharing is to become a crime
Absurd. And calling something like this an "Author, Consumer and Computer Owner Protection and Security Act" is pretty audacious. How does such an excessive penalty threat protect a computer owner? But with "Protection and Security" you can apparently get any nonsense approved in the USA ...
At Spiegel Online: Netzwelt there's the original article.
MTV.com - News - Metallica Sue Canadian Band over E, F Chords
Ok. Metallica's music is shit. Their web design is shit. And their behavior probably too - or why would a band come up with the idea to sue another band because they unlawfully used the chords E and F, which according to Metallica in this combination are a sign of Metallica? Mr. shit brain from heaven!
Update : Ok, apparently it's a hoax. The music and the web design are still shit though. At least I wasn't the only one who fell for it, so I'm in good company
Software Association Uses Legal Study on Open Source for Lobbying
Was expected — if an ex-Microsoft executive is running the show, it's clear that FUD replaces facts in the discussion.
At heise online news you can find the original article.
TinderWiki
I like Tinderbox - really. Very cute program, tons of interesting features. And it's a real adventure: many features are documented nowhere and pop up somewhere at some point and you're quite amazed that it exists. At Tinderbox Wiki I found the original article.
To Ping Or Not To Ping?
So the pings to central directories have been running in their own background thread from the very beginning at Python Desktop Server. This is definitely recommended for http://weblogs.com and http://blo.gs. I'll continue pinging there, not because I think weblogs.com itself is important - but the changes.xml from there is used by various services as a control file to, for example, pull the RSS feed into the database at http://feedster.com/. The original article is at Der Schockwellenreiter here.
Time trialing can be exciting after all ...
... as today's stage of the Tour shows. Jan Ullrich with a mercilessly good time, basically a demolition of the opposition. Tyler Hamilton with a fantastic time with a broken collarbone - if he hadn't crashed at the start of the Tour, I believe he would have given the favorites a serious scare this year. Vinokourov with arguably his best time trial of his career. And Lance Armstrong way behind Jan Ullrich - who took 1 minute and 35 seconds from him! And now the Pyrenees are coming! And another time trial! That makes the whole Tour as exciting as it hasn't been in years! Ullrich just 34 seconds behind Armstrong in the general classification, and Vinokourov still only 51 seconds behind Armstrong!
Wow. I'm running out of exclamation marks.