Archive 8. December 2003

ATPM 9.12 - ATPO: Outliner Use Patterns

An interesting article about various user scenarios for outliners and related programs. It provides a good overview of software available on Mac along with their respective focuses and areas of application. Anyone planning to acquire such software should browse through here, which saves a lot of personal trial and error.

Here's the original article.

The dream of a breakfast service on the train is over

That's exactly what the Ich-AG concept is all about: the formerly employed worker is thrown between the millstones of large corporations with a small concept that might just barely work at the local level. When the big players no longer like it, they can easily get rid of him. He then no longer falls into the unemployment statistics, but at best among those receiving social welfare. The balance sheet looks great and an existence is destroyed.

Or did someone really believe that the Ich-AG was in any way about a forward-looking concept that people are supposed to live from long-term? Fooled you. Gotcha.

If it were really about that, the Ich-AG entrepreneurs would also be offered security measures when they go into self-employment. But that gets shifted by the state to the private sector; these people are supposed to get their own security.

Of course, the sloppy founder meetings (more hype than facts) and the rather time-constrained advisory services are not sufficient to turn a former employee into a full merchant. And promptly there are problems later with insurance, contracts, payments, taxes or contributions.

The Ich-AG would be a good concept if it really built on a sustainable model that included security and comprehensive support in business formation—and in a way that would allow the Ich-AG entrepreneur to take the risk. The way it's running now, the most frequently used advice will probably ultimately be debt counseling...

At WDR.de there's the original article.

RSA-576 cracked

It took a long time, but now it's done. The first level cracked. Sure, a 2048-bit key is still quite difficult to crack, but it's foreseeable when these limits will also fall. Time for new algorithms and new approaches. My PGP 2.63uin version (please don't be alarmed by the layout of the pages, that's all still from 1998) already had 8129-bit key length, which should last a little while longer. At heise online news there's the original article.

Schill ignores loss of power

Wow, Riots in Hamburg

At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.

SCO releases draconian NDA

An interesting breakdown of all the clauses not included in the SCO NDA. As a result, such a signed NDA would mean that the signatory could only report about SCO what SCO had previously allowed them to sign – regardless of where that knowledge came from, whether they already had it beforehand or whether they might have received it from outside sources. In principle, anyone who signs this NDA would be completely eliminated as a critic of SCO. This would obviously make free investigations of SCO's claims impossible.

At XMLMania.com - Google News Search: SCO I found the original article.