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Archive 2. January 2004
Eye examination costs nothing extra
So now the consulting service will become a hassle between the statutory health insurance association, health insurance companies, and the health ministry. It's not worth betting on the loser—it will probably just be the patient who ends up running around with their receipt from pillar to post...
And it would be nice if the statutory health insurance association would realize that IGeL already ends with "-service" and therefore an IGeL service is about as useful as an LCD display...
At RP-Online: Politik I found the original article.
Railway Tariff Jungle
The nonsense with regional transport associations - in which suddenly Deutsche Bahn tariffs no longer apply, but only regional tariffs, even if they are regional trains operated by Deutsche Bahn itself and not by a private competitor. Which means that BahnCards no longer work on the Münster-Nordwalde route, since the RVM doesn't accept the BahnCard. In Schleswig-Holstein it seems only the BahnCard 50 was affected, but that's already annoying.
Long-distance trains seem to be the only thing Deutsche Bahn is still interested in - and those were quickly upgraded from Interregio to IC and now to ICE, making them more expensive accordingly. For me, BahnCard tariffs still apply since I usually travel between Münster and Hamburg, but it's also gotten more expensive when I take one of the ICEs. Not that they get to the destination significantly faster than the ICs on the same route...
I had actually hoped Deutsche Bahn learned something from the last fiasco, but it doesn't seem to be the case.
At .::: [unsinnfälliges] you can find the original article.
Up to ten percent of the Milky Way habitable
Beam me up, Scotty, there is no intelligent life down here.
At RP-Online: Science I found the original article.
CLISP - an ANSI Common Lisp - Portable Common Lisp system with bytecode compiler - now as a GNU project
The Wankel Engine and Its Inventor, Felix Wankel - All about the alternative engine type
GNUnet - Framework for anonymous file sharing and secure P2P services
GROKLAW - some background on SCO's ABI claim
Groklaw sheds light on the situation of Application Binary Interfaces (ABIs), which are allegedly supposed to be SCO property, specifically the situation of errno.h and the Linux Personalities for SCO Unix.
Homonym Alarm
And more about American paranoia...
At Industrial Technology & Witchcraft you'll find the original article.
IPython - An enhanced Interactive Python - Interactive Python shell with many convenience features
Kabissa - Browse the World Wide Web by Email! - Use the web via email
LinuxWorld | Linux's other file sharing software
Nothing particularly special has happened: Red Hat has bought another company, this time Sistina. Sistina is interesting because they have been driving the commercial development of GFS - a cluster filesystem for Linux. OpenGFS has existed for a while, but GFS has more features and above all can work with more base technologies (e.g. via network block devices or iSCSI).
Now another company, Proserve, is writing that their product MatrixServer would be much better, that Sistina would need two more years to bring their product up to their level, and of course that their product would be better suited for critical services. Oddly enough, their product is naturally commercial software.
Where's the logical flaw? Quite simple: OpenGFS already exists and is maintained by more people than just those from Sistina. The features of GFS that were previously reserved for the commercial version will find their way into the free version, provided they are useful. OpenGFS will continue to develop, not necessarily GFS - Proserve has picked the wrong opponent. Proserve will have to think carefully about what to do - mere noise won't be enough on its own. It may well be that their product is better - but the question is whether it still will be in a year, or in two years. Open source develops on the basis of needs, not on the basis of marketing features - and development can happen damn fast.
Of course, there can be a disaster like with Mozilla or OpenOffice, where almost only the original developers from the companies work on the projects, and free development only proceeds very hesitantly (Mozilla is slowly getting better, but who knows OpenOffice hackers?). But given the need for cluster filesystems without a single point of failure, I don't think that's the case here.
SPD politician Maas stirs up headscarf dispute
|KK| Once again the annoying reference to the invocation of God in the Basic Law - and of course from the ranks of the Union yet again. People, the word God is used in the preamble, that's correct. But only in one place: "Conscious of their responsibility before God and mankind" - and that's all there is about God in the Basic Law. And that's good. It's already absurd what some politicians think they have to read into this single mention of the word in the Basic Law. But if it helps: I'm in favor of removing the invocation of God from the preamble as well. At least it saves two words, makes the Basic Law shorter and no poor politicians' brains will be confused and thrown into bewilderment anymore.
While we're at it, also delete the addition to the oath "so help me God" without replacement. That's obsolete - just like crosses in schools. Or oaths on the Bible. Or state collection of funds for the large Christian churches. Or religious education. And school religious services. It is in any case highly absurd to derive from this single mention that the state must accept Christian symbolism. And of course it is in no way a form of discrimination when Merkelnix talks about not being able to agree to equal treatment of religions in the public service and derives from this that Christian symbols cannot be insignificant to the state and that their removal is no solution.
The separation of church and state apparently never took place. Or Merkelnix wasn't paying attention in school. Or both ...
I found the original article at RP-Online: Politik.
Substance in red wine works against cancer
I have two bottles of red wine left in the cellar. I think I'll devote myself to cancer prevention this weekend.
At RP-Online: Wissenschaft I found the original article.
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