Archive 8. January 2004

Programmed on Lies

Furthermore, Binalshibh is supposedly programmed to lie as a matter of faith. The Muslim religion supposedly commands the faithful to speak "non-truth" if their own lives or property or those of people close to them are endangered. - oh yes. Clear, terrorists belong - if they are convicted as terrorists of the acts they are accused of, they belong in prison. But could one please reserve a cell right next door for the prosecutor for this audacity?

At Telepolis News there is the original article.

ESA writes off 'Beagle 2'

Well, literally left in the sand.

At Spiegel Online: Wissenschaft you can find the original article.

Keyspan launches USB Device Server

Not quite uncool: being able to put any (ok, certainly not just any) USB devices on a server part hanging in the network and then use them throughout the entire network. Could definitely be interesting for shared scanner use or similar purposes.

At The Macintosh News Network there's the original article.

KODAK: Cleaning Imager Coverglass and Filters - Reinigung von Kodak DCS Chips und Filter

Kodak DCS 520 - Test report on version 3 firmware for the DCS 520

Majority of Germans consider politicians corrupt

After the perceived inflation, the perceived corruption. For the former, there is now evidence that it is not only perceived ...

Teufelsgrinsen

I found the original article at RP-Online: Politik.

NRW threatened by flu wave

Oh man.

At WDR.de you can find the original article.

Photoshop: No License to Print Money

Adobe has a slight defect. Either the sluggish thing only recognizes part of banknotes anyway, or the filters also recognize data other than banknotes. Or both. In any case, the time and energy spent on implementing such a silly feature would have been better used elsewhere. But Adobe also felt the need to build in silly copy protection ...

At heise online news there's the original article.

Rau's Successor: "Schäuble can do it"

Not the porter.

At RP-Online: Politik I found the original article.

Preview version of Gimp 2.0 available

That all sounds quite good already. OK, it won't tear me away from Photoshop just yet, but color profile support in particular is already an important point.

At heise online news there's the original article.