There was supposed to be water on Mars
Water, water, water - what's all this nonsense? Is there beer too?
I found the original article at NETZEITUNG.DE Wissenschaft.
Archive 2. March 2004
Browser or binary junk heap ...
Frankly, I'm quite on the side of the browsers that don't support this mess: the fuss over internationalized domain names (why are domains containing national special characters called "international" anyway?) is a complete scam, especially the way it was implemented. It's such nonsense, you couldn't get worse. For example, the limitation to only a restricted number of characters - no ampersand! Or this stupid idea that the browser resolves it and therefore this garbage only works on the web, but not in email (or any other programs that do name resolution). Or the brute-force method how the whole thing was rammed through in some registries. And so on, and so forth. None of this pile of junk is really worth going through all this trouble for ... At das Netzbuch you can find the original article.
No Interest in Critical Consumers
That sucks. And then the Karstadt right in front of my door too. Couldn't something like that happen somewhere else, so I could keep the illusion that there's still someone around here with a bit of sense? But apparently the managers at Karstadt have, in good Münsterland tradition, kept the only brain in the bottle ...
At Der Rollberg you can find the original article.
Track or Back
I like Trackback too. Even better would be if more people would include their trackback addresses in their RSS feeds using the trackback:ping tag, that would help avoid manual steps (and especially make this dreadful trackback autodiscovery unnecessary). The original article can be found at Der Schockwellenreiter here.
What you can find in log files...
From /var/log/exim4/rejectlog:
2004-03-02 12:11:04 SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error (next input sent too soon): rejected "POST / HTTP/1.1" H=tsunami.onyex.de [213.133.111.162]