From 2005: Abitur after twelve years

So that children can get into unemployment even faster. And be properly burned out beforehand.

You can find the original article at WDR.de.

The Dialer Scammers Continue

English Translation

If you visit malvorlagen.de again (no, I still don't link such sites, and you still shouldn't click on links there!), you'll see a shameful disclaimer at the bottom of the page stating that this offer is unsuitable for persons under 18 years of age (why then the direct address to children in the web design?) and that costs of 29.95 euros per call from Germany would be incurred. Particularly brazen about this: the upper limit that RegTP has set for dialers with flat-rate billing. Are these signs of a legitimate business operation? A website that targets over 18-year-old children looking for coloring pages for 30 euros? And requires a dialer for that? It's absolutely a mystery to me why something like this is still legal. On one hand, the entire page is still clearly geared toward children (and children certainly won't pay much attention to the sentence at the bottom), on the other hand, a dialer at 30 euros per call for coloring pages is definitely not something that can be considered a normal payment system - no matter how absurd some lawyers argue about it (who even register themselves by name as the admin-C of such domains). The whole thing is simply revolting. Fortunately, the Federal Court of Justice has now at least put a stop to this, so that such nonsense can no longer be collected directly by the telecommunications provider. (P2025). The addition with the price is new - probably due to the cease-and-desist letter that was sent to the domain owner by the Berlin Consumer Centre. Unfortunately, it's likely that children will still fall for it in its current form.

Oracle ...

Q: Why do I get an "ORA-01400: Cannot insert NULL into column name" when inserting a blank string?

A: This is a known Oracle issue. When inserting or updating a value for a varchar2, if you try to insert an empty string (""), Oracle interprets the value as NULL. If there is a NOT NULL restriction on the column in which you are inserting the value, the database throws the ORA-01400 error.

Moppelkotze

Telekom CEO Ricke: Staff will continue to be reduced

Manager: back in the black, rake in atypical industry profits, but of course continue laying off employees. And then whine that all the unemployed people you just created yourself are a burden on you. Wonder why nobody in the domestic market wants to buy your overpriced products anymore and then complain that Germany as a business location is unproductive and too expensive. And never take responsibility for your own actions.

At heise online news there's the original article.

Textile chain Boecker is bankrupt

Oops. Not only did I not know that there was a chain behind it, I also didn't know they had problems.

At WDR.de there is the original article.