Astronomers Discover Planet 'Sedna'
Found Transpluto at Last?
At NETZEITUNG.DE Science I found the original article.
Archive 15. March 2004
Chinese disappointed: Great Wall very small
Poor China. Nothing to see of the Great Wall of China from space. What a bother.
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
Freenet AG: Cease-and-desist letters instead of website blocks
What does a provider do when his reputation gets worse and worse because his service gets worse and worse? Of course. He sends cease-and-desist letters to the critics. Actually fixing the problems would be a logical and sensible approach, but you can't expect that from a provider.
At heise online news there's the original article.
GraphicConverter 5.0 delivers dozens of new features
I must definitely try out whether it now handles the old Kodak RAW format properly (the one that was still hidden in TIFFs). It would be nice if I no longer needed three different tools for simple edits and conversions...
At The Macintosh News Network there is the original article.
Suspicion of Corruption at Deutsche Bahn
Now that would be something if they could nail the rail demolition expert extraordinaire for corruption now.
The way he runs the railway, you often get the feeling that he only receives a small part of his salary from Deutsche Bahn AG...
The original article can be found at Industrial Technology & Witchcraft here.
Power shift in Spain
I'm thrilled by the election result in Spain. Not because I trust one side more than the other, but because it shows that occasionally voters might not forget every lie and every abuse after all. After all, very large parts of the Spanish population were against the Iraq War, yet Spain still took a clearly pro-USA position in it. Surely this will have been brought back to mind again through the controversy over the presumption of guilt in the Madrid attacks.
In a commentary on the radio this morning, the commentator suspected that precisely the stance of the Spanish government on the Madrid attacks, particularly its information policy and insistence on assigning blame to ETA, was likely one of the essential factors.
At Wortfeld you can find the original article.
MySQL and the Licenses
Kris from KI breaks down the licensing confusion around MySQL. Very interesting. Although I've been working with PostgreSQL for a long time and pretty much ignore MySQL. Not only because of the strange licensing stories surrounding it, but also because of its rather limited features. By the way, replication is now also available natively for PostgreSQL - the corresponding project was just released as an open source version last year (it was previously a commercial product - P1331). At Die wunderbare Welt von Isotopp you can find the original article.
PyProtocols - Interface Declarations for Python
Vitamins against cancer: complaint filed
If vitamin supplements are really to be considered serious alternatives for cancer treatment, they should prove themselves in clinical trials. Human experiments outside reproducible experimental parameters, however, are nothing more than quackery.
You quickly see what the so much advertised remedies are really about when you look at the nice flyers on which remedies for athlete's foot, hair loss, asthma and cancer are advertised right next to each other. Very serious stuff...
At WDR.de you can find the original article.