On April 22nd ...
... Santa Claus doesn't come, but something almost as good, namely Uma Thurman. And finally kills Bill.
Archive 25. March 2004
Industry association Bitkom wants to abolish private copying
The Bitcom zombie twitches again ...
I found the original article at netbib weblog.
Index of /~vorlon/d-i/xfs - Debian Sarge Netinst CD with XFS support
Life Out of Control
A documentary series on arte about the century-spanning issue of genetic research. The extent of the lies, corruption, and human stupidity in their belief in current miracle healers is alarming. Iceland sells the medical records of all Iceland's residents to a private corporation by legislative decree—a decree drafted by the company's lawyers. The Human Genome Diversity Project collects genetic samples from isolated, endangered peoples and peddies them to private corporations that profit from them. Like the Swedish corporation that sells a yogurt containing a lactobacillus from a Peruvian woman. Of course, the woman receives nothing for it—she doesn't even know that part of her is being sold as a patented product on the Swedish market.
Schröder satisfied with reform course
I'm sick of this self-aggrandizement. Just as much as the — predictable — idiotic response from the Union leader. This is such silly nonsense — do adults really have nothing better to do than strut around Berlin and pretend they have something important to say? I don't even dare compare this behavior to small children anymore, because they come up with ten times more intelligent things than these politicians. The government is patting itself on the back and praising itself for work done — sure, nobody else would praise the garbage they've spouted. The Union, of course, doesn't engage with substantive questions, but pats itself on the back and takes swipes at the government because it wants to form the next government. Just to then deliver equally meaningless speeches and break a bit more stuff.
And what does reality get out of it? Nothing. Stupid babble, peacocking, and half-baked concepts driven only by party political power interests but having nothing to do with real problems.
At WDR.de you can find the original article.
Static Type Inference (for Python) with Starkiller
A quite interesting document about a static type checker for Python. It would be nice if something like that would make its way into Python - the possibilities for optimizations by the compiler would be significantly better.
I found the original article at Lambda the Ultimate.
Telekom board member Josef Brauner steps down over toll fiasco
Sony 2 pisses off ...
At heise online news there is the original article.
The Guardian hammers RSS
Rogers Cadenhead summarizes what bothers me most about Atom: the silly hype from some proponents who feel compelled to badmouth RSS in an embarrassing way - but ultimately only prove that they simply have no idea what they're talking about. Or if they do have knowledge, they deliberately make false statements, just to promote Atom - a specification that isn't even a draft yet - as the greatest invention since sliced bread.
It's somehow ridiculous how adult people can get so worked up over a stupid file format...
You can find the original article at Workbench.
Warning against total surveillance state
The top data protection officer must by now feel like the proverbial tree falling in the forest that no one hears. And the impact of his warning will probably be as insignificant as the proverbial bag of rice falling in China ...
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.