Blue Letter for the Federal Returning Officer
Sometimes you just have to hold your head in disbelief at how much stupidity our federal politicians display.
At Telepolis News (12.06.2004) you can find the original article.
Archive 12. June 2004
Dark lonely Saturn moon received earthly visit
Yes, I know that the money for such missions would certainly be better spent elsewhere. Nevertheless, I find such missions incredibly exciting and I'm always thrilled to see pictures of alien worlds. Human curiosity simply wants to know what it's like in places that one will never actually be able to reach oneself.
At Telepolis News (12.06.2004) you can find the original article.
Ehlert und Partner - Magnifying glasses, microscopes, etc.
German licenses launched
That's quite nice. German versions of the Creative Commons licenses, which have also been adapted to German law.
At Creative Commons: weblog there's the original article.
A Year Ago Today
It's interesting when you compare the olds with the news.
- Microsoft's antivirus acquisition causes a stir
- Washington enforces immunity for US soldiers
- Sun: Linux users don't actually want Linux
- IP addresses sold on the black market
- Homeland Security hunts politicians
- The CSU doesn't like penguins
The great acquisition of the supposedly market-leading antivirus vendor that nobody knew only caused a stir back then — otherwise it was simply irrelevant.
The immunity of US soldiers is a disgrace, especially given the torture in Iraq. It probably had good reason that immunity was enforced — after all, it seems the US administration had long planned torture as a tool in its fight against terrorism.
Sun's claim that Linux users didn't really want Linux was already a laugh back then — but it's become particularly funny given all the egg dances Sun has performed in the meantime.
IP addresses being sold on the black market — no idea what came of that. I suspect it's still being sold. After all, the actual problem hasn't really changed.
Homeland Security is still a bunch of lunatics and overreach is the order of the day. However, they're no longer hunting as many runaway Democrats.
And while the CSU may not like penguins, Munich got them anyway. And gradually the project seems to be really taking off, after apparently there was stronger resistance to Linux in administration initially.
IBM receives patent for Caps Lock status indicator on PC keyboards
IBM of course also participates in the absurd patents on trivialities.
The original article can be found at heise online news at this link.
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Radford photographer to face trial in Jan.
In P960 I had already written something about Bob Shell - represented on some mailing lists on photography topics - being charged with murder. His trial is now likely to take place in January 2005. Here you can find the original article.
Back to the Future
DSL is acting up again