Archive 26. July 2004

Debate over labor law becomes more heated

Even with the summer lull, there's so much stupidity and malice on the part of Union politicians that it can hardly be explained anymore.

If employment protection would keep people from unemployment, then there wouldn't be millions of unemployed people now. - how can a politician say such nonsense without his tongue shriveling up?

At WDR.de you can find the original article.

Geoffrey's Clamp Monkey

The at sign. An essential component of email communication. No wonder I get so much spam. It's certainly produced by lots of at signs searching for Shakespeare ...

Here you can find the original article.

Re: Sender-ID and free software

A comment by Richard Stallman on the anti-spam solution proposed by Microsoft, which is license-technically incompatible with free software. And a comment on the solution itself, which you can only understand after lengthy abbreviation studies.

Summary: Microsoft's license is crap and Microsoft's technical model is crap. Did anyone expect something different?

Here's the original article.

Serious Security Deficiencies at T-Com

Ouch.

At heise online news there is the original article.

The Piri Reis Map

An interesting assessment of the alleged contents of the Piri Reis Map. No Antarctica and no extraterrestrial sources. Simply a - remarkable - analytical work by a Turkish seafarer. And the exaggerated imagination of people who always and everywhere want to see ghosts, aliens, lost supercultures and similar nonsense.

Here you can find the original article.