Which raises the question for me anyway why a train 400 meters long with corresponding weight and such a nasty load (which apparently wasn't even properly declared on the train) was allowed to barrel through the area at such high speed ...
At Telepolis News (09.11.2004) you can find the original article.
ASH is now selling iListen in the German version - at the proud price of 250 euros including headset. The US package costs 149 dollars including headset. Ok, so of course an adaptation to German had to be made first - with speech recognition software, that's quite significant. And that costs money and needs to be recouped, of course.
But has anyone already had experience with it? Probably not with the German version - but with the English one? I'm particularly interested in transcription of recordings - with the iPod and the small Belkin microphone I have a usable dictaphone and the PDA can also be used as one, so it would make sense to take notes by voice (it's faster than typing or writing) and then have them transcribed afterwards. But it's only useful if the software is really as good as advertised.
So how is it - has anyone perhaps already used the English version? Any comments?
Since I have lots of old keys floating around (2 or 3 on the PGP keyservers, 2 as well on the GPG keyservers) that are all no longer active - among other things because I haven't had those hard drives or floppy disks for a long time. So I created a new key again to complete the confusion.
But I haven't uploaded this one to the keyservers - at least not for now - only linked it in the imprint. Anyone who wants to use a previously unknown key has to contact the owner first anyway to check if it's the right, genuine key.
Let's see how long this key survives my forgetfulness until I eventually destroy it for good. On the other hand, things have changed for me: I now have backups.
(and I've backed up the key on a memory stick and carry it with me on my PDA)
Just a bunch of funny pointed hats spouting funny nonsense.
You can't really take it seriously when authorities keep requiring Windows as an operating system and dismiss Linux from the start because it supposedly doesn't work with Microsoft systems (which of course is bullshit). To me it sounds like yet another worry-wart trying to make themselves seem important at others' expense.
Well, what do you expect from a conference of a Federal Association for Digital Economy...
The original article can be found on heise online news at this link.