Archive 30. December 2004

Hartz IV: Disaster in Unemployment Benefit II Payment [Update]

Botch. Total botch. With such monster projects, you always do a test run with real data in advance - to avoid exactly these kinds of catastrophes. But these federal bunglers have already shown with other major projects that they might know a thing or two, but they have no clue about IT.

The problem at hand is a banal interface issue that shouldn't have come up at this stage of the project - unless the people implementing it are completely incompetent and stupid.

The original article can be found at heise online news as the original article.

Aid measures: Dispute looms between UN and USA

First class, quickly exploit the flood disaster politically. Here opposition politicians are attacking the government because it allegedly isn't being cooperative enough with the relatives of vacationers in the disaster area (as if the government knew more than anyone else - in the disaster area, sometimes those present on site don't even know exactly what's going on) and now the USA is hacking against the UN. As if we didn't have more important things to do

At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD there is the original article.

Earthquakes shifted the Earth's axis

Wow!

At NETZEITUNG.DE Science you can find the original article.