Archive 5. January 2005

First Animation of the World Found In Burnt City

Cool - a 5000 year old animated film (ok, more like a stone flipbook). Here's the original article.

LXer: RANT_MODE=1: Current generation shells -- Will Microsoft Ever Fill The Needs of the Enter ...

Paul Ferris tears apart Microsoft's announcement of a great shell environment for Longhorn in 2007. And as I see it, he hits the nerve: a shell today (and if possible one that already has a few decades of conceptual experience under its belt) is worth more than empty promises for 2007 ...

Here's the original article.

Modal Web Server Example Part 1

Those interested in learning more about continuation-based web servers and not afraid of a bit of parenthesization can find the linked article (there are 4 parts) addressing the topic from a Scheme perspective. This makes much more sense thanks to first-class continuations in Scheme than my wild hack in Python.

The original article can be found here.

Shutting Down the GPS Network

Ouch. Dubya has ordered that the GPS system be shut down in times of national crisis so that terrorists cannot use it for navigation. What would be the result in such a case? Probably the American troops would shoot up even more of their own people because they no longer know where they're supposed to go. In contrast to the terrorists, who operate in a rather primitive and shirtsleeves manner, the American military is so over-technologized that the soldier can barely function on their own when important technical infrastructure is missing. Well, maybe next time they won't even be able to leave their country in the next war because they no longer know where the country they're supposed to attack actually is and where they themselves are.

At Schneier on Security there is the original article.

Ukraine: Yanukovych Sues Again Over Election Result

Oh yes. First loudly announce before the election that the loser would have to accept the result of this election. Then sue after the election. Lose. Loudly declare that one accepts the result, steps down and doesn't want to participate in the new government (oh - could that become somewhat problematic thanks to the lost election anyway?). And then? Of course. Sue again. The farce never ends.

At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.