A Call to Action in OASIS is an open letter from a whole range of Open Source big names against the latest OASIS framework conditions. OASIS deals with the standardization of data formats and web services, and in the latest framework conditions, standards should also allow those based on patented techniques - and thus ultimately give companies the means to exclude Open Source programs with these standards. In principle, a rehash of the same stupid idea from the W3C - which then withdrew this idea in response to the protests.
Abmahnungen für Gmail-Einladungen - great. The madness continues. Now people are being warned who want to sell Gmail invitations on eBay or give them away in blogs. And of course, the brand owner does not go to Google - who operate the Gmail service - but to the end users who only use a name established on the net to describe what they are giving away.
What's particularly silly about the whole thing: the brand owner is based in the same city as Google Germany - if the brand (which is of course professionally operated by Schlund + Partner, like every big and important portal) is really so threatened, why hasn't he even made a local call to Google about it? And the fact that the domain has a Created entry from August 2004 is surely purely coincidental - of course, anyone who thinks of freeloading is a scoundrel ...
For those who are not quite clear that this is not about the brand at all. Someone is sniffing fresh air here and wants to make quick money. Because greed is cool.
Google's legal counsel Lena Tangermann recommends contacting Google Germany by phone (040/808179-0) in case of a warning on this topic.
BA will Betreuung älterer ostdeutscher Arbeitsloser abgeben - how to create new serfs and at the same time beautify the unemployment statistics ...
Bush in Mainz reports on the restrictions residents in Mainz received during the Bush visit. Welcome to the police state Germany - where even peace symbols in the window are not allowed for flimsy security reasons ...
In Dialerwahn - the next phase Isotopp reports on an IP payment system that generates paid page requests based on logged IPs and the association of these IPs with a user. So far only in use in Austria - but highly stupid. They probably have never heard of IP spoofing, but also not of anonymous proxies and tor ...
IP-based paid services must be based on some form of authorization. Either the classic password technique or better on client certificates. Anything else is highly nonsense and doomed to fail. Anyone who bases billing to end customers on the basis of the logged IP address simply does not understand TCP/IP and the Internet.
Free multidimensional OLAP server for Linux announced - could be interesting if it changes from the status announced to the status implemented.
New iPod models at lower prices - well, I should probably plan a new purchase for March. A small iPod Photo with a camera adapter could be quite nice for on the go ...
Ole von Beust apparently wants to create a Northern state from S.-H., HH and McPomm - I doubt that's a good idea.
However, the three federal states together would have an even greater overrepresentation of rural regions compared to urban regions in terms of population numbers. And thus, the prospect that this Northern state would firmly be in the hands of the Union - despite a few larger red cities and despite Hamburg. Presumably, that's the simple main motivation for them to calculate something.
However, whether the people of Hamburg would give up their independence and not simply vote out this eccentric at the next election is another matter.
Optic Nerve Cameras for the Blind - it does have a bit of CyberPunk, but for the blind, it is of course a real glimmer of hope. Even if certainly not everyone will be enthusiastic about the idea of a plugin interface to their optic nerve, or about having something tinkered with in their head and brain.
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Since I am suspected of salon anti-Americanism, I am of course participating and throwing a heartfelt: You're Not Welcome, Mr. Bush!
at the president. And yes, this refers to Bush and his administration - not to Americans in general. So please put me in the drawer of anti-religion fanatics and anti-war agitators and anti-world policemen when you quote me next (and then you can also leave out the salon before that) ...
I've never understood how T-Online derives the alleged market leadership of Musicload. Probably just a blunt marketing lie with absurdly beautiful calculations like "all T-Online users are Musicload customers by definition, even if they never bought anything or will buy anything..."