Computer Parts Returns Documented
On www.dau-alarm.de service cases of returned computer parts are documented photographically. Very funny - although probably not for the person who had to handle the service cases.
Archive 25. February 2005
Disclaimer Madness ...
I'm just a legal layman, but I'm sure that such a disclaimer is legally quite ineffective:
The author of this page is not responsible for the way in which the information provided here is used. Files and everything else on this page are intended only for private use and should therefore not be downloaded or read. If you are in any way associated with the government, anti-piracy groups, or other similar groups, access to the files and reading the HTML pages is prohibited. All objects on this page are private property and are therefore not intended to be read. In principle, it is forbidden to enter this page. If you enter this page nevertheless, you are violating the "Code 431.322.12 of the Internet Privacy Act", which was enacted by Bill Clinton in 1995. This means you cannot take legal action against the persons who manage these files! If you continue, you agree to these terms!!!
This will certainly impress the courts greatly. And it will definitely help against cease and desist letters.
Künast: The directive will pass through the Council next Monday
Künast: The directive will pass through the Council next Monday - at least according to a letter sent to the FFII. What madness - several national parliaments and the European Parliament have spoken out against the software patent directive, and yet the point is again on the agenda as a top priority - which would be confirmed only formally without substantive discussion.
I don't quite understand why, on the one hand, the EU Council keeps trying to push through such nonsense instead of finally bringing the whole thing back to the European Parliament for a new proposal - but I could still explain that with corruption (it wouldn't be new if the EU bodies were once again engaged in serious horse-trading).
But why the national governments are acting against the opinion of their own parliaments (in Germany, this was a decision of all factions in the Bundestag!) and against the opinion of their own European deputies (in the European Parliament, the rejection also had a large majority) is incomprehensible.
I can only speculate about the motivation of the other national parliaments of the EU. But I want to know the motivation of the Federal Minister of Justice responsible according to the letter from the Künast office and the federal government she represents - it is simply absolutely incomprehensible to me how action is being taken here completely against the will of one's own parliament.
Fax to the BMJ has been sent. You should do the same. 01888 580 9525
Microsoft restricts Windows XP activation via the Internet - People, get decent operating systems whose manufacturers do not have such absurd notions of ownership. Or take the opportunity to buy a real computer.
R-Archive - Discussion Forums Cease and Desist
R-Archiv - Discussion Forums Cease and Desist Notice - is this now a hoax, or what? Heise is sending a cease and desist notice to the Baron for violating forum rules? Or is there another Munich lawyer they are in a dispute with? This must simply be a hoax ...
The background to this is actually probably true - Heise has indeed blocked the Baron's forum access. So there might be something to the story. It would be quite crazy.
What you find in your comments ...
Comment spammers on the loose:
Hello dear community!
I am not a community. I may write in the pluralis majestatis, but we only do that by accident. Honestly.
I have been operating the BlahFasel auction platform BlahFasel.Blubb for a short time and am therefore addressing you, as I am interested in your opinion about my auction platform BlahFasel.Blubb. I look forward to your suggestions and hopefully constructive criticism.
Of course. You write a comment with a link and email address on an auction platform and include the name of that pile of junk X times - and all this just because you are interested in opinions. No, this is of course not supposed to be any advertising at all. How silly of us to feel that way ...
By the way, let me say this much, „BlahFasel.Blubb“ is an auction platform for BlahFasel and Blubb. However, I would like to emphasize that we do not think highly of „cheap BlahFasel“ and therefore the best Blubb does not automatically win at BlahFasel.Blubb. We are of the opinion that good BlahFasel has its price and therefore the seller (provider of the BlahFasel) determines the auction winner himself.
Huh? This is not an auction platform, this is a scam. An auction has a defined process - bids are placed and the best (depending on the orientation, the lowest or highest) bid wins. Anything else is not an auction platform - whether for BlahFasel or Blubb. At best, this could pass as a tender platform - but even there, there are formal rules that contain a bit more than "The seller determines the winner" ...
So that you can get an overview of BlahFasel.Blubb, you will find our press release in the "News" section on the right side of the page. Here, the functionality of BlahFasel.Blubb is described.
Of course, there - in press releases - everyone immediately expects the description of the functionality of the pile of junk. Completely logical. And under Imprint do you have cooking recipes?
I look forward to your opinion!!!
Opinion? Simple: lousy blog spammers (I found identical comments via search engine in other blogs), the posting that was commented on was chosen to be quite tasteless and, based on the description, I have filed the whole thing under "unsavory offers". Ergo? Plonk
The WordPress IP to Country Plugin converts an IP address to a country and provides the country code. For example, you could (no, I haven't implemented this here, so test comments won't help) display the commenter's country based on their IP address (though this would obviously be misleading for Tor users). Also interesting is the reference to the IP-To-Country Database, which appears to be freely available. Useful for your own projects, such as analyzing log file statistics.