In the young world: Poverty is female. On the occasion of International Women's Day, a reminder that the equality of women in society is by no means fulfilled or even completed - on the contrary, the current social cutbacks in Germany particularly affect women. Surely, politicians will now find a whole bunch of great reasons why we are just imagining all this.
By the way, for the next election, one could also take a look at what the corresponding parties have to say about the topic of women's equality ...
Hedgehog is a nice little Lisp compiler and bytecode interpreter with a special focus on low resource consumption. Unfortunately, interactivity and debugging suffer as a result: no tracebacks and no REPL, just running scripts and searching for the breakpoint in the pseudo-assembler source via grep. It would be nice if the language could offer these interactive features as an option - you can then leave them out in small boxes.
In Rechte auf dem Weg in die Mitte the political scientist Chloé Lachauer discusses in an interview the reasons for right-wing extremism and what to make of the wild accusations of politicians.
Again, a social software manufacturer is causing a stir: Technorati censoring employee blogs? - of course, an employee can potentially harm a company if they speak negatively about the company or the business. That's one reason why there's nothing about my employer on my blog and nothing about our customers - you have to draw the line somewhere. But would I accept if my employer wanted to dictate what I think? If I were no longer allowed to report negatively about the nonsense of the IT industry because my employer is in the industry? I don't think so - that goes way too far.
Even as an employee of a company, one should be allowed to express one's opinion freely - within the limits of what is legally permitted, of course. Recently, I was even insulted as a German because we supposedly don't know what free speech is - we are all censored, regulated, and brainwashed. And then I read from the land of unlimited idiocy how free speech is trampled on there, lands you in jail, or gets you fired. Strange idea of free speech. And when I read the blogger's reaction - who was brainwashed there?
What kind of light this sheds on manufacturers of so-called social software is a whole different topic. It's not the first time that such a company has stood out extremely negatively (I spontaneously think of friendster) - communication seems to be a terrible threat to the communication experts.
Ancient LAND attack works again in current Windows - wow, Microsoft has a heart for outdated bugs and gives them a new life
Another bug in Linux security extension grsecurity - of course, something like this had to come up just when I'm writing about grsecurity, right?
Wladimir Kaminer: Ein Vorschlag zur Güte - wirres, konsequent alles falsch describes the situation for people entering the country. Jutta's brother had some experience with this topic (entering Germany, applying for visas, etc.) a few years ago in Hamburg. His wife (Thai) brought two children into the marriage. They have a third child together. Of the two children from the first marriage, she could only bring the younger girl to Germany - she had to give up the boy (under 16 at the time of the application!) to at least have her daughter in Germany. Can anyone imagine what this means for a mother?
Sorry, but all the politicians who scream about how dangerous and bad all the people who apply for visas are should be thrown out of the country and have their German passports taken away. And then they should try to get back into the country through our great embassies and consulates ...