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Archive 21. March 2005
BFI-Banker sentenced to nearly six years in prison - there are also positive news sometimes. A model that I could warm up to. Of course, the prison sentence should be appropriate to the size of the bank: Ackermann could then be locked up until the end of his life
The Schiavo Case - A Tragedy Between Life and Death | tagesschau.de
The Schiavo Case - A Tragedy Between Life and Death:
When he [President Bush] was still governor of Texas, Bush frequently made decisions about life and death. Ruthlessly. In no case was there a stay of execution for the condemned, in no single case did the right to life guaranteed by the constitution play a role.
Well, political calculation fought out on the backs of people - nobody really cares about the actual people. Only the religious right wants to show off again and then the law is trampled on and the decision-making authority of courts and states is simply ignored.
Hastymail is a webmail program that works with very minimal browser requirements and supports an essential feature that is missing in many clients: comment threading.
Know your Enemy: Tracking Botnets is a very interesting article about botnets and how they are structured - analyzed with a Honeynet.
Found at photomatt: Nifty Corners are rounded corners that do without images. Optionally directly with HTML and some CSS or CSS and some JavaScript, which rewrites the DOM tree accordingly.
What I Find Perversion ...
... are dialer scammers who set up alleged drug info sites that only contain dialer links, of course do not contain any information about the prices (and are therefore not allowed in Germany) and then also advertise for this dialer crap with blog spam. On top of that, they hide behind an Austrian address - probably just a mailbox company.
Dialer scams make me sick. When they come together with blog spammers, I can't eat as much as I want to vomit.
This has also been noticed elsewhere a few days ago here.
Yahoo really buys Flickr
Yahoo buys Flickr - which is one of the reasons why I no longer entrust my data to central services but do everything myself (and am currently working on a site based on WordPress with a few self-knitted plugins - stay tuned). I experienced this with OneList, I went through it with eGroups. Yahoo buys it and then there are tons of transition pains when merging the accounts. And afterwards there are tons of ads on the pages, forced ads on interstitial pages and all sorts of nonsense.
Unfortunately, social software is often operated by antisocial guys ...