Archive 19. November 2005

Germany - Arms Dealer

First the Leopard II tanks to Turkey, now submarines to Israel - and then also with financing a part of the production by Germany itself. Quite a big action.

And no, what bothers me is not the word "Israel" - there could be any other country. What bothers me - besides the general fact of arms production and arms exports - is the part where Germany itself bears a third of the production costs ...

Well, Intel messed up again: Hyperthreading hurts server performance, say developers - what was the reason again why Apple relies on Intel processors? Better performance? Pfft.

Richard Stallman Gets in Trouble with UN Security for Wearing a Tin-Foil Hat - well, not a tin-foil hat, rather an ID card wrapped in aluminum foil. Due to RFID.

Taxi 3

Hey, wasn't that just Sly Stallone?

(And to be quite honest: the Bond rip-off at the beginning of the movie is just plain awesome)

Disgusting ...

... the fearmongering of the agitators against data protection and privacy, when the secrecy of telecommunications threatens to be taken seriously.