... when you look at how Blair wants to eradicate "antisocial behavior". Sounds more like a fascist state than a free democracy. I mean, it's not much: just label political leftists or environmentalists as antisocial and classify independent thinking as undesirable behavior. Surveillance and spying will soon be available:
That all this naturally also means more surveillance is made clear, among other things, by a pilot project in Shoreditch, a district of London. Here, a cable TV channel [extern] is set up that offers a broadband internet connection, a digital TV program, and numerous other services for a weekly fee of 5 euros. One of the main offers is access to the local 400 (!) surveillance cameras. Starting in March, the state-funded [extern] Shoreditch Digital Bridge will be opened for testing by 1,000 residents of two streets. Eventually, 20,000 households will be connected.
Here are a few notes about feeds on this box - some of you might not have noticed what my software can do:
- Every search, every collection, and every overview page - i.e., lists of tagged posts, search results, homepage, link dump, photo blog - has its own RSS feed.
- The appropriate RSS feed is always embedded in the link tags, but also accessible at the bottom of the image with the small XML icon.
- Media files include the media file as an enclosure - so to speak, integrated podcasting (if I were to do it) and photocasting (which should theoretically please iPhoto 06 users).
- Tag pages can actually activate multiple tags: simply separate the tags with a + in the URL. This way, you can also subscribe to a specific topic.
- The results of Zeitgeistgeklicke - i.e., the compilation of content types and tags - simply provide a search, hence also a separate feed for this.
- Comments are not only found on the articles but also via the forum. And of course, they also have their own feed.
By the way, I recently also linked the link dump and the photo blog directly at the top of the menu - so if you want to see the current (and older) images, just click there. Unfortunately, the calendar is not yet synchronized everywhere with the displayed content - only the lists of tagged posts and the comments already correctly show only the days in the calendar for which there is a correspondingly tagged post or a comment. For the others, the calendar is still displayed as on the main page.
Great, the US Patent Office confirmed Microsoft's patent on the FAT file system:
As part of its review (Re-Examination), the Patent Office initially declared the patents provisionally invalid (Non-Final-Ruling) due to "Prior Art". The decision now made, however, is final and Microsoft receives a so-called "Patent Re-Examination Certificate" from the USPTO for both patents. The Patent Office finally determined that the FAT file system had been a new development and therefore patentable, Microsoft further announced.
We can therefore wait and see when Microsoft will use the patent to take action against open source software that uses or supports FAT file systems.
Does anyone remember the Dataflow-Language ProGraph? The one where you just wired boxes together but didn't write normal code? The one where Spaghetti-Code still consisted of real twisted bands? There was once a version for the old, classic Mac OS.
Now there is a version from Andescotia Software for Mac OS X. At 60 dollars maybe not exactly a bargain for an obscure piece of programming language history, but somehow I still like it. Let's see if I have money for it.
If you want to see ProGraph in action, there is a quite usable tutorial online. And of course, there is a bit about the history and development on Wikipedia.
Addendum: of course I have the money. Was to be expected. A bit slow, the download, but it runs.
The open-source approaches are, by the way, quite emaciated so far - and on the websites to a larger extent consist of complaining, whining, and confusion.
/sandbox/spam-filter - The Trac Project - Trac - Trac branch containing a spam filter that can detect spam in various places through different modules. Unfortunately, previous Trac versions did not have a spam filter.
Currently on display in Mainz: Mützen auf und durch:
In the fact that the new service staff of the MVG are also supposed to wear a yellow cap and a name tag, he sees a discrimination of the affected parties, who are already in a difficult situation and are then forced to publicly "out" themselves as Hartz IV victims.
People are first of all forced to do a job. This job consists of providing service - which is actually a normal task for the transport companies and should be handled with normal workers. It is therefore definitely competition for the normal labor market, which is actually not allowed with one-euro workers. And then these workers are also given a visual stamp so that they are visible from afar. Do some people ever think about what they are doing?
Germany has had experience with the visible labeling of people who are considered "inferior" before ...