Archive 20. September 2006

Microsoft's Masterpiece of FUD - analyzed and interpreted. Worth reading.

Nova 1 photo selection - Photos from the stratosphere. From a self-built spaceship. By three students. Wow.

Government wants to "close the last gaps" in computer criminal law - surely there will be plenty of gaps again, through which our freedoms will be further restricted. For example, what hacker tools are - farewell to practical helpers like nmap and co? With the "craftsmanship" quality of the Berlin bunglers (some call them government), I don't expect anything useful anyway ...

Seehofer annoys farmers and GMO critics - and once again, the citizen is being screwed. Public opinion doesn't matter to politicians, because a) voters forget about it anyway and b) corporations pay better ...

The denial industry - how Exxon fights climate studies on global warming - and why Phillip Morris is behind these studies and why PM also fights other environmental studies, even though they have nothing to do with smoking (Solution: where do you hide a tree? In the forest. Where do you hide an unwanted study? In a collection of discredited studies)

From "controlled" crashes and "bail-out" zones - imagine your house is in a place where American military aircraft initiate controlled crashes in emergencies - and no one tells you.