100,000-year-old camel bones found - rumored to be the party chairman of a large conservative people's party.
Archive 9. October 2006
China's Cheap Goods: Who Really Benefits? - worth thinking about.
Justice Ministry sees no need for changes to "hacker tool" paragraphs - the next botched job is in the making ...
PTB: No indications of tampered voting computers - "A real attack would require a considerable amount of criminal energy combined with special skills of the perpetrators to change the control software of the devices unnoticed." Fascinating argument, I would have expected that a considerable amount of criminal energy would be the basic prerequisite for a voting machine manipulation, and not something particularly noteworthy in that context ...
Security vulnerability in Python 2.3 and above - definitely not just Ubuntu, but also Debian. Ubuntu is only linked because there is no security advisory from Debian yet. Is someone sleeping?
Uni Mannheim will Informatik-Institut schließen - after it was established just 10 years ago with around 100 million in tax money. And although the place seems to have quite a respectable output. Well, and for such paper-nose operations, students should then pay tuition fees ... (on the other hand, the question to the companies that are advocating for its preservation: if the connections are so good, why doesn't the company side offer support? In the form of free research funds?)
Your Ancestors Disgust Me - you inbred spawn of illiterate, unhygienic, penis-worshipping child molesters!