Archive 29. May 2007

BKA investigators searching in the beer garden - rampaging federal agents on the wrong track. Embarrassing.

IT-Chronik - who is behind the eavesdropping interfaces. Are we selling our data, our conversations, and everything else to all those cooperating intelligence agencies. Parliamentary control only rudimentary and in the absence of the public. Big Brother Global.

New database class - HyperDB - that's what makes it possible to run WordPress in data centers under wordpress.com. Nice.

Study: Nuclear power - neither cheap nor good for the climate - because uranium mining is conveniently ignored by the nuclear lobby. Combined heat and power plants, on the other hand, are more efficient and better - but they don't require the monstrous equipment that energy monopolists would need.