Top speed limit for all EU cars from the factory? - fittingly with panic comments. Because the freedom of the German is measured by the top speed. Screw privacy and surveillance state, if we are only allowed to speed, Germans are happy. No matter how stupid the idea is in terms of traffic and the environment.
Archive 22. June 2007
Binary marble adding machine - just so cool!
Paul Dowman » Ruby on Rails EC2 “Appliance” - maybe not a bad idea to play around with EC2.
Complaint against BBC over video format - "According to the BBC, one reason for the decision to use the Windows Media format was that the rights holders demanded that the films contain a 30-minute timebomb to prevent permanent access to the data. Only by complying with these conditions was the TV-on-demand service possible at all." - the logical reaction to this was probably unthinkable for the BBC: to simply scrap the whole project and publicly name the real culprits. Instead, they prefer to play the role of Microsoft's lackey.
Yahoo Censoring Open Source - if you need more reasons to kick Yahoo to the curb.