Results of the largest "hacker" test for US voting machines are available - the politicians will surely argue everything nicely after corresponding payments from the industry ...
Archive 31. July 2007
Tough stance against drug offenders - naturally only against "hard" drugs. Such as hashish, for example. Because that is much worse and more serious than alcohol, which teenagers can already buy from the age of 16 in the form of beer. Because nobody becomes addicted to beer and no harm comes to society and the young people will cope with it very easily. But hashish, yes, that is much worse. The loss of reality among the prolethicians is really shocking ...
Project Wonderland - a 3D world software under GPL by SUN. Client and server naturally in Java. Sounds very interesting from the approaches - content is currently only enabled via X3D importer.
Skeptical Science and Technology Quotes - “There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.” - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
The undead don't live longer: No Amiga Center in Kent - Zombies of computer history.
Uh Oh. Another Smooth Move from Microsoft: Watch out, Ruby. Watch out OSI. - about the moral sellout that the OSI is currently engaged in. Sorry, but as long as a company like Microsoft so vehemently opposes a - certified! - Open Source license, you can't backdoor other things from them as a valuable contribution. But that has always been the essential difference between the Open Sourcers and the Free Software people. And also the reason why I sometimes prefer the perhaps somewhat fanatical statements of Richard Stallman over those of the so-called "pragmatists". Because they are ultimately only after money - and thus purchasable.