EU-Abgeordneter: Provider sollen bei Urheberrechtsverstößen die Leitung kappen - even more prolethicians, who open their mouths without a spark of understanding and know-how. All this shouting for filtering solutions on the Internet, and then they arrogantly complain about the evil Chinese firewall and get upset about censorship in Islamic states - meanwhile, they themselves are busily working on the European Internet wall and the establishment of massive censorship apparatuses in Europe.
Archive 17. January 2008
FireGPG - use GPG easily in Firefox ! - I don't know if I already had this, but still linking it here as a reminder for myself.
Macworld: Carl Zeiss presents video glasses for iPods - hmm, if someone now writes a hack for support in e.g. the Second Life client ...
Navy Wins Exemption From Bush to Continue Sonar Exercises in Calif. - "The White House has exempted the Navy from two major environmental laws in an effort to free the service from a federal court's decision limiting the Navy's use of sonar in training exercises." - die US-Regierung hält von ihren obersten Gerichten und deren Entscheidungen halt genausowenig wie unsere Regierung von unseren obersten Gerichten ...
Schäuble's new plans outrage the opposition - "The plan by Federal Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble to further expand his already heavily controversial draft for an amendment to the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) law and to finally abolish the eavesdropping protection for so-called professional confidentiality holders has led to outraged reactions from the Left and the Greens." - of course, outrage is cheap in the opposition. But does anyone believe that in the event of a possible change of government, the current opposition - if it were to participate in a new government - would strongly advocate for the repeal of any laws? The Union also liked to express outrage during its time in opposition, just like the SPD. Simple outrage is indeed very cheap, politically ... (especially when you are insignificant)