Archive 23. January 2008

Federal Fiscal Court: Commuting allowance reduction unconstitutional - the federal legislators are currently collecting unconstitutional things. When will they learn from this and listen to the experts who regularly predict exactly that? And when will Easter fall on Christmas?

I love the Internet. And my genes. - time again to link to the Rebel Market. If the future is social-gen-sharing, and everyone can deduce nonsense from pseudo-scientific collections of data garbage, if future HR managers not only get the sexual preferences and the drunken remarks from the study period willingly served from the net, but also a genetic profile with absurd pseudo-interpretation, then a new boundary of complete stupidity on the net has definitely been crossed. And since it fits so well into the whole discussion, let's just ge-owled. I mean, Stasi 2.0 is nothing compared to what is voluntarily disclosed on the Internet ...

Still no ringtones in Germany - sounds dramatic, but only applies to the iTunes Music Store. You can't buy ringtones. Pretty stupid of Apple. Well, if you save sound files as AAC (e.g. with Amadeus) and then name them .m4r, iTunes sorts them as ringtones. Just wanted to mention that. (And yes, that means I have an iPhone)

OLG Frankfurt: Providers do not have to block content - it's somehow logical. Hopefully, other courts will follow suit.