Court Ruling Will Expose Viewing Habits of YouTube Users - if anyone thinks that only in this country courts make strange decisions regarding the disclosure of private data, take a look at this. Have you watched videos on YouTube? If so, Viacom will now have to be freshly served this information by Google, unless Google finds a way to convince the court of the absurdity of it. Great, isn't it? Just like that, all access data on YouTube handed over to a company in the music industry that is by no means acting selflessly and is, of course, extremely interested in this data.
Archive 3. July 2008
Drobo - doesn't sound uncool, that thing. Data redundancy at array level when using heterogeneous disk configurations, that's already nice. Classic arrays often have the problem that only equal disk sizes are used (larger disks then have unused free space), which is why increasing the capacity forces you to replace all disks. Something like the Drobo is of course much more flexible, and behind the Time Capsule it would also be a quite practical device. And the price is not really shockingly high - considering what you get for it.
Google Talk for the iPhone - great. Now I can finally access my Google Talk from the iPhone. Although this will hopefully be fixed soon via the App Store with Adium for the iPhone - but since T-Mobile prohibits IM, they might get the stupid idea to block the Google Talk ports - but the web access to Google Talk will still remain. I wish Google had included this earlier, I've been missing something like this for a long time ...
German Federal Cartel Office raids coffee producers nationwide - is this now a classic breakfast cartel, or was it rather a coffee-and-cake cartel?
Phone Smart - Cellphone Termination Fees Seem to Be on the Way Out - "These new policies look a lot like a gift to anyone who wants to jump to a new carrier. Before the policy changes at Verizon and T-Mobile, customers who wanted to cancel their contracts faced penalties of $175 for Verizon and $200 for T-Mobile." - only in Germany, you can be slapped with a fine of up to 270 EUR if you want to switch an iPhone contract after 6 months because you want the new iPhone (with a new contract with the same provider!). T-Mobile Germany is therefore even more customer-unfriendly than the same store in the USA. Great performance!
Python Underscore Methods - nice overview of all magic methods on one page.
Steinbrück: Harsh Words Against Child Benefit Increase - the contempt that politicians show for citizens with such statements is shocking.
Watermelon Found to Have a Viagra effect - will there be watermelon spam next?