Federal Audit Office criticizes work of job centers - and surprisingly finds exactly what everyone with common sense has already said: that 1-euro jobs bring nothing and that reorganizing from poor counseling at the employment office does not automatically make for good counseling at the job center ... but will our politicians learn from this? No, certainly not.
Archive 25. July 2008
Here We Go Again: Yahoo! Music Throws Away the DRM Keys - one would think that Yahoo should have paid more attention than Microsoft when they tried the same stunt (Microsoft has meanwhile extended this a bit, which doesn't really improve the situation). Yahoo is increasingly presenting itself as the fools of the Internet. And music buyers will hopefully finally wake up and understand what DRM actually means - withdrawal of the rights to dispose of purchased goods.
The Death of Google's Patents? - "The Patent and Trademark Office has now made clear that its newly developed position on patentable subject matter will invalidate many and perhaps most software patents, including pioneering patent claims to such innovators as Google, Inc." - Only in the Banana Republic do the paid prolethicians still clamor for the introduction of software patents, because we just need them. And how does their argument "we need them, otherwise we look stupid compared to the USA" look now that the US Patent Office itself says: "Software patents are a mess"?