Archive 12. February 2012

I still like to read him and think he was one of the better Extra 3 people. Here he explains why copyright might not be so great from the perspective of a copyright holder. Draw your own conclusions about what this says about the EU Commission, which still wants to ram through ACTA at all costs and is now pouting because of the protests.

Because it's not a copyright but a rights management agreement. Example: The Süddeutsche Zeitung printed interviews and texts about productions from my company. We put it - proudly, of course - on our homepage. A law firm sent us a cease and desist letter, and we pay the Süddeutsche 500 Euros each time for content that is based on our copyright. Another example: Westdeutscher Rundfunk, in a big publisher appeasement of the WAZ group, opened its archives. Result: If I show an old contribution of mine, both the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung and WDR can sue me; the only one who definitely does not have rights to his work is me - the copyright holder. ACTA significantly strengthens the power of marketers against consumers and copyright holders; it is a suicide attempt for idea-driven economies. The fury of many pirates to abolish copyright at the same time makes it difficult to demonstrate.

via Die Woche: Wie geht es uns, Herr Küppersbusch? - taz.de.

Pork tenderloin in mustard sauce

This time it's quite simple and straightforward, so here's just a rough outline of how to prepare it. Two weeks later, I modified the recipe a bit, adding some extra spices (ginger, hot paprika, and coriander) to the sauce, which Juliana liked even better - a nice spicy sauce. So here's the preparation:

• Cut the pork tenderloin (previously remove the skin and tendons) into 2-3 cm thick slices
• Finely chop one onion and one large clove of garlic
• Quickly and sharply sear the tenderloin pieces
• Remove the tenderloin pieces and place them in a baking dish (or as I did, in an oven-safe pan)
• Sauté the onions and garlic
• Deglaze with white wine
• Pour half a pot of cooking cream over it
• Stir in 2-3 large teaspoons of mustard
• Season with pepper and salt, add ginger, coriander, and hot paprika to taste
• Pour the sauce over the tenderloin pieces in the baking dish
• Bake in the oven preheated to 200 degrees for about 35 minutes

We had bread and salad with it. Delicious and not much effort.

IdleX - IDLE Extensions for Python. There is actually a project that aims to enhance IDLE and teaches the rather neglected standard IDE of Python a whole lot of new tricks.

Practical Common Lisp - Crawling InterfaceLift with Common Lisp - second try. Interesting run through a simple project in Common Lisp using Quicklisp. It really makes a lot of things easier than if you program raw in CL and manage all the packages and systems by hand. However, you should not necessarily run the example script, as it violates the terms of use of InterfaceLift (and is not really nice to their servers).