As formulated so nicely on Groklaw: the representatives of Open Source and IBM probably wanted to first verify whether this was all just a hoax, whether SCO really made all these absurd claims. After they found their voice again, representatives from IBM, the FSF and some others are speaking up. SCO doesn't come out looking very good in the reactions...
Hmm. And then there are still problems with FileVault and you hear more frequently about difficulties with Firewire drives. Ok, it was probably a good thing that I waited, I'll probably stick to the .1 version. At heise online news you can find the original article.
And the madness continues
At Spiegel Online: Wissenschaft you can find the original article.
Do we now have to rock back and forth in our seats like Kirk and colleagues in the ion storm?
At heise online news there's the original article.
Well, folks, I guess it's true. They must really be trying to inspire IBM to buy them out. I don't see any legal hope for SCO. - yes, that's how it looks. Legal kamikaze or something like that. Although, he's not wrong about this either: As for the GPL, it's total war. - the statements that the GPL is not enforceable, that it's invalid, that it violates the US Constitution, that it eats small children and makes them fat (ok, SCO left out the last two), that could actually lead in this context to the GPL having to be defended in court for the first time. The outcome should be very interesting.
I love these subtle titles at http://dotcomtod.de/ I found the original article at dotcomtod.
That's great. An employer where I definitely don't want to work...
At heise online news there's the original article.
Oh yes, another well-researched article from Spiegel Online. Still prominently announced in the article's headline: In 2005, the numerical address book is full - but nowhere in the article is there evidence for this absurd claim. Nowhere is there mention that even through the return of some large (Class-A) networks more addresses are now available than were previously expected for that time, nowhere is there mention that even more Class-A networks exist as reserves that could also be drawn upon, nowhere is there mention that through CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing), NAT (Network Address Translation), and dynamic address assignment for dial-ups the problem of limited address space has been significantly eased, nowhere is there mention of whose numerical address range is actually supposed to be full and who has claimed this based on what data.
For those who prefer facts and numerical models as the basis for such claims, I recommend the very good article at ISP Column - here various models are presented showing how the address space is viewed. Depending on the model, the point of exhaustion lies between 2019 and 2029 - so still quite some time, time being used to establish IPv6. Well, dear Spiegel Online journalists. The Internet is full. Just go somewhere else.
At Spiegel Online: Netzwelt there is the original article.
I found the original article at RP-Online: Politik.
Wow. That's serious. All patches included and still holes without end. People, finally use a proper browser (or better yet a proper operating system) At heise online news you can find the original article.
Hermann Runs Out of Lawyers
I found the original article at Kai Surendorf's blog.
Good. Even if it's probably only a drop (well, a fat drop - but still just from one tap) in the bucket.
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
This will interest Jutta.
I found the original article at RP-Online: Science.
Oh man, the con artist really wants to continue. Against all facts and realities. Let's hope that a test case will put an end to him and he disappears back under the stone he crawled out from under ...
At heise online news you can find the original article.
Cool. HipHop with and about Hawking, science and similar topics. My favorite track? Fuck the creationists of course. You can download all songs via Soundclick after free registration. Definitely worth the time it takes. Steven Hawking is crazy as fuck - yo, man! Here's the original article.
I find this sentence particularly interesting: "What exactly the package contained could no longer be determined because it was severely damaged during the defusal." - I'd really like to know what method of defusal they used if nothing remained that could provide information about the original contents. Did they atomize it? Here's the original article.
One would think that a committee for the construction of a Holocaust memorial would at least have rudimentary knowledge of the involvement of companies still in existence today in that very Holocaust...
I found the original article at tagesschau on the Internet.
That's a start at least.
At Spiegel Online: Netzwelt you can find the original article.
And another censorship tool installed. The question is: from when are politically left-wing opinions considered development-inhibiting? From when is criticism of the state regarded as development-inhibiting? When does satire cease to be an art form and start being considered a threat to youth?
It's so cheap to justify such censorship tools on the grounds of restricting access to pornography. Nobody will seriously protest and want to present themselves as a potential pig, right?
What actually endangers youth more - the availability of pornography (or rather the availability of pornography distributed in Germany - hard international systems help little with that) or the existence of censorship tools?
And another question: from when will the Regierungspräsidium Düsseldorf in North Rhine-Westphalia, with reference to youth protection regulations, demand the blocking of masses of sites?
Hard pornography is - at least in most cases - misogynistic. Wouldn't it be time to combat the cause of the distorted image of women in society, instead of making ineffective attempts to censor the symptoms? Education and enlightenment, anyone?
At heise online news there's the original article.
I have no expertise in statics, neither for trees nor anything else, but couldn't it also be just perhaps simply the case that here an interest group for expert witnesses sees their members' livelihoods swimming away? The suspicion really does suggest itself...
At Spiegel Online: Science there's the original article.
I don't quite know why, but somehow I can't imagine Schily using his privileges. I mean, getting drunk and causing a riot in London would be just barely conceivable (if only remotely), but driving a herd of sheep over the London Bridge is much less so (and I'm refusing to make any statement about the use of the silk rope ...)
I found the original article on RP-Online: Politik.
Ok, politician behavior is often irrational and strange, but I wouldn't normally suspect hash
I found the original article at RP-Online: Politik.
In class - American schools are selling lessons to the RIAA so they can then drum their version of reality into students' heads and improve their budget in the process. Great idea. Microsoft could be sold hours where they explain why open source is anti-American, and maybe some hours to Diebold too, why controlling the functionality of voting machines violates the DMCA?
I found the original article at lies.com.
A summary at Rollberg of links to current efforts to dismantle the social system. Much of it fits very well into the Banana Republic Germany.
At Der Rollberg you can find the original article.
Great. The strategy par excellence to stimulate purchasing power and thereby give the economy a boost is surely the increase in value-added tax. Or how, or what?
At RP-Online: Politik I found the original article.
In general, Panorama reports are well researched. So it could be interesting to see what comes out, especially regarding the criminal complaint filed against the Panorama staff. Panorama reports are also online after the broadcast, so if you miss it today, you can catch up. Update: I'm watching the report right now. This is brutally hilarious. This report is definitely going to cause some fun. If you haven't seen it, be sure to check the archive when it appears there!
I found the original article at RP-Online: Politik.
Well, if Gator doesn't want to be named as a spyware manufacturer anymore, they should simply stop producing and distributing spyware ...
At heise online news there's the original article.
Good. Perhaps Bölts will then ride along in the Tour again - albeit then in the car of the sporting director.
At RADSPORT-NEWS.COM - News Overview you can find the original article.
Could it be that some SCO bosses are just a tiny bit annoyed about this decision?
At heise online news there's the original article.
Strategies for de-escalation.
At RP-Online: Politik I found the original article.
That NASA decision-makers don't listen to technicians has already led to catastrophes, so it wouldn't exactly be anything new if the ISS crew now runs into problems. Great strategy to send a crew up there when measuring instruments have already failed, a crew that can't repair them because they don't have spare parts with them ...
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
The well-earning chemistry PhD at the chip shop next door will be delighted to hear that his years of study won't be counted as contribution years...
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
It is truly appalling in how blatant a manner Ministers Clement and Bulmahn are ignoring consumers' rejection of genetically modified food. How can a minister of a democratically elected government side so openly with an industry when consumers repeatedly and clearly reject this industry in surveys? The only German interests lie with Bayer - the remaining providers are foreign companies. And solely for this reason, not only is consumer will ignored, but for example organic food production is made more difficult (because the pollen from genetically modified plants are simply not stopped at field boundaries by some magic)? That's a great understanding of democracy from the ministers.
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
I understand that golf is offered as a leisure activity. A university golf course is apparently supposed to be built because of me. Golf as a minor subject in sports studies is also supposedly supposed to exist because of me. But as a major? Is that really the case, or did the Rheinische Post make a research error? In any case, I think a specialized sport as a major subject is completely absurd. What would a diploma in golf even be good for?
I found this at RP-Online: Wissenschaft in the original article.
Wow, that's serious. We've seen sandbox breakouts from time to time, but the fact that an unsigned Java applet can access the floppy drive is definitely a sign of insecurity that can reach critical proportions. That's quite a heavy blow to Java's security. But ultimately, it's not surprising: even though the virtual machine specification assumes the sandbox is secure, there are always implementations behind it that can have errors at the Java level or even at the actual machine level (in the implementation of the virtual machine itself).
And the fact that the computer had to be rebooted after the applet, and that access to physical media is possible, suggests that there's such a deep-rooted implementation problem here.
Technologies don't simply become secure through specification and claims...
You can find the original article at heise online news here: the original article.
The article addresses a few of the demographic lies of politics and contrasts them with reality. And notes: The unusual perception that politicians are concerned about long-term problems is probably just an illusion. One gets the impression that German politicians use demographic rhetoric to distract from their helplessness and failure in dealing with current problems. The original article can be found at Telepolis News.
Come on then, politicians and government officials: it's time to save taxpayers' money. Please read this.
At heise online news you can find the original article.
Another well-researched article. While Google has not disclosed its algorithms, Google does not sell search result placements. The advertising that appears on Google based on search queries is clearly marked as such and visually completely separated from the search results. There's really nothing to criticize about that. Nevertheless, the article criticizes that selling search results would be a lucrative business for Google.
Do journalists even bother to research anything anymore?
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
I demand a speaking ban for stupid company bosses. He's already spouted this nonsense before and then thought he could offset it by providing 1 or 2 hours of educational programming (P1120). Ridiculous. Who would want someone like that to educate anyone? Quite apart from the fact that the idea that 1 to 2 hours of poor educational broadcasts could offset all television advertising by public broadcasters is completely absurd. I found the original article at RP-Online: Multimedia.
At heise online news you'll find the original article.
320 tons of uranium used in Iraq? Disgusting. War zones as final storage for nuclear waste.
At Telepolis News you can find the original article.
And yet another patent the world doesn't need.
At heise online news you'll find the original article.
What nonsense. Where did they get this crap from? Are there only monkeys sitting at the keyboard at Spiegel? Do I now have to formally apologize to the monkeys?
(Jens already had a laugh about that too) At Spiegel Online: Netzwelt there's the original article.
I overlooked something at Heise. Thanks to the SWR for pointing it out in his blog. Without proper censorship, nothing will come of banana republic Germany. The censorship efforts of the Düsseldorf government president—completely ignorant of any facts, evidence, or technical background—are entering the next round, this time targeting search engines. It's also nice how the government president's spokesperson leaves it open whether action would also be taken against trademark violations. Lovely how they make it clear from the outset that this is absolutely not about protecting citizens, but about a pure demonstration of power by the government president responsible for media law in North Rhine-Westphalia, with the clear intention of implementing a general internet censorship system. So that opinions conform nicely with the district government. How they deal with critics and how they get administrative assistance from public prosecutors' offices in other federal states can be seen well in the proceedings against Alvar Freude. Of course, we all now trust the Düsseldorf district government to not abuse this censorship tool. And pigs can fly. At Der Schockwellenreiter I found the original article.
Well, that's quite a mess what happened with the Elfe. Something like this just shows once again that in Germany many people couldn't care less what they destroy, as long as they get their legal right. Completely irrelevant whether the behavior is excessive. Completely irrelevant whether they ruin their own reputation, like the company that's sending cease-and-desist letters to the Elfe (no, I won't link the company, that shouldn't get referrer traffic either). The only thing that matters is flexing your power muscles, no matter how ridiculous and pathetic the behavior is, no matter whether someone's livelihood is destroyed in the process, no matter whether you get anything out of it or not. Whether it's the neighbor's cherry tree, the mutt from across the street or just your own crappy homepage or domain. No matter how ridiculous and absurd, you have the law on your side, so just keep hammering away. Where this is leading us Nico asks: well, the last word will probably go to the same people who profit the most from all this madness: the lawyers. Because ultimately it will always end up with lawyers - whether it's because of court proceedings or legal advice. Ever heard the saying about putting the fox in charge of the henhouse? How is a workable legal situation ever supposed to emerge in the area of trademarks, brand rights and patent hysteria, as long as lawyers are making such good money off these things? As long as cease-and-desist letters in these areas can be used as actual extortion attempts, which many people are simply helpless against (because the whole thing is so convoluted and absurd)? At Nochn Blogg. you can find the original article.
Cool class. Great idea. So that the garbage still gets pushed by retail. And all just because it's about money again - what the consumer wants is irrelevant once more.
At Telepolis News you can find the original article.
Great - where are we supposed to pay for everything else?
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
Things are really getting completely ridiculous now. Who else is in favor of muzzles for brainless politicians like these two? Shackles for school truants, it can hardly get more absurd. Geis and Schönbohm should be put in the public pillory, just like they apparently imagine it for school truants.
At RP-Online: Wissenschaft I found the original article.