Austria's minister of the interior is a dimwit (and should stay in the interior where he's less embarrassing): while visiting Iceland he said in a press conference that Reykjavik has 400 surveillance cams which could be monitored live on TV. His source: a TV documentary. However, all he had seen was a Icelandic fiction film named "Citizen Cam".
(The story made it on page 2 of Iceland's largest newspaper - but they mixed up their pictures of the minister...by chance?)
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...Fourtou mit dem Vorstandsvorsitzenden von Vivendi-Universal verheiratet ist, einem der grössten Nutzniesser dieser Richtlinie. Hier wird ein grosses Demokratie-Defizit offensichtlich, das Assoziationen an einen Bananen-Staat weckt.", so Markus Beckedahl für das Netzwerk Neue Medien.
Aber jetzt wander' ich aus! manisches gelächter
Link zur quintessenz depesche
These are late but better late than never.
Cornelia spent from early July to late
September 2003 with me here. The first few weeks Barbara was here, too,
but the majority of the time we were on our own.
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So an Austrian police man called a black person 'Scheiß Neger', the rough Austrian equivalent of 'fucking nigger'. And the state court ruled that this wasn't against human dignity.
Now the federal supreme court overturned that decision. This epithet is in fact against human dignity and racist. So far, so good (FSVO good).
However that court ruling does not have any effect for the police bastard
in question. Brilliant. Austria shows the world again how banana republics
work.
Link to the newspaper article
The Austrian Arbeiter Zeitung has been made available online. As this piece of contemporary history rests in peace since 1989 you won't find much current news in there.
Hold it. On reading a couple of sample pages I retract the last statement: nothing notable has changed in the last 30 years. Politicians are still all crooks. Bickering, idiocy and greed still rule.
Anyway, it was interesting to look
at my birthday's news.
Link to the archive
Measuring the speed of light with a microwave and a bit of chocolate, that is.
We are glad to announce that, effective today, every single work by Adorno and Benjamin that you claim as your "intellectual property" has become part of the very public domain that had granted you these copyrights in the first place. Of course they will not be available instantly, and of course we will not publish them ourselves - but you can take our word that they will be out, in countless locations and formats, and that not even a legion of lawyers will manage to get them back. Maybe it helps if you think of your "intellectual property" as a genie, and of your foundation as a bottling business.
I like that. Time to fire up GNUnet.
Link to textz.com
Now I'm very unhappy with ICANN's way of (not) doing things, but this is so disgustingly Bad that I've got to be on their side (for a little while at least): Verislime, the guys who can't even check the identifies of customers they're signing for now sue ICANN over their SiteFinder "service". Stupidity and greed are indeed boundless.
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Whenever I've got to do anything with XML (and that's a fair lot with a couple of research efforts re topicmaps and james I feel like I'm in the nearest Crazy Clark's "hardware" aisle: lotsa tools, most overlapping in intended use but all subtly broken and at best fit to round off boltheads or screwheads after keeping you fuming for way too long.
And in the real world those bloody tools aren't even as cheap as Crazy Clark stuff, they require way too much effort.
So rant away like those at XMLsucks.org, go back to XML 2.0alpha? Maybe YAML is the answer to the questions XPath, XPointer, XSLT, XQuery, XUpdate and all the other lousy languages don't answer properly?
A fun to read article on how he fails to see piracy as the
evilevilterrorismbadness other blokes try to present it.
Link to an ad-infested version
Linkto the textz variant
Mr. Moore seems to be one of the way-too-few murkins with a bit of common sense, a backbone and a loud voice.
I liked his Letter to George W. Bush on the Eve of War.
A nice article about weblogs and why they are no good in general; I mostly agree with the author.
Why this blog-like site, then? because I want to share things I develop/experience, and because I'm trying to keep my Austrian relatives and friends somewhat informed of my whereabouts - but not to the extent of "What did I eat yesterday"...
These guys run an anonymous blog publishing service fed via MixMaster remailers.
This voting system is unproven, high-tech and known insecure. That voting system is proven, low-tech and fairly secure. The Conslutant Price Question: which system are the murkins going to choose?
(a tip: forget common sense. The report? What report? Oh, that report. Well, that report is the work of defaitists, communists and open sourcers. We can't trust them, because of securrrity and terrror <badum-tish>)
Link to abusabletech
The pentagon recently canned SERVE because of the report.
This tool mixes layout from one site with content from another. Hilarious effects ensue.
hmm, slashdotted or what? It's gone. Bummer.
MS's newest conquest: the hyperlink. This is so silly that I couldn't even muster the annoyance to move this post into the anti-everything topical area.
"The most effective step that you can take to help protect yourself from malicious hyperlinks is not to click them. Rather, type the URL of your intended destination in the address bar yourself. By manually typing the URL in the address bar, you can verify the information that Internet Explorer uses to access the destination Web site. To do so, type the URL in the Address bar, and then press ENTER."
No wonder their software behaves as if written by braindamaged lemurs
on crack: it is.
Link to this gem of sage advice
If an idea cannot survive the Darwinian fight for existance, it should either feed its pursuer or become fertilizer for new growth.
And yet, in the corporate culture of impalas, we protect the herd.
Ah, what an idyllic environment to long for...
Ignore the apostrophe thinko (in best Bob the Angry Flower tradition) and read this very interesting article on (the lack of) corporate culture today.
Regarding the year-long incarceration of 13 and 14 year olds by our friends, the murkins, this official comment:
"Age is not a determining factor in detention. We detain enemy combatants who engaged in armed conflict against our forces or provided support to those fighting against us."
Assholes.
Link to BBC story
"The reason [SCO supporters are] silent is because if they stick their head up, they tend to get shot by a bunch of Linux people."
They must have good drugs at SCO.
Link to SCO's newest FUD
Link to SCO quotes at WLTSIM
Link to the SCO mug
IKEA is a fully immersive, 3D environmental adventure that allows you to role-play the character of someone who gives a shit about home furnishings. In traversing IKEA, you will experience a meticulously detailed alternate reality filled with garish colors, clear-lacquered birch veneer, and a host of NON-PLAYER CHARACTERS (NPCs) with the glazed looks of the recently anesthetized.
Truly Lovely.
Link
...then get the Bush asshole mosaic from artofresistance.
Am Anfang war das UML-Diagramm wüst und leer. Da sprach der Consultant: "Es werde ein UseCase!" - und es ward ein UseCase und er sah das es gut war. Und er trennte die Akteure von den UseCases und es war das Anforderungsdiagramm. Dieses waren die ersten 2 Millionen Lewonzen. -- Boernout Schultz, 29.08.03
paßt sehr gut zum Fachbegriffe der Informatik lexikon.
i hate spam, i said that already, and last weak i got over 200 spams
on a single day. then i decided that it's time to implement my long-time
plan of firing up spamassassin on my two old servers, and to do it
right and run it as a sendmail milter.
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...as flem sees things: not-king george and his exploits.
sorry guys, this silly poem is in german, as is the Programmer's Erlkönig.
...but Zen Tech Support is. The I Ching also can help to cope with your subjects.
For further reading I recommend the BOFH stories and TCP Towers. Of course bofh.* and asr are important media, too.
One definitely should care for one's admin properly, or you'll discover the truth the hard way:
Meddle not in the affairs of sysadmins, for they are subtle and quick to LART.
Therefore: RTFM!
HTH && (HAND || FOAD)
An Austrian politician who happens to be black was denied entry to a bar because of a "no blacks" house rule. The bar people were convicted of racism, but the appeal judges reversed that.
So in Austria it's legal again to deny someone entry explicitely
because of his/her race. Great, I feel like I'm in the 1930s.
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