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Civil-Rights: (Official) Censorship is coming back to Europe
Today the German Parliament will vote on a new Censorship law to be put in place to block web content as decided by the German administration. Based on black listing web sites and blocking those at ISP level via DNS and the displaying of so-called Stop pages the planned law was originally been handed around and legislators were seeking public approval by false-flagging it as a solely preventive measure against child abuse / pornography.
While almost all experts heard on this matter (fighting such illegal material and use) have clearly demonstrated that the censoring of access is no way forward towards stopping such activities particularly as many of the web servers in question were even physically located in Germany and other means (take-down notice to providers) proofed that within shortest notice (often less than a day) the material was taken off the net, it became more and more clear that the German Government is seemingly following a completely different agenda. The latest text of the law not even contains a reference anymore to the previously so broadly used argument of fighting child abuse but provides the general right to block any Internet content as…
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Duvet-Dayz: More than 500,000 spam messages received and blocked
Earlier this month we received our 500,000nd spam message and thanks to our spam filters it was blocked like the many others before.
And the winner is..
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Time: 1234567890
Tonight we finally reached “1234567890″ as Unix time. If you run a Unix or Linux machine try the following command…
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UN: How not to manage IS/IT
A metaphor / parable on how tax payers’ money is burned within some internationally (un)-coordinated organizations aka multinationals aka United Nations.
The underlying story is based on actual experiences in the field of Information Systems / Information Technology (IS/IT) within one of the largest UN organizations. While – as we hear – since then things got even worse, this short story not only tries to demonstrate the lack of professionalism in those organizations, but also what happens when people who “know what they are doing” come to those organizations without political protection by their own governments. The sad endings to these stories are often like in the underlying true case used for this metaphor.
With that case we know…
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Advertising: Whopper Sacrifice
A great viral advertising idea. For every 10 (virtual) friends you defriend at Facebook you get a free Whopper from Burger King (U.S. Residents only).
Finally someone is putting a price tag to virtual friendship (1/10 of a burger – xxx calories, xxx USD) and a way to bring all these SEO spammers to a better use. So far more than 12,000 friends have been un-friended.
Interestingly they have chosen Facebook and not, for example, MySpace. Maybe because they want to sell some Burgers as well.
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Science: Yoshimoto Cube
A video with a little puzzle to start the new year.
The Yoshimoto Cube – a transformation of two stellated rhombic dodecahedrons from one cube.
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