Comment Re:Limitations of Dead Tree (Score 1) 198
I'd suggest filing a bug then.
Comment Re:Limitations of Dead Tree (Score 1) 198
That really isn't supposed to happen, but then I only tested it with Gecko and Webkit. What Opera version are you using ?
Comment Re:Limitations of Dead Tree (Score 1) 198
Used to love XKCD.
Me too, I think the noise ratio is going up for at least a year. But then he is not at NASA anymore, so he probably does less math stuff. I think another problem is that honest criticism is not taken into account -- actually I asked Randall on IRC and he said that he fears getting obsessed with quality and prefers not worrying. While I see that this might be enjoyable, I think a little more thought couldn't be that damaging; just compare his approach to the Debian/OpenSSL disaster to my one to see what I mean.
Comment Re:4chan (Score 1) 330
Incidentally, 4chan is on the australian censorship list. Google is also censoring its search results regarding /b/.
Submission + - German Member of Parliament supports Pirate Party 1
erlehmann writes: "On todays rally against internet censorship in Berlin, German long-term member of parliament Jörg Tauss announced he had quit the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and will support the Pirate Party in the upcoming elections (Twitter status, press statement, both in German). Tauss, Member of Parliament since 1994, is widely regarded as an internet expert and was one of only 4 politicians of the ruling coalition voting against the bill implementing secret lists of censored web content under the guise of fighting child porn, which has since become law.
Critics point to an ongoing investigation against Tauss regarding child porn, while he himself says he only purchased the pictures in question to prove that the internet is not a primary distribution channel and had hopes of blowing up a child porn ring. The Social Democratic Party has asked Tauss to resign from parliament after he quit the party."
Critics point to an ongoing investigation against Tauss regarding child porn, while he himself says he only purchased the pictures in question to prove that the internet is not a primary distribution channel and had hopes of blowing up a child porn ring. The Social Democratic Party has asked Tauss to resign from parliament after he quit the party."
Submission + - The Dawning of Internet Censorship in Germany
erlehmann writes: "This week, the two big German parties ruling Germany in a coalition have had the final talks on their proposed internet censorship scheme: Under the disguise of fighting child pornography, DNS queries for sites on a list shall be given fake-answers that lead to a site with a stop sign. The list itself is maintaned by the German federal police (Bundeskriminalamt).
German Blog Netzpolitik (literally "net politics"), details the history of the censorship plan and the protest movement that has formed over the course of several month. Over 128k citizens have signed a petition protesting the law, yet to no avail."
German Blog Netzpolitik (literally "net politics"), details the history of the censorship plan and the protest movement that has formed over the course of several month. Over 128k citizens have signed a petition protesting the law, yet to no avail."
Comment Re:wtf (Score 3, Insightful) 360
IMO, an "educated" opinion from a technical crowd is in any way better than a simple Google query. I don't know, for example, how Google could possibly have a differentiated answer to the pros and cons of particular clients.
Comment IRC is obsolete (Score 1) 360
Unless you are looking for massive scalability (as in: 500 users in a single chat room), Jabber / XMPP can handle everything better than IRC. There are things like automagic contact lists (have everyone in your department on the list, centrally administrated), working encryption, publish-subscribe ... and of course the XMPP standard is easy to extend, as it's XML based.
Comment Re:Pidgin (Score 2, Informative) 360
considering that its been around for 5 years, the answer may not surprise you - or anyone for that matter: yes it is. i know only of one reliable way to crash it and that was a problem with the xmpp specification and has since been fixed. even running svn - which i do - does not necessarily mean there will be any instabilities.
Comment Re:Pidgin (Score 2, Informative) 360
While Pidgin may be a reasonable multi-protocol client as a Jabber client I would suggest Gajim, which also does PGP and esession encryption (Pidgin cannot do either, AFAIK).
Disclaimer (possible conflict of interest): I contributed the
Comment Already taken, unfortunately, because ... (Score 1) 333
It's a lion - quick, get in the car !
>:3
Comment Here ... (Score 1) 333
=O=
(I wonder if he makes the list next time ?)
Comment Bad Idea (Score 4, Insightful) 183
As someone who once used text browsers, I can only advise everyone not to do this - it breaks accessibility at a fundamental level: I got banned from a forum once because they mislabeled fields.
What however, works really great for comment spam is a simple question like "What is the name of Barack Obama ?".
Submission + - Howto prevent metacrap? Killer video CMS features? (mister-muffin.de)
erlehmann writes: I am one of the developers of Yolanda, a Free Software video CMS. We wanted to use only free software and open standards, but every other Video CMS we found used Adobe's Flash. We decided to use Fluendo's Cortado applet instead to play Ogg Theora video files. We also use Creative Commons licensing. One of the next things we will implement will probably be an automatic submission to a Bittorrent tracker upon upload of large videos.
Naturally, questions arise: First, how can we motivate People not to submit metacrap but useful meta-information ? Second, what are the killer-features you would like to see in a Free Video CMS ? Third, what use-cases come to your mind aside from Universities presenting lectures online ?
Naturally, questions arise: First, how can we motivate People not to submit metacrap but useful meta-information ? Second, what are the killer-features you would like to see in a Free Video CMS ? Third, what use-cases come to your mind aside from Universities presenting lectures online ?
Submission + - Hushmail giving 'The Man' your private PGP keys 1
teknopurge writes: "Apparently Hushmail has been providing information to law enforcement behind the backs of their clients. Billed as secure email because of their use of PGP, Hushmail has been turning over private keys of users to the authorities on request. Yet another reason to use private hosting."
