Comment Re:There is some Background ... (Score 1) 394
Good summary - although there are a couple more SPD-ruled cities in Bavaria - I wish I'd have some mod points.
Comment Re:wtf? (Score 1) 394
You are correct. The line you quoted translates to "no applications can be installed by users themselves"
Submission + - Germany won't prosecute NSA, but bloggers (netzpolitik.org)
tmk writes: After countless evidence the on German top government officials German Federal Prosecutor General Harald Range has declined to investigate any wrongdoings of the secret services of allied nations like NSA or the British GCHQ. But after plans of the German secret service "Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz" to gain some cyper spy capabilities like the NSA were revealed by the blog netzpolitik.org, Hange started an official investigation against the bloggers and their sources. The charge: treason.
Comment Feasible? Sure! (Score 3, Insightful) 997
Effective? Hardly!
Comment Oh My God! (Score 1) 978
what happened to Slashdot?
Comment Re:Drilling for geothermal energy may harm your ho (Score 1) 251
It's rising. According to the latest news.
Comment Drilling for geothermal energy may harm your home (Score 5, Interesting) 251
In the German city of Staufen, they drilled some 140m deep holes to get geothermal energy for heating the town hall and adjacent buildings.
Unfortunately, this drilling caused many cracks in houses around the city centre. Some of these cracks are said to be big enough that you can put your fingers in.
According to this article on the English Spiegel (a German news magazine) website, dated March 2008, the whole city is sinking. In a recent German article from November, they write that the city has risen several centimeters due to water mixing with gypsum deep down and therefore causing the gypsum to expand.
