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Here is a thought on privacy in Germany: it often appears that privacy protection is taken very seriously in Germany and citizens have decent control over who gets access to their personally identifiable information. I was under that impression myself…
Totally unrelated to the usual topics, but still interesting (IMO): I have been really into multi-channel high-definition music for some time now and really enjoy SACDs and DVD-Audio discs. Chances are that you haven’t eve heard about these formats yet,…
I recently decided to join facebook (to be precise, right after reading Lauren’s blog). So far it seems like an interesting little social tool, that benefits hugely from it wide support in the academic community. What make facebook really interesting…
We all know that there is little agreement on the definition of identity, digital identity, identity (meta) system(s), user centricity, etc. There are probably as many definitions of these terms out there, as there are actors playing in this market.…
Germany recently changed their copyright and intellectual property laws, with a devastating effect on science and research: Going forward, libraries will only under very limited circumstances have the right to send out digital copies of a scientific article. There are…
Here is a short little article by the German news magazine DER SPIEGEL on green datacenters. Interestingly enough, one of the biggest German hosting companies (1&1) has decided to go with the SunFire systems with the Niagara processor (8 core…
The MPAA has finally proved to the world what they really are: a criminal cartel that does not stop short of illegal means to advance their interest. CNET reports that TorrentSpy has filed a complaint against the MPAA, accusing them…
Today, our OpenID provider finaly went into production. As some may have noticed, http://openid.sun.com/ has been live for some time now, and the team has been playing around with it. As of last night, we (or more precisely: Hubert) flipped…
No, this post is entirely unrelated to LAMP or even technology. This is only about a bird nest in the lamp over our main entry door at home. The are two chicks in that nest that really make a lot…