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If you understand German, here's a better article at heise.de. The gist is that the case was rejected because Hellwig didn't sufficiently demonstrate that code under his copyright is used in a VMware product. To do this, he would have had to show which parts of the Linux program he had modified in which way, that those modifications meet the requirements for an individual copyright, and that these parts of the code have been copied by VMware.

According to several news article the situation on the 14th was caused by a technical fault ([1]). There was also easly enough wind power so that conventional plans were running on a low level and Germany continuously exported power during that day (source: https://www.energy-charts.de./ So your implied claim that there was not enough power generated by renewables during that time is obviously wrong. In fact, it seems that except for a couple of hours in the evening of the 24th power exports exceeded imports on all days in January. Heise blames France and remembers that there are regularly problems when demand in winter due to electrical heating is high [2]. In know, this does not fit the story of bad renewables and good reliable nuclear power.

[1] http://www.manager-magazin.de/...
[2] https://www.heise.de/tp/featur...

Here is the link to the original Story in german: https://www.heise.de/newsticke... And in english: https://www.heise.de/newsticke...

Here is the link to the original Story in german: https://www.heise.de/newsticke... And in english: https://www.heise.de/newsticke...

Ghostery is owned by publishing house Burda. Ghostery includes functionality for tracking which ads have been blocked (off by default) and injects ads into some pages (on by default) (in German).

Today we know it's called TLBleed.

https://www.heise.de/imgs/18/1...

is a little bit too difficult to parse.

Here's a few human readable sources:

https://kernelnewbies.org/Linu...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan....

German: https://www.heise.de/ct/artike...

Russian: https://www.opennet.ru/opennew...

Neowin now reports

No, it's Heise. Neowin's news team has been and remains a joke.

And so I do now: Exclusive: Spectre-NG - Multiple new Intel CPU flaws revealed, several serious

And here in English also.

here (German)

How long does the memory on a USB stick last?

It's not safe. However, you can also burn it on a couple of blurays, print it and transfer it to microfilm. All these storage methods should easily outlast your lifetime... if you speak German, here's how to get your coins on a vinyl record https://www.heise.de/security/...

But these companies have an army of lawyers who would send cease and desist letters to newspapers and other organizations when they use brandnames generically. Xerox used to be very aggressive about it.

They have to. At least over here it's not general, widespread generic use that can make you loose your brand, but you have to proof that you took appropriate action to defend your brand.

I wonder if there is a way for Google to find people using the word "google" in a generic sense.

At least they tried.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
https://www.heise.de/newsticke...
http://www.literaturcafe.de/go...

And if you want, you may look up the official definition of "to google"

https://www.merriam-webster.co...

c't fixed it in 2011

https://www.heise.de/ct/artike...

TFA has incomplete information. According to German media, the parents actually had the password because they forced her to give it to them as a condition for allowing her to be on Facebook. But a person whose identity Facebook will not disclose had her account locked after she died. The parents sought access to her account because they believed it would contain evidence that she had been bullied. They were trying to defend themselves against a lawsuit by the train driver for psychological distress due to the daughter's apparent suicide. Which seems strange to me, because when a victim of bullying jumps in front of a train it's still suicide, unless someone pushed her, but that wouldn't show up on her Facebook account. The court ruled that even if their daughter had given them permission to access her account, this wouldn't extend beyond her death, and that her chat partners (including potential bullies I guess) have a right to privacy.

blows up someone he knows and the bomber has this great phone.

Wrong phone

Ultimately the only secure 2FA is a dedicated hardware token that requires biometric authentication to function

Only, biometrics can be faked. A couple of years ago, my favorite computer magazine (German) showed how they could lift and reproduce a fingerprint good enough to fool many fingerprint scanners. For that matter, biometrics are stored as digital data, which can be stolen. And once your biometric data has been stolen, you are well-and-truly screwed, because you can't exactly change your fingerprints, retina, or whatever.

Security is a problem, and there is no perfect solution...

According to this article http://www.heise.de/newsticker... it's not VCRs but video cassettes. Which make the number much more plausible IMHO.

... provider. German computer magazine c't recently ran an article on which cloud providers adhere to which standard certification (such as ISO 27k) (full article paywalled), and amongst the 14 cloud providers they tested, Apple was the only one not providing any proof of any certification. But sure, asking Apple for standards compliance and certifications is like asking the catholic church for an independent proof that their god exists and acts on their prayers.

It is high time that Google took Android back in-house, and required manufacturers to add their glossy, bloatware overlays as user-removable apps which sit on top of the OS. OS-level updates should then be sourced not from the manufacturer or the carrier, but from Google themselves. That would instantly solve the problem, while allowing manufacturers to provide the differentiation they foolishly believe us to want. (And for those of us who'd rather have a stock experience, we could get rid of all the manufacturer crapware and have a swiftly-operating phone with regular security updates.)

Yes, but will never come as

a) what Google delivers as "Android" won't be running on any device as there are specific additions and changes necessary to get it to run on a specific hardware, that need to be provided and integrated by the hardware manufacturer

b) Google is already in hot waters for abusing a de-facto monopoly and hindering competition between cellphone manufacturers by already making to much software descicions for android phone manufacturers. (or the slashdot article)

BTW, German IT website Heise Online is reporting frequent problems reactivating Windows 7 from used Windows 7 Professional licenses. URL:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Windows-7-Aktivierungsprobleme-bei-gebrauchten-Recovery-DVDs-3163528.html

According to the article it is still unclear why exactly the keys were blocked, Microsoft has not answered inquiries from Heise yet. I guess one may assume that some keys were pirated, but the sudden increase of rejected keys still makes me wonder...

"This is our thinnest, fastest, most easy-to-use care yet!"

I am sure that Apple will claim that they invented the rounded, aerodynamic corners on cars as well...

http://www.heise.de/ct/ausgabe/2015-7-Schlagseite-2562901.html

The people over at c't, a well respected computer magazine from Germany, checked. Their article includes a screen shot, which I expect is their own.

http://www.heise.de/newsticker...

They claim it appeared. Resetting IE settings to factory default makes it reappear. It is not immediate, but it shows up after a quick test. They claim the software is not very clever either: ads are shown to PCs not able to run windows 10.

There is currently a report by a German computer magazine (no so good Google translation) where IP cameras sold by a large German supermarket chain had an awfull standard configuration in
a) Not asking for a new password for external access and
b) automatically opening (via UPnP) an existing firewall.
Seemingly even after an update there are still hundreds of these cameras reachable on-line.

So one does not have to wait for a malign party to 'crack' a camera. Insufficient security knowledge at manufacturer and user is enough.

All Android phones around me and even Sony RX100 III camera work just fine with Micro USB socket, so could you be more specific on who decided to "refuse to support it any longer"

Context. Get it yet? And why do you ask me instead of Sony themselves? They were the one answering Heise that they don't support the "standard" anymore because it no longer follows "current technical standards". http://www.heise.de/newsticker...

According to heise.de, just marked "non-exportable" (sorry, no English link):

        http://www.heise.de/newsticker...

Person that reported this initially:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/techn...

Apparently being non-exportable is no protection whatsoever, and people are already offering the CA cert for download, which then lets everybody sign for this CA.

It is hard to display more fundamental incompetence with regards to certificate handling.

They have. That's the reason, why they try to avoid data.

You know, what the nazis liked? the registers with religious data. Here a german read for you: http://www.heise.de/ct/ausgabe...

This one works for me, which in my case means it turns a connection between two access points that was more off than on into a stable link. The materials are cheap and easy to work with, but the lengths and the spacing really are critical, so don't half-ass it. Built and placed correctly, this antenna acts like a four-fold power and sensitivity increase in the main direction (and a reduction in other directions, obviously). Adjust transmitter power accordingly to stay within legal limits.

C't is the computer magazine in Germany. You might know them from h2testw, their well known program which tests USB memory for fake capacity.

what is the c*t magazine everybody keeps speaking of? I know plenty of c*ts, but none who work at a magazine.

It's not c*t, it's "c't", Which is somebody's clever way of extremely abbreviating Computerteknic. More formally, and translated to English, Magazine for Computer Technics. A venerable German tech publication, despite the brevity.

http://www.heise.de/ct/

Especially hard if you have experiments that prove that you CAN indeed manipulate the brain with elecromagnetic stimulation:

http://www.heise.de/tr/artikel...
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com...

So we're way past the "is there a measurable effect - yes or no" phase.

http://www.heise.de/forum/heis...

I thought we'd all suffered enough advertising on our keyboards since 1995 already?
Thankfully the glorious Model M remains unbreakable and unaffected... ;-)

wouldnt it be bigger headline to inform the ppl that oculus rift cannot be sold in europe anymore due to the fact that they lost a trademark dispute in germany?

http://www.heise.de/newsticker...

That is certainly possible, especially if your phone is rooted and if you accept third party installation sources, but even just moving apps to the SD card may put you at risk. Your bigger worry however should be that you're getting second rate memory, rebranded memory or even fake memory, where most of the capacity is simply made up by the controller. Sandisk cards from China are almost certain to be fake, for example. At the very least, check the card with h2testw before you put any data on it that you care about. (Link goes to the FTP server of Heise Verlag Germany, where this program was written. You can get it elsewhere, but this is the original.)

This debianfork website does not really make the impression as if it has been done by a group of sys admins.
They claim that they have 950 supporters! (German).

I do not think that so many people would gather anonymously.
It's probably 1 or 2 guys who bought a domain and wants to force his opinion onto the debian developers.

According to heise.de it will be be able to carry 1.2kg

So the times get finally a bit harder for this services ("They steal our jobs"). In Germany Uber now got forbidden completely, as one needs generally a special permission to transport people for money. A driver already got threatened to pay 250000 + 20000 Euros if keeping on driving people via UberPop.

Even before heise, which is usually fastest on german news, impressed, impressed.

From:

http://www.heise.de/open/meldu...

It looks like mayor of Munich is the one complaining about Limux, while the entire city council is united and calls it "sachfremde Einzelmeinungen", which translates into 'a single opinion from someone who's talking out of his arse'.

The rest of the council disagrees (google translate)with the second mayor.

Why? WINDMILLS DON'T WORK!

That's why they power a million homes, yes? It's all an illusion, or all those people just pretend that they have light and warm water. I'll tell a friend of mine, she works in the industry, and runs the numbers on wind power generators for a living.

Wind power generators work fucking well. In fact, they cover about 9% of Germanys energy use. Oh wow, 8 GW of new installed coal power plants, that's your argument? You argue with 8 GW as proof that 35 GW of installed wind power capacity somehow "don't work" and nobody has ever noticed?

Germany has been a NET IMPORTER of energy.

Of energy, yes - because phrased that way, oil also counts and we don't have much of it. But of electrical energy, which this is all about, nope.

For example, we just broke records:
http://thinkprogress.org/clima...

Germany has so much electrical energy generation, that most days of the year, a considerable part of our power plants are shut down because the grid can't handle it.

Here's an article in german that explains most of your non-questions: http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel...

As I wrote earlier, a modern Intel quad core system can be built to consume less than 20W idle measured on the mains side of the power supply (no mobile platform CPUs necessary)*, and the load power efficiency of Intel desktop CPUs is exceptional, so you really get your power's worth there. If you want to split the applications for security reasons or because you need them in physically different places, that's one thing. If you split them to save power, that's not efficient. You could probably run your server loads and Eclipse on something like a NUC or a Zotac nano and not consume more than 10W plus whatever your disks need. That would cost you less, both in terms of power and initial investment, than three ARM systems. I like, have and constantly use a couple of ARM boards. Power and cost are no longer good reasons for that though.

*) German magazine c't published a recipe for an 11W PC with 8GB RAM and an i5-4570 quad core CPU. (in German, article not freely available)

Yeah the stasi even knew about the USA spying on western countries. The moment west germany reunified with east germany, the documents were transported into the USA, without copies.

I'm sorry, I can only give you this german link.

and guess what they found out:

http://www.heise.de/newsticker...

according to TheH they had "problems with too much nudity" (Article in German)

This is a decision by a regional court. They universally suck at rulings regarding any technology invented after 1900. A state court recently held a domain registrar responsible for copyright infringement. And nevermind the treasure trove of truly grotesque copyright-related rulings coming out of the city-state of Hamburg - they are legendary here in Germany, similar to patent cases in Texas.

This is bound to be appealed, and our higher courts usually fare better when it comes to dealing with Das Internet.

This argument is growing tedious.

True

The value of money is not constant. People are making more money, and buying more expensive things. That it all "evens out" in the end just speaks to the monetary policies of the US and the EU, it does not disprove my point.

We're not talking about absolute monetary values and never have. Share of income is a good measure precisely because it remains constant with inflation, etc.

No, I am not, but no, you did not. If what you meant is that "tax cuts for the rich cause burdens for the poor", then you are saying that not taking is giving, and not giving is taking. That is at best substituting accounting for economics, and at worst it is religious-level worship of the government. You're going to have to explain your argument.

Energy tax to finance the move to renewable energy. I went on about that for a bit. The important part is that the major industrial users of energy have a special legal exception from the tax. Since the amount that needs to be paid remains constant, energy has become more expensive in Germany for several years now, even though the actual exchange price of electricity has consistently dropped for the same time frame.

If that's not "shifting a burden", I don't know what is. To me, that's a textbook definition. Everyone pays more because some people get an exception.

I will admit that, according to the CIA World Factbook

If you can read german, there are many numbers and current statistics in this online magazine:
http://www.heise.de/tp/inhalt/energie/default.html

This article, for example, contains plenty of numbers for an extrapolation for the next 5 years, where we might see solar+wind cover 30% of our energy needs.

A friend of mine works in the wind energy field and their order books are full. Meanwhile, no new nuclear reactor has gone online since 1989. So a shift is inevitable.

People are real things, companies are not.

I agree with you on that. However, taxes are abstract legal concepts, too. So in that particular context, the argument that companies are abstract entities doesn't make a difference. If they are real to the law and the tax office, then in the context of taxes they are real.

At no point did a non-corporeal entity pay taxes.

You are making a philosophical argument, while I am making a real-world argument. In the real world, companies pay taxes. In a philosophical abstraction you can say that the company is just a concept and in reality all money somewhere flows from and to human beings. Both can be true at the same time.

The Wealth of Nations is in many ways similar to On the Origin of Species, insofar as both are observant reflections on nature.

Yes, but - what you are basically saying is that economy is just applied psychology. ob xkcd. Again, philosophically that is correct. Realistically, however, I prefer an accountant doing my balance sheet over a psychologist.

Yes, economic behaviour is largely guided by psychology. At the same time, it turns out many early assumptions are simplistic and false. For example, the next time someone says "rational market participant", give them a laugh because no such thing exists.

Still, capitalism is not nature. It's one set of explanations and guidelines. Other sets are possible. All of them can be evaluated for their effectiveness and side-effects, a process we as a species are still pretty horrible about as we apparently prefer full-scale experiments without control groups.

This argument is growing tedious.

True

The value of money is not constant. People are making more money, and buying more expensive things. That it all "evens out" in the end just speaks to the monetary policies of the US and the EU, it does not disprove my point.

We're not talking about absolute monetary values and never have. Share of income is a good measure precisely because it remains constant with inflation, etc.

No, I am not, but no, you did not. If what you meant is that "tax cuts for the rich cause burdens for the poor", then you are saying that not taking is giving, and not giving is taking. That is at best substituting accounting for economics, and at worst it is religious-level worship of the government. You're going to have to explain your argument.

Energy tax to finance the move to renewable energy. I went on about that for a bit. The important part is that the major industrial users of energy have a special legal exception from the tax. Since the amount that needs to be paid remains constant, energy has become more expensive in Germany for several years now, even though the actual exchange price of electricity has consistently dropped for the same time frame.

If that's not "shifting a burden", I don't know what is. To me, that's a textbook definition. Everyone pays more because some people get an exception.

I will admit that, according to the CIA World Factbook

If you can read german, there are many numbers and current statistics in this online magazine:
http://www.heise.de/tp/inhalt/energie/default.html

This article, for example, contains plenty of numbers for an extrapolation for the next 5 years, where we might see solar+wind cover 30% of our energy needs.

A friend of mine works in the wind energy field and their order books are full. Meanwhile, no new nuclear reactor has gone online since 1989. So a shift is inevitable.

People are real things, companies are not.

I agree with you on that. However, taxes are abstract legal concepts, too. So in that particular context, the argument that companies are abstract entities doesn't make a difference. If they are real to the law and the tax office, then in the context of taxes they are real.

At no point did a non-corporeal entity pay taxes.

You are making a philosophical argument, while I am making a real-world argument. In the real world, companies pay taxes. In a philosophical abstraction you can say that the company is just a concept and in reality all money somewhere flows from and to human beings. Both can be true at the same time.

The Wealth of Nations is in many ways similar to On the Origin of Species, insofar as both are observant reflections on nature.

Yes, but - what you are basically saying is that economy is just applied psychology. ob xkcd. Again, philosophically that is correct. Realistically, however, I prefer an accountant doing my balance sheet over a psychologist.

Yes, economic behaviour is largely guided by psychology. At the same time, it turns out many early assumptions are simplistic and false. For example, the next time someone says "rational market participant", give them a laugh because no such thing exists.

Still, capitalism is not nature. It's one set of explanations and guidelines. Other sets are possible. All of them can be evaluated for their effectiveness and side-effects, a process we as a species are still pretty horrible about as we apparently prefer full-scale experiments without control groups.

Sure. Here you go. Source of that URL, an article of the German IT publisher/news site Heise.

... and if the judge is stupid enough to grant their cheats ...

Who should the Germans sue ?

The lawyers who cheated (I do see this as the responsibility of the government) ?

link in german

Not the judge, because he was deceived. The court already said they will change their prcedure to handle these requests.
It will be lawyers, no it already is the lawyers. The lawyer as well as the company behind him will be sued. Also the company who gathered the data will be sued. Because how did they get the data in the first place when the streaming hoster does not cooperate?

Also somebody already sued to make it clear that streaming is not illegal and he did not break the law.( "negative Feststellungsklage")

This is the case where they have gone too far and will receive some backlash.