I live in Germany and kept track of the voting machine controversy here. The problem is not that people want voting machines, but that politicians want them (properly because they get money from manufacturer or want to be modern or are impressed by them). When hacker groups (like the CCC) prove that voting machine are hackable, those politicians just insist they are not. They don't even try to argue, they just trust the manufacturer so much.
In this case, they want to use voting machines that the CCC has already proven to be insecure. Luckily this time this is news for mainstream media and not just heise (German slashdot equivalent)
Off Topic: About your German: the word is "schlecht" not "schlect"; and "sagen Sie Nein zum elektronischen Wählen" (say no to electronic voting) not "sagen sie nicht" (say not):-)
As Jimbo Wales once said, Wikipedia is - as an encyclopedia - only one book in our "wiki library", and one book is not a whole library. Of course mathematical proofs are important and should be freely available, but so is tons of other sort of information, too, and we can't just put everything in Wikipedia. Wikibooks offers a place for some book-like-stuff (and I think mathematical proofs belong there). There are also other projects for different kind of information, like learning materials and dictionaries. We should start to transfer Wikipedia's success to other free wikis and projects.
The GVU (The German Federation against Copyright Theft) actively used and supported illegal Filesharing by setting up their own servers from which users could download copyrighted stuff. Of course they didn't bother asking the copyright owner if this was ok, they just did it, until Heise.de revealed the story (German Site) and the Office of Public Prosecutor came...
One of the problems with Wikipedia is that the content can change and change rapidly. Today an article may say "XYZ". Tomorrow it maybe, "AQY".
See the link "Permanent link" and "Cite this article" at the Sidebar under "Toolbox"? Those give you permalinks, one specific version that will not be changed. If I were you, I'd ask my students to give you this link, verifying the information is easier then.
The most clever thing to do for Microsoft is hand out copies of Windows for free in the third world. If they don't give them for free (or at _very_ low cost), people won't use Windows and get used to GNU/Linux and other free alternatives to Windows. M$ has to decide what they want: No money now, a bigger market share of GNU/Linux and no money later - OR - no money now, Windows in the developing ([insert oblg. joke her]) world and perhaps much money later, when they can afford to buy Windows. I think a Microsoft employee has already said this about China: Installed pirated copies of Windows help Microsoft more than installed copies of GNU/Linux.
It's the same in the drug business: you get the first cigaret gratis, and once you are addicted, you gotta pay...
Randall Munroe (xkcd author) also made this comic entitled "Online Communities". Also a nice way to make a map of the internet. (Extra points for those, who find "Stallman's Airship")
Ever heard of OpenStreetMap (Wikipedia)?
Even though it is not complete in most regions, it sounds very promising imho. And it is free! (as in freedom AND beer)
Exiting news: Through a CGI-script, you can browse on the server of adobe: here (this has just been disabled a few minutes ago)
According to heise (German), you were able to get adobe's private RSA key (which is not much used though) and there are also rumors that they got the private SSL-key.
People will find ways to remove those watermarks. The only impact will be on the people who still buy the stuff; those who share it online won't have any problems.
Well done everyone who participated in the fight against Digital Restrictions Management. Looks like there is really much protest and I hope the BBC will change to free formats.:)
Slashdot Mirror
Watermarks are still DefectiveByDesign
You probably change Google's result for "Died in a Blogging Accident" more than xkcd did.
Germany is correct. Germane is a chemical compound.
I live in Germany and kept track of the voting machine controversy here. The problem is not that people want voting machines, but that politicians want them (properly because they get money from manufacturer or want to be modern or are impressed by them). When hacker groups (like the CCC) prove that voting machine are hackable, those politicians just insist they are not. They don't even try to argue, they just trust the manufacturer so much.
:-)
In this case, they want to use voting machines that the CCC has already proven to be insecure. Luckily this time this is news for mainstream media and not just heise (German slashdot equivalent)
Off Topic: About your German: the word is "schlecht" not "schlect"; and "sagen Sie Nein zum elektronischen Wählen" (say no to electronic voting) not "sagen sie nicht" (say not)
In TFA, they are refering to OpenStreetMap, a wiki-style project to create free street maps. (though this is not mentioned in the summary)
As Jimbo Wales once said, Wikipedia is - as an encyclopedia - only one book in our "wiki library", and one book is not a whole library. Of course mathematical proofs are important and should be freely available, but so is tons of other sort of information, too, and we can't just put everything in Wikipedia. Wikibooks offers a place for some book-like-stuff (and I think mathematical proofs belong there). There are also other projects for different kind of information, like learning materials and dictionaries. We should start to transfer Wikipedia's success to other free wikis and projects.
And where is the link to the story?
The person you are talking about was actually Emmanuel Goldstein
But Flickr just got its two billionth picture.
The GVU (The German Federation against Copyright Theft) actively used and supported illegal Filesharing by setting up their own servers from which users could download copyrighted stuff. Of course they didn't bother asking the copyright owner if this was ok, they just did it, until Heise.de revealed the story (German Site) and the Office of Public Prosecutor came...
See the link "Permanent link" and "Cite this article" at the Sidebar under "Toolbox"? Those give you permalinks, one specific version that will not be changed. If I were you, I'd ask my students to give you this link, verifying the information is easier then.
The most clever thing to do for Microsoft is hand out copies of Windows for free in the third world. If they don't give them for free (or at _very_ low cost), people won't use Windows and get used to GNU/Linux and other free alternatives to Windows. M$ has to decide what they want: No money now, a bigger market share of GNU/Linux and no money later - OR - no money now, Windows in the developing ([insert oblg. joke her]) world and perhaps much money later, when they can afford to buy Windows.
I think a Microsoft employee has already said this about China: Installed pirated copies of Windows help Microsoft more than installed copies of GNU/Linux.
It's the same in the drug business: you get the first cigaret gratis, and once you are addicted, you gotta pay...
You can buy a poster where you can read everything, but as far as I know, full resolution is not available online...
Randall Munroe (xkcd author) also made this comic entitled "Online Communities". Also a nice way to make a map of the internet. (Extra points for those, who find "Stallman's Airship")
Ever heard of OpenStreetMap (Wikipedia)?
Even though it is not complete in most regions, it sounds very promising imho. And it is free! (as in freedom AND beer)
Exiting news: Through a CGI-script, you can browse on the server of adobe:
here (this has just been disabled a few minutes ago)
According to heise (German), you were able to get adobe's private RSA key (which is not much used though) and there are also rumors that they got the private SSL-key.
Here is Wikipedia's page on Flagged revisions
Extension:FlaggedRevs on mediawiki.org
is public domain (no, not GFML[1]) :)
[1] GNU Free Moon License
If I find him...
:)
How much do I get?
who did not know what the Hugo Award was (like myself): Wikipedia article.
Basically it is an award for the best science fiction or fantasy work.
That kind of reminds me of the stealth ship in James Bond, Tomorrow Never Dies. Looks quite similar, though it's smaller.
Lynx, anyone? :)
You forgot about the most important part:
Step 2a: ?????
People will find ways to remove those watermarks. The only impact will be on the people who still buy the stuff; those who share it online won't have any problems.
Well done everyone who participated in the fight against Digital Restrictions Management. Looks like there is really much protest and I hope the BBC will change to free formats. :)