Their argument is that rubbish can be created out of nowhere thus the first law of thermo-dynamics is wrong.
And indeed they prove that their argument is true.
don't do it by selling stuff which makes people ill. It's scientifically proven that coffee has a large range of bad effects for health. Just to cite a few:
Stomach problems.
Migraine.
High blood pressure.
Addiction to caffeine.
I think it's irresponsible to raise money for OSS by that way. As the cathechism of the catholic church teaches us: an action will be evil even its goal is good when evil actions are committed for reaching this goal.
I mean: there are zillions of other, good ways to raise money for OSS. You could e.g. sell t-shirts or tea instead.
So there is really no need to sell coffee.
You just need a few jerks with fake accounts who steal books.
They don't even verify the corrects of the data in the accounts.
And for "e-bay" style "trust" management: yeah, I would have said the same but I usually refrain from insulting people. And e-bay at least tries to verify your data.
Another example of a left-wing sozio-political idea which seems great on paper but has a 100 percent chance of getting fucked in real life.
The data layer of a CD-R consists of cynanide or
phthalocyanine organic dyes. However these dyes have a orientated electric charge like water molecules.
Take now into account earth's rotation and its magnetic field. It induces an albeit very slow movement of the molecules - the data layer degradation. The same effect causes btw certain currents in the Pacific oceans. While the movement is very slow and in the case of the ocean not very important, it does cause damage after a certain amount of time in the case of a CD-R. You should remember that the scale of the information storage units on a CD-R is in the nanometer range. The information is just "washed away" in an entropy-like effect.
However, you can slow this movement down. The molecular movement in the data layer is directed.
So it can be reversed to a certain degree just be placing the CD-R the other way around. So, all you have to do is to mark the position of the CD-R in your rack exactly. And reverse it's position every month or so. This can increase to the lifetime of a CD-R about 150 percent. More can't achieved (in normal environment) because electric machines like your computer etc. create their own electro-magnetic fields. And the effects of these varing fields are much more difficult to negate.
BTW: the 100 percent wrong place to store your CD-Rs is on the top of your CRT.
I doubt that this ubiquious stuff will ever work.
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While in theory it all seems fun and games, th researchers usually overlook the major problem: communication. The amount of necessary communication to coordinate the data exchange between the sensors increases non-linearily with the number of autonomous systems. Thus the more systems we have the less efficient it will become.
So "smart dust" is the fastest way to produce a minimum efficiency with a maximum of computers.
Sometimes I wonder if this effect i planned by the IT industry. With quantum and DNA computing on the way, we will see in a few decades computers which are extremely powerful but also also extremely cheap. Obiviously the profit margins of the industry will drop below vaccuum energy levels. Therefore they have to find a way to make people more and more computers besides the incredible power of a single machine. The easiest way to do this is the make computers more powerful but less efficient.
I would even conjecture that this idea is behind the introduction of XML, web services and grid computing. Normal computer operations are overlayed with bloated protocols and documents to decrease to efficiency of modern servers and workstations forcing people into new upgrade cycles.
Ever wondered by why XML is not binary based ? Computers don't care if humans can read their data. Or why bloated XML is used for web services where simple binary based RPC would do the same job ? Or ever the perversion of putting it on top of HTTP, introducing new security holes by making trditional firewalls useless ?
They just presented it as an example for code coping. And indeed this code was copied although not from the SCO codebase. But this really doesn't matter. Their main point is their far reaching definition of derivative works.
Personally I'm rather surprised about the naivity of US developers. Do they really don't notice what it's all about. This is not just about Linux and OSS any longer. If SCO succeeds with their far reaching definition of derivative works than this would crush all US based software develoment.
Any jerk could argue that by just using a interface/library you created a "derivative work". Device drivers will be owned by OS producers useless you got special contracts. This will blow up OOP - because when you create a child class from a class in a library you create a "derivate work" of this kind. This applies to most programs using the java gui.
You might say know: Well, that's because SCO's claims are fucked and rubbish. Therefore these strange implications. But remember that this is a lawsuit in the US. You can get several millions of dollars for being too stupid to open a McDonalds coffee cup there.
I most European countries people use pen & paper voting.
And unlike the US there was never a Florida voting scam.
And paper is much more immune to fraud: the election sheets are stored for a certain time, so any questions and be sorted out by a recount without any paper pebbles dropping from the holes.
And if a fraudelent government wants to pull off a voting scam they have either to forge election sheets, which would be noted afterwards, or they have to destroy sheets, which would be noted, too.
So why use a high-tech solution which isn't immune to fraud and other problems instead of a low-tech solution which hasn't these problems ?
A world wide power grid mean that the whole world is connected with one power grid.
However, we all know that there are conflicts between many countries of the world. The world wide power grid would be soon a strategic element in such conflicts. One country could e.g. try to suck all power out of the grid to black out an opponent and make a preventive strike against them. But such tatic move wouldn't only affect the conflict members but the whole world. So if Bush strikes Iraq, then France, Russia and China would be sitting in the dark.
I think I dodn't have to point out further how dangerous this would be.
Nobody can really predict the direction the computer industry is moving in the next 5 years.
The technology is still very young and futher has a very high innovation speed. Prediction over such a long time range are rubbish.
Just remember the classical examples of such predictions getting fucked: AI, "processors beyond 300 MHz are physically impossible", "640 kB is enough for everyone", "OS/2 is the system of the future" etc.
And for Linux: there is hot stuff like Grid computing, immersive VR, Quantum computing etc. on the way and I don't see even the smallest efford to integrate this into Linux.
The only thing we can predict for the next 5 years is crackpot MBA doing academic, oops non-academic of course (we can't insult academics), circle-jerks and spewing out rubbish predictions.
Ha, outsource everyone to India.
as European countries in the 18th century:
Ensuring that only raw materials are imported and swamp the whole world with cheap manufractured goods. This lead Europe to the world power it's today, so it will probably work the same for China. However this has some not so nice side-effects. Such gain cause a disbalance in world's economics. Like the colonial system ruined the countries belonging to the 3rd world today, Chinas politics will ruin the economics of their mains markets, too.
However, the situation is a little different these days. In the 18th century Europe was also a military hyperpower without any opponents of the same strength. This is very different know. China has at least 3 opponents of the same military power: US, Europe, Russia. Even more the existence of weapons of mass destruction prevents China from turning the situation towards their favour. No matter how much weapons they produce, they'll be always extinguished in the case of a military conflict.
So, I wonder were this will lead in the long term.
We all know the problem China has with accepting the illectual or economic property rights of forgein people. However, the superpowers of the world will not accept this forever. Bush already demanded that China ceases the artificial devaluation of the Yong. There are GATT investigations against China and their Red Linux products. Perhaps something will change in the future.
There are other creatures who are known to survive degrees of 121 or even hotter. The Australian desert runner bug can take 130 and the Egyptian dust worm survives 125. These critters don't live on iron though.
You just type e.g.:
goat@blindeyes> make emacs --D UNDEAD=1
And your installation of emacs is zombiefied.
That means that an emacs process can never crash,
is much stronger albeit slower and can only be killed by kill PID -SIGCUTINTOHALFWITHCHAINSAW.
In fact I have a zombiefied apache running here for 742 days without any trouble. Although it eats sometimes other processes.
So all you "*BSD is dead whiners": In fact the death of *BSD is a good thing. It has given the system many new occult powers of which a living system like Linux/MacOS X can only dream.
With all these undead processes, vampiric servers and banshee IDS your system is much better than the boring old standard rubbish.
I even heard some rumors from Redmond that MS is working on killing Windows, too. Just for gaining the great powers of an undead system.
With US copyright duration extended longer and longer (Thanks, Disney !) this is terribly silly.
By staying too near to the old mainframe stuff we just breed more and more SCO-like lawsuits.
Just one wacko company buy old heritage mainframe IP and starts to sue all Linux related business, because some fool decided few months ago that it would be cool that the NUGABOGORK module in the 2.8.342 kernel should work like the trogolyte algorithm on the IBM 1920.
Only a minor number of artists give their music away for free, i.e. without restrictions of further distribution.
Furthermore most really free stuff can be easily downloaded from special websites.
So, I wonder about these guys who need a poll to get the result that people who are circumventing copyright laws don't care about copyright.
Usually you would suspect that every person on this planet has something called "common sense".
Next we'll see from these guys:
Thiefs don't care about property.
Phyromaniacs like fire.
Drug dealers don't care about the health of other people.
Bush invaded Iraq for Oil.
Communism is a oppressive dictatorship.
Linux and FreeBSD are for free.
But on the other hand, not everybody can be as clever as me.
Zeno's paradox is no paradox, if you understand elementary mathematics like the convergence of series. Any undergrad maths student is able to comprehend this.
It's pretty strange that somebody who fails in basic maths should have developed a new theory of Einstein level. Well, and for any knee-jerk physicist reactions: Einstein did understand math very well. Although we wasn't able to create the needed mathematical theories (Riemannian geometry and affine connections) himself, he had to rely on Riemann and Cartan for this.
If Bertelsmann buys a US company which violates US copyrights then Bertelsmann should submit to US law. If they don't like this, then they shouldn't do any business in the US.
I don't think that the US will be the world's most powerful nation in long term. China has much more resources and population and therefore the chance to overtake the US in the next 20 years. Let's list Chinas benefits over the US:
Population: sheer mass counts. If US has 1 genius in 1 million people, than we have 400 geniuses in the US. But China would have 1.100 which is quite an advantage.
Education system: The US has a better starting position, but China is rapidly gaining. Chinese have thrown away all Mao anti-illectual rubbish and know to value knowledge these days.
Traditions: The confucian traditions imply total devotion to work and society.
However, the US tradition imply total devotion to self interest and egoism. So, the Chinese society have much better chance to complete large scale and high effort projects. The US have problems there. Take e.g. Iraq we have our boys just a few months there, but already the press is whining that some of them are dying. Even worse the US economic system is based on these "values", so we can't change them without having our society collapse.
Resources: China has many natural resources. Even more there are much resources in the neighboring countries. These are very weak, so China has just to blackmail or to conquer them to get the resources.
Legal bonds: there is not much copyright and IP enforced in China. So free from all patent and IP bounds China's economics and science can develop much faster.
Less restricted goverment: In China the goverment doesn't have to obey very much restrictions. So they don't have to spend so much money on their own people or to protect human rights.
The conclusion of this is that the US has very bad cards in the upcoming powergame with China.
Instead of concentration on their nationalist isolational politics, the US should come back to their very own sources. So the US should join the EU as an equal partner and adopt the more efficient European legal system. I think they should urge minor European based countries like Canada or Australia to join. The combined of power of US, Europe and the others (1.5 Billion people 84 percent of world's economics). Could face the Asian challenge and win.
Computer games are bad for children. Instead of spending their time with other children, they sit lonely in froont of the computer and play games. However playing with other children is extremely important for developing social skills and communicative abilities.
Furthermore the logic in computer games is often flawed and usually the objectives are little challenging. E.g. you run around in a 3D labyrint and shoot people and monster in the head.
This stifles the intellectual development of the children leaving their mental abilities below the levels they could have reached if they learned serious stuff or played with other children instead.
It's well known that in the computer affine areas like sillicon valley severe personality disorders like Aspberger's or AHDTV are increasingly spreading.
We have now reached a level where the goverment should step in and protect the childrens from their own parents. This is not quite intruding into their personal privacy as it might seem. I think nobody here would object if govermental bodies would take away the children from people hurting them. And that's exactly want happening here. The only difference is that the damage is done to the development of the mental health of the children. For the first time in his presidency Bush junior could get something right first place and restrict the access to computer games for little children.
The Bush goverment is just persecuting MCI for political reason. Their narrow-minded morale doesn't allow any creative accounting and business methods. It's time for all accounting nerd to stand up and show their support !
First, we need some "free MCI Worldcom" bumper stickers and t-shirts. This wouldn't of course have any effect on the lawsuit, but we'll feel all great and warm inside.
We might also organize some protests in Washington nobody notices.
And when the MCI management comes out of prison we can all rush to buy their new book "Art of Fraud: Controlling the human element of accounting".
You might now think that Germany is the land of the sane and bright, but this isn't true.
In fact in some German states ISP are required to use censorship filters to filter content which is showing disrespect to human dignity like infamous rotten or neo nazi propaganda.
Indeed taking the new decision of congress to ensure free, uncensored internet access everywhere on the world, then you'll see very soon that Germany will be besides North Korea, China, Vietman, Iran and Lybia on the list of offenders.
Germany has a long list of incidents of restricting the peoples right to access information and entertainment by claiming to protect youth and society.
So sales of Doom, Quake and Command and Conquer 3
are extremely restricted like hardcore bukkakke porn. Furthermore you can't get Hitler's "Main Kampf" or plans for explosives of weapons in stores.
This is a severe restriction of free information access. Free is free and information is information. That doesn't imply a qualitative measurement. So, in a truely free society people would have free access to images of severed head, torn inards and mindless racist propaganda, too.
I think that's a very bad direction for the German society. The public rights are slowly getting more and restricted. In this picture it fits that the limits for consumed alcohol before driving are steadly lowered, speed limits are spreading like salmonella, the weapon laws are more and more restricted and smoking is made illegal in more and more places.
Honestly, I don't know where this leads to. I'm just scared.
Well you just add RFID scanners at the doors.
Coupled with the cashier system you'll notice when some unpayed blades walk out of the shop.
This solution is used in most larger stores in Germany for more expensive goods already. In fact, it has been used for the last 10 years (or even more).
On the other hand it might be as well that the Germans are much more clever and 10 years ahead of everybody.
For preventing theft, the RFID tag would be enough alone.
So why do they need the photos for ?
Marketing ? But for customer group identification one photo would be sufficient.
until Mozilla needs a seperate partition due to code bloat.
Anybody here ever considered to push out a RFC for: OSML - Operation System Markup Language !
OSML is a markup language which describes entire operating systems.
A OSML capable browser can run any existing operationg system just by processing the approriate OSML files.
Well, you could do the same by TMML (Turing Machine Markup Language), but I have some doubt that people would use it.
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Their argument is that rubbish can be created out of nowhere thus the first law of thermo-dynamics is wrong.
And indeed they prove that their argument is true.
...to stop drinking coffee and send all the money to them instead.
This would be much better for your health and for the project.
- Stomach problems.
- Migraine.
- High blood pressure.
- Addiction to caffeine.
I think it's irresponsible to raise money for OSS by that way. As the cathechism of the catholic church teaches us: an action will be evil even its goal is good when evil actions are committed for reaching this goal.I mean: there are zillions of other, good ways to raise money for OSS. You could e.g. sell t-shirts or tea instead.
So there is really no need to sell coffee.
They don't even verify the corrects of the data in the accounts.
And for "e-bay" style "trust" management: yeah, I would have said the same but I usually refrain from insulting people. And e-bay at least tries to verify your data.
Another example of a left-wing sozio-political idea which seems great on paper but has a 100 percent chance of getting fucked in real life.
Take now into account earth's rotation and its magnetic field. It induces an albeit very slow movement of the molecules - the data layer degradation. The same effect causes btw certain currents in the Pacific oceans. While the movement is very slow and in the case of the ocean not very important, it does cause damage after a certain amount of time in the case of a CD-R. You should remember that the scale of the information storage units on a CD-R is in the nanometer range. The information is just "washed away" in an entropy-like effect.
However, you can slow this movement down. The molecular movement in the data layer is directed. So it can be reversed to a certain degree just be placing the CD-R the other way around. So, all you have to do is to mark the position of the CD-R in your rack exactly. And reverse it's position every month or so. This can increase to the lifetime of a CD-R about 150 percent. More can't achieved (in normal environment) because electric machines like your computer etc. create their own electro-magnetic fields. And the effects of these varing fields are much more difficult to negate.
BTW: the 100 percent wrong place to store your CD-Rs is on the top of your CRT.
Sometimes I wonder if this effect i planned by the IT industry. With quantum and DNA computing on the way, we will see in a few decades computers which are extremely powerful but also also extremely cheap. Obiviously the profit margins of the industry will drop below vaccuum energy levels. Therefore they have to find a way to make people more and more computers besides the incredible power of a single machine. The easiest way to do this is the make computers more powerful but less efficient.
I would even conjecture that this idea is behind the introduction of XML, web services and grid computing. Normal computer operations are overlayed with bloated protocols and documents to decrease to efficiency of modern servers and workstations forcing people into new upgrade cycles.
Ever wondered by why XML is not binary based ? Computers don't care if humans can read their data. Or why bloated XML is used for web services where simple binary based RPC would do the same job ? Or ever the perversion of putting it on top of HTTP, introducing new security holes by making trditional firewalls useless ?
Personally I'm rather surprised about the naivity of US developers. Do they really don't notice what it's all about. This is not just about Linux and OSS any longer. If SCO succeeds with their far reaching definition of derivative works than this would crush all US based software develoment.
Any jerk could argue that by just using a interface/library you created a "derivative work". Device drivers will be owned by OS producers useless you got special contracts. This will blow up OOP - because when you create a child class from a class in a library you create a "derivate work" of this kind. This applies to most programs using the java gui.
You might say know: Well, that's because SCO's claims are fucked and rubbish. Therefore these strange implications. But remember that this is a lawsuit in the US. You can get several millions of dollars for being too stupid to open a McDonalds coffee cup there.
And unlike the US there was never a Florida voting scam.
And paper is much more immune to fraud: the election sheets are stored for a certain time, so any questions and be sorted out by a recount without any paper pebbles dropping from the holes. And if a fraudelent government wants to pull off a voting scam they have either to forge election sheets, which would be noted afterwards, or they have to destroy sheets, which would be noted, too.
So why use a high-tech solution which isn't immune to fraud and other problems instead of a low-tech solution which hasn't these problems ?
A world wide power grid mean that the whole world is connected with one power grid.
However, we all know that there are conflicts between many countries of the world. The world wide power grid would be soon a strategic element in such conflicts. One country could e.g. try to suck all power out of the grid to black out an opponent and make a preventive strike against them. But such tatic move wouldn't only affect the conflict members but the whole world. So if Bush strikes Iraq, then France, Russia and China would be sitting in the dark.
I think I dodn't have to point out further how dangerous this would be.
Nobody can really predict the direction the computer industry is moving in the next 5 years. The technology is still very young and futher has a very high innovation speed. Prediction over such a long time range are rubbish.
Just remember the classical examples of such predictions getting fucked: AI, "processors beyond 300 MHz are physically impossible", "640 kB is enough for everyone", "OS/2 is the system of the future" etc.
And for Linux: there is hot stuff like Grid computing, immersive VR, Quantum computing etc. on the way and I don't see even the smallest efford to integrate this into Linux.
The only thing we can predict for the next 5 years is crackpot MBA doing academic, oops non-academic of course (we can't insult academics), circle-jerks and spewing out rubbish predictions.
Ha, outsource everyone to India.
However this has some not so nice side-effects. Such gain cause a disbalance in world's economics. Like the colonial system ruined the countries belonging to the 3rd world today, Chinas politics will ruin the economics of their mains markets, too.
However, the situation is a little different these days. In the 18th century Europe was also a military hyperpower without any opponents of the same strength. This is very different know. China has at least 3 opponents of the same military power: US, Europe, Russia. Even more the existence of weapons of mass destruction prevents China from turning the situation towards their favour. No matter how much weapons they produce, they'll be always extinguished in the case of a military conflict.
So, I wonder were this will lead in the long term. We all know the problem China has with accepting the illectual or economic property rights of forgein people. However, the superpowers of the world will not accept this forever. Bush already demanded that China ceases the artificial devaluation of the Yong. There are GATT investigations against China and their Red Linux products. Perhaps something will change in the future.
Hey, you are single, too !
There are other creatures who are known to survive degrees of 121 or even hotter. The Australian desert runner bug can take 130 and the Egyptian dust worm survives 125. These critters don't live on iron though.
You just type e.g.:
goat@blindeyes> make emacs --D UNDEAD=1
And your installation of emacs is zombiefied. That means that an emacs process can never crash, is much stronger albeit slower and can only be killed by kill PID -SIGCUTINTOHALFWITHCHAINSAW.
In fact I have a zombiefied apache running here for 742 days without any trouble. Although it eats sometimes other processes.
So all you "*BSD is dead whiners": In fact the death of *BSD is a good thing. It has given the system many new occult powers of which a living system like Linux/MacOS X can only dream. With all these undead processes, vampiric servers and banshee IDS your system is much better than the boring old standard rubbish.
I even heard some rumors from Redmond that MS is working on killing Windows, too. Just for gaining the great powers of an undead system.
With US copyright duration extended longer and longer (Thanks, Disney !) this is terribly silly.
By staying too near to the old mainframe stuff we just breed more and more SCO-like lawsuits.
Just one wacko company buy old heritage mainframe IP and starts to sue all Linux related business, because some fool decided few months ago that it would be cool that the NUGABOGORK module in the 2.8.342 kernel should work like the trogolyte algorithm on the IBM 1920.
Furthermore most really free stuff can be easily downloaded from special websites.
So, I wonder about these guys who need a poll to get the result that people who are circumventing copyright laws don't care about copyright.
Usually you would suspect that every person on this planet has something called "common sense".
Next we'll see from these guys:
- Thiefs don't care about property.
- Phyromaniacs like fire.
- Drug dealers don't care about the health of other people.
- Bush invaded Iraq for Oil.
- Communism is a oppressive dictatorship.
- Linux and FreeBSD are for free.
But on the other hand, not everybody can be as clever as me.Zeno's paradox is no paradox, if you understand elementary mathematics like the convergence of series. Any undergrad maths student is able to comprehend this.
It's pretty strange that somebody who fails in basic maths should have developed a new theory of Einstein level. Well, and for any knee-jerk physicist reactions: Einstein did understand math very well. Although we wasn't able to create the needed mathematical theories (Riemannian geometry and affine connections) himself, he had to rely on Riemann and Cartan for this.
If Bertelsmann buys a US company which violates US copyrights then Bertelsmann should submit to US law. If they don't like this, then they shouldn't do any business in the US.
- Population: sheer mass counts. If US has 1 genius in 1 million people, than we have 400 geniuses in the US. But China would have 1.100 which is quite an advantage.
- Education system: The US has a better starting position, but China is rapidly gaining. Chinese have thrown away all Mao anti-illectual rubbish and know to value knowledge these days.
- Traditions: The confucian traditions imply total devotion to work and society.
However, the US tradition imply total devotion to self interest and egoism. So, the Chinese society have much better chance to complete large scale and high effort projects. The US have problems there. Take e.g. Iraq we have our boys just a few months there, but already the press is whining that some of them are dying. Even worse the US economic system is based on these "values", so we can't change them without having our society collapse.
- Resources: China has many natural resources. Even more there are much resources in the neighboring countries. These are very weak, so China has just to blackmail or to conquer them to get the resources.
- Legal bonds: there is not much copyright and IP enforced in China. So free from all patent and IP bounds China's economics and science can develop much faster.
- Less restricted goverment: In China the goverment doesn't have to obey very much restrictions. So they don't have to spend so much money on their own people or to protect human rights.
The conclusion of this is that the US has very bad cards in the upcoming powergame with China. Instead of concentration on their nationalist isolational politics, the US should come back to their very own sources. So the US should join the EU as an equal partner and adopt the more efficient European legal system. I think they should urge minor European based countries like Canada or Australia to join. The combined of power of US, Europe and the others (1.5 Billion people 84 percent of world's economics). Could face the Asian challenge and win.Furthermore the logic in computer games is often flawed and usually the objectives are little challenging. E.g. you run around in a 3D labyrint and shoot people and monster in the head. This stifles the intellectual development of the children leaving their mental abilities below the levels they could have reached if they learned serious stuff or played with other children instead.
It's well known that in the computer affine areas like sillicon valley severe personality disorders like Aspberger's or AHDTV are increasingly spreading.
We have now reached a level where the goverment should step in and protect the childrens from their own parents. This is not quite intruding into their personal privacy as it might seem. I think nobody here would object if govermental bodies would take away the children from people hurting them. And that's exactly want happening here. The only difference is that the damage is done to the development of the mental health of the children. For the first time in his presidency Bush junior could get something right first place and restrict the access to computer games for little children.
The Bush goverment is just persecuting MCI for political reason. Their narrow-minded morale doesn't allow any creative accounting and business methods.
It's time for all accounting nerd to stand up and show their support !
First, we need some "free MCI Worldcom" bumper stickers and t-shirts. This wouldn't of course have any effect on the lawsuit, but we'll feel all great and warm inside.
We might also organize some protests in Washington nobody notices.
And when the MCI management comes out of prison we can all rush to buy their new book "Art of Fraud: Controlling the human element of accounting".
In fact in some German states ISP are required to use censorship filters to filter content which is showing disrespect to human dignity like infamous rotten or neo nazi propaganda.
Indeed taking the new decision of congress to ensure free, uncensored internet access everywhere on the world, then you'll see very soon that Germany will be besides North Korea, China, Vietman, Iran and Lybia on the list of offenders.
Germany has a long list of incidents of restricting the peoples right to access information and entertainment by claiming to protect youth and society. So sales of Doom, Quake and Command and Conquer 3 are extremely restricted like hardcore bukkakke porn. Furthermore you can't get Hitler's "Main Kampf" or plans for explosives of weapons in stores.
This is a severe restriction of free information access. Free is free and information is information. That doesn't imply a qualitative measurement. So, in a truely free society people would have free access to images of severed head, torn inards and mindless racist propaganda, too.
I think that's a very bad direction for the German society. The public rights are slowly getting more and restricted. In this picture it fits that the limits for consumed alcohol before driving are steadly lowered, speed limits are spreading like salmonella, the weapon laws are more and more restricted and smoking is made illegal in more and more places.
Honestly, I don't know where this leads to. I'm just scared.
Well you just add RFID scanners at the doors. Coupled with the cashier system you'll notice when some unpayed blades walk out of the shop.
This solution is used in most larger stores in Germany for more expensive goods already. In fact, it has been used for the last 10 years (or even more).
On the other hand it might be as well that the Germans are much more clever and 10 years ahead of everybody.
For preventing theft, the RFID tag would be enough alone.
So why do they need the photos for ?
Marketing ? But for customer group identification one photo would be sufficient.
Anybody here ever considered to push out a RFC for:
OSML - Operation System Markup Language !
OSML is a markup language which describes entire operating systems. A OSML capable browser can run any existing operationg system just by processing the approriate OSML files.
Well, you could do the same by TMML (Turing Machine Markup Language), but I have some doubt that people would use it.