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“But I have got nothing to hide!”
If you have countered privacy concerns from people like me with that silly statement, you may be interested in reading this article. A particular tidbit: One can usually think of something that even the most open person would want to … Continue reading
Posted in EN, Human Rights, Opinion, Privacy
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Land of the free …
… rein for for eavesdroppers. It’s quite unsettling to see that much of what Orwell envisions in “1984” has become true. // Oliver
I like Ricky Gervais …
… but the way you, Ricky, lash out against fat people, considering myself still part of that population1, is kind of a disgrace that falls back on you, mainly for the weak main point you make. You’re perfectly right that … Continue reading
Posted in Opinion, Thoughts, Weight loss
Tagged fat, fat people, obesity, Ricky Gervais, weight
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Cheeky and stupid bot …
The bot with user agent Linguee Bot (http://www.linguee.com/bot; bot@linguee.com) just downloaded approximately 2 GiB of stuff from a ViewVC-listing on one of my servers. Just because it’s stupid, but also because it’s so cheeky to ignore robots.txt. So be it. … Continue reading
Bizarre
And I don’t mean the fact that “Kindergärtner” in German describes the kindergarten teacher, not the child. Bizarre is that a five year old girl – in all seriousness – gets suspended for suggesting to another kindergarten child that they … Continue reading
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Unimaginable?
The media doesn’t seem to deem it possible that just about any catholic man could rise to the position of pope. Let’s face it, they’re probably right. Only cardinals have been elected for hundreds of years now. Similar to the … Continue reading
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Re: Oh the pain
Referring to this earlier post. In November a person from their complaint department1 contacted me and told me I would get a replacement. He arranged it so that I would receive it on short notice in December, during my brief … Continue reading
Vimcasts.org …
Great website to learn about Vim. I can also warmly recommend the book Drew wrote: Practical Vim. If you have bought the hard copy via some other way than the website of the publisher, you still can get a nice … Continue reading
Russian whores want to chat with me? Really …?
Spam spam spam-a-dee-spam … Don’t get me wrong. In a sense I admire the women who decide freely to prostitute themselves. It certainly takes courage and guts. I only think that the majority of them don’t get to decide freely … Continue reading
Recommendation against Paragon backup products (when used together with TrueCrypt)
Being a longtime user of Paragon software, it’s kind of hard to do this, but anyone who thinks about getting a Paragon backup product should think twice. And here’s why. There are two main facets to data security: keeping the … Continue reading
Beware of the XING premium membership
When I originally signed up at openBC I thought of it as supplement to my LinkedIn profile. Naow zey call zemselves XING and behave very correctly as a proper German company should. At some point in 2009 I thought I … Continue reading
Posted in EN, Opinion, Thoughts
Tagged auto-renewal, renewal, subscription, XING, XING Premium, XING premium membership
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