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LifestreamAs reported by The Local. It’s not that often that new parties are formed in an ageing parliamentary system like that of Sweden. So this is quite the occasion. One ought to say a few words about it.
Overall, I’m sceptical of course. Even with good intentions, it’s not easy to change a stagnant political system. [...]
Archive for April, 2005
A court of appeal in Eastern Finland has overturned sentences against two men for copyright violations. They were convicted of helping to distribute illegal copies of movies, music, software and games.
The court noted that the men, known as “crackers”, did not personally benefit from the pirate copies, and that they were only distributed to a [...]
I’m getting more than a little tired of Wired and their overzealous cheering for the movie and music industry. Lets take a look at how they report the latest move in the struggle between the industry and US universities:
First they start out by listing a number of pointless media titles as a way to reinforce [...]
The Swedish Taxonomy Initiative has accomplished its first milestone release of the Swedish Flora and Fauna Encyclopedia. The first volume (detailing butterflies) which is due April 25th represents part one of about 130 volumes and all in all 50000 species (with 30000 of those being described in great detail).
The project that set out three years [...]
From the PR release:
“Tyranny Of Souls”, Bruce’s new solo venture, sees him return once again to collaborate with guitarist/producer/writer Roy Z. The album’s cover is adorned with a 15th century depiction of hell by Hans Memling and the music continues along this path to explore dark, apocalyptic themes. Delving into science, theology and of course, [...]
There should really be an April Fool’s day roughly every two weeks. Random intervals of course. Typical intermittent reinforcement (”one-armed bandit” experience).
You do read the headlines with extra care. Question everything, doubt anything.
Just how the perfect citizen should function, much to the dismay of the elites. A critical media consumer is a wonderful thing. I [...]
The Domain Name System (DNS) is a distributed network of servers that contain records mapping each domain name - such as www.newscientist.com) to an internet protocol address - such as 194.203.155.123. When surfers request websites, their browsers refer first to those records.
But DNS records are currently susceptible to denial-of-service (DOS) and spoofing attacks, says the [...]
