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LG Angry at Sony
It seems that harassing customers isn’t enough. In a nice move to complete their list of enemies, they pissed of LG, too. Patent infringement. LG won preliminary injunction against Sony and the...
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Good Overview How Sony Treated Its Customers Over The Years
Image via Wikipedia Phillip Torrone posted a good overview of Sony’s treatment of its customers over the years: Sony’s War On Makers, Hackers, And Innovators Related Articles Meet the DIY iPod Case...
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Customer Innovation
Have you ever modified something you bought in a shop? You’re not alone. A study in England showed that 6.2 percent of the population does it. The modifications range from simple things like adding...
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Sony vs. The World 1:0 …?
So Georg Hotz “caved in” and accepted to sign a settlement agreement (good article). Those quotes aren’t accidental; being accused in a law-suit does odd things to your life and most of them are...
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When Laziness Gets Expensive
According to heise online (German, video in English), Professor Dr. Eugene Spafford estimates the costs Sony‘s EPIC FAIL to secure their PSN servers to be 21 billion dollars. Wow. 21 … fucking …...
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Hudson and Jenkins Won’t Merge
There has been recent discussion about a merge between Jenkins and Hudson, after Oracle pushed the dead weight to Eclipse. My prediction: Won’t happen. Why not? Because Eclipse is run by lawyers and...
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OpenOffice Dead, Too
After the huge success with Hudson, Oracle boldly continues in its way to k…er…save OSS projects by dum…donating OpenOffice at Apache. Remember: Jenkins strives, Hudson is caught in the gears of a long...
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Das Märchen von der Vollbeschäftigung
Mal wieder ein Post auf Deutsch. Sorry for my English reads Alle Welt redet von Vollbeschäftigung, sicherer Rente und stabilen sozialen Netzen. Oder besser: Die Politiker (links bis rechts) erzählen...
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Jazoon 2011, Day 2 – Java Concurrent Animated – Victor Grazi
Java Concurrent Animated - Victor Grazi One picture says more than a thousand words. Now imagine what an animation can say. Victor did several for us to better understand the classes in...
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7 Ways To Ruin A Technological Revolution
“7 Ways To Ruin A Technological Revolution” is a Google Tech Talk by James Boyle in which he shows honest and sincere ways to stifle technological progress. And unlike him, I’m not ironic. A lot of...
View ArticleHow Houston Sends a Humbling Message About Climate Change
People in Houston have been drowning the past few days. Do they care about climate change right now? No. They are currently returning to houses that have been massively damaged. Are they caring about...
View ArticleArtificial Ethics
While watching this video, I wondered: We’re using machine learning to earn money on the stock market and to make computers understand speech. Why not ethics? Around @26:00 , Isaac talks about ways to...
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Climate Change Visible
In the early days of by blog, almost 10 years ago, I posted “Why You Should Bother About 2°“. In the mean time, I’ve found another graphic that helps to understand that something is more broken than...
View ArticleI’m Not a Robot (Rant)
Google’s “I’m not a robot” CAPTCHA is freaking me out. I often spend minutes clicking stupid images only to be presented with more fucking images. It feels like it takes half an hour or more to just...
View ArticleEU Copyright Reform Art 11&13
The reform in the current form was designed to increase profits of the big players in the game: the few big music labels, movie companies and news agencies. Since they want those additional billions, I...
View ArticleDark Forest is a Fairy Tale
The Dark Forest, an idea developed by Liu Cixin for his Remembrance of Earth’s Past series (also known for the first book “The Three-Body Problem” is just a fairy tale: Interesting to think about,...
View ArticleAnother Reason to Avoid Comments
There is this old saying that if you feel you have to write a comment to explain what your code does, you should rather improve your code. In the talk above, I heard another one: A common fallacy is...
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