Aus dem Tagesanzeiger: Die wöchentliche Arbeitszeit der Vollzeitbeschäftigten lag im vergangenen Jahr bei 41,7 Stunden. Damit sank die Arbeitszeit innerhalb der letzten zehn Jahre um 13 Minuten.:))

14 Think tanks – all of them having spread anti open source FUD
What do they have in common? Two things:

• Funding by Microsoft
• not mentioning it

Gefunden in Technology Review:

Heutige Oberklassefahrzeuge verfügen bereits über 60 bis 70 Steuergeräte und mehr. Der Kabelstrang im VW Phaeton etwa besteht aus 2110 Leitungen und hat eine Gesamtlänge von 3860 Metern – bei einem Gewicht von 64 Kilogramm.

So wichtig ist Eschwege, dass die Lufthansa ihr ein Flugzeug widmet. Am 4. August wird ein Canadair Jet CRJ-700 auf den Namen “Stadt Eschwege” getauft.

Unix history timechart. Wow complex

Warning: the warblogging article contains pictures which are not nice….

Ultimately, the best legal commentary on this memo may belong to Jay Leno:

According to the New York Times, last year White House lawyers concluded that President Bush could legally order interrogators to torture and even kill people in the interest of national security – so if that’s legal, what the hell are we charging Saddam Hussein with?

One quote that shows that non-censorship networks like Freenet are not only useful for mp3 trader, software pirates, and child molesters:

I had been alarmed by the Scientologists’ success at closing down the penet remailer in Finland, and had been personally threatened by bank lawyers who wanted to suppress knowledge of the vulnerabilities of ATM systems. This made me aware of a larger problem: that electronic publications can be easy for the rich and the ruthless to suppress. They are usually kept on just a few servers, whose owners can be sued or coerced. To me, this seemed uncomfortably like books in the Dark Ages: the modern era only started once the printing press enabled seditious thoughts to be spread too widely to ban. The Eternity Service was conceived as a means of putting electronic documents as far outwith the censor’s grasp as possible. (The concern that motivated me has unfortunately now materialised; a recent UK court judgment has found that a newspaper’s online archives can be altered by order of a court to remove a libel.)

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For those having followed the Adti debacle, and their ~`study ‘~ that Linus Torvalds was not really the inventor of Linux, here come more rebuttals from the interviewees of this study. Boy, this would be a serious researchers night mare. I hope M$ has paid well for this (they admit funding this ~`think tank’~).
From a groklaw article:

Tuomi takes the time to carefully rebut Brown’s conclusions. Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, Andrew Tanenbaum, Dennis Ritchie, Eric Raymond, historian Peter H. Salus, and the man hired by AdTI to compare Minix and Linux code, Alexy Toptygin (who found no copied code) have all gone public with reactions or corrective information. Andrew Tanenbaum has responded a second and now a third time.