I just watched a german video about the total control through the BKA (a German organisation comparable to the FBI).
The attempts to control everything and everybody is based on the common misconception, that more security technology means more security. Often the opposite is true.
I don’t even want to talk about the ‘Bundestrojaner’, malware that is [...]
Everybody who understands the working of a Turing machine and that of SQL understands, that SQL probably isn’t Turing complete, i.e. you can’t use it to build a Turing machine. Yet I’m going to show that you actually can implement a Turing Engine using Oracle SQL.
So for those among you who haven’t studied informatics: “What [...]
Jeff Atwood outed himself as an ugly american when he blogged about english as the lingua franka of software developers.
I quite agree: You should write almost all things code in English. For an American this shouldn’t be a problem, but for Germans (like me) and all the other non native speakers this comes as a [...]
Everybody is talking about Google Wave and it sure is interesting stuff they are showing. I was considering getting a sandbox account, but I currently don’t have the time to use it. So here are my ideas about what you could do with Google Wave:
- Collaborative mind mapping tool (Gadget). Edit Mindmaps with multiple persons.
- [...]
In the last blog I talked about Wolfram|Alpha. I just noticed that Google has something similar yet completely different in store: Google Squared.
So how is it similar? Both ’search engine’ do not provide a list of results but try to provide a list of facts. But the way they produce these is very different and [...]