Sköne Oke

Breyer vs. Kommission

arebentisch — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 14:16:42 +0000

Im Fall Breyer verweigert die Kommission den Zugang zu einem Rechtsgutachen zur Anwendbarkeit des Gemeinschaftsrechts in einem Zweitantrag mit dem Hinweis auf den Schutz der Rechtsberatung. Wie schon in ähnlichen Fällen ist dabei ein allgemeiner rechtlicher Sachverhalt Gegenstand. Breyer hat jetzt Klage eingelegt. Besonders merkwürdig ist, dass die Kommission sich gegen die Offenlegung der Klageschrift wendet, konträr zu ihren Prinzipien aus Art 15(1) AEUV.

2001 The European Parliament wants Open Source for security reasons

arebentisch — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 23:03:53 +0000

29.   Urges the Commission and Member States to devise appropriate measures to promote, develop and manufacture European encryption technology and software and above all to support projects aimed at developing user-friendly open-source encryption software;

30.   Calls on the Commission and Member States to promote software projects whose source text is made public (open-source software), as this is the only way of guaranteeing that no backdoors are built into programmes;

31.   Calls on the Commission to lay down a standard for the level of security of e-mail software packages, placing those packages whose source code has not been made public in the ‘least reliable’ category;

Source

Düsseldorfer Programm der Europa-Union

arebentisch — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 16:29:04 +0000

Die Europa-Union hat sich ein neues Programm gegeben, dabei sind die Forderunge durchaus nicht mehr verfassungskonform in Deutschland, so will die Europa-Union Wahlrecht auf allen Ebene nur im Wohnsitzland gewähren. Das widerspricht dem Grundgesetz und ist daher technisch kaum umsetzbar.

Exxon’s Nicolas Mockfort – killed or assasinated?

arebentisch — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 18:57:39 +0000

The ExxonMobile Executive Nicolas Mockfort was shot dead in Brussels close to Italian restaurant Da Marcello two weeks ago, in an event that looked first like car jacking. To the Belgian police authorities it appears likely that he was asssasinated. Given the company Exxon Mobile keeps, I just feel reminded of ruthless anti-French smear group TechCentralStation, hardly a suprise. The Telegraph for more. Usually Brussels is no dangerous place. What to make out of that:

But a spokeswoman for ExxonMobil said that, although the death was a shock, there was nothing to suggest a link with the company. However, one family member, who asked not to be named, told the Daily Telegraph that they thought he was killed in a professional hit.

Funktioniert das eigentlich?

arebentisch — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 11:25:30 +0000

Aus dem Code von KStars:
181 bool Projector::checkVisibility( SkyPoint *p ) const 182 { 183 //TODO deal with alternate projections 184 //not clear how this depends on projection 185 //FIXME do these heuristics actually work?

Kubuntu KDE4.9 Übersetzungsfreuden

arebentisch — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 23:21:39 +0000

Übersetzungsfreuden unter KDE 4.9 / Kubuntu. Nicht nur schreibt der Dialog für uns einen Wolf. Die Aktionskontexte werden in der Übersetzung verloren:

KDE black screen upgrade issue

arebentisch — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 10:56:24 +0000

When KDE Desktop shows a black screen after distribution update. Well, it displays the load intro animation, then black screen. The safest method is to turn “compositing” features off. Get a prompt (ALT+CRTL+F1), login in with your user name / password and enter:

kwriteconfig –file kwinrc –group Compositing –key Enabled false

You could also manually edit the kwinrc file in .kde.

Then reboot.

KDE message Humor

arebentisch — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 12:44:51 +0000

Die KDE Testing Arbeitsgruppe härtet gerade das Release 4.9, das nach Plan schon heute draußen sein müsste. Dazu haben sie neulich in Anlehnung an die “Papercuts” von Ubuntu die Initiative Extra Mile aus der Taufe gehoben. Mit “Extra Miles” sind Kleinigkeiten gemeint, die man ohne viel Entwickleraufwand (also weniger als ein Tag) beseitigen kann, und spürbar dazu beitragen, dass der Anwender sich gut aufgehoben fühlt.

(Ich vermute, dass die Merkwürdigkeiten auf dem “Bildschirmfoto” eher von den Kubuntu Übersetzerteams stammen…)

The European Child Safety Online Conference 2012

arebentisch — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 22:10:40 +0000

Another conference

Working together to create a better internet for children
15th November 2012, The Renaissance Hotel, Brussels

Karel De Gucht does it again: CETA

arebentisch — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 08:34:28 +0000

Michael Geist broke the story:

According to recently leaked documents, the EU plans to use the Canada – EU Trade Agreement (CETA), which is nearing its final stages of negotiation, as a backdoor mechanism to implement the ACTA provisions.

and added further remarks today

FFII’s Ante Wessels comments

The EU – Canada trade agreement (CETA) contains the same draconian civil and criminal measures as ACTA, see [Canadian law professor] Michael Geist. He recommends: “With anti-ACTA sentiment spreading across Europe, Canada should push to remove the intellectual property chapter from CETA altogether.” I agree completely: trade agreements and IP regulations have to be disentangled.

The European Treaties, however, provide for this loophole which was created for the WTO TRIPs agreement. I agree with Ante Wessels that the Article 207 process should not be used for bypassing national and European legislators. While the European Parliament disagreed with the adoption of measures in ACTA, De Gucht’s administration has other bilateral agreements in the pipeline to the same ends. They deserve the watchful eyes of concerned parties.

The February negotiations document shows the broadness of provisions and the greater degree of explicit legislative interventions compared to ACTA.

I would recommend the European Parliament to reach an inter-institutional agreement with the Commission how to proceed in the Article 207 process with a view to preserve the legislative prerogatives of Parliament.