Vor allem aber kostet der Fehlschlag den Steuerzahlern viel Geld. Wie viel genau, darüber hatte der Verkehrsminister nach Informationen des SPIEGEL und dem Rechercheteam des Bayerischen Rundfunks (BR) schon zwei Tage nach der Niederlage vor dem EuGH eine ziemlich genaue Vorstellung.

eine "Überschlägige Abschätzung potenzieller Entschädigungen" für die Betreiber der Straßenabgabe, die Firmen CTS Eventim und Kapsch TrafficCom. Die Gesamtsumme, die im schlimmsten Falle vom Ministerium zu zahlen wäre: 776 Millionen Euro.

I see RSS curation like the practice of cooking one’s own meals. There’s something magical about picking specific ingredients, using custom tools to prepare them, and then consuming the output.

Or—perhaps an even better metaphor—cultivating a bookshelf. With the only difference being that bookshelves are usually constructed using only one’s favorite books, while I think an RSS reader should be designed for “exposure to other” as well.

The point is that curation of an RSS reader forces one to think about their inputs, and to exercise their values in doing so. Are you building a list of inputs that agree with you? Are you including people who you respect but disagree with? What about people you can’t stand at all?

What you choose to include will not just define how you see the world, but how well you understand other peoples’ perspectives as well.

Here are some things that highly creative people gravitate towards:

1. lots of coffee!
2. working hard but, surprisingly often for only a short burst of time. Many writers only work for 3 or 4 hours each morning. (Architects and painters on the other hand tend to work all day.)
3. long walks. lots and lots of very long walks.
4. eating the exact same meal every breakfast, and lunch etc. So you don't have to waste time thinking about it. (It's weird how often this one shows up— Ingmar Bergman, Glen Gould, Patricia Highsmith, Oliver Sacks, David Lynch.)
5. alcohol to unwind . . . or some kind of daily "vigorous exercise" to unwind.
6. avoiding social obligations.
7. naps.
8. habitual reading. often artists will re-read a handful of their favorite authors again and again.
9. indulging in eccentricities. (Beethoven would pour giant pitchers of water over his hands each morning while he bellowed scales.)
10. either being a very early bird or a night owl. It's easier to concentrate when there is no one around to distract you.
11. tobacco
12. avoiding TV.

Well, IKEA knows just the thing to make it all easier — backgrounds to fake your way to a stylish setting.

The report shows that the vast majority of information security spending in the US is though the military, not through defensive organizations like the DHS, a trend that began with Clinton and has been continued by every president since, with massive acceleration under Trump.

Ironically, Trump has criticized previous admins for neglecting defense and pledged to increase it as a priority, but all he did was redefine "defense" to mean "punishing those who use cyber tools for malicious purposes" and attaining "peace through strength."

Which is why the DoD's cyber budget is 25% higher than the total infosec budget of all defensive agencies, with US Cybercommand HQ getting 33% more to cover program administration than the entire State Dept cyber budget, including operations.

The DoD's cyber ops budget is 250% of the budget for then entire Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and 1000% of the budget for the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center.

And that's just the part of the budget we know about

Parkinson’s Law of Triviality, also coined by British naval historian and author Cyril Northcote Parkinson in the 1950s.

The Law of Triviality states that the amount of time spent discussing an issue in an organization is inversely correlated to its actual importance in the scheme of things. Major, complex issues get the least discussion while simple, minor ones get the most discussion.

Parkinson’s Law of Triviality is also known as “bike-shedding,” after the story Parkinson uses to illustrate it.

Loneliness has more to do with our perceptions than how much company we have. It’s just as possible to be painfully lonely surrounded by people as it is to be content with little social contact. Some people need extended periods of time alone to recharge, others would rather give themselves electric shocks than spend a few minutes with their thoughts. Here’s how we can change our perceptions by making and experiencing art.

Zendesk has built out a global engineering team spread across four continents, nine countries and 10 cities around the world. We started the journey relatively early in our company’s life, it’s been difficult, and we’ve learned lessons along the way. Many of the things we got right, came from key people who had run global teams before (and knew the mistakes they didn’t want to repeat). Many of the things we got wrong, were based on assumptions that Zendesk would work as another business did. We’ve learned there’s no perfect strategy for expanding beyond head office, but we have been able to refine down some of the core beliefs that anchor us. These seem applicable beyond Zendesk, so I wanted to share. To do that, it’s worth spending a little time talking about how Zendesk grew up, so you can understand the incremental decisions we made to get to where we are today.

Sowohl der deutsche als auch der österreichische Verfassungsgerichtshof haben im Zusammenhang mit E-Voting bereits Erkenntnisse getroffen: Wahlverfahren müssen so konstruiert und implementiert sein, dass auch StaatsbürgerInnen ohne besondere technische und wissenschaftliche Kenntnisse in der Lage sind, zu verstehen, warum diese Verfahren die Prinzipien einer geheimen, persönlichen, anonymen und fälschungssicheren Wahl zweifelsfrei verwirklichen.
Das ist bei technisch vermittelten Wahlverfahren nicht der Fall. Die Wahlkommission, die für die ordnungsgemäße Durchführung einer Wahl verantwortlich ist, kann das nicht einmal dann verifizieren, wenn sie aus entsprechenden ExpertInnen zusammengesetzt ist. Zu intransparent ist Code, der auf Computern läuft.
Da muss darauf vertraut werden, dass die eingesetzten Systeme frei von Fremd- und Schadsoftware sind, eine Annahme, die InformatikerInnen zu spontanen Heiterkeitsausbrüchen verleiten kann.

Bei jedem vierten Paar hat sich die Beziehung während der Corona-Krise verändert: bei 17% hat sie sich verbessert und bei 8% verschlechtert.
Junge Paare erleben deutlich häufiger eine Verbesserung ihrer Beziehung als Paare im mittleren Lebensalter und im Pensionsalter.
In Familien mit Kindern ist eine Tendenz zur Polarisierung erkennbar: die Paarbeziehung hat sich in einem Teil verbessert, in einem anderen Teil verschlechtert.
Finanzielle Einbußen, z.B. durch Kurzarbeit oder Verlust des Arbeitsplatzes, gehen zu Lasten der Beziehungsqualität
Häufiger Anlass für Streit in Partnerschaften ist – auch in der Corona-Krise – die Hausarbeit.

Die Corona-Krise hat das Augenmerk auch auf eine Gruppe gerichtet, der in der Öffentlichkeit ansonsten wenig Beachtung geschenkt wird: nämlich der Gruppe der Alleinlebenden. Aber wer lebt überhaupt alleine? Und wie bewältigen diese alleinlebenden Personen die Krise? Würde man die Frage, welche Merkmale jemand mit dem Begriff „alleinlebend“ verbindet, verschiedenen Personen stellen, dann wären die Antworten bunt und vielfältig – genauso wie die Wissenschaft keine eindeutige Antwort darauf hat. Das Spektrum der Antworten würde das klassische Bild vom Single, Anfang 30, beruflich erfolgreich ebenso beinhalten wie die alleinwohnende Studentin, den geschiedenen Familienvater wie die alleinlebende, verwitwete Seniorin. Alleinleben hat viele Gesichter und die typisch alleinlebende Person gibt es nicht.

This is the recipe for building the DisplayLink driver in a RPM package for Fedora and CentOS. This driver supports the following device families:

DL-6xxx
DL-5xxx
DL-41xx
DL-3xxx

The package includes the Open Source evdi library.

Packages get automatically built by Travis CI and get uploaded to GitHub releases.

Ecoji encodes data as 1024 emojis, its base1024 with an emoji character set. As a bonus, includes code to decode emojis to original data.

NUS researchers have created a device called a ‘shadow-effect energy generator’ that makes use of the contrast in illumination between lit and shadowed areas to generate electricity. This novel concept opens up new approaches in harnessing indoor lighting conditions to power electronics.

”Whoa. The wait is finally over, dudes!”

The concept of a mechanical, 3D printed smart dress, to safeguard one's proximity and personal space, was first explored by Anouk Wipprecht several years ago with her Spider Dress. In times of social distancing, the Dutch designers is presenting an evolution of that early work, extending her research into proxemics and the body. The new Proximity Dress creates physical barriers when a person is detected in the immediate surroundings of the wearer. These twin dresses respond based on proximity and thermal sensors and indicate strangers within the intimate, personal, social and public space around the wearer.

“He relaxed and spread his two arms lazily across the seat back. He steered with an extra arm he’d recently fitted just beneath his right one to help improve his ski-boxing.” – Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

This is a working display based on Star Trek TNG. Uses APIs and sensors for weather, VOCs, power measurement, calendar, fitness, and news.

With the digital equivalent of trowels and shovels, archaeologists are digging into the code of early video games to uncover long forgotten secrets that could have relevance today.