Too Far Afield

Die Unschuldsvermutung heißt im Kern, dass wir lieber zehn Schuldige nicht bestrafen als einen Unschuldigen zu bestrafen. Der Grundsatz kann nicht für die Gefahrenabwehr gelten. Wäre es richtig zu sagen: Lieber lasse ich zehn Anschläge passieren, als dass ich jemanden, der vielleicht keinen Anschlag begehen will, daran zu hindern versuche. Nach meiner Auffassung wäre das falsch.

Wolfgang Schäuble, minister of the interior of the Federal Republic of Germany in an interview by Stern.de. Read more about this in a Lawblog post.

Pre-installed Linux on top brand-name computers is so close to becoming real you can almost run it.

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols in his article Michael Dell’s Linux choice? Ubuntu

When I converted from POP3 to IMAP last year, it was not possible to simply convert the existing POP3 accounts to IMAP in Thunderbird. So I just setup new accounts for IMAP. Also, it didn’t seem like a good idea to move all the messages from the POP3 account to the IMAP account, performance wise. Unfortunately, this meant that, suddenly, the number of accounts in my Thunderbird installation doubled.

Today I just got around to deleting two of those accounts. After sorting through all the old mails in the POP3 accounts and moving some of them to their IMAP counterparts. Yay! Unfortunately, those were the accounts that had the fewest messages in them of all POP3 accounts. But I still think this is some kind of achievement.

The benefit of our triple
license, nothing ever gets back upstream.

Axel Hecht about Mozillas MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license.