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Well if they do test this on humans, and if something goes wrong - they can easily fix it. Just apply a wetware update. Maybe we can even deploy wetware updates wirelessly soon. Ju…

No fear mongering going on here. As i wrote earlier, the incident wasn't discussed in terms of being a threat in the german media. Also, the pilot of the drone was only briefly arr…

This was staged by the german pirate party. They wanted to "take pictures" / draw attention to the surveillance issue. The incident wasn't discussed in terms of being a threat in g…

I agree about the need to really strip out the bad stuff, not just deprecating. Wrt removal of language features: They seem to be in the process of cleaning up some there as well. …

(can't reply to your reply so here goes) I'd argue that PHP came out of the gate with some pretty powerful properties, too. They hit a sweet spot of * Being there at the right time…

Javascript, of all things, wasn't neatly "designed" either. The core language was hacked together in several weeks, by a few developer at Netscape. Javascript wasn't made for large…

They are doing it, though. For example they have now deprecated the dreaded mysql_, pgsql_ interfaces (including mysql_now_escape_the_string_for_real() and the like ;) for accessin…

The terms of these initiatives (Fachkräfteinitiative, Blue Card) are so one sided and onerous that very few people from outside actually use them. These initiatives, started years …

Immigration is unpopular here in germany. Indeed, it is very unpopular among many people. German politicians, in the past (60s,70s,80s), have brought in many worker-immigrants main…

In Germany,where i live, you get: * 2/3 of your last wage for 1 year on unemployment, free health care * After that expires you get your rent paid, free health care , and 400 euro …

There's more. There's technical standards, procedures and laws accross europe for the storage, retrieval and processing of metadata and other information. it's called ETSI Lawful I…

germans generally like order very, very much. :)

the last 2 polls also had only 2 options. so for comparisons sake it will be better to leave it at that, i think.

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