In great britain and switzerland, the financing of public broadcasting is being debated
Over the weekend, the sunday times published what it said was inside information from a bbc-appointed panel of 12 experts tasked with guiding the public broadcaster into the future. According to the report, the experts recommended that the bbc replace the current usage-dependent license fee with subscriptions in 2020.
Do everything better wants to do basecamp with his new e-mail service called hey. After all, other providers had been omitted for years – and the new software was now bringing everything back to lot. The intended result: the user has wanted to write emails again and no longer forced to get all the messages under control.
Specifically, hey wants to score with some functions that represent a departure from the classic e-mail client: among other things dive in the imbobox baptized startup screen unsuccessful messages from the user as anewed senders. If it is a new contact, hey points to this and the user can sort it with one click.
In several european countries, youtube offers a gantner variant of its premium subscription. Premium lite costs 7 euros per month and allows subscribers to see all the videos on the platform without advertisements. In germany premium lite can not be subscribed to currently.
Youtube premium lite is therefore 5 euro favorable as the standard variant of youtube premium, which struggles with 12 euros per month. For this, the lite version loses all the features that characterize the full-fledged premium variant: premium lite does not provide a possible way to download the videos, even the background playback on mobile advisers is missing. The music streaming service youtube music premium is also not part of the lite subscription.
Since version 5.5 of the content management system (cms) wordpress is possible to activate automatic updates not only for the cms itself, but also for plugins. Normally this is an optional configuration. In the case of the popular plugins loginizer, however, the wordpress team made an exception to the wordpress team: from safety reasons, she pushed loginizer 1.6.4 as compulsory updates to wp installations in which the plugin is installed. Admins potentially affected sites should nevertheless check whether the update has arrived at them.
Actually, the plugin loginizer, which is active in more than one million wp installations, has the task of protecting them from unauthorized login attempts. Among other things, it should ward off before brute force attacks by monitoring login experiments over certain ip addresses and blocking access when reaching a maximum access number. In the current case, however, a danger sql-injection bug in loginizer versions before 1.6.4 the complete login protection. An attacker had signed up without valid access data and thus can compromise the complete installation.
Prime minister valls once again invokes article 49.3 to prevent a more serious crisis
Labor law remains a difficult ie for french social democrats. According to the ps government, it was supposed to get the economy moving, encourage companies to hire more people by reducing redundancy hurdles and making the rules of the statutory 35-hour week more flexible. But it has become a project that is putting the brakes on the political careers of president hollande and prime minister valls.
The year 2020 and utopia vi
In almost all utopian designs and practical attempts, one characteristic runs like a red thread: the absence of private ownership of the means of production. Almost as a matter of course, utopian societies are built on a communist basis: as a rule, production is organized on a common-economy basis, private property is abolished. Utopia equals public economy. And thus light years away from the year 2020.
Russian president vladimir putin on sunday during the declaration of national mourning. Image: kremlin
Russia mourns its aleksandrov ensemble. An adviser to the ukrainian president mocked the 92 victims
The database provider mongodb has called together with google a new partnership that integrates the cloud offer mongodb atlas into the google cloud platform (gcp). The document-oriented database service gets direct integration into various services in the gcp as part of the partnership.
Mongodb atlas has been as well as managed service of the database for quite some time in the google cloud as in amazon web services and microsoft azure. Since october 2020, the database company also offers a multi-cloud cluster to distribute the database over multiple clouds.
The aprilia rsv4 couldn’t get off to a worse start in 2009. At the presentation on a racetrack in italy, the new v4 engines got stuck in rows and the manufacturer hectically canceled the press event. The statement that was published afterwards that it was pre-series models and the following series models were of course absolutely reliable, did not come across very credibly. In fact, the rsv4 has been stuck with the stigma of unreliability since then and prevents sales success.
The aprilia is now perhaps the best sports motorcycle in the world on the racetrack: ultra-handy, light, stable and extremely powerful, it regularly wins the comparison tests of relevant specialist magazines. The talent is not by chance, because aprilia developed the rsv4 systematically for use in the superbike world championship and won the title twice with max biaggi and once sylvain guintoli in the saddle.
The latest mp3 player from apple – as well as some devices of lesser known brands – can now also provide a picture to go with the sound. How useful this is for watching feature films remains to be seen – the opticians’ guild was allowed to rejoice. For short music videos or funny little movies from the net, which you want to show your friends without having to carry a computer, it’s enough. Only: how to get the movies into the ipod’s own video format??
Actually, it would be practical if the video ipod could play all common pc video formats – avi, quicktime, mpg, real video, flash, whether 160 x 100 or 640 x 480 pixels. But it does not. It must already mpeg4.264 in resolution 320 x 240 pixels with mpeg4 aac sound 48 khz and about 160 kbit.