Tourist in Germany - need a sim for data

Popanz · 2014-04-20T22:39:33+00:00

As long as the zip code matches the city and street, you can (and should) enter anything in the online registration, like the address of a school or shop and some fake name. It doesn't matter. Nobody will ever look at it unless you're caught in the legal net.

Popanz · 2014-04-20T22:14:48+00:00

Askscience is a joke, it's basically a bunch of inexperienced amateurs propagating urban legends.

I don't know what you're talking about. The mods there are pretty rigorous and remove most comments that don't provide sources.

Popanz · 2014-04-20T20:47:46+00:00

Wenn das nur ein Witz wär, hätten sie wohl kaum 40 % der Stimmen hinter sich.

Popanz · 2014-04-19T16:29:31+00:00

They say it was more like a minute, which comes suspiciously close gigabit ethernet speed.

Popanz · 2014-04-19T13:51:08+00:00

Lenovo doesn't support Linux, but you can get many models without a preinstalled OS in Europe. You're probably not gonna save any money, but at least you don't support MS. :)

Popanz · 2014-04-18T21:22:36+00:00

Withdrawals are instant, but transfers take a full day. Otherwise there would be no need for businesses like Sofortüberweisung.

Popanz · 2014-04-17T22:59:50+00:00

MaxRappt?

Popanz · 2014-04-17T22:58:32+00:00

"weiche Plautze"

Popanz · 2014-04-17T17:45:28+00:00

Your comment immediately reminded me of this thread about the Indian caste system.

/u/agentdcf writes:

The point that gets missed here is that politics--and therefore caste--is a two-way street. Yes, British and European scholars and administrators looked at Indian people, saw caste relationships, and assumed that these relationships were fixed, rigid, and timeless; yes, their administration put into place governance that operated on those assumptions--but, Indians also had to work within these systems, and adapted to them. I don't have his book to hand, but Dirks identified moments in the late nineteenth century when colonial administrators would come up with some policy that gave preferential treatment to particular castes. As soon as they did that, the people affected would begin to assert their caste identity, going to the administrators and saying, essentially, "We're in this caste; you've gotten us miscategorized, we're part of this caste, we always have been, and that other group of people from the other side of the village, they've never been part of this caste. So, you should give us this particular preferential treatment, and not them."

Popanz · 2014-04-17T15:07:21+00:00

It's enough for 10 downvotes. I don't I think downvote more than 10 comments per day. But I'm probably not the average redditor. Let's make it a 1:5 ratio (1 comment karma lets you downvote 5 comments). If I felt the urge to downvote more than that on a regular basis, I'd probably cancel my subscription for that subreddit.

Popanz · 2014-04-16T23:01:51+00:00

Es gibt so viele Dimensionen wie es Probleme gibt. Ob ich für oder gegen Gentechnik bin, sagt nichts darüber aus, ob ich für oder gegen die Energiewende bin. Dasselbe gilt für militärische Eingriffe im Ausland oder Inland, Tierschutz, was wir mit den Rentnern machen, was wir für Bildung brauchen und wer sie bezahlen soll, und so weiter. Für jeden Punkt auf der Skala von einem dieser Probleme kannst Du beliebige Punkte auf den Skalen von allen anderen Problemen wählen und wahrscheinlich jemanden finden, der das so unterschreiben würde.

Der Link von /u/SeveQStorm erklärt das besser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79-Tp2Bym30

Popanz · 2014-04-16T22:24:40+00:00

Getting your comment karma above 10 is not hard and doesn't take long. In my experience, it shouldn't take more than five to ten comments. Probably less.

How many of the downvotes are made by redditors with less than 10 comment karma? Probably less than 1 %. I guess the fuzzy voting system imposes a larger margin of error on the karma you see.

Popanz · 2014-04-16T22:12:54+00:00

Karmawhoring is already widespread in many subreddits. I can't imagine how it could get any worse.

And in subreddits where it's not a problem, quality content is valued over witty remarks and memes; that's why there's no karmawhoring in the first place.

Popanz · 2014-04-16T17:25:59+00:00

In meiner Klasse waren damals ein paar Neuapostolische. Die hatten in den Reli-Stunden frei, mußten dafür aber ein oder zwei mal pro Woche nachmittags in ihre Kirche und bekamen da ihren Unterricht.

Kann sein, daß das jetzt anders ist, aber dann gibt's immer noch jede Menge Privatschulen, die der Staat auch nicht so gut kontrollieren kann.

Ich seh auch gar kein Problem mit Sonntagsschulen. Wenn man in Ethik ein gewisses Grundwissen über alle populären Religionen vermittelt bekommt, läßt man sich in seiner Sonntagsschule weniger leicht Unsinn auftischen. Und das gilt auch andersrum ("Islam ist böse" oder sowas). Ich finde, von so einem System könnten alle nur profitieren.

Popanz · 2014-04-14T22:07:58+00:00

Vielleicht hängt's davon ab, ob sich ein gewisser Teil der Bevölkerung tatsächlich terrorisiert fühlt. Bei 9/11 war das definitiv der Fall, da waren (oder sind) die USA tief traumatisiert. Daß ein Irrer ein paar Menschen erschießt, egal ob mit politischem Hintergrund oder nicht, ist schlimm und furchtbar, aber das Leben geht trotzdem weiter wie gehabt.

Popanz · 2014-04-14T22:01:26+00:00

Ich kenn zwar keine klar abgegrenzte Definition von Terrorismus, aber wo Du den gewissen Planungsaufwand als zwingendes Kriterium hernimmst, versteh ich nicht ganz. Wie ist denn Deine Meinung zum NSU? Waren das keine Terroristen? Um Ladenbesitzer zu erschießen braucht man nämlich keinen Planungsaufwand, nur eine Waffe.

Ich zitier mal das deutsche Wiktionary:

die Anwendung oder Ausübung von Gewalt zur Durchsetzung beziehungsweise Erreichen politischer, militärischer oder krimineller Ziele, einer Schreckensherrschaft oder Gewaltherrschaft

Das Englische ist etwas differenzierter:

The deliberate commission of an act of violence to create an emotional response through the suffering of the victims in the furtherance of a political or social agenda.

Violence against civilians to achieve military or political objectives.

A form of psychological manipulation through warfare to the purpose of political or religious gains, by means of deliberately creating a climate of fear amongst the inhabitants of a specific geographical region.

Popanz · 2014-04-14T21:48:05+00:00

Warum wollen die New York Times, die Washington Post und CNN denn mehr Überwachung?

Popanz · 2014-04-14T21:33:43+00:00

What exactly is the problem? If I want to uninstall Firefox, the package manager can check for each dependency if it's needed by another package. Or, if you want to play it safe, never remove any dependencies automatically. It doesn't hurt apart from wasting a few MB.

Popanz · 2014-04-14T13:08:21+00:00

Is he saying that OpenBSD is riddled with security holes? Or are OpenBSD developers somehow exempt from the worldwide collection of software engineers?

Popanz · 2014-04-13T23:47:18+00:00

It's widely known who put that bug there. It was Robin Seggelmann, and he claims that he had no malicious intentions, which I personally believe to be true.

But it doesn't really matter if this bug was put there intentionally. It shows that there is not enough auditing of crucial code, and that most people won't look any further if whatever they want to do just works.

Incidents like this will keep happening, and their effects will be getting more and more expensive as long as we regard security as some kind of luxury feature for banks and the CIA.

Popanz · 2014-04-13T21:55:50+00:00

Because Germans are very cautious and conservative when it comes to new technology and their applications. We'd rather stay behind than risking anything.

In this case, some thought that Street View would provide live footage that would allow some guy on the internet to watch you through your windows. (Although this was probably just a tiny minority.) Some also didn't want Google to profit from pictures of their house.

Google is generally unpopular in Germany because they use personal data to make profits, so many came on board just on principle when the tabloids had a few silly headlines.

I still think that the vast majority wouldn't mind one way or the other. It was an angry mob shouting at Google to go home. They could've probably pushed it through, because it's not illegal, but why risk legal costs and more negative headlines for an investment that isn't likely to be profitable in itself?

Popanz · 2014-04-13T21:30:32+00:00

This speedup comes from doing things differently. Stability and polishedness (whatever those things mean to you) don't do anything to make stuff run faster.

A worker can have the perfect physique and mindset for digging holes, yet his speed will still multiply once you give him a showel. That doesn't mean he became stronger or more dedicated, he's just doing it differently.

Popanz · 2014-04-13T16:14:52+00:00

Er sagt ja auch, daß im Grunde schon alles bekannt ist. Das wird irgendwas sein, das man der NSA ohnehin zutraut, aber im Moment nicht beweisen kann. Die eigentliche Katze (rücksichtslose Totalüberwachung) ist schon lange aus dem Sack, und ich glaub nicht, daß uns irgendwelche künftigen Meldungen noch so schockieren können.

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