WordPress Themes have to be GPL (Thesis etc.)
Well, my comment at the Thesis blog is “awaiting moderation” for over 2 weeks, so I guess it won’t happen anymore. Unsurprisingly so, I might add. The folks at Thesis are apparently, essentially, doing illegal things. The only reason why they can do it is because nobody sues them. First things first: WordPress themes are [...]
Konkordanz
This is a German post, the first one in this blog. Sorry to all my English readers. It is however an issue concerning strictly Swiss politics only, and one that I have trouble expressing in English, due to mainly the difficulty to translate the terms that have been thrown around in the political discussion lately. [...]
Samuel Schmid is leaving
Disclaimer: Swiss politics, so many links lead to German pages. Samuel Schmid, member of the Swiss Federal Council (Bundesrat), is stepping back as per December 31th, as he just announced 10am this morning. It was, as sad to say as it is, inevitable. The SVP, which was Schmids party until the end of last year, [...]
Swiss RFID Referendum: Nearly There!
We’re nearly there, but the referendum against biometric Swiss passports is still lacking 4’500 signatures, and there’s only a few days left. So if you haven’t printed, signed, and sent in a signature sheet yet, please do so now! In short, again, the reasons why I think biometric passports as per the current proposal are [...]
Stop RFID in Swiss Passports!
The Swiss government has decided that our passports, like a few before ours, should store data on RFID chips. Meaning, the following data would be stored in that chip: fingerprints a digital photograph all the data that’s also available in printed form (name, gender, date of birth, eye color, and so on) All this data [...]


