hanno’s Comments

• Oct 7th, 2012 @ 1:22pm

  Gangnam and region blocking (as Hanno)

  on Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
  Funny enough when I clicked the first gangnam video link I saw I got a message that I can't see it due to the GEMA not allowing me to see it in Germany. (however it wasn't the original, but some live recording - I think the original is available)
  
  I seem to live in a country that's especially crappy when it comes to copyright issues...
• Sep 26th, 2012 @ 9:13am

  Calorie restriction likely doesn't prolong life (as Hanno)

  on DailyDirt: Defying Nature -- The Quest For A Longer Life And Eternal Youth
  Just recently new research results likely indicate that calorie restriction probably won't prolong live in monkeys, making it likely that it won't work in humans as well.
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/aug/29/calorie-restriction-ageing-monkey-study
  
  Whic h is kind of sad, as I was about to jump on and try it out. Still there's nothing wrong with calorie restriction, as the monkeys in the study seemed to live healthier than the control group - and obesity is definitely a risk of dying unneccessary early. But it probably won't prolong your life as it does in rats and worms.
• Apr 28th, 2012 @ 2:53am

  Love that Douglas Adams quote (as Hanno)

  on Why Do We Celebrate The 'Solitary' Experience Of Books But Decry The Social Experience Of Online Social Media?
  Do you have the original source of the D. Adams quote? Didn't find it on a first try on google.
  
  Although.. I'm already 31... Have to think which technology from the last 1,5 years I find introducing the end of civilization ;-)
• Apr 18th, 2012 @ 1:44am

  Hydrogen and Methane (as Hanno)

  on DailyDirt: Storing Up Energy For A Rainy Day...
  What's currently gaining a lot of attention in Germany is the technology to transform electricity into hydrogen or methane.
  
  The advantage: It can be put into the natural gas grid which is already there with lots of storage facilities. It can take up to 5 percent hydrogen (and there are discussions if it could be much more with slight technology changes). Methane can be put into the grid in an unlimited amount.
  
  The disadvantage: It's relatively expensive and inefficient.
  
  Enertrag, one of the companies engaged in it, has some english info:
  https://www.enertrag.com/en/project-development/hybrid-power-plant.html
• Jul 7th, 2011 @ 10:35am

  Agree, but addition (as Hanno)

  on Shouldn't Free Mean The Same Thing Whether Followed By 'Culture' Or 'Software'?
  Hi, I completely agree with what you wrote and I sometimes think it was the biggest mistake of the free culture movement to accept the cc licensing concept of restrictions.
  
  However, I would go one step further: I'd like to free culture even more and reject any restrictions like (legally required) attribution and share-alike. The reason? I could name a couple, but my main one would be: The freedom to mix. If you have two licenses that anyone would consider free in terms of the four freedoms (e. g. FDL and cc-by-sa, or GPL2 + GPL3), it can still be forbidden to create something new out of two "free" things. I find that very non-free. Thus I mainly release under CC-zero (which is, for those who don't know, a legal text for public domain-alike licensing).