Author Archives: Andreas Wernitznig

About Andreas Wernitznig

I was born in Klagenfurt and live in Vienna/Austria since 1989. I am a data scientist at a large pharma company.

Popular outrage

Why we should not tolerate US remote executions by drones. The drone papers were already published three month ago. They describe how American drones kill more than a thousand people in Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia. The victims and their friends … Continue reading

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Knowledge is key

In the last couple of days I attended a clinical cancer conference. I learned a lot about the clinical practice for this terrible disease and also about careless data protection habits. As we learned from our tweeting hero, the connection … Continue reading

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No conflict of interest

The discussion about net-neutrality is currently in its hot phase. It looks like net-neutrality lost and it’s even unclear, if this decision has been make some time ago as a deal between the Internet Service Provider (ISP) and the Council … Continue reading

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Achievements of Civilisation

Living in peace in my country is a privilege, I can not appreciate enough. Civil wars in Syria, Iraq, Nigeria and several other places in the world, are horrible. Cruelty of the soldiers involved and the terrible consequences of their … Continue reading

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No excuses

At my birthday last week, I got a fantastic new laptop. It’s a Lenovo Yoga 3 pro. To be honest it was originally a Macbook pro, but I could replace it with the mentioned model. The main reason, why I … Continue reading

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Simple minds

Recently I got a request from the business contacts platform linkedin, asking if I might share all my email addresses and passwords with them. They want automatically go through my mail account’s address books to find new contacts for me. … Continue reading

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The world is changing

It has been a while since my last post in January this year. In the meantime lots of things changed in the online world. The naive part of the population (including me) realized, that the secret services around the world … Continue reading

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Free press – required in 2013 ?

In the 17th and 18th century, the Age of enlightenment, intellectual interchange of topics of public interest, like social developments and science, became an important achievement. Throughout the centuries, people were fighting for its preservation and broadening to other fields. … Continue reading

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Fly me to the moon

From time to time I take an airplane to bring me to my holiday destination or to a conference. Usually everything goes smooth an easy, even though transatlantic flights are getting more tiresome lately. However, there seems to be a … Continue reading

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Nice browser plugin against web bugs

Recently I stumbled over a nice plugin for most common webbrowsers. Ghostery detects and controls hidden elements embedded in web pages, which collect data about the users browsing habbits. There is a nice wikipedia page about it, too. Tools like … Continue reading

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