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Overheid oordeelt: E-sigaret ongevaarlijk
Keep Calm and Vape On
Volgens de Raad van State kleven aan het gebruik van een elektronische sigaret geen gevaareigenschappen, toch wordt over de e-sigaret hel en verdoemenis gepredikt. De landelijke brancheorganisatie Elektronische Sigaretten Bond Nederland spreekt van bewust demoniseren van de e-sigaret: “Hierdoor durven mensen de overstap naar de nagenoeg onschadelijke e-sigaret niet te maken, met als gevolg dat men blijft roken met alle gezondheidschade van dien.”
De Raad van State is van mening dat de elektronische sigaret minder schadelijk is dan de reguliere sigaret . Deze mening wordt gedeeld door ondermeer het KWF, Longfonds en Stivoro. Benadrukt wordt dat de e-sigaret goed gereguleerd dient te worden om de veiligheid te waarborgen en om de verkoop onder de 18 jaar te verbieden. De brancheorganisatie kan zich hier volledig in vinden. “Al sinds onze oprichting staat onze organisatie verkoop van e-sigaretten aan minderjarigen niet toe. Iets dat bij wet helaas nog steeds niet geregeld is. Liquids (de vloeistof voor in een e-sigaret) worden uitsluitend verkocht wanneer zij voorzien zijn van kindveilige sluitingen en juiste etikettering. Helaas is er momenteel een wildgroei aan webshops en aan verkopers op markten, zoals die in Beverwijk, die deze regels aan hun laars lappen. We mogen verwachten dat de overheid via de Nederlandse Voedsel en Waren Autoriteit haar verantwoordelijkheid hierin neemt en hier harder tegen optreedt”, aldus de brancheorganisatie.
Volgens recent onderzoek blijkt dat de elektronische sigaret minder verslavend is dan de tabaksigaret. Ook blijkt nicotine lang niet zo verslavend te zijn als dat men ons doet geloven. De Harvard School of Public Health publiceerde in 2012 al dat nicotine replacement therapies (NRTs), zoals nicotinepleisters en -kauwgum, niet effectief lijken te zijn om de roker op lange termijn te laten stoppen. Zelfs niet wanneer dit gecombineerd wordt met een stoppen met roken therapie.
De elektronische sigaret is daarin aanzienlijk succesvoller. Arts Philippe Presles, die onlangs een boek over de e-sigaret als therapie publiceerde, stelt zelfs: “Deze uitvinding zal verantwoordelijk zijn voor het redden van een recordaantal levens in de 21ste eeuw”.
Bron: ANP
Link: Overheid oordeelt: “E-sigaret ongevaarlijk”
Litecoin Donate Button
While reading stuff about Bitcoin, I learned that Bitcoin is not the only virtual currency out there. There are many more virtual currencies available, and one of them seems to be Litecoin. At the time of writing 1 Litecoin (LTC) is worth about $2,14 USD according to CryptoCoinCharts.
If I am informed correctly, mining of Litecoins on your consumer-PC should be easier than Bitcoins these days.
Quote from Litecoin.org:
One of the aims of Litecoin was to provide a mining algorithm that could run at the same time, on the same hardware used to mine bitcoins. With the rise of specialized ASICs for Bitcoin, Litecoin continues to satisify these goals. It is unlikely for FPGA or ASIC mining to take over Litecoin until the currency is widely used.
I was looking for a Litecoin donate button, but couldn’t find one that fast. So I started Photoshopping, and made one myself based on the Bitcoin donate button.
Litecoin Donate Button
Feel free to save this picture/button and post it on your own blog/website by right-clicking and selecting “Save image as..” or something similar. :-)
Update: To create a working button from this image, add the following piece of javascript to your blog/website. You only have to modify the fields <put your Litecoin address here> by replacing it with your own Litecoin address, and the URL to the button image src=”./litecoindonate.png” with the path to the button image on your server.
Credits go to homepage of Leo Bogert for designing this snippet :-)
Bitcoin Donations: Buy me a Beer
Hello there, lately I started to dig myself into the world of Bitcoin. I started reading articles/tutorials about this digital currency to find out what’s it all about.
Because I am interested in new technologies and applaud innovations, I am excited to see where this all ends.
As of today, I have added a Bitcoin Donate button on my blog. If you are enjoying the software tools I have made and published, feel free to send a (small) Bitcoin donation. By clicking the Bitcoin donate button in the sidebar, you’ll see a pop-up window containing the Bitcoin address, ready for you to copy/paste in your Bitcoin Wallet software.
If you also like the idea of Bitcoin and it’s possibilities and want to “buy me a beer”, go ahead! :-)
[Release] Qt Minecraft Server v0.1.0
After receiving positive feedback on my tool Spotweb Filter Creator, I decided to start developing my next application.
This time, it’s something completely different.
Well Minecraft fans, I present to you: Qt Minecraft Server :-)
With Qt Minecraft Server you can manage your own Minecraft Server with a Graphical User Interface, instead of the Terminal.
The official Minecraft Server package (.jar) can be downloaded from within Qt Minecraft Server.
It’s also possible to edit and save the server.properties file inside the application.
At the moment, the Windows version of Qt Minecraft Server is already available for download from the Qt Minecraft Server project page.
Linux versions will be available soon.
Edit: Linux versions are also available now, I’ve built the Linux versions with Ubuntu 12.10 32-bit (x86) and Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit (x86_64).
Below you’ll see a screenshot of Qt Minecraft Server.
And last but not least, as always, the source code is available on GitHub.
[Release] Spotweb Filter Creator 0.4.0
Spotweb Filter Creator 0.4.0 has been released.
Two new languages have been added to this release, German and French.
Below is a screenshot of the German version, running in Linux Mint 14 (nadia).
Also the mechanism to load the translations is now much more dynamic than it was before.
This is a little bit techy stuff, but Spotweb Filter Creator doesn’t need a recompile anymore when just adding new languages.
The available languages are now defined in the spotwebfc.lng file instead of hardcoded into the source code.
For those that are interested, I’ve uploaded the translations to Transifex: Click here.
The translation project is “Free For All”, so feel free to contribute if you want Spotweb Filter Creator translated in your own native language :-)
Downloads for Windows, Linux and Raspberry Pi are available at the Spotweb Filter Creator project page.
Spotweb Filter Creator @ Raspberry Pi!
Today, I’ve managed to build a version of Spotweb Filter Creator for the Raspberry Pi.
I’ve built and tested it on the recommended OS: Raspbian Wheezy.
To download and install Raspbian Wheezy, visit the downloads section of the Raspberry Pi website: http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads
For the Raspberry Pi owners who want to play around with it, head over to the Spotweb Filter Creator project page, and download the RPi version.
[Release] Spotweb Filter Creator 0.3.0
Today, Spotweb Filter Creator 0.3.0 has been released.
This is a bug-fix release. With the previous version, it was possible in some scenarios to get filter items with non-unique ID’s. This would confuse Spotweb when uploading the filters, and some sub-filters could be appended to the wrong top filter, when working with nested filter items.
I also added a spotwebfc.sh wrapper script for the Linux version to make it possible to start Spotweb Filter Creator even if the Qt libraries are not installed on the system. By starting Spotweb Filter Creator with spotwebfc.sh, the bundled Qt libraries in the “lib” folder will be loaded.
Downloads are available at the Spotweb Filter Creator project page.
