Over time more and more artists and creative minds understand the injustice and deadly intention of intellectual property rights and its juridical enforcements. It’s the culture creators how should be in power over their creation and not an established law industry and economy which leads to the destruction of culture in the end.
We come in peace, said the conquerers of the New World.
We come in peace, says the government, when it comes to colonise, regulate, and militarise the new digital world.
We come in peace, say the nation-state sized companies that have set out to monetise the net and chain the users to their shiny new devices.
We come in peace, we say as hackers, geeks and nerds, when we set out towards the real world and try to change it, because it has intruded into our natural habitat, the cyberspace. Let us explore each other’s truly peaceful intentions at this year’s Chaos Communication Congress 27C3 to be held from Monday December 27 to Thursday December 30, 2010 in Berlin, Germany.
I am very happy and proud, that Georg Greve, the former President of the Free Software Foundation Europe, was awarded with the German “Bundesverdienstkreuz” today.
I recently tested some of the new “features” that the lately released “iLife ’09” software of Apple is offering to their users. The new iPhoto ’09 for example offers Geo-tagging of your images, so that one can see when and where photos have been taken. This further leads to the assumption, that some tracker could abuse this data. If it’s Google or any other “big brother” who is watching you, we have to admit, that we’re living in the age of George Orwells “1984”.
Kind of funny was though messing around with the “face recognition” feature. I assorted some of my images in iPhoto and tagged the recognized faces with names, when suddenly iPhoto offered me the following proposal: (see picture).
The picture shows Mark Shuttleworth (Ubuntu) and Georg Greve
(FSF Europe) at the Linux Tag in Wiesbaden 2006. iLife ’09 suggests to tag the detected face of Georg Greve as “Richard Stallman”, which is kind of funny. 😉
I think personally think, that a machine, based on a binary structure, will never achieve the possibility of suggesting truly diversified ambiguities because it only may answer “yes” or “no” such as “1” and “0”. We’ll have to wait for Quantum-electronics that such things may happen…
The swiss military seems to own “cluster bombs“. Now, after an agreement in Oslo, our country has to destroy those bombs, that Switzerland has bought for an amount of SFR 670 Mio. Some fascist swiss militant militarist still think, that we need that ammunition to “keep the peace”. In what kind of world are we living? We consider to be a so called “neutral country”!
Watch the following report of swiss television (in german language):
“To be or not to be ….. french? german? european?”:
“Paris – Berlin”
To see a brilliant missunderstanding on the debate on “multicultural” mixtures and discourse on mixture of rasses, please watch the following record on arte TV
“The Washington Post” and “der Standard” have reported today, that chinese hackers have tried to break into tibetan activist organisations networks and computers to steal encryption keys. Encryption keys are used to sign and encrypt electronic messages like E-Mails. China operates the world’s largest and most restrictive “Firewall” to censor internet communication and obscure information. Further it is known that in China a certain hacker group called “Titan Rain”, that is most probably financed and supported by the chinese government has been attacking the Pentagon and the german “chancelor house. Many tibetan organisations and activists notice a higher amount on suspect trojans and viruses. But thanks to the operation of Free Software such as the GNU/Linux operation system and Free Sowftware applications, such as GnuPG for encryption and the Tor Project for anonymous internet, the damage has been kept low.
I urge tibetan activists, journalists and news reporters to use encryption technology to secure and assure internet communication. To bypass the chinese firewall (e.g. to access the internet from Lhasa) it is most advisable to use Tor or similar anonymiser software. (see my blog post from the 18th of march 2008).
Today the 24rd Chaos Communication Congress opened it’s doors. You can watch the talks on the following Streams. The recordings will be published after the congress and mirrored on my mirror.
The swiss Zopf is a bread traditionally baked on weekends for Sundays breakfast or “brunch“. Here is a simple howto and recipe, that is Licensed under GFDL 1.2 & CC-by-sa 3.0.
1 kg of white flour
120 g of butter
42 g of yeast
0.6 l of milk
3 teaspoons of salt
2 teaspoons of sugar
2 egg yolks
Fill the flour in a pot together with pieces of butter, the sugar and salt.
Dissolve the yeast in hand-warm Milk.
Fill the Milk (with dissolved yeast) into the pot.
Start mixing all together.
Knead the dough forcefully.
Put the dough back into the pot, cover it with a humid towel and let it arise double of it’s size.
After one hour take the dough out of the pot and cut it into two pieces (for one loaf of bread) or into 4 pieces (for 2 loaves of breads). Braid the dough like shown on the images.
Cover the bread with egg yolk.
Put it into the preheated oven for 50 Minutes with 180-200° C
