Vor kurzem bin ich durch Markey zufällig auf einen Artikel gestoßen, der sich mit der Arbeit des Biologen Anthony Cashmore auseinandersetzt. Er vertritt die Ansicht, dass es den freien Willen nicht gibt. Jede Entscheidung und Handlung basiert auf der Genetik, das Umfeld sowie einer Portion Stochastik. Das Bewusstsein ist die Wahrnehmung bzw. Reflektion des unbewusst gesteuerten Handelns.

Dabei werden noch weitere Aspekte verknüpft: Das Bewusstsein sei eine evolutionäre Entwicklung, die uns den freien Willen vorgaukelt, um Verantwortung zu fühlen und somit das Leben in einer Gemeinschaft als auch als Individuum führen zu können.

When I started in SEO business almost have a year ago, I have been shunt into Matt Cutts, head of Google's webspam team. Reading his blog articles, i did not only get insights into Google, but also in his person. I got to know, that he starts challenges which would endure 30 days, usually. For one of those, he decided to switch from Windows to Ubuntu, and he eventually he kept using it. The latest challenge was to replace his iPhone with Android based Nexus One, and he does not seem to roll back, too.

In our time, when everything is, goes and is going to be more and more web based, my impression is that many users do not think about where they put their data, how secure the provider is and which control they have. Especially with the rise of software-as-a-service models you need to be sure to know what happens with your data, somewhere in the cloudy somewhat. Who is you email provider and who can read your mails? Are there Backdoors? Should i upload my pictures to flickr? Where can i safely send private and possibly sensitive messages?

Read the english version over at SF0

Beim 26C3 habe ich diesen Flyer in die Hand gedrückt bekommen und entschloss mich dieses Real-Life Spiel auszuprobieren. Ich habe alleine angefangen und habe den ersten Checkpoint zu Fuß über die Französische Straße erreicht, nachdem ich wenige Minuten nach dem Start einen Jäger hinter mich gelassen habe. Er hat mich anscheinend gar nicht gesehen :)

Die nächste knifflige Situation musste ich an der U-Bahn Station Oranienburger Tor überleben. Zwei Jäger stiegen nicht weit hinter mir aus dem Zug, so dass ich flott zum Ausgang bin, wo an der Straßenecke ein weiterer Jäger war, dem ich einfach durch Rennen davonkam.

Can this be? The fourth day now? Time is going much too fast. Anyway, this day was a great final for this excellent event.

Relevance discussion in German Wikipedia

Two core Wikipedia contributors have been invited to take part in a debate in the long running and currently peaking relevance discussion in Wikipedia. They were Kurt Jansson, associated with exclusionists, and Mathias Schindler, associated with inclusionists. And additionally there was Tim Weber, founder of the Levitation-project, which aims to provide personal and VCS-based Wikipedias. Beside them, Martin Haase and Fefe were in the podium as well as Andreas Bogk who did the moderation.

Today was a seat fighting day, because the year reviews (especially the Fnord) as well as the lectures about DECT and PKI are hot spots, which also lead to the strategic decision to go to the Manufacturing-talk and save a seat for Fnord (absolutely wise decision).

Review of 2009, Part I

Todays upbeat was the review of the passing year 2009 in Chaos Computer Club's point of view. Andy Müller-Maguhn, Constanze Kurz, Frank Rieger and Martin Haase gave a chronological overview of the remarkable events of this year. Besides events as Hacking at Random and the first performance of SIGINT in Cologne, many law topics has been pointed at, e.g. the adjudgement regarding voting machines or the enactment regarding the voting pen of Hamburg. Another sad point, which did not affect CCC directly, was the dramatic suicide of the 20year old, who crawled publicy available data from schuelerVZ. In this case some background details have been mentioned.