Das Buch Wer mitmacht, hat Recht!

Bayerns Familienministerin Christa Stewens hat kindersichere Internetzugänge gefordert. Frei zugängliche gewaltverherrlichende, rechtsextremistische oder pornographische Inhalte hätten im Internet nichts verloren, sagte die CSU-Politikerin [...].
Jugendschutz.net, die Kontrollstelle der Bundesländer für Jugendschutz im Internet, habe 2007 über 2600 Verstöße gegen den Jugendschutz erfasst.
Bei Seiten, die im Ausland betrieben werden, funktionierten die Kontrollmechanismen aber nicht. Hier seien die Internet-Provider in Deutschland in der Pflicht. (dpa)

— Quelle: heise.de newsticker

Harte Drogen im Spiel?

JA WIE HOCH IST DENN BITTE DER WOECHENTLICHE KOKSBEDARF UNSERER POLITIKER?!
Anders kann ich mir die total rueckstaendige Ansichtsweise und Aeusserungen die meiner Ansicht nach nur Schnappsideen sein koennen garnicht erklaeren.
Es entzieht sich meines Verstaendnisses wie sich jemand “im Namen des Jugendschutzes” an allen muendigen Deutschen vergehen kann und sich damit noch profiliert?

Wenn man keine Moeglichkeit hat mit sinnvollen Beitraegen auf sich aufmerksam zu machen, Frau Stewens, dann sollte man ABTRETEN und das Amt an jemanden abgeben der FAEHIG ist klar zu denken!

Die Eltern Sind in Der Pflicht!

It looks like the fifth submarine cable has been cut.

Are there still people out there calling this a conspiracy or accidents?
I hope not.

Take my advice: Stop Now, People Start Noticing!

<sarcasm>
The terrible techno-terrorists have no internet.
The war on terror is won!
Everyone go back to bed.
Your government is doing a great job.
</sarcasm>

Who’s next in line?
Any takers?
North Korea?
Anyone?

From what I hear, the demand for people experienced in cutting submarine cables is quite high at the moment.
I smell big business.
Joint ventures with submarine cable repair companies would be win-win.
I’m sure the US can supply plenty of contractors to mess up the job.

After someone compared my sarcasm and irony spiked view of world politics with poetry I felt like getting down and dirty, jumping onto the haiku bandwagon.

Oil Trade In Euro
The Big One Will Not Like You
Brings Democracy

I kinda like it, even tho I’m not exactly known for being a haiku fan ;-)

I just hope my inner crystal ball is wrong in what I foresee for Iran’s near future.
It already happened once, they came, liberated, brought democracy, and found it to be so cozy there, that they’re still in the neighborhood.

If you don’t know what I’m talking about, [insert your deity here] may help us all.

I was just posting how Iran got conveniently (partly?) cut off the Net four hours ago.

But now there’s even more!

Here’s the stuff to fuel the conspiracy:
US plan to launch Cyber Storm 2 early March.

Just let me quote some of the nicer key points of Cyber Storm 2:

• Imagined villains include hackers, bloggers and even reporters.
• Multi target attacks:
  1. Hacker break-ins at an airline
  2. stolen commercial software blueprints
  3. problems with satellite navigation systems
  4. trouble with police radios in Montana
  5. school closures in Washington
  6. Miami and New York
  7. computer failures at border checkpoints

What has this to do with Iran?

I sincerely hope nothing at all.
But be aware of the fact that on 9/11 there were large terrorist attack drills² happening during the attacks that “confused” the officials.
Coincidence! You say.
Well, there also were mock attacks staged during the 7/7 London bombings³.

9/11, 7/7, 3/x ?

Now they’ve scheduled a large cyber war drill for early March this year, and conveniently, just in time, Iran is offline.
No chance of grass-roots reporting, blogging, direct and unfiltered news from Iran.

If there were something to happen that seems like terrorist attacks and the government later uses it to start something ‘funny’...
...Come back and read this post.

History repeating.

¹ Politblog.net – Das Internet unter Beschuss

² 9/11 drills

³ 7/7 drills

The recent panic about lithium batteries being banned by the TSA/DOT is most likely totally overrated.

All Li-Batteries are banned?
No more spare MP3 player or camera battery on planes?

Wrong!

Read the whole article for some facts and simple checks to see if you’re batteries are fine.

Ever felt like complaining about an election?

Soon you won’t even be able to!
Right here, in good old Germany.

Hell yeah!
Let’s get rid¹ of this nasty law that allows hearing of complaints from the commission overlooking elections.
Why?
“Because it wasn’t really used in the past anyways.”

BEST.
REASON.
EVER.

Let’s get rid of German democracy next.
Guess what:
It hasn’t been used a lot lately!

¹ Deutscher Bundestag: Aenderung Wahlpruefungsgesetz [16/7463]

Imagine:
You and your first love, both of you age 17, enjoy a movie at the theater together, well, you also feel up on your girlfriend, maybe even touch hear breasts.

• Nothing special?
• Boring?
• Reality is far more ‘sexy’ than that?

Answered any of these with a yes? Beware!
German legislators did all the moral math for you³.
From now on it’ll be SIMPLE.
This will be a felony and you will be sentenced to spend some quality time in prison.

Read on to get all the details, including a list of every-day stuff that will get you prison time.

Deutschland wach werden!

Falls ihr es noch nicht wisst: Wir sind im Krieg. So hat es zwar noch niemand hochoffiziell genannt, aber das ist laut Herrn Schäuble nur Pipifax und eine Frage der Semantik.
Krieg in Deutschland ist im Jahre 2007 also eine Frage der Bedeutungslehre. Definiert man Bedeutung als den Inhalt, der sich aus der Relation zwischen Zeichen und Welt ergibt, heißt dies im Klartext: Ob du das Krieg nennst oder nicht, ist nur eine Frage der Definition.

Erstaunlich zu welchen intellektuellen Verrenkungen Herr Schäuble bereit ist…

...sprachlos…

Symbolic actions can be harmful.
Take for instance the Licht aus! Fuer unser Klima (“Lights off! For our climate”) event about to happen Saturday 8th Dec 2007 from 8:00 PM to 8:05 PM.

What’s the deal?
Why exactly is it harmful?
Who would be stupid enough to…?
Why are people participating total morons?
How can you really make a difference?

Find out after the jump.

Germany’s democracy just fell victimg to a classic lemming maneuver.
A formal request (read: “we sued them”) to make the testing protocols (which were the basis of approval for the Nedap voting machines) public was just denied by a German court.
Reasons? “Intellectual Property”.

And that’s even tho they are kown and proven to be as insecure as you can possibly imagine.
That reads “insecure” as in: “let’s accumulate security holes and sell them in an ugly gray box”.
Here’s a page of a Dutch activist group that also proved the blatant insecurities of the Nedap system.

Read the rest of the article after the jump!