tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-172377692024-03-07T09:54:48.060+01:00konrad's considerations... for your considerationKonrad Förstnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03934644279917687337noreply@blogger.comBlogger221125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17237769.post-75243463311365921452010-07-04T19:11:00.000+02:002010-07-04T19:14:24.486+02:00Another moveDespite the fact that nobody should follow this feed anymore: The blog moved again. Now you can find it at <a href="http://thedaoofflow.fluxionary.net/">http://thedaoofflow.fluxionary.net/</a>Konrad Förstnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03934644279917687337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17237769.post-25612147047778278722008-06-23T09:59:00.000+02:002008-06-23T10:00:10.335+02:00Konrad's considerations moved - update your RSS readersI finally moved my blog so please update your bookmarks and RSS readers: The new URL is <a href="http://konrad.foerstner.org/blog/">http://konrad.foerstner.org/blog/</a><br /><br />The design is not yet set up properly and there will be a change of the categories, but I am very busy these days and want to avoid to post here and in the new blog.Konrad Förstnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03934644279917687337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17237769.post-51326301365069136852008-06-03T18:08:00.004+02:002008-06-04T09:05:03.396+02:00DiSo - the distributed social networkThe <a href="http://diso-project.org/">DiSo project</a> is a promising attempt to create a distributed social network - so is not following the "silo" approach as other social networks do. The <a href="http://diso-project.org/blog/">blog</a> of the project offers a <a href="http://diso-project.org/2008/06/02/interview-with-chris-messina-about-diso-by-david-cohn/">short (4 min) introductionary video</a> in which <span class="author vcard"><a href="http://factoryjoe.com/">Chris Messina</a></span> explains the vision and ideas behind this solution. The project will make use of open standards like OpenID, XMPP and different microformats. <a href="http://code.google.com/p/diso/">Code is available</a> as open source. Really looking forward to see this stuff in action soon.Konrad Förstnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03934644279917687337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17237769.post-72171858318665779292008-05-01T15:30:00.002+02:002008-05-04T23:01:28.946+02:00The WWW is not the InternetYes, maybe I am little bit too nitpicky, but this bugs me: April 30th 1993 the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Www">World Wide Web</a> became officially accessible for the general public and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libwww">libwww</a> became open source. Some media saw this as a reason to celebrate yesterday the 15th birthday of the WWW. Due to this "birthday" I stumbled across a common mistake more often then usually: Mixing up WWW with the Internet.<br /><br />The WWW is not the Internet!<br /><br />As an analogy - a car is not a highway. The WWW is one of many internet-based services like email, IRC or p2p networks. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet">Internet</a> is the underlying network that is using the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Protocol" title="Internet Protocol">Internet Protocol</a> (IP). I personally would like to see a little bit more awareness of this issue.Konrad Förstnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03934644279917687337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17237769.post-31943468444513317802008-05-01T11:52:00.004+02:002008-05-01T12:10:43.952+02:00OpenBSD 4.3 releasedAfter 6 months of hard work the <a href="http://openbsd.org/">OpenBSD project</a> released <a href="http://openbsd.org/43.html">version 4.3</a> of the great, (non-)fishy operating system. As usually there is a collection of <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2008/04/29/puffy-and-the-crytonauts-whats-new-in-openbsd-43.html?CMP=OTC-6YE827253101&ATT=Puffy+and+the+Cryptonauts+What+s+New+in+OpenBSD+4+3">micro-interviews with some of the developers</a> about new features at the <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/bsd/">O'Reilly's BSD DevCenter</a>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPEN7YSl39rEvj0KKzU72qE5DoqOVIoi2Q93QAOSXTPvftLqD_1Rs4tKh0a8kNw49t3W-i-bvgdCgn9-iBixzVFDnpfg3rd7qhrjG_ZPObNqKtu6OCyNbEUq5anOp-5JrOZ_Q51g/s1600-h/Cryptonaut.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPEN7YSl39rEvj0KKzU72qE5DoqOVIoi2Q93QAOSXTPvftLqD_1Rs4tKh0a8kNw49t3W-i-bvgdCgn9-iBixzVFDnpfg3rd7qhrjG_ZPObNqKtu6OCyNbEUq5anOp-5JrOZ_Q51g/s320/Cryptonaut.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5195347421013349554" border="0" /></a>Konrad Förstnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03934644279917687337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17237769.post-53598154132374501412008-04-23T19:51:00.005+02:002008-04-23T20:10:12.137+02:00Ready to register - The 10th International EMBL PhD SymposiumThis year the well known <a href="http://www.phdsymposium.embl.org/">EMBL PhD Symposium</a> will cover fields belonging to the topic "Decision Making in Biology - Nature at the Crossroads" and you can already register. It is still some time until October (23rd - 25th) so the program is not yet available but the <a href="http://www.phdsymposium.embl.org/speakers.html">list of speakers</a> looks very promising.Konrad Förstnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03934644279917687337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17237769.post-50712377008683798102008-03-28T11:24:00.004+01:002008-03-28T11:44:52.172+01:00Blossum62 error - Never stop questioningOutch! Styczynski et al. [1] found an <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nbt0308-274">error in the BLOSSUM62</a> - THE substitution matrix used since 16 years in bioinformatics for protein database searches.<br /><br />Lessons learned:<br /><ul><li>Don't stop questioning even fundamental laws/tools/assumptions/etc.</li><li>Transparency - in bioinformatics the access to the source code and the data - is essential for proper science</li></ul><br />[Via <a href="http://suicyte.wordpress.com/2008/03/27/strange-paper-i/">Suicyte Notes</a>]<br /><br />[1] <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nbt0308-274">BLOSUM62 miscalculations improve search performance</a>. Styczynski MP, Jensen KL, Rigoutsos I, Stephanopoulos G <span style="font-style: italic;">Nat Biotechnol.</span> 2008 Mar ; 26(3): 274-5Konrad Förstnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03934644279917687337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17237769.post-22511590396640155822008-03-25T10:13:00.004+01:002008-03-25T10:31:47.610+01:00Petition - Open the GCG and SeqLab code<a href="http://bio.fsu.edu/%7Estevet/cv.html">Steven M. Thompson</a> has initiated a <a href="http://www.petitiononline.com/gcg/petition.html">petition</a> to make <a href="http://accelrys.com/">Accelrys</a>' GCG and SeqLab available under an open source software. He wants to prevent the loss of these bioinformatics tool sets after Accelrys' recent decision to stop the support and development of them.Konrad Förstnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03934644279917687337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17237769.post-21339758158792600842008-03-10T09:43:00.003+01:002008-03-10T09:56:30.977+01:00Synthetic biology against global warming and energy crisis<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Venter">Craig Venter</a> gave a talk at the <a href="http://www.ted.com/pages/view/id/48">TED conference</a> this year in which he presented a synthetic biology approach to create an organism that might solve two major problems of mankind: The increasing CO<sub>2</sub> concentration in the atmosphere and limited fuel resources. Venter claimed that the project will take further 18 month. The <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/227">video</a> of the talk is now available.Konrad Förstnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03934644279917687337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17237769.post-64224074334678701632008-03-08T16:31:00.003+01:002008-03-08T16:46:25.066+01:00The iTOL toolbar for Firefox<a href="http://www.embl-heidelberg.de/%7Eletunic">Ivica</a> just created a <a href="http://itol.embl.de/help/toolbar.shtml">Firefox toolbar for iTOL</a> which might be handy if you manage your phylogenetic trees with this cool web tool.<br /><br />(Yes, looks like I became the unofficial announcer of new tools etc. from the Bork group) ... that wasn't planned.)Konrad Förstnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03934644279917687337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17237769.post-73403111076265412232008-03-08T16:22:00.003+01:002008-03-08T16:30:26.372+01:00Bio::Blogs 19 - A look at Bioengineering<a href="http://duncan.hull.name/">Duncan</a> is hosting the <a href="http://duncan.hull.name/2008/03/07/bioblogs-19-bioengineering/">19th Bio::Blogs issue</a> and wrote down some thoughts about bioengineering.<br /><br />Pedro will take care of the next one <a href="http://pbeltrao.blogspot.com/2008/03/bioblogs-19-bioengineering.html">that might cover data integration</a>.Konrad Förstnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03934644279917687337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17237769.post-22958244568598368452008-03-04T22:31:00.004+01:002008-03-04T22:54:13.770+01:00Good physics phun<a href="http://www.acc.umu.se/%7Eemilk/index.html">Phun</a> - <span style="font-style: italic;">A fun 2D physics sandbox by Emil Ernerfeldt</span> - seems to be an awesome program that can be a black hole for planned working hours. You can draw physical objects and switch on gravity and friction etc. Have a look at the <a href="http://www.acc.umu.se/%7Eemilk/media.html">video</a>. It reminds me on the video <a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZNTgglPbUA">MIT sketching</a> which showed a more natural interface (draw your stuff on a board and make it run) but is less powerful. Phun is not (yet) open source but according to the <a href="http://www.acc.umu.se/%7Eemilk/faq.html">FAQ</a> the author is planning to make the source code available at some point.<br /><br />[via <a href="http://www.badscience.net/?p=622">Bad Science</a>]Konrad Förstnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03934644279917687337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17237769.post-46229401188719943282008-03-02T14:21:00.005+01:002008-03-02T14:27:35.998+01:00The STRING and STITCH blogFor the bio crowd: If you want to be informed about news regarding the web tools <a href="http://string.embl.de/">STRING</a> (proteins and their interaction) and/or <a href="http://stitch.embl.de/">STITCH</a> (protein-chemicals interactions) you should have a look at the <a href="http://string-stitch.blogspot.com/">blog</a> that <a href="http://mckuhn.de/">Michael</a> set up recently for that purpose.Konrad Förstnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03934644279917687337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17237769.post-45057332495242433212008-02-16T16:41:00.007+01:002008-02-17T23:13:49.900+01:00Bruce Schneier on security vs. privacyHere is just a quick link to an <a href="http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2008/01/securitymatters_0124">article about privacy and security</a> by <a href="http://www.schneier.com/">Bruce Schneier</a> at <a href="http://www.wired.com/">Wired</a>. He explains the wrong perception regarding the trade-off between these two values.<br /><br /><blockquote>The debate isn't security versus privacy. It's liberty versus control. [...] If you set up the false dichotomy, of course people will choose security over privacy - especially if you scare them first. But it's still a false dichotomy. There is no security without privacy. And liberty requires both security and privacy.</blockquote><br /><br/>Konrad Förstnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03934644279917687337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17237769.post-28979834531296621462008-02-13T19:59:00.005+01:002008-02-16T19:34:35.296+01:00SPIEGEL archive freely accessibleAs <a href="http://konradscons.blogspot.com/2007/12/knowlege-mega-mirror-spiegel-open.html">announced recently</a> Europes biggest magazine <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/">DER SPIEGEL</a> (trans. = "The mirror" - not to confuse with "The Mirror" in UK!) <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/0,1518,534775-6,00.html">made today</a> articles of SPIEGEL (including sub-magazines and their lexicon) and <a href="http://www.manager-magazin.de/">Manager Magazin</a> at <a href="http://wissen.spiegel.de/">wissen.spiegel.de</a> online available for the public. The material is still copyrighted but it is a huge knowledge dump as the archive contains articles since 1947. The keyword search results not only in a list of articles from SPIEGEL and/or Manager Magazin but also includes entries of the German Wikipedia. There are also dossiers like "<a href="http://wissen.spiegel.de/wissen/resultset.html?clsuchbegriff=%23sig_id_liste%3D7007927&clfilter=&quellen=&fo=SPIEGEL&vl=0&cl=0&cllabel=Die+Sprache+des+Lebens">Die Sprache des Lebens</a>" (= "the language of life) that combine some articles about selected topics. You can get an overview about the content at the <a href="http://wissen.spiegel.de/wissen/statistics/stats.html">statistics</a> page.Konrad Förstnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03934644279917687337noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17237769.post-77754345613575180602008-02-08T09:48:00.000+01:002008-02-08T10:24:43.395+01:00How about some biological treasure hunting?<a href="http://www.bork.embl.de/%7Ejensen/">Lars Juhl Jensen</a>, another member of the <a href="http://www.bork.embl.de/">Bork group</a>, started his new blog <a href="http://larsjuhljensen.wordpress.com/">Buried Treasure</a> some days ago. As said in his <a href="http://larsjuhljensen.wordpress.com/2008/02/05/introduction-why-buried-treasure/">first posting</a> the main intension is to make some of his scientific loose ends public:<br /><br /><blockquote>My primary goal with this blog is to make my never-to-be-published observations openly available. As I don’t plan on continuing these projects, anyone is welcome to pick up a project and continue where I left off.</blockquote><br />I wish a happy treasure hunting.Konrad Förstnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03934644279917687337noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17237769.post-23356449529433203362008-02-06T23:39:00.000+01:002008-02-07T00:01:52.265+01:00Calais - get sematic into your contentIt looks like the predictions come true and semantic web takes off in 2008. <a href="http://konradscons.blogspot.com/2008/02/googless-social-graph-api.html">After Google</a> another big player (one you wouldn't expect in the game at the first first glance), <a href="http://www.reuters.com/">Reuters</a>, made a nifty tool for semantic processing called <a href="http://www.opencalais.com/">Calais</a> available.<br /><blockquote><br />The Calais web service automatically attaches rich semantic metadata to the content you submit – in well under a second. Using natural language processing, machine learning and other methods, Calais categorizes and links your document with entities (people, places, organizations, etc.), facts (person ‘x’ works for company ‘y’), and events (person ‘z’ was appointed chairman of company ‘y’ on date ‘x’). The metadata results are stored centrally and returned to you as industry-standard RDF constructs accompanied by a Globally Unique Identifier (GUID).</blockquote><br />It seems to have quite some power under the hood.Konrad Förstnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03934644279917687337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17237769.post-35817836853882711062008-02-01T23:18:00.000+01:002008-02-01T23:27:22.920+01:00Bio::Blogs#18 out now<a href="http://www.bioinformaticszen.com/2008/02/february-2008-edition-of-bioblogs/">Issue #18</a> of <a href="http://www.bioinformaticszen.com/2008/02/february-2008-edition-of-bioblogs/">Bio::Blogs</a> is available at <a href="http://www.bioinformaticszen.com/">Bioinformatics Zen</a> and has some hot links regarding Open Notebook Science and other topics for the bio crowd.Konrad Förstnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03934644279917687337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17237769.post-51017971837051422342008-02-01T22:32:00.000+01:002008-02-01T23:15:56.027+01:00Googles's Social Graph APIThe <a href="http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2008/02/urls-are-people-too.html">Google Code Blog introduced today</a> the <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/socialgraph/">Social Graph API</a> which is meant to make the information of a social graph to be reused easily. It's based on the open standards <a href="http://gmpg.org/xfn/">XFN</a> and <a href="http://www.foaf-project.org/">FOAF</a> data that is embedded into websites. You can find some <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/socialgraph/docs/examples.html">simple toys</a> to get the idea at the project page. It is real fun to play around with this! <a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/02/google_social_graph_api.html">Tim O'Reilly asks for</a> mechanism that enforce privacy about selected connections what I also really would like to see. I am not sure but I think it (actually not the Social API itself but XFN/FOAF/etc. in general) also offers new ways of spamming: An advertisement site could like to random profiles pages as friends and if the linked person checks their graphs (asking for people who linked to them) they see the link. Not sure if I got that wrong. Anyhow, this stuff looks really interesting and promising!Konrad Förstnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03934644279917687337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17237769.post-68176267715768612382008-01-07T13:42:00.000+01:002008-01-07T14:25:22.015+01:00Wikia and GoPubMed - New kids on the search engine block<a href="http://alpha.search.wikia.com/">Wikia search</a>, the search engine of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_wales">Jimmy Wales</a>' company Wikia, is now online as an alpha version. Everything is very basic so far - no much functionality, content or eye-candy. It relies on user contributions and is supposed to be open and transparent.<br /><br />Life scientists have a (new) tool to search for literature: <a href="http://www.gopubmed.org/">GoPubMed</a>. Many others have already reported about and I just found it via <a href="http://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/gopubmed/">this posting</a> (sometime I am quite resistant :)). The <a href="http://www.transinsight.com/news07">press release</a> tells us:<br /><blockquote>This, the first semantic search engine, reduces search time by up to 90%. By sorting search results it enables scientists to answer biomedical questions in completely new way.</blockquote><br />I played around a little bit and think it is really functional and fancy. Funnily "shot gun sequencing" in one of my papers leads to the key word "Firearms". Recently <a href="http://www.gopubmed.org/GoMeshPubMed/gomeshpubmed/Help/Curators/index.html">Folksonomy 4 Science</a> was included which "allows users to identify experts in the biomedical field and gain important information on recent research topics by viewing their networks."Konrad Förstnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03934644279917687337noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17237769.post-76557137129130348152008-01-03T17:30:00.000+01:002008-01-05T12:22:09.604+01:00Let's try to keep some privacyHappy new <strike>2008</strike> 1984. Germany has now the data retention but this doesn't mean that we cannot fight back. Via <a href="http://nftb.net/">Roland</a>'s delicious links I stumble across <a href="http://anonymouse.org/">Anonymouse.org</a>. This proxy lets you surf any page anonymously in a very easy solution if you don't want to set up <a href="http://www.torproject.org/">Tor</a> or <a href="http://anon.inf.tu-dresden.de/index_en.html">JAP</a>. Only disadvantage is it's low speed. For easy use have a look at the <a href="http://anonymouse.org/addons/toolbar/toolbar.html">toolbar</a> and/or <a href="http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=Anonymouse.org">Firefox search plug-in</a>. If you want to use a <a href="http://kb.mozillazine.org/Using_keyword_searches">Firefox keyword search</a> (always handy!) enter<br /><br /><tt>http://Anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-redirect.cgi?sourceid=Mozilla-search&what=%s</tt><br /><br />into the <tt>Location</tt> field.<br /><br />An alternative for the data collector Google could be the metasearch enginge <a href="http://ixquick.com/">Ixquick</a>. According to their <a href="http://ixquick.com/eng/privacy-policy.html">private policy</a> they delete user specific information after maximum 48 hours. There are also different <a href="http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=ixquick">Firefox search plug-ins</a> available. For the above mentioned keyword search use<br /><br /><tt>http://ixquick.com/do/metasearch.pl?query=%s</tt><br /><br />Any other suggestions for keeping privacy when surfing?Konrad Förstnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03934644279917687337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17237769.post-75096408216368852982007-12-30T22:00:00.000+01:002007-12-30T22:02:47.477+01:0024C3 - report part 9 - Security Nightmares 2008Frank and Ron filled the "told you so"-karma with the annual <a href="http://events.ccc.de/congress/2007/Fahrplan/events/2336.en.html">Security Nightmares</a> presentation/brainstorming. After a short retrospect they had a look into the crystal ball. Some predictions that were mentioned:<br /><ul><li>hijacking of industrial robots will increase</li><li>people will go to jail due to wrong time zone configuration of log servers</li><li> more flash memory problems - e.g. no proper cleaning possible</li><li>more VoIP-hacks</li><li>hacking of large scale storage/computing backends like Amazon S3</li><li>malware for mobile phones especially on iPhone</li><li>crowed-sourcing for breaking CAPTCHA<br /></li></ul>Konrad Förstnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03934644279917687337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17237769.post-54658619208708417532007-12-30T19:56:00.000+01:002007-12-30T21:37:59.485+01:0024C3 - report part 8 - Some photo impressions 2An some more pics ...<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">A speech bubble machine<br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrW0kwTy0X8hDukMf2_i2JC12A63gOtXta4pYp0IR3mlMej0aL31DxbhXUdp6KZLr_0xetCPxsdE7m4Gq7SGRWu9VHF5yCA7aSwz6GfI7gz3mS3E430T07Z_RmKEcdtDn_1e5Dog/s1600-h/speech_bubble.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrW0kwTy0X8hDukMf2_i2JC12A63gOtXta4pYp0IR3mlMej0aL31DxbhXUdp6KZLr_0xetCPxsdE7m4Gq7SGRWu9VHF5yCA7aSwz6GfI7gz3mS3E430T07Z_RmKEcdtDn_1e5Dog/s320/speech_bubble.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5149843469651428146" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.indymedia.org/">Indymedia</a> searches safe habor<br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMfAcK8i5-4nQKs_zPFYx9QrRi6QgNxqQSsm5nJz2Bj5mEaHj5qGmSeV9p5q3YPgp5-L8nrPJhGz_j_q2UVmlftllUSDTZzh92DLS9Q_3zIegrMibPpVEa6qFkgm7dmhQKtivR1w/s1600-h/servers_outsit_eu.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMfAcK8i5-4nQKs_zPFYx9QrRi6QgNxqQSsm5nJz2Bj5mEaHj5qGmSeV9p5q3YPgp5-L8nrPJhGz_j_q2UVmlftllUSDTZzh92DLS9Q_3zIegrMibPpVEa6qFkgm7dmhQKtivR1w/s320/servers_outsit_eu.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5149843370867180322" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">"We hate flash"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZh0A1o1uyAYHOtj7iuaN9wQ2tZOy0Ds5sDab3gxrwExKTwClw7WHlxc27gGEqFCD9oC5e2yikeIp2kWZz-ttW-u__Bbq9gFvwgVjkJacFYmFwEHApP4xQ6OW34pZRzDnodeFFvA/s1600-h/we_hate_flash.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZh0A1o1uyAYHOtj7iuaN9wQ2tZOy0Ds5sDab3gxrwExKTwClw7WHlxc27gGEqFCD9oC5e2yikeIp2kWZz-ttW-u__Bbq9gFvwgVjkJacFYmFwEHApP4xQ6OW34pZRzDnodeFFvA/s320/we_hate_flash.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5149843585615545154" border="0" /></a><br />The ceiling of conference room 1<br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikDlLDaEth722boC1gFsk9evONRIPPCuEUgktWKlLUaF_8TLe40pu8n08r7Nh5Zi5LFEjP-T3wavmP21piQhB5dqrS_cMp77Nygy_dRJJgZQz8MlKslEHTOakczFzXwYi1U9hbCA/s1600-h/room_1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikDlLDaEth722boC1gFsk9evONRIPPCuEUgktWKlLUaF_8TLe40pu8n08r7Nh5Zi5LFEjP-T3wavmP21piQhB5dqrS_cMp77Nygy_dRJJgZQz8MlKslEHTOakczFzXwYi1U9hbCA/s320/room_1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5149843254903063314" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Quadrocopter<br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHsKRuNmTbgRY8uYN8E2ouPJTXaoT_tS8OmhCL2xgUmGEIi-wXdU26q_4IHLlzNtwdMNrPVf-In24iogtmvFCIRQhP_D87rWe-Vn1j6sUmU10-t3tkD5m4clbyirbssWT8Vp15wA/s1600-h/quadrocopter.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHsKRuNmTbgRY8uYN8E2ouPJTXaoT_tS8OmhCL2xgUmGEIi-wXdU26q_4IHLlzNtwdMNrPVf-In24iogtmvFCIRQhP_D87rWe-Vn1j6sUmU10-t3tkD5m4clbyirbssWT8Vp15wA/s320/quadrocopter.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5149843173298684674" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Smiling light<br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZryN5S1zPTUgM7dumNvx3FHeGKoFvOqUeXkouiEojDhSXZF7TlztqG6nq3m7ILuPmbqP8rLeVOK2Zk3rAQQ__Ooif8iCwfdVE-Mh7Lf8rCS02gDS_RPvuWp55kQBCu2vSDQq7AQ/s1600-h/light_smile.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZryN5S1zPTUgM7dumNvx3FHeGKoFvOqUeXkouiEojDhSXZF7TlztqG6nq3m7ILuPmbqP8rLeVOK2Zk3rAQQ__Ooif8iCwfdVE-Mh7Lf8rCS02gDS_RPvuWp55kQBCu2vSDQq7AQ/s320/light_smile.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5149843091694306034" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Monitored<br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMk9Q9frNwO7NvfXXIyI4nZnzFG7mQdh9QL_50-UNQ5dcSOVGlYU1McDTyQ96K3Aw2q_67WQmF1g-Qc3LZWLdyMIKyYDuGxMYVQ4-2bAj4scMZ9KrTP3-bpQ5kW15F8vdsH0Pwag/s1600-h/monitored.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMk9Q9frNwO7NvfXXIyI4nZnzFG7mQdh9QL_50-UNQ5dcSOVGlYU1McDTyQ96K3Aw2q_67WQmF1g-Qc3LZWLdyMIKyYDuGxMYVQ4-2bAj4scMZ9KrTP3-bpQ5kW15F8vdsH0Pwag/s320/monitored.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5149842451744178914" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Usual suspect<br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguiI-cSYp6iIXXWkOJG13fQqPJATayN3a6nDTo7azFhaJGjonN5Z7KZUYdSvhLHwk6B6wQjlJSCFsDZ72wk8167OwTj_NjOBWln2deXX4hP9QWDYbkWrR0-d05Z48UG34_4PQqSA/s1600-h/wrong_way.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguiI-cSYp6iIXXWkOJG13fQqPJATayN3a6nDTo7azFhaJGjonN5Z7KZUYdSvhLHwk6B6wQjlJSCFsDZ72wk8167OwTj_NjOBWln2deXX4hP9QWDYbkWrR0-d05Z48UG34_4PQqSA/s320/wrong_way.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5149842314305225426" border="0" /></a>Konrad Förstnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03934644279917687337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17237769.post-83526852624252896572007-12-30T15:29:00.000+01:002007-12-30T16:27:43.009+01:0024C3 - report part 7 - Some photo impressions 1Here are some photos I took at the conference. It's not allowed to take photos downstairs in the so called Hackcenter so no documentation of that.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">The congress center with the famous CCC rocket and some decoration<br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjat8TxPM4p-c_QnQpKuN9TB5mQjpken7-D6_1ZdE-_bv_rjTE8fp7sU8b8FlIh0Gohutg-oIxaQoKSImJTgqO0uF_Nvf5KL6mafqzy4HZbOeMG4B-6Dv6aG2vfPDv-k7Pkp1OhOQ/s1600-h/congress_center.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjat8TxPM4p-c_QnQpKuN9TB5mQjpken7-D6_1ZdE-_bv_rjTE8fp7sU8b8FlIh0Gohutg-oIxaQoKSImJTgqO0uF_Nvf5KL6mafqzy4HZbOeMG4B-6Dv6aG2vfPDv-k7Pkp1OhOQ/s320/congress_center.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5149773457389535794" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> Hacker Jeopardy<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEurIeCydwsYYsa_dyT0sqV6WbyexMIHiuTPwwyX9x6JtpgfXbH3BMkwZZ4jInMz9nVWT7YLMBcGjn6s8Ky5H9vyR4ZZLt-b1Y_apmhoZm0JrsCkfi55x0FxFocspKgLo_xtTjRg/s1600-h/hacker_jeopardy.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEurIeCydwsYYsa_dyT0sqV6WbyexMIHiuTPwwyX9x6JtpgfXbH3BMkwZZ4jInMz9nVWT7YLMBcGjn6s8Ky5H9vyR4ZZLt-b1Y_apmhoZm0JrsCkfi55x0FxFocspKgLo_xtTjRg/s320/hacker_jeopardy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5149780741654069922" border="0" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Regarding politics<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1pgbxazrTy30hqNjI1uUJgTRMqhOVlSFsDq6WNo0MtlzbVoBAfER4YiK2h4kvMUApyqHYK58QaaAx4gCFuEcgNj6A9jTNbkgyCj-RQrpoiGxH7hd-3mjuCDtphyphenhyphenG_g6fxa_bdbw/s1600-h/watched.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1pgbxazrTy30hqNjI1uUJgTRMqhOVlSFsDq6WNo0MtlzbVoBAfER4YiK2h4kvMUApyqHYK58QaaAx4gCFuEcgNj6A9jTNbkgyCj-RQrpoiGxH7hd-3mjuCDtphyphenhyphenG_g6fxa_bdbw/s320/watched.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5149774934858285714" border="0" /></a><br />LED cube<br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf2nKeW6iVoz06kWeHahWy_XL8dT7fWu_LVzDISIhbqB8tHkUTQQXQyyHX07G5kEba8EFIDetbnx9qY7-TfFJ6IRud300BaAQOegkp9IaWAaTi9Db3tvRrH7OWWkNyGZpIW4JzvQ/s1600-h/light_cube.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 282px; height: 211px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf2nKeW6iVoz06kWeHahWy_XL8dT7fWu_LVzDISIhbqB8tHkUTQQXQyyHX07G5kEba8EFIDetbnx9qY7-TfFJ6IRud300BaAQOegkp9IaWAaTi9Db3tvRrH7OWWkNyGZpIW4JzvQ/s320/light_cube.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5149774771649528450" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">MAKING with LEGO<br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNeeGc7dOSDknUGstAzTm9I8aSfCeJEH1QkdG6MNENMo2UeJCWalXfSZbHUy7D8Pfo0CrIcG3BM7aU0EFDg0j4tlWnzLI82GiE_Ezf3Z2GWwQpiIrGd6ZF7N2CqVzJqI2FdpGfyA/s1600-h/lego_making.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNeeGc7dOSDknUGstAzTm9I8aSfCeJEH1QkdG6MNENMo2UeJCWalXfSZbHUy7D8Pfo0CrIcG3BM7aU0EFDg0j4tlWnzLI82GiE_Ezf3Z2GWwQpiIrGd6ZF7N2CqVzJqI2FdpGfyA/s320/lego_making.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5149774651390444146" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Research lab<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQQO4hFDapUNjEVhSyP1K-UOV5XXpU5hBW8IkPqY1C8IQz1sH8P1nPA2vhREj0o3aYP7WZPOY04vEg6Iz7fZBIElhR3LHQi9RAxjRq3IT0kD6w6RTuZ19-cBXMjlz_V-xBG9fc2Q/s1600-h/graphity_research.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQQO4hFDapUNjEVhSyP1K-UOV5XXpU5hBW8IkPqY1C8IQz1sH8P1nPA2vhREj0o3aYP7WZPOY04vEg6Iz7fZBIElhR3LHQi9RAxjRq3IT0kD6w6RTuZ19-cBXMjlz_V-xBG9fc2Q/s320/graphity_research.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5149774385102471762" border="0" /></a><br />Another photo of the <a href="http://konradscons.blogspot.com/2007/12/24c3-report-part-6-demonstration.html">demonstration yesterday</a><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxHYffpIeNeM9qxeZQ3ytA9RtPvKr_0rXQ_JS7a5EZvwf7CekP2QBK3co3sGZrvC0jWQ-GuHHmdEYOPAVeyLDvfuZ1j722PCXx3r0OgELdUhTRYtsoXngnZ5G2LOYaOxFXgF3Teg/s1600-h/demo.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxHYffpIeNeM9qxeZQ3ytA9RtPvKr_0rXQ_JS7a5EZvwf7CekP2QBK3co3sGZrvC0jWQ-GuHHmdEYOPAVeyLDvfuZ1j722PCXx3r0OgELdUhTRYtsoXngnZ5G2LOYaOxFXgF3Teg/s320/demo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5149774187533976130" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.club-mate.de/">Club-Mate</a> - should be a platinum sponsor of this event<br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKGgc-WxzTFL-giws2AsML2Hv9fL8hGE9trddzjWKRiNUYQvM7kruJ3uHAVah31CJbDIo5aLXzCzNy2jrgpsbFS6pYzGoVBOJIos2T2dsrYQScPxGv6jW1vF2cOh1FadZO7ljw7Q/s1600-h/club_mate.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKGgc-WxzTFL-giws2AsML2Hv9fL8hGE9trddzjWKRiNUYQvM7kruJ3uHAVah31CJbDIo5aLXzCzNy2jrgpsbFS6pYzGoVBOJIos2T2dsrYQScPxGv6jW1vF2cOh1FadZO7ljw7Q/s320/club_mate.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5149783700886536898" border="0" /></a>Konrad Förstnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03934644279917687337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17237769.post-17442572852732494382007-12-29T20:21:00.000+01:002007-12-29T21:47:48.679+01:0024C3 - report part 6 - Demonstration against data retentionI wrote some time ago about the <a href="http://konradscons.blogspot.com/2007/10/stop-data-retention-stop.html">new law for data retention</a> in Germany. It passed all hurdles and will come into effect starting from the 1st January 2008. The connection meta data (phone, cell phone, internet) of all citizen of Germany will be stored for six month then. A law suit against this law will be started soon. The <a href="http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/">AK Vorratsdatenspeicherung</a> organized a demonstration that took place here in Berlin starting in front of the congress center to protest against this and similar laws. There will be more demonstration in the near future. Check the <a href="http://wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/Terminkalender">calender</a> if you want to join.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha-VAyhSHSqabF0FZw04pxwTD9e9z6jDYtkjJ3Z76G70GFrmJozVko63F2vjPG22cISYhUIhSauvPClU4RTI1h5zV-Cw7NkLMztBHFXhekX_veePNo6JYn_ORWOcz_aizd3RDQ7Q/s1600-h/demo_01.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha-VAyhSHSqabF0FZw04pxwTD9e9z6jDYtkjJ3Z76G70GFrmJozVko63F2vjPG22cISYhUIhSauvPClU4RTI1h5zV-Cw7NkLMztBHFXhekX_veePNo6JYn_ORWOcz_aizd3RDQ7Q/s320/demo_01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5149480304396747282" border="0" /></a>Konrad Förstnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03934644279917687337noreply@blogger.com0