IBM has a new technology developed in order to reduce fuel consumption and consequently the Schadstoffaustoß. In summary, purely and simply send a short radio pulse from the traffic lights at the front of waiting cars, the cars would have an incentive off the engine. Just before the light turns green, is "the car then has the permission" to turn the engine. After a short delay, then the cars will be launched in the queue, if the first is used, the others may still not finally depart. Accordingly, traded in the red phase.

I personally am not excited about it. Save fuel or not, I will have control over my vehicle. I do not want my engine is switched easily without my consent or off. And what is even in an emergency? Let's imagine that there would be an ambulance. What then? Admittedly, using a short pulse of the ambulance, the engine could be turned back on. It's still not a nice feeling that someone else controls my vehicle. The battery will thank me.

About one thing you can be sure: The happy hacker wirds. Simple times paralyze the traffic? No problem, a simple radio pulse is sufficient. Die Hard 4.0, pig's cheek!

New series of electrical reporter:

The days of free Internet surfing may soon be over. Countries like China and Iran already have monitor every click on their citizens and make rules, what pages they should and what not. But in Europe, the freedom of movement on the Web is in danger. In France, meanwhile users are punished with a ban on surfing when they are caught three times in illegal music sharing.
In Germany, should be established by the so-called virtual access law aggravation stop signs in front of child pornographic content. Even if this bill is temporarily shelved: Critics of these arrangements are concerned that it's only a matter of time until others are censored unliebige content such as computer or games of chance. Meanwhile, meet behind closed doors, the leading economic nations on "intellectual property" - are on their agenda and power locks on copyright violations. The Electric Reporter about censorship and its consequences.

Electric Reporter - Locked filtered, disconnected: the non-free network

In Mark Lance, it's worth, from time to time on. For example, on 13.01.2010, when it comes to body scanners went, which are now preserved at German airports served. In addition to sending the physicist Werner Gruber were the CDU politician Wolfgang Bosbach, and a spokesman for the body scanner manufacturer ThruVision.

Gruber acted in the show as a test person should try out the scanner. He said previously that he has a swiss army knife and a cell phone. Both could be seen in principle to the image of the scanner (the only pocket knife was not as apparent as it was in the side pocket and was carried by the side of a scan). Later, however, revealed the physicist that he had not only the two items in the pockets ...

To surprise of all he got out of his mouth a fuse from his clothes or 3 bottles of thermite (burns at about 3000 ° C. and allowed to melt metal so easy) and a small tube of his shin, which was hidden under a plaster. He also had a lighter in his pocket. If you mix together all the substances that can measure temperatures up to 3000 ° C is reached, resulting in a plane (assuming the correct ignition) to crash.

And despite all of these substances Gruber Nacktscanner smuggle in an airplane. This would probably again clearly demonstrated: These things take absolutely nothing, except to pretend false security. There will be spent millions of Euros for a pseudo-protection, which makes people think they would be safe. So my verdict is therefore the same as that of Werner Gruber: There will always be black sheep. Absolute certainty will never exist. Therefore it would be appropriate that money be better spent for more useful things. For example, education. Then people would in fact see such a pseudo-protection as a piss.

The whole program you can look yourself in the ZDF library again:

Mark is from the power politics blog from a draft of a Commission of Inquiry. Who does not know what a Study Commission, which must either ask a Frenchman, or simply read on. Under a commission of inquiry is meant simply a working group to look after a highly polarizing issue at present and should develop solutions. In this case involves the issue of power politics. So it's not exactly surprising that the Enquete Commission of the name "Internet and digital society" bears.

Among other things, the Assembly, which consists of 13 members who write on these issues ( quote from web policies , Creative Commons is due!)

Culture and Media

• Strengthening the responsibility of media (providers and users)
• Changes in production, distribution and use of artistic works
• Raising awareness of the value of intellectual property
• Measures for the digital preservation of cultural heritage and its use
• Conservation and protection of media pluralism and

Economic, environmental

• Secure a viable competition to prevent dominant positions of individual firms
• Climatic, environmental and resource-efficient design of the Information Technology (Green IT)

Education and Research

• Promotion of media literacy, media education in schools, universities and education and training
• International Cooperation in Research and Science
• Strategies to overcome the digital divide (digital divide)
• Initiatives for free access to the results of publicly funded research (Open Access)
• Development and definition of open standards and standards

Law and indoor

• Security of a free and unrestricted access to the Internet for all users and information providers (net neutrality)
• Ensuring a trustworthy, efficient and secure Internet infrastructure (government protection against threats from inside and outside)
• Threats from computer and Internet crime, terrorism, espionage and sabotage
• Consumer Protection (abuse of mass warning letters, legal certainty in electronic commerce)
• Enforcement is justified and unjustified claims, even in the international legal framework
• Future of the right to informational self-determination
• Protection of individual rights
• Legal and technical requirements for data protection and data security (for private companies, particularly social networks, cyber-bullying, privacy enhancing technologies)
• Reality and implementation of child protection (eg, different international legal norms)
• Consequences of the convergence of media and telecommunications providers
• Further development of these areas of law, and in the interaction of federal and state law and having regard to the European regulatory framework

Society and democracy

• Development of public services (eGovernment)
• Strategies for open access to government information (Open Data)
• Sociological effects (digital immigrants and digital natives)
• Opportunities for new forms of citizen participation (e-petitions, local government)

Interesting points on each Falldie open access points, network neutrality, OPen data and the relevant points regarding the copyright. More than these sub-themes are unfortunately not yet known. For more information, but tomorrow will see the light of the world.

Whether this is but a turning point in the old power politics now finally, I dare simply times to doubt. The CDU has been unfortunately shown little insight, and the FDP is too shy. I'm still excited.

As often as the commercial or advertising on TV, you can in the campaign for Media Markt not come almost gone. The talk is of the Agenda 2010. For those who are still on the tube, here's a description: The 2010 agenda is a campaign by media market, where every 10th Shopping is free. All you have to do is the last digit of your receipt with the number of dissolved compare. If these two agree, then the next day you can go to the store and get your money back.

My question to you would be now: Are you one of the lucky ones who have won the campaign? Please write me your experiences in the comments!