Monthly Archives: November 2009

Looking ahead

Posted on November 20, 2009 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

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Zonder er lang over te praten, het linkje licht het verder toe: wat is het volgende absurde privacy vernietigend idee.

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    Iphone app: WordPress 2.0

    Posted on November 21, 2009 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

    Updated and better in use.

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      Programming Google: GO

      Posted on November 21, 2009 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

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      Google has its own browser, OS and of course language: GO

      - “No major systems language has emerged in over a decade, but over that time the computing landscape has changed tremendously. There are several trends:

      - Computers are enormously quicker but software development is not faster.

      - Dependency management is a big part of software development today but the “header files” of languages in the C tradition are antithetical to clean dependency analysis—and fast compilation.

      - There is a growing rebellion against cumbersome type systems like those of Java and C++, pushing people towards dynamically typed languages such as Python and JavaScript.

      - Some fundamental concepts such as garbage collection and parallel computation are not well supported by popular systems languages.

      - The emergence of multicore computers has generated worry and confusion.”

      It reminds me of “Microsoft Java”. First nice, then a bugging hell for uniformity.
      However, somehow, maybe GO, since it is opensource, is way better.

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        UK new internet law idea: Lets Skip Democracy alltogether

        Posted on November 23, 2009 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

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        While we wrote that civil rights were deteriorating in Britain a while back, we couldn’t have thought that new plans from the government would exceed the secret treaties of a few weeks back.

        Well… for Britain , it just might have.

        Update: Peter Mandelson – Prince Of Darkness

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          The Rational Chief belief Officer succeeds

          Posted on November 23, 2009 by Vincent Barnhard

          Devdutt Pattanaik takes an eye-opening look at the myths of India and of the West — and shows how these two fundamentally different sets of beliefs about God, death and heaven help us consistently misunderstand one another.

          But wait, in the end Devdutt Pattanaik does tell how to succeed in both West and East :-)

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            Sarah Palin Supporters at a Book Signing

            Posted on November 24, 2009 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

            … Palin for President because … euhhh …. [via]

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              Medical marijuana users at Oregon cafe

              Posted on November 24, 2009 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

              PORTLAND, Ore. — At first glance, the Cannabis Cafe, in a former adult club called Rumpspankers, looks like any other coffee shop. Customers sip coffee while playing cards, working on computers or sharing a meal.

              Read more @ Usatoday.com [via]

              Related: WP – Support for legalizing marijuana grows rapidly around U.S.

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                Bits of Freedom: Kamerbriefing tapstatistieken

                Posted on November 24, 2009 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

                tapsDe stichting Bits of Freedom (“Bits of Freedom”) heeft bezorgd kennis genomen van de door de Minister van Justitie gepubliceerde tapstatistieken over het jaar 2008 en de eerste helft van 2009.

                Gelukkig vindt op 26 november a.s. een debat hierover plaats. Met deze briefing willen wij u ondersteunen om deze zorgelijke ontwikkeling tijdens dit debat aan de kaak te stellen.

                pdf Kamerbriefing tapstatistieken

                Update: They say fear is a bad advisor, well the dutch government seems to follow that lead.

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                  Stasi Kinder-Armee spielt Krieg

                  Posted on November 26, 2009 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

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                  Es sind keine normalen Soldaten, die hier Krieg führen, es sind Kinder! 1977! Sie kämpfen im Namen der DDR und von Erich Mielkes Stasi!

                  Die Bilder sind Aufnahmen aus einem Propaganda-Film „Immer lebe die Sonne“ des Ministeriums für Staatssicherheit (MfS). Sie sind Teil des geheimen Stasi-Filmarchivs und des Filmstudios Agitation, das im Auftrag der Staatssicherheit rund 2500 Propaganda- und Schulungsfilme für Mielkes 91 000 hauptamtliche Stasi-Mitarbeiter gedreht hat.

                  Source: Erich Mielkes perverse Stasi-Kinder-Armee spielt Krieg [via]

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                    De toekomst van het Internet (1996)

                    Posted on November 26, 2009 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

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                      DUTCH: Don’t Understand The Concept Here

                      Posted on November 28, 2009 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

                      “Dutch is an acronym for: Don’t Understand The Concept Here. That’s the accurate reflection of the Dutch approach to war. They are like highscool kids on schoolcamp.” (..) “The Taliban knows the difference between our uniforms. And they will go out to find the Dutch, because they know they will get result. The Dutch run away or be reluctant to go out. So they like fighting the Dutch.“

                      Enjoy :-) [via]

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                        Brilliant visualisation empires decline

                        Posted on November 28, 2009 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

                        This is mainly an experimentation with soft bodies using toxi’s verlet springs. The data refers to the evolution of the top 4 maritime empires of the XIX and XX centuries by extent. The visual emphasis is on their decline. More on that project here [via]

                        A lot of inaccuracies, missing data and missing continental empires: e.g. Dutch, USA, Chinese, Japanese and more empires are missing.
                        Still a very nice project!

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                          One-sided bankdata exchange?

                          Posted on November 29, 2009 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

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                          It has been again a little while, but the story is the same: this Monday The EU Council is set to give US intelligence services full access to SWIFT banking data, despite an unanimous call by the European Parliament not to do so.

                          “The move of SWIFT the data server to Switzerland would be an excellent opportunity to stop the nearly unlimited access of US authorities on EU bank transactions. But EU justice and interior ministers are apparently keen [on agreeing to] a deal as soon as possible, on 30 November. Why 30 November? Because one day later, on 1 December 2009, the EU’s Lisbon Treaty will be in force and would allow the European Parliament to play a major role in the negotiations of the deal with the US. A deal one day before will be a slap in the face to democracy in the EU. … [W]hile the US will be able to access EU banking data, no access to US banking data by EU [authorities] is being foreseen.”

                          Great such one-sided bank privacy.. 5 Reasons why it is bad.

                          Update: Dutch Government given answers aren’t much transparant, nor explain the text change, which is now proposed for signing.

                          In other news, thought the secret jails of North-Korea and EU were unique, off course not.

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