Monthly Archives: January 2011

Dioxin? Since we cluck a us.

Saturday, January 29 2011

sabinchen In recent scandal involving dioxin findings in eggs, chicken and pork was noticeable that now adapted the consideration for the EU, a rapid intervention at the national level, for. Example, with a declaration and compulsory insurance in the feed producers to hinder. Agriculture and Consumer Protection Minister Aigner appeared as Minister "without land", without jurisdiction, as Minister of voluntarily exercised their self-pruning by the German people transferred to them powers.

The reference to the need for "European rules" is now regarded as Standardausrede for intellectual laziness and moral cowardice before the supposedly all-powerful, all-competent, but not democratically elected EU Commission.

EurAktiv, the portal to European news, background information and communication, praised in an article dated 14.1.2011 expressly that Aigner had constantly behaved refunded to Brussels report: "Aigner pointed out that her Ministry since the outbreak of the dioxin scandal 'constantly at the European Commission reports' have. 'The Commission has certified us that our actions was outstanding,' said Aigner. "

How embarrassing is that? Are we here at school? This trend to knuckle under the EU Commission and to cross bosses provider to possess "certificates" smells new subjects spirit we thought but just overcome only. The Commissioners are appointed by the individual EU governments, highly paid officials who are in a permanent state of official arrogance against democratically elected ministers, to promote the latter, too. (More ...)

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Gorch Fock in heavy seas

Monday, January 24 2011
Die Gorch Fock

The Gorch Fock

If I were a man, I would have perhaps his time trying to such a beautiful ship to arrive - out of sheer love of adventure and because I love the sea. But I am a woman: 28 days I am at least seven relatively indisposed, let, for example, objects fall, have ever headache and am a little bad temper; Also, I'm not quite afraid of heights, but the most important:

I let myself be of men (or women) reluctant to snap (ie "give orders"); still I let myself from men reluctant necessary or force - ("run commands" below); well I sleep from you and do not want to be tired or unfit chased up a mountain or a rigging; This is also called "training" in the army or the navy - would not have gone.

Also I would never have expected, for months bearable with crisp images to the sixty men at the height of their potency on a training ship with even a few other fellow women without freaking out.

In the Navy has always rumors circulated stating with which food additives would be put on the ships to get at the engine storage. A Marine grinning once told me years ago some of bromine. If now from alleged sexual offerings on the training ship Gorch Fock is the speech, I think that's basically just normal, curious would only have been even its absence. That would have been the proof of bromine in the buns.

One even read the article "For the first time puts women in Navy submarines a" with the subsequent discussion by ...

And the article "Gorch Fock is considered floating Puff" (Express).

On the "Gorch Fock" two cadets have died within the last year. One was overthrown in November last year from the rigging to death, the other three years ago gone overboard and drowned. These sad events are merkürdigerweise in the media debate is no reason, in principle even to think about the role of women in the military. Whether it might not be that it was a wrong decision to allow women in all areas of military training? (More ...)

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Stuxnet, Siemens and the cyber war against Iran

Wednesday, January 19 2011

For several days makes "Stuxnet" headlines again: The computer worm had made in the previous year for guesswork. Initially it was speculated that he was directed solely against Iran's nuclear facilities, then feared that the problem could pull much larger circles.

Reason: Worldwide countless industrial plants (. Eg nuclear reprocessing plants, power plants in general, automotive, industrial manufacturing plants) are equipped with a special control system from Siemens, which runs on the Windows operating system. The evil computer "dragon" was to manipulate the situation, control and production processes, but at the same time to provide a false positive feedback, that everything was fine, when in fact such. As the centrifuge of a nuclear reprocessing plant just hot ran. Moreover, Stuxnet could unnoticed steal data and information.

In November last year tens of thousands of infections were already known. About the authorship of the virus was only rumored. Already on 24.9.2010 the platform had news.discovery.com News reported: "Stuxnet was for the 'SCADA (SCADA) system' from Siemens, which is used widely for the management of water supplies, oil rigs, power plants and other industrial plants tailored. [...] Once Stuxnet has penetrated into a computer system, it searches for any of the three Siemens SCADA controllers [Programmable Logic Controller] (PLCs) that manage functions such as the control of the turbine speed [...] when there was a hit, took Stuxnet automatically controlling the PLC and hid all changes before the workers who manage the system or work with it. "

Since September last year, always as the Hamburg security expert made ​​Ralph Langner talk to his analysis of the worm attack on its own. Zdnet.de reported about on 22.9.2010: "The worm that infects the computer with the Siemens WinCC Scada software, was established in July discovered. It can be used to remotely control industrial plants. He enters through four security vulnerabilities in Windows, of which Microsoft has not closed two - one in the Windows shell and in Druckerwarteschlangendienst.Bei its analysis Langner relies among others on a screen of a computer in the Bushehr plant, which Siemens executing application. 'With the knowledge that we have now, it is obvious and provable that there is a direct sabotage attack with a lot of insider knowledge at Stuxnet', Langner writes on his company's website. The attack was based on a combination of multiple zero-day vulnerabilities and stolen certificates. 'This has been put together by a highly skilled team of experts who must have special experience with control systems. That's not a hacker sitting in the basement of his parents 'house.' In his view, the resources needed for such an attack suggest that the initiator is a nation-state. "

In any event, an amazing knowledge because of a photo of a Bushehr screen! Here the offer made ​​by Langner photo. (More ...)

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Sarrazin reading unabridged

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

The continuing success of one of (or even "the") best-selling non-fiction books of recent decades arouses envy and resentment, especially among representatives of the writer's guild. When MIRROR is the origin of the book reinterpreted as "accident", and the publisher and of course the 1.2 million readers benörgelt and reprimanded afterwards. In humorless, korinthenköttelnder manner the January Fleischhauer (anxious. Heft 51/2011, S. 40 ff): "To tell the story of a monster between book covers, which has overwhelmed all - the author, the critics and especially the publishers, the it unleashed. "

Jan Fleischhauer. Sarrazin-Buch - verhängnisvoller Zufall; Quelle: wikimedia commons

January Fleischhauer. Sarrazin book - "fatal accident" (image source: Wikimedia Commons)

Fleischhauer draws a lamentable portrait of the head of DVA (German publishing house), Thomas Rathnow, the success of the book "Germany abolishes itself" completely by surprise, yes drawn. "He does not want to publicly distance himself from the author who will bring him so much money that he can it badly salable books fund. But he can not make it even to defend the text correctly. "

Stupid for the mirror that the DVA-chief makes the pudding and can not be nailed to the wall. Is it really not necessary according to sales figures. Fleischhauer complains Rathnows Interview refusal and his reluctance to distance himself from his own best-selling author. When the mirror is asking someone for public self-flagellation and self-incrimination, but you have to afford manfully as publishing boss the desire result is Fleischhauer was thinking. If not, well, then it must act "the story of a fateful coincidence" at the book in order. Yeah, but still, and now the mirror history against false compassion begins to drip: "A handle, a lifetime dream of the other publishers and the [Rathnow] now robs him of sleep. A lecturer had seen Sarrazin on a talk show and draufhin written, if you do not even wanted to talk. No one could have guessed what will happen, says Rathnow exhausted. The name of the colleagues he does not want to call it, the man does not want to even find in the press prefer. "

The publisher had actually requested a text on the German welfare state. "From foreigners had never been mentioned in the beginning, says the publisher" ... And so the Erschröcklichkeiten took their fateful course.

The interviewer, a disguised Chief Prosecutor, the interviewee lacks any makings of resistance fighters, who comes to compassion, suddenly associated to two wimps in limbo, which can not go! (More ...)

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Passage of the Görlitzer Cemetery

Thursday, 06 January, 2011.
Teilansicht Görlitzer Friedhof

Partial view of Görlitz Cemetery

The cemetery of the city is its own city with an endless cemetery wall of resting places in all sorts of styles, with neo-Gothic, neo-classical or Art Nouveau elements, two to three kilometers long at least, I guess, to circumnavigate it takes about an hour, it includes a representative administrative building glowing , rust-red and deep purple clinker, a ruined petite chapel, several entrances with arches; at its edges it begins to fray and gently move in the forest, after all, you see the grave stones and stone carvings still good if they also have a tendency and names are no longer recognizable.

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Even as a child I liked cemeteries, because of geheimnnis-full silence, the tall trees and the occasional whispered explanations to individual sites and grave slabs; I think here I was already as a five-year basis particularly short life data a sense of the disasters of history. history as the great Zermalmerin, as it happened to one of my ancestors, who came as a child in the transmission belt of a roller mill (more ...)

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