Silence, no change.
I…
… but where is the change? 😉
Silence, change.
According to Zen, existence is found in the silence of the mind (no-mind), beyond the chatter of our internal dialog. Existence, from the Zen perspective is something that is only happening spontaneously, and it is not just our thoughts. All of life that we perceive is constantly in a state of change.
Es ist ruhig geworden hier. Eine Ruhe, die es brauchte, eine Ruhe, die sein musste.
Während dieser Zeit hat sich einiges bei mir verändert. Mein ganzes Leben schon bin ich auf der Suche nach einer Antwort. Einer Antwort auf die Fragen: Wer bin ich? Was mache ich hier auf diesem Planeten überhaupt? Was ist meine Aufgabe?
In dieser Zeit der Ruhe fand ich die Antworten.
Wart’s ab. Die Antworten folgen bald hier. Und mit ihnen die Veränderungen.
Skype schaut dein /etc/passwd an!
Ich bin grade auf einen sehr interessanten Post gestossen, welcher die Integrität von Skype weiter in Frage stellt:
I’m using Skype 1.4.0.99 in my Ubuntu Gutsy Tribe-4, and I decided to setup an AppArmor profile to isolate skype from the rest of my system (since Skype access the network, I would like to protect my system against a potential 0-day remote flaw in Skype, by restricing Skype to access only those files strictly required, like those in the folder ~/.Skype — so that, in case skype is compromised, only skype files would suffer).
AppArmor allows users to fence off areas of the hard drive and system to applications and reports attempted infractions. Zaphod8 received the following log entry when getting Skype 1.4.0.99 to make a test call:
Aug 25 01:34:02 desknote kernel: [ 9116.625673] audit(1188002042.632:13467): REJECTING r access to /etc/passwd (skype(8470) profile /usr/bin/skype active /usr/bin/skype)
[eminimalls products=“skype“]
In fact it can be seen from the AppArmor logs that the following files are being accessed by Skype for Linux:
/etc/passwd
/home/zaphodb/.mozilla/firefox/4h99k4vs.default/searchplugins
/home/zaphodb/.mozilla/firefox/4h99k4vs.default/bookmarkbackups
/home/zaphodb/.mozilla/firefox/4h99k4vs.default/chrome
/home/zaphodb/.mozilla/firefox/4h99k4vs.default/gm_scripts
/home/zaphodb/.mozilla/firefox/4h99k4vs.default/chatzilla
/home/zaphodb/.mozilla/firefox/4h99k4vs.default/extensions
/home/zaphodb/.mozilla/firefox/4h99k4vs.default/ScrapBook
/home/zaphodb/.mozilla/firefox/4h99k4vs.default/adblockplus
/home/zaphodb/.mozilla/firefox/4h99k4vs.default/prefs.js
(…this list is a summary)
So it looks as if Skype is very interested in the Firefox pugins information.
Responses to this forum posting include the following:
- it is installed on a majority of systems
- it is protected against decompilation / debuggers
- it bypasses almost any firewall
- it uses encryption for network traffic
- it may send lots of data even when not making a call
- it might have already been deployed by the NSA
- eBay has a history of cooperating with federal agencies
The federal agency angle seems a bit far-fetched to me and until it is proved otherwise Skype needs to explain why it is mining users machines for usernames by unconventional means and why is it so interested in the users Firefox plugins, all apparently for commercial use. If Skype can’t come up with a very convincing answer its a lot of users are going to abandon the VOIP system having already suffered a two-day outage a week ago.
[via machinesthatgobing.com]
Da kann ich nur sagen „sudo apt-get purge skype skype-common“
Und da wir schon so schön dabei sind, schaut euch an, wie Google alle Webmasters dazu zwingen will, Google Analytics zu verwenden, indem sie alle anderen Analyse-Tool nutzlos macht. o.O
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Schaffmusig
Tracks, die 8 – 15 Minuten dauern. Atmosphärische, ruhige Gitarrenberieselung. Sound zum Konzentrieren.
Das ist Tool.
„Tool ist genau das, wonach es sich anhört: Es ist ein großer Schwanz. Es ist ein Schraubstock. Es ist ein Verb, ein aktiver Prozess der Suche, des Grabens, wie in ‚benutze uns‘, wir sind die Schaufel, das Streichholz, der Säurelöscher, Dein Werkzeug; benutze uns als ein Katalysator in Deinem Prozess der Suche nach dem, was Du auch immer suchen magst, oder was auch immer Du erreichen willst.‘“ (Interview mit Maynard James Keenan, 1994)
Musikalisch ist auf Einflüsse von Bands wie Meshuggah, King Crimson, Led Zeppelin und Pink Floyd zu verweisen. Tool zeichnet sich durch komplexe, ungewohnte Songstrukturen aus, sowie durch meist undurchsichtige, oft spirituell beeinflusste Texte. Signifikant für die Musik ist neben dem meist melancholischen Gesang Keenans der häufige Gebrauch von unüblichen Rhythmen und Taktartwechseln. Vergleichsweise selten werden 4/4-Takte benutzt. Es dominieren Stücke in 5er, 7er, 9er, 11er und 13er Taktarten, aber selbst die potenziell geradzahligen werden noch asymmetrisch unterteilt. So ist „Schism“ beispielsweise auf langer Strecke ein 12er Takt, der in 5 und 7 unterteilt wird anstatt in 4 mal 3. Der 5er-Block ist wiederum subdividiert in 2+3, der 7er in 2+2+3.
Hihi.. und das lässt sich nirgendwo einordnen – klingt aber verdammt gut! Die Band selber sagt, das ist „Thinking Man’s Metal“. Wow – mal was richtig anderes!
Besonders die Weltanschauung der Band gefällt mir. Hier:
Publication: RayGun Magazine
Date: April 1994, Issue #15Transcribed by jere (Two2067@aol.com)
title: Tool Rules
author: Moon Unit ZappaRAY GUN is really weird -lots of overlapping words, capital and lower case letters used interchangeably, etc. They even call Maynard „KM“ instead of „MK“ at one point. So I did my best to transcribe it into readable form. Enjoy.
————————————————————————-They’re not Scientologists. They’re not in any cult of any kind. They’re headlining, for the first time, at a venue near you. With the release of the controversial „Prison Sex“, the second video off of their platinum-any-minute album Undertow, this interviewer managed to bask in their humor, wisdom and tostadas pre-and-post earthquake in sunny Southern California. I love these guys.
MOON UNIT: So are you a person who keeps reading material in the bathroom? MAYNARD JAMES KEENAN (Vocalist): It’s a decorative thing. No, I mean a lot of those things in there are books I have not really read. I’m not really one to sit on the john reading a lot, but I found now that it’s a quiet time alone and I’m taking advantage of it by forcing myself to sit down and read for a while. The colors of the books…this is gonna sound dumb, the colors of the books that are in there did not seem to sit on that new bed very well, didn’t seem to blend in with the way the color scheme of the bed was and their odd shapes…I sound gay as hell, huh? But they’re good bathroom books, most of them, like The Portable Crumudgeon for the quotes and Deeper Thoughts by Jack Handy, this kind of thing, and the Joseph Campbell big book. It’s The Power of Myth transcripts that’s really cool because you could just read the pieces of it…Zippy The Pinhead’s always a good bathroom book…
*TOOL*
MK: I’m an opportunivore. DANNY CAREY (Drums): Life’s been very good for me since I quit my day job. Now that I don’t have that annoying boss, like a gnat on a camping trip… PAUL D’AMOUR (Bass): All Indians and no chiefs. ADAM JONES (Guitar): -(not available for comment)*TOOL ON TOOL*
MK: Granted, there’s definitely a sense of humor that is sewn in. That’s what people are kinda missing. I think a lot of times when people are listening to what we’re doing, they see this really intense band, young, Tool, and they think of this big, heavy wrench phallic thing. It’s like we’re gonna cut through everything like a wedge, like a missile, like some kind of cockstrong rock band, but there’s totally this sense of humor and the other side, the serious approach to the world around us. There’s humor sewn in to all the songs. Everything, even if it comes down to something that a friend said that we thought was really funny and we completely write an entire verse surrounding this one statement that this person said, but then amongst this poetic dissertation, there’s still that humor in there, but on the other side, there’s also some real ugly things taken straight from nightmares in there, too. Tool is exactly what it sounds like: It’s a big dick. It’s a wrench. It’s also what it sounds like: It’s a verb, it’s a digging factor. It’s an active process of searching, as in use us, we are a shovel, we are the match, we’re the blotter of acid, your tool; use us as a catalyst in your process of finding out whatever it is you need to find out, or whatever it is you’re trying to achieve. PD: I think it’s that ode to the „Kashmir“ beat on „Sober.“ All the classic rock stations are grabbin‘ it, „That reminds me of my old days, man…“ DC: The whole reason I started playing music, in general, I guess, was just to try to find some value in myself. Where I grew up and all that, it was kind of like a River’s Edge type of thing. Everyone just smoked dope all the time. There was no emotional value in anything we did-it seriously was about that grim-people would die or whatever and you were just like, „You know, just burnout’s.“ It’s great for me to find something that has feeling or emotional value. That’s my goal. PD: You could have become a Christian, though, you know? DC: I doubt it. PD: Yeah, I think that is where all of us came from in a weird way, like little white trash American towns. I came from Spokane, Washington, which is like the sound stage for America’s Most Wanted. I swear to God, I watched that show like four times and every time there’s been somebody found in Spokane…unreal. I think we try to treat the studio as a separate thing. So many people are too busy trying to capture their live sound. We try to do something different for the record, so it makes it a little more interesting for the people that come to the show. If you wanna hear the record, stay home and listen to the record. Playing live is a lot more physical, just having that interaction with the crowd. DC: Yeah, when you’re doing one, you always want to be doing the other. DC: In the summer, you always wanna play in the snow.*GRUNGE*
PD: It’s happening all over again. Remember when glam rock started and all these really horrible metal groups started coming out? DC: A little more eyeliner. PD: And then they went away for awhile? See, now they’re coming back again. It’s called grunge rock.*REVOLVING TOILETS*
PD: I love Taco Bell, only ‚cause it’s close, and it’s always open. DC: I used to be able to eat there, but it’s harder… PD: Nothing like a little heated lard to make your day. Del Taco’s better, though. MK: I can’t eat those things. It’s pre-digested. I think there is like this little fat guy in the back room that like takes real food, eats it, pre-digests it, and they take it out rights before it’s finished and like put it in this big vat of stuff, roll it up in a flour tortilla, and there you go. I think they should have revolving toilets at the counter; you just walk in, you order your food, you eat it on this toilet that’s moving down toward the end by the door, just eat it, it comes out, and you leave.*THE BIGGEST LIE*
PD: I don’t believe in Holidays. Thanksgiving? The biggest lie. When the Indians and Pilgrims got together and were friends? When they sat and thought of manifest destiny and the destruction of the United States. When rats laden with small-pox crawled off the boats…*JESUS*
KM: Fuck that guy-2000 year old Arabian folk tale should be buried.*KARMA*
PD: I don’t believe in karma, I think you create your destiny as you go. I mean, you bring a lot of negative energy in to yourself, I think you’ll put it out on the wrong person, they’re gonna get to you eventually… DC: I don’t know, I’ve always looked at it as a very personal thing. I mean, I think everybody has that little thing that works whether you know what’s right or wrong, and if you’re feeling good about what you’re doing then even if you’re murdering someone and you feel good about it, I don’t think it’s gonna slow you down. Honestly, some people just don’t know the difference, and I can’t believe their ignorance is gonna be a detriment to them in the end. PD: Look at those flesh eating native tribes in South America. That is their like, you know, they couldn’t have bad karma. DC: But if they have that bad feeling inside, it’s definitely gonna come back… PD: It’s good for them, though-they become men after they get their first head. DC: Were you a man after you got your first head?*GAYS IN THE MILITARY*
MK: I’ll tell you something. I was in the army, and half of the people I knew were gay, and they were the ones that were running the fucking thing, running it better than the other idiots who were drinking cases of beer a night. What the fuck is the surprise here? You know? „We don’t want no fags in our military.“ Bullshit! They’re already there, and they’re doing a better job than you are! Go work on your Camaro, and let them take care of it. Just ‚cause they have a different sexual motivation than you doesn’t mean they can’t shoot a gun or defend our country or do a good job with what they’re doing. We need to get on evolving to the next step, whatever the next step is; most of us have our thumbs.*THE VIDEOS*
MK: I’m hoping that those images are going to trigger in other people the same kind of emotions that I would try to get to with the music-it’s definitely about being trapped in a situation, in a cycle, and the constant need to re-live that cycle and try to fix it. People focus on, in a video, what the people look like, so they’re going, „Okay, let’s develop this person’s personality.“ What the fuck does my personality have to do with what this song is saying? I don’t want to do that. I don’t want people to latch on to my movements or the way I sound or the way Danny hits his drums. That’s a distraction from the piece at hand. When you look at the Mona Lisa, I don’t have any idea what the artist looks like or what he’s about. I have no idea what that guy is up to, what his personality is. I don’t care looking at that piece. Is she smiling? Is she frowning? What is she doing? All these things are entering into it, and that’s the same way you should look at a piece, a video like „Sober“ or „Prison Sex.“ You should be looking at it in terms of the music and the medium that’s being presented to you. Don’t worry about the rock guys that are doing that shit. It’s not really important.*THE LYRICS*
MK: There’s nothing being hidden. I think it gives a person more, giving them less is giving them more. They can experience it for themselves. There’s certain images that I think come up for people if they don’t have everything spelled out for them. Eventually, they’ll have two different songs, they’ll have what they heard and I’ll give them a new one that might take them farther, might not have taken them as far as they went. If it takes them farther, that’s great, but I’d much rather like the idea of them having gone farther than the song went. I’d rather take that risk that they’re gonna be mad at me for not seeing the lyrics.*WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM YOUR FANS?*
PD: I expect them to sit down, behave themselves, no smoking, and hush up. DC: Act like ladies and gentlemen, be attentive.*MICHAEL JACKSON*
MK: Man, I hope that this thing just totally turns him upside down to the point where he writes some fucking amazing songs. I’m sick of him being padded. I’m sick of him putting out shit music. There’s no connection between Michael’s life experience and his fucking music. He has all the studio genius a man needs, he has some amazingly bad, ugly experiences that could really lend to do some passionate songs. Fuck him. I hope he goes to jail.*MARRIAGE*
MK: Me and Michael, out of the question.*LOVE*
MK: I’m more apt to love than I am to marry.*A ROMANTIC EVENING*
MK: I had one the other night. Standing in my backyard while the entire fucking earth was shaking; shit’s breaking all over the place, and my dogs come running up to me in my backyard completely scared about what’s going on, but after a while we forgot there was even an earthquake going on. We were just sitting there together.*GENIUS*
MK: You don’t need to be a super genius to do some things. What is smart?I think everybody has that genius seed in them for something. All genius is to me is somebody who has latched on to something and taken it as far out as they could take it. Ask Einstein his phone number, he couldn’t tell you, he had to look it up. That’s not where he’s at. If you were to ask him about Led Zeppelin, he probably wouldn’t have any fucking idea what you were talking about. So being a genius doesn’t have anything to do with being a completely social functioning being completely understanding of everything. It has more to do with finding something, a voice in yourself, and taking it as far as you can take it. Hopefully, it takes you down a road where you understand you don’t need to hurt people to get to wherever it is you’re looking for.
*VIOLENCE IN FILMS*
MK: I think that a lot of the time there’s this delicate balance between people showing the film to capitalize on a need to see that and the other half that are making the film hoping that somewhere in it there’s gonna be a brick that’s laid toward a solution. They don’t know what it is, they’re hoping that they’re just gonna accidentally fall on it while they’re doing this film. Maybe they have an idea in mind that they have a solution for it.*WHAT DO YOU LIKE BEST ABOUT YOURSELF?*
PD: I’m a people person, and I like to work with my hands. DC: Yeah, the fact that I can work with my hands.*AUTHENTIC POWER*
MK: It’s really difficult to distinguish between real power and unreal power when your head’s on the ground and there’s somebody’s hand behind your neck. It’s really difficult to distinguish whether you can go, „Well, that’s not real power.“ You know, but my neck sure fucking hurts.*BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD*
MK: I think the reason that show is so popular is because for so long, you’ve seen bad videos on MTV and you wanted the VJ to come on, you wanted J.J. Jackson, „Well that was a really horrible video by so and so. Didn’t that suck? We’re gonna play it again, soon. Sorry, but it’s just the way that it is.“ Here is a genius situation: You’ve got these cartoons, well, what are you worrying about? It was a cartoon saying that your video sucked. What do you care? They’re two completely derelict-they’re not even derelict kids, they’re derelict cartoons, they’re cartoons of derelict kids…*WHAT’S OVERRATED?*
PD: Our album. It’s a good record, but to me it doesn’t warrant a million copies sold. DC: What does warrant that?*WHAT’S UNDERRATED?*
PD: Our album. DC: Gobs and gobs of musicians, people who can’t make a dime. There’s just countless artists that people are too blind to understand what they’re doing. That’s always so sad. PD: They don’t get a chance to see it because they’re just too busy watching Candlebox videos or whatever this new band that’s on there, this crap that’s on MTV.*OUT OF CONTEXT*
MK: Somewhere along the line somebody taught me some things about getting what I need to survive and also along with it, a creative edge to just kind of go off while I was doing it. PD: I want a Ralphs endorsement. DC: I want a Minute Maid Orange Juice endorsement. PD: I want Top Ramen, all the Top Ramen and Campbell’s soup I can tolerate. DC: Actually, I would take a basketball shoe endorsement. That’s where all my money goes now. It’s the only expensive thing I have to pay for anymore. PD: We already have endorsements for all our music stuff now. DC: We want food and clothing now. PD: Then to get our rent paid by somebody else besides us. PD: Endorsed by Melco. MU: What’s Melco? PD: My landlord.*HAPPINESS*
MK: Happiness is something you achieve, a constant thing. A constantly turning over thing, like a small plant that has flowers constantly blooming and dying on the same stem. It’s not like you achieve happiness this one time and it just stays with you forever. You don’t bake a cake because a cake makes you happy, you don’t bake that one cake because you baked this cake or bought that car you wanted to get. You’ve always wanted this car, you got the car, now you’re happy forever…no.*IN CLOSING*
PD: Musically, I think we have a lot of ground to cover. Striving to hit that fine line between physical perfection and self-destruction. When you get that certain point, you’re just ready. DC: That’s what I want to get out of it. Just to keep growing. What else is there?
Micro$oft’s JavaScript: WTF?
Dieses absolut geniale Stück Code stammt von Micro$oft’s SharePoint App
Was zum Geier haben die sich dabei gedacht?
Kein Wunder hat Windoof 40Mio Zeilen Code 😉
function DeferCall() {
if (arguments.length == 0) {
return null;
}
var args = arguments;
var fn = null;
if (browseris.ie5up || browseris.nav6up) {
eval("if (typeof(" + args[0] + ")=='function') { fn=" + args[0] + "; }");
}
if (fn == null) { return null; }
if (args.length == 1) {
return fn();
} else if (args.length == 2) {
return fn(args[1]);
} else if (args.length == 3) {
return fn(args[1], args[2]);
} else if (args.length == 4) {
return fn(args[1], args[2], args[3]);
} else if (args.length == 5) {
return fn(args[1], args[2], args[3], args[4]);
} else if (args.length == 6) {
return fn(args[1], args[2], args[3], args[4], args[5]);
} else if (args.length == 7) {
return fn(args[1], args[2], args[3], args[4], args[5], args[6]);
} else if (args.length == 8 ) {
return fn(args[1], args[2], args[3], args[4], args[5], args[6], args[7]);
} else if (args.length == 9) {
return fn(args[1], args[2], args[3], args[4], args[5], args[6], args[7], args[8]);
} else if (args.length == 10) {
return fn(args[1], args[2], args[3], args[4], args[5], args[6], args[7], args[8], args[9]);
} else {
var L_TooManyDefers_Text = "Too many arguments passed to DeferCall"
alert(L_TooManyDefers_Text);
}
return null;
}
[via clientcide.com]
Geary sagt dazu:
function DeferCall( fn ) {
if( typeof fn == 'string' )
eval( 'fn = ' + fn );
if( typeof fn != 'function' )
return null;
var args = [];
for( var i = 1, n = arguments.length; i < n; ++i )
args[i-1] = ‘arguments[' + i + ']‘;
return eval( ‘fn(’ + args.join(’,') + ‘)’ );
}
… und es geht über nur 10 Elemente ^^
*kopfschüttel*
