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already presented here http://dewy.fem.tu-ilmenau.de/CCC/24C3/mp4/24c3-2155-en-universe_on_supercomputers-COMPATIBLE.mp4
and in very interesting way.

http://idw-online.de/pages/de/news12995

Thats the google query where you can find more articles about the project: http://www.google.com/search?q=roboter+baumarkt+ilmenau

Sorry but obviosly that project was mainly covered in the german press.

English Homepage: http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/fakia/Projects.2202.0.html?&L=1

Someone's been living under a rock since December 2007.

I'll just point you to the recent 25th Chaos Community Congress Console Hacking talk (slides, video) which neatly summarizes a year of hacking and how much of a horrible failure Nintendo's security has been.

Spoiler: their signatures used to have 8-bit security. Literally.

We've had lots of fun.

It might interest you that there is a reason why british politicians CAN'T do anything against the extending police state.
Here is a video of a british secret service whistleblower explaining how these things work at the 24c3 conference:

http://dewy.fem.tu-ilmenau.de/CCC/24C3/matroska/24c3-2293-en-what_can_we_do_to_counter_the_spies.mkv

Explains quite a lot.

Indeed, that was part of the famous talk "Sie haben das Recht zu schweigen" (Download) (meaning something like "you have the right to be silent") at the 23C3.

You should see this video (204 MB MPEG4) of a 23C3 Speech/Screening featuring biometric interfaces in SciFi movies.

Seems german scientists beat those US scientists to it. The team from the Fraunhofer Institute received a german research award for creating an artificial insect eye over a year ago.

Find more technical infos here (sorry, german only).

In all seriousness, check out the EU. Good currency, and you can jump from country to country depending on which freedom you would like to enjoy.

I live in the EU (Germany) and would like to leave because the EU appears to be rather heading towards a dictatorship then to be a democracy (e.g. data retention, EU Parliament cannot initiate legislation etc.)
Watch We lost the war, a speach healt at last year's Chaos Communication Congress to get a picture of the situation (of course not without bias).

-t_d

i like ann harrison (afterall she's a nice woman and john gilmore's gf), but sorry, her article on wired about 22c3 is a shame. way too short and touching lectures you could write entire essays on in a single sentence.
i wonder why my /. submission about the entire conference http://events.ccc.de/congress/2005/ got rejected..

videos from all lectures: ftp://dewy.fem.tu-ilmenau.de/

For those of you who speak German, here is a link to the video recorded at 22C3: ftp://dewy.fem.tu-ilmenau.de/2005-12-27_-_22c3_-_S aal2_Hacking_CCTV_-_Watching_the_watchers,_having_ fun_with_cctv_cameras,_making_yourself_invisible/2 2c3_saal2_3.wmv
Unfortunately it is currently available in the wmv format and with low quality only while the high-res material is being processed.

-A

Personally, I would be happier if you didn't need an antivirus and firewall on windows to start with.

You need an antivirus on every maschine - nearly every OS has its problems (ok, MacOSX has 0 known viruses, but that's OT). Under Windows you do not nessesary need a personal firewall. I collected a few links for you ;)
http://www.fefe.de/pffaq/
http://www.iks-jena.de/mitarb/lutz/usenet/Firewall .en.html
http://www.ntsvcfg.de/ntsvcfg_eng.html
http://www.stud.tu-ilmenau.de/~traenk/zaweg.htm (this one's evil...)

Don't get me wrong: Firewalls are great - just personal firewalls aren't (IMHO). A firewall is a concept and not a program. Get a fine proxy and configure a packet-filter on it - this will give you more security than any personal firewall could!

How about LISP written in C++ Templates? The file metalisp.cpp is quite interesting.

I bought it back in january, after first learning about AOP. At the time, it was the only book I could find directly on AOP, with a second coming in feb. Otherwise, the only other text source I could find was Generitive Programming.

So I bought it, and I was excited when I began reading. Then I found out it was just a bunch of JSP and other then the first 25 pages, very little content. Now I admit I put it down a good 25 or so pages later and skimmed through the rest, but I was extremely disapointed in it. Instead I've been grabbing all of the ECOOP workshop documentation.

In the end, it was worth the money. No, not for the book, god no! But by getting me excited and reading the ACM Communication articles and then talking to my adviser about it. It turns out the editor for the AOP material in the ACM communications is a professor at my school, and even better is happy to let me help her out next semester (I'm extremely swamped now). So now I'm considering doing the thesis option on my masters. I'll spend the summer reading REAL material.

My opinion: AOP is awesome but the book is a waste of money. Here are a few good readings:

Alternatives to AOP
Generitive Programming chapter
AOP publication
AOD 2002 workshop
ECOOP97

Sure. I'll also recommend some books which are on the cutting edge of what's going on in these areas. By far the definitive guide is "Generative Programming" by Czarnecki and Eisenecker. They delve into Domain Engineering, Aspect Oriented Programming, Intentional Programming (being developed by Simonyi @ MS), and other topics in general programming. The book is great, and you can check out Czarnecki's website associated with it which includes source code and links to other online resources. Other literature currently close to my heart is "Modern C++ Design" by Alexandrescu, which deals with Policy Based library design (closely related to the idea of generative programming; it allows C++ to act as a 2-tiered language by giving the compiler the ability to make decisions on what should be compiled), and anything that you can find on the Eiffel programming language (I suggest The Official Eiffel Software Homepage) which implements Design by Contract (DBC). Basically this states that there are certain pre- and post- conditions which must be met by each part of your program and places constraints on the code based on the 'contracts'. As a side note, this can currently be spoofed in C++ by using the static assertion library. Wow, that was long-winded. In any case, hope that helps. If you want more info, drop another post.

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