Laut iPhone war ich mehrmals in Recklinghausen, aber laut Ula gab es nicht soviele durchzechte Wochenenden mit Routetrips in dem letzen Jahr. Ich war viel in Kackcity und sonst viel in OS, Hamburg, Soltau und einmal auf ner Norddeutschen Insel? Kein Plan.

ah, und meine 2010er Reise auf Malle ist auch so halb dokumentiert.

VIA
Alles dank des Datenspeichers in der “consolidated.db”: “Gespeichert werden die Daten in der Datei “consolidated.db“, diese Datei wird bei einer Synchronisierung des Geräts auch an den Computer übertragen.”

Wie die App funktioniert kann man sich hier angucken.

Quick facts:
* The data is only stored locally and is not transfered to anyone
* The data is not determined through GPS so its more a mere guess than an exact location.
Apple should encrypt the data in future firmwares to make sure it doesn’t fall into the wrong hands.

Mister Maus ist sehr böse und lässt uns nicht mehr in Frieden.

Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy a country’s way of life; it’s only our reaction to that attack that can do that kind of damage. The more we undermine our own laws, the more we convert our buildings into fortresses, the more we reduce the freedoms and liberties at the foundation of our societies, the more we’re doing the terrorists’ job for them.

Von Bruce Schneier bei CNN via vowe.net
Schade, dass man sowas nie aus Politiker-Mund hören wird.

Attractive Women Make Men Temporarily Stupid

The Telegraph reports that men who spend even a few minutes in the company of an attractive woman perform less well in tests designed to measure brain function than those who chat to someone they do not find attractive. This leads to speculation that men use up so much of their brain function or ‘cognitive resources’ trying to impress beautiful women, they have little left for other tasks. Psychologists at Radboud University in The Netherlands carried out the study after one of them was so struck on impressing an attractive woman he had never met before, that he could not remember his address when she asked him where he lived. Researchers recruited 40 male heterosexual students and had each one perform a standard memory test. The volunteers then spent seven minutes chatting to male or female members of the research team before repeating the test. The results showed that men were slower and less accurate after trying to impress the women. The more they fancied them, the worse their score.

Slashdot, halt

metrix007 points out a story in the Sunday Express with more surveillance-camera madness from the UK, where the government now wants to place 20,000 CCTV cameras to monitor families (“the worst families in England”) within their own homes, to make sure that “kids go to bed on time and eat healthy meals and the like. This is going too far, and hopefully will not pass. Where will it end?”

“Telescreen” heisst das glaube ich in Newspeak.