Keylogging in Javascript (or “Why the fsck does a password field send the keypress value?”)
Disclaimer: The information in here is purely educational, yada yada yada.
And… it’s not people that abuse things who harm people — it’s the people that put those things there without thinking.
An explaination: I have always been intrigued by HTML forms. As a paranoid person, I have always wondered whether companies or websites are logging [...]
My proposal to reduce unnecessary power consumption: Ban animating internet ads
With the recent focus on what human power consumption does to the environment (you know with initiative like a black Google page to save on energy consumption by computer screens), I suddenly realised something that would greatly reduce even more useless power consumption.
It hit me when my girlfriends’ laptop was starting to have issues because [...]
Philips patents ‘fabric display’
 by in Ideas & Concepts, Random Rantings |
I just read on Tweakers that Philips applied for a patent to a ‘fabric display’.
Couple of years ago, while watching the Snooker championships on TV, noticing the advertisements on the players’ clothes, I had this nasty vision that at one point, ‘internet-connected sponsorships-tags‘ could just change on the fly… (The patent doesn’t mention any network [...]
You screwed around as a teen, now why can’t your kids?
Couldn’t help but notice the ‘hype’ surrounding the article entitled ‘You Grew Up Playing Shoot’em-Up Games. Why Can’t Your Kids?…. Although the title of that article may sound grown-up and wise, personally, I think it’s a bullshit wise-crack because I seriously doubt it has anything to do at all with computer games at all.
You [...]
I got a voting-pass but I’ve lost the passion to vote
| by in Conspiracies, Freedom & Repression, Ideas & Concepts, Media, Religion & Politics, Random Rantings |
So, following last years November elections, the upcoming government has been formed and we’re up for another term with Yawn-Peter Balkenende as our prime-minister.
It’s not surprising to see that these criminals get away with an un-just war. No investigation into the Iraqcle (Iraq + Debacle) — it’s a fucking joke how easy they can get [...]
Gen-tech contaminated rice found in Dutch supermarkets
Earlier this month results from research by Greenpeace indicated that a certain brand of rice that is sold in Dutch supermarkets is contaminated with genetically modified crops. (I wouldn’t have caught this if I didn’t check Indymedia.)
According to the article, it’s contaminated with a type of modified rice that can survive a certain weed-killer. [...]
The fallacy of male birth-control
| by in Health, Random Rantings, Visions |
You might have noticed that I don’t want to have kids (the reasons as to why are beyond the scope of this little blurb though — but I’m sure you’ll believe me when I say that, to sum it all up, it’s really best for the kid). To accomplish this my girlfriend uses some method [...]
“Minority report” slowly becoming a reality…
I just read this article about psychologists [that] are putting together a list of the 100 most dangerous murderers and rapists before they have committed any such crimes.
That’s pretty scary — especially if mix that news with a little bit of this and a little bit of that…
Force feedback: did I see prior art in `The Incredible Hulk’?
I don’t know where exactly that I read it, but some time the previous year I read this bit about a boat that sunk, in the 1960’s or 70’s, and that it was recovered by transferring ping-pong balls into it. Yeah, it made me think of the Discovery programma MythBusters as well, but it seems [...]
Am I the only one… ?
| by in Random Rantings, Visions |
Am I the only one here that sees the potential for abuse here by creative, corrupt, cops aspiring to be movie-directors?
And in a couple of years, Linux users are terrorists, undermining our freedoms…
| by in Conspiracies, Freedom & Repression, Media, Religion & Politics, Music Industry & DRM, Random Rantings, Visions |
So, Microsoft has made the bold claim that their intellectual property is in it.
Oh my fucking god. This is serious because there are plenty of stupid people in this world to believe that crap. Fuck, the critical majority, in each and every issue, is dumber than a horses ass and knows just enough to [...]
brain-tag.net
Don’t you hate it when you go and eat somewhere and the grub’s awful? Not because of the cook, but because of the ingredients? Or, are you (or do you know) a picky eater? Doesn’t it suck that it seems hard to find new menu’s to eat?
That’s what we were discussing when we had some [...]
Not having anything to hide; rather fearing other peoples interpretation of the facts…
| by in Computers & Hardware, Conspiracies, Freedom & Repression, Media, Religion & Politics, Security & Privacy, Software, Visions |
The title of this post has always been my biggest fear about Big Brother watching everybody’s move, registering everything they buy, et cetera.
See, I really have nothing to hide. I fear that ‘The Man’ only wrongly interprets the information and I get Red Flagged for nothing.
People always thought I was kidding when I said that, [...]
Genetic class-system
So I was reading this blurb on Slashdot on a genetically modified mouse lacking a certain gene that is responsible for the feelings of ‘depression’ when suddenly this hit me:
In the future, not only will there be a divide in classes, i.e. an economic divide, but it will be genetic as well.
So, the ‘general public’, [...]
It’s official: Vulgar lyrics linked to early sex by teenagers
Wow, these guys really deserve a Nobel-prize or something.</sarcasm>
Sheesh — did they really have to research this? When will they realise it’s the nakedness on TV too?
Dumb shit like MTV showing a too-young-a-girl crawling over the floor singing “I’m a slave — for you”, people think that doesn’t influence a childs’ mind?
In Holland we got [...]
Give up your PIN-code to some criminal holding you at gun-point?
| by in Belegana, Freedom & Repression, Health, Ideas & Concepts, Media, Religion & Politics, Random Rantings, Security & Privacy, The Netherlands, Visions |
Well, go to jail already! In the Netherlands, the police will label anybody that hands over their PIN-code, as a ’suspect of a criminal act’. Of course, there are things to be said against, and pro…. But, of course, I’m more leaning towards against: I didn’t fucking ask for a fucking banking-card that is protected [...]
Shifting away responsibility and blame…
So, de Van Der Sloot case is in the news again.
It really makes me sick how parents rather point the finger at someone else, whereas they are just as responsible for this situation in the first place.
Sure it is a sad story that somebody made the girl disappear, and of course, it is irrelevant that [...]
Trains to be equiped with TV screens for travel-info, news..
I just read this initiative to equip trains with TV screens. These TV screens will display travel-information, alternating with news and advertisements.
No escape from the propaganda they call TV — get brainwashed while commuting… Two-Minutes Hate, anyone?
Revealing how marihuana affects the brain
| by in Health, Interesting Links, Random Rantings, Visions |
OK so I was just reading this article right here telling about how scientists have developed a way to image cannabinoid receptors in the brain.
All fine and dandy — I see no problem there.
Until 1959, cannabis was available in pharmacies as medicine, under the name Extractum Cannabis Indicae. After that, cheaper, synthetic drugs appeared [...]
On smell-technology…
It’s amusing to see how ‘new’, almost magical technologies get embraced with so-much naivety. Slashdot has this little blurb about an article in the New Scientist on ’smell-technology’;
“Simply point the gadget at a freshly baked cookie, for example, and it will analyse its odour and reproduce it for you using a host of non-toxic chemicals. [...]
On the LA urban farm and the future of self-grown crops
That LA urban farm business, after reading Chomsky, shows some parallels with US foreign policy: as a government, you cannot have a successful self-sustaining model where people make ends meet and actually are living happy because that happiness and peace is viral, and it may spread to other places, so the government looses its political [...]
Sure, telephone numbers, etcetera, will all be replaced by a single email-address
| by in Computers & Hardware, Ideas & Concepts, Internet & Technology, Random Rantings, Software, The Netherlands |
Some Dutch researcher suggests that, in the long run, (mobile) telephone numbers will disappear and will be replaced by one email-address.
Although we can put people on the moon and make money of prolonging the problems of sickness, the spam problem most probably still won’t be solved. Not even touching the privacy-related issues there arise if [...]
On 9/11 conspiracies…
You know: it doesn’t really matter if these stories are true or not (i.e. the theory that another group is responsible for the 9/11 attacks, somehow infiltrated the government, etcetera).
It really doesn’t matter if it’s true. If it can take down the Bush administration, all the better.
See, that’s the fun thing about politics: ‘facts’ don’t [...]
Freaks of Nature (or: why cellphone-based triggering devices are only used in the movies)
Freaks of Nature, and I’m not talking about a band name. I’m talking about what happened to me last week.
You know, with the summer coming, we bought this handy wireless doorbell so that we can hear it ringing when we are, say, drinking with friends in the garden. Our ‘default’ doorbell doesn’t ring that [...]
The viral danger of ‘hope’..
| by in Ideas & Concepts, Random Rantings, Visions |
Hope is a very interesting concept. (And I am not talking about Hackers On Planet Earth)
It is a feeling, or concept that we can find in various religions. In fact, you don’t even have to be religious to have ever had feelings of ‘hope’.
But what is hope anyway? Is it really what it’s cranked [...]
So — they’re out for ‘our freedoms’, eh?
| by in Belegana, Conspiracies, Freedom & Repression, Media, Religion & Politics, Random Rantings, The Netherlands, Visions |
WHAT FUCKING FREEDOMS (Dutch) ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?
I look around and see the quality of life terribly deteriorating: schools don’t have any decent budgets because of the ongoing mock-up wars. I can’t even walk the fucking street at night without getting fucking stared at.
So who’s the fucking terrorist? No ‘terrorist’ has bombed my neighbourhood. [...]
More on Ayaan…
…so I hear on the radio that the US criticises the way that us Dutch people are handling Ayaan’s situation, throwing her out like that.
Apparently, some diplomat from the Dutch embassy over there told the US press that, she isn’t being thrown out as the media implies.
Of course, I see the stage getting set — [...]
The US, a dangerous country?
| by in Conspiracies, Freedom & Repression, Ideas & Concepts, Media, Religion & Politics, Random Rantings |
A colleague of mine made the remark that the US is a dangerous country. That seems true at first, but I couldn’t resist making a parallel with the old saying `Who is more a fool, the fool, or the fool that follows the fool?‘.
So, who is more dangerous?
A big bad arrogant country, or all [...]
What if…
OK, so what if …
What if, in the not-so-distant future, housing keeps gettting more and more expensive..
What if the worlds’ population keeps on increasing — with the slowly increasing ‘power’ of medicine and obstruction to things like abortion..
What if the world gets more and more crowded resulting in more and more problems with housing..
What if [...]
Nuclear is still nuclear
Interesting to note that there’s some research-reactor in Petten, the Netherlands.
More interesting is its recent switch to a different type of uranium. Apparently, the US government and the International Atomic Energy Society pressured them to do this as the type of uranium they used could be used to manufacture nuclear weapons.
Interesting fact is that the [...]
Protected: Increasing storage by reducing the data (delta-compressed storage)
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
On democracy…
This analogy hit me last night when me and the girlfriend were watching television and I had the remote-control in my hand:
Democracy is the TV, the society watches and politicians are the guy with the remote-control.
There’s a 120 channels on, yet politicians only allow you to choose one of the two or three channels [...]
Free (as in beer) Media: If we don’t watch out it’s gone
Just read this article on the RIAA’s latest bullshit.
Presumable, first they say copying a bought CD is OK.
Now they say it’s infringing use. From the article:
If I understand what the RIAA is saying, “perfectly lawful” means “lawful until we change our mind.” So your ability to continue to make copies of your own CDs on [...]
UK: Smoking banned in public places
Today a lot of talk about the UK ban on smoking in public places.
The anti-smoking lobby will be happy — and a lot of those nagging mofo’s as well. And only a matter of time because those health-zealots find something wrong with some other product that they’re too big a pussy to handle to want [...]
Another fine example of short-sightedness…
Over the recent months, ’secret’ government information has been leaked through various channels: officials leaving PCs on the pavement for garbage-disposal and leaving information, plain-text, in rented cars on USB sticks.
OK — let it sink in for a while…
What do you think they are doing to prevent this?
Microsoft’s AV software will be expensive
Just read an article which states Microsoft’s new AV ’service’ will cost about 50 dollars per year.
Knowing Microsoft’s track-record regarding ’security software’ and their carefully constructed End-User Licence Agreements, I find it highly probable that it ain’t worth a fucking dime.
Yeh yeh — I know they’ll say they’ll use that money to make more [...]
The future looks bleak…
This Movie-Making game reported about on Wired News seems to be the next step surely deteriorating society as we know it.
The article roughly explains how this new game works:
The options available in The Movies are staggering, and are, thankfully, introduced incrementally. You start out by recruiting actors, building a couple of basic sets, and making [...]
A nasty vision of the future…
CNN reports on Bush telling abortion foes, ‘We will prevail’:
“You believe, as I do, that every human life has value, that the strong have a duty to protect the weak, and that the self-evident truths of the Declaration of Independence apply to everyone, not just to those considered healthy or wanted or convenient,” Bush told [...]
Event horizon ‘proof’
| by in Ideas & Concepts, Space & Beyond |
I was already reading into all those fantastic phenomena that occur in the space-time continuum and coincidentally, this was posted on Slashdot today:
Astronomers have proven the existence of the event horizon, the ‘point of no return’ that surrounds black holes. An MIT and Harvard team said they showed its existence by looking for X-ray bursts [...]
Redshift….
| by in Ideas & Concepts, Space & Beyond |
I was researching some space phenomena, in order to better comprehend Einsteins’ writings when I hit this Redshift concept.
Quoting Wikipedia,
Redshift may be characterized by the difference between the observed and emitted wavelengths. In astronomy it is customary to refer to the relative change in wavelength, a dimensionless quantity called z and defined by the [...]
Turn an ordinary single-use camera into an RFID-Zapper
I just discovered this German RFID-Zapper project which looks pretty interesting:
I’ll most definately built myself one as soon as the documentation’s up there.
Zap those tags!
RFID-Zapper
Mona Lisa’s smile analyzed…
The University of Amsterdam, in coorporation with the University of Illinois, have developed an ‘emotion-recognition’ system:
Mona Lisa’s enigmatic smile has intrigued viewers for centuries and now researchers claim they have unlocked the secret behind it.
A computer analysis of the Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece has found that she is 83 per cent happy, 9 per cent [...]
I’ll probably risk my ass getting tortured and shit, but …
…that Unabomber Manifesto isn’t that bad at all…. The guy does make some interesting points.
Before reading this, I was under the impression that the guy was crazy, had radical ideas and wanted to kill everyone. But his manifesto seems like a spot-on analysis of the current state of mankind. Paragraphs like this:
Leftism is totalitarian force. [...]
What’s this ‘Divide-and-Conquer’ thing with Wikipedia?
The commercial encyclopedae shall be very amused with what’s currently happening. Now the founders are fighting amongst themselves.
That can’t be a good thing and I wonder where this will lead us….. Probably to another paid-for reference that nobody will use because cheaper, or even free, alternatives are available. I just hope that in a [...]
Excellent Richard Stallman interview
ZNet is running a nice interview with Richard M. Stallman (well, for the laymen anyways) that explains the Free Software principle, the movement, and the people.
It is really worth a read if you are wondering about this open, free software stuff you’ve heard so much about.
A noteworthy quote:
The idea is not just to [...]
Javascript BASIC Interpreter has graphics support!
My BASIC interpreter (development version) now has graphics support.
This comes terribly close to art….
| by in Arts & Poetry, Ideas & Concepts, Software |
Nifty BASIC implementation in Javascript, if I say so myself.. 
Javascript Console Animation class
| by in Ideas & Concepts, Software |
Today I re-wrote an old (Javascript) ‘console-animation’ class I once wrote before.
What about Webserver security?
What about web-server security? Nice to focus on the software the end-users use, but servers can play a *very* important role here, too.
Mozilla/Firefox Security Extension
An idea for a browser security extension to catch phishing/pharming attempts. In fact, the idea is not limited to browsers only.