Die Zahl der Internetsperren durch Regierungen hat sich innerhalb von zwei Jahren mehr als verdreifacht: 2017 wurden weltweit bisher 61 Blockaden des Internets gezählt – 43 mehr als im Jahr 2015, wie die Deutsche Unesco-Kommission mitteilte

In a world where most of us are just surplus population, certain temptations are acute indeed.

Mr. Baby’s club in Archangel is envisioned as a scaled-up version of what you get when Berlin’s Weimar bohemia becomes a platform for the postwar black market, so imagine it as primarily extra-legal, but staffed in part by pre-war counterculturists.

My most recent novel, The Peripheral, has two futures, one mid 21st-century, the other mid 22nd-century. And the mid 22nd-century is out-there post-Singularity weird-ass, so I guess I'm already there.

The book I'm currently finishing, called Agency, is set in that same 22nd Century future, but also in a 2017 San Francisco, in a timeline where Trump lost the election (but which is itself no picnic).

the watches allow remote parties to seize control over them in order to monitor children's movements and see where they've gone, covertly listen in on them, and steal their personal information. The data the watches gather and transmit to offshore servers is copious and sent in the clear. The watches incorporate cameras and the photos children take are also easily plundered by hackers.

The constitutional state is today the universal expression of power despite its constant questioning and its lack of ability to maintain a minimal order in large parts of the world. This two-century-old invention seems to resist despite the challenges it faces. It remains an attractive idea with a universal reach; all cultures seem to have adopted it one way or another

Parameter expansion is the procedure to get the value from the referenced entity, like expanding a variable to print its value. On expansion time you can do very nasty things with the parameter or its value. These things are described here.

Wofür werden bereichsspezifische Kennzeichen (bPK) eingesetzt und wie wird diese errechnet.

Stammzahl und bereichsspezifisches Personenkennzeichen

Beschreibung der Methoden zur Ermittlung der Stammzahlen und bPK gemäß § 6 Abs. 6 E-Gov-G

Was passiert bei der Aktivierung der Bürgerkartenfunktion auf der e-card?

Austrian "e-Card" (=Health Card) of the 4th generation. (HealthCare)