Som ett led i att tvinga fram bodströms datalagringsdirektiv i Sverige har EU-kommissionen lämnat in en stämningsansökan eftersom Sverige aldrig lagstiftade att internet- och teleoperatörerna måste lagra uppgifter av sådan art att man kan spåra vem som gjort vad.
Eftersom datalagringsdirektivet enligt uppgifter kommer röstas igenom som lag i höst så kommer stämningen som en sorts säkerhet att vi inte gör fel här uppe i norr oavsett hur det går i röstandet till EU-valet nu den 7:e (där kanske piratpartiet får fler platser än någon hade trott) utan gör som vi är tillsagda och snarast inför direktivet i svensk lag.
Direktivet är ännu ett led i övervakningssamhället som Tomas Bodström (s) såg i sin vision när han drev den typ av politik som senare lett oss till bl.a IPRED och nu datalagringsdirektivet.
The ray of light shot hand-held from the south part of Kruthornsvägen looking NNW.
I lördags natt på väg hem från en filmkväll i Sollentuna på Kruthornsvägen observerade vi denna mycket kraftiga ljusstråle som sköt rakt upp i atmosfären. Vi konstaterade att lyseffekten måste vara på åtskilliga kW för att kunna åstadkomma detta och strålen var synlig flera hundra meter upp i atmosfären och måste definitivt ha synts väl för flygplan.
Vi vet inte vad detta var för något men någon sorts anläggning måste det vara. Eftersom vi hade parkerat bilen en bit bort så promenerade vi Kruthornsvägen fram och konstaterade att vi kunde triangulera strålens position ganska bra. Det visade sig att den med största sannolikhet kom från en bergsknalle i närheten av Kruthornsvägen bakom hyreshuset på bilden. Vid en första anblick på Eniro, Hitta och Google Maps hittades inget men sedan började jag se spår av att bilderna photoshoppats och något har dolts.
Om man sedan tar en titt på 3D-vyn hos hitta.se samt flygfotot från Eniro som båda visar att det finns någon sorts anläggning på platsen. Ringarna är väl antingen en grillplats eller kraftiga lampor, det ser ut som om det ligger några små bodar eller skjul på platsen. Jag har ingen aning om vad det är för något.
På bilderna ovan sitter det olika färgade cirklar i närheten av de objekt som verkar vara intressanta det röda markerar något som skulle kunna vara kraftiga strålkastare (eller grillplatser!) den blå och gröna markerar någon sorts mindre hus eller skjul på något vis som verkar ha med anläggningen att göra. På den nedersta bilden syns också en del av det hus som finns med på fotografiet längst upp i denna artikel.
Jag kollade inflygningsbilden för Arlanda flygplats och det finns ingen markering där såvitt jag kunde se och strålen ser definitivt inte ut som ett inflygningsljus brukar se ut heller. Länskartor kunde heller inte kasta någon sorts ljus över saken utan noterade bara att det låg några (!) transformatorstationer i närheten, kanske något fler än vad man förväntar sig i ett ganska litet bostadsområde som detta och en ljuskälla som den ovan borde kräva en kraftig effekt för att vara så stark, men det ligger också ett par skolor i området som kan räknas till större förbrukare.
Är det någon som har en aning om vad det var vi såg upptänt här i lördags natt dvs natten till söndagen den 24/5 2009?
Rails tracks at Karlberg station photographed in the nice sunlight yesterday. Filtered to B&W and post processed in Lightroom. Nikon D300 and Nikkor 16-85/3.5-5.6 lens.
On my way home from work I pass a curious place. It is a double bridge with the upper part for cars and pedestrians and then there is the underneath level for the metro underground trains. Underneath this bridge there is a really shoddy place in otherwise very nice and posh quarters.
Last saturday we set out about 11 hobby photographers to the old Public Records building here in Stockholm. It was my Flickr aquaintance Björn Sahlström who had been able to get access to the building and we entered it with camers, tripods, bags of lenses and other gear to have a good time. The building is fairly large so we quickly spread out and did not have to step on each other’s toes at all really.
Strolling through the empty halls that used to hold all the stat public records and books was a strange feeling, I had never been there, some of the others had been on a guided tour and quickly went to photograph what they knew to be well worth taking a look at.
This building is called ”Riksarkivet” in Swedish and was built around 1880 with the intention of being able to withstand a fire. From the beginning the archive was only open during the light hours of the day because they did not want open flames or even electricity inside. Therefore it has huge windows to let enough light in for people to be able to work there with reasearch or book keeping tasks of various kinds.
The facade of the wondeful building is made from a special type of engineering brick in red and black. The architecture is referred to as neo-renaissance. It was the building of the Swedish publick records from 1890 ca and forward into modern times when it was moved to a new building. This house has been empty since then and is a wonderful place to visit.This is the entrance of the old public records building here in Stockholm. It is a grand design and quite impressive when you are standing outside it. Notice the word "RIKSARKIVET" on top of the door? There is also a light on inside that shows through the stained glass window.The grand entrance is well known and famous!FloorAt first they did not want electricity in the building at all. That is why they went for such big beautiful windows. But in the end they still had problems with soot on the windows from the near by train track and decided that some electricity was okay for lights and reading lamps. Elevator. Once no electricity at all because of the fire hazard but still this elevator was installed. The engine for it was compartmentalized in a fire proof encasing in the basement of the building. The elevator was delivered by a company called "Allmänna svenska elektriska aktiebolaget" which is today better known as ASEA - one of the biggest companies in Sweden...Archive room. Notice the plastic skeleton someone has hung in the leftmost window?The Book Slide or "bokstörten" as it is called in Swedish. This invention was added to the stair case in the days of the second world war. The idea being that should Sweden become attacked by an aggressor in the war, then the archives and books here could be loaded onto ships fast using this book slide to slide them down to the water front and then they could be sailed off to some secure location.Another shot of the famous book slide, this time from beneath.Elevator indicator indicating which floor the elevator is located at. The readings indicates "top floors 1-3" where the actual indicator is located on top floor 1 and then middle floor I guess some would call that the Mezzanine and then the two bottom floors in the building. Strange way to give names to the floors but since this was the first elevator installed in a public building in Sweden I guess they found a better way later on.Heating water details. The plumbing is quite cool here, craftmanship and artwork at the same time. I found myself having a bit of a problem with shooting details this time, something I need to work on I think because I came home with a lot of different rooms in my camera but not so many details and sometimes it is the details that really gives you the feeling for something. Or as the expression goes - the devil is in the details...Column radiator - these radiators are quite fantastic being a design from the 1880:s. They are hollow inside and the cold air at the floor level enters through the grates at the bottom, gets heated and rises to exit at the top creating a chimney effect that will circulate the air in the room to avoid moisture and dampness. Of course the outside also radiates heat and aids in the convection. And on top of that they are rather beautiful to look at in my opinion.Another of the famous archive rooms. That's me up on the balustrade there using the camera self timer.The reading room / study / board room. I love the details in this room, look at the drawers in the table for temporarily putting away what you are not reading at the moment and look at the lamps integrated in the design to cast a nice reading light over the table when the huge windows are not sufficient for the light in the winter time. Look at the balustrade around the whole room where you can walk around it. This is one of the most fascinating rooms in this building. – An attic light - I found this light in the attic and it seems a more modern design than many other lights, perhaps something put in in the seventies or eighties when these spaces where being used. I liked the radiosity of light on the beams and so I managed to make three separate exposures and combine them for this photograph which is a proper HDR photo.The light on the floor again on one of the upper levels in the building. The huge windows served the purpose of providing enough light for working in the building before there was any electrical lights in here. Eventually the fear of fire subsided and electricity was installed and one of the reasons was that the windows was subjected to a lot of soot from the nearby railway where the steam engines went past hourly. The hallway - I love the stone floor and the way the radiator is integrated into the wall of the stairwell like this, it is a really good design. Notice how they left space at the top for the air to move freely creating that "chimney effect" in order to make the heater much more efficient than conventional radiators.The commode - one of the toilets with a good view out over the old town in Stockholm and wonderful light from the window. Notice the nice radiator from the heating system, all built in so you can't burn yourself on it even if it is really hot. The insulation was not that good so in the winter the heaters worked pretty hard to keep the moisture and dampness at bay.One of the archive rooms with the shelves intact. All the papers, books and everything else is long gone from this place but here the shelves remains. Probably most of the archive rooms looked like this with narrow paths between the shelves where librarians and intendents could find the acts, protocols and other things that was requested perhaps by the government.A splendid view through one of the magnificient windows. This is in the same archive room as the last picture was taken, just looking out the window. I think I could live here :-)Details from the elevator. It reads: "Instruction. Make sure doors and gates are closed properly after you have entered or exited the elevator. Use the buttons accordingly to their markings and then allow the lift after it has started to stop by itself. Never open the gates when the elevator is running. People under the age of majority are not allowed to operate this elevator alone."A reading light with a classic design. Since light bulbs caused lots of heat there is a kind of "stick" where you can grab and angle the light even if it is too hot to touch directly.What can you say other than this magnificient roof is just splendidly preserved.Here is the reading room or board roam again, this time with the camera facing the windows.
So today was the day after three days of studying the TRI regs (trafiksäkerhetsinstruktion) and two tunnel walks track side in the Stockholm Metro with the last one guiding a bunch of people watching our for their security and acting as a lookout for oncoming trains I officially passed the category 16 examination.
I missed one point on the examination and got only 49/50 and that was a silly silly mistake because I rushed the question a bit. Darn.
I am now officially allowed to guide people track side, feels pretty good :)
Photo Walk Stockholm this is the second annual Scott Kelby Photo Walk arranged in Stockholm. Make sure you mark the date 18 July off in your calendar and then join in by clicking the link above.
Välkommen till den andra årliga Scott Kelby Photo Walk (kamerapromenad) här i stockholm. Om du har lust att vara med så kom med den 18 juli. Läs mer på länken ovan!
Riksdagens borgerliga majoritet har beslutat att skjuta upp starten för FRA:s kabelsignalspaning med 2 månader till den 1:a december i år. Skälet anges vara att regeringens arbete med att göra kompletteringar till signalspaningslagen för att förbättra rättssäkerheten har dragit ut på tiden.
Från den första december måste dock teleoperatörerna föra över all trafik till särskilda knutpunkter där den kan bearbetas statistiskt och lagras för efteranalys.
För kommunikation som man inte önskar alla skall kunna läsa på vägen rekommenderas att titta på programpaketet gpg4win som gör det möjligt att kryptera all kommunikation över email med mera. Stark kryptografi är ett mycket användbart medel för att skydda den personliga integriteten och ju fler som bestämmer sig för att börja använda det rutinmässigt desto mindre konstigt och svårare blir det att utföra statistisk analys för de som skall övervaka oss.
Passa på innan det beslutas om att det skall bli olagligt att använda kryptering för personligt bruk!
Detta är en manuellt tillverkad HDR-bild. HDR betyder ”high dynamic range” och gör att man kan komprimera en bilds tonomfång på ett sätt så att man både kan exponera för mörka och ljusa partier samtidigt. I detta fall har jag tagit två stycken bilder, en som är korrekt exponerad för det man ser genom vindrutan och en bild exponerad för manöverpanelen på tåget. Sedan har jag lagt dessa bilder som två olika lager i Photoshop, lagt på en lagermask och sedan ”målat fram” bilden i vindrutan över den andra exponeringen. Till sist har jag plattat till bilden, sparat den som TIFF och konverterat en kopia till JPEG.
Bilden är tagen under en radiosystemstestning när vi åkte pendeltåg mellan Södertälje och Gnesta.
This is a manually made HDR by the way. HDR means ”high dynamic range” and is a technique to compress the tonal range from several pictures so that you can expose for dark and light parts at the same time. Two exposures necessary, one with the proper settings to expose the outdoors properly and one to expose the instrumentation. Then I put them together in Photoshop, applied a layer mask and then painted through the instrument panel, flattened the image, saved as a TIFF and exported as a JPEG.
This picture was taken when we were doing radio system test drives last tuesday and we had great fun in the older trains (which I prefer, the X1/X6 and X10 rather than the new X60).
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