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“Petty treason” – things that were “worse than murder” – Wikipedia
It’s all about society… The element of betrayal is the reason why this crime was considered worse than an ordinary murder; medieval and post-medieval society rested on a framework in which each person had his or her appointed place and such murders were seen as threatening this framework. Many people had somebody subordinate to them…
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Intra-Christian Envy | Giles Fraser | Comment is free | The Guardian
Justin Welby is the theological product of Holy Trinity Brompton, the Old Etonian-run church next to Harrods that brought the world the Alpha Course and doubles up as a posh dating agency for west London singles. They are brilliant at PR and have pots of money. And if Christianity is all about success, then you…
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Mysterious mini door found in Golden Gate Park | Richmond SF Blog
Mysterious mini door found in Golden Gate Park | Richmond SF Blog. via
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Letters: Botched draft that threatens the blogosphere | Media | The Guardian #guardian
Extract: The government has defined a “relevant publisher” for the purposes of press regulation in a way that seeks to draft campaign groups and community-run websites covering neighbourhood planning applications and local council affairs into a regulator designed for the Guardian, Sun and Daily Mail. Even the smallest of websites will be threatened with the…
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SATURDAY UPDATE – HELP! – Leveson Blog Regulation – WE NEED YOUR HELP AGAIN!
What’s the situation? You will not believe today’s craziness, but here’s a quick recap of how we got to here: There’s the whole Leveson regulation thing, you probably know about that Then over the weekend we discovered that Leveson would regulate all blogs Then on Wednesday, OpenRightsGroup, Big Brother Watch and Index on Censorship met…
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NetBSD: RNG Bug May Result in Weak Cryptographic Keys #sameold #sameold
Due to a misplaced parenthesis, if insufficient GOOD bits were available to satisfy a request, the keying/rekeying code requested either 32 or 64 ANY bits, rather than the balance of bits required to key the stream generator. The result of this bug is that even after the minimum entropy threshold was reached, the generators for…
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Stephen Fry: It’s now very common to hear people say, “I’m rather offended by that”, as if that gives them certain rights
Mmmm. He said: ‘It’s now very common to hear people say, “I’m rather offended by that”, as if that gives them certain rights. It’s no more than a whine. It has no meaning, it has no purpose, it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. “I’m offended by that.” Well, so fucking what?’…
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A question for @markpack @drjennywoods @julianhuppert @zoeimogen and all #libdem #libdems, please /cc @sunny_hundal
Mark, Jenny, Julian, Zoe: After your near-exemplary record re: the CCDP / Communications Data Bill and the subsequent realisation that the LibDem grass roots are not always in sync with the parliamentary party, and having on Tuesday night been at a round-table including both Sunny Hundal (edit: LiberalConspiracy) and Mark Ferguson (LabourList) both of whom…