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OH MY GOD: *THIS* IS WHAT PASSES FOR COMPUTER EDUCATION IN THE UK, TODAY
Quoth Mel: Tom is 15 and started studying for his GCSEs this year. He chose to do double-IT but he’s very frustrated and disillusioned with it because there is no programming involved even though he was promised there would be. Instead he spends several hours a week learning how to make a spreadsheet and stuff…
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What most schools don’t teach # LEARN TO CODE: applies to the UK just as much as the USA – excellent video
Note to cynics: ignore the cheese, listen to the message: Part of code.org, which seems to be a little overloaded at the moment 🙂
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“Your password is… – by Glyn Wintle – Ignite London 7 on Vimeo” /ht @glynwintle #MUSTWATCH
Your password is… – by Glyn Wintle – Ignite London 7 from chichard41 on Vimeo.
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“Testing Tor Hidden Services with Burp Pro” – blog.encrypted.cc /ht @runasand # spooks will be buying burp at speed
Testing Tor Hidden Services With Burp Pro FEB 25TH, 2013 On February 15, Dafydd Stuttard announced the release of Burp Suite v1.5.05. This release contains a number of feature enhancements and bugfixes, including an extension to the SOCKS proxy support which allows users to specify that all DNS lookups should be done remotely via the…
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A souvenir for any Sun Microsystems Security Geeks of a certain age
So, one year the powers that be gave us no almost budget to go to USENIX, but a huge bunch of us did anyhow; we wanted to have a Sun BoF (“beat the dutchman“) but had no signage. So we stole the Microsoft signage, turned it back to front, covered it in cards and Post-It…
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Two surprisingly interesting and SFW statistical analysis of the lives of pornstars and adverts for escorts
Dirty Words: A Probing Analysis of 5000 Call Girl Reviews (October 2011) There is an online subculture of men who review their encounters with escorts using a frank, exhaustive style you’d associate more with reviews of hotels than sex. I analyzed five thousand of these ‘field reports’ to see what I could find out about…
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It’s Okay To Be Smart • My last post about the ocean-dwelling virus that… # electron microscopy
It's Okay To Be Smart • My last post about the ocean-dwelling virus that….
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HELP: Where can I get about 20 cardboard boxes, suitable for filing/archive, approx A4 x 30cm or a bit bigger ?
Am doing some tidying up and want to bung some stuff in the loft. Stackable would be good.
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Everything to be labelled with terrifying images of death # how very #cyber
“[…] getting shampoo in your eyes could easily leave you temporarily blinded, causing you to stumble out of the shower, down the stairs, out of the door and into the path of traffic. “From now on all shampoo will have a label showing a corpse that’s been run over by a bus and exploded like…