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In Case There Was Still Any Doubt, Here’s the Top Ten Reasons We Know the Earth Is Round
In Case There Was Still Any Doubt, Here’s the Top Ten Reasons We Know the Earth Is Round. Now I want to find a playground with a roundabout, and take a basketball with me.
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2012: The year Irish newspapers tried to destroy the web – McGarr Solicitors – Dublin
Well, gosh darn, every citation in every white paper, every reference in every book is basically a link and therefore basically chargeable. They should start with the universities, instead… This year the Irish newspaper industry asserted, first tentatively and then without any equivocation, that links -just bare links like this one- belonged to them. They…
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It’s technical leadership like this which demonstrates how the NSA is at the forefront of Cybersecurity
I’m … shocked. No-one in the private sector would ever have considered protection of data in transit. It’s this sort of foresightedness which amply demonstrates how private sector companies can never hope to compete with the expertise of the likes of NSA, CESG, DSD, etc, in protecting critical infrastructure. Via; see also commentary below.
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I sometimes wonder whether we could use Quantum Entanglement to make Voodoo Dolls …
Think about it. Until then: First Teleportation from One Macroscopic Object to Another | MIT Technology Review.
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If you get a GEIL / Golden Eye / Ben Dover / BDP file-sharing letter, you need to read this:
In the hope of using PageRank to forewarn and forearm the British public, if you happen to receive a claims letter from: Golden Eye International Limited GoldenEye GEIL Ben Dover Productions BDP …and the letter looks a bit like this example on the BBC website, then instead of panicing I recommend that you go and…
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YAY: “Android X server « my20percent” # X-Windows On Android. Phones are becoming Workstations are becoming Servers.
Voici Android X server « my20percent: For the past few months I’ve been implementing an X11 server to run natively under Android. In the near future I may have need for a serializable user interface, so to get a better understanding of how they work I decided to implement the de facto standard, X11. Well,…
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Doodles Lead to New Jersey Student’s Arrest # Science, Art, Learning = The New Witchcraft /ht @marshray
When a 16-year-old New Jersey boy doodled in his notebook on Tuesday, December 18, he probably didn’t expect to be arrested by the end of the day. However, when school officials saw the sketches, which they state appeared to be of weapons, and the boy “demonstrated behavior that caused them to be concerned,” the police…
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Eventually a tech reporter notices the fracas and chimes in to tell us the whole Infosec community is a bunch of jerks
In a nutshell, this keeps happening: Silent Circle’s an interesting case, since it’s gotten some gentle criticism lately from a variety of folks — well, mostly Nadim Kobeissi — for being partially closed-source and for having received no real security audits. Nadim’s typical, understated critique goes like this: Silent Circle is morally bankrupt for promoting…
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Cool way to put out a boat fire – FIRE FIGHTING WIN! – YouTube
via Watch This Guy Put Out a Boat Fire with Sheer Awesomeness
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The effect of nuclear explosions on commercially packaged beverages
PDF When a nuclear apocalypse comes calling, the first thing most of us will yearn for is a drink. And thanks to our government’s foresight and willingness to bomb stuff, you can rest assured that the surviving cans of PBR and Bud Light found in your now flattened local 7-Eleven will be safe to chug.…