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Unfriendly skies for many a traveling musician # Hacking the TSA processes for the sake of your Cello
Neat trick: to obtain common sense, check into your flight when there are not enough security staff around to permit them to confer and thereby reduce their collective IQ: “I would choose to travel with the fool-proof cello, the one whose endpin was not removable. Or, if planning to play a different one, I would…
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NYC mayor pins crime rate spike on iPhone, iPad theft # Curious, I would put the blame for crime upon the criminals
Major crime is on the rise in New York City, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg says the increase is due entirely to thefts of Apple’s iPhone and iPad devices, which he says are inordinately attractive to thieves. As reported by The New York Times, Bloomberg raised the issue during Friday’s edition of his weekly morning broadcast…
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“If your state is into guilt-by-association you might want to cite a few jerks in your phonebook” /ht @ioerror
Starts at the 09:45s mark; you’ll have to fast forward to that point to get to the start… Worth the watch – tl;dr version: You can have an effect. Maybe you should try?
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IP and Censorship | The Occupied Times /ht @jimkillock @openrightsgroup
The term Intellectual Property was deliberately chosen and promoted by lobbyists to portray trademarks, copyrights and patents as a kind of inalienable property: to make people feel that the control over ideas and expressions created by these laws is both natural and absolute. The term is now written into international law, a tribute to the power…
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Amazon.co.uk: Customer Reviews: Barrettine Methylated Spirit 500ml /ht @mjj122
Fresh, intense and with no little complexity. Good length and with hints of benzine this reminds me of a high quality 10 year old Beerenauslese Riesling from the Rheingau but at a fraction of the price. Note that this isn’t a full 75cl bottle, but is a ’bouteille a deux’ 50cl, perfect for two to…
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A very merry, very digital Christmas Eve
…and now for a very chilled-out Christmas Day 🙂 Photos by Alec Muffett & Brian Micklethwait
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BLAKE2 – simpler, smaller, fast as MD5 # epic, but DO NOT USE THIS AS A PASSWORD HASH 🙂 /ht @zooko @solardiz
BLAKE2 – simpler, smaller, fast as MD5 The cryptographic hash function BLAKE2 is an improved version of the SHA-3 finalist BLAKE. Like BLAKE or SHA-3, BLAKE2 offers the highest security, yet is fast as MD5 on 64-bit platforms and requires at least 33% less RAM than SHA-2 or SHA-3 on low-end systems. BLAKE2 comes in two…
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“Zero Dark Thirty” not good enough to justify torture fantasies – Boing Boing # Which is also why I am dubious about Skyfall
I spend plenty of time defanging Government propaganda about why they need more power, money and privilege to intrude upon individual liberty, without numb shiny movies that try to make the opposing case, badly: The film has been blasted by critics of torture (how fucked up is it that “critics of torture” is even a…
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LPs are killing MP3s are killing CDs killed DAT is killing Cassettes are killing LPs killed 78s killed scores; yet somehow “Music” survives
If this is not an ourobouros, I don’t know what is: 3D Printed Record from Amanda Ghassaei on Vimeo. Via HOWTO convert an MP3 to a playable, 3D printed record – Boing Boing.