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Discovery of the Day: Phone Touchscreen + Alcohol Wipe = Better Performance
I try to keep my phone (Galaxy S2) as clean as I can but frankly the past few weeks it’s been getting pretty grubby, and no amount of microfibre-polishing the glass seems to stop it feeling slippery. Then this afternoon I used an iso-propanol screen wipe on it. Massive change. Greasy feel gone, slight finger-drag…
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Nanny State: State Nanny David Cameron ‘orders new curbs on internet porn’ – Telegraph
If only there were an 14th-Amendment-alike Equal Protection clause in the UK, we could use this as an argument for state-provided free pornography. Alas. The new measures will mean that in future anyone buying a new computer or signing up with a new internet service provider (ISP) will be asked, when they log on for…
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BBC News: Play about Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing coincides with centenary celebrations # THIS
And I’ve met the playwright! Play about Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing coincides with centenary celebrations. Alan Turing knew much more than many the truly harsh meaning of falling “from hero to zero”. A pioneer celebrated for deciphering the messages encrypted by the German Enigma machine at Bletchley Park during World War Two, he was later…
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Graham Williams reviewing the Windwrap WGX Fairing on an ICE Trike recumbent
Via ICE Trikes I found this blog post by Graham: …and it’s rather cool. He writes elsewhere about his recumbent tandem: March 2011, with the help of the BT benevolent fund I finally ordered A Greenspeed recumbent trike From Australia, Please see the link to their web site. The reason for such a change from…
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Rich politically-connected man to sue anyone who discussed false gossip pertaining to him in a public forum
Step 1: Ask all the guilty parties to come forward and settle, it’ll go easier on them that way. Oh my, this story will run. It’s the Streisand antipattern.
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you will want the hypnotically voiced hexaflexagon soft tortilla with guacamole #MUSTWATCH
IT BE-GINS WITH A LARGE TOR-TILLA…
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G-Cloud and CloudStore: if you are a geek these words will not mean what you think they mean
http://gcloud.civilservice.gov.uk/ Cloud computing has brought about a step change in the economics and sustainability of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Government is committed to the adoption of cloud computing and delivering computing resources. The G-Cloud is an iterative programme of work to achieve this which will deliver fundamental changes in the way the public sector…
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Now That’s What I Call Gerrymandering! | Mother Jones
Impressive. Americans woke up on November 7 having elected a Democratic president, expanded the Democratic majority in the Senate, and preserved the Republican majority in the House. That’s not what they voted for, though. Most Americans voted for Democratic representation in the House. The votes are still being counted, but as of now it looks…
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RIP, Kevin O’Donnell, Jr – “ORA:CLE” and why you should read this book
This already got covered on Boing-Boing but Kevin O’Donnell, Jr died last week. He wrote a book which I found particularly formative and frankly until I read Snow Crash I did not encounter a peer for it in terms of writing that resonated with how I thought The Net – which is what we called…
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Huawei’s “functional-requirement” approach to cryptography finally gets airtime
Huawei devices support a weak password encryption algorithm. With this scheme, passwords are obfuscated and encrypted with DES, using an encryption key shared among all the affected devices. This encryption scheme does not use any password salting mechanism. As a consequence, passwords extracted from a victim’s device can be deciphered instantaneously. A Python procedure that…