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The Internet is an Oral Tradition, and Harvey Weinstein does not understand poetry
US film producer Harvey Weinstein has criticised media giants Apple and Google for making content available under the guise of “free internet”. “It’s a nonsensical idea,” he told an audience at the London Film Festival, likening the notion to helping oneself to “free shirts” in a clothing store. There’s that thing again, confusing the virtual…
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In case you’ve ever needed an onomatopoeia / sound for Blocking someone on #Twitter, one exists:
*plonk* Plonk is a Usenet jargon term for adding a particular poster to one’s kill file such that the poster’s future postings are completely ignored. It was first used in 1989, and by 1994 was a commonly used term on Usenet regarding kill file additions. The word is an example of onomatopoeia, intended to humorously…
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Is #SoftwareWydawnictwo related to #Hakin9 ? #leeches and #parasites, oh my!
My Polish is not up to this; I had a LinkedIn request from “eForensics Editor” …which appears to be related to this organisation: …which in association with some googling makes me think they are related to Hakin9. Presumably this is their modus operandi; get virally added to peoples’ LinkedIn accounts and then spam their contacts…
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“Log” by Graham Fitkin; Piano Circus on Spotify # Heard this on R3 wednesday night, thought it Epic
Fitkin: Log by Fitkin, Graham Anthony [Composer] and Piano Circus on Spotify.
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Twitter Updates for 2012-10-10
The food at one Swedish school is "too good"? http://t.co/clkxO3yq # Aha! Previous tweet courtesy of Bristol's @Matt_the_Geek # do link your blog to your profile # @DrJennyWoods common hot water bottle, common duvet, common bed. # @tankadams09 – I concur: Someone actually *believing* that would have to be truly inexperienced. /cc @whitehatsec @Computerworld #…
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Sometimes I suspect the authorities believe that locking up a geek in a room with a computer is some kind of punishment
Instead they write their own operating system. Or else you get this sort of stuff: Cypherpunks FREEDOM AND THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET JULIAN ASSANGE With JACOB APPLEBAUM, ANDY MÜELLER-MAGUHN and JÉRÉMIE ZIMMERMANN via OR Books — Cypherpunks.
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Final #SnoopersCharter comment of the night goes to Skype:
Q659 The Chairman: Is it the panel’s view—I do not want to put words in your mouths—that part of this 25% gap, whatever it might be, might be closed with better training and more sophisticated techniques in the police and security services? Stephen Collins: If only half the £1.8 billion was spent on training, that…
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#SnoopersCharter & Money: “If you want to spend £2 billion of public money, improve MLAT!”
Simon Milner: To reiterate, that does not mean we think that there are no ways of improving the processes between ourselves and law enforcement. If you want to spend £2 billion of public money, though, why not use it to improve the intergovernmental MLAT process, which is a very important part of this whole regime?…