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Reading about “The Satanic Verses” and the “Death of a Princess” controversies / which I was a bit young to appreciate first time round
Kenan Malik: The Jamaat had a network of organisations in Britain, funded by the Saudi government… The Saudis encouraged a number of Jamaat-influenced organisations in Britain to set up the UK Action Committee on Islamic Affairs (UKACIA) to co-ordinate the campaign against what one UKACIA circular described as ‘the most offensive, filthy and abusive book…
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To use the SHUTDOWN.COM command procedure, log in to the SYSTEM account, enter the following command …
Remember: Unix is obscure and opaque, with many short and hard-to-remember command names, unlike VMS Orderly Shutdown The SHUTDOWN.COM procedure shuts down the operating system while performing maintenance functions such as disabling future logins, stopping the batch and printer queues, dismounting volumes, and stopping user processes. To use the SHUTDOWN.COM command procedure, log in to…
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#403Forbidden – Iranian Censorship Exhibition at @small_media
To London, yesterday, to see a small but fine exhibition by @small_media on what it is like to live with Internet censorship in Iran: It was eye-opening to experience stories of a country where blogging can lead to death, where to have internet access faster than 128-Kbit (note: kilobits) requires a special government warrant, where…
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Twitter Updates for 2012-09-27
@guy_herbert @BBCr4today So definitely not First Commoner then? And neither peer nor commoner but somewhere inbetween? # @John_Mockler @jacobmakesmusic It's not a real meme until there's a downfall video # Content-Based Identity: http://t.co/2rgDTQPO # RT @owenblacker @glynmoody: Vinton Cerf on U.N. regulation of the internet – http://t.co/k9VjIOEe vince tells #un where to go # <-…
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Torvalds Uses Profanity To Lambaste Romney Remarks # Were he the Queen folk would be saying “Linus Torvalds is unelected and should not comment publicly…”
“Last night Linux creator Linus Torvalds took to his Google+ page and called Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney ‘a f***ing moron.’ Torvalds’ stated reason? Romney’s much-ridiculed suggestion that air passengers would be safer in emergencies if aircraft windows could be opened (a suggestion which some, including Snopes.com, have taken as a joke). Torvalds also recently…
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Weather warning: A rough beast has arisen and slouches towards Bethlehem to be born …
… so expect disruption in inshore waterways, including gale-force winds and tidal surge from North Foreland to Selsey Bill, Selsey Bill to Lyme Regis.
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I have begun to report every gas/electric meter reader who turns up on the doorstep as a potential fraudster
It makes no sense; I submit a meter reading online and every time, within two weeks, someone is ringing the doorbell to check the figures. What is the point? On the assumption that there could be any number of fake meter readers out there touting for business I am reporting each incident to my supplier’s…
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“Don’t be the first to be an asshole” – content-based addressing on the web /ht @bloggerheads #WestSkep #Shicklegate
On monday evening I attended a panel at Westminster Skeptics and posited a question to Tim Ireland and the panel, along the lines of: The facility of search – Google Search, Twitter Search – makes the web a content-addressable space; if someone says something nasty and the words are reported, we can soon identify the…
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Twitter Updates for 2012-09-26
Wanted: Cafe in #Farnham with free Wifi, please ? /cc @k4thybrown @JamesFirth # @lauraanngill Do tell… # @lauraanngill deeply unrealistic outside of public sector. 🙂 # "@Saccaparami: Wow, 'the red bits' of the Walsh Report make fascinating reading http://t.co/Z5Ccv14f #Encryption #CryptoParty" # MUST READ # @adrianco let me know when founded someone to be cynical…