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Cognitive dissonance
Normal people would probably have taken less time to determine what’s wrong with this picture: Normal people would not have tried parsing the code in the context of the lead paragraph…
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Introducing “British Economic Time” aka “Sunrise Time” – the ultimate #astronomy geek timezone /ht @fanf
I’m ranting about this on Facebook so I might as well share the amusement. Generally twice a year on the Today programme you’ll get a package or programme segment about “the clocks are going forwards/back” and how some organisation, charity, peer or MP is proposing to move to “double daylight savings time”. “Stay on summer…
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Even World of Warcraft is tracking you! # Steganography in Virtual Reality
Check these out: http://www.itworld.com/security/297750/even-world-warcraft-tracking-you http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/world-of-warcraft/world-of-warcraft-general/375573-looking-inside-your-screenshots.html Steganographic identification of images in virtual worlds – like we’ve seen previously with printers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_steganography Wanna bet that someone is going to try mandating this stuff real soon now? ps: sorry if this post looks rubbish, it appears that WordPress have recently banjaxed their Android app and the editor pane…
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Google and Gmail censored in Iran
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19700910 Timely, especially for anyone attending “403 Forbidden” in London on Wednesday.
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Would you trust Government legislation drafted by people who blog Twitter chat as a PDF? #CleanIT
As seen here for instance. Every month I encounter people who simply “don’t get it” – generally they are the sorts of folk who used to work on mainframes, call IT “Data Processing” and never updated their skills when Unix/Linux arrived. Certainly they never got into blogging, and hence tend to treat the Web as…
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Twitter Updates for 2012-09-25
Looks like the NZ GCSB got brought into the Kim Dotcom Megaupload thing, not entirely legitimately? http://t.co/CrovqGuD # This would be akin to GCHQ wiretapping UK citizens on behalf of the FBI http://t.co/CrovqGuD # would not happen like that here, of course… # So @davidleigh3 thinks that the #Guardian should be publicly funded by broadband…
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Francis Davey: Commentary on the History of Marriage /ht @fjmd1
Francis wrote the following as a Facebook response to my previous posting; I thought it was so good I sought/got permission to repost it here. It’s a response to Mel Rimmer’s feed line that: […] But with this particular issue, I honestly don’t even understand their own attempts to explain their reasons. …that Francis writes:…
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Cryptocat 2 Public Beta Released « Cryptocat Development Blog # epic, well done @kaepora /cc @cryptocatapp
This is fabulous. Now all we have to do is hope that WiReD shuts the fuck up about it. Cryptocat 2, the next major revision of the Cryptocat Project, has been released as a public beta. It’s a revolutionary step over previous versions of Cryptocat, completely rebuilding and restructuring the user interface, backend, encryption techniques…
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On @BBCR4Today I heard Edith Hall of @kingsclassics argue that Policemen are too ill-educated to use the word #pleb
Really, from around the 01:05 mark. I know a bunch of exceedingly well-read types in the Met, not universally certainly, but that’s the way of humanity. I’m not convinced the Conservative chief whip is not possibly a jumped-up arrogant little tit – perhaps he is, perhaps not – however to say that the police are…
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A Response to the Government Equalities Office Consultation – Equal Civil Marriage – from the Church of England
The Church of England cannot support the proposal to enable all couples, regardless of their gender, to have a civil marriage ceremony. We don’t like gay marriage. Such a move would alter the intrinsic nature of marriage as the union of a man and a woman, as enshrined in human institutions throughout history. We’re unfamiliar…
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Citrulu: “Hosted, human-friendly, continuous front-end tests for your live websites” #testing #musthaveaplay
Citrulu: website monitoring with hosted front-end tests. Harry Metcalfe’s new thang.