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Twitter Updates for 2012-08-06
@JohnAvlon Hi! Just read your piece in the DB. Would be fascinated to know what this "Digital Pearl Harbour" you speak of might look like? # : Google Alerts "We (Should) Take Security Seriously" :: @TheDailyBeast: "Digital Pearl Harbour" – Regulate Security! http://t.co/m3rYeykx # : Why I Don't Use Bing Maps – YouTube http://t.co/gE7oCYp1 #…
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Isn’t this the same as (say) compelling people to gamble with their money just “to keep it moving” ?
The investment strike is one the government would do well to bust The private sector’s refusal to invest ensures that household and business suffer inflation, while the economy stagnates The British economic slump has now lasted four years, and output is still 4.5% below the previous peak level. The decline in gross fixed capital formation…
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BBC News – ‘Bradley Wiggins effect’ warning to motorists # Cycling is a ‘craze’?
The cycle road race on the opening weekend of the Olympics took riders from the Mall, through west London, out to Surrey and back again, and included a 9.6-mile (15.5km) circuit around Box Hill. via BBC News – ‘Bradley Wiggins effect’ warning to motorists.
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Google Alerts “We (Should) Take Security Seriously” :: @TheDailyBeast: “Digital Pearl Harbour” – Regulate Security!
Hello, I’m a journalist and have fallen for the: something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it – cyberfallacy. Daily Beast, John Avlon […] It’s hard to tell whether this is just lazy or malevolent, but small-government advocates of gridlock are going to have a hard time explaining to people on…
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Twitter Updates for 2012-08-05
: Remembering Elementary School http://t.co/KW672phW # @cbetta It just invalidates the human. Or the education system in which they grew up. /cc @kevinmarks # @cbetta Good small car: Skoda Fabia or Octavia, depending on size requirements. It's the VW parts bin, get the 1.9 Turbodiesel. # @cbetta Had mine ~10yrs now, zero breakdowns, ~80,000 miles.…
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Azure VMs contain amusing capabilities; WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG? /HT @GeoffArnold @seclectech
There is a Python agent inside the Azure VMs that communicates over TCP/80 and has fun methods like DeleteRootPassword & Deprovision — Matt Franz (@seclectech) August 4, 2012 Another fun fact Azure VM “endpoints” (very primitive security groups) only allow you to specify TCP and UDP ports. — Matt Franz (@seclectech) August 4, 2012 OK,…
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Dictionary of sects, heresies, ecclesiastical parties, & schools of religious thought # Fascinating; 666pg
Blunt’s Dictionary of sects, heresies, ecclesiastical parties, and schools of religious thought (1874) (q.v.)
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Niche Christianity in Rural Essex: The Peculiar People and “Old Peculiars”
A very Essex form of Methodism. Banyard was frequently drunk until his wife asked him to attend a service in the local Wesleyan Methodist chapel. The preacher’s message had a profound effect on Banyard so that he became teetotal and regularly attended the church. Before long he became a reputable preacher on the Wesleyan circuit.…
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A Selection of 78 RPM Records – Part 2
Following on from the last posting, but to briefly recap: Via complicated means (read: having them dumped on me) I’ve obtained a big chunk of my parents’ 78RPM records, some of which doubtless go back to their parents, and some of which are even stranger, higher RPM, possibly shellac and with spirals which go from…
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Germany calls for law against hurting peoples’ feelings.
Well, kinda: German archbishop calls for blasphemy law Published: Aug. 2, 2012 at 3:09 PM BAMBERG, Germany, Aug. 2 (UPI) — A Catholic bishop in Germany called for a law against blasphemy to protect all religions from attack after a German satire magazine attacked Pope Benedict. Bamberg Archbishop Ludwig Schick said Wednesday a law should…