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futuristic border-protecting iris-scanner technology, dead?
Technology of tomorrow, tomorrow… BBC News – Eye scanners at England airports turned off.
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Stanley Green’s “Less Lust, Less Protein” would not approve of new PETA sex-advert for Veganism
Compare the old with the new. I think I reject both. Via the Grauniad which puts a domestic-abuse spin on the latter; and other friends but I can’t tell which because of Facebook’s new user interface.
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Dreamliner jet “draws” Boeing logo across North America # and only mildly cheating
It’s a PR flack’s minor-league dream, but… Dreamliner jet “draws” Boeing logo across North America | The Sideshow – Yahoo! News.
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Wanna buy bits of an SR71?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/160627539245?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649 HT @angusbatey
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Errata Security: No, #Anonymous can’t DDoS the root DNS servers
But the attack is no longer practical. It’s such a common idea that Wikipedia has a page devoted to it. For something so obvious, defenders have spent considerable time devising solutions. There are many reasons why such an attack won’t cause a global blackout. via Errata Security: No, #Anonymous can’t DDoS the root DNS servers.…
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Trying to work out if the #Netgear DGND4000 would permit me to use my full “/29” and have 5x fully IP-connected hosts
PDF is here; Of the 8 addresses afforded by my /29 allocation, I have 5 available, some of which I would like routed onto the ethernet-connected hosts plugged into my modem. The router’s own IP address would then be used to NAT to a wifi network. Is this possible, Netgear? ps: I would like to…
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…but why I am kinda happy with establishmentarianism is: (HT @RelSoc)
(If you’re following the thread) What I wrote semi-whimsically back in 2006: Britain has never had much truck with separation of Church and State – chiefly due to the whole monarchy thing – and the Church of England does a marvellous job of acting as an air-brake on political religious posturing (“Why preach when there’s…
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Two followups to my @giles_fraser / Richard Dawkins @rdfrs post – one newspaper, one funny
I posted: So when a Christian taunts a scientist about knowing his liturgy, I find it as sad as I suspect a believer might find an atheist like me demanding evidence before faith. But what I also believe is that the fact that people can self-identify (ie: “profess belief”) and thereby obtain influence and seniority…
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Twitter Updates for 2012-02-15
So @Giles_Fraser's test of Dawkins' belief in evolution is if he can recite the name of a book, not whether he believes in evidence. How apt # : Regarding @Giles_Fraser on @BBCR4Today and the Richard Dawkins interview… http://t.co/njWezB7r # As mentioned at #rdggeek ORGcon is on Saturday March 24th http://t.co/N0ZIf1jE speakers: Lawrence Lessig, Cory Doctorow,…
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Regarding @Giles_Fraser on @BBCR4Today and the Richard Dawkins interview…
This morning on the Today programme Giles Fraser clashed mildly with Richard Dawkins over the latter’s foundation’s press release, of an Ipsos MORI poll of census self-declared Christians, with findings that: One in six (15%) admits to having never read the Bible outside a church service, with a further one in three (36%) not having…
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Twitter Updates for 2012-02-14
: "Learning about Cybersecurity from an Unnatural World" (http://t.co/EOu49YB4 at Computerworld) http://t.co/zrquUnOB # @ctovision Passwords may suck, but most everything else is worse http://t.co/0UzfBOjJ and http://t.co/DBa1zB8V #