Dropsafe

Just had a presentation from http://www.lifelites.org/ – very worthy charity supplying tech hardware to childrens' hospices. # @TheRealSpaf what on earth is going on? # @Cyber__Security you know i once sysadmined a machine designed to be grenade-proof at 12 feet. Beat that 😛 # @TheRealSpaf best wishes dude. Btdt, it sucks. # Spent the evening…

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So 1 in 4 of American hackers are Feds – sorry "Ph3Dz" – so, Defcon is going to be _really_ interesting this year… # @matthewhughes i love mine. Cheap. Works. Goes beep. # @williamheath welcome to teh cyber. # @evanpro I'd be interested in how that works, because to me it's multiplying the threat model.…

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@PatriarchyBurp I agree, just look at Cosmo # @nellis10 How fast _should_ they grow up, then? # The best Twitter Search for #BaileyReview or #BaileyReport is actually "Reg Bailey" due to the insufficiently obvious hashtag choice # For anyone wh hasn't yet looked, Reg Bailey is apparently on Twitter at @MUChiefExec #baileyreview @#baileyreport # ……

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@nicksdjohnson decaf ?!? # The first third of the plot of "Office Space" nearly comes true: http://bbc.in/m8V6qP # @GeekChickUK Should yield a google search, the first page or two mostly being organisational responses in PDF form. # @darrenmoffat It's sorta under the battery lip, i don't think you'd ever get it out with battery installed;…

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#baileyreview by @mothersunion – seeking state-mandated censorship, because parents are lazy http://bbc.in/iqjWH1 # Wait: @BBCr4today #NadineDorries says there are 1.4 (1.8?) references to sex before the watershed. Benny Hill would beat that in each show. # @JamesFirth The @MothersUnion has been canvassing parents for evidence supporting their #baileyreview proposition, but dissent not so much #…

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If you… replace “cyberspace” by “telephoneworld” replace “cyber” by “telephone” …then the Cabinet Office position on cyber security, reads: The risks from telephoneworld (including the internet, wider telecommunications networks and computer systems) have been identified by the Government as a high priority risk. The UK is facing an ongoing, persistent threat from other states, terrorists…

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"In the event that the battery pack is swallowed, consult a doctor immediately." # RT @kurtsauer: Better safe than Sony. # ha ha # Sun Microsystems Business Card Box – interlocked 8-cube, no glue, staples or other fixings http://twitpic.com/569owt # Aha! The Galaxy S2 has "an external microSD card slot that can support up to…

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Am having moderate success installing #VirtualBox on a thumbdrive raw partition; updating Ubuntu & creating a swapfile. Will post later. # Amazing how pricey "back to school" can be 🙂 # Techhub http://t.co/HXCh0vm # Wanted: an XMPP client to unify Google talk and Facebook chat and other jabber svcs, for android. #

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@Liberationtech It's fake; too well edited, plus the "hacked" text is more yellow, moves faster, and the transition "flicker" is bogus. # @Liberationtech …and what they're "reporting" on is the controversy over whether it's real. # @Liberationtech Yes, appealing frauds that pander to peoples' prejudices frequently do. # How much GNU is there in GNU/Linux?…

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@BBCr4today re: #CEOP how many convictions have they secured, please, and for what? # @JamesFirth Yes James. The LibDems should be in charge, then it'd all be sorted out properly, and everything would be tidy and fair. 😛 # @JamesFirth In fact it's amazing we've lasted this past 10,000 years. # Running Chrome on OSX?…

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#!/usr/bin/perl -p # grocerise.pl v1.0 alec.muffett@gmail.com 2011/5/31 s!'(s)!\#$1!goi; s!’!!go; s!(\w[bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyz])(s)\b!$1’$2!goi; s!#(s)!$1!goi;

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Gandhi said it, but he was a focused person seeking a focused goal; yet today we have a QC calling Twitter-users “nerds”, and Adam Curtis doing what Adam Curtis often does, viz: stitch together some groovy music and graphics whilst oversimplifying some very complex issues to the point of error. I’m watching the first two…

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