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#earthquake on #Christmas island. The #rapture people are going to go ape. God has a sense of humour / get out clause, now. # 2x double espressos from Bar Italia, and I'm home from #OpenTech and very very awake. Actually, I don't mind. Good day 🙂 #

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The _right_ way to manage software piracy http://bit.ly/lhGf4N – HT @adriana872 # …and while we're on the topic of piracy http://bit.ly/lhGf4N # in case you missed it # I know I shouldn't, but I am just rolling on the floor laughing #wikileaks #assange humour is recognition http://bit.ly/ifBu5a # Does #LinkedIn have a "Block & Report"…

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Simon Waters calls me out for my posting on the “metrication of security”: Metrication or Mensuration? I’m reminded of the audit folk who thought one of my previous employers should create a single measure of performance, which would create a new synthetic number lumping together other numbers that already existed, being an organisation full of…

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“Apple malware is a foreign country…” Apple malware is a foreign country… …they do things differently there Picture this: some monstrous creature out of a fairy tale arrives at your house, knocks at the door, is let in, and abducts your wife away to the circus. What do you do? Well, if you’re PCWorld or…

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I'd swear twitter is dropping some of my follow requests… follow people, then have to refollow them when next you see them… # "Not suspicious, but merely Canadian" – http://bit.ly/m06eXi # I just love the way this lady says "It's a natural phenomenon" at the 0:50-ish mark: http://bbc.in/jnwpx4 # insert illegal alien joke here #…

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Listening to Peter Bazalgette talking about the NHS trying to draw line between information sharing and privacy # #bigtentuk Simon Davies: ICO has been week willed and vacillating for 20 years. # gah typos # @JackGavigan Front Right. # #bigtentuk Q: Simon: If all the world's Twitter users crowdsourced a database of photos of houses,…

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@bengrubb So you report either the FacebookPhoto or SymantecBank stories, and the police arrest _you_ ? How does that work ? # And this week it's Linux running in a Javascript CPU emulator: http://bellard.org/jslinux/ # @bengrubb Let me guess – you reproduced the "hacked" shot in the article, therefore you're an evil hacker? # >…

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yoda squirrel http://bit.ly/jy6ecc # RT @caitlinmoran: It's the 21st anniversary of Jim Henson's death today. I sometimes think I'd like him back more than The Beatles. # Annoyed that now OBL is dead we've gone back to IRA terrorism; I was rather hoping that the rubbish bins would be replaced in Waterloo. # Everybody who…

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Charlie's been at the Strongbow & is currently trumpeting his watering can like a hunting horn. Herds of wildebeest are stampeding en route # A friend has XP Dell laptop needing HD replacement; I need to backup a XP installation for restore to a new HD. Suggest free/FOSS tool plz? # Yay for Twitter. Sounds…

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The perils of Dogs and Roombas: http://bit.ly/9QgzjG # @jemimah_knight I'm just wondering if he kept the roomba. The cleanup would be … vile. # @tpenta How old are you? 😛 # All these PS3 arriving cheap on Ebay due to the PSN outage; can they mostly be rooted for cryptography research? Or not? # @JackGavigan…

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@ruskin147 How do we get to see BBC World in the UK? It's not on iPlayer? # @e3i5 Someone castigated me for calling that a Faraday Cage when it's not properly grounded; that said, it works! 🙂 # New: "Metricating (Cyber) Security" @computerworlduk #unscrewingsecurity #security http://bit.ly/lMZVcO # New: "Metricating (Cyber) Security" http://bit.ly/mH1d65 # For anyone…

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