Dropsafe

If you’re wondering what the UK Government thinks are good reasons for a National ID Card, then you should read this leaked PDF document – of which you may have heard elsewhere – as marked-up by the No2ID campaign: Personally I think this is the most interesting bit: (Page 5) Services * The package of…

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bored?

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‘I just bought your hard drive’ – The Red Tape Chronicles – MSNBC.com In June 2005, when Gerbus took his computer to Best Buy for repairs after a hard drive crash, he knew the drive was a potential hot potato. So when a clerk there told him it had to be replaced, he asked for…

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Relax, folks, it looks like (although the media suggests otherwise) the German government can’t actually sniff the contents of your Skype conversation: Skype is so secure, police need to actually invade your computer to eavesdrop. The German police shopped for tools to listen in on Skype calls. Tapping PCs directly is their only option, since…

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Jeremy Kay talks to director Morgan Spurlock: “The media manipulate what is going on out there to keep people afraid,” he says. “But we should ask more questions for ourselves, talk to each other and challenge what we hear. Then we can learn about our similarities. Maybe that will give us a better chance of…

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What I am up to at the moment, individual photos heavily annotated…

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Damn, I wish I’d had Google when I was 10 years old: Boy, 10, engineers private backyard ski slope. …though I would probably have created a massive underground bunker from which to seek world domination muahahahahahhahahah!!!

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Chilling Effects Clearinghouse Chilling Effects is a collaboration between several law school clinics and the Electronic Frontier Foundation to protect lawful online activity from legal threats. Their website, chillingeffects.org, allows recipients of cease-and-desist notices to submit (tags: copyright dmca takedown censorship privacy web) Stuff » AutoFS and NFS improvements in Leopard The Leopard automounter is…

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LART Construction Originally uploaded by alecmuffett …for all you alt.fan.sysadmin people out there…

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Understanding art for geeks #6 Originally uploaded by paulthewineguy I think this is the best one of the set. 🙂 See flickr for more. Hat tip to Chris.

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Microsoft Joining DataPortability.org – ReadWriteWeb Irony… (tags: dataportability Microsoft openstandards) Secular Philosophy via www.geoffarnold.com (tags: philosophy religion atheism) Firefox remote on n770 How to cope with task-switching on remote x-display on the nokia (tags: n800 nokia ssh x11) BELTER Asteroids clone, anyone? (tags: flash games asteroids)

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I tried it in the US, and I just confirmed it works at the Starbucks near the City office – the uneconomic to advertise “short cappuccino” does exist, and does taste better than anything else on Starbucks’ price board. All you have to do, is ask… Cost me £1.85.

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