Dropsafe

This is new and you won’t see it reported anywhere else, yet. My friend and former colleague Rob wrote me on AIM: I just got back from getting my new “Digital Drivers License”… it’s supposed to serve as a definitive form of ID, as good as a passport… They have a point system for authenticating…

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The news is good! My consultant took a look at the x-rays and declared them to be better than he was hoping, with little sign of damage remaining; in fact he’s rather curious to take a look inside, and so is pleased to be seeing me in a few weeks to open it up, take…

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More stupider user tricks: IT horror stories redux Idiot-proof your enterprise with these 10 hard-luck lessons of boneheaded IT miscues. I will say nothing, but some of my colleagues will be wetting themselves laughing. My favourite is, of course, the security one. via Adriana.

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More than half of children in the UK using the internet have had an “unwanted experience”, a poll suggests. “…well hell, yeah, every time I get a pop-up…”

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Really, I can’t think why they’d want to block me… Via greatfirewallofchina – go take a look, see if you can get anything past it…

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This was on the BBC World Service last night; alas the only imprint I can find is from the Inquirer. I wonder what happened to all the stuff from the Enron scandal? Inquirer German boffins resurrect Stasi files Shredded papers stitched back together ATTEMPTS BY THE East German secret service to destroy embarrassing files after…

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Do something good for your soul. Go look at this using the largest and best monitor available to you.

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Darren over lunch today was asking “What is The Semantic Web?” This led to a long and wind discussion of the various philosophies, some people for, and some against, and (tongue in cheek) I summed up a lot of my feelings about the topic in a single sentence: Create documents which are machine-readable, and only…

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Woot. Subject: Googlewhack From: Peter.Taylor_Brown@tufts.foo Date: 3 May 2007 05:05:42 BST Your site is a googlewhack under the google search for “ywis jenga.” CONGRATULATIONS!

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Well this sucks… From April 19th: vodafone_explains Vodafone has finally provided an explanation for the removal of VoIP features from the Nokia N95, and apparently it’s all for our own good. A Vodafone statement says the mobile operator doesn’t offer its own VoIP service because it doesn’t believe it’s a mature technology. It goes on…

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From my posting today at Sun’s Security Community Blog: Sun Microsystems its own internal vocabulary, and one of the phrases which used to be common was that of the CNN Moment – a “damaging public infrastructure failure often experienced by dot-com enterprises” which presumably would be big enough and embarrassing enough to end up on…

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