Dropsafe

Edit/Synopsis: A bug exists in the code that Google uses to enforce censorship of its recently announced Chinese service; the trivial bug – that search-strings with Capitalised Words generate uncensored output – could provide a (presumably temporary) mechanism for Chinese nationals to bypass their government censorship. Simon Phipps just messaged me: (window grabs added infix…

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Something I stumbled over when Googling :- [www.bragg.army.mil]

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Here we go again: [www.theregister.co.uk] Home Office pushes tough anti-hacker law ‘Hacker tool’ ban proposal provokes derision The UK Government plans to toughen up computer crime laws under proposals outlined in the Police and Justice Bill on Wednesday. The bill would double the maximum jail sentence for hacking into computer systems from five years to…

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I took the trike home last Friday; Simon offered the use of his Landy as transport, but before loading it up we decided to “have a go” in the car-park; Simon’s a bit shorter than me and had to scootch forwards in the seat, but it still makes for a good picture:

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Pop quiz: right now, as you read this, how many chronometers or devices with chronometric functions have you that you carry with you for most of a business day? eg: iPod, cellphone, watch, PDA, laptop, digicamera…? I’m down to three – phone, digicamera (IXUS 700 has a clock mode) and iPod – and on the…

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Barking, barking mad… If the controversial Analog Hole bill makes it into law, US technologists will have to obey a law whose most important details are a trade-secret. The entertainment industry, always a bastion of media savvy, has proposed its “A-Hole” bill as a legal means of limiting the conversion of analog music and video…

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I went into London yesterday, and disembarked as usual at Waterloo; amongst the crowd I followed across the platform was a woman – perhaps late 20s/early 30s, wearing bovver-boots, jeans rolled-up to a romper stomper mid-calf, jacket, and an overly-severe dyed-black bob. Over her shoulder was a small plastic rucksack upon the flap of which…

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I took the deckchair – 15 miles, bit of a shakedown run, comprising fast A-roads, unclassifieds, forest tracks, pothole-laden gravel roads, steep climbs, cycle paths and urban. The ride is quite bizzare – a synthesis of cycle, motorbike and car, with a moderate sensation of speed consequent to being only about four inches off the…

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Pictures: [1] [2] [3] Story: [1] [2] Penguins galore. 😎

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flying deckchair … for thus it was named by Mike Smith – it has finally arrived, and has been assembled by dint of hard work, hard thinking and enormous amounts of education, help and advice from Chris Gerhard cyclist extraordinaire, and whom was only slightly put-out to find I apparently have a natural ability to…

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Where have I heard this before? 😎

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I subscribe to the TheyWorkForYou RSS feed for my local MP – James Arbuthnot, Conservative MP for North East Hampshire – and it truly has been (and is) an enlightening experience. You drag-n-drop the RSS feed under “Recent Appearances in Parliament” and get an ongoing trickly of what your elected representative is up to –…

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