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Two further barriers to UK mobile money – /ht @Penrillian
I’ve done some work for Penrillian in the past, and I am rather liking Charles’ blogging: The prospect of mobile money is exciting to Network operators, phone manufacturers, payment networks and banks: They’re all looking forward to consumers making payments with intelligent devices, creating better opportunities for customer engagement, and bringing benefits in terms of…
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Stripmining Twitter and Facebook for Security, Part 1
See what the Pentagon is doing? I wonder how much doing that would cost the UK? More than £1.8bn, I’ll bet. All to help us not be surprised (again) next time a major geopolitical or terrorist incident occurs (again) and to keep us safe from evil (again); of course monitoring social media and intercepting phonecalls is…
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Against the grain: Sugar Puff beer | Life and style | guardian.co.uk
A neglected box of Sugar Puffs whose contents have set into a solid, intractable lump is a fairly regular sight in our kitchen and it is only recently that I hit upon the (though I say so myself) rather brilliant idea of turning them into beer. Provided they have not gone completely stale, using Sugar…
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Childrens charities oppose #Nominet plan for ‘secure’ .uk web addresses # direct.uk on the ropes /ht @openrightsgroup
So there was: Nominet: a website, by any other name, would be more secure? …and there was: Why I believe that we will have to break up Nominet, the UK domain’s registry …and a bunch of other postings elsewhere, the one constant being that Nominet’s plans to create a flatter, more cybersecured “.uk” top-level domain…
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Cyber-Warfare: It’s something you do Scottish people via Twitter #parliament #cyberwar #rofl @cathyjamieson
Ye can tak’ oor Referendum, but ye’ cannae tak’ oor Social Mediaaaaaaaaaaaaa! I hear chuntering, to use a word that was used earlier, from many of the SNP Members. I am happy to debate the positive arguments for Scotland remaining part of the United Kingdom with the SNP in a proper context at any stage.…
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‘Aaron’s Law’ to ease ‘outlandish’ US computer laws
A new online petition has called for the firing of district attorney Carmen Ortiz for pursuing Aaron Swartz with charges that could have put him in prison for at least three decades. Meanwhile, Democrat congresswoman Zoe Lofgren has drawn up a new bill called “Aaron’s Law” to amend the US Computer Fraud and Abuse Act…
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Watching The National Grid for Geeks
So this is what the country’s power usage looked like over the past 7 days: …and this is what it looked like for the past 24 hours: …and this is what the deviations from the 50Hz median frequency looked like: …all of which are available from the National Grid Realtime website; of the…
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Dear LazyWeb: HELP, is anyone doing *real* high-availability enterprise architecture for Jive 6.0 please? #jive #jivesoftware #gartner
Hey all, Ceci n’est pas une enterprise architecture: …it is neither layer2 not layer3; possibly it is a layer7 diagram breaking down an architecture into hypothetical components but it then seems to take great liberties in connecting “Nodes” (centre) straight into databases (bottom right) without any intervening server. It is certainly not n-tier. I am…
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School Buses of the World
USA: The primary vehicle used for student transport in North America, school buses are distinguished from other types of buses by design characteristics necessitated by federal and state/provincial regulations. Federal safety standards require school buses to be painted school bus yellow and equipped with specific warning and safety devices. This service is almost always provided…
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I’m generally not one for spectator sports – football, cricket, gymnastics – but this is impressive…
…and it’s pole dancing, which – watching this – I put in the same category as gymnastics. If you have one: wipe that smirk off your face, You will, too. I can’t embed the video in my blog without using an FB login – and I’m not going to do that until I look into…
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So, in summary, the ‘mint a trillion dollar coin’ idea failed to gain enough currency?
Puns aside: Heart Ache – Treasury nixes trillion dollar coin « Hot Air. …and in the morning it had turned to worthless dross.