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  • Twitter Updates for 2012-09-11

    EPIC PLAN FOR @surevine XMAS PARTY: Put a nice bottle of gin in a locked box, no key. Provide a set of lockpicks. /ht @richardloxley #MUSTDO # #Reading Geek Night, Tomorrow 7pm: INVESTIGATING BIG BROTHER, Privacy International, @e3i5, http://t.co/aJUcJvdI (1/3) # #Reading Geek Night, Tomorrow 7pm: ONLINE ANONYMITY: AN INTRODUCTION, Tor Project, @runasand, http://t.co/aJUcJvdI (2/3)…

  • Twitter Updates for 2012-09-10

    TUESDAY EVENING: Reading Geek Night: Privacy International, The Tor Project, The Geek Manifesto & Government. http://t.co/aJUcJvdI #rdggeek #

  • Artificial Lava

    robert wysocki’s Videos on Vimeo.

  • Threatening to shoot someone for farting is bad, but is it “terroristic” ?

    A 72-year-old New Jersey man has been charged with threatening to shoot his neighbor for farting in front of his home. Instead of waving off Monday night’s flatulence attack, Daniel Collins of Teaneck pulled a .32-caliber revolver and threatened to “put a hole” in his gassy neighbor’s head, cops said. The stink apparently stemmed from…

  • Twitter Updates for 2012-09-09

    @shortblue Function? There speaks an old-style programmer. We need a abstract Aside class with polymorphism and operator overloading. In JS. #

  • Watch “RAP NEWS 15: Big Brother is WWWatching You” on YouTube

  • UNetbootin on Mac OS X # fix to create a BackTrack5 USB stick to boot elsewhere

    Christopher Friedt writes: Just in case anyone wants to use UNetbootin to create e.g. an Ubuntu Live USB device and it isn’t working, there are two key steps that are not performed by the UNetbootin binary for OS X. After downloading the ISO, use Disk Utility to partition your USB device. Ensure that you’ve selected…

  • Germany pushes for an end to massive fines for hijacked Wi-Fi | ZDNet /fao @openrightsgroup @bbw1984 @coadec

    The tide is turning? Wi-Fi network owners in Germany look set to get an easier legal ride when their WLANs are used by criminals. Read this The secret life of white-space radio Read more Owners of wireless networks in Germany are currently in a dangerous situation if they don’t protect password-protect their WLANs, or find…

  • Twitter Updates for 2012-09-08

    Citizens not Suspects: Human Rights & the Snooper's Charter, Rachel Robinson, LIBERTY. Sep 17th, 7pm http://t.co/0TrC0OC5 / @openrightsgroup # UPDATE: ORG-London Pub Meet, September 17th, Shoreditch. Rachel Robinson of LIBERTY on the Snooper's Charter http://t.co/Q3zzT2XO #ccdp # @shortblue #comedything #creativememeuse #firsttogetdibsonanewtag inverse of http://t.co/GUd3aAQY # @TimMontgomerie As opposed to politicians who tout policy and dread…

  • It’s quite bizarre …

    …so many of my friends are taking up astronomy and some of the have taken to dying their hair various shades of red. Have I really been cool all this time – or are they just losing it?

  • Internet ‘snooper’s charter’ could jeopardise national security, ISPs warn – Telegraph # At last industry comes out swinging

    The London Internet Exchange (Linx), which represents service providers, said the Government’s controversial surveillance proposals represent a “dramatic shift” in the balance between individuals’ privacy and the power of the state. It said forcing them to keep details of all website visits and mobile phone calls would in effect create a communications data profile for…

  • Portuguese men-of-war sightings on Cornish beaches # Arr! No, wait, this is bad: Lethal collectivist jellyfish.

    Portuguese men-of-war have been washed up on beaches in Cornwall according to council officials. There have been sightings of 13 men-of-war at Portheras Cove in west Cornwall and others at Summerleaze and Widemouth beaches in north Cornwall. The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) said sightings were on the increase. The Portuguese man-of-war is not a jellyfish…