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HTC Releases Unlocked Bootloaders for Six More Android Powered Devices | ITProPortal.com
Looks like HTC’s approach to software updates for its phones is to throw them over the wall to Cyanogenmod. From this experience this is possibly bad for corporate strategy but semi-good for open-source geeks in that there will be a lot of hackable hardware kicking around for cheap. Overall sense: ambivalent. Two weeks ago, HTC…
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“The Google Dialogues: Search Neutrality” (http://goo.gl/gzHwW at Computerworld)
The Google Dialogues: Search Neutrality Transparency is great; backseat regulation in the name of fairness, not so much… Sometimes I feel that the primary differences between Socratic Dialogues and Strawman Arguments are that: a) the former are apparently respectable, but the latter are fallacious, and… b) everyone since 399BC is not Socrates I too am…
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Twitter Updates for 2012-01-19
.@lewiz As far as American law goes, the UK _is_ part of the USA. See http://t.co/oqobm7iN for exactly this issue. HT #ODwyer # “@Psythor: Oh god, there must be a copy of Encarta 96 around here somewhere.” # “RT @JocelynKirby @ashowendavies: Treat your passwords like you would a toothbrush, share it with nobody and change…
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Scunthorpe rides again…
In case you missed it from last month, coz I did… Virgin Media’s electronic programme guide’s filter has gone into overdrive. Over recent days, subscribers to the firm’s TV and radio services have been offered the highlights of the “Manchester City v A***nal” game and “Jarvis C**ker’s Sunday Service”. Meanwhile, movie lovers could tune into…
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In which #FortnumAndMason asks a customer to email them their credit card details… #security #pci #oops
Fortnum & Mason has come under fire for asking customers to email their credit card details in order to get a refund, after an IT glitch prevented the store from delivering all of its hamper orders in time for Christmas. One regular customer, who has still not received his delivery despite placing an order in…
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#BorisIsland? Feh. We need to spin-up “London Prestwick” Airport
From 2006: A wee trip to London | News | guardian.co.uk. A budget airline may have broken its own record for dropping its passengers off at airports miles from their destinations. Customers frequently moan that Frankfurt-Hahn airport is about 75 miles from Frankfurt, or that it takes one hour and ten minutes on the bus…
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The Day The LOLcats Died – Fantastic #copyright #sopa #pipa #parody
HT @baskers
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Twitter Updates for 2012-01-18
:: The Joy of Books – YouTube http://t.co/ieYkisaE # :: "Three Cubes Colliding" # very cool Kite http://t.co/axMzXVUE # :: Will the #SOPABlackout for #Wikipedia be the last ever Information Silence? #Marconi http://t.co/sOPPExx6 # :: RUSH to build film set ignores planning conditions | A Reader in Writing http://t.co/GN5rTsVZ # :: Does anyone know what…
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Fish sauce, basil, cabbage, carrot, lime, sugar, prawn salad really goes well with…
Margaritas. That is all…
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Does anyone know what happened at #Winchfield station this morning? #Vandalism?
Lots of hits on my blog to an old posting about vandalism at Winchfield, and a train status update from this morning: Incident created 17/01/2012 04:55 Route affected Basingstoke, Hook, Wichfield, Fleet, Farnborough Main and Woking TOC affected South West Trains Description Trains are now running between Basingstoke and Woking following vandalism at Winchfield. However,…
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RUSH to build film set ignores planning conditions | A Reader in Writing
Work is progressing fast on construction of the film set for the feature film RUSH. It would appear from the photograph’s that they are constructing the “72m run of pit garages”. Are security and safety measures properly observed at construction of the RUSH set at Blackbushe? This would appear to be in direct contravention of…
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Will the #SOPABlackout for #Wikipedia be the last ever Information Silence? #Marconi
Answer: Probably not – but only in as much as there won’t be an information silence for there is always the Google cache… but as Wikipedia reminds us that Marconi died… …in Rome in 1937 at age 63 following a series of heart attacks, and Italy held a state funeral for him. As a tribute,…