Dropsafe

wtf?

…delivered to your room at the W Hotel, Newark; photo from the room-services directory; see the bottom two paragraphs.

Darren gets his own clock …

[www.theregister.co.uk] NSFW Here’s a Friday poser for you: you’re a member of a highly-advanced alien civilisation and have just travelled to Earth in your hyperdrive-powered craft intending to enjoy a long-weekend break. The trouble is, you can’t decide whether to: a) nip over to rural Idaho, abduct a farmhand and anally probe him before modifying…

[www.eff.org] Google Copies Your Hard Drive – Government Smiles in Anticipation Consumers Should Not Use New Google Desktop San Francisco – Google today announced a new “feature” of its Google Desktop software that greatly increases the risk to consumer privacy. If a consumer chooses to use it, the new “Search Across Computers” feature will store…

Eighteen or so years ago I was at University trying to narrowly fail to flunk my degree whilst learning how the world worked. Of the many projects into which I threw myself, one of the most formative was working on Pi Magazine, then as now the student magazine of University College London. For most Universities…

Microsoft changes blog policies SEATTLE, Washington (AP) — Microsoft Corp. is tightening its policies regarding shutting down Web journals after its much-publicized shutdown of a well-known Chinese blogger at that government’s request. The Redmond software company, which operates a popular blogging technology called MSN Spaces, said Tuesday that the changes will include efforts to make…

With the postscript “Enjoy the liberation while you can, citizens,” the Web site Crypticide recently unleashed a way to beat Google’s censoring of its new Chinese search engine results. [www.eweek.com]

Service Restored Yep, we’re back!

temporarily closed dropsafe is temporarily closed – might be a day ot two – whilst it gets relocated to a new server due to service outages on the existing one.

On 1 Feb 2006, at 15:59 [NAME] wrote: Hello! This stuff is great! Congrats. [www.crypticide.com] Thank you. I want to write a story about it, and I have some questions for somebody over there. Cool. How did you figure this out, was it a caps lock snafu? A friend mentioned the observation to me via…

w00t! I am mostly reassured by this, in that I don’t see why someone should be let-off driving at 160 where the speed limit is 70 just because “[they] are good at it”. Or – alternatively – I’m all in favour of people being let-off for speeding in a responsible manner in a motorway environment,…