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Whilst we’re learning today: Holodomor. No, it’s not Harry Potter, not at all…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor The Holodomor (Ukrainian: – , “Extermination by hunger” or “Hunger-extermination“;[2] derived from ‘-‘, “Starving someone” [3]) was a man-made famine in the Ukrainian SSR and adjacent Cossack territories between 1932 and 1933. During the famine, which is also known as the “Terror-Famine in Ukraine” and “Famine-Genocide in Ukraine”,[4][5][6] millions of Ukrainians and Cossacks died of starvation in a peacetime catastrophe unprecedented in the history of Ukraine.[7] The estimates of
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TIL: about Freedom of the Press – #milton #areopagitica
TIL about “Freedom of the Press” – my emboldening of a key point. My question to you, dear reader, is whether you can accept that every man, woman and (likely) child should be permitted to exercise their reason? Until 1694, England had an elaborate system of licensing. No publication was allowed without the accompaniment of a
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One Voice Community Choir perform on a closed M6 Motorway
So yesterday I was returning from Scotland – more of that later – and traffic alerts and GPS guided me around a major motorway closure; the M6 near Stoke-on-Trent was closed due to a fatal motorcycle crash, traffic was stopped in the road for several hours whilst investigations were carried out – I believe the
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Cybersecurity and “Igon Values”
Igon Value Problems: so very, very applicable to politicians and cybernetwork-security… I will say this about Malcolm Gladwell: I like his writing, which oozes with intellect that enables him to see angles that many people miss. As a golf fan, I thoughtGladwell’s assessment of Tiger Woods versus Phil Mickelson was so spot-on that I printed out
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HP Keeps Installing Secret Backdoors in Enterprise Storage # and the best bit is the password they used…
…and a quick Google for 78a7ecf065324604540ad3c41c3bb8fe1d084c50 yields “badg3r5”, which is a really terrible password by any metric… Even with root access, the secret admin account does not give support techs or hackers access to data stored on the HP machines, according to the company. But it does provide enough access and control over the hardware
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The NSA just released a sexy new commercial with Sasha Grey # well, sort-of…
Come for the joke, stay for the Snowden reference. http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/14dc1b13fa/sexy-nsa-commercial-with-sasha-grey
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An excellent little web-page on which one could waste quite a lot of time…
What are some of the most interesting little-known things? McDonald’s ketchup cups are expandable The Unlikely Tale of a Letter Called “Thorn” Bjarkan + Haglaz = Bluetooth …
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Extreme points of Earth – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia # your sunday evening enlightenment
This is a list of extreme points of Earth, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than, higher or lower in altitude than, or farthest inland or out to sea from, any other locations on the landmasses, continents or countries. via Extreme points of Earth – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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TIL: What a “Warrant Canary” is…
Twitter / bytemark: @ralpost You know we're not …. @ralpost You know we're not US based, have been considering a warrant canary https://t.co/xd3Fi4nZ8b & sponsor the @OpenRightsGroup? 🙂 ^TD — Bytemark Hosting (@bytemark) June 29, 2013 […] Warrant_canary A warrant canary is a method used by an Internet service provider to inform its customers that
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HP, Canon & Fujitsu [may] raise printing costs to deal with EU copyright ruling
Paperless office/household, anyone? The price of printers and related accessories could rise in the future as print giants such as HP, Canon and Fujitsu face the prospect of huge payments to copyright holders for selling devices that allow such works to be reproduced. A ruling from the European Court of Justice (ECJ) agreed that all
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A Eulogy For AltaVista, The Google Of Its Time
AltaVista; I liked it so much that I stole the graphics took inspiration from it when building Sun’s first internal search engine: Goodbye AltaVista. You deserved better than this. Better than the one-sentence send-off Yahoo gave you today, when announcing your July 8 closure date. But then again, you always were the bright child neglected by