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How hardware hacking (almost) made me a fraudster # I believe this article to be entirely, dangerously wrong…
…to the point where it should possibly be taken down. Just because Windows licenses are enforced this way will not invalidate your credit cards. Simply put: it doesn’t work like this, and Microsoft are not snitching on you to the credit card agencies. A message popped up. “Card declined.” Nightmare. But… no money? Really? I
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“The number of content removal requests we received increased by 98% compared to the previous reporting period” – Google Transparency
United Kingdom – Government Removal Requests – Google Transparency Report.
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Giant isopod – Wikipedia # a foot-long deep-sea woodlouse
Giant isopod – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Pentagon Plans Massive Increase in Internet Security Teams
Wouldn’t it be good if it actually read like this? Alas it does not; and we’ve moved from Cyber-Pearl-Harbour to Cyber-9/11? Ms Napolitano must be more worried about the Middle East than Asia this week. The Pentagon is planning to increase the number of security professionals from fewer than 1,000 to about 5,000 in the
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Watch the World’s Highest Resolution Drone-Mounted Camera in Action #surveillance #geek
Meh – compound eye plus aperture synthesis and basic depth perception. An exabyte per day is pretty cool, though. Sure, your phone can take a decent picture, but it’s not even in the same universe as the best camera the government’s got. At 1.8 gigapixels, the DARPA-developed ARGUS-IS the highest resolution surveillance platform in the
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Guest Post: ‘A Venture Capitalist’s Experience of Startups and Security’
A security-aware and very technically competent venture capitalist within my circle recently shared an epic rant, which with a little light editing and with requisite permission I have edited into this posting. I think it contains an important message – not least it demonstrates that funders are catching up with the fundamentals, and you’ll soon be less able
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How Newegg crushed the “shopping cart” patent and saved online retail # patent trolls on the back foot? #mustread
“Thank you for calling Soverain technical support,” says Wolanyck, if you press option 2. “If you are a current customer and have a tech support question, please call us at 1-888-884-4432, or e-mail us at support@soverain.com.” That number, like the “customer support” number on Soverain’s contact page, has been disconnected. Soverain isn’t in the e-commerce
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Cyclical History in “The Wanting Seed” – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia # thought provoking #anthonyburgess
Approximately, yeah… Often repeated in the novel is the concept that history is cyclical. As Tristram explains in the first few chapters to his slumbering history class, there are three phases: Pelphase, Interphase, and Gusphase. Pelphase is named after Pelagianism, the theology of Pelagius. The Pelphase is characterized by the belief that people are generally
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Question: Is the Daily Mail in charge of child protection policy making? /ht @openrightsgroup
What is the Government’s online child protection policy? Is the Daily Mail in charge of child protection policy making? I would prefer to be writing an article with a headline that doesn’t have a question mark at the end. But the Government seems to determined to confuse and frustrate those wishing to understand their position
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Scottie Pinwheel # The cutest example of the Dining Philosophers problem EVAR #MUSTWATCH
Leave the table where it is, rotate the diners in lockstep. Ignore forks.
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Dinner: conversation regards love and death and human imperatives.
… and a really good steak. Hawksmoor Spitalfields. Props to Georgina who looked after us.