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Carleton University free speech wall torn down within hours # Sometimes #Censorship is not done by the State
Sometimes censorship comes from a different kind of authoritarianism … Only hours after students installed a “Free Speech Wall” at Carleton University to prove that campus free speech was alive and well, it was torn down by an activist who claimed the wall was an “act of violence,” against the gay community. “What we wanted
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Amazon, Apple, and the beauty of low margins — Remains of the Day #mustread
This: The day Amazon launched its video store, the top DVD store on the web at the time, I think it was DVD Empire, lowered its prices across the board, raising its average discount from 30% off to 50% off DVDs. This forced our hand immediately. Selling DVDs at 50% off would mean selling those
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Farnborough Police are into drug humour / puns in a bad way
#Cherrywood – Woman caught given official warning after being caught with cannabis. #TokingTheMickey — Farnborough Police (@FarnboroughCops) January 25, 2013
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Male Geeks Rise Up For Women #beyondparody @BBCWomansHour – on live right now
On right now. Reference this discussion – “No Willy No Woman’s Hour“
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French court orders Twitter to reveal racists’ details #antisemitism # THERE’S A REASON IT’S CALLED ‘DELETE’
A French court has ordered Twitter to hand over details of users who spread anti-Semitic messages, months after offensive tweets were removed. The Paris high court issued the order to the popular US micro-blogging site at the request of the French Jewish students’ union (UEJF) and others. Anti-Semitism groups hope to identify the users and
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Claire Perry seems to suggest that once a child can pay for their own phone, they can skip filtering?
[Claire Perry,] The Conservative MP for Devizes was made the government’s adviser on the sexualisation and commercialisation of childhood in December 2012. Among a series of proposals put forward by the 48-year-old are age ratings for sexually provocative music videos, restrictions on access to so-called lads’ mags, labelling on airbrushed photos in magazines and internet
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“…which announced our intention to establish a UK National CERT” – #TheyWorkForYou #security
Yay! About bloody time. Three significant Government computer emergency response teams (CERT), MODCERT (for defence), GOVCERTUK (for Government Departments) and CSIRTUK (for the CNI), have been in place for some time, as well as others across the public and private sectors. On 3 December 2012, Hansard, column 41WS, the Minister for the Cabinet Office and
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My fellow security geeks used to get interviewed in CACM & SciAm; now they get interviewed in GQ
Well done Runa, and well-done Tor. A petite Norwegian blonde – nice to see GQ remaining true to its nature. Stay classy. In other news: What the hell has happened? It’s not like we’ve changed. We – likely anyone reading this – are all still geeks. Maybe we were normal and everyone else is catching
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How mandatory intrusion disclosure might be used to destroy competition #security #compliance
So there’s this: We copied a table from the server’s database that contains the names, DOB, email addresses and phones numbers of 580 loan applicants, along with the amounts of requested loans and the intended purposes of those loans. We have offered Buy Way not to publish this data on this Internet, for a small
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Can vegans stomach the unpalatable truth about quinoa? | Joanna Blythman | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Starvation by unintended consequences: But there is an unpalatable truth to face for those of us with a bag of quinoa in the larder. The appetite of countries such as ours for this grain has pushed up prices to such an extent that poorer people in Peru and Bolivia, for whom it was once a
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Google Declares War on the Password # Dear @Wired, no, sorry, you’re again wrong about #password #security /cc @bobmcmillan
Quoth Google Declares War on the Password | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com: MOUNTAIN VIEW, California — Want an easier way to log into your Gmail account? How about a quick tap on your computer with the ring on your finger? …wait, no, stop already – it’s not even the first paragraph and you’re going wrong. I have