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I wondered about buying a Garmin Cycling GPS – and then I thought: Why bother? /cc @dcuthbert
There’s this Garmin video that Dan Cuthbert pointed me at, earlier: …and it’s timely because January sales are still on, and only yesterday I was perusing ChainReaction and ordering bits and bobs. I’d been out on the MTB for an hour or so, exploring the heathland around Blackbushe Airport. I had my Nexus 7 in
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The Daily Mash on EU Cookies Directive Popups – /ht @dml /cc @openrightsgroup #funny
They nailed it. Click: Shamelessly stolen from Dominique
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Samsung Galaxy S3 ‘sudden death’ security flaw fixed in UK | CNET UK
Samsung is beginning to roll out a security patch to UK Galaxy S3 phones, designed to clear up a bug in the S3’s Exynos chip that could potentially see some phones being wiped or bricked by naughty hackers. The sudden death bug, as it’s known, was found by an XDA Developers user and gives hackers
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Why I believe that we will have to break up Nominet, the UK domain’s registry
A few months ago I wrote about this (PDF) at ComputerWorld: Nominet: a website, by any other name, would be more secure? So Nominet – the people who own, manage and monetise the top-level .uk DNS domain – propose to allow creation of domain names directly under the UK suffix (PDF). Thus instead of inflatable-widgets.co.uk
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Censorship Chic /ht @openrightsgroup @privacyint
New Privacy International logo: New editions of George Orwell: …gosh you’d think people had reason to fear the government.
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Watch an eerie mockup animation of Neil Gaiman’s fable about a heroic black cat # very good
The Price – The Original Animatic from Christopher Salmon on Vimeo. It’s been more than a year since we first learned of Christopher Salmon’s quest to bring Neil Gaiman’s short story “The Price” to life as an animated film. This week, he offered a clearer sense of his vision, posting the full-length animatic he used
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Fun in a Cold Climate: Stained-Ice Igloo building
Original HT: Mel. She must have a blog somewhere.
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Funny, I’ve always assumed that at least some of the reason for calling it #BigData was by analogy to this:
Supermajor: Big Oil Petroleum and gas supermajors are sometimes collectively referred to as “Big Oil”, a term that emphasizes their economic power and perceived influence on politics, particularly in the United States. Big Oil is often associated with the Energy Lobby. Usually used to refer to the industry as a whole in a pejorative or derogatory manner, “Big
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Silent Skype calls can hide secret messages – tech – 05 January 2013 – New Scientist /ht @PaulMarks12
Got a secret message to send? Say it with silence. A new technique can embed secret data during a phone call on Skype. “There are concerns that Skype calls can be intercepted and analysed,” says Wojciech Mazurczyk at the Institute of Telecommunications in Warsaw, Poland. So his team’s SkypeHide system lets users hide extra, non-chat
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Security Hypothetical
Watch Marcus Ranum’s RSA Video Read about ChaosMonkey at Netflix Consider the success of ChaosMonkey Radical notion: what we need is fewer firewalls, more hackers – both black- and white-hat – and an evolutionary approach towards securing our enterprises. Hmm. At least partly true; evolution in the face of a clear threat is the only