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Amazon.co.uk: Customer Reviews: Barrettine Methylated Spirit 500ml /ht @mjj122
Fresh, intense and with no little complexity. Good length and with hints of benzine this reminds me of a high quality 10 year old Beerenauslese Riesling from the Rheingau but at a fraction of the price. Note that this isn’t a full 75cl bottle, but is a ’bouteille a deux’ 50cl, perfect for two to
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A very merry, very digital Christmas Eve
…and now for a very chilled-out Christmas Day 🙂 Photos by Alec Muffett & Brian Micklethwait
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BLAKE2 – simpler, smaller, fast as MD5 # epic, but DO NOT USE THIS AS A PASSWORD HASH 🙂 /ht @zooko @solardiz
BLAKE2 – simpler, smaller, fast as MD5 The cryptographic hash function BLAKE2 is an improved version of the SHA-3 finalist BLAKE. Like BLAKE or SHA-3, BLAKE2 offers the highest security, yet is fast as MD5 on 64-bit platforms and requires at least 33% less RAM than SHA-2 or SHA-3 on low-end systems. BLAKE2 comes in two
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“Zero Dark Thirty” not good enough to justify torture fantasies – Boing Boing # Which is also why I am dubious about Skyfall
I spend plenty of time defanging Government propaganda about why they need more power, money and privilege to intrude upon individual liberty, without numb shiny movies that try to make the opposing case, badly: The film has been blasted by critics of torture (how fucked up is it that “critics of torture” is even a
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LPs are killing MP3s are killing CDs killed DAT is killing Cassettes are killing LPs killed 78s killed scores; yet somehow “Music” survives
If this is not an ourobouros, I don’t know what is: 3D Printed Record from Amanda Ghassaei on Vimeo. Via HOWTO convert an MP3 to a playable, 3D printed record – Boing Boing.
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Information security = IE, AV and patching? Argh… /ht @guardian @secunia #bah #humbug
Vulnerabilities in information security (like that with Microsoft’s IE) need to be dealt with up front, says Secunia’s Maria Eriksen-Jensen. via Information security: are you leaving your company exposed? | Media Network | Guardian Professional. Oh, wait, it’s a glorified advert. The subtext is: “Security” == “Vulnerabilities for which we can sell mitigations”. That makes perfect
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Fascinating backplot of the Soil Association, they of the #Organic food mark; #strangebedfellows #fascists #occupy #occupythefarm #politics
via Soil Association – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. According to their website: “The Soil Association was founded in 1946 by a group of farmers, scientists and nutritionists who observed a direct connection between farming practice and plant, animal, human and environmental health.” “The catalyst was the publication of The Living Soil by Lady Eve Balfour, the
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Marriage will not protect your privacy…
…depending on from where and how you communicate: Communications between spouses are typically accorded a “marital communications privilege” because they are “regarded as so essential to the preservation of the marriage relationship as to outweigh the disadvantages to the administration of justice which the privilege entails.” But marital communications to or from a workplace computer
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So I wrote a Sudoku solver but … #firstworldprogrammerproblems
So I wanted something to do and wrote a Sudoku solver; I’ve never liked (or even done) Sudoku but ever since Nigel Ross told me of his travails of solving it in Prolog* I’ve wanted to have a go. So I went for a nice long walk, worked out the algorithm (approximately), worked out the data
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Hyperemesis gravidarum is from the Greek hyper, meaning excessive, and emesis, meaning vomiting…
One of the things I find most amusing about the medical profession is that once you’ve learned a bit of Greek and Latin it becomes not only transparent but even a bit pedestrian: Etymology Hyperemesis gravidarum is from the Greek hyper-, meaning excessive, and emesis, meaning vomiting, and the Latin gravidarum, the feminine genitive plural
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Court of Appeal allows Golden Eye appeal # 1) Get downloader details 2) Send demands 3) ??? 4) PROFIT!!!
This morning the Court of Appeal handed down their judgment in the appeal by the firm Golden Eye. The Court allowed the appeal. We have made a pdf of the judgment is available. Golden Eye were challenging the High Court’s refusal to grant them a “Norwich Pharmacal Order” that would require Telefonica UK to hand
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Does anyone buy iPods any more? #iTax
The escalators in Old Street tube station are wallpapered with iPod adverts, and I could not stop myself wondering why? And then I thought: why am I asking why? It used to be that iPods were a form of currency in the tech community – the default desirable prize for any geek competition – but now