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The World of Larousse Universel
When I had the pleasure of visiting Chez Gravier recently, I discovered Nicole’s 1922-edition Larousse Universel, which I then monopolised as a conversation piece for the rest of the trip. The images are fantastic, and not entirely politically correct by modern standards: …but I’m clearly not the only person to appreciate them in context. One
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BtrFS Hash Collision Attack – one for @darrenmoffat to compare? #ZFS #Solaris #Security
Then, I computed the time to create those 4000 empty files in the same directory, whose names were however chosen in order to hash to the same CRC32C value. This operation fails after 5 (!) seconds and creating only 61 files. In other words, this first attack allows an adversary, in a shared directory scenario,
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Inside NASA’s Mysterious Rubber Room
Ever since learning about the Rubber Room and Blast Room deep below launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center I had been hopeful that I would one day get to photograph this mysterious remnant of the Apollo Program. I had seen very few photos of this room online and by talking to friends at KSC
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“What is this if not proof that the political class should not be allowed within a mile of regulating the press?”
As the Telegraph reports: "When a reporter approached Mrs Miller’s office last Thursday, her special adviser, Joanna Hindley, pointed out that the Editor of The Telegraph was involved in meetings with the Prime Minister and the Culture Secretary over implementing the recommendations made by Lord Justice Leveson. “Maria has obviously been having quite a lot
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Note to self: EXT4 Filesystem with MySQL on Ubuntu under VirtualBox is toxic; use ‘nobarrier’ mount option
Am running WordPress importers; that which required more than 30 minutes to import – utilising less than 2% CPU for the whole time – suddenly required less than 3 minutes after adding the nobarrier option to the root mountpoint and rebooting. barrier=<0|1(*)> barrier(*) nobarrier This enables/disables the use of write barriers in the jbd code.
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#Cybersecurity Quote of the Week: “If we can defend the model train set [we can] defend the real thing”
http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2012/12/airforce-afcyber-121112w/ Here’s how CyberCity will work: Users must first hack into physical cameras distributed throughout the model city to gain a visual picture of what’s happening. Users are given missions that could include preventing terrorists from contaminating the town’s reservoir, derailing a train or hacking into the town’s utility company and shutting down power. Another
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Bluetooth-Sniffing Highway Traffic Monitors Vulnerable to MITM Attack | The Security Ledger
http://securityledger.com/bluetooth-sniffing-highway-traffic-monitors-vulnerable-to-mitm-attack/ Where have we heard this before? But researchers from the University of California at San Diego and the University of Michigan found that the Post Oak system isn’t as secure as promised. The AWAM Bluetooth Reader Traffic System doesn’t use sufficient entropy when generating authentication and host keys that are used to secure communications
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Patrick Moore was the uncle of Alan Moore?
But the far more sizeable majority of non-comics readers have not the first idea who this guy is. So writing in praise of Alan Moore is, probably, some sort of public duty. He’s really, really good. Hence, the reverential bafflement that attended a profile of Moore screened by the BBC’s Culture Show this week. Who
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Bike, camera, inaction! # When a Barrister on a Bike pursues a driver through the Courts
The conversation whilst stationary at the traffic lights was picked up crystal clear, word for word, including Lomas’s double admission that he had indeed just threatened to kill me. Any competent lawyer would know that here was compelling evidence of a Public Order Act offence. I therefore Googled the telephone number of Hounslow police station
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It’s not wrong to avoid tax | David Giampaolo and Geoffrey Wood # slightly astonished to find this in the Grauniad
Why is it unethical to comply with the law? That is precisely what anyone who claims a company is immoral if it legally minimises its tax is saying. That is what anyone who boycotts Starbucks, or any other multinational company, is saying. The protesters – who have vowed to continue their action even though Starbucks