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#foodporn – Making Better Celeriac Mash
Celeriac makes a great mashed vegetable but it’s a sponge – boil it and it absorbs water until the resulting mash is a porridge. Solution? Cube the celeriac (medium/big chunks) and boil until tender / a skewer goes into it cleanly. Then strain it and put it through a potato ricer gently, starting off over
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This Is Why Spelling Out Your Email Address On Twitter Is Pointless
https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=email+at+%22dot+com%22 Anybody want to whack a parser on top of this? Solution: get a better spam filter. Evolve.
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Apple is *literally* – not just figuratively – taking the piss out of the UK judicial system #ViewTheSource #SoSuMi
Update @ 1325: It looks like the SoSuMi block is boilerplate for legal stuff on all parts of the Apple site, so therefore Apple are not using the tag to take the piss out of the UK legal system but instead are merely practically doing that by dynamically resizing their page to ensure that the
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Guest Post: Internet Companies and the Balancing of Free Speech Interests | Harvard Law and Policy Review
There was well-founded outrage in the free-speech community when the government pressured Amazon, Visa and Mastercard, etc., to stop doing business with WikiLeaks. The State Department argued that WikiLeaks shouldn’t have published the documents in the name of another “vulnerable population”: the foreign sources named in the State Department cables, never meant to be public.
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Deleting Online Content, China’s Get-Rich-Quick Business # one for the “Right To Be Forgotten” brigade
Deleting online posts has become China’s latest get-rich-quick opportunity. Some web portals have what they call in-house public relations companies, which charge clients to delete unflattering posts. A recent scandal involving Japanese porn stars has raised prices for deleting content. In May, after PetroChina’s Sichuan Petrochemical Company announced a 38 billion yuan (US$6.06 billion) project,
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#Cyber Duck And Cover /ht @flyingmonkeyair @fcwnow @AmberInsideDOD
Sigh. Not merely do we get this: While DOD’s rules of engagement will direct military action in cyberspace, a wider national-level doctrine should lay the groundwork for a more comprehensive range of issues related to cybersecurity, from federal guidelines to everyday activities, Sample said. For example, in the Cold War era there was an understanding
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la diagonale du fou: Singularity Chess
[…] Since the board layout is a “curved space,” straight moves and diagonal moves have to be defined locally instead of globally. A straight move can be defined as a move which enters a “square” through one side, and may continue on to exit the “square” through the opposite (nonadjacent) side. A diagonal move can
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SUBJECT: WikiLeaks – Mishandling of Classified Information
Bonus material: MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES FROM: Jacob J. Lew Director SUBJECT: WikiLeaks – Mishandling of Classified Information Our national defense requires that sensitive information be maintained in confidence to protect our citizens, our democratic institutions, and our homeland. Protecting information critical to our nation’s security is the responsibility of
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NARA Leaks WikiLeaks Citations # We can do better than #cryptome! #waf #bypass #censorship #wikileaks
As Glyn Wintle is fond of saying: if your security depends on a blacklist, you’ve already lost. Thusly, Cryptome reports: Access to documents containing the word “WikiLeaks” are blocked at the US National Archives website. http://research.archives.gov/search?v%3Aproject=opa&query=WikiLeaks The URL you requested has been blocked The page you have requested has been blocked, because the URL is
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The global war on free speech – Telegraph #MUSTREAD especially for the Conservative-inclined such as @ukhomeoffice
The power relationship shifted. Gone were the days when a mere citizen would have to send a letter to their MP, who would occasionally deign to reply. Mostly they didn’t, seeing engagement or accountability as an intrusion on their valuable time. That has changed, thank goodness, and cannot be reversed. The moment George Osborne’s assistant
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Popular sites with Apache server-status enabled | Sucuri Blog # See what other people are browsing
Sometimes you don’t even need CCDP. Apache has a very useful functionality called server-status that allows administrators to easily find how well their servers are performing. It is basically an HTML page that displays the number of process working, status of each request, IP addresses that are visiting the site, pages that are being queried
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decybered version: “Gary McGraw: “Proactive defense prudent alternative to cyberwarfare” /ht @mikko @cigital
I like and respect Gary McGraw. That his article still (mostly) makes sense – and is an easier read – after running through some brute-force editing courtesy of decyber, is telling. I used “show changes” mode on the CGI version of decyber so that edits can be seen – AM Gary McGraw: Proactive defense prudent