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Weather warning: A rough beast has arisen and slouches towards Bethlehem to be born …
… so expect disruption in inshore waterways, including gale-force winds and tidal surge from North Foreland to Selsey Bill, Selsey Bill to Lyme Regis.
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I have begun to report every gas/electric meter reader who turns up on the doorstep as a potential fraudster
It makes no sense; I submit a meter reading online and every time, within two weeks, someone is ringing the doorbell to check the figures. What is the point? On the assumption that there could be any number of fake meter readers out there touting for business I am reporting each incident to my supplier’s
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“Don’t be the first to be an asshole” – content-based addressing on the web /ht @bloggerheads #WestSkep #Shicklegate
On monday evening I attended a panel at Westminster Skeptics and posited a question to Tim Ireland and the panel, along the lines of: The facility of search – Google Search, Twitter Search – makes the web a content-addressable space; if someone says something nasty and the words are reported, we can soon identify the
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Twitter Updates for 2012-09-26
Wanted: Cafe in #Farnham with free Wifi, please ? /cc @k4thybrown @JamesFirth # @lauraanngill Do tell… # @lauraanngill deeply unrealistic outside of public sector. 🙂 # "@Saccaparami: Wow, 'the red bits' of the Walsh Report make fascinating reading http://t.co/Z5Ccv14f #Encryption #CryptoParty" # MUST READ # @adrianco let me know when founded someone to be cynical
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Cognitive dissonance
Normal people would probably have taken less time to determine what’s wrong with this picture: Normal people would not have tried parsing the code in the context of the lead paragraph…
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Introducing “British Economic Time” aka “Sunrise Time” – the ultimate #astronomy geek timezone /ht @fanf
I’m ranting about this on Facebook so I might as well share the amusement. Generally twice a year on the Today programme you’ll get a package or programme segment about “the clocks are going forwards/back” and how some organisation, charity, peer or MP is proposing to move to “double daylight savings time”. “Stay on summer
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Even World of Warcraft is tracking you! # Steganography in Virtual Reality
Check these out: http://www.itworld.com/security/297750/even-world-warcraft-tracking-you http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/world-of-warcraft/world-of-warcraft-general/375573-looking-inside-your-screenshots.html Steganographic identification of images in virtual worlds – like we’ve seen previously with printers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_steganography Wanna bet that someone is going to try mandating this stuff real soon now? ps: sorry if this post looks rubbish, it appears that WordPress have recently banjaxed their Android app and the editor pane
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Google and Gmail censored in Iran
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19700910 Timely, especially for anyone attending “403 Forbidden” in London on Wednesday.
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Would you trust Government legislation drafted by people who blog Twitter chat as a PDF? #CleanIT
As seen here for instance. Every month I encounter people who simply “don’t get it” – generally they are the sorts of folk who used to work on mainframes, call IT “Data Processing” and never updated their skills when Unix/Linux arrived. Certainly they never got into blogging, and hence tend to treat the Web as
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Twitter Updates for 2012-09-25
Looks like the NZ GCSB got brought into the Kim Dotcom Megaupload thing, not entirely legitimately? http://t.co/CrovqGuD # This would be akin to GCHQ wiretapping UK citizens on behalf of the FBI http://t.co/CrovqGuD # would not happen like that here, of course… # So @davidleigh3 thinks that the #Guardian should be publicly funded by broadband