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Apple granted patent for location-based camera phone disabling – Boing Boing
I imagine movie theaters would be the first to use this remote disabling feature (if Apple ever decides to move ahead with this technology; just because they have a patent doesn’t mean they’ll use it). The paranoid side of me imagines governments using it to prevent citizens from communicating with each other or taking video
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Twitter Updates for 2012-08-31
@carl_rahn @davewiner Instagram for the arty # RT @alastairmcgowan: #CCDP revision: force councils to retain refuse for a year so police can fish in it # <- THIS! YES YES SO FULL OF WIN! # “Zahra Bahrami betrayed by chat-room conversations” # some places, using social media can lead to your death http://t.co/qeQ84Qsg #ccdp #
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Daily #Telegraph Usability Fuckwittage Part 2 – on a Nexus 7
After pinch-zooming text for size. Even after logging out of facebook.
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Internet Voting Systems in a Nutshell #taylorswift #4chan
An ongoing campaign to create an unparalleled experience for some special kids: Yep. And that, too. via Reddit: God Damnit 4chan, you are amazing.
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“Zahra Bahrami betrayed by chat-room conversations” # some places, using social media with bad security will lead to your death #CCDP
This is why: Zahra Bahrami’s private conversations with friends and family were compromised by her use of social media such as Paltalk and Bayluxe, leading eventually to her arrest and execution. Two internet users in Germany and Iran have now revealed themselves to have been friends of hers, and in the last months before she
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We should amend the Communications Data Bill immediately, @julianhuppert can you add this plz ->
#CCDP revision: force councils to retain refuse for a year so police can fish in it — Alastair McGowan (@alastairmcgowan) August 30, 2012
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Twitter Updates for 2012-08-30
@coadec website dead much. # @DavidAllenGreen @berrydm You'd be surprised at the utility of a PAYG cheap phone, then. 15 quid for massively improved authentication. # .@skype4biz The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his TOYS # How to clean your cat properly: http://t.co/nC5ypkXs # @davewiner Twitter for text, Tumblr for
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Tree Foliage – zoomed but best size
Solution: http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/article/8240
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WANTED: Tree Identification, Fungus Identification, Winchfield Station
Update: got it! sulphur polyphore (past its prime) on black locust tree. Thanks to: Mel, Jane, Elfie, Janine. See also: http://instagram.com/p/OlSOx8gud1/ Winchfield Station Car Park is home to a rather lovely tree, which is afflicted with a rather beautiful – but I suspect probably terminal – fungus: I lack the books for tree identification and
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Twitter Updates for 2012-08-29
@fnordleblanket Doable. 🙂 # @RichardWiseman For a minute I thought you'd reposted this: https://t.co/8u5gMbBc # @Raj_Samani Again, sorry, but "really?" How many syndicates do you run into in your daily life, or: should one care about malware's sources? # @Raj_Samani Again, "to whom" – I am a (very) representative security pro and I don't care