Dropsafe

RT @davidallengreen: Brilliant line of complaint about the Blackberry outage in today's FT: "I had to sit listening for the entire meeting" # system("chmod 777 " . $_COOKIE["$sessionid"]); # http://t.co/waDEk94U – Commenters have missed the enormity of the risk #thisiswhyihaveajob # HT @bensummers for http://t.co/Ls9XEklC incidentally… # In which we continue to defend pornography http://t.co/Dga5O22N

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@alexjbutcher v'z jbeevrq nobhg xahgu & zppnegul, ohg ernyvfgvpnyyl cebtenzzre-tbqf ner whfg uhzna. fbzrgvzrf vg'f uneq gb erzrzore gung. # #include <everybody.h> /* go to http://t.co/B74UceP1 and "like" the "What is this slash-slash nonsense?" comment */ # "You see? Compiler errors even print out while Asteroids is running!" http://t.co/7WQLhT7f #nostalgia # Dear @Dropbox / @dropbox_support

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Uber piece of #security philosophy about half way down http://t.co/T0oz0tec – via/from http://t.co/Lib8dAav # @_millymoo Does it rhyme with "ring" or "fringe" ? # In #Portsmouth tomorrow evening? For potentially cerebral entertainment, some along to Portsmouth Skeptics http://t.co/VeEYhNV5 #sitp # Would be better if I could type straight 🙂 – I blame 4 hours of

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New: Well done #MothersUnion for increasing domestic violence http://t.co/VXcqFvvh # @ISpeakSEO @clarinette02 @barneyc "Huge prob" – howso? # @IvorGrumble Exactly. I'm glad you agree that it happens and is dreadful. # @IvorGrumble I'm not blaming anyone – or if I am, it's the men. But I _am_ saying what I think will happen. # Grmbl.

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Let’s play with stereotypes for a moment: Men are traditionally perceived to want sex, and Women (in some relationships) to retain power by denying access to it So Women press to have household porn blocked Men (inarticulate, without explaining why) get shirty and frustrated Result: increase in domestic violence and a modest uptick in prostitution.

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@ruskin147 @diane1859 I grew up in #droitwich Near #wychbold towers you could pick up the handset in many phoneboxes and hear R4. # @copenhagenize Funny. As a motorcyclist it is a given that you are a vehicle. # @timoreilly "A politician who forgot to add 'most kinds of tax' to the list?" 🙂 # Total

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.@darrenmoffat One for you: http://t.co/nyaThlms – Time-zone database down # WestBoro Baptist Church claiming they will picket Steve Jobs' funeral. See @MargieJPhelps and http://t.co/GtyssQaa # .@MargieJPhelps says "God created iPhone" – but Steve Jobs created iPhone. Therefore 1) Steve was God and 2) http://t.co/t75zQHkM #qed # @killerswan I hope it's the sort of stupidity which

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Apple Store, Regent St http://t.co/YxS4jKhN # "god is dead" http://t.co/t75zQHkM # And the Apple Store is playing "Nothing's Gonna Change my World." # Pictures from the London Regent Street Apple Store: http://t.co/NTdxMurw # In the USA Government Data, creation paid for by the taxpayer, is open for public use. In the UK, not so. See

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@Hacksperger Reset the planet to _what_ ? Default settings are pretty boring. #askanyastronomer # @Hacksperger A default planet is like a raw X-windows server: grey, mostly featureless at a macro level, & has no user interface. # @Hacksperger You actually have no idea what "entropy" means, do you? Go on, what do you think it

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In memory of the late Gene Schultz – whom I remember mostly from CIAC – Spaf passes on this sage advice http://t.co/nxlMTDP5 #security #sad #

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@siriusnoir Something happened in HW last night? # Gardening – large amount of heavy tree pruning. Satisfying in a caber-tossing kind of way. # The "semi fast" service is not "semi slow" ? http://t.co/rgJc6078 # Tiny new potatoes, grape-sized, freshly dug, boiled, french butter. Bliss. Even the requisite comedy vegetable: http://t.co/XbZgpmg5 # If you're not

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