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I'm sorry, caller on @BBCr4today, but the tabloids have nothing to do with the #superinjunction debate being "whipped up" on twitter. # Caller on @BBCr4today – Nigel Tate? – all the whipping is due to innate prurience, and the violation of Gilmore's law http://bit.ly/QyETB # @JackGavigan They love it, yes, but no Tabloid editor is

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Let me see if I can get this straight: John Henning MP – a lawmaker – exploited parliamentary privilege – a legal loophole which he is both legally privileged and able to exploit – to share information which most of us knew anyway, and for this he is being excoriated as undermining “the rule of

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the show: The airline attendant said that there’s federal regulations prohibiting the tampering with or destroying the smoke detector in the lavatory. I’d hope that there were federal regulations prohibiting the tampering with or destroying any part of the fucking plane. The smoke detectors are the least of my worry. Rip ’em out and use

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RT @e3i5:Lord Neuberger suggests a central secure database for superinjunctions? Theres a honeypot if ever Ive seen one http://bit.ly/lc0nZN # New: How to prune a retweet: a guide to etiquette http://bit.ly/joheRo # @rjek I believe it's economically more efficient to do so; doubleclicks select entire words for editing, but dblspc requires focus to find #

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Something like the artificial example: RT @whomever: I’ve got a retweet and I’m not afraid to use it. LOL! http://youtu.be/ABCDEFGHIJKL You’re manually retweeting a tweet by whomever and the RT prefix and username has pushed you over the 140-character boundary; you’re probably manually retweeting in something like Tweetdeck because the Twitter-native retweet doesn’t have this

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#earthquake on #Christmas island. The #rapture people are going to go ape. God has a sense of humour / get out clause, now. # 2x double espressos from Bar Italia, and I'm home from #OpenTech and very very awake. Actually, I don't mind. Good day 🙂 #

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The _right_ way to manage software piracy http://bit.ly/lhGf4N – HT @adriana872 # …and while we're on the topic of piracy http://bit.ly/lhGf4N # in case you missed it # I know I shouldn't, but I am just rolling on the floor laughing #wikileaks #assange humour is recognition http://bit.ly/ifBu5a # Does #LinkedIn have a "Block & Report"

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Simon Waters calls me out for my posting on the “metrication of security”: Metrication or Mensuration? I’m reminded of the audit folk who thought one of my previous employers should create a single measure of performance, which would create a new synthetic number lumping together other numbers that already existed, being an organisation full of

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“Apple malware is a foreign country…” Apple malware is a foreign country… …they do things differently there Picture this: some monstrous creature out of a fairy tale arrives at your house, knocks at the door, is let in, and abducts your wife away to the circus. What do you do? Well, if you’re PCWorld or

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I'd swear twitter is dropping some of my follow requests… follow people, then have to refollow them when next you see them… # "Not suspicious, but merely Canadian" – http://bit.ly/m06eXi # I just love the way this lady says "It's a natural phenomenon" at the 0:50-ish mark: http://bbc.in/jnwpx4 # insert illegal alien joke here #

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Listening to Peter Bazalgette talking about the NHS trying to draw line between information sharing and privacy # #bigtentuk Simon Davies: ICO has been week willed and vacillating for 20 years. # gah typos # @JackGavigan Front Right. # #bigtentuk Q: Simon: If all the world's Twitter users crowdsourced a database of photos of houses,

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@bengrubb So you report either the FacebookPhoto or SymantecBank stories, and the police arrest _you_ ? How does that work ? # And this week it's Linux running in a Javascript CPU emulator: http://bellard.org/jslinux/ # @bengrubb Let me guess – you reproduced the "hacked" shot in the article, therefore you're an evil hacker? # >

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