Dropsafe

From what I've seen @kevinmitnick's book is the last hurrah of the 1980s/90s security generation, back when we could stay up 36h and be fine # @runasand Hmm – when are you off? It _could_ wait, or I could pop into London over the weekend/soon after. # @GeekChickUK So far it's all pants – Flip-type

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@hadleybeeman @marxculture Yay! HMRC Self Assessment paywall. That will make it both more usable and more popular! 🙂 # RT @wikileaks: WSJ calls for indictment of Assange http://on.wsj.com/eTh7dT and launches own leak site: http://bit.ly/ksT3Fw # Nespresso: New Capsule Recycling Service in my area! Woohoo, no more traipsing to London. #

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@chrisgerhard "…and also with you." # "We could not load your events. Please try again in a few minutes." #googlecalendar – Am getting that a lot, recently # CallerID tells me I got a call from GfK NOP while I was out; Suspect it's a last-minute opinion poll for the election. # Written in grime

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I think I just heard Cameron correctly explain AV to Humphrys on @r4today ("If I vote MonsterRavingLooney") – and H told him he was wrong? # Have just found that @r4today is now @bbcr4today, and that someone had taken the old twitter ID. Oops. #r4today # @EvanHD So one bunch of people may express two

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Ordinary IT guy on the ground in Abbotabad, reported the helicopter activity, now giving the local rumourmill: @ReallyVirtual # Hooray, the #vuvuzela is back. South Africans can celebrate their most popular contribution to world culture. Zero to triumph in 2 yrs! # @His_Grace So, you actually believe the whole Lake of Fire thing? Not a

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Just back from Mark Thomas at Basingstoke Haymarket, and chance encounters with former colleagues… # @markRbowyer Was surprised not to see you there. MacFarlane was. Gig was good, if heavy on the emotional bait-and-switch technique. # @markRbowyer Also was tied with a Palestinian co-op olive oil tasting. Crit on both sides, but the story of

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@adrianco Gould NP-1 at Aberystwyth would disconnect all Pinkbook ethernet users and/or reboot if console was used while up. Watchdogs. # Another 17 sacks of loose rubble filled, and that's the last of the loose stuff. It is now permitted to rain in Hartley Wintney. # It may be a federal offence to break your

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@newsbrooke …and for science. They've not cited _which_ street, nor the ambient illumination. # @newsbrooke They have to build it up now so that there's more dramatic contrast when they're attacking her and William in a few years. # Normally references to glossy, thick manes of hair are reserved for International Horse Of The Year

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The proper perspective on Cloud Computing: http://goo.gl/VGc0Z # @CliveMKing Funny, but I wish it wasn't quite so easily demolishable. # @JamesFirth @palfrey So you're saying 4 of our political parties are indistinguishable except for the venue of party conference? # @chrisgerhard Because the graphic conflates location (party) with what you drink (policy) & says that

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This week's Security Drinking Game: take a drink every time you hear "Sony" and "Advanced Persistent Threat"/APT in the same sentence. # & RT @hvcco: double shot if they say "Anonymous", and chug the bottle if they say PSN crashed due to Olympic ticket sales (BBC this AM!) # cafetière. yerba maté. 🙂 # New:

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People still send letters – but they send even more e-mail; I strongly believe that skills of “word processing” and the “formal letter” will further decline, and that the employees of the future will at school no longer be taught the difference between “Yours sincerely” and “Yours faithfully”, but instead the difference between “Reply” and

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France & Italy want to re-establish border controls "when necessary"? Goodbye Schengen… http://bit.ly/2VlbYc # @wrwalke Agreed, although it's not the rudest song on YouTube by far… # @e3i5 Tell me that's not your thesis ? # @wrwalke Wanna learn ASL ? http://bit.ly/hiJZju # @e3i5 "You should do it in the cloud, something reliable like EC2"

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