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How to be an Internet Tycoon: if net neutrality ends http://bit.ly/9LWKYx – v.good, although on the internet we can have "stealth" cattle # The biggest threat to the net is not #netneutrality it's those who want to remake it "properly" so that it "works" with clear "ownership" # @coruskate Yes, yes they could, but then

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By someone’s request, one of my old demonstration programs: perl -nle ‘setpwent;crypt($_,$c)eq$c&&print”$u=$_”while($u,$c)=getpwent’ <dictfile …works on Unixes without shadow files / with NIS, or with root privilege. It’s hardly the most efficient way of doing a sweep for weak passwords, but there was a time where doing: echo changeme | perl -nle …cut-and-paste… …was horrifyingly effective

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Via @CliveMKing – Stephen Gough, the Naked Rambler, in prison in Scotland for doing what he does best http://bit.ly/bLDRr5 # It strikes me that if all you need to do for free bed and board in Scotland is strip naked, more people should be doing it… # 1) the trike works 2) post-overhaul it's quicker

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@jimfinnis seen http://bit.ly/bJH9il ? in reply to jimfinnis # stem ginger cookies: http://bit.ly/9bl2ia (walnut) brownies: http://bit.ly/jyNCV #

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Today I learned that the THX sound is scored/written in 20,000 lines of C code – http://bit.ly/qiE7m # Six pairs of pants sewn together to form an open surface of genus two with four boundary components http://bit.ly/bCF8FZ # Stephen Fry on Swearing, w/ Hugh Laurie in Drag (briefly) http://youtu.be/s_osQvkeNRM # crushing the frantic penguins and

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lg handful chopped dates lg handful chopped dried apricots spoon sticky honey small splash water warm-through the above mixture (low heat) in a small saucepan until goopy and thoroughly mixed, and some of the water has evaporated off de-core 2+ cooking apples and score them equatorially with a knife tip stuff the hollow apple cores

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"Do you frequently benefit from knowing the location of friends via Latitude or other Geolocation services?" – Yes = 9% # Churchill had black dogs; I have labrador puppies which slobber over me, piddle, and then gambol into this distance leaving a curious smell # @beng Mrs Beeton's Cookbook ? in reply to beng #

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If you're in the Winchfield area: coming back from station got flashed by police, asking if I'd seen a yellow dumper truck; stolen. # Why do my EBay bidders keep asking for a "Buy Now" price? Impulse buying, or trying to squeeze a bargain? # @androidbbq "Seattle based HTC" – Is someone trying to launder

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Woohoo – just discovered multi-tenancy in #AppEngine think I might start coding again now the weather's going to hell… # @fanf Gosh, that brings back memories – scripting in the early 90s back when speed of "grep" was critical … in reply to fanf # @gravax you bought a dumptruck for Cyrian ? in reply

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The jokes just write themselves… http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11062193 How do you un-glue a protester? Climate campaigners superglued themselves to a car park gate during a demonstration on Monday. How are they released? It is the latest tactic used by direct action activists to make sure they stick in the public consciousness – but you definitely should not

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This is great, until you get to the signature… What do they call him in private – “Head of Cognitive Bicycle Therapy?”

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uggc://jjj.oop.pb.hx/arjf/hx-11067028 Dhbgr: Qba’g ynory urebva hfref nf ‘whaxvrf’ – Qeht Pbzzvffvba Crbcyr fubhyq fgbc pnyyvat urebva hfref “whaxvrf” be “nqqvpgf”, na vasyhragvny guvax gnax ba qehtf unf fnvq. Fb jung’f na npprcgnoyr nygreangvir? “Crbcyr bs Fznpx?”

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