Dropsafe

Jacqui Smith cracks down on gangs via computers, closets • The Register Home Secretary Jacqui Smith today announced plans to insert provisions into the Policing and Crime Bill that would allow courts to impose a range of restrictions on individuals. These include not allowing individuals to enter a “specified place”, for example a gang’s “territory”,

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stuck in bed at home with flu of some sort, throat/lungs; trying to sleep it off. just had marmite on toast, need rooibos… # Once there was a God of USENET whose name we would invoke – Kibo – and lo! He would come and respond. Now there is @stephenfry 🙂 # A warning for

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If you’ve not heard of VRM, or if you’ve heard mixed reports and want to know what it is really about, read http://is.gd/i5pO for the truth # If you grew up in the UK in the 70s/80s, you’ll likely not believe this is still going: http://tinyurl.com/ccvmsr # nice that someone remembers, but it’s a shame

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Does anyone actually care about SELinux? Does anyone know of it being actually configured and used to utmost? Reality, not rumor, wanted… # if yuo wanna talk about the weather http://tinyurl.com/c4wm6o #uksnow # Yay! How ’bout dem Stillers? 🙂 # Months ago I read an article about the death of American journalism, everything being cast

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…is all here in the VRM white paper by Adriana; I saw a lot of effort and material go into the creation of this document, and my personal hope is that it will help drag VRM back from the valley of the shadow of startups, committees, “user-centric” standards and intellectual property, and get people thinking

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Let’s review the timeline: serious snow started falling in parts of Britain, last night by 6am this morning, folk were tagging tweets with “#uksnow” at some point someone tweeted this application where you tweet the first half of your postcode, and a rating out of 10 (eg: “RG27 1/10″ since it’s not currently snowing, just

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Gates says recovery in 4 years; given what he said about the timeline for Vista, I am scared for the next decade. http://tinyurl.com/c7bl5c # yep. http://tinyurl.com/ac63u7 # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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“…they believe their website is 100% safe…” Mmm. Cute idea, though.

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A few years ago I met this guy on this motorbike under circumstances that I documented here and photographed here, but this morning I got this comment which put a whole new spin on the encounter: Mike: C.D.W.Clark is a con man. He absconded with several hundred thousand dollars from an investor in his photo

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For cumulophiles everywhere, a fantastic, proper rant against cloud computing: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1717 # Who will be B.A. ?? — Ridley Scott to remake The A-Team http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7856758.stm # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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4250 lines of perl. Phew. # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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If ‘Portal’ was your cup of tea: http://tinyurl.com/aj862b # My Firefox Plugins: Adblock+, Ghostery & Ubiquity (both via @adriana872), Firebug (@benlaurie), Gears, Greasemonkey, LiveHTTPHeaders. Yours? # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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