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Goats on Powerpoint Slideware “You would put all management out of a job!” (tags: goats cartoons powerpoint presentations communications) The Null Device Facebook and Google anounce that they are joining the Data Portability Workgroup, a body advocating open standards allowing users of social web sites to easily move their data from one site to another.

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If this is true: The state of California is one the verge of controlling every air conditioner in the state. Title 24, California’s state-mandated energy regulatory code is about to be revised to implement a requirement that will allow the state to take control of the thermostat in every new home and office in the

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Watching all the discussion of HD-DVD (“RIP”) versus Blu-Ray, or Blu-ray is the “revenge of Betamax” since Sony owned the latter – I can’t help thinking that people are watching the wrong game. It’s not HD-DVD format vs: Blu-Ray format. It’s hard-plastic-disk-format, versus online. Me, I bet on the latter. Terabyte disks are dropping to

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Judge rules defendant can’t be forced to divulge PGP passphrase [Politech] A federal judge in Vermont has ruled that prosecutors can’t force a criminal defendant accused of having illegal images on his hard drive to divulge his PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) passphrase. U.S. Magistrate Judge Jerome Niedermeier ruled tha (tags: privacy law civilrights america cryptography)

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Macworld | CES: Casio unveils super high-speed digital camera Casio will put on sale in March a digital still camera capable of shooting up to 60 full-resolution images in one second, and video at more than 1,000 per second to realize a super slow-motion effect, it is expected to announce Sunday at the International (tags:

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Colleague Dan Lacher is looking for a toy espresso machine: Based on a conversation the other day with my little girl I am now in search of a toy espresso machine. She was playing in her new kitchen and I was being served a slice of cake. I asked if I could have a cup

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Identity theft – dontcha just love it. I maintain my slightly awkward stance on a lot of ID theft – that the term is a misnomer for fraud, used to prop up “security theatre” by banks, and that retailers who are defrauded should be the focus of legal prosecution – but this sort of thing

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Argh… “would the person in economy who is nmap’ing our navcom please stop, we need to steer”. WiReD Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner passenger jet may have a serious security vulnerability in its onboard computer networks that could allow passengers to access the plane’s control systems, according to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration. The computer network

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Macworld | Mac OS X Hints | Use new screen region capture options in 10.5 (tags: Leopard OSX apple) Macworld | Understanding and using Leopard’s firewall (tags: apple leopard osx Security network) Speed demons will meet their match on the piste – Times Online Switzerland is introducing speed cameras on the slopes to try to

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BBC NEWS | UK | Pub chain limits parents’ drinks A spokesman for the company said it was “uncomfortable” with children being on the premises for long periods because of a lack of play facilities. (tags: food drink politics civilrights) California Academy of Sciences – Plan Your Visit – General Information trap-jaw ants in the

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Macworld: The patent filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office defines “a docking area configured to receive a portable computer,” according to the filing. Apple and the legal firm of Van Pelt, Yi and James LLP filed the patent application on 3 July, 2006. According to the patent, the docking station will serve as

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BBC NEWS | UK | Human species ‘may split in two’ Funny, I read: Humanity may split into two sub-species in 100,000 years’ time as predicted by HG Wells, an expert has said. Evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry of the London School of Economics expects a genetic upper class and a dim-witted underclass to emerge. …and

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