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I kid you not. Argh, my eyes. Anyway, I hope they’re flameproof, because on September 12th, 2006 Nukeuler War Begins! Make your time.

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Life imitates Schneier, sorta: Guardian Half a million household wheelie bins have been secretly tagged with hidden electronic “bugs”, it has been reported. The tiny devices identify each bin so that records can be kept on the waste disposal habits of its owners, and up to 500,000 bins in council districts across England are thought

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Wow, this sounds really familiar… netsplit Upstart is a replacement for the init daemon, the process spawned by the kernel that is responsible for starting, supervising and stopping all other processes on the system. […] Why change it? Running a fixed set of scripts, one after the other, in a particular order has served us

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This is weirdness: my old stomping ground of University of London Observatory cut into a David Hasselhoff advert for Pipex broadband: …he’s probably never been to the site, and it’s clearly been photoshopped, but I still find it creepy. Maybe I’ve been hanging out with too many Germans?

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This is hilarious and tragic – the po-faced reactions of security personnel in the face of an iPod accidentally dropped down an aircraft toilet: WoW “So, I had an iPod before I went to the bathroom, and now I don’t. I think I know what’s in the toilet.” We had a quick conversation. I told

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350mph in fifth gear, and it’s not even gone into top, yet… azom On Tuesday, JCB DIESELMAX became the world’s fastest diesel when Green drove it to an FIA-sanctioned speed of 328.767mph (526.027kph). Today he improved on that significantly with a new record of 350.092mph (563.418kph) after two passes in opposite directions, within one hour.

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Amongst many other wise insights, via Adrian, comes the fear that the new Skype ap2ap (application to application) communcations API may lead to stupid monkey people programmers leveraging Skype as a communications web for mundane tasks that are best served by your actual TCP/IP that runs over your actual Internet. Adrian Cockcroft The essential characteristics

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Ryanair picture caption: “NEW AIRPORT SECURITY PROCEDURES PUT FUN BACK IN TO FLYING” [note: possibly nsfw in narrow-minded or non-european environments]

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Sydney Morning Herald A REEL of film held for 20 years in a Sydney vault could unlock the mystery of what happened to the original tapes of the Apollo 11 moon landing. The reel belongs to Australian film producer and rock video director Peter Clifton, who had all but forgotten a pristine 16-millimetre film of

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Independent The crash provides a reminder that the Government’s push to get more people cycling, for public health and environmental reasons, does not seem to be matched by provisions to protect them from death and serious injury. Recent figures from the Department for Transport showed that 440 bicycle riders were killed or seriously injured between

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El Reg Now for the fun part. Take your hydrogen peroxide, acetone, and sulfuric acid, measure them very carefully, and put them into drinks bottles for convenient smuggling onto a plane. It’s all right to mix the peroxide and acetone in one container, so long as it remains cool. Don’t forget to bring several frozen

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