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[www.vnunet.com] UK plans nationwide IT security awareness campaign Downing Street promises major initiative, but service providers are dragging their feet Iain Thomson, vnunet.com 20 Oct 2005 A week from today the government will launch its largest public information campaign yet to warn of the dangers of computer crime. Full details have not yet been released

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Yes, it is an in-joke. Sorry. CROWD: A blogger! A blogger! A blogger! We’ve got a blogger! A blogger! VILLAGER #1: We have found a blogger, might we burn him? CROWD: Burn him! Burn! BEDEVERE: How do you know he is a blogger? VILLAGER #2: He looks like one. BEDEVERE: Bring him forward. BLOGGER: I’m

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I just received the following e-mail from a former colleague: Hi Alec, Do you remember a (grim, late 70s) BBC SF series, called 1990? Not easy to google with a title like that, but try: http://www.eofftv.com/numbers/1/1990_main.htm and read the SUMMARY. Yes, it looks like Blair, Blunkett & Clark (BB+C) forgot about rationing. Other than that,

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…you get this: TOKYO, Japan, October 19, 2005 – At the 39th Tokyo Motor Show 2005, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. today introduced a large-size sports motorcycle concept model, DN-01*, equipped with a continuously variable automatic transmission and a water-cooled, 4-stroke, OHC, V-type, 2-cylinder, 680cc engine. Honda will continue the development of DN-01 with the goal

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Found by Bart Blanquart: [www.technologynewsdaily.com] The US government has succeeded in persuading some color laser printer manufacturers to encode each page with identifying information. That means that without your knowledge or consent, an act you assume is private could become public. A research team led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) recently broke the code

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SPLASH WINDOWS – WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? No, really, I mean this quite, quite seriously: GIMP OpenOffice / NeoOffice / StarOffice Evolution Freemind etc… …all of these applications

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Absolutely barking. This happened in May, but if this sort of thing continues, I can see the Terrorism Act going the way of the Sus Laws [www.timesonline.co.uk] Two wheels: good. Two legs: terrorist suspect By David Lister, Scotland Correspondent WITH her year-round tan, long blonde hair and designer clothes, Sally Cameron does not look like

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[news.bbc.co.uk] The remains of the world’s oldest noodles have been unearthed in China. The 50cm-long, yellow strands were found in a pot that had probably been buried during a catastrophic flood. Radiocarbon dating of the material taken from the Lajia archaeological site on the Yellow River indicates the food was about 4,000 years old. The

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Regular readers will know that I am a big fan of Banksy, and all the moreso for his ability to pack three separate jokes into just two words, and use that to entitle a showing in a space the size of modest newsagents’ shop. I arrived around 6pm and the queue was only 20 yards

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I notice that today’s Iraqi election was conducted with pencil and paper. No Diebold machines in evidence, from what I saw on the news. I wonder why that might be? Perhaps they feel the populace wouldn’t consider voting machines to be consistent with a credible election?

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Well, after 3 and a half years of 24×7 service, my G4 iMac’s HD is making repeated Clatter-Clunk-Tick noises, every minute or so, sometimes several times repeatedly. Its “S.M.A.R.T.” status says “Verified”, but I strongly suspect it’s on the way out, and that it’ll die soon. I’ll be investigating a replacement at soonest opportunity, and

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