Dropsafe

So what did I do this weekend? Well, first-up was Cropredy Folk Festival – involving getting up at 0600, driving about 70 miles northwards to Banbury and driving my shiny new car around several wet, muddy fields until I convinced myself that it would be too foolish and too much hassle to attempt to camp

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i just got back from a week in the usa. intact, and feeling slightly vegetable. The flight homewards was marginally less pleasant than the one out, enlivened mostly by the presence of Paula amongst the Virgin Atlantic cabin staff, an attractive blonde woman from Northampton who immediately appealed to my sense of the absurd as

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Take the What High School Stereotype Are You? quiz, by Angel.

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http://www.nwfusion.com/topics/palladium.html

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http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/english/2002.htm it’s a hoot; take a look: It was a long and boring flight to Moscow’s Sheremetevo Airport and when Special Agent Jasper Smoot debarked and walked into the restroom marked “Dama” in Cyrillic he might have found the woman there attractive except she had more whiskers than a Civil War general and was pointing

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http://www.reuters.co.uk/news_article.jhtml?type=humannews&StoryID=1204079 NEW YORK (Reuters) – Lawyers’ malpractice insurers doing business in Connecticut can breathe a sigh of relief — They do not have to pay claims against attorneys who spank their clients. A federal judge has ruled spanking is not covered by lawyers’ malpractice insurance policies, even if it is done under the bizarre pretext

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this one: http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,52666,00.html A Good Sequence, Easy to Dance To By Noah Shachtman Scientists may soon be downloading our DNA from Kazaa and Audiogalaxy, if a California biotech firm has its way. Companies doing genomic research, like Redwood City’s Maxygen, have a problem. To make money, the companies feel they need to control the rights

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http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid14_gci838639,00.html Palladium is a plan from Intel, AMD, and Microsoft to build security into personal computers and servers at the microprocessor level. Assuming that enough users buy computers with Palladium capabilities, each user may now for the first time be able to effectively filter out spam, ensure that only authorized programs can ever be run

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This fiddling has been going on now for over a year year (the ever vigilant RISKS digest noted it back in March 2001). But because of Yahoo’s underhand methods, very few people have spotted the turnabout – certainly far fewer than if Yahoo had done the sensible thing and, say, “**”‘ed out the vowels in

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When you invite the world to try to hack into your Microsoft network, what’s the major security challenge you face? In the case of MCP TechMentor’s Windows Security Challenge, it might be the security guard protecting the room where the servers are physically located, who keeps falling asleep. http://mcpmag.com/news/article.asp?EditorialsID=502

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yay! here i sit, having partaken of my statutory celebratory pint of cheriton best bitter, cod from the chippie, and a ice-cream cone on the common in the fading bronze sunlight, for today i have passed my direct-access motorcycle test. the test was one of the most nerve-wracking 40 minutes that i have suffered in

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I’ve been neglecting the blog for a few days, and thought this an appropriate juncture to apologise (sorry) and to explain why… Much of last week has been whipped up in a swirl of multimedia; David, Ray and I have undertaken a subversive project to improve the state of communications for security within Sun UK,

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