February 2012
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Bummer: Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos Weren't, and... →
infoneer-pulse:
The blame lies with a fiber-optic cable used to connect a GPS receiver, which corrects the timing of the neutrinos’ flight, and a computer card that reads the receiver. As part of the efforts to replicate the results, a team member apparently tightened the connection and then measured the length of time it took the timing data to travel down the fiber. The data showed up, you...
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January 2012
8 posts
“The internet seems to ignore legislation until somebody tries to take something...”
– Joel Spolsky on Google+ bringing back an oft suggested but seemingly never implemented idea.
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TJ McIntyre: Ireland's SOPA - An FAQ →
What’s this all about? Long story short: the Irish government plans, before the end of January, to bring in a law which would allow Irish courts to block access to websites accused of infringing copyright (and possibly do other things as well). Isn’t that a short time for parliament to examine it? The Irish parliament won’t have a chance to debate it before it’s...
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IT Law in Ireland: Adrian Weckler confims that... →
The clear implication from his interview with Sean Sherlock is that the proposed measures will be lacking in any real detail, leaving it entirely up to the judges as to what types of blocking might emerge. (Possibly going beyond web blocking to also target hosting and other services.)
This is very worrying. As bad as SOPA And PIPA are, at the very least you could say that they had a clearly...
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“With half the internet blacked out in protest against SOPA on Wednesday, it’s...”
– Will Ireland block the Internet to save CDs? - newswhip.com
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“A so-called “blackout” is yet another gimmick, albeit a dangerous one, designed...”
– Howard Gantman of the MPAA not at all missing the point.
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December 2011
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November 2011
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October 2011
4 posts
Serious data security vulnerability discovered in... →
New logging tools introduced by HTC are exposing a massive amount of private data to any application that requests access to the internet.
September 2011
2 posts
Logging out of Facebook is not enough →
rten:
If you’re concerned of privacy remember that just logging out of Facebook is not enough, you can be tracked while you’re logged out. Whether this is being done in reality is something we can only speculate on.
Nic Cubrilovic: The primary cookies that identify me as a user are still there (act is my account number), even though I am looking at a logged out page. Logged out requests...
August 2011
12 posts
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“[W]hat evidence is there that Apple is being engineered to operate independent...”
– Horace Dediu on Steve Jobs long planned retirement plans
“But it wasn’t unexpected: Nissan has a monitoring device in the car which...”
– Top Gear’s electric car shows pour petrol over the BBC’s standards
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Amazon App Store: Rotten To The Core | Shifty... →
Amazon’s biggest feature by far, has been their Free App Of The Day promotion. Publicly their terms say that they pay developers 20% of the asking price of an app, even when they give it away free. To both consumers and naive developers alike, this seems like a big chance to make something rare in the Android world: real money. But here’s the dirty secret Amazon don’t want you to know, they...
July 2011
10 posts
What Did The Oslo Killer Want? →
Anders Behring Breivik posted a 1,500 page manifesto to supremacist website Stormfront.org:
““Our purpose,” the document reads, is to “seize political and military control of Western European countries and implement a cultural conservative political agenda.”
In grim, apocalyptic language, it advocates attacks on “traitors” across Europe who are supposedly enabling a Muslim takeover of...
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WatchThe Amazing Spider-Man trailer.
Looks like they’re trying to go darker (and not as in Emo Dance Dance Parker this time).
The Dark Knight Rises Official Teaser Trailer →
Nolan’s definitively billing this as his conclusion.
Lady Gaga Kidnaps Commissioner Gordon | The Onion... →
Known for her outlandish costumes and geometric polygon hair, the criminal madwoman made a daring escape from Arkham Asylum last week and has been taunting authorities by interrupting television broadcasts ever since.
June 2011
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