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heerlen vids
Thanks to the fabulous 18Thanatos some video from the Heerlen show is now online, and looking good! Start here…
Heerlen - Nightfall
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that Heerlen show
Thursday afternoon ( Read more... ) -
wandering thoughts and general catch-up stuff
Quick catchup on the last couple of weeks...
The trip to Anaheim was great. Worked my ass off, we showed some awesome new software, and pretty much stole the show by all accounts. Was nice to back up on stage for the old firm, as it always is. And very nice of the new employers to give me the time off to go, which was much appreciated. The ( Read more... ) -
all UK residents read this!
NO2ID has been warning since 2006/7 about the stated intentions of government "to overcome current barriers to information sharing within the public sector" [1]. Now the Ministry of Justice has launched an extraordinary coup. It is about to convert the Data Protection Act into its exact opposite, a means for any government department to obtain and ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
Why governments shouldn't use Microsoft, part 774:
Staff at hospitals across Sheffield are battling a major computer worm outbreak after managers turned off Windows security updates for all 8,000 PCs on the vital network, The Register has learned.
It's been confirmed that more than 800 computers have been infected with self-replicating Conficker ( Read more... ) -
MPs want to conceal their expenses
Just saw this on the Planet Ubuntu blog:
Parliament have just spent upwards of £500,000 preparing to release data on expenses claimed by MPs. The government (and the conservatives) have now decided that this data should not be available to the public, making MPs and Lords the only public officials in the country that don’t have to make this ( Read more... ) -
internet safe for children after all
In one of those classic "Duh!" moments, a recent study shows that children are not under threat from online sexual predators after all...
A task force created by 49 state attorneys general to look into the problem of sexual solicitation of children online has concluded that there really is not a significant problem.
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The 278-page report, ( Read more... )
