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Moving to Posterous
I am not thinking to continue with this Tumblr notepad. I’m looking to continue it at Posterous and redirect this custom domain name isawnotes.com to there.
Posted on February 15, 2010
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Computer security: fraud fears as scientists crack 'anonymous' datasets | Technology | The Observer
a movie rental company released an anonymous list of film-ratings taken from its 500,000 subscribers. Using a statistical “de-anonymisation” technique, the academics were able to identify individuals and their film preferences
via guardian.co.ukThere’s no such thing as anonymous.
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Posted on January 24, 2010
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Large databases can never be secure | Henry Porter | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
alleged he used the ECS system to look up the records of the prime minster, Alex Salmond, Jack McConnell, Celtic Football Club players, a newsreader named Jackie Bird and seven other BBC journalists
via guardian.co.ukWarning shot for public databases.
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Posted on January 21, 2010
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UK ignores fears over Internet Explorer despite French and German warnings | Technology | guardian.co.uk
IE6 is extensively used by the British government, including UK armed forces: in response to parliamentary questions asked last year by Labour MP and former Cabinet Office minister Tom Watson, the Ministry of Defence, which has 300,000 desktops worldwide (including ships), said it was sticking with IE6, “and at the current time does not have a requirement to move to an updated version”.
via guardian.co.ukWhy fix it, when you can pretend there isn’t a problem?
Posted on January 19, 2010
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Bob Willoughby obituary | Art and design | The Guardian
Posted on January 19, 2010
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How The New York Times Should Charge For Content | paidContent How The New York Times Should Charge For Content | paidContent
Posted on January 19, 2010
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New Scottish Web Newspaper
Reads like a riddle: It’s sort of paper but not paper. What is it?
Posted on January 6, 2010
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a major gap in the magazine market for a practical food magazine for mass-market mums
Posted on January 6, 2010
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WSJ: Apple Tablet shipping in March
I like this photo’s caption — “This is not it”
Posted on January 4, 2010
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Cameron dismissed Labour’s dossier as “complete junk” and dodgy, but then appeared to sow confusion in his own ranks by saying his earlier totemic promise to guarantee marriage in the tax system was only a hope
Cameron error gives Labour first blood in election campaign | Politics | The Guardian
Election year starts.
Posted on January 4, 2010
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Lidl supermarket chain received several batches of high-grade cocaine at its Spanish stores last weekend
A line too far for Lidl as 100kg of cocaine turns up in banana boxes | World news | The Guardian
Don’t get Thursday offers like that in England.
Posted on January 4, 2010
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Burj Dubai: the world's tallest building | Art and design | guardian.co.uk
World’s tallest building officially opened
Posted on January 4, 2010
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8,000 European men were taken out one by one in 1995 and shot dead in a manner Europe has not seen since the killings at Katyn where Polish officers, public servants and professors were killed in cold blood by Russians acting on Stalin’s orders
John Major rewrites history | Denis MacShane | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Tory John Major tries the Conservative trick of rewriting history to put him and the Tory Party in a good light.
Posted on January 4, 2010
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Seesmic Blog: We've acquired Ping.fm. Get ready to update 50 social networks from Seesmic
Seesmic.com buys ping.fm
What will happen to brizzly.com?
Posted on January 4, 2010
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No one had expected to find evidence of a warm, wet climate capable of sustaining surface water on Mars during this period of the planet’s history, known as the Hesperian epoch.
Posted on January 4, 2010
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