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Jan24
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
There’s no such thing as anonymous.
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Jan21
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
Warning shot for public databases.
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Jan19
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”.
Why fix it, when you can pretend there isn’t a problem?
Jan6
Reads like a riddle: It’s sort of paper but not paper. What is it?
a major gap in the magazine market for a practical food magazine for mass-market mums
Jan4
WSJ: Apple Tablet shipping in March
I like this photo’s caption — “This is not it”
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.
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.
World’s tallest building officially opened
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.
Seesmic.com buys ping.fm
What will happen to brizzly.com?
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.
indecent picture of a child — “indecent” meaning showing the genitalia, and “child” meaning someone under 18 — is a criminal offence… an image, whether made by computer graphics or otherwise, which appears to be a photograph
Body scanners: threat to children’s rights | Christina Zaba | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
The madness of law that in stopping the use of body scanners at airports.
