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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.
Posted on January 4, 2010
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the [Wi-Fi] technological equivalent of kryptonite in walls: chicken wire
The DIY Faraday Cage
Posted on January 3, 2010
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Trying the Tumblr photo feature using the MacBook iSight.
Posted on December 24, 2009
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an important step in protecting the property rights of small inventors
Court bans sale of Word; Microsoft promises fix | World news | guardian.co.uk
Microsoft walking on other people’s intellectual copyright…again.
Posted on December 24, 2009
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Inspired by Wordpress’ seriously clever use of Loren Brichter’s new Tweetie options, we’re launching our own Tweetie and Twitterrific compatible API. This Twitter-like API should make it easy for a lot of existing Twitter clients to start supporting Tumblr.
The really cool thing - because our following models follow a lot of the same principles, we’ve been able to take advantage of a ton of native features:
- Retweeting = Reblogging
- Replying = Reblogging w/ commentary
- Favoriting = Liking
- “@david” = ”http://david.tumblr.com/”
- Conversations = Reblogs
To try out Tumblr in Tweetie 2, tap “Accounts” → “+” → enter your username and password → tap the gear icon → enter “http://tumblr.com/” in both fields.
For Twitterrific, tap ”Sources” → “Edit” → “Add a New Account” → enter your username and password → tap ”Advanced” → set “Base URL” to “http://tumblr.com/” and disable “SSL”.
Trying out Tumblr with Tweetie 2. With Tumblr-Twitter having same username but different passwords my Twitter account got Locked.
Update: I deleted all accounts in Tweetie, waited 60 minutes, set them up again and this time they all appear to have worked with no lock-out when trying to use Twitter.
Posted on December 24, 2009 via Tumblr Staff with 863 notes
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The Tumblr Backup app is ready for beta testing!
- Download (Mac OS X, requires 10.5 or higher)
Unlike other publishing sites’ approach to backups, our goal was to create a useful copy of your blog’s content that can be viewed on any computer, burned to a CD, or hosted as an archive of static HTML files.
Wherever possible, we use simple file formats. Our backup structure is optimized for Mac OS X’s Spotlight for searching and Quick Look for browsing, and we’ll try to use the same structure and achieve the same benefits on other platforms.
Release notes:
- Sorry, there’s no Windows version yet.
- The output is minimally styled in a plain theme to ensure complete backups, zero external requirements, and a consistent data structure. Custom theme code is included in the backup as a separate file.
- To view the backup in a browser, open the
index.htmlfile. - Photosets are not yet fully downloaded.
- The following are not backed up:
- Private tumblelogs
- Submissions
- Notes
- Feed-imported posts
- Audio files from reblogged posts
- You can launch the app every few days and re-run the backup in the same place, and it effectively performs an incremental media backup: image and audio files are only re-downloaded if they don’t already exist in the target folder. Text content and post data are re-downloaded in full every time.
- If you have private posts, be careful if you make the backup publicly available. Private posts are included in a
privatefolder, and their images or audio files are included in the standardimagesandaudiofolders. - Are you a programmer? Each post’s XML data, as specified by our API, is embedded inside an easily-parsed-out HTML comment in each post’s HTML file, in case you want to do anything cool with it.
Works a treat. Hooray!
Posted on December 24, 2009 via Marco.org with 1,932 notes
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SkyGrabber is a simple enough concept: grab the signals that spill from a satellite broadcast (or even narrowcast), aimed from a satellite towards a specific location, and turn them into TV feeds you can look at
SkyGrabber: the $26 software used by insurgents to hack into US drones | Technology | guardian.co.uk
Or as the maker says, “SkyGrabber is offline satellite internet downloader”
Posted on December 17, 2009
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Microsoft site was based on code stolen from a rival startup.
Posted on December 16, 2009
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The abuse of section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 is infringing on the freedom of photographers – it has to stop
Photography is our right, our freedom | Henry Porter | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
The Terrorists are laughing.
Posted on December 12, 2009
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They run into walls or hit pause by mistake. They swing the camera around until they can see nothing but their own feet, then forward-roll under a lorry. They try to put the controller down, complaining that they’re “no good at this”. You force them to have another go, but within minutes you’re behaving like a bad backseat driver. “You’re in crouch mode,” you sigh, as their character waddles comically up the street. “Take it out of crouch mode.” Instead they throw a grenade at their own feet, killing themselves and several bystanders.
Charlie Brooker: why I love video games | Technology | The Guardian
Accurately describes my video gaming experience: why I hate video games.
Posted on December 12, 2009
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architectural photographer, Grant Smith, was filming a church in the City of London when nearby bank security guards became suspicious and called the police
Police stop church photographer - Channel 4 News
Sad times; photographers are terrorists in the eyes of police.
Posted on December 12, 2009
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Ground-source heating is a rapidly growing technology that has the potential to produce at least 30% of the country’s renewable heat needs
Posted on December 12, 2009
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Barack Obama replaces his TAG Heuer for this watch.
Posted on December 6, 2009
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Here is the news… by iPhone. A BBC Radio 3 newsreader was forced to read the morning headlines from her mobile phone after the Corporation’s telephone and computer system crashed as she was about to go on air.
Lost the news? There’s an app for that… - TV & Radio, Media - The Independent
Quick and brave thinking.
Posted on December 2, 2009
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Neat visual display of the Twitter ReTweet in the latest Tweetie 2
via tweetie
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Posted on December 1, 2009
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