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Q. What could this boarding pass tell an identity fraudster about you? A. Way too much
Seeded on Thu May 4, 2006 9:12 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)
How to replicate someone's identity with a boarding pass thrown into a bin at a railway station. Or, the scary brave new world of open, insecure, massively parallelisable, distributed databases.
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Judge creates own Da Vinci code
Seeded on Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:55 AM EDT (BBC News)
Who says the law is dull? In his judgement on whether Dan Brown's over-successful hype-fest novel was all his own work, the judge has, it seems, left a coded message.
Freddie hailed as world's best
Seeded on Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:19 AM EDT (BBC News)
Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff, the scurge of the Australians in last summer's Ashes Test series has been named the leading cricketer in the world by the new Wisden Almanack.
Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism
Seeded on Mon Apr 10, 2006 6:06 AM EDT (people.freebsd.org)
How badly thought out technology can impact people in ways that you can't imagine.
TheStar.com - Canadian rower Williams arrested
Seeded on Fri Apr 7, 2006 2:02 AM EDT (Toronto Star)
How the mighty fall - or how it goes to show that while you might train really hard to be one of the world's best rowers, but that might mean that you've forgotten how to party ...
In pictures: Crazy cycle lanes
Seeded on Thu Mar 16, 2006 11:38 AM EST (BBC News)
I'm anti-cycle lanes - at least here in Great Britain most of our roads have enough space for everyone and these ludicrous cycle lanes just underline why, if the councils can't take them seriously, then why should cyclists?
World's biggest burger - or offensive over-consumption?
Seeded on Thu Mar 16, 2006 6:33 AM EST (ananova.com)
12 million people are starving to death in the Horn of Africa.
And so it begins - Vonage cries foul over Canada VoIP 'tax'
Seeded on Fri Mar 10, 2006 11:29 AM EST (The Register (UK))
We pay for our connection, the other caller pays for theirs (or Google for hosting their video, etc.), so why the premium? A nice touch from the cable co calling it as an upgrade to provide the better required service, but until they get complaints that this better service is need
Cracknell's Olympic medals stolen
Seeded on Fri Mar 3, 2006 10:17 AM EST (BBC News)
Burglaries are insidious - and the worse thing to lose is something irreplacable. Photos and data can be backed up ... Olympic gold medals are harder to copy.
Window's Elephant in the Room
Seeded on Fri Mar 3, 2006 10:09 AM EST (extremetech.com)
When did a product's major selling point become predicated on doing things properly that other things have been doing properly for years?
ICANN approves dotcom contract
Seeded on Wed Mar 1, 2006 8:32 AM EST (The Register (UK))
It's one of those moments - those who don't know how the internet works will wondering what all the fuss is about, while those with even only the vaguest of clues will turn white and ponder on the future.
Anything you can do?
Seeded on Mon Feb 27, 2006 8:22 AM EST (pcpro.co.uk)
Apple has become the undisputed King of Spin in tech gadget announcements ... is Microsoft taking a line from the guys from Cupertino?
Wi-Fi on the river
Seeded on Thu Feb 23, 2006 11:23 AM EST (The Register (UK))
A company has deployed a mesh net to create a wi fi hotspot from Westminster to Greenwich.
Identity cards costing £63,000 a day
Seeded on Thu Feb 23, 2006 4:34 AM EST (manchesteronline.co.uk)
The UK's parliament hasn't even voted for identity cards yet but has already spent millions of pounds on them.
Ferry driver found not guilty of collision with rowing boat
Seeded on Fri Feb 17, 2006 5:17 AM EST (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
This does sound like common sense has prevailed.
BBC's Climate Change Distributed Computing Simulation
Seeded on Fri Feb 17, 2006 4:17 AM EST (BBC News)
In a previous life I was a researcher - albeit a Computer Scientist, so not in 'proper' science - so I'm all for research for its own sake; I believe the climate and the human actions on it to be the important issue for the next decade and beyond.
UK holds Microsoft security talks
Seeded on Wed Feb 15, 2006 7:58 AM EST (BBC News)
The UK government has been urged, by one of the most respected computer security experts in the country, to open discussions with Microsoft over the encryption that might be used in storing data in Vista.
Woman loses Herceptin court bid
Seeded on Wed Feb 15, 2006 5:28 AM EST (BBC News)
When you confuse issues, emotions get strained; already emotional situations will just explode. Cancer is emotional. Experimental drugs are emotional. Trying to put a price on a person's health is emotional.
Wipe your iPod before selling it, RIAA warns |
Seeded on Tue Feb 14, 2006 4:07 AM EST (reghardware.co.uk)
The recording industry is taking over the world - or at least trying to. If you sell your MP3 player with ripped content, or any content you have in another form, then you are liable to be hounded down and slapped with a fine.
James Cracknell, Olympic Champion, calls it a day
Seeded on Mon Feb 13, 2006 5:21 PM EST (fisa.org)
It might have been timed to coincide with his new TV series, the video diary of his recent Atlantic rowing race, or it might just have been because his wife, as with so many rowing widows, might have laid down the law, but James Cracknell has decided that UK rowing will have to fa
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