Posts by chris

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Der Spiegel as the choice of Intelligence Services?

Back in the day the intelligence services would monitor the information collection of news agencies like the BBC. Often it would corroborate, and sometimes it was better (the BBC having good reporters, connections, reputation, etc. to facilitate this).

This changed over time to where the amount of information being gathered was next to nil, news agencies would just regurgitate each others information, reporters would never leave their hotels, and many of the stories just came from 'official sources' and were ones that were pedaled by the government spin offices (UK, US, UAE, whatever).

Basically it is easier and cheaper, and offends fewer important people to create an illusion of doing journalism. Der Spiegel is currently seen as one operation that does still do journalism!

Universities reject Stasi role

Attendance 'No!', printing 'Yes!'???

So reporting on non-attendance is bad for staff/student relationships, but reporting them for printing public documents - the Al Qaeda manual - and getting them deported to Afghanistan is not?

Hacker cops to $70k botnet rampage

Protected computer my arsenal...

(2) the term “protected computer” means a computer—

(A) exclusively for the use of a financial institution or the United States Government, or, in the case of a computer not exclusively for such use, used by or for a financial institution or the United States Government and the conduct constituting the offense affects that use by or for the financial institution or the Government; or

(B) which is used in interstate or foreign commerce or communication, including a computer located outside the United States that is used in a manner that affects interstate or foreign commerce or communication of the United States;

Not sure either qualifies... so should get a better lawyer...

EU begins formal probe into US gambling ban

'Some kinds of gambling are allowed'

Er all kinds are allowed on reservation land, or places such as Las Vegas, Reno, Atlantic City, etc., etc..

Maybe protectionism was part of this??? Nah, couldn't be...

'Extreme porn' law could criminalise millions

Unsinkable Aircraft Carrier to Fundamentalist BETA ground?

Wow, can we get the current English Government imprisoned for late night viewing of George Bush and fantasizing about the UK bending over and taking it from the US?

I never thought that I would see that day that Labour would make this special relationship more special than Maggie could ever dream.

Coupling was right, Labour is the evil empire... the Tories are the goodies after all!

World Bank chief: Ethanol cars run on human misery

What about beer consumption...

Obviously people at the World Bank dont own ethanol cars... I bet they drink beer though!

There are all kind of statistics that show the grain consumed in beer production could easily feed the world many times over, but they are not attacking that.

Local council uses snooping laws to spy on three-year-old

Worrying nomenclature?

It is always worrying when governments begin to use terms like Ministry of Justice as you would think that the institutions actions are what should remind you of its core values not its name.

Here we have the head of legal and DEMOCRATIC services, just in case people in Poole forgot they were in a democracy?

Networks left open to SNMP scans

For security see SNMPv3

SNMPv3 has authentication and encryption functionality. You have to turn it on, but it has it.

Mac OS X Leopard - Time Machine

rsync gui

er isn't TM the same as having a gui for chron and rsync...

note that rsync just checks which files have been updated and just backs-up those...