These are my links for December 15th through December 23rd:
- Hackers break Kindle DRM –
- Nasri let-off for sparking brawl – How did this happen, when Sunderland's Michael Turned gets a four match ban for nothing.
- Legal highs now illegal –
- Hackers break Amazon’s Kindle DRM –
- Ignorance Is Bliss –
- Make Drool-Worthy Bacon Cups for Your Holiday Party [Cooking] –
- Pupils ‘bypassing school internet security’ –
- Ferry giant refuses ID card –
- “The Power of Time Off” + 9 other TED Talks to watch between now and New Years –
- Intel Launches Next-Gen Atom N450 Processor –
- UK ID card project descends into muddle –
- Google: Do no evil, pay no tax –
- UK retail Wi-Fi security still patchy –
- TfL deploys privacy-busting voyeurcam –
- Blighty to get own ‘cyber range’ –
- There is no page fold –
- Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones –
- Minitube Brings a Flash-Free YouTube to Mac and Linux [Downloads] – Ubuntu PPA at https://launchpad.net/~neversfelde/+archive/ppa/+packages
- Secure USB drive relies on recognising faces – A USB key with facial recognition technology, and an integrated bottle opener. Awesomeness.
- Great Firewall of Australia will nationally block sites appearing on a secret, unaccountable list –
- Wake Up With Me –
- Rapist ex-lawmaker claims copyright on his name, threatens legal action against anyone who uses it without permission – An interesting take on reputation management.
- Browser Size – This is awesome
- Browser Size – This is brilliant.
- Camera Hack: How to find a lost camera –
- China bans individuals from registering domain names –
- Multifox Makes Using Multiple Accounts Simple [Downloads] – Handy for those of use who have work, personal, and google apps accounts all running side by side.
- ID card minister forgets ID card – No ID card? What has she got to hide? Obviously she's a terrorist who is up to no good.
- Three strikes law reintroduced in New Zealand –
- Home Secretary unmoved by last-ditch McKinnon protests –
- Gravatars Can Leak Users' Email Addresses –
- Abstraction –
- Microsoft Acknowledges Theft of Code From Plurk –
- Oh, go on then … #trafigura –
- Police moot pop-up social network warnings – Warning, this social networking site is hosted in dodgy foreign climes, how about you use this nice, safe, government sanctioned, we don't have a back door to all your personal data, honest, social network instead"
File under F for "FFS leave us alone".
- Coming Soon : Double Digit Inflation –
- Modders turn nook reader into Android tablet –
- Home Office battles to make CCTV useful –
- Day 15 – Replacing Init Scripts with Supervisord –
- MP3s and MEPs – Look out, bad things can hurt you, but don't worry, there will be another authoritarian law along soon to protect you.
- Odroid: all the open, none of the contract –