- A thought experiment – "This presents a problem for customers who are still running the 2.2.1 firmware: they can’t get your fix until they upgrade to the 3.0 firmware."
- U.S. support for Detroit would buy 50 million Tata Nanos – "What else might we do with $100 billion in this industry? Assuming that we could get a wholesale price of $2000 per car, that’s enough to buy 50 million four-passenger 54 mpg Tata Nanos. The fuel savings from driving Nanos to the 7-11 instead of monster SUVs would save taxpayers $100 billion every year."
- Right to privacy broken by a quarter of UK's public databases, says report – "The report, Database State by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust, says that more than half of Whitehall's 46 databases and systems have significant problems with privacy or effectiveness, and could fall foul of a legal challenge." And people wonder why I'm against ID cards and internet snooping laws.
Tag Archives: security
My delicious.com bookmarks for February 7th through February 9th
- The League of Moveable Type – Most free or open source fonts I've seen have been pretty poor but these guys seem to have the right idea.
- Government plans travel database – "When your travel plans, who you are travelling with, where you are going to and when are being recorded you have to ask yourself just how free is this country?"
- Learning and Working in the Collaborative Age: A New Model for the Workplace – Fascinating ten minute video on what Pixar look for in candidates, summarised as Depth, Breadth, Communication and Collaboration. Given those criteria I'm guessing they're very selective!
My delicious.com bookmarks for February 5th through February 7th
- Pro-God buses for London streets – Anyone feel like complaining about these Christian ads on the ground that they make unsubstantiated claims?
- House Approves Whitelist of People Who Aren't Terrorists – The solution to the errors and inconvenience of the no-fly list is… drum roll… another database! How could that possibly go wrong?
- Exclusive: ID cards are here – but police can't read them – After spending shed-loads of money on ID cards, apparently the police and immigration officers can't read them.
My del.icio.us bookmarks for May 30th through June 3rd
- US imposes 72 hour pre-reg for Visa waiver travellers – And this is going to help how?!
- ID Cards: Scandalous as Well as Idiotic – More on ID cards and the lengths that the government is going to in order to make sure that we all get them, like it or not. Very sneaky.
- Want to buy Jacqui Smith's ID? – "Four people have been arrested after the BBC bought a driving licence and utility bills in the name of Home Secretary Jacqui Smith." Yet the government insists that this is a good reason for having a national ID card? They still don't understand…
My del.icio.us bookmarks for February 12th through February 22nd
- Behind the Scenes at the Bay Bridge Construction Site – I saw the construction going on a few times last year, but from a distance while driving past. Interesting to see what they're doing in more detail.
- Hand-wringing About American Culture – Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge? – "Not only are citizens ignorant about essential scientific, civic and cultural knowledge, she said, but they also don’t think it matters." The article concentrates on the US but I don't think it's limited to North America.
- America – more hassle than it's worth? – Next week they'll announce that all travelers need to wear orange overalls, the next that all flights go straight to Guantanamo… and then they'll announce that it's all an elaborate joke and that they just wanted to see how far we'd go before complainin
My del.icio.us bookmarks for February 6th through February 11th
- eBayer invites buyers to rip him off – It does seem that eBay has become a victim of its own success. Having said that, some of the ways that they're trying to tackle fraudulent users are clearly bonkers.
- Japan MPs moot halt to executions – Hopefully this will move from "moot" to law, and then from temporary to permanent.
- Designing What’s Right for Consumers – Is it really so hard to design consumer electronics? The manufacturers say it is. Everyone else seems to disagree.
- WordPress 2.3.3 – I've upgraded to the current version of WordPress. As ever, if you spot anything amiss please let me know!