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iPhone Background Apps
Friday, April 4, 2008
A non-conspiracy theory about why Apple has banned background applications from the iPhone. Battery life. I, for one, find the argument convincing.
Insecure by design
Friday, April 4, 2008
You can read the contents of a computer’s memory by plugging in a firewire device. I’ve read of similar attacks with USB, but those have generally been exploits. The firewire problem appears to be part of the design.
She’s no Bill
Monday, March 3, 2008
I’ve written elsewhere about not writing HRC off – yet, anyway. But, I have to say, even when she is using lines that got her husband great applause, she just can’t quite get the oratory right.
Grounds for suspicion
Thursday, February 28, 2008
If we really have become this kind of society, where anything out of the routinely ordinary is grounds for suspicion, the chilling effect on individuality is going to amount to a positive frost.
Lobby of Parliament
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Yesterday thousands of people lobbied Parliament asking for a referendum on the EU Constitution currently being debated in Parliament. The BBC hardly mentioned it at all, and on their online site used what can best be described as sarcastic speech marks in the headline. Growing up in the UK, I like to believe that the [...]
What cat?
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
My thanks to my friends at my second favourite place in the universe (you know who you all are) for pointing me in the direction of this rather interesting webpage: Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolor disorder, [...]
Joining the iCult
Monday, February 25, 2008
Thanks to TLA for pointing out to me that the New York Times technology reviewers have an amazing sense of humour:
Well, I’ll be hacked
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Count me among those who thought that RAM lost its contents reliably when it was unpowered. On this basis, I thought that a stolen computer with an encrypted swap file and encrypted home folders ought to be reasonably useless to data-thieves. Except, it seems that it isn’t true. The gory details are here, courtousy of [...]