The Iranian Badge Hoax
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When this was still fresh, I knew this was all bullshit. Few message boards I frequent were discussing it and debunked it quite rapidly. Somebody at kuro5hin recently wrote an interesting piece about it, and here’s a link to the article: The world reacted with shock and dismay last month to the news that Iranian [...]
The security implications of this exceed those of Google Earth!
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So, I received this link from a colleague, explaining how one can build their own Airbus A380 airplane. (Well, a paper model of it, anyway.) Me, with my nasty ways, couldn’t resist saying `So, where’s the foldable model of the Twin Towers to go with it?‘. After further Googling I realised that, hell, the security [...]
On the Belgium kidnapping…
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So, a couple of days ago, a couple of young girls went missing in Belgium. Immediately, it was all over the media that some pedophile or whatever may have taken them. The moment I heard that I was thinking: and they jump to this conclusion because… ? The guy’s missing? Cellular phone data implicated him [...]
Sure, telephone numbers, etcetera, will all be replaced by a single email-address
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Some Dutch researcher suggests that, in the long run, (mobile) telephone numbers will disappear and will be replaced by one email-address. Although we can put people on the moon and make money of prolonging the problems of sickness, the spam problem most probably still won’t be solved. Not even touching the privacy-related issues there arise [...]
A few more selected images of my pets…
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Quote Of The Week #13
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William Shakespeare, in his Merchant of Venice, wrote the following: How far that little candle throws its beams; so shines a good deed in a naughty world. Quote Of The Week, QOTW
