2015-04-30

You can't be too careful - car crashes

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The class of systems with high distributed costs and focused but inadequate benefits is going to have another member: auto-calling police i...
2015-04-23

Journos writing about trading and high-speed computing

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I have to admit, this amused me - the Daily Mail trying to write about high-frequency trading: Suspected rogue trader Navinder Sarao live...
2015-04-02

Active attack on an American website by China Unicom

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I wondered what the next step in the ongoing war between Western content and Chinese censorship might be. Now we have our answer. "G...
2015-03-04

What does "running your own email server" mean?

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There's lots of breathless hyperbolae today about Hillary Clinton's use of a non-government email address during her tenure as Secr...
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2015-02-28

No cash for CASH

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For those following along with our previous adventures with the prodnoses of Consensus Action on Salt and Health (CASH) their 2014 accoun...
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2015-02-26

Net neutrality - be careful what you wish for

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I'm driving my forehead into an ever-deepening dent on my desk in despair at the news that the US Federal Communications Commission ha...
2015-02-15

Failing to listen to the sounds of Chinese silence

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I was moved by an interesting yet flawed piece by John Naughton in the Grauniad, analysing the kinds of censorship applied by the Chinese ...
2015-01-22

Mendacity from Amy Nicholson

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In Slate, L.A. Weekly movie critic Amy Nicholson takes aim at deceased sniper and Navy SEAL Chris Kyle: Take American Sniper, one of the ...
2015-01-06

BBC booze bill shocker

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The shocker is, it's extremely reasonable: The Corporation stated that the figure related to 'non-production related and producti...
2014-12-24

Scentrics, "Key Man" and mobile security, oh my

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From a story in the Daily Mail today I found this October article in the Evening Standard about security firm Scentrics which has been wor...