January 24, 2010

January 24, 2010 by yorksranter 2 comments

Haiti: “forklift drivers without borders” doesn’t sound so good on TV

So, are the Americans really “prioritising foreign soldiers over aid” in Haiti? Thankfully, the national press tried to answer this question with facts. Well, not really. Spencer Ackerman and Laura Rozen actually asked intelligent questions rather than the usual “Two days after the giant earthquake destroyed all port facilities, critics asked why UN aid was…

January 24, 2010 by yorksranter 0 comments

what these people need is…an updated frequency allocation table

Rather less depressing; Wired reports on the array of open-source IT tools for disaster relief getting their first use in earnest in Haiti. I remember when your main source for things like Google Earth overlays of aerial photos was Kathryn Cramer, and that was in the United States. However, there’s something I saw that wants…

January 24, 2010 by yorksranter 1 comment

a single net of conspiracy

Well, this is hardly surprising; the FBI was in the habit of pretending to be on a terrorism case every time they wanted telecoms traffic data. Their greed for call-detail records is truly impressive. Slurp! Unsurprisingly, the lust for CDRs and the telcos’ eagerness to shovel them in rapidly got the better of their communications…

January 24, 2010 by yorksranter 0 comments

anti-patterns in security

A proposal to deal with linkspammers – set up a central blackhole where you send everything that you spam-rate, and use the feed of URIs from it as an input to your automated spam filter. Its own web page is here. Unfortunately, as I point out, there’s a serious flaw here. Basically, if we’re going…

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Kathryn Kelly - Wikipedia
She bought him a machine gun and gave him the nickname "Machine Gun Kelly"
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Jonathan Haidt Started a Social-Media War. Did He Win?
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Hundreds of Babies Harmed by Homeopathic Remedies, Families Say | Scientific American
but surely the homeopathy didn't actually have anything in it? YOU WOULD THINK. You would think.
Impact_on_households.pdf
got to say I like Figure 1.A. Labour af. Osborne curve, he dead.