The morning rounds:
Will ‘Ginger’ be revealed? – Wired
Japanese Flash movies [bogies used as humourous indication of grief] – Memepool
Search for Earth-like planets talk webcast tonight at 7pm – Bottom Quark
File-sharing kids in Japan arrested on criminal charges – BoingBoing
The news from Al-Jazeera
Informative piece on biowarfare – New York Review of Books, via rc3.org
SMS buffer overruns on mobile phones! (kinda) – the reg
Institute of Applied Autonomy – slashdot, i think
Japanese Flash movies [bogies used as humourous indication of grief] – Memepool
Search for Earth-like planets talk webcast tonight at 7pm – Bottom Quark
File-sharing kids in Japan arrested on criminal charges – BoingBoing
The news from Al-Jazeera
Informative piece on biowarfare – New York Review of Books, via rc3.org
SMS buffer overruns on mobile phones! (kinda) – the reg
Institute of Applied Autonomy – slashdot, i think
Fancy schmancy Scandi wireless mag, with great wireless poster.
Despite being Mr Privacy Man a lot of the time, I’ve often wondered exactly how the “creeping loss of rights” game plays out. Do soft concessions like widespread CCTVs really lead to more pernicious abuses? I’d say this case might be a good litmus test of public reaction:Litter louts to be filmed, have their pictures published.London’s growing army of litter louts are to be named and shamed in a special “rogues gallery” as part of a groundbreaking new clean-up campaign.
Merton Council, in south London, plans to use its 60 CCTV surveillance cameras to zoom in on anybody dropping litter.