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While I realize that this is little more than incoherent link propagation (unlike my normally focussed prose-o-wonderment), hopefully pulling some of this fluff from the mighty tubes that connect us all will help clarify our various connections and communications.<\/p>\n

A couple that our amazing progeny<\/a> sent my way:<\/p>\n

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• How I failed the Turing test<\/a>: How would you convince a random new IM contact that you were a person and not a bot? (Of course might wonder why you’d bother, but we’ll ignore that for now.)<\/li>\n
• RIAA Declares Using Brain to Remember Songs is Criminal Copyright Infringement (satire)<\/a>: Fairly amusing piece on the “Music industry moguls remain willfully clueless” thread. I love how the authors felt the need to include “satire” in the title. Are we really that dim?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

  I’m not sure where I got this pointer from, but Bruce Schneier is exhorting people to “Steal This Wi-Fi<\/a>” over on Wired. In a world where people expend tons of energy securing their wireless networks (and ISPs often require it of their customers), one of our major security experts chooses to keep his home wireless open. “To me, it’s basic politeness. Providing internet access to guests is kind of like providing heat and electricity, or a hot cup of tea.”<\/p>\n

  And in a vaguely related piece on security, a post from John Naughton<\/a> on the dangers of publishing your bank details. Jeremy Clarkson, arch-conservative, petrol head, and (much to my dismay) highly amusing Top Gear<\/em> presenter decided that the woo-haa was way overblown regarding the recent loss by British government officials of financial details of millions of people<\/a>. So he published his bank details in his Sun<\/em> column. According to the BBC<\/a>, however, “Clarkson admitted he was ‘wrong’ after he discovered a reader had used the details to create a \u00a3500 direct debit to the charity Diabetes UK.” Oops.<\/p>\n

  Well, my<\/em> tubes are definitely clearer. Thanks for the Q-tip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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