Panorama - How to poison a spy

Panorama pieces together the events surrounding Litvinenko.
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BBC Mortgaged to the Yanks

A very informative piece on the economic background between the Second World War a& the Marshall Plan

Britain has finally paid off the debt to the US for this period.
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Horseshoes and Hand Grenades

A Gizmodo Tech Writer gives a scathing invective on the state of the 'Early Adopters' & the tech Industry that feeds them.

"And you guys just ate it up. Kept buying shitty phones and broken media devices green and dripping with DRM. You broke the site, clogging up the pipe like retarded salmon, to read the latest announcements of the most trivial jerk-off products, completely ignoring the stories about technology actually making a difference to real human beings, because you wanted a new chromed robot turd to put in your pocket to impress your friends and make you forget for just a few minutes, blood coursing as you tremblingly cut through the blister pack, that your life is utterly void of any lasting purpose."

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Best Comment from the Boards


" I feel so dirty now. :( "
.... i4ni

Kersal Massive

Thank you Mr. Bliar, for after 10 years of rule you have produced this...
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Than you the Internet, for after 10 years of Open source Protocols, freedom to parody & user generated content you have produced this...
Remixes
KERSAL MASSIVE VS. KRAFTWERK
Kersal Massive Rap Remix
Kersal Massive vs Dr Dre
Kersal Without A Pause
M3G4 massife Kersal
Kwurzel Massive
Gerbil Massive

Wikipedia entry on Kersal ... is this the smallest Wikipedia entry ever? Notice there are no discussion entries!
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Broughton/Kersal FireService

Google search history and privacy

Following on from my Machine is Using Us post here is an informative essay on Google's tracking of your searches. I dont know if this happens with all users, but as I also have a Gmail account, Im getting well tracked.
I'm not to sure how I feel about this. On the one hand, yes, its usefull to go back to something I was searching for last year, on the other, with so much stuff that Google offers now, hacking a Google account would bring a wealth of information on the target.

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BBC techies talk DRM

Concise and insightful rant about the current attitudes at the BBC.
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PirateBay's OscarTorrents - download the Oscars

"You haven't beaten us, so why not join us? Think of a new business model that doesn't involve overpriced pieces of plastic and skanky cinemas hawking cheap carbohydrates while relying on $6/hr projectionists who can't keep a film in focus -- not to mention insulting your audiences by (to pick a few examples) surveilling us with nightvision glasses, searching bags, 30 minutes of commercials and bombarding us with ridiculous anti-piracy propaganda. Take a look at yourselves. Is it really any wonder we're winning?"

My sentiments exactly.

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