Kim Zetter
Government's Star Witness Stumbles: MySpace Hoax Was Her Idea, Not Drew's
Wired online 20 November 2008
Astonishing and depressing how people think they can escape from reality and find something different on the Internet. Personally, I also find exaggerated the protection that law gives to the gullible. It is a sad case this one, but I doubt that the parents of the little suicidal girl are less guilty than those who played that distasteful prank.
Friday, 21 November 2008
Psichological damages for a tasteless prank on MySpace
Wednesday, 5 November 2008
Code of conduct rules: can't behave like an animal with animals anymore
Maev Kennedy
Pet owners reined in by conduct code
The Guardian Wednesday November 5 2008
On the same day US made history electing their first African-American president, UK
proved to one step forward, establishing a code of conduct for pet owners. I quote from the article linked above
'[...] The codes advise not just on food and housing; readers learn about likes and dislikes. The cat code alone runs to 26 pages and notes that felines need "entertainment and mental stimulation", that given their climbing nature they might need access to high shelves, and that they are solitary by nature.
Dogs, as pack animals, need company, while donkeys "have particular socialisation needs and can ... become ill if separated from a companion."'
Good job animals can't read, so far. Otherwise imagine little kitty dwindling the code in front of your eyes next time you tell it of for climbing on the kitchen sink, and then telling you to get lost and leave it alone in order to second its solitary nature. Or the dog complaining about you always staying in the office and neglecting it...
Sunday, 2 November 2008
Intrusive pictures
USCD Jacobs News
Keys Can be Copied From Afar, Jacobs School Computer Scientists Show
Thursday 30 October 2008
Well after reading this I bet there will be no more showing off at the bar on who's got the flashiest keys, or as it often happens between young males, who's got the longest keys. I can also predict a suspicious increase in the enrollment in Computer Science courses.
In my case, however, I doubt burglars will bother about taking a picture of my keys and learning Matlab & Computer Vision basics. There is indeed another security hole in my door: if you sneeze strong enough in front of it, you can break it.
