So, a couple of hours after I publish the post on Friday, the Guardian reveal that GCHQ are essentially downloading the internet. All of it. Daily. “Mastering the Internet” they modestly call it. I suspect the Internet might have a view on that. How to Respond When they Want Access to Everything Simple: Time for some good old-fashioned British… Read More
Cost reduced to to only 10 credits (was 13 credits).… Read More
It’s been an entertaining couple of weeks really – plenty to read during lunch breaks. Hacker News front page has been almost 100% Verizon+PRISM and snooping related stories since the original news of the whistle blowing broke. Reasonable considering what the Guardian appears to have revealed, but insane considering the near complete destruction of individual privacy over the last… Read More
Yesterday a couple of the news sites had a piece on Lone Signal allowing anyone to transmit a text message to the stars. “At Lone Signal, we believe that crowdsourcing messaging to extraterrestrial intelligence (METI) is the ideal approach to establishing a stable, cohesive, and well-resourced interstellar beacon on Earth.” “Lone Signal allows anyone with… Read More
World Text have now added China to the list countries that are fully supported for virtual SMS numbers.… Read More
Local rate two-way and inbound SMS for Pakistan… Read More
Smart Meters – British Gas (Centrica), Eon and many more are at it now with more to follow I’m sure, introducing Smart Meters in to homes and businesses around the country. New technology? No, not really.… Read More
Twenty years of a free and open WWW. The first website at CERN has now been resurrected on the original URL.… Read More
World Text will soon be adding China to the list countries that are fully supported for virtual SMS numbers.… Read More
During the recent extra spring time snow from 22nd to 24th March (the coldest March since 1962 according to the Met Office, or if you prefer the joint 4th coldest on record), SARCALL the search and rescue callout system was used as follows, Friday to Sunday: 277 Activations by Police and Teams 865 Incident log… Read More