Oh Hey There
06/01/2009
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» Destroying Data
slaw.ca
“I’d like to update my thinking on the following question:
What is the responsible way to get rid of electronic information that one does not want, or that one has a legal duty to get rid of (like irrelevant personal information)?
Some of the alternatives:
- delete the information from one’s drive. (unlikely to be satisfactory, since ‘undelete’ programs are readily available)
- reformat the drive
- apply a specialized ‘wiping’ program (one or more times)
- destroy the drive physically
- encrypt the data on the drive then destroy the keys
Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner takes the view that the best way properly to get rid of (third party) personal information that one no longer wants to hold or that one is required by law not to hold, is to destroy the medium on which it is found — wiping disks “may not … irreversibly erase every bit of data on a drive.” [See the IPC Fact Sheet on secure destruction of personal information, Dec 06 PDF]…”
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» Man acquitted of killing robber with sword
After the acquittal, a police official remarked that the young man had a moral character of the highest excalibur.didn’t read the article. didn’t need to.Death considered justified, as robber had screamed, “I’m gonna rapier mother!” as he burst into the apartment.
No ‘fence, but you’re being a total touche.
Fortunate that man was en garde.
The lengths people will go to when they’re piste off…
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» Man acquitted of killing robber with sword
didn’t read the article. didn’t need to.Death considered justified, as robber had screamed, “I’m gonna rapier mother!” as he burst into the apartment.
No ‘fence, but you’re being a total touche.
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(via afghanistanbananastand)
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Anthony Bourdain (via caryrandolph) (via natface)
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Coulter handed in her first column closer to the deadline then we’d expected. She also came in short. And she came in … well, what’s the opposite of readable? The column that began “Here at the spawn of Satan convention” was a phoned-in collection of anonymous anecdotes and lazy writing. No problem, we thought: We’re editors. My bosses immediately suggested fixes to the column — some of them asking whether Coulter could touch up her jokes, some correcting bad writing, and some asking for more content.
Coulter flipped. She refused to answer all of the edits. The next thing we knew, she had left Boston. The next thing we knew after that was that Matt Drudge and other conservative news site editors had learned that we had “fired” Coulter. She was in New York hours later to bash us on Fox News’ “Hannity and Colmes.”
„The Washington Independent » My Ann Coulter Story (via offnotesnotes)
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kanamit: the first page of Keats’ “Ode To A Nightingale”
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Cut Copy - Hearts On Fire (Aeroplane Pop Remix)
Yesterday was emusic day, and I grabbed up all Cut Copy EPs. There’s no way I would have bought these songs track by track, but emusic is weird.
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Sonofabitch! I blogged this song like weeks ago.
It’s a weird, weird world if I’m ahead of the snuh/post-punk curve (cue tomato-throwing, er, now)
Bah. I wasn’t following you like weeks ago.
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» give hostage to fortune - Wiktionary
“To take an action or make a statement that is risky because it could cause you trouble later. He was very cautious with his words and gave no hostages to fortune.”
Never heard that one before.
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05/01/2009
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