Interesting Links for 14-01-2012

[andrewducker]

• Circumventing the No-Fly list in thirty seconds
  (tags: usa transport securitytheatre )
• Google stealing people's customers in Kenya. I hope it's just a local group fucking up.
  (tags: google kenya fraud africa )
• RF MEMS enables auto-tuning, single-radio, anti-death-grip smartphones.
  (tags: radio technology mobilephones )
• A checker to find out when Virgin will be doubling broadband in your area
  (tags: broadband virgin uk )
• Paypal denies its own service exists, or that anyone there knows anything about it.
  (tags: paypal customerservice EpicFail )
• The figures the media industries use to justify tougher laws are blatant lies.
  (tags: copyright money usa law )
• America's decade of terrorism? Try the 1970s
  (tags: usa terrorism )
• Against assimilation
  I'm not in favour of assimilation. I am against Culture.
  (tags: culture Jews )

Comments

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

That no-fly list thing highlighted how things work very differently at UK airports, or at least did the last few times I flew anywhere.

[fearmeforiampink]

I'd assume that that's because whilst we do have domestic flights here, we have rather more international ones, whereas America has a lot more domestic flights than we do.

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

Broadband speeds: I just get a video of Bolt sadly shaking his head then running away :(

(my internet, which comes down a wire that is tied to trees and is regularly cut off when tractors drive into it or gets nibbled by sheep, is lucky to get 1.5mbps)

[darkoshi]

An update has been posted on the Kenyan Mocality blog, linking to an apology from Google, who says they are investigating the issue.