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[NSFW] 10 things you didn’t know about orgasm

20/02/2010

Surprisingly gratuitous for TED, but entertaining anyway. Again, NSFW. Pig insemination NS. Very intimate.

Sir Henry’s – 120bpm

19/02/2010

Finally got around to watching all of this. I only got the tail end of Henry’s, caught a few sweats before they faded out but I ended up spending most of my time in Freakscene. It amazing even then though, I just can’t imagine what it must have been like at it’s peak.

Crystal Swing

19/02/2010

This was hilarious until I noticed the 021 number. I think it might actually be real. If it isn’t, the person responsible is an evil genius.

(Via Graham.)

Please Rob Me

17/02/2010

ROFL. 12 “opportunities” in Ireland. I should really add a “twitter users are retarded” category here.

Bus Crash in Taiwan

17/02/2010

Chip & PIN Broken

11/02/2010

ZDNet: Chip-and-PIN readers can be tricked into accepting transactions without a valid personal identification number, opening the door to fraud, researchers have found.

Researchers at Cambridge University have found a fundamental flaw in the EMV â€” Europay, MasterCard, Visa â€” protocol that underlies chip-and-PIN validation for debit and credit cards.

As a consequence, a device can be created to modify and intercept communications between a card and a point-of-sale terminal, and fool the terminal into accepting that a PIN verification has succeeded.

“Chip and PIN is fundamentally broken,” Professor Ross Anderson of Cambridge University told ZDNet UK. “Banks and merchants rely on the words 'Verified by PIN' on receipts, but they don't mean anything.”

(Also, see Ross’s paper on 3D Secure.)

London in 1927

03/02/2010

Food Ads

31/01/2010

LLU Line Share finally a reasonable price in Ireland

25/01/2010

(Line Share allows other operators to rent just the internetty part of the line, without having to take the phoney part.)

ComReg set it to 77c in August of last year and Eircom, predictably, appealed. The case is now settled, and the 77c price stands. For once ComReg didn’t wet themselves on the courthouse steps and run away crying like a little girl. Or did they? What did Eircom get out of it?

Great time to buy an E60