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*Kings of Code* #kingsofcode Yay! In 8 days…

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Kings of Code #kingsofcode

Yay! In 8 days +TheNextWeb??in hosting another Kings of Code in Amsterdam, it's set to be a great conference. Sadly I will probably not be attending 😦 , however I might come at the last moment. 🙂

http://kingsofcode.com/conference/2012/

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November 22, 2012 at 8:03 pm

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War on Drugs prohibition comic – Stuart McMillen…

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The War on Drugs?!

Interesting cartoon showing a historic comparison, and I learned that Milton Friedman was against in for economic reasons.

via Russell Nelson??

Ferdinand Zebua
War on Drugs prohibition comic – Stuart McMillen cartoons

The uncanny parallels between alcohol Prohibition and the ‘war on drugs’. 28 page comic by Stuart McMillen about Milton Friedman’s views on drug laws.

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October 9, 2012 at 6:44 am

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Fake Twitter Accounts #gplus

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Fake Twitter Accounts
After Mark Traphagen send this I did a test with my two main accounts, the first is my real account and the second is my high volume uncensored account.

@webhat(2100 followers)
Fake 3%
Inactive 6%
Good 91%

@webhat_links (49 followers)
Fake 6%
Inactive 14%
Good 80%

Mark Traphagen
With 1500 followers, i have 2% fake and 7% innactive. How do you look?
Want to know how many of your Twitter followers are fakes? Try this app to find out

Without question, there are quite a few spammers on Twitter. These fake accounts make you wonder how many active people truly do follow you on the service. Ever since people started …

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August 14, 2012 at 11:57 am

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Unroll My Mail, And Roll It U #gplus

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Unroll My Mail, And Roll It U.

I’ve now been playing with +unrollme for a few days, and although I like the basic premise I have a big problem with the default “rollups” used and the algorithm which classifies them.

I am somebody who has already made an attempt, and a reasonably good one at that, to rollup my mail. I have all the filters which place the data in a relevant folder structure based on what I receive: security; social media; friends; development; etc.

Unrollme ignores all the work I’ve previously…

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August 10, 2012 at 11:38 am

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Enable GMail Labs #gplus

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Enable GMail Labs
This is a nice overview of the some of some handy GMail Labs features.

I use the undo send functionality on occasion when I forget to add something to my message. Most of the others are enabled, although I don’t use the left power bar component frequently I use the Open Social Apps I have installed there to monitor somethings, and to view the top docs in my Google Drive. And I like the regular shortkeys as they work the same as most of the other tools I use.

via Thomas Morffew 

Tom Voute
Your Gmail life with 5 favorite Gmail labs (3/5)

Somewhere, hidden in Gmails vault but very robust, there are 40 or so, Gmail functionalities called https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#settings/labs that make your Gmail life totally different and more efficient. Each of them are worthwhile exploring, don’t be a whimp and switch them all on. It’s the best way of finding out which one or two you don’t like.

Of these 40, I want to share 5 of my favorite functionalities. If you like these, you might like…

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August 10, 2012 at 10:01 am

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WiFi Hacking WorkShop #gplus

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WiFi Hacking WorkShop

I remembered that some friends of mine were really into WiFi hacking, and I posted somethings they did here, general mischief. Hak5 has posted a workshop on Revision3 so you can try your hand at it…

WiFi Hacking Workshop: Part 1

This time on the show is part 1 of our WiFi from-the-ground-up series. Darren presents a wireless workshop at the Noisebridge hackerspace in San Francisco, California.

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August 9, 2012 at 6:47 pm

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GMail in your Search Results #gplus

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August 9, 2012 at 2:32 pm

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Mail Overload Solutions #gplus

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Mail Overload Solutions

Great article, with some handy tools…

The geek’s guide to dealing with email overload

Even though I’ve been using email since Excite Mail was popular (remember that?) and I consider myself to be literate, email is still one of the most time-consuming habits in my life. …

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August 9, 2012 at 1:57 pm

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Google Doodle #gplus

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August 9, 2012 at 8:08 am

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Cryptography Review Anybody? #gplus #needsreview #dtv

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Cryptography Review Anybody?
I looked at this when it was posted by Adrianus Warmenhoven and thought I might be able to review it, but I’m chickening out. The issue with reviewing secure systems is that they must adhere strictly to an existing mathematically proven security model. This doesn’t mean that an unproven system is not secure, it means it’s an unproven theory.

Even with a mathematically proven security model, strict adherence is key. Look at the issue with certificates, where certificate…

Jan Wildeboer
#needsreview – “The Cryptosphere is a global peer-to-peer cryptosystem for publishing and securely distributing content anonymously with no central point of failure. The system is openly federated and anyone can join.” https://github.com/tarcieri/cryptosphere
cryptosphere

cryptosphere – A global decentralized encrypted datastore with anonymous publishing

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August 7, 2012 at 1:29 pm

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