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Woohoo! Finally some useful update to Google Mail. No idea how long this feature was there, I just noticed it today: 1. usage log, 2. Signing out other sessions.
Sometimes one would forget to log out from gmail at work, so the remote signout feature is a godsend. Also the log is a convenient way to see if somebody (jealous partner?) is snooping your emails.
Sometimes one would forget to log out from gmail at work, so the remote signout feature is a godsend. Also the log is a convenient way to see if somebody (jealous partner?) is snooping your emails.
I've seen a lot of bad shit go down, including "Weezer":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV5iQJLpVnM on the "Windows 95":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_95#Release installation CD, but man, the Vista song and a fake "Bruce Springsteen":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Springsteen? Come on. Microsoft has lost it's respect, if it ever gained any after "Windows ME":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Me#Criticisms again.
My head hurts.
Wikihistory is a funny short story about revert-wars in a fictional time-traveller forum ("International Association of Time Travelers"). Anybody who had a look at a talk/ history page on Wikipedia previously will be reminded of similar invisible wars going on on hot/ sensitive topics there too.
At 14:52:28, FreedomFighter69 wrote:
Reporting my first temporal excursion since joining IATT: have just returned from 1936 Berlin, having taken the place of one of Leni Riefenstahl's cameramen and assassinated Adolf Hitler during the opening of the Olympic Games. Let a free world rejoice!
Few days after my last post, UK does it again. This time it's the Heathrow Airport, fingerprinting all domestic flight passengers:Heathrow airport first to fingerprint Without the biometric checks, the company says, potential criminals and illegal immigrants arriving on international flights or in transit to another country could bypass border controls by swapping boarding passes with a domestic passenger who has already checked in.Oh, really. Let's all hope, UK's surveillance delusion does not spread to other European countries like a virus (we all know it does), otherwise when we get old, our future will look like the picture on the right...
Story found on Slashdot
Remember when "The West" used to stand for freedom, civil rights and democracy? Well, these days are long gone. I think, Orwell's 1984 must be banned from our schools by now and we are forced to live in constant fear being attacked by invisible enemy forces.The latest step in making "The West" suck a bit more comes from the Metropolitan Police in London (Big hooray to the cops of London). They declared a war on photographers, business men and neighbours.
Remember, if you see a nicely tanned guy with two mobile phones in your lovely business district, it's not a business man, it's a terrorist. If those pesky dark skinned foreigners start taking photos of your beloved Buckingham Palace, they are certainly not tourists, they must be terrorists!
Call the police at once, or better yet, don't wait for the police, just lynch them yourself. Big Brother will be proud of you!
War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength
Story found on Boingboing
