RunningWithBulls.com - The curse of Sanfermin

E-voting is intangible. It is programmed by other people. Built by other people. It is built on computers which you cannot see inside, or touch. We cannot look at the software as it is not open.
You have to trust other people, possibly a foreign company, with your voting franchise.
These […]

Warlords of Pez land on earth on the 31st of October. They will hit ground zero in Whelan’s on Wexford Street.
See upcoming.org for information on tickets, and times.

YouTube - Warlords of Pez Flag at Munster V Leinster Rugby
Technorati Tags: warlords of pez , superhero , music , irishblogs , dublin […]

antoin@eire.com » Order a fonera now
Antoin, Ireland’s Chief Fonera points to the new fonera (making the technology sexy ) on sale at the moment for 5 European kopeks. Thats the price of a rotten pint of beer from some rubbish pub in Ireland.
Get this, and you can search the Internet looking for a nice […]

The Last Word rang today asking to talk to someone about DVD Jon and his new anti-FairPlay DRM method he wants to license to companies.
I was having a decent(ish) conversation with the presenter and Robert someone (an “ex-hacker”), explaining that DVDJon hadn’t actually cracked FairPlay (he did that months ago), what he had done was […]

[UPDATE2]: A nice list from softguide-dublin.com with good takeaway food (mainly city centre though).
I have compiled the various places into a post on the wiki.
[UPDATE]:One of the guys here has found a list of shops and food places open 24 hours a day. Still no pizza though.
With my new job, now and again we do […]

‘Terror risk’ for electronic passport - Sunday Times - Times Online
Antoin has been speaking with Mark Tighe of the Sunday Times regarding the recently introduced electronic passports and the security risks associated with not having adequate electronic shielding, tinfoil hat as it were, protecting the passport from being skimmed. Without proper protection, these passports maybe […]

From today’s Sunday Business Post:
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“The communications regulator, Comreg, is examining the use of wholesale information by telecoms providers in their use of wholesale information by telecoms providers in their attempts to win back customers from rival operators.
Earlier this month The Sunday Business Post reported that some disconnected Smart customers had been approached by Eircom salespeople, […]

Further to Digital Rights Ireland decision on the SWIFT transfer private data being given to the US authorities, The Register has the story that
Swiss banks broke privacy laws over SWIFT transfers: data chief | The Register
Hanspeter Thür, the Federal Data Protection Commissioner of Switzerland, said the banks broke data protection laws when they failed […]