2014 – Page 15 – Postcards

Ben Goldacre: What the Tamiflu saga tells us about drug trials and big pharma

April 10, 2014 No Comments

Remember the big stockpiling exercise by Governments of Tamiflu for our benefit in the event of a pandemic a few years back? Looks like all that money was wasted … So does Tamiflu work? From the Cochrane analysis – fully public – Tamiflu does not reduce the number of hospitalisations. There wasn’t enough data to […]

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People Security Technology

Theo de Raadt on heartbleed

April 9, 2014 No Comments

OpenSSL is not developed by a responsible team. via Re: FYA: http: heartbleed.com.

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Politics

UK/EU

April 9, 2014April 9, 2014 No Comments

Funny how Tories don't grasp that if UK leaves EU, EU can then tax EU capital which goes to City of London without UK say so. — Jason O'Mahony (@jasonomahony) April 9, 2014 The EU owns the ball and the pitch, as it were.

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Politics

A Mayor for Dublin – the detail matters…

April 8, 2014October 4, 2015 No Comments

And rightly so. As Dr. Quinlivan points out: In 2006, I remember interviewing the Mayor of Schenectady (New York), Brian Stratton, who made a very persuasive case to me for directly elected mayors. He said that when he was elected mayor he inherited a fiscal train wreck but was able to turn things around because […]

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Life

How to do new things

April 8, 2014 No Comments

Dave Winer: The best way to learn something is to start doing it. Don’t wait for full knowledge to come to you. Often it won’t. Just pretend you know what you’re doing, and hit the walls. That helps define the shape of the problem. Make it small enough that you can start solving it right […]

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Security Technology

Tuesday morning and the internet is on fire : OpenSSL Heartbleed Bug

April 8, 2014April 8, 2014 No Comments

This is pretty bad : In short, Heartbeat allows one endpoint to go “I’m sending you some data, echo it back to me”. It supports up to 64 KiB. You send both a length figure and the data itself. Unfortunately, if you use the length figure to claim “I’m sending 64 KiB of data” (for […]

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People

Peaches Geldof, 1989 – 2014: ‘How is it possible we will not see her again’

April 7, 2014April 8, 2014 No Comments

Una Mullally in the Irish Times: Peaches Geldof was just 25.The television presenter, journalist, and daughter of Bob Geldof and the late Paula Yates was the mother of two young sons with her second husband, musician Thomas Cohen – Phaedra who will turn two later this month, and Astala, one. Her father, the Irish musician, author and activist, Bob Geldof, issued […]

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Arts ReadWriteWeb Technology

BBC Research Blows Out the 1% Rule

April 7, 2014 No Comments

BBC Research Blows Out the 1% Rule. In the UK at least. It’s now more like a 23/60/17 rule (passive/easy/intense participation), which the BBC dub the ‘Participation Choice’. The reserach considers digital media interaction, from sharing links and photos to writing blogs. It turns out that the old 1% rule, which said that more people will […]

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Bits & Bobs

Test

April 6, 2014 No Comments

Just a test.

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Uncategorized

Hello world!

April 4, 2014May 6, 2014 No Comments

*blinks*

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Who?

Murf

Ben Goldacre: What the Tamiflu saga tells us about drug trials and big pharma

Theo de Raadt on heartbleed

UK/EU

A Mayor for Dublin – the detail matters…

How to do new things

Tuesday morning and the internet is on fire : OpenSSL Heartbleed Bug

Peaches Geldof, 1989 – 2014: ‘How is it possible we will not see her again’

BBC Research Blows Out the 1% Rule

Test

Hello world!

Year: 2014