Horror vacui http://makabra.org Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur. Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:49:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Guardian: “Italian student arrested in London when filming ‘just for fun’” http://makabra.org/entries/italian-student-arrested-for-filmin/ http://makabra.org/entries/italian-student-arrested-for-filmin/#comments Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:08:29 +0000 Jubal http://makabra.org/?p=113 Police community support officers (PCSOs) stopped Italian student Simona Bonomo under anti-terrorism legislation for filming buildings in London. Moments later, she was arrested by other officers, held in a police cell and fined.

]]> http://makabra.org/entries/italian-student-arrested-for-filmin/feed/ 0 The Register: “United Kingdom jails schizophrenic for refusal to decrypt files” http://makabra.org/entries/uk-jails-schizophrenic-for-refusal-to-decrypt-files/ http://makabra.org/entries/uk-jails-schizophrenic-for-refusal-to-decrypt-files/#comments Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:00:45 +0000 Jubal http://makabra.org/?p=98 The first person jailed under draconian UK police powers that Ministers said were vital to battle terrorism and serious crime has been identified by The Register as a schizophrenic science hobbyist with no previous criminal record.

]]> http://makabra.org/entries/uk-jails-schizophrenic-for-refusal-to-decrypt-files/feed/ 0 cfs desktop tweaks http://makabra.org/entries/cfs-desktop-tweaks/ http://makabra.org/entries/cfs-desktop-tweaks/#comments Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:23:15 +0000 Jubal http://makabra.org/?p=68 [heavily inspired by lwn.net thread, particularly, by this]

/etc/sysctl.conf:

kernel.sched_latency_ns = 2000000
kernel.sched_wakeup_granularity_ns = 4000000
kernel.sched_min_granularity_ns = 1000000

/etc/rc.local (temporarily), requires debugfs mounted:

echo "NO_NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS" > /sys/kernel/debug/sched_features
]]> http://makabra.org/entries/cfs-desktop-tweaks/feed/ 0 Guardian: “12 years of vile laws attacking our liberty” http://makabra.org/entries/12-years-of-vile-laws-attacking-our-liberty/ http://makabra.org/entries/12-years-of-vile-laws-attacking-our-liberty/#comments Mon, 14 Sep 2009 07:31:57 +0000 Jubal http://makabra.org/?p=65 It takes 100 years or more for some species of tree to grow to full size but a few minutes to cut them down. The roots may live and sprout but the tree never grows back in quite the same way again. The question that faces the British electorate in the next eight months or so is whether the same applies to the conventions of liberty, trust and privacy which have been felled by Labour’s chainsaw. Is the damage irreversible or can the opposition parties muster the leadership and will to guarantee a restoration of all that has been lost in the last 12 years?

]]> http://makabra.org/entries/12-years-of-vile-laws-attacking-our-liberty/feed/ 0 Two convicted for refusal to decrypt data http://makabra.org/entries/two-convicted-for-refusal-to-decrypt-data/ http://makabra.org/entries/two-convicted-for-refusal-to-decrypt-data/#comments Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:54:08 +0000 Jubal http://makabra.org/?p=63 Two people have been successfully prosecuted for refusing to provide authorities with their encryption keys, resulting in landmark convictions that may have carried jail sentences of up to five years.

]]> http://makabra.org/entries/two-convicted-for-refusal-to-decrypt-data/feed/ 0 Telegraph: A request to snoop on public every 60 secs http://makabra.org/entries/telegraph-a-request-to-snoop-on-public-every-60-secs/ http://makabra.org/entries/telegraph-a-request-to-snoop-on-public-every-60-secs/#comments Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:01:01 +0000 Jubal http://makabra.org/?p=58 Councils, police and other public bodies are seeking access to people’s private telephone and email records almost 1,400 times a day, new figures have disclosed.

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N.Y. Times, 14/12/1914

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