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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #575 on: 07 July, 2015, 06:54:59 pm »
The bridge or lift has the same number with A after it . :)
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #576 on: 10 July, 2015, 05:10:56 pm »
I was reading about the arrest of the American spokesman for Subway sandwiches for child porn offenses. They raided his house with dogs who were trained to sniff out Micro SD cards. I wasn't aware they smelt. I wonder if they have dogs who are trained for different media cards eg compact flash or SD cards.

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #577 on: 10 July, 2015, 05:27:15 pm »
The bridge or lift has the same number with A after it . :)
I've seen bridges with number then 'E' after them when there's been a lot of development since the canal was built. Motorway bridges over canals don't get 'canal bridge' numbers and nor (as far as I can remember) do railway ones. I presume it's to do with who is responsible for the maintenance and so on.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #578 on: 10 July, 2015, 05:33:57 pm »
Fascinating.  It does appear to be a thing.  Assuming it's not all smoke and mirrors, you have to wonder what the dogs are sniffing out that discriminates solid-state storage from any other electronic device.  Possibly that something's been recently handled by a human, rather than a scent from the device itself?

Of course anyone who collects child porn (or equivalently incriminating data) and doesn't have the sense to encrypt the crap out of it deserves a double sentence on the grounds of stupidity.  Have any more sensible criminals been successfully prosecuted for refusing to reveal an encryption key yet?  That's where it really gets interesting.

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #579 on: 10 July, 2015, 07:57:34 pm »
Could be a specific combination of plastics and metals.


Meanwhile, what I found out today is that the site in Bristol currently known as the Bearpit did once feature a real live bear on display. With its fur shaved, clothed, and a huckster passing it off as "an Ethiopian savage". But that has nothing to do with the present name.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #580 on: 11 July, 2015, 12:22:03 am »
Have any more sensible criminals been successfully prosecuted for refusing to reveal an encryption key yet?  That's where it really gets interesting.

Presumably you don't refuse to reveal the key. Either you're really stressed by all these horrid questions and you can't remember it, or there's some clever kind of two-level encryption where you can give them a key that just shows lots of lovely spreadsheets, then deny everything else.

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« Reply #581 on: 13 July, 2015, 10:29:56 am »
Sniffer dog detection is another of those somewhat dubious things, since detection is only partly the dog's olfactory ability, but more the handler's interpretation, plus the dogs react to cues – subconscious or otherwise – from their handler. So if they think you look sketchy as you malinger by your badly hidden p0rn stash, the dog may be pleased to oblige its alpha human buddy's gaze at that box by duly sniffing it out. I'm unconvinced that a sniffer dog can genuinely find an SD-card, sounds more like a bit of a wriggle to fit within terms of the search warrant.

Most people don't understand encryption. I wonder what happens too, if it's all encrypted, Apple for instance have Filevault on by default. I might be wrong, but the latest iteration must be pretty tough to crack if you don't pony up the key. Not sure if Microsoft do something similar, but setting up encrypted partitions and storage isn't super-complicated. But given the (non-child) p0rn I've seen smeared across nearly all the computers I've been asked fix over the years, curating that collection hasn't been high on the owners' agenda.

Edit: sniffer bees are a thing, though. Sort of.

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« Reply #582 on: 15 July, 2015, 02:53:35 pm »
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #583 on: 15 July, 2015, 04:28:19 pm »
The bridge or lift has the same number with A after it . :)
I've seen bridges with number then 'E' after them when there's been a lot of development since the canal was built. Motorway bridges over canals don't get 'canal bridge' numbers and nor (as far as I can remember) do railway ones. I presume it's to do with who is responsible for the maintenance and so on.
Motorway and railway bridges will have their own numbering system, so I suppose that's to avoid confusion.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #584 on: 15 July, 2015, 07:17:37 pm »
Have any more sensible criminals been successfully prosecuted for refusing to reveal an encryption key yet?  That's where it really gets interesting.
It has certainly happened in the UK under RIPA for which section 49 covers court orders to decrypt. Look at the encryption section in the OSC annual reports: https://osc.independent.gov.uk/about-us/annual-reports-2/
2014-15: 3 convictions
2013-14: 2 convictions
2012-13: 3 convictions

Edit:
A better reference: https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Regulation_of_Investigatory_Powers_Act_2000/Part_III
Section 49 is the notice to decrypt, section 53 is failure to comply.

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #585 on: 15 July, 2015, 09:46:49 pm »
The line in hairdye instructions about unused mixture exploding is not in fact just there to make you buy more instead of using up leftovers.

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #586 on: 15 July, 2015, 10:10:04 pm »
The line in hairdye instructions about unused mixture exploding is not in fact just there to make you buy more instead of using up leftovers.
What did you blow up? :D
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #587 on: 15 July, 2015, 10:37:21 pm »
That sufficiently long hair is a successful substitute for reading the instructions.   :o

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #588 on: 15 July, 2015, 11:41:20 pm »
That Joe Root was pipped to a sports prize by a girl.
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« Reply #589 on: 16 July, 2015, 09:19:45 am »
The line in hairdye instructions about unused mixture exploding is not in fact just there to make you buy more instead of using up leftovers.
What did you blow up? :D

Just the hairdye, but it was really messy ;(

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #590 on: 16 July, 2015, 01:41:22 pm »
That sufficiently long hair is a successful substitute for reading the instructions.   :o

(Runs fingers through flowing tresses, make Jennifer Aniston head-toss gesture)

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« Reply #591 on: 16 July, 2015, 01:50:50 pm »
I'm going with using up all the hair dye in one go so not having explosive residuals to go boom.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #592 on: 16 July, 2015, 02:15:33 pm »
Indeed.

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« Reply #593 on: 16 July, 2015, 02:22:11 pm »
Bill, as far as I am aware, all bridges on all the canals in the Birmingham network have number plates on them as you describe.  Does this suggest that all the bridges on the whole national  network are similarly numbered?
I think you may have a bit of a job on, matey.   :)

I though ALL canal bridges were numbered? Those on the Aylesbury arm of the Grand Union certainly are (I think ours in No. 8)
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #594 on: 16 July, 2015, 09:58:55 pm »
That the stained glass windows at my church depict The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan.

They're really beautiful but illuminated only on summer evenings, due to their orientation.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #595 on: 16 July, 2015, 10:11:41 pm »
So now buying more than one pack of hair colourant could be regarded as evidence of radicalisation.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #596 on: 16 July, 2015, 11:04:10 pm »
So now buying more than one pack of hair colourant could be regarded as evidence of radicalisation.

Wasn't it always?

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #597 on: 16 July, 2015, 11:10:52 pm »
Probably.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #598 on: 16 July, 2015, 11:23:15 pm »
I thought that Horse and Hound was a made-up publication from a Hugh Grant film, but thanks to P&OBI it turns out that it's a) real  b) has a website that  c) is alarmingly like a parallel universe version of road.cc.  I also note that hounds are seriously under-represented.

It's got a forum and everything.  Horsey tips involving Sudocrem, and I expect there's an "Achey Bollock Saddle Advice" thread in there somewhere.  At this point I'd only be mildly surprised if there's a "What stirrups for PBP?" one, too.

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #599 on: 16 July, 2015, 11:24:58 pm »
Probably.
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A feminist is a woman with red hair.

Guilty as charged.

And indeed, my exact problem. Hair too long for one box of dye, but not long enough to warrant using all of the second box…