Chris-Linfoot.net

An important legal precedent was set the other day.

"Lord Justice Hughes, Mr Justice Treacy and Sir Paul Cresswell ruled that a man's bare torso did not count as 'private parts'.

"The 2003 Sexual Offences Act specifies that 'private parts' must be exposed for voyeurism to have taken place."

Presumably the same thing applies to indecent exposure.

This, in turn, seems to suggest that men may legally take off their shirts in public without fear of prosecution.

I hope this doesn't lead to yet a further decline in standards of public behaviour, though I fear it may.

Just remember - many activities are lawful but that doesn't make them right.

Category: Misc
Technorati: man+boobs moobs
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Found while clearing out an old office area in the bowels of the factory, an IBM publication entitled Computing Systems Fundamentals; Text - Unit 1.

It is dated July 1967 and I so enjoyed reading the introduction that I have decided to share it here unedited, with all punctuation including underlining intact.

Enjoy.



Category: Misc
Technorati: IBM Computing+Systems+Fundamentals
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Just a random selection of gems from this list.



Category: Software
Technorati: Microsoft Windows XP Service+Pack+3 SP3
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Just a gentle reminder, in case you care and haven't yet said so, please sign here.


Category: Software
Technorati: Microsoft Windows XP Save+XP
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At ZDNet - AT&T: Internet to hit full capacity by 2010

Oh goody, I thought.

Here's a relatively Big Gun from a globally significant telco taking, or perhaps making, an opportunity to draw media attention to a critical issue.

Mistakenly you see, based only on my reading of the headline, I had concluded that the critical issue in question was the imminent exhaustion of IPv4.

That is, after all, a problem which will reach a critical level in around 2010.



Category: T'Internet
Technorati: IPv4 IPv6
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(Thanks, Marco)

Category: Blackberry
Technorati: BlackBerry+9000
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Perhaps this should be hownotto, given the widespread brokenness of SaaS email integration - and no, I am not talking about the Salesforce.com connector for Lotus Notes again. This is a far more basic issue.



Category: Software
Technorati: email SaaS
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A business partner writes seeking permission to register some domains to use in conjunction with our franchise. I write back giving permission. Business partner reverts with:



Category: Dumb and Dumber
Technorati: Identity SMIME
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Can anyone recommend a good (restartable) download manager for Firefox? I have Flashgot but I'd like a download manager that works well with it, instead of Flashgot's built in download manager.

Thanks.

Category: Software
Technorati: Flashgot Firefox Download+Manager
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If you've not yet voted today, please think carefully. Do you really want this as your mayor?



Category: Misc
Technorati: YouTube Boris+Johnson
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It had to happen sooner or later.

We have our first iPhone user * who simply must have access to his Lotus Notes email via iPhone.

We wasted a small amount of time looking at some of the ridiculous Heath Robinson lash-ups that are reported on various iPhone users' forums (example: forward copies of received email to Gmail accounts and poll those accounts using IMAP), before deciding to ignore them and try the obvious - direct connection via IMAP and SMTP.



Category: SnTT
Technorati: Domino IBM IMAP iPhone Lotus MSA Notes SMTP
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At the Beeb - Loopholes keep Windows XP alive



Category: Software
Technorati: Microsoft Vista Windows XP
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Jazz legend Lyttelton dies at 86

Veteran jazz musician and radio host Humphrey Lyttelton has died aged 86.

The chairman of BBC Radio 4's comedy panel show I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue recently had surgery in an attempt to repair an aortic aneurysm.

I'll miss him.

Category: Misc
Technorati: Humphrey+Lyttelton
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Remember that little problem we were having a while back with the Lotus Notes connector for Salesforce?



Category: Software
Technorati: SalesForce.com
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