Interesting Links for 25-11-2016

[andrewducker]

The war against the squirrels has begun! (tags: squirrel ) Wages will be dreadful for more than a decade (tags: pay money economy thefuture ) Senegal To Introduce A New Blockchain Based National Digital Currency, Second Country To Have Digital Currency (tags: bitcoin Technology currency africa ) A list of everyone who can now see your entire

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[gonzo21]

It would appear that VPNs are no longer a luxury and an essential part of life now that the government have embarked on this piece of privacy invading nonsense.

Also, 10 more years of flat wages and increasing inflation and austerity? We'll have fascism here before the decade is up. :(

Small children are rubbish at hiding

[fanf]

Earlier this week, our 4yo put on some ear defenders, saying they make things quieter, then said "CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?"

Re: Small children are rubbish at hiding

[andrewducker]

Now I think about it, I know plenty of adults who do exactly that kind of thing...

[bohemiancoast]

Clean desk policies are appropriate in environments where a significant proportion of material is classified, even if the person with a messy desk explains that nothing in the piles is classified. Spot-checks consistently show that (a) they're often wrong about that, and (b) there's often material that isn't classified but probably should have been (eg private notes).

Which doesn't actually contradict the research; it allows for the happy medium where the papers are all locked away but it's ok to keep the microwaveable dragon on your desk.

[errolwi]

Yes, interesting research with logical unsurprising conclusion, consistently crappy headline.

[drdoug]

Unless, of course, the microwaveable dragon is part of a classified model. It is good at absorbing incident radiation, after all. :)

I'm reminded strongly of this story about oranges being classified at Los Alamos because they are the same shape as other round things that might go boom.

It's a nice principle: if you have classified stuff around, even non-experts (and not-fully-briefed people) need to be able to tell that the classified stuff has been tidied away securely, which means classifying anything that looks like it might be classified, whether papers or round objects.

[steepholm]

That's a really fascinating article on young children and hiding.

[apostle_of_eris]

It's spooky how China's laying the foundations of global hegemony just don't make headlines.