In case you’re stuck in the traffic on the M42.

The line between fantasy and reality is getting ever more blurry. A CG girl manages to snare over 1000 paedophiles? Here’s another example of how close to realism CG has gone.

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• How Sweetie caught 1 000 paedophiles (iol.co.za)
• Hundreds of paedophiles snared after 'virtual' 10-year-old girl used to lure them online (mirror.co.uk)
• Sweetie sting highlights online child sex exploitation (voiceofrussia.com)
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• Computer Sting with CGI 'Sweetie' Catches Online Sex Perverts (guardianlv.com)
• Dozens of Canadians among 1,000 adults who try to pay for web sex with 'virtual' 10-year-old girl (news.nationalpost.com)

What, and he didn’t even notice?!

After switching 37,000 PCs to Ubuntu, French Armed Forces says open source cuts costs 40 percent | Apps and Software | Geek.com.

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When you’re the winner of a race, you’re on top of the world. When you’re not, any number of things may be going through your head. Runner’s World collected some nice snippets of quotes

From this month's Runner's World magazine. It made me chuckle, but seems plausible. Runners would have more energy, and more drive than those who don't run.

I would say both.

Britain Detains Partner Of Journalist Who Exposed NSA Spying. Are They Crazy Or Stupid? | TechCrunch.

I had an inkling Inception was very similar to Paprika. Didn’t appreciate how much, though…

youtu.be/YfnKcpTeC…

via 10 Crazy Facts About Japan - YouTube.

Spain Crash: Driver ‘Speeding At Twice Limit’.

As a result of the Ubuntu Forums hack recently, I’ve now had to spend several hours going through all my internet logins accounts to see whether or not I have used the same password anywhere else. Not surprising, I have so I have to go through and change them all. Fortunately, LastPass allows me to generate secure passwords which  I can use to replace other passwords. The only real place where I would be concerned if they have access would by emails, but I have 2-factor authentication turned on there, and have had it turned on for many months, and they need my email address, password AND phone to get into my account. Even my backup codes are stored on a TrueCrypt volume stored on a LUKS partition on my laptop so they would need two passwords to get at those.

Mind you, it IS good that these forums were hacked, it’s given me a reason to go through my accounts and see which ones I still use and which ones I can delete.

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• The Most Unsafe Passwords of 2012 Look a Lot Like the Ones from 2011 (staples.com)
• Email and passwords compromised after attack on Ubuntu Forums (news.en.softonic.com)
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• Ubuntu Forum Security Breach (news.slashdot.org)
• Notice of security breach on Ubuntu Forums site (canonical.com)

This is a good, informative article about trolls and suggested ways to deal with them. In the day an age where the Internet is a part of daily life, and people hide behind the anonymity that the computer screen can give them, it’s good to know how you can handle them without it blowing up in your face.

Top 12 Signs You’re Dealing With Trolls | LinkedIn.

Congratulations to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on their new arrival on this swelteringly hot day. This picture is from the dashboard display of my car. It is showing 36degC. (96.8degF for those of you using that unit.)

Phone Operator 3 Confirms Data Network Woes.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/05/22/gif-pronunciation_n_3317119.html?utm_hp_ref=uk?ncid=GEP

Kiefer Sutherland Returning For New 24 Series http://news360.com/article/183765501

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This is a joke. Hope this doesn’t happen when I eventually run a marathon….

Marathon Runners Sent On Wrong Route.

Mo Farah confirmed to appear in Bupa London 10k race http://news360.com/article/183198377

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There seems to be an unhealthy appetite for rebooting films (Hulk, Evil Dead, Django etc.), but until now, I didn’t think it affected anime that much. Then came Evangelion’s movie, OVA and (sort of) reboot, and now, I find Sailor Moon is going to get rebooted.

http://www.fandompost.com/2013/04/29/new-sailor-moon-anime-delay-confirmed/