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mbravo
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Speaking about abandonware imagery, I hope the default place for that has not been overlooked - http://www.abandoned-places.com/


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Memetic Engineer
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Sunday, June 21, 2009

"LAWFUL INTERCEPT FUNCTIONALITY"
posted 7:03 PM
Nokia Siemens Networks on the job in Iran.


All the mobile phone companies produce "lawful interception" software/hardware systems, such as the Ericsson one subverted after the Greek Olympics, by hackers / intelligence agents who used it to snoop on the Prime Minister, Generals, politicians, businessen etc. with Vodafone mobiles.

See:

http://www.quintessenz.org/cgi...ndex?id=000100002344


Which also describes an old version of the Nokia Siemens Intelligence Platform.

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2008 04 08 The Nokia Siemens Intelligence Platform is a monster datawarehousing suite integrating all sorts of datasets: mobile fone data and internet logs, credit card and bank account transactions, car registry and DNA databases, road traffic data, fone call transcripts, chat protocols, health and insurance data. This "trend-setting intelligence solution" is delivered either as a "Mini-Sized entry system" or "with Data Center dimensions processing mass data (TB)". As the main target markets are Middle East and Asia deployments are likely to exist in Iran, Egypt, Oman, China and India.


Spook Country blog & Zero History blog & London CyberPunk Tourist Guide
 
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

WHOLE THEORY OF BEAUTIFUL LANGUAGE
posted 9:46 AM


How do words or phrases transmute their meanings and then spread more widely as as memes ?

Here in the United Kingdom and Ireland things are a little different, compared with the US examples.

According to The Daily Mail newspaper:

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Convicts use ye olde Elizabethan slang to smuggle drugs past guards into prison

[...]

The practice was uncovered at Buckley Hall Prison in Rochdale, when staff noticed that the same phrases were being used in monitored phone calls and letters between inmates and loved ones.

The dialect, thought to originate from medieval gipsies, was used by all manner of villains in Shakespeare's England, becoming known as thieves' cant or rogues' cant.

But it was thought to have become obsolete until its unexpected revival, believed to have been led by criminal members of the travelling community.

[...]

Examples of the new thieves' cant include 'chat' or 'onick' meaning heroin; 'cawbe', meaning crack cocaine; and 'inick', for phone or mobile phone SIM card.

Inmates also use normal English in code - 'Bring the children' means to bring drugs, while the phrase 'Lots of hair on the children' means 'bring lots of drugs'.

[...]



Apparently:

Chat/Onick = Heroin
Cawbe = Crack cocaine
Inick = Phoe/SIM card
Grade = Money
Fein = Man
Soolbicck = Mate/Friend
Lakeen = Woman
Bure = Girlfriend
Keenya= House/Flat
Wid = Talk
Warbs = Police
Shades = Prison officers


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Fritz Bogott
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Regarding the "rough men stand ready" quote attributed to Orwell in this post:

The most reliable Orwell attribution I can find is:

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A humanitarian is always a hypocrite, and Kipling's understanding of this is perhaps the central secret of his power to create telling phrases. It would be difficult to hit off the one-eyed pacifism of the English in fewer words than in the phrase, 'making mock of uniforms that guard you while you sleep'.


from Orwell's Rudyard Kipling
 
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theminx
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He got a billion twitter responses...well, many dozens. Smile


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Fritz Bogott
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Ah. I frequently misunderstand what century I'm living in. Should have replied by pigeon.
 
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I'm sure he's happy to know people are reading it not only because he tweeted about it!

He said he would blog about the conclusion he reached about it.


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Eric
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Because you can't step in the same river twice.


Always remember son, no matter where you go...there you are - anonymous

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Kerr
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Upon seeing this Pingwire thingy, my first thought was 'Neat!'

My second thought was 'Can it go any faster?' Smile


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Moonage Daydream
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Mine was "slow down".
 
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martin
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Bumpity...

http://www.williamgibsonbooks....#5028777110278862204


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Bictaker
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Microblogging. I've managed to avoid the whole twatter thing until now. By coincidence (or the universal law of attraction - bahh, too much coffee already), today's techrepublic spam alerted me to a short 'guide' which i decided to print a few hours ago. Now i have the stimulus to interact (or at least catch up with the Man). Funny old world, innit.
 
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Eric
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Champion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...ture=player_embedded


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Eric
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Wild Bill

From the Ralph Stanley festival in a section of the camp ground that is called "little vegas" (afterhours improv music; I think this was about 2:30 am) Anybody can get lost in the ragged mountains, easy.


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Juvenal
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Does the Gibson still watch this thread?

If so, if you have any further issues with Wikipedia's mediation of your mediated self, just tweet about it, or explain in a brief blog post why it's all lies. If you would prefer to handle it privately, send off an email to the Wikimedia Foundation confidential response team at info-en-q@wikimedia.org.

Most of the articles are the refractions of dodgily-edited interviews and lazy journalism, so there is likely many claims of dubious provenance. [Though I enjoyed your fielding those questions about draft dodging Wink]
 
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Fashionpolice
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He just hates the photo by Fred Armitage, that's all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F..._by_FredArmitage.jpg

Looks like it's been removed from the Wikipedia entry already.
 
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colin
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I hope he likes the new one they chose.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...irthday_portrait.jpg


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Fashionpolice
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He's wearing a Swedish shirt (Dunderdon) in that photo. :-)
 
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That's totally the look he gets on his face right before karate-chopping the head off a Jesuit assassin.


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I won't die escaping
I'll die returning to the fold.
 
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martin
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Looks all Avedon, in that one, or not.

Damn good pic.


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