Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
For this week’s bit of something else before the weekend – you can now understand why we shorten this slot and call it “Because It’s Friday” – we are off to space. In particular to the International Space Station and a camera on the station that broadcasts continuous live images …
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No Because It’s Friday reveals in the title this week – just something found funny: xkcd: Towed Message Smart Thinking will be taking a break for Easter – except if a major cyber security story breaks and especially if that story impacts you. Have a great Easter break – I …
I spotted this article in The Conversation – volcanoes in space – just the type of story I like for Because It’s Friday, to ease us all into the weekend. Four volcanic hotspots in the Solar System (theconversation.com) The image above is of a volcano on Io, the most volcanically …
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This was published on xkcd last Friday – just missing the Because It’s Friday publishing deadline – so you got hot computers rather than flat planets! Flatten the Planets – xkcd.com Saturn is actually the flattest planet – Google it. I could have chosen from NASA’s huge collection of high …
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So do you know? Spoiler it is not daisies. This post came about because this odd question came up on Richard Osman’s House of Games – and I just had to check it out. The answer is raspberries – it is to do with the hunt, by astronomers for amino …
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