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1 month ago | 
thecritic.co.uk | Adam Pollock
Forget health for a moment and embrace grease and flavour Imagine if you can for a moment that you, dear reader, are a labourer installing a new water mains pipe on a busy road, enduring lingering frustrated glances from drivers whose journeys you have prolonged.
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1 month ago | 
thecritic.co.uk | Adam Pollock
We should not accept animal cruelty in the name of religious toleration There are few ways to pass the time that are more entertaining than having a slightly intoxicated chat with a taxi driver. Sometimes you end up debating about a sport you don’t watch, other times you egg them on with questions like “so how fast can this actually go?”, a slight awareness of your own mortality lingering in the background on both occasions.
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Dec 27, 2024 | 
thecritic.co.uk | Adam Pollock
British cooks could learn a lot from Estonian cuisine I will never forget where I was when I learned of the death, earlier this year, of Shigeichi Negishi, the inventor of the karaoke machine, aged 100.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
law360.com | Adam Pollock
By Adam Pollock ( November 7, 2024, 5:20 PM EST) -- Since the Civil War, the False Claims Act has been one of the most important legislative tools the government has for combating fraud on the U.S. ... Law360 is on it, so you are, too. A Law360 subscription puts you at the center of fast-moving legal issues, trends and developments so you can act with speed and confidence.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
law360.com | Adam Pollock
Preserving The FCA Is Crucial In Trump's 2nd Term By Adam Pollock · November 7, 2024, 5:20 PM EST Since the Civil War, the False Claims Act has been one of the most important legislative tools the government has for combating fraud on the U.S. ... To view the full article, register now.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
thecritic.co.uk | Adam Pollock
The best university sport? Beagling It’s a cold, misty mid-week morning in Epiphany term. You rise with the sun and quickly pull on the warmest, most weatherproof clothing your wardrobe has to offer, and head downstairs. You make a packed lunch, fill a flask with your restorative beverage of choice, and head out the door.
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Aug 24, 2024 | 
thecritic.co.uk | Adam Pollock
Put down that pint glass and reach for a bottle The Irish are renowned as a nation of imbibers, especially when they produce it themselves. Guinness accounts for around a quarter of all beers sold in Ireland, while the word “whiskey” derives from the Gaelic uisce beatha, a translation of the aqua vitae, or water of life. There is a secret history, however, in the story of Ireland’s alcoholic beverages, and it can be found in its relationship with wine.
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Jun 30, 2024 | 
medium.com | Adam Pollock
HeartBleed, first discovered by researchers from Google Security and Codenomicon in 2014, affected approximately half a million servers at the time of its announcement. OpenSSL contains a "heartbeat" functionality, where a user sends a message of fixed size to the server and request that the server returns a message of equal bytes. By manipulating the heartbeat's length, researchers found that the server would leak recent information from memory - up to 64kB - in the returned message.
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Jun 29, 2024 | 
medium.com | Adam Pollock
As with all boxes, we'll begin with an nmap scan to enumerate ports and services, with the -sV flag for service and version identification:We have two ports open - 22 and 80, running SSH and an Apache http server respectively. This gives us the answer to our first questions:Scan the machine, how many ports are open? 2 What version of Apache is running? 2.4.29 What service is running on port 22? SSH SSH will require a login, and as we haven't found any credentials, we'll start off with the website.
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Apr 4, 2024 | 
law360.com | Adam Pollock
ADVERTISEMENT Don't want ads? Subscribe or login now. By Adam Pollock (April 4, 2024, 4:40 PM EDT) -- Last week, the New York appellate court cut former President Donald Trump some slack, reducing the bond required to stave off enforcement of the New York attorney general's fraud judgment from nearly $500 million to $175 million....
