Interesting Links for 25-12-2013

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• BBC News - Giant prehistoric toilet unearthed
  'The 240-million-year-old site is the "world's oldest public toilet"' Though I don't think the saying is usually worded 'you don't poo where you eat', as the article suggests
  (tags: archaeology dinosaurs Interesting poo )
• BBC News - Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The legacy of the teen heroine
  'what is Buffy the Vampire Slayer's legacy and why there are so few "daughters of Buffy": strong and complex fictional creations, who aren't simply the sole female lead in a predominantly-male cast'
  (tags: Interesting Buffy geeky culture sexism gender )
• BBC News - Queen Elizabeth Hospital surgeon suspended over 'branding' claim
  A doctor has been suspended over allegations he "branded" his initials on to a patient's liver.
  (tags: what-the-everliving-fuck WTF humanity;-we-are-a-fucked-up-species medicine unconfirmed-report )
• BBC News - Cryptolocker ransomware has 'infected about 250,000 PCs'
  Made me think; I'd really not care if it hit me. I'd just use another computer to google and ask friends about solving it, and use my antivirus to try and solve it. I've got pretty much fuck all that I care about that I can't retrieve, either from another computer, from cloud storage, or redownload from where I got it originally.
  (tags: computer-viruses security encryption computers money crime )