Tony Finch's link log

Here are some links to interesting web pages which I have encountered. This list is gatewayed to Delicious, Twitter, and LiveJournal. My main blog where I post longer pieces is also on LiveJournal.

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2013-06-19: Pipelined FPGA Mandelbrot generator.
2013-06-19: Java garbage collection distilled.
2013-06-19: Memory barriers: a hardware view for software hackers.
2013-06-19: How FPGAs work, and why you'll buy one.
2013-06-19: Discussion about Exchange 2013 recipient verification breakage on the Postfix list.
2013-06-19: Recipient filtering broken in Exchange 2013.
2013-06-19: Is the rape porn cultural harm argument another rape myth?
2013-06-18: LCPP – a Lua C pre-processor.
2013-06-18: The Porter stemming algorithm: then and now.
2013-06-18: The whistleblower's guide to secretly tipping off the press in a "turnkey totalitarian" state.
2013-06-18: Supreme Court of the US mostly abolishes the right to remain silent.
2013-06-18: Nominet brings back "direct.uk" proposal for unrestricted second-level .uk domains.
2013-06-18: Ultimate tic-tac-toe.
2013-06-18: Want to file a motion in the FISA court? First you have to find them.
2013-06-18: If those services don't trust me enough to give me an RSS feed, why should I trust them with my data?
2013-06-17: An old mystery solved: 1940s project C-43 and public key encryption.
2013-06-17: Old age: the diminished thing.
2013-06-17: Advanced bash scripting guide.
2013-06-17: There are almost no films about women.
2013-06-17: Big multiple sclerosis breakthrough.
2013-06-17: The real enemy of privacy is the MEPs selling our rights to the direct marketing lobby.
2013-06-17: Throwing children in prison turns out to be a really bad idea.
2013-06-17: Simple linear-time suffix array construction.
2013-06-16: UK intercepted most Irish international comms traffic 1990-1997.
2013-06-16: roffit: convert man pages to HTML.
2013-06-16: Archive on 4: Very British Dystopias.
2013-06-16: On coalitions, courts, and the future after legal aid.
2013-06-16: Leading programmers remember the impact of Kernighan and Ritchie: The C Programming Language.
2013-06-16: The BBC's factual television is an insult to the nation.
2013-06-16: The low-transaction-fee argument for Bitcoin is silly.
2013-06-15: Why Boston and Skegness could be UKIP's Brighton Pavillion.
2013-06-15: Bank of America lied to homeowners seeking remortgages and rewarded employees for foreclosing.
2013-06-15: Secret to Prism success: Even bigger data seizure.
2013-06-15: Not just spies: councils want your communications data too.
2013-06-15: Melvyn Bragg on William Tyndale: his genius matched that of Shakespeare.
2013-06-15: You do have the right to record council meetings.
2013-06-15: Landmark US Patent Office ruling strikes abstract software patent.
2013-06-15: Apple laptop charging vibration effect: "earth finger". (Informative comments.)
2013-06-15: Ancient Roman concrete lasts 40 times longer than modern Portland cement.
2013-06-15: The influence of spies has become too much. It's time politicians said no.
2013-06-15: "Hardware eventually fails. Software eventually works."
2013-06-15: On the legal importance of viewing genes as code.
2013-06-14: Lawsuit claims "Happy Birthday" is not in copyright, and Warner owes hundreds of millions in improperly collected royalties.
2013-06-14: Secret Courts: 8 nightmare scenarios now possible in Britain.
2013-06-14: Spamalot reigns: data protection and Ireland's EU presidency.
2013-06-14: Insubordination and the surveillance state.
2013-06-13: Planning a computer system: Project Stretch. (1962)
2013-06-13: Main Core: US government database of 8 million Americans who are supposedly threats to national security.
2013-06-13: NSA has massive database of American phone calls. (2006)
2013-06-13: Hopscotch hashing.
2013-06-13: Two years of Cambridge Noir.
2013-06-12: HHVM and the repurposed JIT phenomenon.
2013-06-12: Thomas Drake on being an NSA whistleblower.
2013-06-12: gitdown: moderate commit activity based on blood alcohol content.
2013-06-12: America's price-gouging cable companies are latter-day robber barons.
2013-06-12: Bike helmets and the law: Canadian legislation had minimal effect on serious head injuries.
2013-06-12: McBits: fast constant-time code-based cryptography.
2013-06-12: Attackers using chargen for UDP reflection/amplification attacks.
2013-06-12: IBM jargon and general computing dictionary.
2013-06-12: Banks rig foreign exchange benchmark rates.
2013-06-12: PRISM explains the wider lobbying issues surrounding EU data protection reform.
2013-06-12: Disagree with an Atos decision? Then starve, says DWP.
2013-06-12: Politics and Iain Banks.
2013-06-11: Public WiFi is mostly crappy and user-hostile.
2013-06-11: The PRISM details matter: if it works like the UK communications data bill, it is apparently no big deal.
2013-06-11: Opera desktop mail client.
2013-06-11: Family courts risk 'collapse' as surge in custody cases follows legal aid cuts.
2013-06-11: The value of a hacked email account.
2013-06-11: The Case for compressed caching in virtual memory systems.
2013-06-11: Has the US become the type of nation from which you have to seek asylum?
2013-06-11: Expect more intrusive surveillance now that PRISM is public.
2013-06-11: Why didn't tech company leaders blow the whistle?
2013-06-10: libottery: drop-in fast secure replacement for your RNG.
2013-06-10: The end is nigh for OpenVMS.
2013-06-10: Snowden/Greenwald contact delayed by weeks owing to difficulty of using PGP.
2013-06-10: Ken MacLeod on Iain Banks: A science fiction star first and foremost.
2013-06-10: Counter-cryptanalysis exploits unavoidable anomalies to detect and block cryptanalytic attacks.
2013-06-10: Daniel Ellsberg says Edward Snowden is saving us from the United Stasi of America.
2013-06-10: PRISM: The real concern is that governments may not be breaking any law at all.
2013-06-10: As Bradley Manning's trial begins, the press predictably misses the point.
2013-06-10: These are the mobile phones and tablet computers that will give you the fastest Internet speeds.
2013-06-10: Viviane Reding dismantles UK's arguments against effective data protection.
2013-06-10: The omniscient states: seven decades of shared intelligence.
2013-06-10: University admission happens far to late to fix school inequality.
2013-06-10: Safety triangle / misogyny triangle.
2013-06-10: A few notes on the Culture.
2013-06-10: There is more to anticompetitive patent licensing than trolls.
2013-06-10: Some links about Iain Banks.
2013-06-10: Council of the EU releases compromise draft the proposed data protection regulations.
2013-06-10: LobbyPlag: which MEPs support less data privacy and more spam.
2013-06-09: How the US turned three pacifists into violent terrorists.
2013-06-09: Security against compelled disclosure.
2013-06-09: Greene King accused of cultural vandalism after scrapping more than 200 traditional pub signs.
2013-06-09: Boundless Informant: the NSA's secret tool to track global surveillance data.
2013-06-09: The sealed bottle garden still thriving after 40 years without fresh air or water.
2013-06-09: Shortcat: keyboard productivity app for Mac OS X.
2013-06-09: Seeing ultraviolet after cataract surgery with Crystalens.
2013-06-08: The ABC trial: a 1970s prosecution for revealing UK spying activity.
2013-06-08: UK government censors PRISM news with a D-notice.
2013-06-08: Public documents contradict government claim that mass surveillance foiled terror plot.
2013-06-08: A lesson from history for those who strive to bring intelligence agencies to account.
2013-06-07: All the infrastructure a tyrant would need.
2013-06-07: Anonymous just leaked a trove of NSA documents. (See also UKUSA / Five Eyes.)
2013-06-07: On whistleblowers and government threats of investigation.
2013-06-07: Was the Communications Data Bill just a cover for Prism Data?
2013-06-07: Melton: A static memory leak detector for C programs.
2013-06-07: Lawfully Good vs Lawfully Evil.
2013-06-07: Anyone (with a PhD in physics) can design a nuclear bomb.
2013-06-07: Kismet: WiFi sniffing software.
2013-06-07: inSSIDer: WiFi monitoring software.
2013-06-07: Senators knew the NSA's universal snooping has been going on since 2007.
2013-06-07: Value of the cloud: CPU performance.
2013-06-07: Metadata matters: spying on comms records harms civil liberties and the free press.
2013-06-07: US NSA is mining data from 9 leading Internet firms.
2013-06-07: EU council of ministers proposes to gut data protection regulations, to please direct marketing lobby.
2013-06-06: Universal Credit: government closer to recognising failure of world's largest agile development project.
2013-06-06: Top US patent judge pens anti-troll op-ed in the New York Times.
2013-06-06: Best practices for designing a pragmatic RESTful API.
2013-06-06: CamelCase is less readable than under_score.
2013-06-06: CamelCase is more readable than under_score.
2013-06-06: The NSA is spying on millions of Americans.
2013-06-06: Bureaucratic needs assessments and the debate over IP address conservation.
2013-06-06: Calling for an end to the war on drugs.
2013-06-06: What would British politics look like with small parties and proportional representation?
2013-06-06: Affordable quality: comparing childcare in the UK and Europe.
2013-06-06: Amazon S3 failure in July 2008 due to single bit corruption. Checksum all the things!
2013-06-06: Game theory of IPv6.
2013-06-05: Pink/Blue.
2013-06-05: Microsoft asks for feedback on the standards conformance of Outlook and Exchange.
2013-06-05: Guile and delimited continuations.
2013-06-05: Japan's radiation disaster toll: none dead, none sick.
2013-06-05: The bright side of dark silicon.
2013-06-05: Tetris printer algorithm.
2013-06-05: The network is reliable?
2013-06-04: Cameron eyes 'non legislative options' to extend domestic spying powers.
2013-06-04: Prosecute the patent trolls!
2013-06-04: A "child pornographer", according to the police.
2013-06-04: The risks of Microsoft Exchange features that use Oracle Outside In.
2013-06-04: 45 ways to communicate two quantities.
2013-06-04: Brompton stunts. (YouTube)
2013-06-04: Huge registrar shake-up coming to .biz and .info.
2013-06-04: A look at the Crossrail tunnels under Oxford Street.
2013-06-04: Elsevier-style bulk licences the answer to taming patent trolls?!
2013-06-04: Call-by-push-value: a model for the lambda calculus that subsumes call-by-name and call-by-value.
2013-06-03: On "geek" versus "nerd".
2013-06-03: First intercontinental 100 Gbps link for research and education.
2013-06-03: Reinventing the wheel: Loopwheels: bike wheels with built-in suspension.
2013-06-03: Reinventing the train: Ideas coming down the track.
2013-06-03: How curly braces got included in ASCII.
2013-06-03: Think the Greens are the party of the middle-class? Think again.
2013-06-03: Possible ban on factory food in French restaurants.
2013-06-03: O, BIND, BIND, wherefore art thou BIND? Results of fingerprinting all Internet DNS servers.
2013-06-03: What can't you do with a criminal conviction?
2013-06-03: LangSec: safely dealing with magical text.
2013-06-03: A unified theory of garbage collection.
2013-06-03: Removing garbage collection from the Rust language.
2013-06-03: Civil legal aid reforms in the UK: what will this mean for you?
2013-06-03: The reaction to Eric Weinstein's lecture at Oxford on the geometric prospects for unification.
2013-06-03: Istanbul's demonstrators celebrate victory in Istiklal and Taksim Square.
2013-06-03: Sustainable fishing success story, but why do we have to trawl for the facts about Britain and the EU?
2013-06-03: Max Headroom and the strange world of pseudo-CGI.
2013-06-03: Hexagonal grids.
2013-06-03: Apple, betrayed by its own patent law firm.
2013-06-02: Five ugly lessons hiding in every superhero movie.
2013-06-02: More background on the violence in Isranbul.
2013-06-02: Teardown and exploration of Apple's Magsafe connector.
2013-06-02: Researcher decodes prairie dog language and discovers they've been talking about us. (video)
2013-06-02: Michael Douglas says cunnilingus gives you cancer – but is he right?
2013-06-02: What mobile internet filtering tells us about porn blocks.
2013-06-02: What is happenning in Istanbul.
2013-06-02: Examining the IWF's claim that 1.5 million adults have stumbled across child porn online.
2013-06-02: The real Cuban missile crisis.
2013-06-02: Vinegar could save 73,000 women a year from cancer.
2013-06-02: H.264 patent pools kill web video competitors.
2013-06-02: The algebra of algebraic data types.
2013-06-02: Funny computer books?
2013-06-01: Clay programming language.
2013-06-01: Google/Motorola prototype authentication tokens: pill passwords and electronic tattoos.
2013-06-01: Haskell apply ($) vs F#'s pipe forward operator (|>).
2013-05-31: The new nutritional consensus: key opinion leaders.
2013-05-31: Joe Armstrong spends a week with Elixir: a Ruby-ish language for the Erlang virtual machine.
2013-05-31: Facebook bans campaigner against images of violence against women.
2013-05-31: Former head of ACPO weighs in against snoopers' charter.
2013-05-31: Short cuts: the consequences of restricting access to the law.
2013-05-31: First-ever high-resolution images of a molecule as it breaks and reforms chemical bonds.
2013-05-31: Why DIY fecal transplants are a thing (and the FDA is only part of the reason).
2013-05-31: The NRA's end: a real gun control movement has arrived.
2013-05-30: Proof of existence: embed the SHA256 of a document in the Bitcoin block chain.
2013-05-30: Watchman: faster builds of large source trees by tracking file alterations.
2013-05-30: Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo! and Twitter weigh in against snooper's charter.
2013-05-30: Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses.
2013-05-30: Industrial influences on the evolution of landscape in North Wales.
2013-05-30: Origins of generational garbage collection.
2013-05-30: Weston display/window manager on Raspberry Pi.
2013-05-30: Moore's Law fail at NAND flash node 1Ynm.
2013-05-29: Snoopers' charter is a domestic policy problem, but a foreign policy disaster.
2013-05-29: Long live the local pub in Cambridge.
2013-05-29: A lock-free … linear search?
2013-05-29: Videos of Blackhole malware-in-the-browser attack.
2013-05-29: A brief overview of Chapel: a parallel language from Cray.
2013-05-29: Unlicensed code: movement or madness?
2013-05-29: 'Snooper's charter' would not have prevented Woolwich attack, says MI5.
2013-05-29: Peer-review practices of psychological journals: The fate of published articles, submitted again.
2013-05-28: Array languages for Lisp programmers.
2013-05-28: DNS anomaly detection: Defend against sophisticated malware.
2013-05-28: Is sugar toxic?
2013-05-28: PlexConnect: DNS hijacking to make Apple TV view media from a Plex server.
2013-05-28: Snoopers' charter: how you can stop it coming back ... again.
2013-05-28: Elsevier journals: has anything changed?
2013-05-28: parboiled2: compile-time PEG parser generator in Scala macros.
2013-05-28: Easy MS IE VMs under Linux.
2013-05-28: Courts may be privatised to siphon public money to hedge fund managers.
2013-05-28: The zombie communications data snooping bill is back.
2013-05-28: Twin beam phase conjugation for 400Gbit/s transoceanic fibre.
2013-05-28: Agatha Christie and computerised foulups.
2013-05-28: HTTPS and Referer: headers.
2013-05-28: How far can you overhang blocks?
2013-05-28: Better estimation when perfection is unlikely: a Bayesian example.
2013-05-28: Raspberry Pi eye in the sky.
2013-05-28: You are dangerously bad at cryptography.
2013-05-27: The ZigZag database and visualization system.
2013-05-27: Autodependencies with GNU make.
2013-05-27: Rules with multiple outputs in GNU make.
2013-05-27: How NOT to review a paper: the tools and techniques of the adversarial reviewer.
2013-05-27: How to reject any scientific manuscript.
2013-05-27: International Space Station upgrades from Windows XP to Linux.
2013-05-27: Less than 1% of European terrorist attacks are by Muslims.
2013-05-27: Mythbusting modern hardware to gain "mechanical sympathy".
2013-05-27: DNS traffic logging, summarizing, and presentation with Logstash, ElasticSearch, and Kibana.
2013-05-27: Three implementation models for Scheme.
2013-05-27: Three types of build-system dependency.
2013-05-27: 42 symmetries.
2013-05-27: High levels of home ownership can seriously damage the labor market.
2013-05-26: X.org security advisory: protocol handling issues in X client libraries.
2013-05-25: Yitang Zhang, twin primes conjecture: A huge discovery about prime numbers—and what it means for the future of math.
2013-05-24: History of zero.
2013-05-24: Improving the security of your SSH private key files.
2013-05-24: Log-shuttle delivers messages to log routers and processors via https.
2013-05-24: Eric Weinstein may have found the answer to the biggest problems of physics.
2013-05-24: SIGGRAPH 2013 technical papers preview. (YouTube)
2013-05-23: Kim Dotcom is now a two-factor-authentication patent troll.
2013-05-23: MinimaLT: minimal-latency networking through better security.
2013-05-22: Stop using linked lists.
2013-05-22: Myth: DRAM costs and buying in bulk.
2013-05-22: Dowser: a guided fuzzer to find buffer overflow vulnerabilities.
2013-05-22: Average home sizes around the world.
2013-05-22: The oldest algorithmic patent?
2013-05-22: Plan 9 coding style.
2013-05-22: UK supported 1622 CIA kidnap flights.
2013-05-21: Bertrand Russell: "Why I am not a Christian."
2013-05-21: The day that hell was abolished in Britain.
2013-05-21: Scripps News reporters use Google, find breach, get branded as "hackers", like Weev.
2013-05-21: James Burke's classic rocket takeoff piece-to-camera. (YouTube)
2013-05-21: Google abandons open instant messaging. (But some xmpp support still lurks.)
2013-05-21: LuaJIT 2.1 status and sponsorships.
2013-05-21: Twitter granted patent on pull-to-refresh, promises to only use it defensively.
2013-05-21: Next steps for the Firefox cookie policy.
2013-05-21: How tcmalloc works.
2013-05-21: Obituary of George Gray, liquid crystal scientist.
2013-05-21: Implicit type conversion in MySQL and SQL injection attacks.
2013-05-21: Windcatcher airbed inflates in seconds without power or pumping.
2013-05-21: Cyclists hate road narrowing schemes, but have our cycling campaigns been asking for them all along?
2013-05-21: Virtually everything the US government did to WikiLeaks is now being done to mainstream reporters.
2013-05-21: But that's impossible! Clients fetching v6-only URLs over v4.
2013-05-21: Network congestion, TCP's initial window, and web browsing.
2013-05-20: Shor's quantum factorisation algorithm.
2013-05-20: US DOJ criminalizes investigative journalism.
2013-05-20: On average, we have built one large dam every day for the last 130 years.
2013-05-20: Harwell Dekatron / Atomic Energy Research Establishment WITCH is oldest working computer.
2013-05-20: Sonar-scanning usine a Macbook: synethetic aperture sonar using consumer electronics.
2013-05-20: Labour are to blame for UKIP.
2013-05-20: Conversations with a bulletproof hoster: did someone other than Kamphuis run the Spamhaus DDoS?
2013-05-20: Stability patterns and antipatterns.
2013-05-20: Sven Olaf Kamphuis, accused of the Spamhaus DDoS attack.
2013-05-20: Attack by compiler: undefined behaviour and underhanded optimisation.
2013-05-20: Your login form posts to HTTPS, but you blew it when you loaded it over HTTP.
2013-05-20: "A manifestly unjustified, inappropriate or improper use of a formal procedure." Vexatious FOI requests.
2013-05-20: Cambridge Airport unveils 50 new flights a week to Amsterdam, Paris, Milan and Geneva. (Hope they don't win a Darwin prize!)
2013-05-20: CSS Tube map.
2013-05-20: The trouble with the Enlightenment.
2013-05-20: Becoming an American can be bad for your health.
2013-05-20: Parallel and concurrent programming in Haskell. (draft book)
2013-05-20: Plug-in covers reduce the safety of UK BS1363 mains sockets.
2013-05-20: Statistical formulae for programmers.
2013-05-20: SCADA vulnerabilities: how to hack a nation's infrastructure.
2013-05-20: Docker: copy-on-write Linux containers.
2013-05-18: Noether: a concurrent security-oriented language.
2013-05-18: Contactless tills take money from the wrong cards at several UK retailers.
2013-05-18: Elsevier, NewsCorp, Facebook, and Yahoo join ignorant attack on open access.
2013-05-18: Opening the lid on StrongBox, the anonymous leak system coded by Aaron Swartz.
2013-05-18: Rainbow Europe: UK is the most LGBTI friendly country.
2013-05-18: D-Wave quantum computing devices: truth finally starts to emerge.
2013-05-18: Bunny is a wireless meshing darknet that hides its comms in parts of 802.11.
2013-05-17: Modern programming language syntax is not like C.
2013-05-17: Vaughan Pratt's paper on top-down operator precedence parsers.
2013-05-17: Nationwide survey reveals picture of UK's attitudes to science and medicine (and vaccines).
2013-05-17: Explanation of yesterday's mozilla.org DNSSEC validation failures.
2013-05-17: Newegg nukes "corporate troll" Alcatel in third patent appeal win this year.
2013-05-17: 1966 plan for segregated cycle routes in Cambridge.
2013-05-16: BBC boosts UKIP: their 23% national projected vote debunked down to 10%.
2013-05-16: The great google goat rodeo.
2013-05-16: A collection of links about secure random number generation.
2013-05-16: Extensible scannerless statically typed Pratt parser in C#.
2013-05-16: Parallelism and concurrency need different tools.
2013-05-16: Rachel on pregnancy and consent.
2013-05-16: The New Yorker Strongbox and Aaron Swartz.
2013-05-15: Simple top-down operator precedence Pratt parsing in Python.
2013-05-15: Vetinari Clock: a clock that ticks randomly but still keeps accurate time.
2013-05-15: MapBox: A cloudless atlas.
2013-05-15: Euphemisms inspired by political scandals.
2013-05-15: Rusty Russell's API design rating scheme.
2013-05-15: 2m40: un blog impactant.
2013-05-14: Linux Containers on AWS.
2013-05-14: The Hawkeye Initiative IRL.
2013-05-14: At 10 million concurrent connections, the kernel is the problem, not the solution.
2013-05-14: CAP Confusion: problems with ‘partition tolerance'.
2013-05-14: Approximate heavy hitters: the SpaceSaving algorithm.
2013-05-14: JavaScript is already the elusive universal web bytecode.
2013-05-14: What made Chris Hadfield's time on the ISS special.
2013-05-14: ITU pursues Internet control - again - at WPTF13 this week.
2013-05-14: Terms of service; didn't read. Aiming to fix the biggest lie on the web.
2013-05-14: URLs in private Skype chats are accessed by Microsoft.
2013-05-14: Dropping in on the Gottfried Leibniz archives.
2013-05-14: Bees need Europe's neonicotinoid pesticide ban.
2013-05-14: UK government study agrees with previous research: top downloaders spend the most on legit media.
2013-05-14: Terra and Lua offer new high performance computing strategy.
2013-05-14: Cellular encryption and interception.
2013-05-14: Pregnancy, farting, and abortion law.
2013-05-14: Crossrail 2 consultation and route options.
2013-05-14: D-Wave's quantum optimizer pitted against traditional computers.
2013-05-14: $45M in stolen cash still won't get rid of hackable ATM cards.
2013-05-14: The sound of silence: the texture of background noise in quiet cities.
2013-05-14: InterMune lies about clinical trial results and sues to preven European Medicines Agency from publishing data.
2013-05-14: Do people turn mean because they're helpless?
2013-05-14: Half of Labour supporters believe the welfare state is too generous.
2013-05-14: A proof of the odd Goldbach conjecture that every odd number greater than five is the sum of three primes.
2013-05-14: Getting closer to a proof that infinitely many primes come in pairs.
2013-05-14: Triangular variable radix unary 12h clock face.
2013-05-14: Met raid home of family who successfully sued police for racial abuse.
2013-05-14: So long, Commander Hadfield – and thanks for all the awesome!
2013-05-13: Ipsos MORI response to the EE personal data story.
2013-05-13: Texting at wheel kills more US teens than drunk-driving.
2013-05-13: Daniel Morgan axe murder, criminal private investigators, Murdoch papers, and senior Tories.
2013-05-13: How Mythic Beasts dealt with the Raspberry Pi DDoS attacks.
2013-05-13: The differing treatment of men and women on Reddit.
2013-05-13: Ethical consequences of a Saudi Arabia telecoms surveillance pitch.
2013-05-13: Executable archaeology: the stupid thing that eats RAM when shaken.
2013-05-13: Fulton surface-to-air recovery system. (Featuring a flying pig.)
2013-05-13: GM crops do not have better yields nor a much lower environmental footprint.
2013-05-13: Neonicotinoids do not improve yields.
2013-05-13: EE selling personal data to pollsters and police.
2013-05-13: The devil in plain text.
2013-05-13: Unfairness of FPTP leads to parties ignoring 59% of voters in Oxfordshire.
2013-05-13: How certificate revocation (doesn't) work in practice.
2013-05-13: ActiveHistory replies to Gove's accusation of 'infantilisation'.
2013-05-13: Everything Everywhere, IpsosMori and the mystery of 27m people's data.
2013-05-13: Kaspersky on patents against innovation.
2013-05-13: Michael Gove bases education policy on bogus marketing surveys.
2013-05-13: All about the new EU anti-diversity seed law.
2013-05-13: CSS architecture.
2013-05-13: Python's sad, unimaginative Enum.
2013-05-13: WAN vs. datacenter link reliability.
2013-05-12: DNS needs TCP.
2013-05-11: Nobody reads the terms of service - not even those who write them.
2013-05-11: Thieves stole $45 million from ATMs because the US uses absurd 40-year-old tech.
2013-05-11: Communications interception bill in New Zealand.
2013-05-11: "I contribute to the Windows kernel. We are slower than other operating systems. Here is why."
2013-05-11: pdf2htmlEX: high-quality PDF to modern HTML converter.
2013-05-11: Why is science behind a paywall?
2013-05-11: Faster curve25519 with precomputation.
2013-05-11: How to intercept and decrypt Snapchat images.
2013-05-11: Wine tasting is bullshit.
2013-05-10: The Daniel Morgan murder: an unsolved mystery of the Murdoch hacking scandal.
2013-05-10: Daniel Morgan axe murder: independent panel to investigate police failings.
2013-05-10: The justifications for airport expansion turn out to be bogus.
2013-05-10: The human-powered helicopter challenge.
2013-05-10: Average distance between tweeter and responder is about 750 miles.
2013-05-10: The paradox of the ABC proof.
2013-05-10: No boundary changes and no AV improve Labour's chances in 2015.
2013-05-10: Apple platonic solids.
2013-05-10: A FAQ about Brewer's CAP theorem.
2013-05-10: Millenials aren't lazy: they're fucked.
2013-05-10: The secret world of submarine cables.
2013-05-09: Towards adoption of DNSSEC: availability and security challenges.
2013-05-09: GeoGuessr: a Google Street View game.
2013-05-09: Dodgy food practices banned in Europe but just fine in the USA.
2013-05-08: Spamhaus DDoS suspect extradited to the Netherlands.
2013-05-08: Taiwanese / Mandarin: how to forget your mother tongue and remember your national language.
2013-05-08: Critique of the IO monad being viewed as a state monad operating on the world.
2013-05-08: Why the UK government tried ID cards: because biometrics supposedly made identity theft ‘impossible'.
2013-05-08: SSH authentication forwarding with Mosh.
2013-05-08: JDNS: a portable asynchronous stub resolver with mDNS support.
2013-05-08: Why haven't the Greens become popular since the financial crash, rather than UKIP?
2013-05-08: Feds drop hacking charges in video poker glitching case.
2013-05-08: Obama may back FBI plan to wiretap web users.
2013-05-07: The wrongly attributed statement: our democratic poetry.
2013-05-07: A short introduction to TPMs.
2013-05-07: Florence Nightingale's hockey stick: the real message of her rose diagram.
2013-05-07: North American English dialects, based on pronunciation patterns.
2013-05-07: Protected bicycle lanes boost local business in NYC.
2013-05-07: Elon Musk talking to Google about autopilot systems for Tesla cars.
2013-05-07: Megaupload, the copyright lobby, and the future of digital rights.
2013-05-07: Bob Alberti: gopher was doomed by Moore's law, but what killed it was licensing.
2013-05-07: BT retail is testing carrier-grade NAT under their own brand as well as PlusNet.
2013-05-07: The definitive history of the colors of Crayola.
2013-05-07: WWW: Why the Web Worked and why Gopher didn't go far.
2013-05-07: Aquatic apes are the stuff of creationism, not evolution.
2013-05-07: git? tig! A text-mode UI for git.
2013-05-07: Firefox's inspector as a 3D modelling tool.
2013-05-07: KSRegistry takes over .gd but questions remain about two other hijacked ccTLDs.
2013-05-07: Population distribution of the US in units of Canadas.
2013-05-07: Hacking the JVM by inducing memory glitches with an incandescent lamp.
2013-05-07: 2013 European LLVM conference slides / videos / papers.
2013-05-07: Hacking into a Google building management system.
2013-05-07: How to spot a weak argument.
2013-05-07: Measuring DNSSEC performance.
2013-05-07: Digging out the craziest bug you never heard about from 2008: a Linux threading regression.
2013-05-07: Transferring domains from GoDaddy to Hover.
2013-05-07: How much would it cost to store every phone call in the USA?
2013-05-07: HTML canvas performance tips and tricks.
2013-05-06: Implementation strategies for first-class continuations.
2013-05-06: A great way of explaining delimited continuations.
2013-05-06: More than half the world's population lives inside this circle.
2013-05-06: Health and safety gone mad: government axes strict liability for workplace injuries.
2013-05-06: Argonauts of the incredibly specific: anthropological field notes on the Liberal Democrat animal.
2013-05-06: Unconditional income reduces poverty and corruption in India.
2013-05-06: Honeywords: making password-cracking detectable.
2013-05-06: A cultural shift in computing started with EDSAC.
2013-05-05: Pictures of a NeXT cube.
2013-05-05: Big-O algorithm complexity cheat sheet.
2013-05-04: A determined 'hacker' decrypts RDS-TMC FM traffic broadcasts.
2013-05-04: All telephone calls are recorded for access by the US government.
2013-05-04: Predicting Google service shutdowns.
2013-05-04: Go and Rust: objects without class.
2013-05-04: Video codecs in Javascript are the future.
2013-05-03: Beating bufferbloat with fq_codel.
2013-05-03: Active queue management algorithms for DOCSIS 3: a simulation study of CoDel, SFQ-CoDel and PIE.
2013-05-02: MLWorks: a Standard ML compiler and development environment written at Harlequin in the 1990s, now open source.
2013-05-02: SQLite as a standard layered image file format.
2013-05-02: On sapphire screens, PV cells, and advanced material manufacturing efficiency.
2013-05-02: The Internet archive: what 10 petabytes of data looks like. (video)
2013-05-02: Acorn 4: a Mac OS X image editor.
2013-05-02: Practical HTTP Host header attacks.
2013-05-01: How to play Tetris forever.
2013-05-01: Algorithms are replacing stock analysts and investors.
2013-05-01: Eric Brewer on why banks are BASE not ACID.
2013-05-01: Hoptroff is putting a chip-scale atomic clock into a pocket watch.
2013-05-01: The communications data bill was a zombie bill that has been killed before. When will it be back?
2013-05-01: Cambridge station ticket hall to be expanded.
2013-05-01: World's most cycle-friendly cities.
2013-05-01: How the hell is this photo of the Moon even possible?
2013-05-01: Using a software bug to win at video poker leads to a federal computer hacking prosecution.
2013-05-01: Blip: a tool for seeing your Internet latency.
2013-05-01: "I don't know why people aren't freaking out about the fact that we're nearly at a post-antibiotic era."
2013-05-01: Effective use of spare capacity at London airports could be better alternative to more runways.
2013-05-01: Cambridge bids for money to build "Chisholm Trail" on-road segregated cycle lanes.
2013-04-30: Reasoning about the heap in Rust, with Hoare logic and separation logic.
2013-04-30: Why those who assault cyclists are usually not prosecuted.
2013-04-30: Creative abuse of TLS servers as notaries.
2013-04-30: On the lack of pure functions in the Rust programming language type system.
2013-04-30: Mozilla to sue Gamma Group for trademark violation: making FinFisher look like Firefox.
2013-04-30: An intro to the Mozilla Rust programming language.
2013-04-30: Drones: when the future sneaks up on you.
2013-04-30: The Hovenring: a new level of bike infrastructure.
2013-04-30: Court ruling stops European Medicines Agency from releasing clinical study reports.
2013-04-30: Eight things I like about universal benefits.
2013-04-30: MiniPiOut: tiny breakout accessory for Raspberry Pi.
2013-04-30: C=64 <-> PC data transfer the hard way.
2013-04-30: Dutch roundabouts could be seen in London next year.
2013-04-30: What happened to the crypto dream? Its failure to protect personal privacy.
2013-04-30: First judicial determination of the meaning of RAND patent licences in the USA.
2013-04-29: Beware the rise of the government scientists turned lobbyists.
2013-04-29: Dead trees have been replaced by a paywall.
2013-04-29: DNSSEC / EDNS0 fallback interop problem between BIND and PowerDNS.
2013-04-29: The company that's buying up all the key pieces of the online news ecosystem.
2013-04-29: In the future our police, lawyers and jails will be run by G4S.
2013-04-29: Ironically named British Beer and Pub Ass'n fails to get judicial review of Cambridge's pub protection policy.
2013-04-29: Hundreds of cycles in the Kite; no parking spaces.
2013-04-29: Bee-harming pesticides banned in Europe.
2013-04-29: EU pesticide restrictions are a victory for bees.
2013-04-29: The disapproval matrix.
2013-04-29: A cucumber map of Europe.
2013-04-29: Joining an open WiFi network creates a long-term security risk to your device.
2013-04-29: Who can stop these marauding wild pigs?
2013-04-29: Bad seed law: EU planning to ban genetic diversity.
2013-04-29: jq is like sed for JSON data.
2013-04-28: A collection of programming fonts.
2013-04-28: History of San Francisco street and landmark names.
2013-04-28: A manifesto for the simple scribe: 25 commandments for journalists.
2013-04-28: A crime mystery. It's going down, but no one really knows why.
2013-04-28: Wikipedia's sexism.
2013-04-28: Insecticide firms secretly lobbying against ban that could save bees.
2013-04-28: Cook's continental time tables, March 1873.
2013-04-28: A review and history of the Haymakers, Chesterton, Cambridge.
2013-04-28: ISDAfix: the biggest price-fixing scandal ever.
2013-04-27: Why your supermarket only sells 5 kinds of apples.
2013-04-27: Matasano crypto challenges.
2013-04-26: Dutchman arrested over the 300Gb/s Spamhaus DDoS attack.
2013-04-26: Stevenage, and the sad tale of a cycle network innovator forgotten by the New Town he built.
2013-04-26: Symantec / Brightmail IP mail reputation lookup.
2013-04-26: Why one GP is retiring early to avoid NHS reforms.
2013-04-26: Design, implementation and evaluation of congestion control for multipath TCP.
2013-04-26: Eventual consistency today: limitations, extensions, and beyond.
2013-04-26: US judge refuses to grant a warrant to hack.
2013-04-26: Wandering around an Albuquerque airport terminal.
2013-04-25: Feed reading is an open web problem, and what browsers could do about it.
2013-04-25: Policy paper: identity assurance: enabling trusted transactions.
2013-04-25: Government digital service: identity assurance.
2013-04-25: Parliamentary office of science and technology: managing online identity.
2013-04-25: Position based fluid simulation.
2013-04-24: Slash: not just a punctuation mark anymore.
2013-04-24: The first federated indieweb comment thread.
2013-04-24: JavaScript demo of path finding algorithms.
2013-04-24: Dyson: a Debian derivative using the Illumos kernel, libc, and SMF init.
2013-04-24: DNS leak test.
2013-04-24: ARIN projected to run out of IPv4 addresses in August 2013.
2013-04-24: Coding, fast and slow: the psychology of development time estimates.
2013-04-24: 75th anniversary of the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.
2013-04-24: Get Britain cycling: press release and links to parliamentary reports.
2013-04-24: Intel's return to the DRAM business.
2013-04-24: Special characters in a Content-Disposition filename.
2013-04-24: The power of silence: why the SimCity story went away.
2013-04-23: SoK: eternal war in memory. A survey of vulnerabilities and defences.
2013-04-23: Dara O'Briain calls for more taxing exams after taking 10 minutes to get A* in GCSE maths.
2013-04-23: Home Office fears Clegg will veto 'snooper's charter'.
2013-04-23: BitTorrent's secure Dropbox alternative goes public.
2013-04-23: The communications data bill: what's happening?
2013-04-23: A detailed analysis of contemporary ARM and x86 architectures.
2013-04-23: UK national debt: current, recent, and historical charts.
2013-04-23: Government plans to eliminate at least 70% of criminal solicitor firms.
2013-04-23: A heartbreaking work of staggering folly. (Econ 101 and the depression.)
2013-04-23: List of English words without rhymes.
2013-04-23: The Reinhart/Rogoff paper is a mostly-irrelevant sideshow.
2013-04-23: Meagre legal aid fees could lead to criminals going free.
2013-04-23: Dynamic map of predicted UK election results.
2013-04-23: Section 75 of the health act is the engine for destruction of the NHS.
2013-04-23: Assange's WikiLeaks party is popular in Australia.
2013-04-23: $45 BeagleBone Black Arm Linux PC.
2013-04-22: Connect an iPad retina LCD to a PC using DisplayPort.
2013-04-22: Nuclear power saves millions of lives.
2013-04-22: Running PostgreSQL on compression-enabled ZFS.
2013-04-22: CISPA is a global problem.
2013-04-22: Developers should be allowed to destroy nature reserves, says Government review.
2013-04-22: Reimplementing `git clone` in Haskell from the bottom up.
2013-04-22: Campaign to stop killer robots.
2013-04-22: Discoverer of the Reinhart/Rogoff flaws explains why they are fundamentally wrong.
2013-04-22: Lua: from Brazil to Wikipedia.
2013-04-22: Detecting DNS censorship without an internal vantage point.
2013-04-22: Mapumental and fire engine journey times.
2013-04-22: Data Communications Bill: the Home Office is trying to trap Britain in the past.
2013-04-22: Notes about an odd, esoteric, yet incredibly useful thread-aware debugging library: libthread_db.
2013-04-22: Interesting DNS hacks.
2013-04-22: Computer security researchers tell government to drop net snooping plans.
2013-04-22: Why is social care facing the deepest cuts?
2013-04-22: Amazon sells lots of erotica, but does not want you to find it.
2013-04-22: tlsdate: secure parasitic rdate replacement.
2013-04-22: Reinhart/Rogoff: ignoring fundamental issues in the use and abuse of statistical studies.
2013-04-22: There's no need for all this economic sadomasochism.
2013-04-22: VSRE: very short reply expected. A netiquette idea.
2013-04-22: Swansea measles outbreak: a local paper's contribution to the MMR scare.
2013-04-21: "The tail's wagging the dog": How outsourcing is eroding NHS services.
2013-04-21: Four years of decoding UTF-8.
2013-04-21: The REF is now pretty much the only reason why physicists have to use traditional journals.
2013-04-21: Patients' guide to magic medicine.
2013-04-21: Linux on an 8-bit micro.
2013-04-20: Little known technologies that helped save the human genome.
2013-04-20: Mystery aircraft parts and atomic clocks.
2013-04-20: Smaller: the disposable diaper and the meaning of progress.
2013-04-20: The Excel depression: Reinhart/Rogoff.
2013-04-20: The most difficult bug: MSX sound chip emulation and human auditory perception.
2013-04-20: Generic Merkelized authenticated data structures.
2013-04-20: YouTube again beats Viacom's massive copyright infringement lawsuit.
2013-04-19: The eternal mainframe.
2013-04-19: The death of upcoming.org.
2013-04-19: Tern: JavaScript editor integration with error-tolerant parsing and type inference.
2013-04-19: Meet the grad student who demolished the Reinhart/Rogoff austerity argument.
2013-04-19: OpenPGP best practices.
2013-04-19: You lookin' at me? Reflections on Google Glass.
2013-04-19: Hacking and rooting SOHO home routers.
2013-04-19: Open home gateway forum: commercial consortium for open source secure functional upgradable router firmware.
2013-04-19: Maybe is better than NULL.
2013-04-19: Yahoo! Chat: a eulogy to a crazy protocol.
2013-04-18: Bufferbloat vs codel: see how much faster the Internet could be. (video)
2013-04-18: Thin films of water in space. (YouTube)
2013-04-18: What happens if you wring out a washcloth in space? (video)
2013-04-18: Pourquoi le droit d'auteur viole la constitution.
2013-04-18: A history of coffee.
2013-04-18: Weird and wonderful London Underground maps.
2013-04-18: DNSmasq is not the best intermediary for a reflection/amplification attack.
2013-04-18: TXDNS: aggressive multithreaded DNS digger for Windows.
2013-04-17: Genome size, complexity, and the c-value paradox.
2013-04-17: Extrapolating Moore's Law backwards, and applying it to the origin of life.
2013-04-17: Viewing a web page is not a breach of copyright in the UK.
2013-04-17: Adventures in undefined behaviour: monkey-patching malloc() for fun and profit.
2013-04-17: We are still saving British science from Margaret Thatcher.
2013-04-17: IMAP as the proto personal cloud.
2013-04-17: Template Haskell on impossible architectures.
2013-04-16: Enabling DNSSEC validation on Windows 2012 server.
2013-04-16: Copyright: a new prohibition.
2013-04-16: Guidelines for bias-free writing: a review by P.J. O'Rourke.
2013-04-16: The myth of Margaret Thatcher.
2013-04-16: Certificate revocation and the performance of OCSP.
2013-04-15: Mimi Silbert and rehabilitation at the Delancey Street Foundation.
2013-04-15: ldp: LDAP distributed shell profile.
2013-04-15: That's a big transistor: why you are not going to space on a coil gun today.
2013-04-15: 37,112 insert/remove cycles for Lego pieces to lose their clutch power.
2013-04-15: On the trail of malicious dynamic DNS domains.
2013-04-15: Dotfiles distribution at login with git and LDAP.
2013-04-15: DNSSEC zone signing made easy.
2013-04-15: Why dodgy downloads use RAR files.
2013-04-15: WiFi Pineapple: hot-spot honeypot pen-testing platform.
2013-04-15: Ked: the first scripting language to emerge from The People's Republic of Cork.
2013-04-15: IT security in a nutshell.
2013-04-15: Tailmatching them cookies: the latest cURL security bug.
2013-04-15: Hacktivists as gadflies: the crime of being too clever and annoying the powerful.
2013-04-14: Be careful on your birthday!
2013-04-14: Want to block common passwords? Sorry, that is patented.
2013-04-14: The exploding toilet.
2013-04-14: Paradise Silk Mills, Macclesfield.
2013-04-14: Google deal with EU regulates search results.
2013-04-14: Junction design the Dutch cycle friendly way. (YouTube)
2013-04-14: More thoughts on why Python, Ruby, and Javascript are slow.
2013-04-13: "Do you use Boy Words or Girl Words? Or the other words, but I can't 'amember them."
2013-04-13: Stanford scientists develop new reflective/emissive structure that cools buildings in full sunlight.
2013-04-13: The post-Thatcher generation: We might be young, but we weren't born yesterday.
2013-04-13: Forecast: it's not a web app, it's an app you install from the web.
2013-04-12: Peak Oil as seen through the eyes of Arab oil producers.
2013-04-12: Measuring DNSSEC deployment, and Google Public DNS.
2013-04-12: Obscure C.
2013-04-12: Charles Carreon the Oatmeal/Funnyjunk lawyer has to pay $46K in legal fees.
2013-04-12: Zerocoin: making Bitcoin anonymous.
2013-04-12: Elm is a functional reactive programming language that compiles to HTML, CSS, and JS.
2013-04-12: My comments on ICANN's root zone KSK rollover consultation.
2013-04-12: You know, Google, the web already had this feature.
2013-04-12: IBM VM and the VM community: past, present, and future.
2013-04-11: Hijacking airplanes with an Android phone.
2013-04-11: Building BSD in meta mode.
2013-04-11: Panda IMAP: Mark Crispin's successor to UW-IMAP.
2013-04-11: The Empire acquires the rebel alliance: Mendeley users revolt against Elsevier takeover.
2013-04-10: Can someone explain Haskell's wager to me?
2013-04-10: Bean leaves stop bedbugs in their tracks.
2013-04-10: "Everything I had been taught to regard as a vice, under Thatcherism became a virtue." (video)
2013-04-10: The economic achievements and failures of Margaret Thatcher.
2013-04-10: No tail call elimination in Rust.
2013-04-10: Managing SSH keys for automated access: current recommended practice.
2013-04-10: A town without poverty? A 1970s Canadian experiment with Citizens' Income.
2013-04-10: Artist's impression of the refurbished Arup building. (Vimeo)
2013-04-10: A practical utopian's guide to the coming collapse.
2013-04-10: Margaret Thatcher and the constitution.
2013-04-09: Motorola Android devices unlocked by exploiting flaw in TrustZone kernel.
2013-04-09: Dispelling the Thatcher myths.
2013-04-09: Papers from the lost culture of array languages.
2013-04-09: Thatcher: the woman who wrecked Britain.
2013-04-09: Tamale: a TAble MAtching Lua Extension.
2013-04-09: Mozilla Persona beta 2, including "identity bridging".
2013-04-09: DNSSEC validator plugin for browsers.
2013-04-09: Facebook HipHop HHVM is 2.3x .. 2.5x faster than standard PHP.
2013-04-09: General purpose programming languages' maximal complexity.
2013-04-09: BIND on RHEL6 now includes RRL patch.
2013-04-09: The only Susan Greenfield article you'll ever need.
2013-04-09: Thatcherism was a national catastrophe that still poisons us.
2013-04-09: Verizon deploying carrier-grade NAT on DSL customers.
2013-04-09: Meet the "nice-guy" patent trolls who want $1,000 per worker for using scanners.
2013-04-09: Margaret Thatcher left a dark legacy that has still not disappeared.
2013-04-08: Shodan: the scariest search engine on the Internet.
2013-04-08: Puzzle: make three NOT gates using only two NOT gates.
2013-04-08: If hackers didn't exist, governments would have to invent them.
2013-04-08: Git koans.
2013-04-08: David Willetts on Margaret Thatcher. (2009)
2013-04-08: What can politicians learn from Margaret Thatcher.
2013-04-08: Designing Kerberos IV: a dialogue in four scenes.
2013-04-08: Wearable video cameras reduce police violence.
2013-04-08: Explain like I'm 5: Kerberos.
2013-04-08: More US ISPs doing man-in-the-middle ad injection.
2013-04-08: Waffles: a collection of command-line tools for machine learning and data mining.
2013-04-07: Tony Blair and Iraq: The damning evidence.
2013-04-06: Lies about the Key Stage 2 spelling, punctuation, and grammar test.
2013-04-06: The impact of the lambda calculus in logic and computer science.
2013-04-06: With a broken promise, the government has handed the NHS over to the market private sector.
2013-04-06: A review of Android for blind and partially sighted users.
2013-04-06: Learn vimscript the hard way.
2013-04-06: CSS media queries are the wrong thing.
2013-04-05: AMI firmware source code and test private key leaked.
2013-04-05: Apple to cripple VPN On Demand in iOS 6.1 due to VirnetX patent lawsuit.
2013-04-05: Google says it's time to take action against patent trolls and patent privateering.
2013-04-05: The baseline compiler has landed in Firefox Nightly.
2013-04-05: Possible security disasters loom with rollout of new top-level domains.
2013-04-05: Programming Erlang 2nd edition.
2013-04-05: Closing the door on hackers.
2013-04-05: The most ridiculous scene in Jurassic Park.
2013-04-04: Do more to prevent DNS DDoS attacks.
2013-04-04: Consortium for Plant Biotechnology Research plagiarised a web page, and sued its author when asked to respect copyright.
2013-04-04: AMD declares the end of Moore's law.
2013-04-04: Rackspace is suing the most notorious patent troll in America.
2013-04-04: US DEA says it is impossible to intercept iMessages between two Apple devices even with a court order.
2013-04-04: Why aren't we all talking with our devices yet? On voice UI design.
2013-04-04: An explanatory model for the Senate's surge in support for same-sex marriage.
2013-04-04: Q&A: Iain Banks / Rationalist Association.
2013-04-04: American teenagers who read news online can be prosecuted under the CFAA.
2013-04-04: Re-enacting the Night Watch. (video)
2013-04-04: MIT puts up a firewall.
2013-04-04: What you're reading about Blink is probably wrong.
2013-04-04: Translation from bullshit to English of the Chrome Blink FAQ.
2013-04-03: Next time you see a plea for cybersecurity spending on more cyberwarriors …
2013-04-03: Google Chrome Blink and security.
2013-04-03: Google Chrome Blink developer FAQ.
2013-04-03: Google forks WebKit to make Blink, a rendering engine for Chrome.
2013-04-03: Links about programming for kids.
2013-04-03: A mother tongue spoken by millions of Americans still gets no respect.
2013-04-03: The patent protection racket.
2013-04-03: "Not even wrong" and "wronger than wrong".
2013-04-03: Hack the music industry to get from YouTube to an xmas top ten hit in under 8 weeks.
2013-04-03: An interview with computing pioneer Alan Kay.
2013-04-03: Andrew Tyrie: the most powerful backbencher in the House of Commons.
2013-04-03: The Underhanded C Contest 2013.
2013-04-03: Nuclear power has prevented about 1.84 million air pollution-related deaths.
2013-04-03: Honest download meter prototype.
2013-04-02: First sale doctrine does not apply to MP3s in the US.
2013-04-02: checkedthreads: bug-free shared memory parallelism.
2013-04-02: How the BBC betrayed the NHS.
2013-04-01: Paradoxical gears.
2013-04-01: Inside the gcc size overflow plugin.
2013-04-01: We have to talk about why some people agree with benefit cuts.
2013-04-01: Defrosting a cold storage building frozen for 90 years.
2013-04-01: Crude benchmarks of NaCl and scrypt in the browser.
2013-03-31: Terrorists of the right colour.
2013-03-31: Callbacks are imperative, promises are functional: Node's biggest missed opportunity.
2013-03-30: Fast collision attack on MD5.
2013-03-30: Another NYT article on the Spamhaus DDoS; should have emphasised BCP 38 more.
2013-03-30: Intellectual Property rights and innovation: evidence from the human genome.
2013-03-30: The Spamhaus DDoS attack: how big a deal was it?
2013-03-30: Donglegate: why the tech community hates feminists.
2013-03-30: Looking at the Spamhaus BGP hijack.
2013-03-30: How the Spamhaus DDoS could have been prevented.
2013-03-29: Cisco's chronology of the Spamhaus DDoS.
2013-03-29: Verisign does not think ICANN is ready for a thousand new TLDs.
2013-03-29: The Wiley/Kirtsaeng first sale decision has echoes of Betamax.
2013-03-29: The Spamhaus DDoS was hyped by shoddy journalism.
2013-03-29: No, ZFS really doesn't need a fsck.
2013-03-29: Is your open DNS resolver part of a criminal conspiracy?
2013-03-29: What is the maximum DNS amplification factor?
2013-03-29: Chilling effects of the DMCA on security research.
2013-03-29: What can be done about source address spoofing and amplification attacks?
2013-03-29: Open acces material published under a CC-BY-NC licence cannot be used for teaching.
2013-03-29: Adobe Blank: a non-spacing non-marking typeface.
2013-03-28: One of CloudFlare's bandwidth providers on the 300Gbit/s DDoS attack.
2013-03-28: A 300Gbit/s DDoS is not enough to break the Internet.
2013-03-27: Update from CloudFlare on the Spamhaus DDoS.
2013-03-27: The BBC on the massive Spamhaus DDoS.
2013-03-27: The power of the RSS reader.
2013-03-27: Spamhaus DDoS grows to 300Gbit/s.
2013-03-27: Memory address disclosure via weak hash tables and garbage collection.
2013-03-27: Preparing for Google Groups shutdown.
2013-03-27: Persona supports distributed identity providers today.
2013-03-26: IBM 1360 Photostore at LLNL.
2013-03-26: Entire editorial board of the Journal of Library Administration resigns over open access following death of Aaron Swartz.
2013-03-26: The twisted London Underground map.
2013-03-26: The highest-level feature of C.
2013-03-26: Antipodean punting.
2013-03-26: On the distribution of DNS TTLs.
2013-03-26: "Cargo Cult Science" - by Richard Feynman.
2013-03-26: The fragility of AES-GCM authenticated encryption.
2013-03-26: Testing Cambridge's safer cycle network.
2013-03-26: Reflections on a foray into post-publication peer review.
2013-03-26: A Cambridge cycling infrastructure safari.
2013-03-26: Inquiry-based learning about data structures, when teaching computer science.
2013-03-26: Apple text APIs and upper/lower case digits.
2013-03-26: USPS discrimination against atheist packing tape.
2013-03-26: IBM 1360 photo-digital storage system: terabit capacity in the 1960s.
2013-03-26: GCHQ recruitment website stores passwords in plain text.
2013-03-26: The Irish approach to sharing roads between cars, bikes, and pedestrians.
2013-03-26: When a deaf man has Tourette's.
2013-03-26: Shrinking blob gets within 5%-10% of optimal in small travelling salesman problems.
2013-03-26: The end of needs assessments in IPv4?
2013-03-25: What happens when a domain registrar shuts down?
2013-03-25: The million-plus open DNS resolver challenge.
2013-03-25: Frozen spring linked to dramatic loss of Arctic sea ice.
2013-03-25: A big password cracking wordlist.
2013-03-25: Compiling LLJS to asm.js.
2013-03-25: Prince Rupert's Drop: glass with interesting properties. (video)
2013-03-25: miTLS: a formally verified reference implementation of TLS 1.2.
2013-03-25: Open recursive DNS server survey.
2013-03-25: A review of OneTab for Chrome.
2013-03-25: DANE: the next big thing after DNSSEC.
2013-03-25: Unix crypt encoding for scrypt.
2013-03-25: How a self-confessed script kiddie became a password cracker.
2013-03-25: Python speed optimization for reposurgeon.
2013-03-25: Graphene supercapacitors sound promising.
2013-03-25: The brains of the animal kingdom.
2013-03-25: Difficulties in backing up live git repositories.
2013-03-24: The origin of ketchup.
2013-03-24: The future of the NHS—irreversible privatisation?
2013-03-24: Normal human infant sleep.
2013-03-23: CIA CTO on big data and mass surveillance.
2013-03-23: Land of plenty (of government).
2013-03-23: T-Mobile WiFi calling unverified X.509 MITM vulnerability.
2013-03-23: DakaRand 1.0: revisiting clock drift for entropy generation.
2013-03-23: Timer entropy daemon.
2013-03-23: twuewand: a truerand algorithm for generating entropy.
2013-03-23: How to kill Wi-Fi.
2013-03-23: Securing ZeroMQ: CurveZMQ protocol and implementation.
2013-03-23: The Crystal programming language: a compiled version of Ruby.
2013-03-23: Cycling in two university cities: Cambridge and Münster.
2013-03-23: Changing the way social scientists think about human behavior and culture.
2013-03-23: Assemble two IKEA stools into a balance bike. (video)
2013-03-22: Apple uses only renewable energy in its data centers.
2013-03-22: 20 years of NetBSD.
2013-03-22: Major security hole allows Apple passwords to be reset with only email address and date of birth.
2013-03-22: Cloudflare's CDNJS vs. Google hosted libraries.
2013-03-22: Google's trust problem.
2013-03-22: Setting your JavaScript free.
2013-03-22: Firefox Nightly now includes OdinMonkey, an asm.js optimization module.
2013-03-22: Radio jammers in the Sistine Chapel protected the secrecy of the papal election.
2013-03-22: Two reasons the functional style is slow in SpiderMonkey.
2013-03-22: Neil Gaiman on political correctness.
2013-03-22: The Big Brother Watch amendment to limit the damage of the Leveson press regulations.
2013-03-21: Verify DANE TLSA records.
2013-03-21: Advice for writing messages for technical mailing lists.
2013-03-21: gdnsd: geographic DNS server.
2013-03-21: An old patch to BIND for matching by country in ACLs using MaxMind's GeoIP database.
2013-03-21: Geolocation-aware DNS with BIND views.
2013-03-21: The DDoS attack that knocked the Spamhaus website offline, and how Cloudflare mitigated it.
2013-03-21: The invasion of Iraq was the single worst foreign policy decision in American history.
2013-03-20: The end of the ISBN?
2013-03-20: Sugar, not fat, is the deadly villain in the obesity epidemic.
2013-03-20: The growth of BGP, or lack thereof.
2013-03-20: BGP scaling revisited.
2013-03-20: AdamsNames ccTLD hijack resolved.
2013-03-20: Report of the 19th meeting of the consultative committee for time and frequency.
2013-03-20: UTCr (rapid UTC) nears official production status.
2013-03-20: Thieves in $80 million Eli Lilly heist used warehouse security schematics.
2013-03-20: The purpose of DRM is to give content providers leverage against creators of playback devices.
2013-03-20: Brian Krebs attacked by script kiddie "Phobia", previously involved in the Matt Honan hack.
2013-03-20: The lesser of two Weevs.
2013-03-20: Things publishers can't do: alternate business models for books.
2013-03-19: Avoid silent data corruption in MySQL by setting sql_mode.
2013-03-19: Python Software Foundation wins battle for EU Python trademark.
2013-03-19: Fedora 19 bugs cannot be reported because the server side cannot handle the release name "Schrödinger's Cat".
2013-03-19: Guardian's StrongTrustManager vulnerabilities: a case study in X.509 validation failure.
2013-03-19: Steubenville is rape culture's Abu Ghraib moment.
2013-03-19: What if Weev had just read one record and done "responsible disclosure"?
2013-03-19: First sale doctrine upheld by US Supreme Court. Kirtsaeng wins against Wiley.
2013-03-19: Open access: The ‘avalanche of change' in higher education must be contextualised in terms of the government's broader neoliberal policies.
2013-03-19: Bloomd: high performance Bloom filter server.
2013-03-19: WikiLeaks cables and the end of the Iraq War.
2013-03-19: Google Public DNS now supports DNSSEC validation.
2013-03-19: Leveson's Royal Charter will not establish a blog regulator.
2013-03-19: CRIME attack against TLS adapted to decrypt compressed server responses.
2013-03-19: Some companies chasing innovations that really matter.
2013-03-19: Internal-use X.509 certificates pose security risk for new gTLDs.
2013-03-19: Post-quantum cryptography.
2013-03-18: Port scanning /0 using insecure consumer routers.
2013-03-18: When speaking, entertain, don't teach.
2013-03-18: The insupportable equilibrium of economic thought.
2013-03-18: Optimizing a single producer/consumer lock free queue, step by step.
2013-03-18: Computer science in primary and secondary schools in Vietnam.
2013-03-18: Preview of JSON support in BIND 9.10's statistics server.
2013-03-18: Dangers of trailing dots in web host names.
2013-03-17: Cryptography worst practices.
2013-03-17: Terrain flyover demo in JavaScript and WebGL.
2013-03-17: PayPal's concerns with new gTLDs that match popular internal private TLDs.
2013-03-17: How beer gave us civilization.
2013-03-17: Qthreads: a library for programming with millions of lightweight threads.
2013-03-16: Plaintext recovery attack on broadcast RC4.
2013-03-16: Using a Raspberry Pi to trojan a Dell laptop docking station.
2013-03-16: Half of spam comes from just 20 ISPs.
2013-03-16: MesoCalc: a Mesopotamian base-60 calculator.
2013-03-16: Ubuntu unveils its next-generation graphical shell and display server.
2013-03-15: C compiled to Lua runs on LuaJIT as fast as native gcc.
2013-03-15: National security letters with gag orders are an unconstitutional restriction on free speech.
2013-03-15: Longest C++ error message?
2013-03-15: An overview of spam botnets.
2013-03-15: CPC: continuation passing C.
2013-03-15: Google Reader lived on borrowed time: its creator Chris Wetherell reflects.
2013-03-15: DRM is such a fucking stupid idea.
2013-03-15: Anonymity in the real world is very hard.
2013-03-15: Avast! anti-virus intercepts TLS connections, and resets non-invasive settings after boot.
2013-03-15: sthttpd
2013-03-15: Dashes and hyphens and Unicode.
2013-03-14: Two new attacks on TLS allow decryption of authentication cookies.
2013-03-14: UK bank fraud up by 11% in 2012, but how much do customers lose?
2013-03-13: Any time we deviate from object-capability security, we regret it.
2013-03-13: NSFWCORP gets banned by Vegas distributors: freedom of the press in the USA.
2013-03-13: Reading indeterminate contents might as well be undefined in C.
2013-03-13: GitSync: connect PlasticSCM to GitHub
2013-03-13: Aaron Swartz lawyers accuse prosecutor Stephen Heymann illegally withholding exculpatory evidence.
2013-03-13: DNS domain names: 253 or 255 bytes/octets?
2013-03-13: Tim O'Reilly defends his company's soul.
2013-03-13: 9th Circuit appeals court says 4th Amendment applies at US border, and encrypted files are not suspicious.
2013-03-13: Destructors, finalizers, and synchronization.
2013-03-13: O'Reilly has lost its soul.
2013-03-13: Where and when did the symbols "+" and "–" originate?
2013-03-13: Torque: an OBD2 performance and diagnostic tool for Android devices.
2013-03-13: Automatic: transmit car telemetry data from the on-board diagnostics port to your phone.
2013-03-13: Confessions of a job destroyer.
2013-03-12: Lego robot folds and shoots paper planes.
2013-03-12: Retailer sues Visa over $13 million 'fine' for being hacked.
2013-03-12: RC4 is kind of broken in TLS.
2013-03-12: Confusion reigns over three "hijacked" ccTLDs.
2013-03-12: Discretized streams: an efficient and fault-tolerant model for stream processing on large clusters.
2013-03-12: Come and help save posterous from oblivion!
2013-03-12: Sample code for verifying TLS certs with OpenSSL.
2013-03-12: A salute to Bradley Manning, whistleblower, as we hear his words for the first time.
2013-03-12: A theorem fit to terrify bankers: M&M implies banks should be less indebted.
2013-03-12: What I wish Tim Berners-Lee understood about DRM.
2013-03-12: Notes on Intel microcode updates.
2013-03-12: Securing ØMQ with libsodium.
2013-03-12: You can ring my bell! Adventures in sub-GHz RF land.
2013-03-12: Version skew leads to Bitcoin netsplit; price temporarily falls 23%.
2013-03-12: AdamsNames TLD registry hijack due to corporate infighting.
2013-03-12: Failures of secret key cryptography.
2013-03-12: US-EU free trade deal: foundation for a new global economic order.
2013-03-12: Sugar industry's secret documents echo tobacco tactics.
2013-03-11: Registry operator AdamsNames hacked, locking up .TC, .GD, and .VC.
2013-03-11: Improve the volume and quality of contributions by giving commit access to anyone who sends a pull request.
2013-03-11: Hacking Donkey Kong so Pauline rescues Mario.
2013-03-11: Optimizing software occlusion culling in 3D graphics.
2013-03-11: Fenland ditch fire blamed on pigeon fireball.
2013-03-11: Here come the encryption apps!
2013-03-11: The Lazy K esoteric programming language.
2013-03-10: How OCaml type checking works; or what polymorphism and garbage collection have in common.
2013-03-10: The perfect error message.
2013-03-10: A manifesto for error reporting.
2013-03-10: Yo as a gender-neutral pronoun in Baltimore.
2013-03-10: Fit LEDs into Lego minifigures for Halloween.
2013-03-10: Extreme debugging: fixing microcode with an oven.
2013-03-09: Introducing Sodium, a new cryptographic library.
2013-03-09: RetroArch emulates nearly every classic gaming console on Android.
2013-03-09: TLS PKIX tree of trust.
2013-03-09: MySQL performance hurt by glibc malloc on manycore machines.
2013-03-08: Consultation on DNSSEC root trust anchor rollover.
2013-03-08: A visualisation of contradictions in the Bible.
2013-03-07: The US military uses IRC as a primary comms path.
2013-03-07: Arup building redevelopment plans.
2013-03-07: passwdqc: password strength checking and policy enforcement toolset.
2013-03-07: Fast submenus that don't disappear out from under you.
2013-03-07: Go at Google: language design in the service of software engineering.
2013-03-06: Printer ink costs more than human blood.
2013-03-06: Stronger difficulty notions for client puzzles and denial-of-service-resistant protocols.
2013-03-06: Lord Puttnam's Leveson amendment has put libel reform in serious danger.
2013-03-06: Malicious Java applet is signed with revoked certificate but still runs automatically.
2013-03-06: Phidelius: constructing asymmetric keypairs from mere passwords for fun and PAKE.
2013-03-06: Prevent DoS attacks against slow password hash functions?
2013-03-06: Deep C monsters.
2013-03-06: DNSSEC monitoring tools.
2013-03-06: ZFS ZIL-related fragmentation.
2013-03-06: ZFS write performance: impact of fragmentation.
2013-03-06: Helping users create better passwords.
2013-03-06: DRM chair.
2013-03-05: The Google Glass feature no one is talking about.
2013-03-05: The Finkbeiner test for profiles of scientists.
2013-03-05: Exploits that do good rather than evil.
2013-03-05: Advanced auto-dependency generation for make.
2013-03-05: makefile-death: A make-based configuration and build system.
2013-03-05: Libre Office now builds with a single instance of make.
2013-03-05: Former directors of the DEA warn Obama about his obligations to fight the war on drugs.
2013-03-05: Slaughter: a system administration and configuration tool.
2013-03-05: Honest job advertisement for a lectureship / assistant professorship.
2013-03-05: Cambridge pub study. (Not as fun as it sounds.)
2013-03-05: The US industrial revolution was built on piracy.
2013-03-05: PHP Manual Masterpieces: strcmp.
2013-03-05: Military malware may have killed the iPhone jailbreak.
2013-03-05: Bitrig is a free, fast, and secure Unix-like Open Source operating system.
2013-03-05: Deep Impact: Unintended consequences of journal rank.
2013-03-05: Problems with UK's new open access academic publishing policies.
2013-03-05: Facebook Android app uses crazy Dalvik VM patch to load on old phones.
2013-03-05: You never, ever, under any circumstances want to use Maven!
2013-03-05: Getting started with Ansible.
2013-03-05: The first five minutes on a new server with Ansible.
2013-03-05: Segway + iPad = telepresence.
2013-03-05: The cost of botnets and the implications for Internet voting.
2013-03-05: Welcome to peak capitalism.
2013-03-04: The BBC's bad (pseudo)science reporting will make people sick.
2013-03-04: MPs vote for secret courts. Injustice must not be seen to be done.
2013-03-04: The Pirate Bay hosted in North Korea? No, it's fake.
2013-03-04: Exotic necktie knots: Eldredge; Trinity; Cape.
2013-03-04: Parsoid: round-trip conversion between HTML5 and wikitext.
2013-03-04: Honest trailers: Skyfall. (YouTube)
2013-03-04: Breaking the law by reading it.
2013-03-04: Centre for Computing History: how you can help.
2013-03-04: Objects and aspects: row polymorphism.
2013-03-04: Things you should know about the "cured" HIV baby before you get too excited.
2013-03-04: Mir: yet another successor to X11.
2013-03-04: The various locations and encodings for filenames in Zip archives.
2013-03-04: SSD power faults are likely to scramble your data.
2013-03-04: Fab stops sending you emails you don't read, even when you don't ask them to.
2013-03-04: NHS 'privatisation' reform 'could place people in danger'.
2013-03-04: Days since last Java 0day.
2013-03-04: Aging canned goods: time and heat can make tuna and Spam even more delicious..
2013-03-04: Category theory for scientists.
2013-03-04: Pevsner architectural guides (now with app).
2013-03-04: Bradley Manning Nobel peace prize nomination 2013.
2013-03-04: Techniques for efficient secure computation based on Yao's protocol.
2013-03-04: The nonsense math effect.
2013-03-04: The financial system as a whole functions as a hostile AI.
2013-03-04: A baby has been cured of HIV with antiretroviral drugs.
2013-03-03: Human Rights and Bingham's Question: which rights are we to discard?
2013-03-03: Algorithmic rape jokes and object spam.
2013-03-03: ACM: tear down this paywall.
2013-03-03: Sony proposes DRM for electricity.
2013-03-03: Interesting JavaScript Webcrypto question.
2013-03-03: Peek and poke upstart (init) to fix process states on Linux.
2013-03-03: AESOP: an autoparallelizing compiler based on LLVM.
2013-03-03: Safe C64 VSP: fix a hardware bug triggered by a demo hack.
2013-03-03: Fundamental problems of Lisp: irregular syntax; cons cells.
2013-03-03: CloudFlare outage post mortem.
2013-03-03: Literally IPv6: Microsoft Exchange vs Apple Mail.
2013-03-03: Intellectual debt.
2013-03-02: The Apple i-device Lightning digital AV adapter surprise.
2013-03-02: Into the continuum.
2013-03-02: We know how Eastleigh voted. Here's why.
2013-03-02: How to make a Java jar file executable on unix.
2013-03-02: Please continue to hold: an empirical study of tolerance to security delays.
2013-03-02: "Establishing secure connection..." and other artificial delays.
2013-03-02: When slower is better.
2013-03-02: Why Python, Ruby, and Javascript are slow.
2013-03-02: The resurgence of neural networks.
2013-03-02: The contested Barbie: what happens to marginal subcultures as the web becomes popular:
2013-03-02: C/C++ gripe: integer types.
2013-03-01: Corporations are post-human hostile AI.
2013-03-01: Pwn Pad.
2013-03-01: Ten years of PyPy.
2013-03-01: Tim Gowers on the Episciences project and arXiv overlay journals.
2013-03-01: Tim Gowers on the Forum of Mathematics.
2013-03-01: Aaron Swartz was right.
2013-03-01: Centre for Computing History finds a home in Cambridge.
2013-03-01: A new Java memory corruption 0day.
2013-03-01: What is (and is not) in WebKit.
2013-03-01: Connection management in Chromium.
2013-03-01: They found their son in the subway!
2013-03-01: The court of public opinion, reputation, revenge, and the unfairness of the courts.
2013-03-01: Marvin the meme android.
2013-03-01: Two surgeons debate cycle helmets.
2013-02-28: It's the sugar, folks.
2013-02-28: Video of the planned new Cambridge Station multi-storey cycle parking.
2013-02-28: IP upgrade will allow US telcos to escape regulation.
2013-02-28: NTP pool DNS server monitor.
2013-02-28: NTP pool DNS server rewritten in the Go programming language.
2013-02-28: Eating sugar correlated to more diabetes: an econometric analysis of repeated cross-sectional population-level data.
2013-02-28: Russian speeding cameras crippled by malware.
2013-02-28: Users must give cPanel their root password to get support. cPanel support database hacked.
2013-02-28: British citizens get their nationality revoked while on holiday, and killed by US drones.
2013-02-28: Fuck you very much, graffiti.
2013-02-28: Segregated yoghurts.
2013-02-28: A few good things about Ansible.
2013-02-27: List of static code analysis tools.
2013-02-27: People refusing to co-operate at DHS checkpoints. (video)
2013-02-27: In praise of "boring" technology (DNS).
2013-02-27: Nominet backs off on direct.uk plan, but still wants open 2LD registration and more DNSSEC deployment.
2013-02-27: Microsoft offers security audits to ccTLD registries.
2013-02-27: Why is BIND10 written in C++ and Python?
2013-02-27: Top universities in social media marketing.
2013-02-27: A case where DNSSEC would help. (part 2)
2013-02-27: A case where DNSSEC would help. (part 1)
2013-02-27: Using PDF as a code distribution archive format.
2013-02-27: Keeping it on-topic: the problem with discussing sex at technical conferences.
2013-02-27: What happened with Violet Blue's Security BSides SF talk.
2013-02-26: Music sales rise when it is easier to buy.
2013-02-26: Crypto law survey.
2013-02-26: Carne Ross's testimony to the Butler inquiry into the invasion of Iraq.
2013-02-26: London taxi history.
2013-02-26: F*: secure distributed programming with value-dependent types.
2013-02-26: The high cost of a biometric identity card to tackle illegal immigration to the USA.
2013-02-26: DoJ admits the Aaron Swartz prosecution was political.
2013-02-26: Vi Hart explains how to cope with negative comments.
2013-02-26: Broken by design: MongoDB fault tolerance.
2013-02-26: Dragonfly key exchange.
2013-02-26: A closer look at the performance of Google Chrome.
2013-02-25: Bypassing Google's two-factor authentication using application-specific passwords.
2013-02-25: Exact chaos.
2013-02-25: Canada's DNSSEC setup.
2013-02-25: The eminently self-evident effectiveness of C.
2013-02-25: The unknown robber barons: Internet monopoly in the US.
2013-02-25: Pragmatic Unicode.
2013-02-25: DANE maakt het PKI-systeem weer veilig en betaalbaar.
2013-02-25: CAs will stop issuing X.509 certificates with non-FQDNs 20 years late.
2013-02-25: You're wrong and can never be convinced otherwise.
2013-02-24: If boys struggle to learn from women… then why?
2013-02-24: Changeset evolution: safe and easy history rewrites for Mercurial.
2013-02-24: Lessons from the failed war on drugs.
2013-02-24: The dark side of C++.
2013-02-24: The bonehouse of St Leonard's church.
2013-02-23: Redacted: a font to keep your wireframes free of distracting Lorem Ipsum.
2013-02-23: Non-existent "bigger than 7/7" plot.
2013-02-23: How "golden eagle snatches kid" ruled the Internet.
2013-02-23: A tale of two queues: Redis vs ØMQ, Python vs Go.
2013-02-23: DevOps Reactions.
2013-02-23: Cyphernomicon: a cypherpunk FAQ.
2013-02-23: Using Silk Road, an anonymous drug marketplace based on Tor and Bitcoin.
2013-02-22: Bitter pill: medical bills are killing Americans.
2013-02-22: You can't use the live UK train data without accepting a gagging clause.
2013-02-22: Chrome OS and open source firmware.
2013-02-22: Render PDFs on the server with pdf.js and node-canvas.
2013-02-22: Amdahl's law in reverse: the wimpy core advantage.
2013-02-22: The extraordinary science of addictive junk food.
2013-02-22: The Intel MMU fault handling mechanism is Turing complete.
2013-02-22: To understand the iOS passcode bug, consider the use case.
2013-02-21: Clarifications and implementation notes for DNSSEC.
2013-02-21: DNSSEC deployment: the time is now.
2013-02-21: The power of two random choices in load balancing.
2013-02-21: Going bright: governments should ensure that systems aren't systematically vulnerable.
2013-02-21: Going bright: wiretapping without weakening communications infrastructure.
2013-02-21: Custom network stack: it goes to 11.
2013-02-20: "Server push" already exists, but SPDY server push is better.
2013-02-20: Why does everybody have the same MAC address as me?
2013-02-20: Medical research fraud almost destroyed the comics industry.
2013-02-20: Mandiant APT1 report has critical analytic flaws.
2013-02-20: Tweetbot and the updated Twitter display guidelines.
2013-02-20: How we hacked Facebook with OAuth2 and Chrome bugs.
2013-02-20: Why have the white British left London?
2013-02-20: Thug: a low-interaction honeyclient written in Python.
2013-02-20: The NYT public editor on Broder's dodgy Tesla test drive.
2013-02-19: An update on the Python trademark dispute.
2013-02-19: Total functional programming.
2013-02-19: The farmer vs. Monsanto: "to suggest that plants just grow themselves is preposterous."
2013-02-19: Remote code execution vulnerability on BlackBerry Enterprise Server triggered by handset users viewing TIFFs.
2013-02-19: Hackers may have stolen .edu domain passwords.
2013-02-19: I can't let you do that, Dave: what it means to design our computers and devices to disobey us.
2013-02-19: BBC China crew detained by military after filming 'cyber-warfare headquarters'.
2013-02-19: Kids use Tumblr not Facebook.
2013-02-19: Underwater ice hockey.
2013-02-19: Mouse-driven colour picker.
2013-02-19: Double murder trial halted due to "unfairness" of legal aid cuts.
2013-02-19: On partial functions in Idris.
2013-02-19: Do something useful with those recruiting emails.
2013-02-19: The C10M problem.
2013-02-19: Power Struggles: revisiting the RISC vs. CISC debate on contemporary ARM and x86 architectures.
2013-02-19: SEO for scholarship: hacking citation metrics.
2013-02-19: Destabilizing the bullying power structure.
2013-02-19: Facebook has a problem with women.
2013-02-19: Python trademark filer was ignorant of Python.
2013-02-19: F**K CAPTCHA
2013-02-19: Serious syslog problems?
2013-02-19: Tidal Lock: optional static type checking and inference for Lua.
2013-02-19: The Chinese army unit behind hacking attacks on US corporate and government targets.
2013-02-18: HDCP is dead. Long live HDCP. A peek into the curious world of HDMI copy protection...
2013-02-18: Origin of the abbreviation "i18n".
2013-02-17: Colony: a JavaScript to Lua source compiler.
2013-02-17: New body mass index (BMI).
2013-02-16: If Pixar did Star Trek...
2013-02-16: Linux kernel 0day: race condition with PTRACE_SETREGS.
2013-02-16: Mogridge's law and the speed of urban traffic.
2013-02-16: "Hubris": a new documentary reexamines the Iraq war hoax.
2013-02-16: Unlawful Deal arms: heraldry gone mad!
2013-02-16: The lesson from Poundland: work pays.
2013-02-16: Anti-piracy ad uses pirated music.
2013-02-15: A rant about CBC-MAC implementation errors.
2013-02-15: A comparison between git and Microsoft Team Foundation Server.
2013-02-15: Bert's secret-wg DNS calculator supports DNSSEC.
2013-02-15: DNS calculator: how NOT to use the DNS!
2013-02-15: Using CryptoStick as an HSM.
2013-02-15: Ten years ago we marched against the Iraq war and I learned a lesson in betrayal.
2013-02-15: Password hashing competition.
2013-02-15: Python trademark at risk in Europe.
2013-02-14: No compulsory cycle helmets: instead, save lives by encouraging more cycling, making it a safer and more attractive transport option.
2013-02-14: The New York Times's most peculiar Tesla test drive.
2013-02-14: A Raspberry Pi VAX cluster.
2013-02-14: Braess's paradox: building a new road often increases travel time.
2013-02-14: TRILL and 802.1aq are like apples and oranges.
2013-02-13: Policy-based evidence: Department of Health and Prince's Foundation censor NHS web pages on homeopathy.
2013-02-13: Wi-Fi patent troll emerges unscathed from racketeering lawsuit.
2013-02-13: Biggest lies of mainstream nutrition.
2013-02-13: What is steampunk for?
2013-02-13: NSFNET: the partnership that changed the world.
2013-02-13: Collective motion of moshers at heavy metal concerts.
2013-02-13: Stop pretending cyberspace exists: it's an idea that makes you dumber the moment you learn of it.
2013-02-12: LibTech Auditing Cheatsheet: things to look for when auditing extremely high value applications.
2013-02-12: The experimental effectiveness of mathematical proof.
2013-02-12: PeerJ, eLIFE, OLH: disruptive innovation in academic publishing.
2013-02-12: SSLShader: GPU-accelerated TLS proxy.
2013-02-12: The school food plan.
2013-02-12: Exponentially decaying lists: log scale for lists.
2013-02-12: Exponential decay of history: summarize lots of past activity in bounded space.
2013-02-12: Ruby on Rails json_class vulnerability.
2013-02-12: "When the Pancake Bell rings we are free": Shrove Tuesday in the 1600s.
2013-02-12: Canada gives up on its mass Internet surveillance plan.
2013-02-12: Workfare breaks anti-slavery laws.
2013-02-12: A beautiful thing happens when you project video onto falling snow.
2013-02-12: Minecraft: Raspberry Pi edition.
2013-02-11: Tweet-sized mathematics problems.
2013-02-11: Coordination costs and EU integration.
2013-02-11: Gold is a completely false market.
2013-02-11: iWantHue: optimally distinct colour palettes for data scientists.
2013-02-11: git-crypt: transparent encryption of some files in a git repo.
2013-02-11: Effects of bicycle helmet laws on children's injuries.
2013-02-11: Intel 82574L packet of death problem due to motherboard manufacturer's bad EEPROM.
2013-02-11: Understanding quarternions.
2013-02-11: Atmel SAM7XC crypto co-processor key recovery (with bonus Mifare DESFire hack).
2013-02-11: No, The Sun, the Court of Appeal and the Human Rights Act are not the EU.
2013-02-11: IRMA versus Frau Mustermann: the advantages of attributes over attestation in smart card authorization.
2013-02-11: The continuing ITU meltdown.
2013-02-11: The design and implementation of Idris, a general purpose dependently typed programming language.
2013-02-11: What we know about spreadsheet errors.
2013-02-10: The importance of Excel.
2013-02-10: Gender bias in mathematics.
2013-02-10: Compile brainfuck to ELF relocation instructions.
2013-02-10: Mathics: a free, light-weight alternative to Mathematica.
2013-02-10: Native Linux KVM host, without QEMU.
2013-02-10: php.js: run PHP code in the browser.
2013-02-10: Medians and beyond: new aggregation techniques for sensor networks.
2013-02-10: Herd immunity demo.
2013-02-10: Base64 has a fixed point.
2013-02-10: Exploiting Turing-complete DWARF exception handling data.
2013-02-10: Patents and innovation: evidence from economic history.
2013-02-09: The evolution of Microsoft's data centre designs.
2013-02-09: For sale: trusted X.509 root signing certificates.
2013-02-09: How the Star Wars traceroute works.
2013-02-09: Xerox PARC, Apple, and the creation of the mouse.
2013-02-09: NTSB determines origin of 787 battery fire.
2013-02-09: LANGSEC: language-theoretic security.
2013-02-09: Cultural values versus economic values: how can low-paid workers have compassion to spare, when they are never shown any?
2013-02-09: Fast CPU emulation using LuaJIT.
2013-02-09: The Elsevier boycott one year on.
2013-02-09: Top ten worst graphs.
2013-02-09: The defamation bill is now in thrall to a politically motivated Leveson clause.
2013-02-09: Going underneath the Albert Memorial.
2013-02-09: Remap key bindings on Mac OS X.
2013-02-09: The result of pinging all the Internet IP addresses.
2013-02-08: Hooked on DTrace.
2013-02-08: Remotely exploiting the PHY layer.
2013-02-08: Remotely exploitable buffer overflow in libcurl POP3 and SMTP protocol handlers.
2013-02-08: What happened to Lego prices.
2013-02-08: Up-goer five: Are you, my love, just like a summer's day?
2013-02-07: Ember.js, accessibility, WAI-ARIA, and Mac OS X Voice Over.
2013-02-07: European court of human rights decides that copyright interferes with the right to freedom of expression.
2013-02-07: MySQL character encoding bugs are awesome!
2013-02-07: Not a beard: an example of women's technical contributions going unrecognized.
2013-02-07: Debating anti-virus with security experts.
2013-02-07: The Twist pencil sharpner.
2013-02-07: Equal marriage in France.
2013-02-07: Open letter to Andrew Turner MP.
2013-02-07: The surprising Menger Sponge slice.
2013-02-06: Make a BRIC using FUSE and mdadm.
2013-02-06: BRIC (Bunch of Redundant Independent Clouds): using Tahoe-LAFS to RAID data across several Dropbox-alikes.
2013-02-06: Access to communications data by UK intelligence and security agencies.
2013-02-06: Red Hat Bugzilla discussion on another Intel 82574L hardware lockup.
2013-02-06: Packets of death.
2013-02-06: House of Lords amends the Defamation Bill to include some of Leveson's press regulation recommendations.
2013-02-06: Microsoft Surface with Windows 8 Pro: hotter, thicker, faster, louder.
2013-02-06: Anatomy of the Mac OS X file: URL crash bug.
2013-02-06: Centennial of Markov chains.
2013-02-06: UK communications interception plan rests on "pretty heroic assumptions", said director of MI5.
2013-02-06: Techno Viking and the curse of Internet celebrity.
2013-02-05: Bad Pharma: "In the 1800s we made huge leaps in medicine with clean, clear water. In the 2000s we'll make the same leaps with clean clear information."
2013-02-05: No-fly lists: A new tactic of exile?
2013-02-05: Basketball trick shot video of Titus, aged 1.5 - 2. (YouTube)
2013-02-05: Function types in the Go programming language.
2013-02-05: Civilized Discourse Construction Kit.
2013-02-05: The case against patents.
2013-02-05: SMACK: static checker for C/C++ programs.
2013-02-05: Fractal high precision deep zoom technical info.
2013-02-05: British Beer and Pub Association seeks judicial review against Cambridge City Council's pro-pub planning policy.
2013-02-05: People of Timbuktu saved 95% of manuscripts from invaders.
2013-02-05: Magdalene laundries report to be published.
2013-02-05: The Bun Shop to reopen as the Cambridge Brew House.
2013-02-05: InterNyet: why the Soviet Union did not build a nationwide computer network.
2013-02-05: Programming language checklist.
2013-02-05: Pakistan domain registry hacked again: 23000 domains affected.
2013-02-05: The Roman Catholic church's convenient morality.
2013-02-04: Ross Anderson's "Security Engineering" now available free online.
2013-02-04: The trouble with Wall Street: the "shocking" news that Goldman Sachs is greedy.
2013-02-04: YAML remote code execution is not limited to Rails or Ruby.
2013-02-04: Poynton's stunningly successful shared space scheme on a trunk road junction in the village centre. (YouTube)
2013-02-04: Submarine cable map 2013.
2013-02-04: Even more delays to the botched Digital Economy Act.
2013-02-04: $25 Raspberry Pi Model A now for sale in Europe.
2013-02-04: Going from suck to non-suck as a public speaker.
2013-02-04: Too fast to fail: is high-speed trading the next Wall Street disaster?
2013-02-04: Malvertising campaigns at multiple ad networks invoke Black Hole exploit kit.
2013-02-04: Notes on redesigning the Rust runtime.
2013-02-04: List of unusual deaths.
2013-02-04: Comparing popular and formal scientific writing using Bill Bryson and Simon Peyton Jones as examples.
2013-02-04: Geeks are the new guardians of our civil liberties.
2013-02-04: A clock referenced to mc^2/ℏ would enable high-precision mass measurements and a fundamental definition of the second.
2013-02-04: eSTREAM: the ECRYPT stream cipher project.
2013-02-04: How to unlearn economics.
2013-02-04: Attack of the week: TLS timing oracles.
2013-02-04: Lucky Thirteen attack on TLS CBC.
2013-02-04: The distress of the privileged.
2013-02-04: Who firebombed London's oldest anarchist bookshop?
2013-02-04: How to win arguments by pretending to be a simpleton.
2013-02-04: Swiss love affair with rail turns sour.
2013-02-04: A map of world alcohol consumption.
2013-02-04: Welfare fraud is a drop in the ocean compared to tax avoidance.
2013-02-04: Knocking on private back doors with the web browser.
2013-02-04: How not to layout cycle parking.
2013-02-04: Patent troll sues creator of X-Plane flight simulator for using standard Android copy protection.
2013-02-04: Vestas SailRocket 2: How a boat-plane hybrid shattered the sound barrier of sailing.
2013-02-03: The robustness principle is a bad idea.
2013-02-03: Microsoft cannibalizes ARM Surface RT to boost Intel Surface Pro.
2013-02-03: Google two-factor authentication myths and realities.
2013-02-03: Authenticated encryption in practice.
2013-02-02: How profilers lie: the cases of gprof and KCachegrind.
2013-02-02: UK government has spent over £400 million on invasive communications interception before it becomes law.
2013-02-02: The PNG image file format is now more popular than GIF.
2013-02-02: DNSSEC: what every sysadmin should be doing to keep things working.
2013-02-01: A brief chronology of TLS attacks and weaknesses.
2013-02-01: Obree's bike includes part of a cooking pot.
2013-02-01: Graeme Obree is building a bike for a human-powered speed record attempt.
2013-02-01: Hard questions about quantum crypto and quantum computing.
2013-02-01: Quantum crypto still not proven, claim Cambridge experts.
2013-02-01: Shapecatcher: draw the Unicode character you want.
2013-02-01: IPMI: freight train to hell.
2013-01-31: The colour of London's commute.
2013-01-31: Git support in Microsoft Visual Studio.
2013-01-31: Who knows what is in a placebo?
2013-01-31: Routine criminal records checks for job applicants are unlawful.
2013-01-31: iOS security.
2013-01-31: 39% of web sites run PHP.
2013-01-31: Performance of the SIMON and SPECK families of lightweight block ciphers.
2013-01-31: The stupid cookie law is dead at last.
2013-01-30: V.90 modem handshake diagram.
2013-01-30: Copyleft Next.
2013-01-30: Post-open-source software: a rejection of copyright, licensing, and permission culture.
2013-01-30: MAKE me a sandwich: shouty sudo for zsh.
2013-01-30: The mechanized art of coffee: no barista?
2013-01-30: If you can't manage comments well, don't offer comments at all.
2013-01-30: If your website's full of assholes, it's your fault.
2013-01-30: Commenting threads: good, bad, or not at all.
2013-01-30: Haskell: IO inside.
2013-01-30: The USA has discovered Eduroam.
2013-01-30: Boeing's 787 problems run deeper than outsourcing.
2013-01-30: Elon Musk explains why the Boeing 787 batteries are fundamentally unsafe.
2013-01-30: Raspberry Jam event news registration page.
2013-01-30: Git: a nightmare of mixed metaphors.
2013-01-30: Nearly 5 years after Kaminsky's DNS flaw was discovered, few domains have deployed DNSSEC.
2013-01-29: Third World Problems.
2013-01-29: Bangladesh gains a terrestrial Internet link via India.
2013-01-29: Down, by law: the damage being done to the legal system in England and Wales.
2013-01-29: 23 million IP addresses with remotely exploitable uPnP.
2013-01-29: Fun with INT_MIN divided by -1.
2013-01-28: Courier Prime: like Courier, but better. (Polishing a turd?)
2013-01-28: Computer programming languages are not copyrightable, says High Court judge in SAS vs WPL ruling.
2013-01-28: Virtual Pickett N4-ES slide rule.
2013-01-28: How to think about OAuth.
2013-01-28: Verified LISP implementations on ARM, x86 and PowerPC.
2013-01-28: You and your research and the elements of style.
2013-01-28: How Gingrich changed Washington.
2013-01-28: Cambridge, cabs, and Copenhagen: establishing the study of existential risk.
2013-01-28: Fuzzy fingerprints: attacking vulnerabilities in the human brain.
2013-01-28: NHS spending has been cut, Tories forced to admit.
2013-01-28: Raspberry Pi NTP server image.
2013-01-28: Historians argue open access pay-to-publish gives too much power to university administrators.
2013-01-28: Secret trials are neither just nor secure.
2013-01-28: VulnHub: vulnerable virtual machine images for you to practise pentesting.
2013-01-28: New tools and daemons in NetBSD 6.0.
2013-01-28: Unattached: emailed links are better than attachments.
2013-01-28: Workfare contractors refer to the disabled as "lying thieving bastards".
2013-01-28: German children enjoy far more everyday freedom than their English peers.
2013-01-28: A farewell to bioinformatics.
2013-01-28: Considering MySQL? Use something else.
2013-01-28: How Newegg crushed the "shopping cart" patent and saved online retail.
2013-01-27: Bad pharma: drug research is riddled with half truths, omissions, and lies.
2013-01-26: History of Arabic type.
2013-01-26: Nasri Khattar's journey in Arabic typography.
2013-01-26: Raspberry Pi AirPlay receiver.
2013-01-26: What turned Jaron Lanier against the web?
2013-01-26: AtFAB: furniture designs for laser cutters.
2013-01-26: uscrypt: a Go interface to the memory-hard key derivation function scrypt.
2013-01-26: The inside story of SQL Slammer.
2013-01-26: Apple Core Rot: : OS X is not getting more reliable and more stable, it is instead developing more and nastier problems.
2013-01-26: Flowchart: Choosing an open source license.
2013-01-26: If everyone just dressed appropriately for the weather, we wouldn't have to heat or cool buildings as much.
2013-01-26: Antigua government to launch WTO-approved pirate website in retaliation for US gambling ban.
2013-01-25: Verisign is considering enforcing its patents against other DNS registries.
2013-01-25: C and C++ aren't future-proof.
2013-01-25: Láadan: a feminist artificial natural language.
2013-01-25: GitHub search down after crypto keys exposed.
2013-01-25: Tips to accelerate TLS.
2013-01-25: Magnus Manske day at the Sanger Institute: why Mediawiki was written in PHP.
2013-01-25: Henry VIII's wine cellar's journey into the bowels of the Ministry of Defence.
2013-01-25: Why everyone eventually hates Maven, or, contextual vs composable, or frameworks vs libraries.
2013-01-24: The true power of PCRE regexes.
2013-01-24: Strunk and White: fifty years of stupid grammar advice.
2013-01-24: BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY
2013-01-24: Can DNS be protected from spikes in attacks? GCN needs to learn about BIND and NSD RRL.
2013-01-23: Megafail: the danger of using CBC-MAC inappropriately.
2013-01-23: Turn the Raspberry Pi into an FM transmitter with a 20cm wire and some software.
2013-01-23: A new publishing model for computer science.
2013-01-23: EU data retention directive on the ropes?
2013-01-23: Olimex A10S OLinuXino: another little ARM box.
2013-01-23: Cubieboard: another little ARM box.
2013-01-23: University of Cambridge Computing Service major infrastructure projects 2013-4.
2013-01-23: How can I explain LaTeX to my grandma?
2013-01-23: A close look at how Oracle repeatedly tries to install crapware with Java updates.
2013-01-23: Disabling Java in Internet Explorer is unreasonably difficult.
2013-01-23: Those who give away copyright in their research to paywalled journals are the victims not the perpetrators.
2013-01-23: MIDI from the inside.
2013-01-23: ITU WCIT was all about anti-US international politics, not network regulation.
2013-01-23: Seven EU myths you should never believe.
2013-01-23: How academia betrayed Aaron Swartz.
2013-01-22: Squaring the square, in stained glass.
2013-01-22: Excel induced banking failure.
2013-01-22: Hackers take over MIT's DNS in revenge for Aaron Swartz.
2013-01-22: Type-level selection sort in Scala.
2013-01-22: The 30th anniversary of MIDI.
2013-01-22: Assembled Gertboard for Raspberry Pi now for sale from element14.
2013-01-22: Mackerel taken off conservationists' 'fish to eat' list.
2013-01-22: For years EMI has used giveaway MP3s as a promotional tool to increase sales.
2013-01-22: Google declares war on the password.
2013-01-22: What the future without passwords will look like.
2013-01-22: Mike Hearn / Google: abuse at scale.
2013-01-22: The primary design principle of Google's login risk analysis system is to move users gently into the post-password age.
2013-01-22: Smalltalk / Haskell / Lisp.
2013-01-22: Constant time (table-free) AES bitslice implementation.
2013-01-22: Fast elliptic curve cryptography in OpenSSL.
2013-01-22: Ham Sandwich Nation: due process when everything is a crime.
2013-01-22: Apple, Google and Microsoft still don't understand new TLDs.
2013-01-22: Intel Silicon Photonics (another Light Peak successor) touted for splitting up server chassis.
2013-01-22: The "quite rubbish" Raspberry Pi QR code clock.
2013-01-22: Bringing your religious beliefs to work: what are the limits?
2013-01-22: Liberty intervenes in case of autistic child heavily restrained by Met Police.
2013-01-22: IMF says deterioration of UK balance of payments deficit 1970s - 2007 explained by rise in inequality.
2013-01-22: An implementation of Judy Arrays in 1250 lines of C.
2013-01-22: Do the outline after the writing.
2013-01-22: Proper data and analysis on the effect of interruptions on programmers.
2013-01-22: The non-binary relationship between gender and linguistic style on Twitter.
2013-01-22: UK parliamentary cycling inquiry could have important effects on the future of cycling in the UK.
2013-01-22: Andrew "weev" Auernheimer's pre-sentencing statement of responsibility.
2013-01-22: Copyright law around the world has developed to become an obstacle to scientific research.
2013-01-22: Company offers scholarship to student who was expelled after finding security bug in their software.
2013-01-22: UK schools' national cipher challenge winners announced.
2013-01-22: Lead and crime: Plumb crazy?
2013-01-22: Rust's new borrow check (pointer aliasing) in a nutshell.
2013-01-21: Status of HTTP pipelining in Google Chrome.
2013-01-21: Internet Explorer vs murder rate.
2013-01-21: Charles and Ray Eames for Polaroid, 1972. (Video)
2013-01-21: The map of the Underground that was and could have been.
2013-01-21: Cambs police commissioner Graham Bright proposes to break manifesto promise by increasing council tax.
2013-01-21: The proposed getdns API.
2013-01-21: Why the price of Raspberry Pi matters.
2013-01-21: Almonds have 20% fewer dietary calories than previously thought.
2013-01-21: Identifying the DNS server used to fulfill an HTTP request.
2013-01-21: How Erlang does scheduling.
2013-01-21: Secret key crypto disasters.
2013-01-21: ASLR implementation in Linux 3.7.
2013-01-21: How to share computer system usage data with academics.
2013-01-21: Authenticated encryption using AES-GCM: a 50,000 foot view.
2013-01-21: Authenticated encryption and how not to get caught chasing a coyote.
2013-01-21: Student expelled from college for reporting security bug that compromised 250,000 students personal data.
2013-01-21: When it comes to cycling as everyday transport the UK is so far down the table it's almost scary.
2013-01-21: Things learned by writing Chimp's garbage collector.
2013-01-21: Josh Nimoy's graphics art for Tron Legacy, featuring Emacs.
2013-01-20: Aaron Swartz helped us realise the importance and effectiveness of lobbying for civil liberties online.
2013-01-20: Defeating AES without a PhD. "I thought AES was safe. What should I use instead?"
2013-01-20: Why can't BBC News 24 do LONG EXPLAINERS instead of repetition?
2013-01-20: Publishing a scientific paper without the code is not enough.
2013-01-20: Oxford college sued for using 'selection by wealth' for unfunded postgraduate courses.
2013-01-20: Solihull court handed down £35 fine for killing cyclist, and £110 fine for bumping a parked car.
2013-01-20: JK Rowling gave so much to charity she lost her billionaire status.
2013-01-19: If Dr. Seuss books were titled according to their subtexts.
2013-01-19: Investors do the opposite of what rational expectations models suggest they should do.
2013-01-19: The serif readability myth.
2013-01-19: Medical privacy considered harmful?
2013-01-19: We must choose privacy or medical breakthroughs.
2013-01-18: Why do we have ten fingers?
2013-01-18: Mathematicians aim to take the publishers out of academic publishing.
2013-01-18: Readable Lisp S-expressions.
2013-01-18: Fast packed string matching for short patterns.
2013-01-17: "Losing My Religion" adjusted to a major key. (Vimeo)
2013-01-16: Doctors and patients can usually see through the blinding in placebo-controlled drug trials.
2013-01-16: Police demand DNA samples from gay men.
2013-01-16: HAIR: Hierarchical Architecture for Internet Routing.
2013-01-16: A very curmudgeonly view of the IETF.
2013-01-16: How to extract your download history from the Mac OS X launcher quarantine database.
2013-01-16: Deploying a new hash algorithm.
2013-01-16: The routing security battles intensify.
2013-01-16: The Second Amendment was ratified to preserve slavery.
2013-01-16: The RIRs are ITU-T wannabes who represent the interests of self-perpetuating organizational fiefdoms.
2013-01-15: 19-year-old activist Zack Kopplin is making life hell for Louisiana's creationists
2013-01-15: Aaron Swartz memorial JSTOR liberator released by Archive Team.
2013-01-15: The USA's enthusiasm for torture and illegal war.
2013-01-15: CESAR: competition to develop an authenticated cipher.
2013-01-15: Carrier-grade NAT breakage spreads beyond mobile ISPs.
2013-01-15: Sandy Hook truthers.
2013-01-15: UK drugs policy encourages people to try experimental new narcotics.
2013-01-15: Hiding bugs in code even when its tests have complete branch coverage.
2013-01-15: Tunlr: access geo-restricted content from foreign countries without a VPN.
2013-01-14: Effective Scala.
2013-01-14: FBI's Scientology investigation: balancing the First Amendment with charges of abuse and forced labor.
2013-01-14: The .CZ domain celebrates its 20th birthday.
2013-01-14: Notes on distributed systems for young bloods.
2013-01-14: Cycling and the law.
2013-01-14: Feminists don't need to police the borders of womanhood.
2013-01-14: On Julie Burchill, hatred, and a massive crisis of empathy.
2013-01-14: Science, dogma, genetically engineered crops, and Mark Lynas.
2013-01-14: Guerilla open access manifesto.
2013-01-14: Feds crack down on medical marijuana.
2013-01-13: E-luminate Cambridge festival: highlighting clean tech. (February)
2013-01-13: Bolivia gains exemption from international narcotics convention for the right to chew coca leaves.
2013-01-13: What really powers innovation: high wages.
2013-01-13: Live action Toy Story. (YouTube)
2013-01-13: Compressorhead: a heavy metal band made of metal.
2013-01-13: Building a wireless network for a high density of users.
2013-01-12: Redacted torture evidence shows secret courts use "security" to hide political embarrassment.
2013-01-11: Should public authorities be able to sue for libel?
2013-01-11: Periodic password change myths.
2013-01-11: Scalable NDN (named data network) forwarding.
2013-01-11: Your gadgets are slowly breaking the Internet.
2013-01-11: Textbook publishers claim copyright in tables of contents in order to suppress free educational material.
2013-01-11: DNS response policy zones as an anti-spam tool.
2013-01-10: The unreasonable effectiveness of C.
2013-01-10: Mining your Ps and Qs: detection of widespread weak keys in network devices.
2013-01-10: How to fold a Julia fractal: a tale of numbers that like to turn. (WebGL)
2013-01-10: The war on terror, by design, can never end.
2013-01-10: Notes on a putative BrowserID GSS-API mechanism.
2013-01-10: NSFnet and the popularization of the Internet.
2013-01-10: Five American misconceptions about healthcare in the civilized world.
2013-01-09: Verisign's stupid patent applications for the use of HSMs in DNSSEC.
2013-01-09: Cryptographic key length recommendations.
2013-01-09: Rob Hansen's crypto FAQ.
2013-01-09: Stealing laundry detergent to pay for drugs.
2013-01-09: Serialization mischief in Ruby on Rails.
2013-01-09: Trinity College New Court energy efficiency upgrade approved by planning committee.
2013-01-09: Australian do-not-call register operator fined for do-not-call violations.
2013-01-08: Creative Commons "non-commercial" licences are often a bad choice.
2013-01-08: Accidentally stealing the Internet: BGP and MitM attacks.
2013-01-08: Mail (MX) server survey January 2012.
2013-01-08: The government responds to a West Coast Main Line bid from a toy company.
2013-01-08: The myth of Tamiflu.
2013-01-08: Efficient in-memory indexing with generalized prefix trees.
2013-01-08: The adaptive radix tree: ARTful indexing for main-memory databases.
2013-01-08: Burst tries: a fast, efficient data structure for string keys.
2013-01-08: HAT-trie: a cache-conscious trie-based data structure for strings.
2013-01-08: Video of Apollo Robbins pickpocketing.
2013-01-08: Matters computational.
2013-01-07: The architecture of open source applications: nginx.
2013-01-07: A really teensy ELF executable for Linux.
2013-01-07: Hammer: bitwise parser combinators in C.
2013-01-07: Silence of the labs: Canadian government scientists cannot speak without public relations approval.
2013-01-07: An interview with the Republican staffer who was fired for writing a sensible copyright memo.
2013-01-07: A world without consent.
2013-01-07: Raspberry Pi stratum 1 NTP server: accurate timekeeping at low cost.
2013-01-07: The demise of desktop antivirus.
2013-01-07: Pain of the new: on high-frame-rate movies.
2013-01-07: The incredible shrinking public domain.
2013-01-07: An opinionated guide to Scheme implementations.
2013-01-07: Verisign Labs DANE demonstration.
2013-01-07: Keep using antiquated metaphors in icons.
2013-01-07: The Norwegian model of EU non-membership simply wouldn't work for the UK.
2013-01-07: UK research councils have stopped giving grants for standalone postgraduate taught master's degrees.
2013-01-07: Two factor federated authentication for SURFnet.
2013-01-07: Leveson is being subverted by Cameron.
2013-01-07: Lego Mindstorms EV3 announced.
2013-01-07: A simple string-to-float function showing how beautiful rust's pattern matching is.
2013-01-07: Google starts reporting false DMCA takedown requests.
2013-01-07: Rape has a purpose.
2013-01-07: English word and letter frequency counts: Mayzner revisited.
2013-01-07: A grab bag of Git tricks.
2013-01-07: How not to catch the norovirus.
2013-01-07: How to start a root X.509 certification authority.
2013-01-07: Videogames: let girls be girls.
2013-01-07: High-performance garbage collection in Rust.
2013-01-07: Brute forcing a GPS PIN with a robot built from spare parts.
2013-01-06: Padding oracle attacks in depth.
2013-01-06: A five-year-old Wikipedia hoax has finally been identified and deleted.
2013-01-06: Objects at a negative temperature behave as if they are hotter than objects at a positive temperature.
2013-01-06: Disney freaks out about sale of 3D movie conversion patents.
2013-01-05: Cally Soukup's list of Nicoll Events.
2013-01-05: British vs. American politics in minimalist vintage infographics.
2013-01-05: Black and Whitey: how the Feds deny the accused a fair trial.
2013-01-04: News about development of the Tux3 filesystem.
2013-01-04: CIA torturers object to their war crimes being displayed in an American propaganda film.
2013-01-04: Android blocks on /dev/random a lot.
2013-01-04: Microsoft security advisory on the Turktrust certificate authority failure.
2013-01-04: Linotype: the film.
2013-01-04: Support for benefit cuts depends on prejudice and ignorance.
2013-01-04: What should you really be afraid of?
2013-01-04: A thorough writeup of the Turktrust certificate authority failure.
2013-01-04: More about crit-bit trees.
2013-01-04: Crit-bit trees.
2013-01-04: The PHP equality operator == is the weirdest and most overused comparison operator in popular programming languages.
2013-01-04: Nevin's papers relating crime and exposure to lead in petrol.
2013-01-04: Data structure lock-in: why the computer is so slow.
2013-01-04: If asked "What is a Giraffe?", Google Now finishes the description with "he now praises the iPad".
2013-01-04: Negative temperature.
2013-01-04: Crossbear: identifying / locating / tracing TLS MITM attacks.
2013-01-04: foauth.org: OAuth for one.
2013-01-04: Elderly should do community work or lose pension, says ex-chief of benefits agency.
2013-01-04: The Labour Party's enthusiasm for incommunicado house arrest and internal exile.
2013-01-04: Helmet Oddity: a supercut of space helmets in movies.
2013-01-04: FuckItJS: JavaScript error steamroller.
2013-01-04: The correlation between lead in petrol and violent crime.
2013-01-04: When William Shatner tweeted at an astronaut.
2013-01-04: Details of the TURKTRUST fraudulent digital certificates.
2013-01-03: Unofficial colour recovery wiki.
2013-01-03: The surprising subtleties of zeroing a register.
2013-01-03: Mozilla suspends process for adding new TURKTRUST CA cert to trusted list.
2013-01-03: Rats laugh when you tickle them. (YouTube)
2013-01-03: Google detected a bogus X.509 certificate for *.google.com chaining back to a Turkish certificatation authority.
2013-01-03: LLVM.js
2013-01-03: Differences between marriages and civil partnerships.
2013-01-03: Vigil: a very safe programming language with supreme moral vigilance.
2013-01-03: Irish DNS registry was compromised via its website.
2013-01-03: Norovirus deserves respect.
2013-01-03: Algorithmic voting districts as a cure for gerrymandering.
2013-01-03: Maths gear.
2013-01-03: The known unknowns of Skype interception.
2013-01-03: Non-transitive dice.
2013-01-03: Non-deterministic JavaScript ParallelArray operations.
2013-01-02: Trolls with patents on network scanner/copier/printers are shaking down small and mid-sized businesses for $1000 per employee.
2013-01-02: Sleep better. Eat less sugar. Lift heavy things.
2013-01-02: ITU leased line interconnection restrictions and the birth of the commercial Internet.
2013-01-02: Vaccination matters, and hippies and conspiracy theorists who say otherwise are dangerous.
2013-01-02: Measles: a dangerous illness, by Roald Dahl.
2013-01-02: The process myth.
2013-01-02: Ending sexism in hacker culture: a work in progress.
2013-01-02: How complex systems fail.
2013-01-02: Kyoto Protocol aimed for 5% cut in carbon emissions; instead, we got a 58% increase.
2013-01-01: Which country is the best in which to be born?
2013-01-01: Z: A tiny, strict, impure, curried, dynamically typed language with rather peculiar syntax.
2013-01-01: Chomsky and the two cultures of statistical learning.
2013-01-01: 30 Years of TCP, and IP on everything!
2013-01-01: The 30th birthday of the Internet.
2013-01-01: Correlation without causation.
2013-01-01: Antivirus software is often not very good at stopping viruses.
2013-01-01: x86 IDIV DoS.
2013-01-01: The spectacular thefts of Apollo Robbins, pickpocket.
2013-01-01: Hello, JIT world! The joy of simple JITs and LuaJIT DynASM.
2013-01-01: Australian ISP iiNet walks out of piracy talks: "We're not the internet police".
2012-12-31: Nobel winner slates Britain's 'stupid' immigration reforms.
2012-12-31: How multi-disk failures happen.
2012-12-31: Road safety statistics for Cambridge, 2009-2011.
2012-12-31: Testing Go on the Raspberry Pi running FreeBSD.
2012-12-31: Extraordinary rendition verdict in the European court of human rights.
2012-12-31: RJSON: compress JSON to JSON.
2012-12-31: Food science secrets of chocolate.
2012-12-31: Please god, save the British economy.
2012-12-31: Santa Claus on science fiction and superhero magazine covers.
2012-12-31: Rethinking the value of Scrabble tiles.
2012-12-31: Fleeing Google.
2012-12-31: Progressive JPEGs are better in many ways.
2012-12-30: Snopes on exploding non-borosilicate US Pyrex.
2012-12-30: 2012: the year in sexism.
2012-12-30: FluxBuster: detecting fast-flux botnets via large-scale passive DNS traffic analysis.
2012-12-30: Hacking the brains of other people with API design. (Fault injection to enforce error handling.)
2012-12-30: Dangerous shattering occurs because Pyrex no longer implies borosilicate glass.
2012-12-30: Mo Farah was held by US customs on suspicion of being a terrorist.
2012-12-30: FBI and Wall St joined in totally integrated corporate-state repression of dissent.
2012-12-30: Cartoons: Triumph of the nerds.
2012-12-30: French McDonald's employees assault man for using an augmented reality device.
2012-12-30: Alan O'Donohoe's successful year promoting computer science in schools.
2012-12-30: If you get a GEIL / Golden Eye / Ben Dover / BDP file-sharing letter, you need to read this.
2012-12-30: Sereal: a binary data serialization format with support for Perl data types.
2012-12-30: Hash-flooding DoS attacks and defences.
2012-12-30: Accurate time with a Raspberry Pi and Venus638FLPx.
2012-12-29: 'Pure, White and Deadly' copyright problems delayed republication in USA.
2012-12-29: Is sugar the next tobacco?
2012-12-29: English Heritage objects to environmental efficiency refit of Trinity College's New Court.
2012-12-29: £1.8bn 'snooper's charter' fails to get Treasury backing.
2012-12-29: U.K. Crown Prosecution Service guidelines for prosecuting people for making jokes on Twitter.
2012-12-29: The Raspberry Pi gang remember Chris Lightfoot.
2012-12-29: IPCC's 1990 climate projections are on target so far.
2012-12-29: NZ government will be exposed to secret international tribunals by the TPP treaty.
2012-12-29: Linux now on 42% of consumer computing devices. Happy birthday Linus!
2012-12-29: Down with toy apartheid!
2012-12-29: Increasingly partisan US politics means shifts in congress are becoming less likely.
2012-12-29: W3C JavaScript browser crypto API: the anatomy of a bad idea.
2012-12-29: Intellectual monopoly and censorship.
2012-12-29: What really happened to Sony and Universal's 2 billion missing YouTube views.
2012-12-29: How to publish PGP keys in the DNS.
2012-12-28: Google catches music industry gaming their YouTube viewing numbers.
2012-12-28: TCP incast: overloading switches by synchronised requests to many servers.
2012-12-28: sshttp: hide ssh behind same port as web or mail server.
2012-12-28: Inky: cloud-enabled desktop mail app.
2012-12-28: Network maintenance led to cascade failure and extended downtime at GitHub.
2012-12-27: Advice for US entrepreneurs who move to Europe.
2012-12-27: Calling stumps at the ITU WCIT: win, lose, or draw?
2012-12-27: The Tip of the Spear: investigating Scientology 25 years ago.
2012-12-27: Britain from above: help describe historic aerial photographs.
2012-12-26: Robots will take all our jobs / the seven stages of robot replacement.
2012-12-26: Minnesota Vikings briefly considered demolishing Minneapolis's primary Internet hub to extend their stadium.
2012-12-26: Style guide for comparisons in conditional expressions.
2012-12-26: BLAKE2: a smaller faster cryptographic hash function based on the SHA-3 finalist BLAKE.
2012-12-26: sslh: run ssh and https servers on the same port.
2012-12-26: Generating a non-repeating random sequence of integers.
2012-12-26: The Queen first sent an email in 1976.
2012-12-26: Are mass shootings really random events? A look at the US numbers.
2012-12-26: Fun facts about Terminator 2: Judgment Day. (Less CGI than I thought!)
2012-12-26: Antarctic thaw is twice as bad as previously thought.
2012-12-25: Hollywood studios Pirate movies using BitTorrent.
2012-12-25: Duelling jingle bells banjos animated xmas light show. (YouTube)
2012-12-25: In celebration of the birth of Newton we fire rockets in the air. (YouTube x 2)
2012-12-25: 30+ cool ideas for your Raspberry Pi.
2012-12-25: Bullshit Ipsum.
2012-12-25: A little antidote to the Archbishop of Westminster.
2012-12-25: Tasselled wobbegong carpet shark.
2012-12-24: Who needs god? Against the cosmological argument.
2012-12-24: Austerity? Let's call it failure.
2012-12-23: Frost Fair: lovely radio programme featuring history, food, drink, science, music, poetry.
2012-12-23: Save the London Transport Museum.
2012-12-23: European Commission in Holiday season bumper Euromyths special: more lies from the British press.
2012-12-23: Inherently violent: why conservatives love war.
2012-12-22: Ada 2012 language standard approved by ISO.
2012-12-22: Nate Silver confuses cause and effect, and ends up defending financial corruption.
2012-12-22: What does randomness look like?
2012-12-21: Behind closed doors at the ITU WCIT.
2012-12-21: RJ point five double-density ethernet connector.
2012-12-21: Completely different: a review of BIND 10.
2012-12-21: Conclusions drawn from the RIPE reverse DNS outage in June.
2012-12-21: Why the US media ignored Murdoch's brazen bid to hijack the presidency.
2012-12-21: Their new graphic novel is a … terrorist organization?
2012-12-21: Ireland realises the recovery of Iceland proves the joke was on them. (Reminds me of an FT article last year.)
2012-12-21: America plans Guantanamo Bay prisons for US citizens.
2012-12-20: European Commission abandons effort to ratify ACTA.
2012-12-20: 2LD registrations directly under .uk: not such a great idea.
2012-12-20: The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers museum and library.
2012-12-20: Health and Safety Executive applies maximum penalty to the UK Border Agency for nearly blowing up Robin Hood Airport.
2012-12-20: Mainstream economists still don't get it.
2012-12-20: Snow fall: the avalanche at Tunnel Creek. (Fantastic combination of words and moving pictures.)
2012-12-20: H+: high-budget apocalyptic sf on YouTube.
2012-12-20: From NAND to ТЕТЯІЅ: building a modern computer from first principles.
2012-12-20: Academic history journals revolt against open access.
2012-12-20: What law allows Downing St to be closed to traffic?
2012-12-20: Interactive guide to blog typography.
2012-12-19: After saying no at the WCIT: what next for the ITU?
2012-12-19: The Internet only just works.
2012-12-19: ezwebframe: treat the browser as an Erlang process.
2012-12-19: Root nameserver D at the University of Maryland is changing IP address on 3 January 2013.
2012-12-19: Fun manipulating News Corp online polls.
2012-12-19: Whose bug is this anyway?!?
2012-12-19: Irish archbishops speak out against saving the lives of dying pregnant women.
2012-12-19: New restrictions on freedom of information requests could make government more secret.
2012-12-19: Gun ownership is a powerful predictor of someone's political party in the USA.
2012-12-18: Opera TLS Prober survey tool released under Apache 2.0 license.
2012-12-18: The Chronos date / time library for Smalltalk.
2012-12-18: Corrupt police lied about plebgate and deliberately ruined the government chief whip.
2012-12-18: European Union's open source licence to become compatible with GPLv3.
2012-12-18: Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap visiting Cambridge in September.
2012-12-18: A visit to Cambridge University Press Museum.
2012-12-18: ITU Phobia: Why WCIT was derailed.
2012-12-18: The NRA's war against gun science.
2012-12-18: NSD 4.0 beta: authoritative name server daemon.
2012-12-18: What really happened at the ITU WCIT?
2012-12-18: The Bill of Rights Commission report: a modest proposal.
2012-12-18: Perl: the first twenty-five years.
2012-12-18: A Roman Christmas.
2012-12-18: The great Bill of Rights commission shambles.
2012-12-18: W3C declares HTML5 complete.
2012-12-18: The good stuff about cycling in Cambridge.
2012-12-18: The UKIP threat is not about Europe.
2012-12-18: Two-for-one: Amazon targeted in replacement order scam.
2012-12-18: Still passing the hash 15 years later: a review of Microsoft's password hash security white paper.
2012-12-18: The false promise of the online education revolution.
2012-12-18: How the Indiana Jones package got to the University of Chicago.
2012-12-18: New developments in deanonymization.
2012-12-18: "Why don't you just…?" Upgrading HTTP to support unordered pipelined responses.
2012-12-18: Problems fixed by Scala.
2012-12-17: China blocks VPNs with Great Firewall.
2012-12-17: Fastbook: a pure HTML5 clone of the Facebook app.
2012-12-17: Thoughtcrime unit to be set up by City of London police.
2012-12-17: Gun control that works: no guns.
2012-12-17: The highlights and low points of the ITU's WCIT.
2012-12-17: Hacker News blog recommendations.
2012-12-16: Tcl the misunderstood.
2012-12-16: Bunnie Huang is building his own laptop.
2012-12-16: 12 letters that didn't make it into the alphabet.
2012-12-16: The quiet Wikideath of BBS history.
2012-12-16: MPs write to Public Accounts Committee to request action on hidden trials and Tamiflu.
2012-12-16: Dear open source project leader: quit being a jerk.
2012-12-16: Bruce Schneier reviews "Against Security: how we go wrong at [...] sites of ambiguous danger" by Harvey Molotch.
2012-12-16: Inside an Amazon warehouse.
2012-12-16: University of Chicago receives a package for Indiana Jones.
2012-12-16: Ole Roemer measured the speed of light in 1676.
2012-12-16: The Aggregate bit twiddling hacks and magic algorithms.
2012-12-15: Gun control in Japan.
2012-12-15: Belle de Jour's history of Anon.
2012-12-15: Per-address spanning tree for scalable Ethernet.
2012-12-15: Switch your databases to flash storage. Now. Or you're doing it wrong.
2012-12-15: A photo history of male affection.
2012-12-15: Unwittingly, the special advisor of the secretary for culture, media, and sport has done the press a favour.
2012-12-14: Mains hum helps to authenticate recordings.
2012-12-14: You're not anonymous. I know your name, email, and company.
2012-12-14: Marriage law in Britain.
2012-12-14: Milton Friedman's thermostat.
2012-12-14: It will never work in theory: software development research that is relevant in practice.
2012-12-14: History of security economics.
2012-12-14: Authentication is machine learning.
2012-12-14: Map of voting systems around the world.
2012-12-14: Hash collision attacks against btrfs.
2012-12-13: Raspberry Pi and timekeeping with RADclock.
2012-12-13: Connecting Cambridgeshire broadband bulletin December 2012.
2012-12-13: Microsoft white paper: defending against theft of hashed passwords.
2012-12-12: The economic miracle of good television.
2012-12-12: USAF wasted $1bn on failed Oracle ERP logistics project.
2012-12-12: High-frequency traders profit at the expense of ordinary investors.
2012-12-12: How to hack and not get caught.
2012-12-12: It's a Death Metal X-Mas.
2012-12-10: Why the home affairs select committee is calling for an end to the war on drugs.
2012-12-09: Darling: run Darwin binaries on Linux.
2012-12-09: The UK should decriminalise prostitution; it has worked in New Zealand.
2012-12-09: Early papers on computer security.
2012-12-09: Amazing juggling / sleight of hand by Yann Frisch. (YouTube)
2012-12-09: The most dangerous equation.
2012-12-09: Raspberry Pi web server speed test.
2012-12-09: George Boole was killed by homoeopathy.
2012-12-09: All you need is love: how to stop terrorists.
2012-12-09: The in-game economics of Ultima Online.
2012-12-09: Bike, camera, inaction! A barrister tries to prosecute a driver who threatened to kill him.
2012-12-09: GravityLight: lighting for developing countries.
2012-12-08: Red state, blue city: the urban-rural divide is where America splits.
2012-12-08: It's official: austerity economics doesn't work.
2012-12-08: Anak Krakatau volcano eruption, September 2012.
2012-12-08: What a wonder is emulating a terrible monitor.
2012-12-07: The meteoric ascent of the patent troll and the devastating consequences for innovation.
2012-12-07: YouTube death toll: over 300 lives wasted watching Gangnan Style.
2012-12-07: 'Sex for student fees' man unmasked as IT consultant 'with top-level MoD security clearance'.
2012-12-07: Why should Strasbourg decide on British human rights?
2012-12-07: Three lessons learned while teaching a flipped class.
2012-12-07: Falsehoods programmers believe about build systems.
2012-12-07: Accessibility for people with anomalous colour vision.
2012-12-07: A new era for ghc.
2012-12-06: £2 coin and stamps to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the London Underground.
2012-12-06: 25 GPU monster can crack 14 character Windows XP LM passwords in 6 minutes.
2012-12-06: WCIT-12: an opinionated primer and hysteria-debunker.
2012-12-06: America's 50 worst state legislatures.
2012-12-06: What happens when responsible disclosure fails.
2012-12-06: Everyone in the US is under surveillance.
2012-12-06: Comparative language fuzz testing: programming languages vs. fat fingers.
2012-12-05: Bomb sight: where bombs fell in London during WWII.
2012-12-05: NoSQL, CouchDB, and Lotus Notes.
2012-12-05: Is English really a Scandinavian language?
2012-12-05: The USA's history of saying no to the ITRs.
2012-12-05: Top ten budget Cambridge restaurants.
2012-12-05: British civil liberties and the human rights act.
2012-12-05: Bristol University Christian Union keeps existing ban on women speakers.
2012-12-05: "Sender-pays" rule doesn't necessarily increase telecom investment.
2012-12-05: Dog vs sweet potato.
2012-12-05: Counting heads: 1000+ attend Irish anti-abortion rally.
2012-12-05: ITU adopts standard for deep packet inspection traffic snooping.
2012-12-05: The ITU's Dubai debacle: does it matter?
2012-12-04: Flu vaccines don't work very well.
2012-12-04: USA is the only major country not to support treaty covering books for the visually impaired.
2012-12-04: Merck staff mocked patients suffering side effect of osteonecrosis.
2012-12-04: Uniform function call syntax in the D programming language.
2012-12-04: Bristol University's Christian Union bans women from speaking at meetings.
2012-12-04: The TeX family tree: LaTeX, pdfTeX, XeTeX, LuaTeX and ConTeXt.
2012-12-04: How tall can a Lego tower get?
2012-12-04: The ambition myth: debunking a common excuse for the gender wage gap.
2012-12-04: Why News Corp's "The Daily" iPad newspaper failed.
2012-12-04: Lumi: a new and easy way to find websites that interest you.
2012-12-04: Has HTML5 made us more secure?
2012-12-04: A Nagios DNS plugin written in Go.
2012-12-04: Barbie construction kit: sexist reasons for less sexist toys.
2012-12-04: What was the strangest coding standard rule that you were forced to follow?
2012-12-04: Dr Peter Wothers, of Cambridge University's Department of Chemistry, will give the Royal Institution's 2012 Christmas lectures.
2012-12-04: The global war on drugs has failed. It is time for a new approach. (JPEG of a letter.)
2012-12-04: WCIT off to a flying start. (ITU has given up on sender pays.)
2012-12-03: Three little ICANN atrocities that make the ITU look good by comparison.
2012-12-03: Why you should be afraid of the UN's plan to regulate the Internet.
2012-12-03: A map of non-existent European countries (and how to create your own).
2012-12-03: Movie studios ask Google to censor legit movie pages on Amazon, Facebook, Wikipedia, etc.
2012-12-03: BBC cycling documentary condemned as "dangerous juvenile nonsense".
2012-12-03: Bad pharma, failure to disclose research results, and the revoked Viagra patent.
2012-12-03: Two examples of why we don't need the draft Communications Data Bill.
2012-12-03: Facebook's next-generation servers: video interview inside a data centre.
2012-12-03: There's more to porcupine sex than just being careful.
2012-12-03: csync2: a cluster filesystem synchronisation tool.
2012-12-03: Police cited a botched, corrupt investigation as a reason to spy on the nation.
2012-12-03: Immigration: end this foolish block on overseas students.
2012-12-03: Science jokes.
2012-12-03: Securing Nagios remote plugin execution with certificate based authentication.
2012-12-03: Leveson on the 'clear evidence of misreporting on European issues'.
2012-12-03: The real scandal behind Benghazi.
2012-12-02: Don't occupy Wall St, just defund it: move your money to a mutual.
2012-12-02: Royal Institution advent calendar 2012.
2012-12-02: US high speed rail aspirational map.
2012-12-02: Dear journalists: grow up.
2012-12-02: How a business was wrongfully liquidated by the taxman.
2012-12-02: Android performance case study.
2012-12-02: Private Eye's views on the Leveson report.
2012-12-02: Is the UN trying to take over the Internet? (What about settlement fees?)
2012-12-02: Internet connectivity returns to Syria.
2012-12-02: Superstorm Sandy's effect on the global Intenet.
2012-12-02: The Azul pauseless garbage collector.
2012-12-02: iPhone pink highlight from hell.
2012-12-02: The deficit myth.
2012-12-01: Lots of military drones have crashed at civilian airports.
2012-12-01: Joke planning notices in Brighton.
2012-12-01: We've been betrayed by David Cameron over press regulation.
2012-12-01: European blank media copyright levy under attack.
2012-12-01: Tor operator charged for transmitting child porn.
2012-12-01: Scribe: deterministic transparent execution record/replay for Linux.
2012-12-01: Patoline: a modern digital typesetter.
2012-11-30: Getting Plan 9 running on the Raspberry Pi.
2012-11-30: Chompsky.
2012-11-30: Renesys's observations of Syria's Internet disconnection.
2012-11-30: Cloudflare's observations of Syria's Internet disconnection.
2012-11-30: FreeBSD on Pi news.
2012-11-30: Break up the US telecom cartels.
2012-11-29: An insider's cynical view of the development of OS/2.
2012-11-29: Interactive map of England's green belts.
2012-11-29: B&N Nook ebook downloads break when your credit card expires.
2012-11-29: A Norwegian linguist argues that English is a Scandinavian language.
2012-11-29: 25th anniversary of SWITCH.ch.
2012-11-29: Basic phone service in rural USA is disgracefully flakey.
2012-11-28: Broken path MTU discovery on Amazon EC2.
2012-11-28: State of the Species.
2012-11-28: Why Vint Cerf is wrong about Internet regulation.
2012-11-28: When it comes to security, we're back to feudalism.
2012-11-28: The ITU's leaked playbook: panic and chaos over the WCIT. (The comments are worth reading!)
2012-11-28: You are committing a crime right now (if you are in the USA).
2012-11-28: The American right-wing turn against science.
2012-11-28: How the BBC News website came to be.
2012-11-28: Fens, rivers, and the Ouse washes.
2012-11-28: 40 years after That Was The Week That Was, where is satire on British TV?
2012-11-28: How to tell if a toy is for boys or for girls.
2012-11-28: Rupert Murdoch's journalists at The Sun tried to frame a celebrity for a sex crime that never happened.
2012-11-28: Revenge of the reality-based community: right-wing American intellectual crisis.
2012-11-27: White male geeks hack sexism and racism.
2012-11-27: Bollards of London.
2012-11-27: Mill Road Winter Fair 2012 this Saturday.
2012-11-27: If every state of the USA declared war against each other, which would win?
2012-11-27: AT&T iPad hacker's real crime was embarrassing the wrong people.
2012-11-27: It really is that bad: A powerful speech on North Korea.
2012-11-27: Adverse effects of homeopathy: a systematic review of published case reports and case series.
2012-11-27: Scientists do not deny anthropogenic climate change.
2012-11-27: Guerrilla raids on supply lines, not winter, scuppered Napoleon's invasion of Russia.
2012-11-27: Private evidence from the Home Office on the communications data bill.
2012-11-27: DRM by XORing with "RANDOM_STRING".
2012-11-27: Finite State Machine Designer.
2012-11-27: European unitary patent: latest news.
2012-11-27: Simple sabotage field manual. (1944)
2012-11-27: D3, conceptually: a JavaScript graphing library tutorial.
2012-11-27: The First World War's influence on the English language.
2012-11-27: Inside Google Spanner, the largest database on Earth.
2012-11-27: Supplementary characters for ECMAScript.
2012-11-26: Why we can't process Emoji anymore. (V8 has broken Unicode support.)
2012-11-26: Former OED editor covertly deleted thousand of words of non-British English.
2012-11-26: Julian Assange's book "Cypherpunks" fails to understand something fundamental about the Internet.
2012-11-26: Unispeed mass surveillance equipment.
2012-11-26: Inside the Welsh Raspberry Pi factory.
2012-11-26: Modules for C, to replace trad header files.
2012-11-26: IBM granted patent for removing leading and trailing space characters.
2012-11-26: An ABC proof too tough even for mathematicians.
2012-11-26: Talus, a 16th century robot.
2012-11-25: How to avoid problem people.
2012-11-25: 35mm film is dead. Will classic movies ever look the same again?
2012-11-25: The Recode project: an active archive of computer art.
2012-11-24: Time-scale subway map of Boston.
2012-11-24: Bounded storage model for crypto adversaries.
2012-11-23: Modern roads were originally made for bikes.
2012-11-23: Hash pile-ups: using collisions to identify unknown hash functions.
2012-11-23: Turkey patents.
2012-11-23: Denial-of-service via MurmurHash collisions.
2012-11-23: Why your distributed social network idea will not work.
2012-11-23: Authenticated denial of existence in the DNS.
2012-11-23: A new global depression.
2012-11-23: Plaintext password offenders.
2012-11-23: Energy from a single orange… (and some galvanised nails and an LED)
2012-11-22: Why cellphones went dead after Hurricane Sandy: regulatory failure.
2012-11-22: Why Anonymous’s claims about election-rigging can’t be ignored.
2012-11-22: Array size overflows and operator new[] in g++.
2012-11-22: Haskell hacker Simon Marlow is moving from Microsoft Research to Facebook.
2012-11-22: Vestas Sailrocket.
2012-11-22: New speed record of nearly 60 kts in a sailing boat.
2012-11-22: No safety in numbers for London's cyclists, owing to poor traffic policing and bad cycle infrastructure.
2012-11-22: On managerialist ideology.
2012-11-22: Do not send bare arrays as JSON responses to GET requests.
2012-11-22: John Carmack on treating time as a part of your input event model.
2012-11-22: Switched reluctance motors do not need expensive rare-earth magnets.
2012-11-22: Trotify.
2012-11-22: Slate: a hacker's window manager for Macs.
2012-11-21: Sad news about Mark Crispin.
2012-11-21: Anonymous, Karl Rove, and a failed 2012 election fix?
2012-11-21: HP's claims of accounting fraud could be cover for bad acquisitions.
2012-11-21: David Howarth explains that indirect taxation is the best way to promote growth.
2012-11-21: Prince William Photos revealed Ministry of Defence passwords.
2012-11-21: Weird goings on at Autonomy.
2012-11-21: How the Autonomy accounting scandal worked.
2012-11-21: Tim O'Reilly on social media marketing.
2012-11-21: Non-event feedback loops.
2012-11-20: Why is the FCC planning a massive giveaway to Rupert Murdoch?
2012-11-20: The cryptographic doom principle, and ssh plaintext recovery.
2012-11-20: Airport security is killing us.
2012-11-20: When REST isn't good enough.
2012-11-20: Europarliament scolds Visa, MasterCard, and PayPal for killing WikiLeaks donations; initiates regulation of payment processors.
2012-11-20: "Value", an irksome euphemism.
2012-11-20: Malware uses Google Docs as a C&C proxy.
2012-11-20: How goatse.cx went from shock site to webmail service.
2012-11-20: Princeton IT security: What to do if ...
2012-11-20: Inventors, patents, and inventive activities in the English brewing industry, 1634-1850.
2012-11-20: The Web engineer's online toolbox.
2012-11-20: How to destroy the Earth.
2012-11-20: Israel / Gaza ceasefires almost all end when Israel kills a Palestinian.
2012-11-20: World's oldest original working digital computer goes on display at Bletchley.
2012-11-20: US sides with Iran and N. Korea in record UN vote over the death penalty.
2012-11-20: All pharmaceutical research should be made open access.
2012-11-20: Join Rackspace in the fight against patent trolls.
2012-11-20: Inside Tumblr.
2012-11-20: Elixir: a functional meta-programming aware language built on top of the Erlang VM.
2012-11-20: Go is PHP for the backend. (But not as shitty.)
2012-11-20: Everyday sexual assault.
2012-11-19: Chocolate truffle art photography.
2012-11-19: How to peer review scientfic work.
2012-11-19: Rails client IP address spoofing vulnerabilities and protection.
2012-11-19: How to criticize Israel without being antisemitic.
2012-11-19: Forthcoming book on conservative and libertarian skepticism about copyright.
2012-11-19: In America, A Barrage Of Thunderingly Dull Headlines.
2012-11-19: Don Jimmy Gambino OBE: Savile the mob boss?
2012-11-19: Press coverage of the launch of the National Health Action party.
2012-11-18: Internet censorship in Russia sounds just like the UK government's plans.
2012-11-18: 1740 tons of sludge: the New River Tunnel inspection.
2012-11-18: In praise of the cliché.
2012-11-18: The state of the art in computing is terrible.
2012-11-18: An omniscient debugger.
2012-11-18: Debug mode is the only mode: on reactive programming and time-travelling debuggers.
2012-11-18: Midwife of the year turns down award sponsored by formula producers.
2012-11-18: Instant coffee Britain.
2012-11-18: FBI investigation of Petraeus and Broadwell reveals bureau's comprehensive access to electronic communications.
2012-11-18: Gardai lobbying against war on drugs in Ireland.
2012-11-18: What do we do about untrustworthy certificate authorities?
2012-11-18: Republicans withdraw report on copyright reform.
2012-11-18: Attacking hardened Linux systems with kernel JIT spraying.
2012-11-18: High performance web servers in Haskell.
2012-11-18: The debate over whether to set a minimum price on alcohol in the UK.
2012-11-18: The gay vote was crucial in Obama's victory.
2012-11-18: December missing in date picker on Android 4.2.
2012-11-18: Into the vault: the operation to rescue Manhattan's drowned telecoms.
2012-11-18: 50 years of James Bond: the movie. (YouTube)
2012-11-17: 1972 Cambridge: celebrating the admission of female undergraduates.
2012-11-17: Savita Halappanavar's death has transformed Irish abortion debate.
2012-11-17: House Republicans propose reforms to copyright law.
2012-11-17: Seeing sexism in academia: moving up the ranks opens the eyes.
2012-11-17: Spoilt Ballots in Cambridgeshire's PCC vote.
2012-11-17: Cloud outage reports.
2012-11-17: Microsoft has failed.
2012-11-17: Russia wants ITU to take over IANA.
2012-11-16: Inside Obama's tech team.
2012-11-16: Simpler and faster Lempel-Ziv factorization.
2012-11-16: How Democrats and Republicans wage war.
2012-11-16: Turnout was zero at some polling stations in yesterday's PCC election.
2012-11-16: GitLaw in Germany: German federal laws and regulations in Markdown on GitHub.
2012-11-16: Cloud storage pricing history.
2012-11-16: It is easy to do wide-area jamming of LTE networks.
2012-11-16: Cambridgeshire PCC election turnout.
2012-11-16: The Bond villain's lair: Skyfall's abandoned island really exists.
2012-11-15: A single severed cable cut contact between Russian mission control and Its satellites.
2012-11-15: Privacy-aware message exchanges for geographically routed human movement networks.
2012-11-15: "Twisted light" idea for terabit networking sparks heated debate.
2012-11-15: Articles about Savita who died in Ireland after being denied an abortion.
2012-11-15: If you're human IT middleware, it's time to find a new job.
2012-11-15: Steven Levy on the patent problem.
2012-11-15: Flex Mex. (YouTube)
2012-11-14: How far will U.S. regulators bend to AT&T and Verizon?
2012-11-14: Orca failed, but so did Obama's 2008 equivalent.
2012-11-14: Slo-mo eggsplosions. (YouTube)
2012-11-14: The real Petraeus scandal: unrestrained state surveillance.
2012-11-14: A longitudinal study of the effects of being denied an abortion.
2012-11-14: Japanese anti-download law reduces music sales.
2012-11-14: Weak password encryption on Huawei products.
2012-11-14: FLAME malware uses sneakernet to exfiltrate files from isolated computers.
2012-11-14: All the crypto code you’ve ever written is probably broken.
2012-11-13: A TLS performance case study.
2012-11-13: If a committee of MPs can tear these companies to shreds so easily, why is HMRC is letting them get away with it?
2012-11-13: "Is This You?" - a possible future featuring lifelogging, privacy and scandal. (YouTube)
2012-11-13: Beautiful libraries.
2012-11-13: Revolt grows in coalition over Home Office plan to cut immigration.
2012-11-13: Lowering tax rates for the rich has no effect on economic growth or job creation.
2012-11-13: Investigative journalism must live on despite the Newsnight crisis.
2012-11-13: Apple are selling a (3rd party) Android device.
2012-11-13: How Lanyrd moved from MySQL on AWS to PostgreSQL on Softlayer. (Brave!)
2012-11-13: Is the ITU really threatening the Internet? (Why address imagined threats not real ones?)
2012-11-13: Arrested for poppy burning? The new totalitarianism.
2012-11-13: IBM patent lawyer argues the patent system is not broken.
2012-11-13: PhantomJS: Headless WebKit with JavaScript API.
2012-11-13: When poll is better than interrupt for block IO completion.
2012-11-13: An open letter on patents, 12 years later.
2012-11-13: Infinite Jukebox: like Infinite Gangnam Style but for any song.
2012-11-13: Operating system implications of fast, cheap, non-volatile memory.
2012-11-13: When men get too emotional to have a rational argument.
2012-11-13: Meet the Texas lawyer suing hundreds of companies for using TLS.
2012-11-13: Does Facebook hate all women, or just feminists?
2012-11-12: How Helen Oxenbury and Michael Rosen made "We're Going on a Bear Hunt".
2012-11-12: Surveying Earth's interior with atomic clocks.
2012-11-12: Rock Paper Scissors programming competition.
2012-11-12: Lord McAlpine scandal shows Leveson 'must find a way of reining in Twitter and Facebook', idiot MPs say.
2012-11-12: Napster, Udacity and the academy: what massive open online courses mean for undergraduate teaching.
2012-11-12: Fat is back: Rediscover the delights of lard, dripping and suet.
2012-11-12: When it comes to DRM, Amazon is a bottom feeding hell beast.
2012-11-12: NSA publishes top-secret 1995 report that missed the future of supercomputing.
2012-11-12: Wilfred Owen - Dulce et Decorum est - Recited by Christopher Hitchens. (YouTube)
2012-11-12: What are the killer applications for dependent types in general purpose programming languages?
2012-11-11: The Columbia Journalism Review on what is happening at the BBC.
2012-11-11: New "Flood Router26″ IPv6 RA attack takes down Mac OS and Windows.
2012-11-11: The Leveson Inquiry and the BBC.
2012-11-11: Smuggling USB sticks: routing around censorship with sneakernet.
2012-11-11: The mainstream media derailed the opportunity to address child abuse.
2012-11-11: Unifying programming and mathematics: the dependent type revolution.
2012-11-11: President Obama and the breastfed baby.
2012-11-11: Visitor tracking with HTTP 301 permanent redirects.
2012-11-11: The amount of crap Microsoft users have to put up with is incredible.
2012-11-11: TELETEXT: the early years.
2012-11-10: A hitchhiker's tour of the BEAM Erlang abstract machine.
2012-11-10: Precisely why the Daily Mail is irredeemable shit.
2012-11-10: The stock markets will blow up again.
2012-11-10: British legal curiosities: fact or fable?
2012-11-10: Romney's election day IT screwup.
2012-11-09: "Secure password managers" and "military-grade encryption" on smartphones: oh, really?
2012-11-09: Seven ways to handle concurrency in distributed systems.
2012-11-09: musl libc: a new lightweight standard library for Linux.
2012-11-09: Don’t trust a password management system you design yourself!
2012-11-09: Blocklists of suspected malicious IPs and URLs.
2012-11-09: DNS amplification from the point of view of a hosting provider.
2012-11-08: An overview of e-postage.
2012-11-08: Flip all the pronouns in Legend of Zelda: Wind Walker.
2012-11-08: What can data scientists learn from DevOps?
2012-11-08: Memory-efficient zone data in BIND 10.
2012-11-08: When a journal repeatedly addresses an academic using "Miss".
2012-11-08: Judge Leo Sorokin is tired of copyright troll Marvin Cable’s lies, so denies ex-parte discovery.
2012-11-08: Why there isn't a British Nate Silver.
2012-11-08: Run Archimedes Elite on the Raspberry Pi.
2012-11-08: Counties in the southern US that voted for Obama lie along the Cretaceous era shore line.
2012-11-08: Was the green man, that pagan spirit of nature, in fact England’s secret symbol of resistance to Norman oppression?
2012-11-08: Stack Overflow's guide to forms based website authentication.
2012-11-08: Why is Rick Santorum using a picture of 4Chan founder Moot on his website?
2012-11-08: NetBSD kernel compiled to JavaScript and run in a browser.
2012-11-07: The economics of making music.
2012-11-07: Hurricane Sandy: global impact on Internet routing.
2012-11-07: AMD dismisses almost all its Linux kernel developers.
2012-11-07: Lessons for the data centre after Hurricane Sandy.
2012-11-07: Some things the British press would prefer you did not know.
2012-11-07: Why do hospital generators keep failing?
2012-11-07: NYU Hospital’s backup power undone by key part in flooded basement.
2012-11-07: Who pays "road tax"?
2012-11-07: Survey reveals ash disease in six further counties.
2012-11-07: GNU alternate domain system: a decentralized name service based on Rivest's SDSI.
2012-11-07: Banks replace highly-paid traders with software.
2012-11-07: What to look for on site when choosing a co-lo facility.
2012-11-07: Nate Silver, the audacity of maths and the innumeracy of political commentary.
2012-11-07: Puerto Rico votes to become 51st state.
2012-11-07: A physical machine that duplicates sounds from the TR-808 drum machine.
2012-11-07: Microsoft to turn off Windows Live / MSN Messenger in favour of Skype.
2012-11-06: Notes on Certificate Transparency for IETF85.
2012-11-06: The global e-voting disaster: Why the US and the world shouldn't try to make elections too high tech.
2012-11-06: Slot machines vs voting machines.
2012-11-06: Bad disk latency spikes on Linux.
2012-11-06: Voting machine altering votes. (YouTube)
2012-11-06: Superoptimizers are back in vogue.
2012-11-06: More on the suspicious last-minute patch to Ohio vote tabulation machines.
2012-11-06: Anti-independence parties in UK and Spain plot to expel independent Scotland from the EU.
2012-11-06: Sharp Suits: a creative catharsis.
2012-11-06: The Economist talks to Ben Goldacre about the broken pharmaceutical industry.
2012-11-06: Content design for mobile devices. (Please don't treat them so specially.)
2012-11-06: Criticism of and alternatives to the slider UI widget.
2012-11-06: A clock that knits a scarf.
2012-11-06: A dynamic language is a restricted static language affording less not more expressiveness.
2012-11-06: Ag: a code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster.
2012-11-06: FBI campaigns against telcos who uphold restrictions on surveillance.
2012-11-06: Labour's return to the right.
2012-11-06: Mission impossible: iPad Mini browser detection.
2012-11-06: A TLS threat model.
2012-11-05: No one should have to wait 7 hours to vote. (7 minutes is a bit too long)
2012-11-05: Pentagon unit pushed email voting for troops despite security concerns.
2012-11-05: The badgers guide to logical fallacies.
2012-11-05: Gillette Venus says domestic violence can be caused by not shaving your legs.
2012-11-05: Remote root vulnerability in Sophos anti-virus.
2012-11-05: Why Americans can't vote online on Tuesday.
2012-11-05: Uncertified "experimental" software installed on vote tabulation systems in 39 OH counties days before election.
2012-11-05: Most New York data centres back on mains power.
2012-11-05: Arithmetic encoding using 32 bit fixed-point windows.
2012-11-05: Cycling in New York after Hurricane Sandy.
2012-11-05: "PSD is not my favourite file format."
2012-11-05: "Address Sanitizer" compile-time memory checker to be included in gcc-4.8
2012-11-05: Comparing audio quality of AAC and mp3 at various rates.
2012-11-05: Defending against SQL injection by detecting query errors in the database.
2012-11-05: Ash dieback: UK government might be sued over failure to act.
2012-11-05: Interstellar hydrogen becomes intense radiation to a highly relativistic spacecraft.
2012-11-05: End of life care through the eyes of a doctor and a patient.
2012-11-05: Internet Voting in the U.S.
2012-11-04: NLNOG RING: remote shell exchange for network operators.
2012-11-04: "Denial of service" high frequency trading algorithm spams massive volumes of quotes.
2012-11-04: Over-aggressive deduplication led to ATM fraud detection loophole at CitiBank.
2012-11-04: Independent on Sunday Pink List 2012.
2012-11-04: Book publishers have long been playing into Amazon's hands.
2012-11-04: British have invaded all but 22 countries.
2012-11-04: A nice profile of the Raspberry Pi.
2012-11-04: No Microsoft products on Kaspersky's top 10 vulnerabilities list.
2012-11-04: US Democrats have a massive intellectual advantage in targeting and persuading voters.
2012-11-04: Some preliminary thoughts on NJ's emergency email voting scheme.
2012-11-04: Why do sign language interpreters look so animated?
2012-11-04: American right-wing politics is full of lies; its fund-raising aims to deceive the feeble-minded.
2012-11-03: Russian cat circus. (YouTube)
2012-11-03: A slower speed of light: relativistic gaming.
2012-11-03: Animated factorization diagrams.
2012-11-03: How trees work. (YouTube)
2012-11-03: Noam Chomsky criticises the Google approach to Artificial Intelligence.
2012-11-02: Foxy Nate Silver and why old-media hedgehogs could soon be old news.
2012-11-02: Tim Gowers on the sixth form mathematics curriculum.
2012-11-02: Gay people are a greater fire risk than straight people, according to Hackney council.
2012-11-02: Cambridge is not a centre of excellence in cyber security research, according to GCHQ.
2012-11-02: Lorry blind spots and invisible cyclists. (YouTube)
2012-11-02: What an RAF pilot can teach us about being safe on the road.
2012-11-01: The busting of LulzSec: lessons in OpSec.
2012-11-01: Tracking casual homophobia on Twitter.
2012-11-01: Infinite Gangnam Style. (actually quite clever)
2012-11-01: Ur: a functional programming language supporting a powerful kind of metaprogramming based on row types.
2012-11-01: MLPolyR: a small programming language based on row polymorphism.
2012-11-01: Having an anti-harassment policy helps tech conference organisers deal with unprofessional sexualized swag.
2012-11-01: On the feasibility of completely wireless data centres.
2012-11-01: Parliamentary IP group publishes report favouring rights holders and against measured approach of IPO.
2012-10-31: Why we can't solve big problems.
2012-10-31: OpenDNSSEC key rollover failure for .nl on 28 October.
2012-10-31: Computer-controlled dedical equipment is riddled with malware.
2012-10-31: Precision NTP on a Raspberry Pi.
2012-10-31: How a pro-life activist lost faith in the movement.
2012-10-31: Summary of the Amazon Web Services outage on 22 October 2012.
2012-10-31: Counting IPv6 support in DNS resolvers.
2012-10-31: 99.5% of Internet peering is agreed with a handshake.
2012-10-31: New York subway may take weeks to recover from flooding.
2012-10-31: Disabled rights activist complains to South Wales police following midnight questioning about comments on Facebook.
2012-10-31: Paul Vixie on the length of time taken to develop and deploy DNSSEC.
2012-10-31: Unilateral antidotes to DNS poisoning.
2012-10-31: Speaking out against Nominet's proposed release of second level .UK domains.
2012-10-31: Impact of Hurricane Sandy on the Internet.
2012-10-31: Domain sharding is bad for mobile performance.
2012-10-31: Failing over Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange for Sandy.
2012-10-30: Client-side API mashups with cross-origin resource sharing.
2012-10-30: Director of FEMA during Katrina criticizes Obama for responding to Sandy too quickly.
2012-10-30: Zappos' user agreement failed in court and leaving them legally naked.
2012-10-30: Report on the DigiNotar X.509 CA failure with technical details of hack.
2012-10-30: US Supreme Court worries about 'parade of horribles' if the first sale doctrine does not apply to imports.
2012-10-30: Hurricane Sandy pictures.
2012-10-30: Semantic patching with Coccinelle.
2012-10-30: Spineless hedgehogs!
2012-10-30: How global warming helped transform Sandy from a hurricane into a Frankenstorm.
2012-10-30: What networking needs to learn from Steve Jobs.
2012-10-30: How to batten a hatch.
2012-10-30: Deep inside a DNS amplification DDoS attack.
2012-10-30: six: compile new ECMAscript v6 features to current JavaScript.
2012-10-30: Don't kill math: comments on Bret Victor and "inventing on principle".
2012-10-30: FreeBSD Raspberry Pi support merged into main repository.
2012-10-29: Bugged phone deepens controversy over L'Aquila verdict.
2012-10-29: James Bond 007 deathmatch. (YouTube)
2012-10-29: A profile of PGN.
2012-10-29: Goatse Mail. (!!!!!)
2012-10-29: When capitalists cared.
2012-10-29: The price of inequality.
2012-10-29: What happens when a town makes its public transit free.
2012-10-29: OCSP stapling: how to make TLS 30% faster.
2012-10-29: Zero knowledge type checker.
2012-10-29: Notes from the wrong future: the end of crypto.
2012-10-29: London Heathrow approach time-lapse.
2012-10-29: The poetry of function names.
2012-10-29: A police officer's opinion of airport security.
2012-10-29: More MTU and packet corruption stories.
2012-10-29: The little ssh that (sometimes) couldn't: packet corruption debugging.
2012-10-29: Singularity Chess.
2012-10-28: Police move against campaigners for "criminal acts against DWP".
2012-10-27: Attack of the week: cross-VM timing attacks.
2012-10-27: Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode: how not to design authentication.
2012-10-27: OpenFlow at Google.
2012-10-26: Avoid Hinchingbrooke: the first privatised NHS hospital is failing.
2012-10-26: American eggs would be illegal in a British supermarket, and vice versa.
2012-10-26: Sorting a million 8 digit numbers in 1MiB explained.
2012-10-26: Online security, pseudonymity, and personal vs private information.
2012-10-26: The great railway caper: big data in 1955.
2012-10-26: A taxonomy of arse.
2012-10-26: Paleontologists uncover the first feathered dinosaur fossils in the Americas.
2012-10-25: QR life.
2012-10-25: GPS software attacks: breaking in through the radio interface.
2012-10-25: Facebook does not want you to know that you can buy information about a million of their users for $5.
2012-10-25: Magit: an Emacs mode for git.
2012-10-25: How to make a security geek feel very old: factorising 512 bit RSA keys.
2012-10-25: The Swinnerton-Dyer report on academic computing in Cambridge University. (1993)
2012-10-25: UK government belatedly takes action to limit spread of disease killing ash trees.
2012-10-25: Review of IT infrastructure and support at Cambridge University.
2012-10-24: Electronic Arts Commodore 64 Fat Track copy protection loader.
2012-10-24: Closed research means people die.
2012-10-24: The slow death of public higher education in the USA.
2012-10-24: DNSSEC and X.509 certificates.
2012-10-24: Abuse IX: intensive collaboration between Dutch ISPs and SIDN to tackle botnets.
2012-10-24: A critical analysis of Dropbox software security.
2012-10-24: The island where people forget to die.
2012-10-24: Application security of core banking systems: a reality check.
2012-10-24: The unexpected effects of switching the pronouns assigned to fictional genders in an sf novel.
2012-10-24: Many sites have short crackable DKIM keys.
2012-10-24: Raspberry Pi VideoCore driver source code released under BSD licence.
2012-10-24: Microsoft Exchange private appointments are not private.
2012-10-24: Observer Food Monthly awards 2012: lots of Cambridge places in the runners up.
2012-10-24: Facebook social graph data on sale: $5 for a million names, email addresses, and profile URLs.
2012-10-24: Getting DNSSEC deployed: costs and benefits.
2012-10-23: All about ebook formats, and how to convert between them and strip DRM.
2012-10-23: GITLAB: self hosted git management based on gitolite and Ruby on Rails.
2012-10-23: Re-counting DNSSEC.
2012-10-23: Senior officers resign from Italy's serious risks commission following L'Aquila verdict.
2012-10-23: Why the L'Aquila case is NOT about risk communication.
2012-10-23: Why Plan28 wants to build Charles Babbage's Victorian computer.
2012-10-23: Open Access: What is it and what does "Open" mean?
2012-10-23: NTFS privilege elevation case study.
2012-10-23: jQuery is missing the point of promises.
2012-10-22: SILT: a memory-efficient, high-performance key-value store.
2012-10-22: The Italian government should have prepared for and recovered from the L'Aquila quake better.
2012-10-22: More details of the Amazon Kindle lockout story.
2012-10-22: MySQL vs PostgreSQL.
2012-10-22: Everything you wanted to know about certificate validation with OpenSSL.
2012-10-22: Whitehall investigation over 'FoI avoidance' in Nominet emails.
2012-10-22: Scientists at fault in L'Aquila. (Nature, 2011)
2012-10-22: Duality for Haskellers.
2012-10-22: 80% of UK homes have Internet access.
2012-10-22: Back from another globetrotting adventure, Indiana Jones discovers his bid for tenure was denied.
2012-10-22: The proposed libel reform does not provide a good enough public interest defence.
2012-10-22: Fifteen painted pianos for you to play on the streets of Cambridge.
2012-10-22: The big question mark over making petrol from air.
2012-10-22: ICANN changes rules so Verisign will be able to sell .com domains.
2012-10-22: Amazon may close your account and wipe your Kindle for no reason.
2012-10-22: Dr Ben Goldacre vs the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry.
2012-10-22: The most dangerous code: failure to validate X.509 certificates in non-browser software.
2012-10-21: Local state is poison.
2012-10-21: NIST crypto algorithm selectors may not have you in mind.
2012-10-21: Sorting 1 million 8 digit numbers in just 1MB of RAM.
2012-10-21: Rowan Atkinson's speech in support of free speech and the Reform Section 5 campaign.
2012-10-21: The WCIT ETNO proposal: unintended consequences of making the sending party pay.
2012-10-21: On meritocracy.
2012-10-21: Tests / specs: a fundamental duality of software engineering.
2012-10-21: Using cross-VM side channels to extract private keys.
2012-10-21: Google Voice lost my number and made me pay to get it back.
2012-10-21: Insanely long proofs, incompleteness, and speedup theorems.
2012-10-21: There are 250,000 patents affecting smartphones: one in six active patents.
2012-10-21: 99 hacks to make your life easier.
2012-10-21: Diocesan coats of arms.
2012-10-20: Chosen-plaintext attacks and web app crypto blob confusion.
2012-10-20: Hyperinflation is the result of a total failure of the political system.
2012-10-20: The CSRG's early BSD SCCS history converted to SVN.
2012-10-20: A collection of papers about fuzz testing.
2012-10-20: How to fix various bash annoyances.
2012-10-20: Weak memory ordering in practice on a multicore ARM.
2012-10-19: Minnesota bans free online education.
2012-10-19: Ex-government official says CIA is prosecuting whistleblower John Kiriakou to protect one of its torturers.
2012-10-19: PayPal bug bounty: a lesson in not being a fuckup.
2012-10-19: The Perceus provisioning system.
2012-10-19: How CloudFlare launched 10 data centers in 30 days.
2012-10-19: PSY vs Ghostbusters: Gangnam Busters.
2012-10-19: 44TB of SSD in 1U.
2012-10-19: Why to use the query parameter “utf8=✓”.
2012-10-19: Air Fuel Synthesis turns carbon dioxide and water vapour into petrol.
2012-10-19: Numbers don't lie: patent trolls are a plague.
2012-10-19: DNSSEC migration of a high-value domain while maintaining inner peace.
2012-10-19: DNSSEC and UDP fragmentation: a prickly combination.
2012-10-19: Steam browser URL protocol insecurity: when local bugs go remote.
2012-10-19: "We must be allowed to insult each other."
2012-10-19: decyber: take the fear out of cybersecurity.
2012-10-19: How cork is made.
2012-10-19: A systematic look at Amazon EC2 I/O performance.
2012-10-18: local-openid: geeky single user ephemeral OpenID provider.
2012-10-18: The git revolution is here.
2012-10-18: IPv6 stats world map.
2012-10-18: Comparing TCP and UDP response times of DNS root name servers.
2012-10-18: Wired on Google's datacentres.
2012-10-17: 21st IOCCC winners.
2012-10-17: The gayness of Batman.
2012-10-17: RedHat DNSSEC integration.
2012-10-17: Next steps in accelerating DNSSEC deployment.
2012-10-17: Google DNS, OpenDNS and CDN performance.
2012-10-17: How Google's hot aisles work.
2012-10-17: Registry failover and DNSSEC. (Author has not read my article on the subject!)
2012-10-17: DANE TLSA test sites.
2012-10-17: Roy Arends' DNSSEC operator change with minimal co-operation from the loser.
2012-10-17: The battlefronts in the war for control of the Internet.
2012-10-17: How did software get so reliable without provable correctness?
2012-10-17: wrk: an HTTP benchmarking tool.
2012-10-17: Pictures inside Google's data centres.
2012-10-17: Fastresolve: bulk DNS lookups for web logs.
2012-10-17: Fast functional lists, hash-lists, deques and variable length arrays.
2012-10-17: Time-lapse video of space shuttle Endeavour's trek across L.A.
2012-10-16: Leveraged buyouts and the Bain Drain.
2012-10-16: SpaceX planning new rocket bigger than Saturn V.
2012-10-16: Functional Programming in C++
2012-10-16: How I learned to stop worrying and love identity assurance. (UK government ID scheme.)
2012-10-16: SSD failure / return rates per manufacturer.
2012-10-16: Peeking inside LuaJIT.
2012-10-16: The crypto dream.
2012-10-16: Was Reddit troll Violentacrez thinking?
2012-10-16: Effect of GitHub on Python contributions.
2012-10-16: "Nature" on badger culling.
2012-10-16: A 15 year perspective on why telcos keep getting hacked.
2012-10-16: Digital River loses law suit for doing what was in the patent years before it was filed.
2012-10-16: Masterpieces from the PHP manual.
2012-10-16: Fine Structure: a story about science.
2012-10-16: Happy Ada Lovelace Day – a celebration of women science writers.
2012-10-16: Cambridgeshire county council leader is a climate change denier who thinks tories are not bourgeois.
2012-10-16: Sainsbury Laboratory Noir.
2012-10-16: Google Earth Fractals.
2012-10-16: Google Drive duplicates files if you try to do multi-way sync.
2012-10-16: Shut up and play nice: How the Western world is limiting free speech.
2012-10-16: South Carolina Supreme Court says it is OK to read other people's email without consent.
2012-10-15: Van Jacobson remembers the creation of the TCP slow start algorithm. (YouTube)
2012-10-15: Interesting auditory pitch / rhythm illusion.
2012-10-15: Cuban missile crisis: the other, secret one.
2012-10-15: The scrap value of a hacked PC.
2012-10-15: Why science and engineering toys aren't for girls (and arts and crafts aren't for boys?).
2012-10-15: Why Cambridge's Sainsbury Laboratory deserved to win the Stirling architecture prize.
2012-10-15: UK to opt out of EU police co-operation.
2012-10-15: Patents on software: an economics Nobel laureate's view.
2012-10-15: Cabinet Office paper on randomised trials of government policies.
2012-10-15: Drug laws and evidence-based policy: it's time to start doing experiments on the British people.
2012-10-15: UK drugs policy commission.
2012-10-15: Amazon in talks to buy Texas Instruments' mobile chip business.
2012-10-15: Decriminalise drug use, says independent expert report.
2012-10-15: Journalistic faux objectivity. (Another piece about he said / she said)
2012-10-15: Passive online rogue rccess point detection using sequential hypothesis testing with TCP ACK pairs.
2012-10-15: Spectroscopy of DNS update traffic.
2012-10-14: Everyonazis! A survey of Internet Nazi portmanteaus.
2012-10-13: What's really so bad about bubble sort.
2012-10-13: GET /browser.exe
2012-10-13: Lots of fantastic eyes.
2012-10-13: Swordfish have heated eyes.
2012-10-13: Google homepage size over time.
2012-10-12: Dark social: sharing on the net but off the web.
2012-10-12: How to easily beat blog comment spam.
2012-10-12: Chocolate consumption, cognitive function, and Nobel laureates.
2012-10-12: A Turing Machine in Conway's Game of Life.
2012-10-12: Can we build a more efficient airplane? Not really, says physics.
2012-10-12: A case study of AAAA filtering.
2012-10-12: Total cost of ownership of carrier-grade NAT.
2012-10-12: GSK have promised to share all trial data. Should we trust them?
2012-10-11: Interesting discussion of user-extensible IPv6 networks and the prospect of NATv6.
2012-10-11: De DNS "ANY" plaag.
2012-10-11: Time zones in Google maps.
2012-10-11: DNS response rate limiting for NSD.
2012-10-11: Court rules book scanning is fair use, suggesting Google Books victory.
2012-10-11: Rivertrail: data parallel JavaScript.
2012-10-11: Posner on patents.
2012-10-11: How to tell if the universe is simulated on a discrete lattice.
2012-10-11: Apple and Google really spent more on patents than R&D? Yes, but...
2012-10-11: Cycling rates in Cambridge.
2012-10-11: Google.ie and Yahoo.ie diverted after breach at Irish DNS registrar.
2012-10-11: Aligot: cryptographic function identification in obfuscated programs.
2012-10-10: Cognitive dissonance and the Monty Hall problem.
2012-10-10: The surprising behaviour of networks of networks.
2012-10-10: SmoothLife: cellular automata generalized to a continuous domain
2012-10-10: NSQ: bitly's realtime message queue system.
2012-10-10: Attacking telephone interactive voice response systems via their DTMF detectors.
2012-10-10: US telcos sell your call and location records to spammers.
2012-10-09: Verisign applied for patent describing broken DNSSEC operator change process.
2012-10-09: Gay marriage Nazis and the disgraceful bigot Lord Carey.
2012-10-09: More prosecutions for telling bad jokes online.
2012-10-09: Copyright trolls' evidence to be tested in a bellwether trial.
2012-10-09: Faster than C? Parsing binary data in JavaScript.
2012-10-09: The mouse faces extinction.
2012-10-09: Twitter vs patent trolls.
2012-10-08: Luv: Lua + libuv + ØMQ.
2012-10-08: LittleBlackBox: private SSL + SSH keys extracted from embedded devices.
2012-10-08: On binding UDP sockets to ANY addresses.
2012-10-08: The dawn of the stupid network.
2012-10-08: An earlier description of how to securely change DNSSEC hosting providers.
2012-10-08: Verisign tries to patent the obvious way to securely change DNSSEC hosting providers.
2012-10-08: Apple and Google spend more on patents than on R&D.
2012-10-08: Pictures of the flight deck of the space shuttle Endeavour.
2012-10-07: Ben Goldacre Q&A on Bad Pharma.
2012-10-07: No, you are not entitled to your opinion.
2012-10-07: DEFRA has a superinjunction covering the identities of those planning the stupid badger cull.
2012-10-07: The kissing sailor: the selective blindness of rape culture.
2012-10-07: The complete "How To Write A Thriller", by Ian Fleming.
2012-10-07: UHF TACSAT/SATCOM satellite downlinks receivable in the US.
2012-10-07: Brazilians like using US military comms satellites: open relays for ham radio.
2012-10-07: You can't have it all: Princetonian letters on work-life balance.
2012-10-07: The best interface is no interface.
2012-10-06: A beautiful version of Euclid's Elements published in 1847.
2012-10-06: LINK ATM locator.
2012-10-06: The surprising demographics of UK opinion on abortion.
2012-10-06: More evidence that Voyager has exited the solar system.
2012-10-06: There really is an advert containing a smartphone inside 'EW Magazine'.
2012-10-05: The mystery of the blue honey.
2012-10-05: OED wants help finding early uses of certain phrases. (Usenet features prominently!)
2012-10-05: Validns: zone file checker with DNSSEC support.
2012-10-05: DANE patrol: RFC 6698 TLSA verification for Firefox.
2012-10-04: TLS X.509 certificate verification is still often disabled.
2012-10-04: The fastest man-made object ever: a nuclear-powered manhole cover.
2012-10-04: "Strong" and "weak" concurrent hardware memory models.
2012-10-04: Some AMD Opteron chips have buggy implementations of CMPXCHG.
2012-10-04: Patent troll TQP claims a monopoly over TLS + RC4.
2012-10-04: This is rape culture.
2012-10-04: What would happen to the oceans if the Earth stopped rotating.
2012-10-04: TCP Fast Open: expediting web services with Linux 3.6.
2012-10-04: Why is SHA-3 fast in hardware?
2012-10-04: Gangnam style, 1975 :-)
2012-10-04: The concept of quality of service in the Internet.
2012-10-03: America is not the most entrepreneurial country.
2012-10-03: Simon Singh threatened with legal action for criticising dangerous quack magazine.
2012-10-03: Judge Posner asks, do patent and copyright law restrict competition and creativity excessively?
2012-10-02: Summary of the Keccak sponge function family.
2012-10-02: Practical padding oracle attacks on RSA.
2012-10-02: Benchmarks of SHA-3 finalists.
2012-10-02: A fast new SipHash implementation in Haskell.
2012-10-02: Keccak is the winner of the SHA-3 cryptographic hash competition.
2012-10-02: Make your own Marmite: "dangerous and hard to control"
2012-10-02: HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) approved as Proposed Standard RFC.
2012-10-02: Hackers sneak bugs into open source code, so they can later sell a zero-day exploit.
2012-10-02: On the obligation of companies to maximise profits.
2012-10-02: Symlink and hard link restrictions in Linux 3.6.
2012-10-02: Elsevier responds to Gowers boycott by allowing free access to old maths papers.
2012-10-02: Don Knuth and Doug McIlroy on literate programming.
2012-10-02: Labour will make cuts to welfare budget if it wins 2015 election.
2012-10-01: London could overtake Paris as the gastronomic capital of Europe.
2012-10-01: 3D printer manufacturer refuses to support WikiWeapon project.
2012-10-01: USB flash storage responsible for over 70% of US army computer security breaches.
2012-10-01: The great disconnect: an American conservative view of their liberal compatriots.
2012-10-01: TCP Small Queues to fight bufferbloat in Linux 3.6.
2012-10-01: The tale of 1,001 DSL modems: millions of hacked routers in Brazil.
2012-10-01: To encourage cycling, helmets should not be mandatory.
2012-10-01: Server Porn.
2012-10-01: Venues with a capacity under 200 no longer need a licence for live music.
2012-10-01: Is Leo Traynor's troll story a lie?
2012-10-01: How many cod are really left in the North Sea?
2012-10-01: How a rogue appeals court wrecked the patent system.
2012-10-01: Nominet consults on the first step to abolishing hierarchical names under the .uk TLD.
2012-10-01: Videos from the Dennis Ritchie memorial symposium.
2012-10-01: Only IE users have been exposed to active attacks against unpatched vulnerabilities in the last 20 months.
2012-09-30: How to make clear ice cubes.
2012-09-30: FORTH to C compiler, with debugging and IDE support, in a blog article.
2012-09-30: 2012 Makey awards.
2012-09-30: American Airlines should no longer be flying across the Atlantic.
2012-09-30: PSY London Style.
2012-09-30: Behold the unclefts.
2012-09-30: Uncleftish beholding: atomic theory explained using only Germanic words.
2012-09-30: NHS + IT = FUBAR.
2012-09-30: LLJS: the bastard child of JavaScript and C.
2012-09-30: British Antarctic Survey to receive the Royal Greenwich Observatory treatment.
2012-09-29: Markets are efficient if and only if P = NP.
2012-09-29: The case for abolishing patents (yes, all of them).
2012-09-29: HTML5 security, cross-domain Math.random() prediction and Facebook JavaScript API.
2012-09-29: Automated fraud checking calls do not improve credit card security.
2012-09-29: GIFCTRL
2012-09-28: RAR files can contain bytecode for a simple x86-like virtual machine.
2012-09-28: On the (provable) security of TLS, part 2.
2012-09-28: What if every electron in the universe was all the same exact particle?
2012-09-28: Learnable programming.
2012-09-28: Flex Projector: create custom world map projections.
2012-09-28: Tracking stealth planes using passive radar.
2012-09-28: Windows 8 does not work very well on high-pixel-density displays.
2012-09-28: Tuning Linux TCP/IP for scalability.
2012-09-28: Adobe code signing infrastructure was compromised and used to authenticate malware.
2012-09-28: Man jailed for accidentally sexting everyone in his contacts list.
2012-09-28: Visualizing language knowledge in Europe.
2012-09-27: First beta release of Mozilla Persona: web login without passwords.
2012-09-27: Enumerating regular languages, countably infinite sets, and Cantor diagonalization.
2012-09-27: Alice and Bob can go on holiday! Describing crypto with Sita and Rama.
2012-09-27: Flexible and robust key rollover in DNSSEC.
2012-09-27: How to build a windmill.
2012-09-27: Inside the CleanIT conflict.
2012-09-27: Rust is the language of the future for systems programming.
2012-09-27: OStatus: like Twitter, but open.
2012-09-27: Plebgate and the new snobbery.
2012-09-27: Enhanced WWVB long-wave time broadcast format.
2012-09-27: NoPassword: log into a website with just an email address.
2012-09-27: Ejecta: fast JavaScript canvas and audio for iOS, without the rest of the browser.
2012-09-27: In defence of skeuomorphism.
2012-09-27: Apple Safari .mobi viewport insanity.
2012-09-26: London's surnames mapped.
2012-09-26: How long does it take to earn the price of a beer?
2012-09-26: Honu: macros for algebraic notation through enforestation.
2012-09-26: Cautionary tales about copyright licence fee collection societies.
2012-09-26: Coming next November: comet ISON, 15 times brighter than the moon.
2012-09-26: Wind turbines do in fact reduce carbon emissions, despite needing backup when the weather is calm.
2012-09-26: US State Department uses illegal impossible-to-complete application forms to prevent people getting passports.
2012-09-26: The CRIME attack: TLS compression leaks enough information to recover cookies.
2012-09-26: Scottish Labour plans to end free universal benefits.
2012-09-26: IPv4 address transfer markets are forming where we least expected.
2012-09-26: Breakthrough silicon scanning discovers backdoor in military chip.
2012-09-26: EU Clean IT project plans for large-scale surveillance of all communications.
2012-09-25: How wood rots inside secret bunkers.
2012-09-25: The entire field of particle physics is set to switch to open-access publishing.
2012-09-25: IEEE web log data breach.
2012-09-25: Complementary validation: proofs, programs, prose.
2012-09-25: Everything you need to know about hash length extension attacks.
2012-09-25: DENIC uses RIPE Atlas to analyse DNS mangling by the Great Firewall of China.
2012-09-25: The smallest minimum ice extent ever, not just in the satellite record, but probably the last million years.
2012-09-25: Meeting a troll.
2012-09-25: The joys and hazards of multi-process browser security.
2012-09-25: mypy is an experimental Python variant with static duck typing and compiled to native code.
2012-09-25: MakerBot does not think carbon-copy cloning is acceptable.
2012-09-25: Google Spanner: NoSQL is out and NewSQL is in.
2012-09-25: The uk.ac.cam.cl problem.
2012-09-24: Crowdsourced patent-busting with Stack Exchange.
2012-09-24: To cite "shouting 'Fire!' in a crowded theatre" adds nothing to a debate about free speech.
2012-09-24: DNS dampening.
2012-09-24: Counting DNSSEC.
2012-09-24: How to stop hospitals from killing us.
2012-09-23: sweet.js: hygienic macros for JavaScript.
2012-09-23: DNSSEC for tinydns.
2012-09-23: Dear Apple, it's not me, it's you.
2012-09-23: The drugs don't work.
2012-09-22: What business is Wall Street in.
2012-09-22: Patent trolls and video streaming.
2012-09-21: Elsevier's impending "catastrophe" and the cost of scholarly publishing.
2012-09-21: iPhone 5 teardown.
2012-09-21: DNSSEC resolver test.
2012-09-21: Measuring occurence of DNSSEC validation.
2012-09-21: The case for a truly liberal party.
2012-09-20: Amazing Week 2012: blog about something great that we take for granted, between 15 and 21 October.
2012-09-20: Evolution of E. coli in the lab.
2012-09-20: OpenStreetMap apps for iOS.
2012-09-20: GitHub humans.txt
2012-09-20: The myth of the European Court of Human Rights’ “War on Britain”.
2012-09-20: scrypt-jane: a flexible implementation of a memory-hard password hasher.
2012-09-19: Our Arup building, from which we are soon to be evicted.
2012-09-19: Study reveals overweight teens have fewer arms than healthy-weight ones.
2012-09-19: Rackspace's response to patent troll.
2012-09-19: Patents on content-addressed storage and hash deduplication.
2012-09-19: Patent troll sues Rackspace for hosting Github, and other users of content-addressible storage.
2012-09-18: Complexity theory petting zoo: an overview of the different complexity classes.
2012-09-18: Google gets patent on pseudonyms.
2012-09-18: Hitler: Downfall, Gangnam Style. (YouTube)
2012-09-18: Better eating, thanks to fermentation.
2012-09-18: PCRE performance project: speeding it up with a JIT compiler.
2012-09-18: How to launch a 65Gbps DDoS, and how to stop one.
2012-09-18: The software patent solution has been right here all along?
2012-09-18: CoffeeScript: less typing, less readability?
2012-09-18: $45 tablets are coming.
2012-09-17: US Copyright Act 1976 explicitly says disruptive innovation should be blocked.
2012-09-17: How they got 25% women speakers for JSConf EU 2012.
2012-09-17: Fenwick trees: rapidly find cumulative frequency sums.
2012-09-17: IPv6 wireless mesh network for controlling multi-colour LED lightbulbs.
2012-09-17: 0x5f3759df and the fast reciprocal square root.
2012-09-17: Everything is broken and nobody is upset.
2012-09-17: Casting negative floating point numbers to unsigned integers is undefined behaviour in C.
2012-09-16: An iPhone is worth $8700 of assistive technology.
2012-09-16: Privacy International prospectus.
2012-09-16: Programmable Martian watch.
2012-09-16: The iPhone 5's A6 SoC uses a custom Apple-designed ARM core.
2012-09-16: Enigma Crack: cryptanalysis with GPUs.
2012-09-16: Just 100 fully-grown cod left in the North Sea.
2012-09-16: Hillsborough cover-up warning was ignored by judicial inquiry.
2012-09-16: Act now to stop the Communications Data Bill.
2012-09-16: X11 turned 25 years old on the 15th September.
2012-09-15: Spanner: Google's globally distributed database.
2012-09-15: Haskell vs. F# vs. Scala: A comparison of high-level language features and parallelism support.
2012-09-15: Find your nearest postbox.
2012-09-15: Thatcher's "boot boys": When the unholy trinity of police, press and government took root.
2012-09-15: On the (provable) security of TLS.
2012-09-14: GitHub downtime: MySQL / heartbeat / pacemaker automatic failover failure.
2012-09-14: iPhone announcement adjective supercut.
2012-09-14: Plan 9 for Raspberry Pi.
2012-09-14: Huge drop in students starting university in UK.
2012-09-14: Efficient compilation of tail calls and continuations to JavaScript.
2012-09-14: Baserock Slab ARM cluster in a box.
2012-09-14: afraid.org used for DNS reflection/amplification attacks.
2012-09-14: "Your adventure ends here." (On interactive fiction.)
2012-09-14: Never use afraid.org as a DNS hosting provider.
2012-09-14: Compare distortion of different map projections. (interactive)
2012-09-14: Space-filling polyhedra.
2012-09-14: RIPE NCC is down to its last IPv4 /8.
2012-09-14: Astonishingly, it is slow to build and execute a template engine from scratch in the browser for every page.
2012-09-14: GIF sockets.
2012-09-14: The caves of Nottingham.
2012-09-14: EMFcamp: getting network connectivity to a field in Milton Keynes.
2012-09-13: TLS, CRIME, BEAST and you the programmer.
2012-09-13: Cosmo, the hacker 'god' who fell to earth.
2012-09-13: Responsive web design resources.
2012-09-13: Newspaper circulation is inversely proportional to perceived trustworthiness.
2012-09-13: What is my IT strategy?
2012-09-13: Xiki: executable wiki / shell / terminal / editor.
2012-09-13: Comcast's operational experiences with DNSSEC.
2012-09-12: Java concurrent HashMap benchmark.
2012-09-12: Outlaw possession of written accounts of child abuse says dangerous loon Conservative MP.
2012-09-12: Could your domain survive a DNS attack?
2012-09-12: How Troy, MI saved its library. (Vimeo)
2012-09-12: Child porn laws aren't as bad as you think: they're much, much worse.
2012-09-12: Mozilla Opus flexible audio codec published as RFC 6716, which includes a reference implementation!
2012-09-12: Olympic games vs. Highland games.
2012-09-12: The proper way to lock your bicycle.
2012-09-12: Legalizing child pornography is linked to lower rates of child sex abuse.
2012-09-12: A touch of the Galois: on the possible proof of the abc conjecture.
2012-09-12: Wikitravel and Wikimedia are in a legal battle... but not over Creative Commons.
2012-09-12: Magic: The Gathering is Turing complete.
2012-09-12: Botnet detection techniques.
2012-09-12: The "spark file": a way to defrag your brain.
2012-09-11: Big society in action: Squatters reopen Friern Barnet library after council closed it.
2012-09-11: Confession of Faith Ratification Act 1690: Chapter xxiv: Of Marriage and Divorce.
2012-09-11: KindleBerry Pi.
2012-09-11: The cookie law is dead. (Until November?)
2012-09-11: Sparse Merkle trees for revocation transparency and sovreign keys.
2012-09-11: Google's Pluto top-of-rack switch has interesting 10Gbit PHYs.
2012-09-10: Skeu It! A celebration of arbitrary and gratuitous user interface design.
2012-09-10: Alzheimer's could be the most catastrophic effect of junk food.
2012-09-10: The world's shiniest living thing is an African fruit that looks like a pointillist bauble.
2012-09-10: PostgreSQL: when it's not your job.
2012-09-10: Amazing magic: Shell game, with transparent cups. (YouTube)
2012-09-10: Chip and Skim: massive vulnerability in bank card system due to ATMs' insecure random numbers.
2012-09-10: OpenStreetMap: four years of edits. (Vimeo)
2012-09-10: Why posession of child porn should not be illegal.
2012-09-10: Overweight adolescents and teenagers consume fewer calories than their healthy weight peers.
2012-09-10: Lessons for uncultured web developers.
2012-09-10: Soft water exacerbates alcoholic liver disease.
2012-09-10: Structurelessness: what open activities can learn from second wave feminists.
2012-09-10: DNS Flood Detector: detect abuse of open recursive name servers.
2012-09-10: Dissent: accountable anonymous group communication.
2012-09-09: Should we MAC-then-encrypt or encrypt-then-MAC?
2012-09-09: The tragedy of the European Union and how to resolve it.
2012-09-09: Insecure programming by example.
2012-09-08: In looming federalism fight, three states say feds can't 'unmarry' gay couples.
2012-09-08: How we happened to sell off our electricity.
2012-09-08: The previous history of Mendax / Julian Assange.
2012-09-08: Disks from the perspective of a file system.
2012-09-08: Notes on Rust's garbage collector.
2012-09-08: PHPSESSID is predictable.
2012-09-08: How to win at Connect 4.
2012-09-08: Bitcoin and the Byzantine Generals problem.
2012-09-07: Google acquires VirusTotal.
2012-09-07: The demise of a social media platform: Tracking LiveJournal's decline.
2012-09-07: d20 randomness test: 20,000 rolls of Chessex and GameScience dice.
2012-09-07: Large scale DNSSEC with PowerDNS: best current practice and problems.
2012-09-07: StatDNS: TLD zone file statistics.
2012-09-07: A virus that kills cancer: the cure that's waiting in the cold.
2012-09-07: Simon Burns, the new transport minister, crashed into a cyclist with his 4x4.
2012-09-07: Raspberry Pi made in the UK!
2012-09-07: The Linux graphics stack.
2012-09-06: Pro tip: if you rely on unpaid volunteers to run your website, don't sue them.
2012-09-06: CCNx: content-centric networking.
2012-09-06: Networking named content. (Introducing CCNx.)
2012-09-06: New attack uses SSL/TLS information leak to hijack https session cookies.
2012-09-06: Increasing equality reduces gender differences in mate preferences, contradicting evolutionary psychology.
2012-09-06: Guided busway could cost local taxpayers up to £102 million.
2012-09-06: Oracle sued for $6 billion, but Google won $1.1 million.
2012-09-06: History and anatomy of a silly drug ban.
2012-09-06: Copyright killbots take official Democratic National Convention video off YouTube after loads of bogus complaints.
2012-09-06: Avoiding hash lookups in a Ruby implementation on the JVM.
2012-09-06: Google search is only 18% search.
2012-09-05: Discovering path MTU black holes on the Internet using RIPE Atlas.
2012-09-05: Paul Wouters on DNSSEC at the Linux Security Summit 2012.
2012-09-05: Why Sony did not invent the iPod: established business models vs disruptive innovation.
2012-09-05: Stuxnet: leaks or lies?
2012-09-05: Namespaces are obsolete.
2012-09-05: The new King's Cross concourse was shaped 12,000 years ago.
2012-09-05: The thin blue lie: the police usually get away with it.
2012-09-05: Thoughts on Amazon Glacier pricing.
2012-09-05: Cable lacing on the Mars Curiosity rover.
2012-09-05: OpenSSH-LPK: LDAP public key storage.
2012-09-04: Re-assessing Samsung's copycat strategy in South Korea.
2012-09-04: Nutrition and Alzheimer's disease: the detrimental role of a high carbohydrate diet.
2012-09-04: Fabrice Bellard's LTE 4G base station software.
2012-09-04: Reddit's database has two tables.
2012-09-03: Bottle cutting: a first ‘crack' at recycled glass craft.
2012-09-03: How to cut glass with string and acetone.
2012-09-03: High-speed high-security deterministic elliptic curve signatures.
2012-09-03: Deterministic usage of DSA and ECDSA digital signature algorithms.
2012-09-03: Ron was wrong, Whit is right: observations of non-random key generation.
2012-09-03: Stupid copyright enforcement robots killed the Hugo Awards live broadcast.
2012-09-03: Apple never invented anything.
2012-09-03: GeoDNS in Go for the NTP pool.
2012-09-03: Wikipedia's description of cjdns.
2012-09-03: cjdns: a routing engine designed for security, scalability, speed and ease of use.
2012-09-03: The Babel routing protocol.
2012-09-03: An experimental comparison of routing protocols in multi-hop ad hoc networks.
2012-09-03: Airmesh: a collection of open source mesh network technologies, packaged to be self-configuring.
2012-09-03: Torvalds pours scorn on De Icaza's desktop claims.
2012-09-03: Interview: Amelia Andersdotter, Swedish Piratpartiet MEP.
2012-09-02: Baking Pi: operating systems development on the Raspberry Pi.
2012-09-02: What hardware powers Etsy.com.
2012-09-02: How two amateur sleuths looked for FinSpy software.
2012-09-02: Tacocopter basics. (Lots of videos of RC flight.)
2012-09-02: Flynn's IQ.
2012-09-02: The $23,800 bug bite.
2012-08-31: Information commissioner orders release of guide to how Queen and Prince Charles must be consulted before laws are passed.
2012-08-31: Reinventing teaching at Harvard.
2012-08-31: Thinking about proper implementation of tail calls in the JVM.
2012-08-31: More examples of alarmingly slow floating point exponentiation.
2012-08-31: Alarmingly slow floating point exponentiation in some odd cases.
2012-08-31: Johnny can't stream: how video copyright went insane.
2012-08-31: The history of subliminal channels.
2012-08-31: The Newton channel: covert channels in digital signatures.
2012-08-31: Long exposure photos of fireworks.
2012-08-31: How the turtle got its shell.
2012-08-30: Kubrick: one-point perspective. (Vimeo)
2012-08-30: The federal bailout that saved Mitt Romney.
2012-08-30: Patents considered evil.
2012-08-30: How did the proof get in the pudding?
2012-08-30: Tabasco sort: a super-optimal merge sort.
2012-08-30: Lessons from deploying IPv6 at Brno University of Technology.
2012-08-30: Hopefully more controversial opinions on programming.
2012-08-30: Most online journalism is rotten to the core.
2012-08-30: The dictator's practical Internet guide to power retention.
2012-08-30: The cost of advertising a route into the Internet DFZ using BGP.
2012-08-30: Damn cool algorithms: homomorphic hashing.
2012-08-30: What killed the Linux desktop.
2012-08-30: How to crack a WiFi password without breaking a sweat.
2012-08-29: A history of the floppy disk.
2012-08-29: OpenSolaris / OpenIndiana / Illumos is dying!
2012-08-29: The NSA's domestic spying program. (video)
2012-08-29: dnsxss: stuffing JavaScript into DNS names.
2012-08-29: Another 40 years of copyright bullshit, but the Pirate Party will have won long before then.
2012-08-29: Apple Thunderbolt to FireWire adapter teardown - there *is* an Intel Thunderbolt chip after all.
2012-08-29: Apple: I love to hate, and hate to love thee.
2012-08-29: 30% of IPv4 address space is unused.
2012-08-29: "A calorie is a calorie" violates the second law of thermodynamics.
2012-08-29: Hidden truths about calories.
2012-08-29: What happens to stolen bicycles?
2012-08-29: Decentralized software is 10x harder.
2012-08-28: Is there a limit to how tall buildings can get?
2012-08-28: With over 760,000 signed domains, .NL has the most DNSSEC deployment of all TLDs.
2012-08-28: Different polling companies have differently biased results owing to their methodologies.
2012-08-28: How OfflineIMAP works.
2012-08-28: An evil undead credit card.
2012-08-28: High Weirdness By Mail.
2012-08-27: How #TwitterGulag works: deliberately triggering account suspension.
2012-08-27: DNS related RFCs.
2012-08-27: Comparison and analysis of managed DNS providers.
2012-08-26: Spammers make $200 million a year in total and cost everyone $20 billion.
2012-08-26: Dynamic programming versus memoization.
2012-08-26: Ball on a blivet.
2012-08-26: Flat lens produces a perfect image.
2012-08-26: The lack of pictures of Neil Armstrong on the moon.
2012-08-25: The Bayesian temptation of Christ.
2012-08-25: Animation of a broken space elevator.
2012-08-25: The GCSE grading scandal: where to look for the smoking gun.
2012-08-25: Sedentary western bodies use as much energy as active hunter-gatherers.
2012-08-25: Water wigs.
2012-08-25: Fleksy: better touch screen typing?
2012-08-25: BIOS protection guidelines for servers.
2012-08-25: Hardware backdooring is practical.
2012-08-24: The atrocious state of maternity leave in the US.
2012-08-23: Random-sample elections.
2012-08-23: The case of the FUCK-A-DUCK RSA private key.
2012-08-23: The innovations of Microsoft Internet Explorer.
2012-08-22: Parallel programming for C and C++ done right (a work in progress).
2012-08-22: Leap touch-free motion sensing input device.
2012-08-22: ICANN's new GTLD boondoggle.
2012-08-22: The London Cycling Campaign visited Cambridge.
2012-08-22: 7 reasons why numbered lists are bad for blogging.
2012-08-22: The most valuable company of all time? Not Apple. Not Microsoft.
2012-08-22: Measuring Worth: five calculations of the relative value of amounts in UK pounds, 1270 to the present.
2012-08-22: Paperbacks transformed the way Americans read (years later than Europeans).
2012-08-22: Google's top advertisers.
2012-08-21: Hollywood encourages online piracy.
2012-08-21: Campaign for Science & Engineering.
2012-08-21: The problem with mansplaining: women are told they are not reliable witnesses to their own lives, that the truth is not their property.
2012-08-21: PC obsolescence is obsolete.
2012-08-21: Bad news for new TLDs: porn sites get the go-ahead to sue ICANN and ICM over the .xxx trademark shake-down.
2012-08-21: Patent troll Intellectual Ventures has 1200+ shell companies holding tens of thousands of patents.
2012-08-21: Fifty shades of lorem ipsum.
2012-08-21: Why do we let the Prudocracy police our sexual fantasies?
2012-08-21: Corporate bickering hobbled better audio compression.
2012-08-20: Victorian sexual slang.
2012-08-20: So many similarities between copyright law and Prohibition.
2012-08-20: The Internet Society on the technical implausibility of proposed ITU Internet regulations.
2012-08-20: FreeBSD setup on the Raspberry Pi.
2012-08-20: USPTO says serious problems are found in the vast majority of re-examined US patents.
2012-08-20: FACT's victory over Surfthechannel is a decisive blow in the copyright wars.
2012-08-20: The Information Commissioner's Office has no investigative team to enforce the cookie directive.
2012-08-20: "The entire dot-com era was a disaster for computing in general and for software quality and Unix in particular." - phk
2012-08-20: Mars landing videos and other casualties of the copyright robot wars.
2012-08-20: Your words are wasted on social silos.
2012-08-20: Shadows in the woods: a children's board game based on beams of light from a candle.
2012-08-20: DNS traffic amplification attacks emanating from China Unicom.
2012-08-20: Programming languages have social mores not idioms.
2012-08-20: 1024cores: lockfree, waitfree, obstructionfree synchronization algorithms and data structures.
2012-08-19: British government wants even more secret court hearings. Justice must not be seen to be done!
2012-08-19: FeML: a skeleton of a femto-ML with nothing but polymorphic variants and functions.
2012-08-19: Dear Apple: please set iMessage free.
2012-08-19: Even more important than shipping containers.
2012-08-19: Punks and chess players: when Putin's thugs arrested Kasparov.
2012-08-18: €1 million swiped from ATMs using bent forks.
2012-08-18: Idiot police don't understand the difference between anarchists and terrorists.
2012-08-18: The IETF argues about making malware-in-the-middle attacks a standard feature of https.
2012-08-18: America needs to learn from other better countries.
2012-08-18: Historical music sales: the false sales spike of CDs and the rise of the download single.
2012-08-18: Redefining the introduction to computer science at Khan Academy.
2012-08-17: O'Caml vs SML.
2012-08-17: Private justice: Hollywood money put a Brit behind bars.
2012-08-17: This is how Visa works.
2012-08-17: SURFnet's DNSSEC signer migration.
2012-08-17: How Mat Honan got his digital life back again after an epic hacking.
2012-08-17: Expansion-passing style: a general macro mechanism.
2012-08-17: The emerging revolution in game theory: Press-Dyson strategies for the iterated prisoner's dillema.
2012-08-16: Why the sexy A-levels blog must die.
2012-08-16: Mutilating girls is not "harm": the extreme relativist strand in anthropology.
2012-08-16: Health and safety law is not bureaucratic nonsense.
2012-08-15: The real story behind the conviction of SurfTheChannel´s owner Anton Vickerman.
2012-08-15: RIPE has reallocated two of the DNSchanger IP address blocks to legit users.
2012-08-15: Richard Branson rails against the government's insane treatment of unrealistically large franchise bids.
2012-08-15: Tupper's self-referential formula.
2012-08-15: People of Ely! You live in paraidse!
2012-08-15: The Ladycoders project, interviewing and career advice.
2012-08-15: Stop publishing web pages: users want information streams.
2012-08-15: ANI dataflow programming language.
2012-08-15: Technology is making surveillance dystopia not just possible, but cheap.
2012-08-15: Hachette doubles down on DRM.
2012-08-15: Why trousers? Horses.
2012-08-14: Feminist real ale.
2012-08-14: "Make us do the math. Some day, we'll thank you."
2012-08-14: Which are more legible: serif or sans serif typefaces?
2012-08-14: How we know the galaxy is a spiral.
2012-08-14: Running a pirate video search engine is conspiracy to defraud.
2012-08-14: The witch hunt that ruined Simon Walsh's life.
2012-08-14: Erased Landscape: the making of flat land in sandy San Francisco.
2012-08-14: United Airlines lost a ten year old unaccompanied child and didn't care.
2012-08-14: Yo-yo tricks IN SPACE! (YouTube)
2012-08-14: Progressive Insurance prefers to defend killers rather than pay out on a policy.
2012-08-14: Differences between white American terrorists and others.
2012-08-13: Heroin's exaggerated reputation.
2012-08-13: What "Worse is Better vs The Right Thing" is really about.
2012-08-12: An argument against call/cc.
2012-08-12: A review of Neal Stephenson's book Anathem.
2012-08-11: One in four deaths are 'not properly recorded'.
2012-08-11: "Stay the hell out of other people's code."
2012-08-11: Browserver: an HTTP server in your web browser.
2012-08-11: Choice of font measurably affects how readers treat your writing.
2012-08-11: The Martini FAQ.
2012-08-10: The porn trial verdict is no reason to celebrate.
2012-08-10: Why it is a bad idea to share DNSSEC keys between zones.
2012-08-10: The Director of Public Prosecutions was personally responsible for pursuing the Twitter Joke Trial.
2012-08-10: The High Court ruling which could break the Internet: could linking to a website be copyright infringement?
2012-08-09: The Trailing Edge: computing's last stand.
2012-08-09: LuaJIT now supports VFP and hardware floating point on ARM v6+.
2012-08-09: Les Earnest's analog to digital conversion. (A memoir)
2012-08-09: Male contraception methods.
2012-08-09: Man arrested for not enjoying himself at the Olympics.
2012-08-09: UK academic salaries competitive with those in the US.
2012-08-09: Cambridge University granted planning permission for £1 billion North West Cambridge development.
2012-08-09: SipHash: a fast short-input PRF.
2012-08-08: Clever packaging helps new users get started with their phone. (Vimeo).
2012-08-08: Billionaire backers pick American politicians, and all that matters is who gets the ad money.
2012-08-07: Raging bulls: Wall Street's addiction to high frequency trading.
2012-08-07: Loco2: Europe by train made easy.
2012-08-07: .nl now has more DNSSEC domain names than any other TLD.
2012-08-07: High-frequency trading volumes, 2007 - 2012.
2012-08-07: Obituary of Sir Bernard Lovell, founder of the Jodrell Bank radio observatory.
2012-08-07: Federated domain name service using DNS metazones
2012-08-07: RFC 6698: The DANE TLS protocol: DNS-based authentication of TLS servers using TLSA records.
2012-08-07: Apple and Amazon security flaws that led to an epic hacking.
2012-08-06: Open source reader and security analysis of Apple FileVault 2 full disk encryption.
2012-08-06: Notes on logstash and graylog2.
2012-08-05: An explanation for the Knight Capital fuckup: test code deployed in production.
2012-08-05: That dangerously loveable rogue Boris Johnson.
2012-08-05: Cliodynamics uses scientific methods to illuminate the past. Historians are not so sure.
2012-08-04: Explanations of free software package names.
2012-08-04: "Yes, I was hacked. Hard." Remote wipe disaster.
2012-08-03: SpaceX gets $440 million contract from NASA for manned space vehicle.
2012-08-03: Lesser known DNS tools and BIND tricks.
2012-08-03: Written conversation between two people falls under the obscene publications act.
2012-08-03: Why men can't have it all.
2012-08-03: Auditor-driven IPv6 deployment.
2012-08-03: Jane Austen's Fight Club
2012-08-02: Scientology's concentration camp for its executives: the prisoners, past and present.
2012-08-02: Backlash: defending freedom of expression and sexual autonomy in the UK.
2012-08-02: Mandatory helmets for car users could save 17 times the people from death by head injury as a helmet law for cyclists.
2012-08-02: Save A Cheese: rescue Parmesan from earthquakes.
2012-08-02: What if other sports were photographed like beach volleyball?
2012-08-02: Body armour reality check.
2012-08-02: Linux and OpenGL faster than Windows and Direct3D.
2012-08-02: Don't develop for proprietary platforms (Facebook, Twitter) with advertising-driven conflicts of interest.
2012-08-02: A non-historical approach to teaching quantum physics.
2012-08-01: The business of Bond: interactive visualisation of 007 film budgets and box office returns.
2012-08-01: The Aurora shooter's defensive SWAT gear killed the NRA's answer to gun violence.
2012-08-01: Incitement to riot and freedom of speech online in the USA.
2012-07-31: A few PowerPoint tips.
2012-07-31: Routers from China's Huawei are vulnerable to trivial attacks.
2012-07-31: Boris Johnson still schmoozing with Rupert Murdoch.
2012-07-31: There's free (as in beer) and free (as in speech) but the lesser-known third option is …
2012-07-31: London tourist attractions lack visitors because of Olympics.
2012-07-31: Connecting Cambridgeshire: measuring demand for better broadband.
2012-07-31: Cracking MS-CHAPv2 with a 100% success rate.
2012-07-31: Thomas Heatherwick: London's greatest modern designer?
2012-07-31: Prosecuted for receiving pictures of fisting via email.
2012-07-31: Practical machine learning tricks from Google.
2012-07-31: Netflix Chaos Monkey released into the wild.
2012-07-31: Lessons in website security anti-patterns by Tesco.
2012-07-31: When the Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it, you don't necessarily get your account back.
2012-07-31: ASCII street view.
2012-07-30: Book review: "The Nurture Assumption"
2012-07-30: 80% of Facebook ad clicks are by bots.
2012-07-30: Ubisoft "Uplay" DRM allows any website to take over your computer if you have one of their games installed.
2012-07-29: Good evidence from Korea that real name policies do not improve online behaviour.
2012-07-29: Employment Minister Chris Grayling moves to push the "sicker than expected" into work.
2012-07-29: The London Olympics are the most Right-wing major event in Britain's modern history.
2012-07-29: Music labels won't share Pirate Bay loot with artists.
2012-07-29: Climate change skeptics funded detailed study that confirms anthropogenic temperature increase.
2012-07-29: Apple Thunderbolt Ethernet adapter: a mini marvel.
2012-07-27: Birth of ARPANET 1967-1969.
2012-07-27: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs: high-res open-source PDF.
2012-07-27: The history of the NRA Is really interesting.
2012-07-27: The Aleppo Codex: a high holy whodunnit.
2012-07-26: Academic publishing in the humanities is stupid and it's time for a new manifesto.
2012-07-26: Mayor's "sustainable" Olympic taxis take a 130-mile trip each day to fill up in Swindon.
2012-07-26: Brussels rules against seed diversity.
2012-07-26: OAuth 2.0 and the road to hell.
2012-07-26: De-gendering academic dress at Oxford.
2012-07-25: Pair o' Boxes: 162 paperclips, no two of which are linked.
2012-07-25: PUP: an internetwork architecture.
2012-07-25: Police protest tactics give officers excessive and disproportionate control.
2012-07-25: Pepsi-drinking, Nike-wearing, MasterCard-using customers to receive 30% off as part of anti-Olympics Oddbins campaign.
2012-07-25: The academic publishing industry is on the verge of disruption.
2012-07-24: Police use cultural relativism as an excuse for not prosecuting female genital mutilation.
2012-07-24: Why don't we drink milk from other animals?
2012-07-24: Satellites see unprecedented Greenland ice sheet surface melt.
2012-07-24: Pavlov's strategy outperforms tit-for-tat in the iterated prisoners' dilemma.
2012-07-24: The Prisoner's Dilemma.
2012-07-24: Sorry ladies, the IOC is above the law.
2012-07-24: Members of Congress now want to prosecute New York Times journalists as well as WikiLeaks.
2012-07-24: Coffee's uncanny valley.
2012-07-24: Boris Johnson's Olympic welcome.
2012-07-24: Collateral damage from Internet censorship by DNS mangling middleboxes.
2012-07-24: Colours in movie posters since 1914.
2012-07-24: Forty data communications research questions.
2012-07-23: Skeuomorphs: where Microsoft has better taste than Apple.
2012-07-23: A profile of Eugene Kaspersky.
2012-07-23: 2012 disasters: collected Olympic news.
2012-07-23: Local parish magazine banned because village is on Olympic cycle route.
2012-07-23: Why does the IT industry continue to listen to Gartner?
2012-07-23: allRGB: a collection of images with one pixel in each possible colour.
2012-07-23: Resources for learning practical category theory.
2012-07-23: How should we talk to men about sexism?
2012-07-23: Expensive lessons in Python performance tuning.
2012-07-23: Raspberry Pi persistence of vision magic wand.
2012-07-23: From Bedrooms to Billions: a planned documentary about the history of the British games industry.
2012-07-23: Notch on patents.
2012-07-23: Julia programming language presented at Lang.NEXT.
2012-07-23: Mathematicians' preferences for analysis or algebra predict how they eat corn on the cob.
2012-07-22: The price of gun control.
2012-07-22: Why you won't see "hard" augmented reality any time soon.
2012-07-22: Police and BBC deny people access to their own homes near the Olympics.
2012-07-22: iFixit won't hire people who use poor grammar.
2012-07-22: Wildebeest think about crossing a river. (video)
2012-07-22: A Tall Tail by Charles Stross.
2012-07-21: Private hospital told doctors to delay NHS work to boost profits.
2012-07-21: Insert iPad Mini here.
2012-07-21: Stunning timelapse views from the international space station at night. (Vimeo)
2012-07-21: Tim O'Reilly on the clothesline paradox and the sharing economy. (YouTube)
2012-07-21: Google is publishing a huge database of links to pirated media, in the form of the copyright takedown demands they receive.
2012-07-21: The lost decade of digital music sales.
2012-07-21: Why women still can't have it all.
2012-07-21: The RIRs in a post-IPv4 world: is the end of IP address policy making nigh?
2012-07-21: Legacy IP addresses on JANET.
2012-07-21: Prime number patterns.
2012-07-21: Microsoft changes Skype supernodes architecture to support wiretapping.
2012-07-20: Fortress programming language project to cease.
2012-07-20: Alternating current: the pulsating horror lying in wait to cull the stupid and unlucky.
2012-07-20: Genetic Programming: evolving a Mona Lisa made from 50 semi-transparent polygons.
2012-07-20: Nokia Q2 Results: Bad bad and will be even more bad.
2012-07-20: The inductive / deductive schism.
2012-07-20: What .co's first two years can tell new TLD applicants.
2012-07-20: Move the market for illegal drugs online: reduce violent criminality and improve safety.
2012-07-20: Lives on the Line: life expectancy and child poverty as a tube map.
2012-07-20: Pibow: layered case for Raspberry Pi.
2012-07-20: tiqr: open source authentication for web applications using smart phones and QR codes.
2012-07-20: Domain domination: .com is larger than all ccTLDs combined.
2012-07-20: Battleground America: one nation under the gun.
2012-07-20: "How I lost my fear of universal health care."
2012-07-20: Tim Harford on preventing financial meltdowns. (YouTube)
2012-07-20: Dubstep Droid Dispute. (Vimeo)
2012-07-20: Public engagement and science communication: a waste of money?
2012-07-20: Database microbenchmarks.
2012-07-20: Freak pavement explosions have injured at least seven people in London.
2012-07-20: Photos showing the formation of an oxbow lake in Texas
2012-07-20: Archaeologists discover surprisingly old bras in Austria.
2012-07-20: California whooping cough epidemic: anti-vaccination movement to blame for nine deaths.
2012-07-20: Enterprise IT adoption cycle.
2012-07-20: Wildcard domain DNSSEC validator test.
2012-07-20: DNSSEC and SSHFP support: VerifyHostKeyDNS = maybe.
2012-07-20: Kinder eggs are illegal in the USA and carry a $2500 fine per egg.
2012-07-20: Living with HTTPS.
2012-07-19: Why marijuana is illegal everywhere.
2012-07-19: iPhone pricing and US market share.
2012-07-19: cqueues: an event loop interface based on stackable continuation queues for Lua.
2012-07-19: Unofficial git repository for Olson TZ database and code with complete SCCS history back to 1984.
2012-07-19: PE101: the structure and execution of a simple Windows program.
2012-07-18: BrowserAuth.net: towards stronger authentication for the web.
2012-07-18: Nigori: storing secrets in the cloud.
2012-07-18: Scots should shoot muntjac deer on sight.
2012-07-18: The exploration explosion: why did Europeans start sailing far from shore in the 1480s?
2012-07-17: Emma Sky's remarkable work rebuilding Iraq.
2012-07-17: Alexander the not so Great: history through Persian eyes.
2012-07-17: Open access to all British publicly-funded research papers within two years.
2012-07-17: What Central Europe thinks of Britain.
2012-07-17: Visiting a newspaper website in the UK can be a breach of copyright.
2012-07-16: Shell tries to crowdsource an ad campaign in support of arctic oil exploitation. Hilarity ensues.
2012-07-15: MPs who repaid expenses got money back in secret deal.
2012-07-15: Metapizza.
2012-07-15: Can fellatio cure morning sickness? asks evolutionary psychologist .
2012-07-14: Dry weather hampers Western Isles crofters. (With amazing June rainfall map of UK.)
2012-07-14: Heber X10i USB-connected IO board.
2012-07-14: Manchester University computer science projects using Raspberry Pi.
2012-07-13: New US federal ban on some synthetic recreational drugs is unsurprisingly already obsolete.
2012-07-13: Erlang on Xen: a bare virtual machine with no OS layer.
2012-07-13: Lansley goes for full-scale NHS privatisation.
2012-07-13: When Care UK tried to poach a media relations officer from Keep Our NHS Public.
2012-07-13: On hating the Olympics: "All modern Britain's bullshit, turned up to eleven."
2012-07-13: Facebook might damage your reputation with sneaky political posts.
2012-07-12: Contest to find the craziest compiler output due to undefined behavior.
2012-07-12: Digital security and journalism: the filmmaker who accidentally revealed his sources to Syrian secret police.
2012-07-12: Congress considers prosecuting journalists who report leaked information.
2012-07-12: Forget teenagers, toddlers are the most terrifying creatures on Earth.
2012-07-12: "Prople staring at computers": when art, Apple and the US Secret Service collide.
2012-07-12: A list of static website generators.
2012-07-12: Creative freedom vs celebrity publicity rights.
2012-07-12: The LIBOR manipulation business model has been profitably replicated in many other quotation-based reference prices.
2012-07-11: Amazon agrees to pay sales tax across the US so it can set up local distribution centres for same-day delivery.
2012-07-11: Many top bankers say wrongdoing is necessary to get ahead.
2012-07-11: Commercial academic publishers delay publication by years, using artificial scarcity to hike valuation.
2012-07-11: The woe that is in teaching English.
2012-07-11: An overview of Instagram's internals.
2012-07-11: Chips may not be served by themselves at the Olympics.
2012-07-10: Presidential pogonomania.
2012-07-10: US urges China to set up laws that help local companies block American competitors from their market.
2012-07-10: Origin of the @reply on Twitter.
2012-07-10: Bees are more dangerous than terrorists; laws should be relaxed.
2012-07-10: Icehouse pyramid toy safety testing problems.
2012-07-09: What really makes us fat.
2012-07-09: 2012 submarine cable map.
2012-07-09: EU Commission using Canadian trade agreement to revive ACTA.
2012-07-09: Cyberoam CA private key decrypted.
2012-07-09: Nyan Fax.
2012-07-09: Fox News and CNN fucked up reporting the SCOTUS health insurance decision.
2012-07-09: The anti-SOPA campaign genuinely changed the way in which IP treaties get negotiated.
2012-07-09: The LIBOR scandal: "With traders, if you don’t actually nail it down, they’ll steal it."
2012-07-08: Observationally co-operative multithreading.
2012-07-08: Let's just solve the file format problem.
2012-07-08: Modern large-scale technological car theft.
2012-07-08: Shake before building: replacing Make with Haskell.
2012-07-08: Everybody hates Firefox updates.
2012-07-08: Illegal engineering: Tim Hunkin on safe breaking.
2012-07-08: For two decades, popular style has been stuck on repeat, consuming the past instead of creating the new.
2012-07-08: Keyless BMW cars are easy to steal.
2012-07-07: How tiny wasps cope with being smaller than amoebas.
2012-07-07: fontBomb: Stylishly destroy the web
2012-07-07: Improving rsync performance on Linux by preserving buffer cache state.
2012-07-06: TV Tropes insecurity: cleartext passwords in cookies.
2012-07-06: Achieving rapid response times in large online services.
2012-07-06: Google Public DNS goes insane when it receives malformed DNS responses.
2012-07-06: Evolution of the F1 car. (Vimeo)
2012-07-06: Samuel L. Ipsum: motherfucking placeholder text motherfucker!
2012-07-06: The damage we do to young women: looking grown-up is flirting.
2012-07-06: With all due disrespect: students must learn to argue with their tutors.
2012-07-05: Graphic design for Nazis (literally).
2012-07-05: Snarl: a sculpture by George W. Hart.
2012-07-05: The National Secular Society on the National Trust's creationist visitor centre at the Giant's Causeway.
2012-07-05: Creationists get their lies respected by the National Trust visitor centre at the Giant's Causeway.
2012-07-05: The Carreon carry-on is over: he has given up his bogus lawsuits against The Oatmeal.
2012-07-05: On equal marriage, secularism, and the established church.
2012-07-04: How ACTA nearly won.
2012-07-04: Building and dismantling the Windows advantage.
2012-07-04: 100 riffs, 1 take: a brief history of rock 'n roll. (Vimeo)
2012-07-04: Vibe: anonymous anarchist location-sensitive twitter-alike.
2012-07-04: The tyrannical world of Thomas the Tank Engine.
2012-07-04: Beyond Higgs: on supersymmetry, or the lack thereof.
2012-07-04: The LHC nightmare scenario: the Higgs and nothing else.
2012-07-04: Millions go hungry in India while mountains of wheat rot.
2012-07-04: MVC is dead: it's time to MOVE on.
2012-07-04: Binary search eliminates branch mispredictions.
2012-07-04: Allocation sinking in LuaJIT.
2012-07-04: Anonymous publishing is dead.
2012-07-04: Fastmail's leapsecond story.
2012-07-04: .nl went from less than 20,000 to more than 70,000 DNSSEC signed zones in two days.
2012-07-04: DNS-OARC reply size test server for checking EDNS / DNSSEC compatibility.
2012-07-04: Curl's internal API shim for nine SSL libraries.
2012-07-04: Cisco's Linksys cloud vision: mandatory, monetized, and killed at their discretion.
2012-07-04: Sketch: vector graphics toolbox for designers.
2012-07-04: Louis C.K. reduced scalping by 96% by selling tickets himself.
2012-07-03: Schillings send defamation writs to people who try to defend themselves against legal threats from Retail Loss Prevention Ltd.
2012-07-03: Summary of the storm-related Amazon Web Services outage on 29 June.
2012-07-03: Linux leapsecond bug increased Hetzner Online power usage by one megawatt.
2012-07-03: Send evidence against the draft communications interception bill to Julian Huppert's committee.
2012-07-03: Security vulnerability in Cyberoam SSL malware-in-the-middle devices.
2012-07-03: XQuartz: X.org for Mac OS X.
2012-07-03: Semicolons: a love story.
2012-07-03: Virtual Matthew Garrett.
2012-07-03: Linux leap second deadlock bugs.
2012-07-03: How to stop online piracy, NOW!!!!
2012-07-03: Facebook's e-mail debacle.
2012-07-03: A walk-through of inline signing with NSEC3 in BIND 9.9.
2012-07-03: A rail prospectus for East Anglia.
2012-07-03: Charles Carreon digs his Oatmeal / FunnyJunk hole even deeper, and Register.com betrays a customer.
2012-07-02: Cycle facility of the month.
2012-07-02: Bin Laden realised the truth: terrorism does not work.
2012-07-02: The Forum of Mathematics: a new open-access venture from Cambridge University Press.
2012-07-02: The ARPANET telnet protocol: its purpose, principles, implementation, and impact on host operating system design.
2012-07-02: Developing telnet's negotiated options.
2012-07-02: A review of "Trees, Maps, and Theorems: effective communication for rational minds".
2012-07-02: DNSSEC validation in Microsoft DNS Server 2012.
2012-07-02: Turkey City Lexicon: a primer for sf workshops.
2012-07-02: What if roads were as bad as bike lanes...
2012-07-02: Intravenous microparticles can re-oxygenate blood directly, when patient is unable to breathe.
2012-07-02: Today's graduates will be poorer than their parents.
2012-07-02: The ten-year-old "PHP doesn't work in Turkey" bug.
2012-07-02: News Corporation bins its newspapers.
2012-07-02: Free Software Foundation recommendations for free operating systems and Secure Boot.
2012-07-02: Michael Rosen on schools in the 1950s.
2012-07-01: French breathalyser law enacted after manufacturer created pressure group to lobby for it.
2012-07-01: The Home Office really is planning to make ISPs implement malware-in-the-middle attacks on their customers.
2012-07-01: RBS's LIBOR fraud fine to be paid by the taxpayer.
2012-07-01: David Malone's June 2012 leap second recordings.
2012-07-01: PHK's 2012-06-30 leap second lossage collection.
2012-07-01: The PhD grind: a student's memoir.
2012-07-01: ccv: a modern computer vision library: 0.1 milestone.
2012-07-01: The Geopolitics of the United States, Part 1: The Inevitable Empire.
2012-07-01: Open source passive DNS replication.
2012-07-01: Sexist men on the Internet drive women away from computer science at university.
2012-07-01: The video on benefits appeals that conservative ministers want to censor.
2012-07-01: Patent on interoperable GPS + Galileo signals will make receivers more expensive.
2012-06-30: Patents on medicines promote over-use, and the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
2012-06-29: HP and everyone else dropping their Windows RT devices because of Surface.
2012-06-29: "I, pet goat II" by Heliofant. (Vimeo)
2012-06-29: For extradition from the UK to the US, copyright violation is worse than paedophilia.
2012-06-29: The British Banking Association's failure to regulate effectively and deal with LIBOR fraud.
2012-06-29: The man with the iron fists: "They put the F U in kung fu."
2012-06-29: 3D maps of London Underground stations.
2012-06-29: Python 3 Q & A.
2012-06-29: How to break XML encryption.
2012-06-29: Home Office confirms that US courts have jurisdiction over websites hosted in the UK with British owners and users.
2012-06-29: The rise of nuclear fear.
2012-06-29: The evolution of the web.
2012-06-29: netmap: a framework for line rate 10Gbit/s packet I/O in software.
2012-06-29: Online data breach exposes 2/3 of Korean national ID numbers.
2012-06-28: Tookan automatically reverse-engineers a PKCS#11 token, describes its API to a model checker, which finds attack traces for execution on the token.
2012-06-28: RSA's rebuttal is misleading about the SecurID 800 token key exposure vulnerability.
2012-06-28: Patent trolls directly wasted $29 billion last year.
2012-06-28: Patents are not necessary to protect inventors when they disclose information.
2012-06-28: Microsoft's analysis of failure data from a million consumer PCs.
2012-06-28: A message to LOCOG and the IOC.
2012-06-28: NVidia loses huge GPU order owing to lack of open source Linux driver.
2012-06-28: The design of SQLite4.
2012-06-28: Owner of video links site found guilty of conspiracy to defraud.
2012-06-28: Building Elizabeth Way in Cambridge, 1969-1971.
2012-06-28: Texas Republicans literally want to ban critical thinking in school.
2012-06-28: Minitel to close after 30 years: The rise and fall of the France-wide web.
2012-06-27: Physics homework assignments from The Avengers.
2012-06-27: DNSSEC and TLSA records for IMAP, POP3, and message submission.
2012-06-27: SYMTRIK time receiver data sheets.
2012-06-27: New gTLDs: root zone scaling report.
2012-06-27: The Shard is a fragment of Qatar shoved into the heart of London.
2012-06-27: skrollr: HTML5 + CSS3 parallax scrolling for the masses.
2012-06-27: A rather scornful discussion of the Autonomous Internet draft.
2012-06-27: Verisign, in charge of the root, .com, and .net, screwed up DNSSEC for their corporate zone.
2012-06-27: Autonomous Internet loonies have patented their idea.
2012-06-27: Modelling workload arrivals in closed and open systems: a cautionary tale.
2012-06-27: SPDY and secure proxy support in Google Chrome.
2012-06-27: Facts and insights into the discussion of ethical acquisition and music business models.
2012-06-27: Google forces TV Tropes to delete pages containing critical discussion of rape and abuse.
2012-06-26: Evil Disney.
2012-06-26: Sandia cooler nearly ready for production.
2012-06-26: We know what you are doing.
2012-06-26: Insufficiently boring: an insider's view of the RBS IT screwup.
2012-06-26: Delta compressed and deduplicated storage using stream-informed locality.
2012-06-26: Fast key extraction attack on crypto hardware tokens. (padding oracle / side-channel)
2012-06-26: The confusingly anti-phonetic alphabet.
2012-06-25: Olympic park builders sacked for their political views.
2012-06-25: Less is exponentially more: Rob Pike explains the thinking behind Go.
2012-06-25: Red sex / blue sex: teen pregnancy amongst teenage US evangelical protestants.
2012-06-25: Monsanto covers the USA in superweeds, and suggests Agent Orange as the answer.
2012-06-25: Securely transferring a DNSSEC signed zone between hosting providers.
2012-06-25: Sonic.net deletes their logs after two weeks and you should too.
2012-06-25: QoS across the Internet: the emperor's new clothes.
2012-06-25: Labour plots an early sabotage of Lords reform.
2012-06-25: The existence of the Loch Ness monster taught in US schools as evidence against evolution.
2012-06-25: Links should never say "click here".
2012-06-25: Why are Europeans white?
2012-06-24: Pkgng is the next generation package management tool for FreeBSD.
2012-06-24: Mobster banks colluded to lower municipal bond interest rates.
2012-06-24: An economic analysis of why bank robbery is a bad idea.
2012-06-24: Peity: mini HTML charts.
2012-06-24: On the uses of a liberal education: As a weapon in the hands of the restless poor.
2012-06-24: Pay attention to what Gawker is doing with comments.
2012-06-23: Email client market share.
2012-06-23: "How I accidentally kickstarted the domestic drone boom."
2012-06-23: In bid for patent sanity, judge throws out entire Apple/Motorola case.
2012-06-23: OpenStreetMap's popularity forces Google to drastically cut their maps price.
2012-06-22: Clive James says reports of his death have been greatly exaggerated.
2012-06-22: Top ten causes of death, 1900 vs 2010.
2012-06-22: "With this knowledge I have been able to write the world's least clever limerick, statistically speaking."
2012-06-21: Nanog discusses how to fix user authentication.
2012-06-21: Batman vs. Iron Man.
2012-06-21: A vim clutch.
2012-06-21: Median anti-virus detection rate for email-borne malware is only 19%
2012-06-21: The problem with Jersey.
2012-06-21: Victorian sex factoids.
2012-06-21: Falsehoods programmers believe about networks.
2012-06-20: Windows Phone 7 users will not be able to upgrade to version 8.
2012-06-20: The venereal gadfly: more notes towards a history of orgasm.
2012-06-20: Use cases for SDN: networking is too hard because all the small problems create complexity.
2012-06-20: How to blow $6 billion on a tech project: US military software-defined radio.
2012-06-20: Fat in salad dressing (especially olive oil) helps you absorb nutrients from vegetables.
2012-06-20: Unit testing isn't enough: you need static typing too.
2012-06-20: Sorry, young man, you're not the most important demographic in tech.
2012-06-20: "I stole the fuck out of music before there ever was an Internet."
2012-06-20: Microsoft Surface's biggest innovation is its keyboard.
2012-06-20: Pulp sci-fi.
2012-06-20: Movies R fun!
2012-06-19: Security vulnerabilities, co-ordinated disclosure, and mincing your words about where the bug is.
2012-06-19: Copyright and transformative fair use lawsuit between origami enthusiasts unfolds.
2012-06-19: If you were involved in the OpenGL specification in the last 9 years, you are an idiot.
2012-06-19: Some tips for giving a presentation.
2012-06-19: Chinese firm BSB plans to build the world's tallest building in 90 days.
2012-06-19: The central limit theorem makes fuzz testing hard.
2012-06-19: Holy levitating Slinky!
2012-06-19: A profile of the sex toy industry.
2012-06-19: A creepy photostory about mirrors.
2012-06-19: Seven things never to say to a criminal suspect - or child.
2012-06-19: Leaked documents show the UN's Internet power grab.
2012-06-19: Can you recognize the million pound chair? The problem of ignorance in IT purchasing.
2012-06-19: Timeline of the RIPE reverse DNS outage last week.
2012-06-19: Totality vs Turing completeness.
2012-06-19: draft-ietf-dane-protocol on the RFC Editor queue.
2012-06-19: The concentration of tech manufacturing in a single region is a disaster waiting to happen.
2012-06-19: Seven deadly sins of cloud computing research.
2012-06-19: The history and technical development of Internet email.
2012-06-19: Cross-browser ruby annotations (superscribed rubric) using HTML5 + CSS.
2012-06-19: "Nobody ever got fired for using Hadoop on a cluster."
2012-06-19: The decision process for specifying implementation-defined behaviour.
2012-06-19: Home-made Fruit Cup: a low-cost Pimms alternative. (Good link for May Week!)
2012-06-19: Traffic light FROM HELL.
2012-06-18: Java's hashCode is not safe for distributed systems.
2012-06-18: More falsehoods programmers believe about time.
2012-06-18: Falsehoods programmers believe about time.
2012-06-18: Forget Edison: the myth of the sole inventor.
2012-06-18: Hankering for a world without "identity" or "federation".
2012-06-18: Inventing a problem: the unfixability of the new MacBook Pro is a good thing.
2012-06-18: FunnyJunk's lawyer sues the charities to which The Oatmeal tauntingly donated its legal defence fund.
2012-06-18: DNAME redirection in the DNS.
2012-06-18: Not as SPDY as you thought: for most websites, HTTP is not the bottleneck.
2012-06-18: Even art people don't "get" contemporary art.
2012-06-18: To sum up the Windows 8 experience with a single word: "awful".
2012-06-18: Debunking cybercrime myths.
2012-06-18: Myths about the UK economy which it suits everyone to perpetuate.
2012-06-18: Popular Hacker News contributor gets hellbanned for trying to discuss its moderation policy.
2012-06-18: Comcast protests that copyright holders are abusing the court's subpoena powers and have no interest in litigating their claims.
2012-06-18: Systematic study finds cybercriminals cost us at least ten times as much as they steal.
2012-06-18: The crayola-fication of the world: How we gave colors names, and it messed with our brains.
2012-06-18: Packet Forensics sells SSL man-in-the-middle attack appliances to law enforcement agencies.
2012-06-17: The shame of London's slum clearance programmes.
2012-06-17: SSL server report for www.update.microsoft.com.
2012-06-17: A profile of Sydney Padua and her comic 2D Goggles about Lovelace and Babbage.
2012-06-16: This jersey is not for sale.
2012-06-16: New Jersey does as well as the best French wine in a blind taste test.
2012-06-16: A real Transformer: radio controlled car that can turn itself into a humanoid robot.
2012-06-16: Ecstacy is safe when unadulterated and used responsibly.
2012-06-16: Tech press misses Google and Amazon gTLD name grab.
2012-06-15: Map of most popular websites in each country.
2012-06-15: What the hell does ≡ do, anyway?
2012-06-15: Tourist's car breaks down in Westminster, gets a parking ticket and is blown up by the police.
2012-06-15: Argyll and Bute council leader teaches the council officers how to handle bad PR.
2012-06-15: Suddenly, Big Mac prices rise 26% in Argentina.
2012-06-15: The Big Mac is cheap in Argentina to fox the Economist's purchasing-power index.
2012-06-15: IETF protocol action: DANE TLSA to proposed standard.
2012-06-15: NeverSeconds blogger Martha Payne banned from photographing her school dinners.
2012-06-15: Argyll and Bute, school dinners, and spygate.
2012-06-15: The best and worst places to be a child in Europe and North America.
2012-06-15: Certificate pinning is a bad idea.
2012-06-15: Defeating reCAPTCHA with 99% accuracy.
2012-06-15: Successful sourdough.
2012-06-14: On romance: "My coffee does not ever make me immediately think of people of color."
2012-06-14: Some notes on the internationalized TLD applications.
2012-06-14: The phone company's susceptibility to social engineering is a weak link in two-factor authentication.
2012-06-14: Privacy matters even if you have nothing to hide.
2012-06-14: Internet mail headers are not unlike giblets.
2012-06-14: Cambridge's COSMOS supercomputer upgraded with SGI UV2.
2012-06-14: Statistics of the ".brand" and other new GTLD applications.
2012-06-14: What happens when digital cinema DRM fails.
2012-06-14: Performance analysis and receiver architectures of DCF77 radio-controlled clocks.
2012-06-14: UK government snooping bill: we have to get this right.
2012-06-14: High-resolution political map of the world.
2012-06-13: Professionals who can program.
2012-06-13: Petition to protect historic street lighting in Cambridge.
2012-06-13: Husbands of stay-at-home wives are more sexist.
2012-06-13: Smart people are stupid.
2012-06-13: List of new TLDs that have been applied for.
2012-06-13: Men are probably too hormonal and moody to be trusted with important financial decisions.
2012-06-13: Intel SYSRET privilege escalation vulnerability affecting multiple operating systems.
2012-06-13: Exploiting 14ish bugs to break out of the Google Chrome sandbox.
2012-06-12: The misappropriation of "troll".
2012-06-12: Stop the beer duty escalator!
2012-06-12: US Navy deliberately poisoned sailors who drank Torpedo Juice.
2012-06-12: US government deliberately poisoned thousands of people during prohibition.
2012-06-12: If someone shoots at you with a guided missile running Linux, presumably you get to demand the source code...
2012-06-12: Misguided councillor Shona Johnstone, who wants to be a police commissioner, has been charged with criminal damage.
2012-06-12: On implementing SMTP message priorities.
2012-06-12: Flame and Stuxnet are linked.
2012-06-11: Analyzing the MD5 collision in Flame.
2012-06-11: The Oatmeal vs FunnyJunk is funnier than Arkell vs Pressdram.
2012-06-11: The MIT ANA Spoofer project measures the Internet's susceptibility to packets with spoofed source IP addresses.
2012-06-11: The interrupted Unix FAQ.
2012-06-11: European telcos want the ITU to impose a tax on Internet content providers.
2012-06-11: Response rate limiting for BIND by Vernon Schryver and Paul Vixie.
2012-06-11: Brian Krebs talks to Thomas Ptacek about safe password storage.
2012-06-09: Zeolite thermal storage absorbs 4x more heat than water and retains it indefinitely.
2012-06-08: The real death by PowerPoint.
2012-06-08: Judge Richard Posner spikes Apple-Google case, and calls patent system "dysfunctional".
2012-06-08: LuaJIT roadmap 2012/2013.
2012-06-08: New directions in traffic measurement and accounting.
2012-06-08: Storing passwords securely.
2012-06-08: When a security researcher says they will jackpot your ATM at the Black Hat conference.
2012-06-08: Thunderbird 13 helps users to register a domain name for personalised email addresses.
2012-06-08: Google takes the FUD baton from Microsoft.
2012-06-07: A review of the Ansible configuration management tool.
2012-06-07: MD5 crypt() password scrambler is no longer considered safe by its author.
2012-06-07: Safe password storage with salt and iteration counts.
2012-06-07: fish: a unix shell for the 1990s.
2012-06-07: The Tesla gun.
2012-06-07: Street fighting computer science.
2012-06-07: Street-fighting mathematics: the art of educated guessing and opportunistic problem solving.
2012-06-06: Google IPv6 resolver blacklist.
2012-06-06: DNSSEC statistics.
2012-06-06: Comcast's first inbound email over IPv6 was spam.
2012-06-06: Distributed computer systems: backwards towards the future.
2012-06-06: John Napier invented binary arithmetic in 1617.
2012-06-06: "Women are 'naturals' at computer programming" - Grace Hopper.
2012-06-06: Vatican condemns nun's book on sexuality to popularity.
2012-06-06: The Internet killed porn.
2012-06-06: The hidden autistics: Asperger's in adults.
2012-06-06: Insanely long copyright terms are how the media avoid competing with their own back catalogs.
2012-06-06: Feminist porn.
2012-06-05: Pre to Postmortem: the inside story of the death of Palm and WebOS.
2012-06-05: Slovakian copyright collection agency tries to charge villages for singing folk songs at festivals.
2012-06-05: Explaining JavaScript virtual machines in JavaScript.
2012-06-05: Real princesses wear blue.
2012-06-05: Google doesn't want real names, they want WASPonyms.
2012-06-05: How the Chinese screwed up their 3G mobile phone networks.
2012-06-05: The TTY demystified.
2012-06-05: Ansible: ssh-based configuration management and deployment.
2012-06-05: SSDs and distributed data systems.
2012-06-05: Are you scientifically literate? (quiz)
2012-06-05: Immune cells gobble up healthy but idle brain cells.
2012-06-05: US National Reconnaissance Office gives two spare better-than-Hubble spy telescopes to NASA, who have no money to launch them.
2012-06-05: Logical circuits built from unix pipes and mosfet.c.
2012-06-05: Hanging up on the phone system.
2012-06-04: Multi-armed bandit algorithms are superior to A/B testing.
2012-06-04: Well-kept gardens die by pacifism: online discussions need moderators.
2012-06-04: Why do power supplies have three prongs?
2012-06-03: Cycles of life.
2012-06-02: Five universities sharing one high-performance computing centre.
2012-06-02: OS X 2 X: share your Mac keyboard and mouse with Unix and VNC displays.
2012-06-02: Summer fruit pudding.
2012-06-02: Fear and Loathing and Windows 8. Microsoft is "courageous".
2012-06-01: Being blind drunk, killing someone, and fleeing the scene is OK if you do it in a car.
2012-06-01: A navel-gazing, self-serving, smug, consensual, spendthrift, remote and barely democratic excuse of an assembly.
2012-06-01: Calvin & Hobbes, 26 years later.
2012-06-01: Flame on! Government-sponsored malware.
2012-06-01: Banned words for Telegraph commenters.
2012-06-01: Transits of Venus explained.
2012-06-01: The market for vulnerabilities gives programmers an incentive to deliberately create and secretly sell them to the government.
2012-06-01: AtomiaDNS: open source DNS management software.
2012-06-01: Australia falling behind on DNSSEC progress.
2012-06-01: Measuring the distance from the Earth to the Sun by observing a transit of Venus.
2012-06-01: Cambridge parkour, including some where I work.
2012-06-01: draft-fanf-dane-smtp document history
2012-06-01: dnspod-sr: a faster recursive DNS server from China.
2012-06-01: Empty character classes [] and [^] in Javascript regexps?
2012-06-01: Oracle vs Google - Judge Alsup rules APIs are not protected by copyright.
2012-05-31: Oh happy days! Working for Jeremy Hunt.
2012-05-31: draft-fanf-dane-smtp-02
2012-05-31: Lobster is the new Comic Sans.
2012-05-31: The design of LLVM.
2012-05-31: F1: the fault-tolerant distributed SQL RDBMS that supports Google's ad business.
2012-05-31: Psychology of fraud: why good people do bad things.
2012-05-31: North Carolina coastal counties fighting to avoid doing anything about rising sea levels.
2012-05-31: In Soviet Union, optimization problem solves you!
2012-05-31: Implementing UEFI secure boot in Fedora.
2012-05-30: Deconstructing our radiant future of exponential progress.
2012-05-30: The unbearable stasis of "accelerating change".
2012-05-30: Eurosceptics should back Assange.
2012-05-30: The transparent dishonesty of the UK research excellence framework.
2012-05-30: The cost of being an unbeatable evil overlord.
2012-05-30: Terrifying French children's books.
2012-05-30: Internet vs hype and anti-hype
2012-05-30: Twitter improves performance by getting rid of #!
2012-05-30: Semi-automated gunshot detection and location and policing in the US.
2012-05-30: False cognates and syntax.
2012-05-29: draft-fanf-dane-smtp-01
2012-05-29: Project Drake: moving the University of Cambridge official map to Open Street Map.
2012-05-29: America's broadband policy is failing through lack of competition.
2012-05-29: Trace debugger for lpeg.
2012-05-29: Results of first AFNIC Technology Backdrop survey.
2012-05-29: Second AFNIC Technology Backdrop survey.
2012-05-29: Optimal tax rate for top one per cent may be as high as 83%
2012-05-28: Manhattan Henge.
2012-05-28: Timbre: JavaScript library for objective sound programming.
2012-05-28: "Sex in space is going to have to be choreographed, otherwise it's just going to be a wild flailing."
2012-05-28: Fast crypto key extraction from "secure" hardware.
2012-05-28: Threat analysis of the ITU's World Conference of International Telecommunications.
2012-05-28: US House committee to examine international proposal to give ITU more control over the Internet.
2012-05-28: Mike Mann registered nearly 15,000 domains in 24 hours.
2012-05-28: Facebook panicked and botched its IPO.
2012-05-28: Yahoo!s Axis browser extension includes a copy of their Chrome private key.
2012-05-28: More about highly unusal Court of Appeal re-hearings.
2012-05-28: High Court decides to spend more time, money, and heartache on a "menacing" joke that worried no-one.
2012-05-28: SSD price war in full swing.
2012-05-28: A huge new wave of cheap electronics will disrupt old-school UX assumptions.
2012-05-28: Print-on-demand and same-day bike courier delivery helped save the Harvard Book Store.
2012-05-28: Most people lie and cheat just a bit, and can be nudged to do so more or less.
2012-05-27: The THX sound.
2012-05-27: OECD report "health at a glance". (2011)
2012-05-27: Olympics brand exclusion zone.
2012-05-27: Germany can generate half its electricity from solar power on a sunny Saturday.
2012-05-27: Typeface as programme.
2012-05-27: Reflections on The Geek Manifesto.
2012-05-27: Consumers prefer confusopoly pricing.
2012-05-27: Everything you ever wanted to know about building a secure password reset feature.
2012-05-26: The Geek Manifesto on GM crops.
2012-05-26: The bottom half of the Internet wins when it comes to GM wheat.
2012-05-26: Lottery scratchcard withdrawn from sale because players couldn't understand negative numbers.
2012-05-26: Errors vs. bugs and the end of stupidity.
2012-05-26: Facebook's IPO got hijacked by computers.
2012-05-26: Some proposals for making peer review less biased towards positive results.
2012-05-25: draft-fanf-dane-smtp
2012-05-25: What the Bible says about abortion.
2012-05-25: The German Pirate Party's radical openness and liquid democracy.
2012-05-25: "Take The Flour Back" and the Green Party are wrong about the Rothamsted GM wheat trial.
2012-05-25: Northern Ireland’s teenagers are gradually breaking down religious barriers
2012-05-24: A not-excessively-gung-ho review of Google's self-driving car.
2012-05-24: If your YouTube video gets shown on TV, it may be blocked by ContentID.
2012-05-24: ARPANET IMP proposals and design papers.
2012-05-24: Clocks in medical devices are on average 24 minutes wrong.
2012-05-24: Spam was an "intolerable nuisance" in 1864.
2012-05-24: Olympics bring fascist suppression to Cornwall.
2012-05-24: Exploiting a chain of six bugs to break out of the Google Chrome sandbox.
2012-05-23: Dry your hands with just one paper towel.
2012-05-23: Selective dissemination in the Facebook IPO against securities laws?
2012-05-23: An Irish political anorak's observations of British politics.
2012-05-23: MIT's freaky non-stick coating keeps ketchup flowing.
2012-05-23: SIGGRAPH 2012 technical papers preview video.
2012-05-22: Putting a brake on nuclear re-armament.
2012-05-22: Living in a golden age of beer.
2012-05-22: TCP sequence number inference attack: firewall middleboxes reduce security.
2012-05-22: Salted password hashing: doing it wrong.
2012-05-22: Jeri Ellsworth & her Commodore 64 bass guitar synth.
2012-05-22: Petition to introduce STV for local elections in England.
2012-05-21: Random() points of contention in multithreaded code.
2012-05-21: AMC-14 satellite suffered launch anomaly, and could not be moved into correct orbit because the trajectory is patented.
2012-05-21: Olympic torch goes out. Does that mean get our money back?
2012-05-21: Google Chrome passes Internet Explorer to become the most popular browser.
2012-05-21: UK Government is slow to implement Beecroft Report recommendations to reduce protections for workers.
2012-05-21: Pirate university: share inaccessible journal articles.
2012-05-21: Microsoft to replace the Aero UI with Google-like styling in Windows 8.
2012-05-20: Government backtracks on fracking.
2012-05-20: Insurance actuary gets a patent for statistical sampling and admits the idea is obvious.
2012-05-19: Plummeting African child mortality: the best story in development.
2012-05-19: Zynga's stock fluctuated wildly after Facebook went public.
2012-05-19: Higher-dimensional spheres are strangely spikey.
2012-05-19: Apple iPhone charger teardown: quality in an tiny expensive package.
2012-05-19: IKEA Hackers: inexpensive glass whiteboard.
2012-05-19: Muraspec: UK IdeaPaint distributor.
2012-05-19: IdeaPaint: turn walls into whiteboards.
2012-05-19: Justice Dept. defends the US constitutional right to record cops.
2012-05-18: Eldar black holes.
2012-05-18: An Introduction to the Objectivist-C programming language.
2012-05-18: Solar-powered supercomputer at the Met Office.
2012-05-18: London Lua users meeting, 5th July 2012.
2012-05-18: How Chief Justice John Roberts orchestrated the Citizens United decision on campaign finance.
2012-05-18: Fuzz-testing JavaScript engines for correctness.
2012-05-18: Entrapment, fake pants bombers, and ignoring real problems.
2012-05-17: PR agencies vs TED.
2012-05-17: If they hadn't censored this talk no-one would be talking about it.
2012-05-17: Duplo self-assembly in a washing machine.
2012-05-17: Cat plays and wins the shell game. (YouTube)
2012-05-17: LOLcommits.
2012-05-17: Taxing the rich is too controversial an idea for TED to spread online.
2012-05-17: People who viewed a 55 gallon drum of lube on Amazon also viewed...
2012-05-17: MILNET maps.
2012-05-17: ARPANET topological maps.
2012-05-17: ARPANET geographic maps.
2012-05-17: BitTorrent was never the problem, bufferbloat was. Where will the next operational nightmare arise?
2012-05-17: DNSSEC now available for .nl domains.
2012-05-17: America had an openly gay president in the 1800s.
2012-05-16: The WTO hates dolphins.
2012-05-16: Swear should I go to eat?
2012-05-16: The Unix way, the Emacs way, and the wrong way.
2012-05-16: Linux's userland plumbing layer as the new kernel.
2012-05-16: What The Times cycle safety campaign has taught us so far.
2012-05-16: The Royal Jubilee Bells for the Thames pageant and St James' Garlickhythe.
2012-05-16: Associate editor of "Genomics" resigns, saying Elsevier puts profit before access to research.
2012-05-16: The wrong Carlos: Texas sent an innocent man to his death.
2012-05-16: An overview of the IBM 801 minicomputer. (1977)
2012-05-16: In praise of CSV.
2012-05-16: Straight White Male: the lowest difficulty setting in the RPG of life.
2012-05-16: The judge in the Oracle/Google Java/Android lawsuit seems to be a programmer.
2012-05-15: ARPANET-Internet old archived mailing lists.
2012-05-15: Archive of header-people: email message format standardisation in the 1970s.
2012-05-15: US judge sides with Georgia State University over educational fair use.
2012-05-15: Time-lapse map of Europe since 1000 AD. (YouTube)
2012-05-15: LightSquared files for bankruptcy after failing to ruin GPS by using low-power satellite spectrum for high-power cellphones.
2012-05-15: Scotland, where political parties work together.
2012-05-15: They're not 'orphan works', they're 'hostage works'.
2012-05-15: VLC's billion downloads relied on French freedom from software patents.
2012-05-15: Operation Elveden may bring down Rupert Murdoch.
2012-05-14: Heather Brooke on British press collusion with police lies and misinformation. (video)
2012-05-14: Somebody please, for the love of god, fix shipping/couriers.
2012-05-14: STV has made big difference to democracy in Scotland.
2012-05-14: Nerds need to operate within the realm of traditional power and politics or we will lose.
2012-05-14: Base16k: efficient binary data encoding in Unicode text.
2012-05-14: Another Bitcoin hack + theft.
2012-05-14: Envisioning a non-evil version of "trusted" computing.
2012-05-14: C coding style guide (for Tcl implementation).
2012-05-14: Telecoms and the London Olympics.
2012-05-14: Open Data Structures: an open source textbook.
2012-05-14: Caterwaul is a Javascript recompiler and macroexpander that allows you to manipulate code in a first-class way.
2012-05-14: *JS is the bastard child of JavaScript and C.
2012-05-13: Coco is a CoffeeScript dialect that aims to be more radical and practical.
2012-05-13: Mark Henderson talking about his book "the geek manifesto" on evidence-based policy in Cambridge.
2012-05-13: The correlation between religiosity and well-being among U.S. states.
2012-05-13: FreeBSD 10 to be compiled with LLVM clang, and deprecate gcc.
2012-05-13: Dress code: blue tie and male. Dell says women should not work in tech.
2012-05-12: This is why teachers leave teaching.
2012-05-12: The right won the economic argument and the left won the culture wars.
2012-05-12: When half a million Americans died and nobody noticed.
2012-05-12: Software defined networking: the future of networking, the past of protocols.
2012-05-12: What the battle over the meaning of SDN reveals.
2012-05-11: Welcome to Life: the singularity, ruined by lawyers.
2012-05-11: Hardware macroarchitecture vs mircoarchitecture.
2012-05-11: Google API discovery documents.
2012-05-11: JSON home document: the entry point for a RESTful web API.
2012-05-11: What does the Queen’s Speech mean for civil liberties?
2012-05-11: Communications interception: Lib Dem party view.
2012-05-11: Communications interception: dazed half-memories of a conference call with Julian Huppert.
2012-05-11: If you meet a censor, ask them this question.
2012-05-11: FF Chartwell: an OpenType font that turns numbers into charts using ligatures and stylistic alternates.
2012-05-11: Driving a receipt printer from OpenWrt on a TP-Link micro router.
2012-05-11: Voting for checked exceptions in Java.
2012-05-10: BT cheerfully admits snooping on home LANs.
2012-05-10: Jumping through hoops: the grueling farcical campaign that won London the 2012 Olympics, at gargantuan expense.
2012-05-10: AppleScript's English-likeness monster.
2012-05-10: Vexing exceptions.
2012-05-10: Real-time collaborative editing is like exception handling, but the arrows in the category are reversed.
2012-05-10: WiFi Pineapple Mark IV: $90 hotspot honeypot.
2012-05-10: Why ZeroMQ should have been written in C not C++.
2012-05-10: Individual Liberty, by Benjamin Tucker.
2012-05-10: An Arduino-powered wire bending machine.
2012-05-10: C! (C-bang): a system-oriented programming language.
2012-05-10: Vert.x: an asynchronous concurrent application framework for the JVM.
2012-05-10: Using a Kalman filter to predict ticket prices.
2012-05-10: What is and is not a technology company.
2012-05-10: Current pypy-stm documentation.
2012-05-10: Plans for STM-based parallel execution in PyPy.
2012-05-10: Mozilla complains about Microsoft banning Firefox from Windows 8 on ARM.
2012-05-10: The floppy disk means save, and 14 other old-people icons that don't make sense anymore.
2012-05-10: Configurable trampolines without writable code pages on iOS and Mac OS.
2012-05-10: No third-party JIT on Windows 8 for ARM.
2012-05-10: Recursive Drawing.
2012-05-10: MESS in JavaScript: emulating lots of old computers in your browser.
2012-05-10: The end of Moore's Law is nigh, says Broadcom's CEO.
2012-05-09: Pervasive snooping and secret courts in the Queen's Speech.
2012-05-09: "We are going to create something which will not be effective against terrorism but which will be a general purpose surveillance on the entire nation."
2012-05-09: More about the CCDP UK surveillance bill.
2012-05-09: "The right to marry whoever one wishes is an elementary human right" - Hannah Arendt.
2012-05-09: To discourage piracy, US government is making legit movies even worse.
2012-05-09: Haskell vs Scala.
2012-05-09: The obstacle to decentralized social networking is lack of profitability backed up by surveillance and control.
2012-05-09: Lib Dem policies in the Queen's Speech.
2012-05-09: The government’s proposal for data communications surveillance will be invasive and costly with minimal effectiveness.
2012-05-09: Diageo screw BrewDog.
2012-05-09: How a Florida "pill mill" operation fuelled a painkiller abuse epidemic.
2012-05-09: Pastafarianism in the US military.
2012-05-09: Bioluminescence in the Gippsland Lakes in Victoria, Australia.
2012-05-09: Playing with fire: tobacco and chemical manufacturer lobbying led to excessive use of toxic flame retardants.
2012-05-09: A set of top Computer Science blogs.
2012-05-09: Iron Sky in the UK for one day only?
2012-05-09: Good Guy Lucifer.
2012-05-09: Some information about the draft communications data snooping bill.
2012-05-09: Proliferating ways of bypassing the Pirate Bay blocks.
2012-05-09: Clojure Reducers: a library and model for parallel collection processing.
2012-05-08: Never Seconds: a daily dose of primary school dinners.
2012-05-08: The most confusing git terminology.
2012-05-08: Going dark, or a golden age for surveillance?
2012-05-08: Many kids have Firefox + TOR on a USB stick for bypassing school and ISP filters.
2012-05-08: Gay rights in the USA, state by state.
2012-05-08: 20 years of SMS.
2012-05-08: Japan has switched off all its nuclear power stations.
2012-05-08: Fundamental progress solving bufferbloat.
2012-05-08: The MSF 60KHz time signal and some memories of the NPL.
2012-05-08: Emotive conjugation / Russell conjugation / irregular verbs.
2012-05-08: The first atomic clock: a film made in the 1950s at NPL.
2012-05-08: Modern active queue management is just one piece of the solution to buffer bloat. (Van Jacobson)
2012-05-08: Republican war against women now attacking the right to vote.
2012-05-08: Aran Islands megagravel is moved by storm waves.
2012-05-08: Audiophools! What your hifi rig needs is an atomic clock.
2012-05-07: e4rat: defragment ext4fs to reduce boot time.
2012-05-07: Parse URLs in JavaScript using the DOM.
2012-05-07: IETF ConEx congestion exposure concepts and use cases.
2012-05-07: RFC 6297: a survey of lower-than-best-effort transport protocols.
2012-05-07: Exploring delay-based congestion control.
2012-05-07: Recipe writers lie and lie and lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions.
2012-05-07: Electoral reform a year after the AV referendum: most people support PR; a fifth support FPTP.
2012-05-07: TCP sucks: latency-based congestion control (as in uTP) is better.
2012-05-06: Peter Zotov: (a bit of) whitespace.
2012-05-06: Elsevier's recent update to its letter to the mathematical community.
2012-05-06: All the Earth's water in a sphere.
2012-05-06: Impressive automatic video stabilization available after upload to YouTube.
2012-05-06: Bertrand Russell's ten commandments for teachers.
2012-05-06: Minecraft implemented in Minecraft.
2012-05-06: Everyone panic about drones carrying biological weapons, warns Colonel in charge of keeping London calm for the Olympics.
2012-05-06: ParFunk: How to write hybrid CPU/GPU programs with Haskell.
2012-05-05: What is the 21st Century blackboard?
2012-05-05: The London Mayor thing. The Ken thing.
2012-05-05: The realisation dawns that the axioms of the Black-Scholes equation are wrong.
2012-05-05: Teknische Universität München mathematics department cancels all Elsevier subscriptions.
2012-05-05: Debugging node.js memory leaks.
2012-05-05: Police strategy in New York: violence and sexual assault against peaceful protestors.
2012-05-05: Lotte Time Lapse: Birth to 12 years in 2 min. 45.
2012-05-05: Hair: the unsightly keratin-based proof that you have gone through puberty.
2012-05-04: 2.11BSD patch archive.
2012-05-04: DARPA shredder challenge.
2012-05-04: BT said in 2004 that it would cancel Cleanfeed if it were pressured to extend the scope of its filtering beyond child porn.
2012-05-04: Why you should keep your NFC card in a tinfoil wrapper.
2012-05-04: Sophie Wilson and Steve Furber, creators of the ARM: the accidental chip.
2012-05-04: A neat proposal for a better way to edit text on an iPad.
2012-05-04: Cost-effectiveness of healthcare in different countries.
2012-05-04: Transparency DCMS style: secret plans for UK net censorship.
2012-05-04: UK Pirate Bay block initiates Streisand Cascade, drives record traffic, popularises VPNs.
2012-05-04: Cambridge local elections: results and prognosis.
2012-05-04: Judge: An IP address doesn't identify a person, and mass BitTorrent cases should be rejected.
2012-05-04: How Inktomi lost to Google.
2012-05-03: PHP developers remove a crucial CGI security check to make their test suite work. (CVE-2012-1823)
2012-05-03: A modern BNF-style regex for matching email addresses.
2012-05-03: We don't have to choose between freedom and copyright.
2012-05-03: DRCS: a distributed version control system for wide-area networks based on RCS and UUCP.
2012-05-03: The great auroral storm of 1859: the week the Sun touched the Earth.
2012-05-03: An early article on the Acorn RISC Machine, including ARM1 die photo and floorplan.
2012-05-03: Sophie Wilson describes the ARM in comp.arch, 1988.
2012-05-03: Tories speak out in support of Rupert Murdoch.
2012-05-03: 25 years of the Swiss TLD .ch.
2012-05-03: Visualizing English word origins.
2012-05-03: Probabilistic data structures for web analytics and data mining.
2012-05-03: How to avoid making more racist as campaigns.
2012-05-02: Common Lisp: the untold story.
2012-05-02: The protection of freedoms act 2012.
2012-05-02: All research funded by UK government to be open access.
2012-05-02: Imperial College open access fund.
2012-05-02: The bleak future of the Irish university.
2012-05-02: Discussion of the world population distribution maps.
2012-05-02: World land and water distribution by latitude and by longitude.
2012-05-02: World population distribution by latitude and by longitude.
2012-05-02: Supermoon Saturday: full moon and perigee coincide.
2012-05-02: MillionShort: search the long tail by cutting out the top sites.
2012-05-02: Android ported to C#.
2012-05-02: Display latency can be larger than transatlantic packet delivery time.
2012-05-02: Designing and implementing a deployable multipath TCP.
2012-05-01: FBI "terrorist" infiltration, attempted entrapment, and failure.
2012-05-01: Multipath TCP.
2012-05-01: Jellyfish: networking data centers randomly.
2012-05-01: SPDY performance on mobile networks.
2012-05-01: TV Calendar: episode listings guide.
2012-05-01: In praise of bokeh: how new technology is changing the visual style of news.
2012-05-01: Norman Ramsey's Nobel Prize lecture on his resonant cavity used in atomic clocks.
2012-05-01: Agalmics: the marginalization of scarcity.
2012-05-01: The Manfred Macx media diet.
2012-05-01: Logica report on their electronic vote counting system for Scottish local elections.
2012-05-01: STV in the Scottish local elections.
2012-05-01: Monthly rainfall deficit over the last three years.
2012-05-01: Which party do you agree with the most, based on their voting record in parliament?
2012-05-01: Standard Time: a performance art project by Mark Formanek.
2012-05-01: Labour-intensive live-action digital clock.
2012-05-01: Millau viaduct / Miaow viaduct.
2012-05-01: The UK intellectual property regime is one of the world's worst for consumers.
2012-05-01: Huntingdon Road reduced speed limit consultation.
2012-04-30: LuaJIT module for controlling the Raspberry Pi GPIO pins.
2012-04-30: Answers to Rob Pike's obscure Unix trivia quiz.
2012-04-30: The stupendous insanity of the London 2012 Olympics.
2012-04-30: The DNS in 2000: are we overloading the saddlebags on this old horse?
2012-04-30: ... just put it in the DNS.
2012-04-30: Defending against BGP man-in-the-middle attacks.
2012-04-30: Stealing the Internet: a routed wide-area man-in-the-middle attack.
2012-04-30: How much chocolate can you put on a gingerbread man before you have to pay VAT?
2012-04-30: PolarSSL security advisory: weak key generation.
2012-04-30: Microsoft Exchange does not log SMTP transactions by default.
2012-04-30: Rob Pike's hard unix trivia quiz from 1984.
2012-04-30: GSOC 2012: a LuaJIT back-end for ClojureScript.
2012-04-29: Google Street View wardriving was intentional.
2012-04-29: UTF-8 everywhere.
2012-04-29: Introduction to TRILL / RBridges.
2012-04-29: Network layer protocols with Byzantine robustness.
2012-04-29: Peak Telecoms.
2012-04-29: TRILLapalooza: replacing ethernet's spanning tree protocol.
2012-04-29: Of MP3 players and Apple complacency.
2012-04-28: Parsing mixfix operators.
2012-04-28: Lots more music for programming.
2012-04-28: An employee, whose last name is Null, kills our employee lookup app.
2012-04-28: SOAP: The S stands for Simple.
2012-04-28: Bobby Tables: A guide to preventing SQL injection.
2012-04-28: Comcast rolls out native IPv6 support for home networking with DHCPv6.
2012-04-27: Security implications of IPv6 on IPv4-only networks.
2012-04-27: Jeremy Hunt’s handling of the NewsCorp/BSkyB deal was unlawful.
2012-04-27: Understanding the /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin split.
2012-04-27: Apple vs. Samsung: a visual guide to Apple's trademark claims.
2012-04-27: Key tests for Skylon British spaceplane project.
2012-04-27: Classic maths books typeset with LaTeX on Project Gutenberg.
2012-04-27: Have Oracle screwed up the Java copyright registration on which their lawsuit with Google is based?
2012-04-27: Demovibes: electronic grooves from the demoscene.
2012-04-27: Microsoft patches widely-exploited Hotmail password reset bug.
2012-04-27: SPF deployment survey: feedback for the IETF SPF spec revision.
2012-04-27: The cynical agile and scrum dictionary.
2012-04-27: Portal 2 soundtrack.
2012-04-27: Computer-generated journalism.
2012-04-27: Examples of evolution in humans.
2012-04-27: Gawker's new commenting system aims to elevate the discourse about frogs who sit like humans.
2012-04-27: musicForProgramming();
2012-04-26: Gawker supports pseudo-anonymous accounts and collaborative moderation.
2012-04-26: Labour IT mandarins tried to help Microsoft scuttle open standards policy.
2012-04-26: UK government to re-run open standards consultation since the chair was secretly skewing it in favour of Microsoft.
2012-04-26: All electronic voting systems are complete garbage.
2012-04-26: Glencore: the giant commodities trader operating at the margins of what is legal.
2012-04-26: Agatha Heterodyne's "Spark Roast" coffee engine.
2012-04-26: A survey of smart phone power efficiency.
2012-04-26: Google refused to buy a Java licence to avoid being held back by Sun's standards bureaucrats.
2012-04-26: On the limits of the use cases for authenticated encryption.
2012-04-25: The invention of jaywalking.
2012-04-25: Burrows-Wheeler Aligner: an efficient nucleotide sequence search tool.
2012-04-25: Using the Burrows Wheeler Transform as an efficient exact-match substring index, for finding DNA fragments.
2012-04-25: Cambridge University Library open catalogue data.
2012-04-25: Harvard puts metadata for 12 million library items into the public domain.
2012-04-24: The development of the signage typeface Wayfinding Sans Pro.
2012-04-24: Harvard encourages open access on cost grounds, and supports boycotts of closed journals.
2012-04-24: IPv6 now deployed across entire T-Mobile US network.
2012-04-24: "That's why you don't have any friends."
2012-04-24: Hacker News discussion on how to avoid bad Mac OS X disk performance.
2012-04-24: A cartoon intro to the Korean writing system.
2012-04-24: Something is deeply broken in Mac OS X virtual memory management.
2012-04-23: Privatisation is a modern enclosure movement.
2012-04-23: A survey of stellar motion is inconsistent with the dark matter theory.
2012-04-23: How to cope with the Gmail redesign.
2012-04-23: First steps with the Raspberry Pi: what works / what doesn't yet.
2012-04-22: State of Flux: NASA images of change.
2012-04-22: Speech crime and thought crime in the USA.
2012-04-22: What does Twitter know about me? Results of a data subject access request.
2012-04-22: Belgian political scandal prompts interesting discussion of sexual harassment.
2012-04-22: Discussion of Apple Disk ][ and RW18 fast disk driver.
2012-04-22: Interview David Rees, the Proust of pencil sharpeners.
2012-04-22: Worm propagation strategies in an IPv6 internet.
2012-04-21: PHP hammer.
2012-04-20: IBM creates breathing, high-density, light-weight lithium-air battery.
2012-04-20: Drug companies fight over patents rather than work on Hepatitis treatment.
2012-04-20: Cameron and the civil service coup.
2012-04-20: People who don't know how to spell "Cologne".
2012-04-20: Scale Something: How Draw Something rode its rocket ship of growth.
2012-04-20: Scaling: it's not what it used to be.
2012-04-20: URL handlers on OS X.
2012-04-20: Splitting the electron into spinon and orbiton quasiparticles.
2012-04-20: A review of the Lytro camera.
2012-04-20: Telephone vs Internet peering and settlements.
2012-04-19: Pioneer deceleration anomaly solved!
2012-04-19: The ongaonga or tree-nettle of New Zealand.
2012-04-19: The Gympie-Gympie stinging tree can cause months of excruciating pain for unsuspecting humans.
2012-04-19: OpenSSL heap corruption security advisory.
2012-04-19: ShadowStats.com response to Bureau of Labor Statistics article on CPI misconceptions.
2012-04-19: Addressing misconceptions about the US consumer price index.
2012-04-19: US standard of living has fallen more than 50% since 1970.
2012-04-19: The non-libertarian FAQ.
2012-04-19: Will OpenFlow really be the Android of networking?
2012-04-19: Selecting some MPs by lottery may improve parliament.
2012-04-18: The fairytale world of the Faroe Islands.
2012-04-18: Rise of "forever day" bugs in industrial systems threatens critical infrastructure.
2012-04-18: Google and OpenFlow.
2012-04-18: FreeBSD slaughters Linux in this authoritative DNS performance benchmark.
2012-04-18: Dense anycast deployment of L-root DNS authority servers.
2012-04-18: dnSSexy: a DNSSEC-verifying authoritative proxy, based on NSD.
2012-04-18: DNSSEC: dealing with resolvers that can't receive UDP fragments.
2012-04-18: Microsoft is holding back the secure web with lack of support for TLS SNI on XP.
2012-04-18: Modern maps of 18th century shipping.
2012-04-18: An improved level-of-pain chart.
2012-04-18: Latest issue of the .at report features DNSSEC and yours truly.
2012-04-18: JANET tecnical guide: designing reliable mail systems.
2012-04-18: Make everything OK .com
2012-04-17: The difference between UI and UX explained through the medium of breakfast cereal.
2012-04-17: Tricky arithmetic.
2012-04-17: Men-ups! Men in classic pinup poses.
2012-04-17: The evolutionary advantages of middle age.
2012-04-17: Think like a penis enlargement spammer and you can talk about Londinium MMXII in your ads as much as you want.
2012-04-17: Cognitive media, who do whiteboard animated illustrations for talks.
2012-04-17: Olympics venues step up the war against photography.
2012-04-17: The "profile" link relation tackles media type proliferation in RESTful web APIs.
2012-04-16: Nice video visualisation of TCP packet flow.
2012-04-16: GMail: anti-abuse at scale.
2012-04-16: "What's the difference between hams who know Morse and programmers who know C? The C programmers have a point."
2012-04-16: The DoJ's badly-targeted ebook lawsuit.
2012-04-16: Economy killers: inequality and GOP ignorance.
2012-04-16: Visualizing WiFi signal strength through space with a bar of lights and long exposure photography.
2012-04-16: Seizing the wrist and re-understanding the Internet.
2012-04-16: Swedish municipalities with DNSSEC.
2012-04-16: The problem of handling local timezones consistently across platforms.
2012-04-16: unluac: Lua 5.1 bytecode decompiler.
2012-04-16: DNSSEC experiences at Cambridge.
2012-04-16: Recent advances in IPv6 security.
2012-04-16: Ice crystal lattices.
2012-04-16: Want to cleanse your city of its poor? Host the Olympics!
2012-04-15: A Programming Language by Ken Iverson. (PDF scan of 1962 book)
2012-04-15: Americans are moving back from the suburbs to the cities.
2012-04-15: For every American soldier killed abroad, 25 veterans commit suicide.
2012-04-15: Which party will win the anti-politics vote?
2012-04-15: Why airport security is broken, and how to fix it.
2012-04-15: C++11 standard (with fixed typos).
2012-04-15: NIRA: a new interdomain routing architecture.
2012-04-15: Interdomain multipath routing.
2012-04-14: Ask-for-forgiveness programming: how we might program 1000 cores.
2012-04-14: Demonstrate multi-device responsive website design on the desktop.
2012-04-14: Calling someone a cunt on Twitter is a crime that will get you locked up.
2012-04-14: Lobbyists wreck the government's moves towards freely licensed open standards.
2012-04-14: The benefits of giving up patent protection outweigh the risks of surrendering a share of the market.
2012-04-14: Lord Justice Laws vs former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey.
2012-04-14: Fifty things to do before you're 11¾.
2012-04-14: The Twitter languages of London.
2012-04-13: Olympics branding police impose heavy restrictions on most UK businesses.
2012-04-13: How computers are creating a second economy without workers.
2012-04-13: A children's book about Ada, the first programmer, and Mary, the first sf writer.
2012-04-13: Oracle thinks you can copyright a programming language, Google disagrees.
2012-04-13: US government report on IP does not say what the MPAA thinks it does.
2012-04-13: They almost built a life-size model of the starship Enterprise in Las Vegas.
2012-04-13: UK Information Commissioner "highly unlikely" to enforce law requiring consent to store cookies.
2012-04-13: IPv6 TLD hall of shame.
2012-04-13: Jitsi SIP softphone now has DNSSEC support.
2012-04-13: Intel 910 PCIe SSD: eye-watering performance at an eye-watering price.
2012-04-13: Rack-mountable data center support staff.
2012-04-13: Book price agreements at risk in the German-speaking world.
2012-04-13: Corrupt British spies and complicity in torture.
2012-04-13: London Underground's unique species of mosquitoes.
2012-04-13: The curse of the upside-down apostrophe.
2012-04-13: Death to Microsoft Word.
2012-04-13: Rendering a map of the world.
2012-04-13: Still Scrambling For Safety.
2012-04-12: In lab experiments we show that swarms of soldier crabs in a maze can implement logic gates.
2012-04-12: Shadow Cyclist vs Bus: excellent Lothian Buses training video.
2012-04-12: Canada Post sues GeoCoder.ca for copyright infringement over GeoCoder's crowdsourced postcode database.
2012-04-12: Britain's silent scandalous epidemic of people too poor to afford food.
2012-04-12: How PCs boot.
2012-04-12: Scrambling for Safety: conference against UK government snooping, 24th April at LSE.
2012-04-11: A recursive network architecture.
2012-04-11: The design of a routing service for campus-wide internet transport. (1981)
2012-04-11: Nyan Waits.
2012-04-11: The Rust programming language object system.
2012-04-11: The crisis in American walking.
2012-04-11: Here comes the pun: why playful language matters.
2012-04-11: Hyperaddictive stupid games.
2012-04-11: Sirpent: a high-performance internetworking approach. (1989)
2012-04-11: Seat Assignment: lavatory self-portraits in the Flemish style.
2012-04-11: What an app can do with "no permissions" on Android.
2012-04-10: Tiny Transactions on Computer Science: scholarship in 140 characters or less.
2012-04-10: Comparing price/user and price/employee of Instagram and other tech buyouts.
2012-04-10: More than you ever wanted to know about goatse. (SFW!)
2012-04-10: LuaProxy: manipulate an isolated Lua state with Lua (rather than C).
2012-04-10: Declarative GUIs with Lua and Motif.
2012-04-10: More on the insurmountable technical problems of LightSquared.
2012-04-10: Wall Street "vulture" loses $14 billion bet against the laws of physics. (LightSquared cell towers would not wreck GPS?)
2012-04-10: Addressing in internet protocols.
2012-04-10: PHP: fractally bad design.
2012-04-10: AnonWhois.org provides a list of domains with cloaked whois data.
2012-04-10: Mosh: the mobile shell.
2012-04-09: Why does the government always get Internet policy wrong?
2012-04-09: The Guardian loves Eastercon.
2012-04-09: Text from dog.
2012-04-09: Commodore: Computers for the Masses.
2012-04-09: Forbes obituary of Jack Tramiel.
2012-04-09: Commodore before Commodore.
2012-04-09: Smart meters teach electricity companies about computer security the hard way.
2012-04-09: FCC report on DNSSEC implementation practices for ISPs.
2012-04-09: European Commission's Civil Liberties Committee passes bill that will criminalise computer security tools.
2012-04-09: The Swedish CCDP: focussing on the limits of technical privacy protections harms political protections.
2012-04-09: Beard letters.
2012-04-09: Linux + MySQL swap insanity and NUMA.
2012-04-09: An introduction to petname systems.
2012-04-09: Killer homoeopath Francine Scrayen doesn't understand the Streisand Effect.
2012-04-08: You can't P2P the DNS and have it too.
2012-04-08: The hideous name.
2012-04-08: Mirrors: design principles for meta-level facilities of object-oriented programming languages.
2012-04-08: Everyone who is actually involved in producing software knows that patents are a blight on the industry.
2012-04-08: People make poor emergency backups for computerized dynamic systems.
2012-04-08: British security services initiated extraordinary rendition.
2012-04-08: Julia presented at Lang.NEXT 2012.
2012-04-08: A first look at MintChip's hosted API's crypto.
2012-04-08: FOI request for Theresa May's Internet history.
2012-04-08: It should not be illegal to be a stupid racist bastard on Twitter.
2012-04-08: We should not trust the security forces with sweeping new powers of surveillance.
2012-04-08: Demoscene: The Art of the Algorithms.
2012-04-08: DNS problems and alternatives.
2012-04-08: UK surprised to find out after 10 years of close co-operation how bad Uzbekistan is.
2012-04-08: Static analysis of an unknown compression format.
2012-04-08: Hash Functions.
2012-04-08: Unix password security: a case study. (1979)
2012-04-07: Scroogled. A creepy story by Cory Doctorow.
2012-04-07: Another instance of photographic copyright infringement by the Daily Mail.
2012-04-07: Gov.uk web design principles.
2012-04-07: Appeals court rejects Viacom's DMCA arguments against YouTube.
2012-04-07: Google Maps exodus continues: Wikipedia mobile apps switch to OpenStreetMap.
2012-04-07: Shadchen: pattern matching for Emacs Lisp.
2012-04-07: A behind-the-scenes look at Facebook release engineering.
2012-04-07: Keeping Instagram up with a million new users in 24 hours.
2012-04-07: How to count a billion distinct objects using only 1.5KB of memory.
2012-04-06: If Oracle wins its Android suit, everyone loses.
2012-04-06: How a global temperature projection published in Science in 1981 matches real data since then.
2012-04-06: The uncertainty in the realization and dissemination of the SI second from a systems point of view.
2012-04-06: The beer game, supply chain efficiency, and why Apple manufactures in China.
2012-04-05: A level grade inflation: A national disgrace.
2012-04-05: London Olympics trying to get musicians to work for nothing.
2012-04-05: UK Borders Agency brings back dental X-rays to identify children, previously stopped as breach of medical ethics.
2012-04-05: Petition against government snooping.
2012-04-05: The future of US oil production.
2012-04-05: There aren't any security reasons to introduce secret courts.
2012-04-05: The Daily Mail uses and abuses its female writers.
2012-04-05: Amazon.co.uk pays no tax.
2012-04-05: Author Chris McGrath faces six figure legal bill for his foolish libel suit.
2012-04-05: Automatic porn censorship legislation under consideration in the House of Lords.
2012-04-05: Lansley's attack on abortion: expensive, disruptive and unjustified.
2012-04-05: Connecticut Senate votes to repeal death penalty.
2012-04-05: MintChip: the Royal Canadian Mint's electronic currency.
2012-04-05: A turning point for GNU libc.
2012-04-04: The byte order fallacy: Rob Pike on endianness.
2012-04-04: The end of secure computing on general-purpose hardware.
2012-04-04: Lessons in stable corporate structure from John Lewis and the Halifax.
2012-04-04: Notes from the Lib Dem conference call on communications interception.
2012-04-04: Privacy law vs. government surveillance.
2012-04-04: World War 3.0: regulating the Internet.
2012-04-04: When computers were women.
2012-04-04: Cambridge central post office to be refitted owing to lack of postal facilities.
2012-04-04: Amazing chalk+blackboard typography.
2012-04-04: Google uses reCAPTCHA to fix OCR errors and identify house numbers from Street View.
2012-04-04: A one-line software patent.
2012-04-04: Is Firefox slim yet? Graphs of memory usage benchmarks.
2012-04-04: What is the meaning of this? (JavaScript)
2012-04-04: UK Serious + Organized Crime Agency takes down website for copyright infringement. (Less ranting more details please?)
2012-04-04: The way of the peaceful parent.
2012-04-04: Clegg shows shocking signs of not actually being a Tory.
2012-04-04: Confusion over warrants, surveillance powers and intrusive access to traffic data.
2012-04-04: The general authorisation regime for public and private communications networks and services in the UK.
2012-04-04: There's a sucker born every minute in Shepherds Bush.
2012-04-04: Deconstruction of the government surveillance dissembling.
2012-04-04: How not to sort by average rating.
2012-04-04: Pratt parsers: expression parsing made easy.
2012-04-04: The wheels are coming off the online monitoring bandwaggon.
2012-04-04: On the expressive power of programming languages.
2012-04-04: Shiny new legislation on communications data.
2012-04-04: Liberal Democrat MPs stand up for data privacy.
2012-04-04: Australian report against the war on drugs.
2012-04-03: Bob the Angry Flower in Atlas Shrugged 2: one hour later.
2012-04-03: DRM: a whip for beating authors and publishers.
2012-04-03: Atlas Shrugged 2: shrug harder.
2012-04-03: Richard Feynman and computation.
2012-04-03: In praise of plain text data files and protocols. (Also featuring really bad XML.)
2012-04-03: ORG notes on government surveillance plans.
2012-04-03: Poles find out more about secret CIA prisons that violated Polish constitution.
2012-04-03: Bloke called Merlin abuses bloke called Fish for having an implausible name.
2012-04-03: Vienna failed to migrate to GNU/Linux: why?
2012-04-03: Munich mayor says switch to Linux is cheaper and reduced complaints.
2012-04-03: DNSSEC validator extension for Internet Explorer.
2012-04-03: The future of HTTP in Python.
2012-04-03: More urgency required to get 32 bit AS numbers working.
2012-04-03: Are you sure you want to look at prospective employees' Facebook accounts?
2012-04-03: The management problems that led to the bad mirror in the Hubble space telescope.
2012-04-02: Computer science for the rest of us. (See also Kernighan "D is for Digital".)
2012-04-02: Traditional hospital rotas put lives at risk.
2012-04-02: What the Betamax case teaches us about Readability.
2012-04-02: The fireplace delusion.
2012-04-02: The credit rating agencies do not know what they are talking about, nor even what their ratings mean.
2012-04-02: Random hash functions, or, more NaN lunacy.
2012-04-02: See the Tory u-turn on civil liberties.
2012-04-02: The communications snooping plans: time to get campaigning.
2012-04-02: Julian Huppert on safeguards to control state surveillance.
2012-04-02: Nick Clegg declares his support for the government's distributed snooping database.
2012-04-02: Humans: hot, sweaty, natural-born runners - the evolutionary biology of persistence hunting.
2012-04-02: CC Movie vs. infinite copyright.
2012-04-02: Privacy International FAQ on the "Communications Capabilities Development Programme" aka routine warrantless surveillance.
2012-04-02: Why Lua should not have slices, and some performance observations of Python.
2012-04-02: Proposals for real-time monitoring of email and social media show the government has caved in to the security services.
2012-04-02: The digital sundial at the Genk sundial park in Belgium.
2012-04-02: Digital sundials for sale.
2012-04-02: World's most accurate scope, nixie, and flip clocks.
2012-04-02: Why states fail. (Will the extractive 1% impoverish us?)
2012-04-02: Most cancer "discoveries" cannot be reproduced.
2012-04-02: How Linux is changing lives in Zambia.
2012-04-01: The national security and anti-terrorism party.
2012-04-01: Nigeria Google.
2012-04-01: The pirates who are fighting for your vote.
2012-04-01: Girls put off coding by peer pressure.
2012-04-01: Government plans to introduce more Internet snooping in the next Queen's speech.
2012-04-01: Parliamentary privacy committee says Google, Twitter, etc. should enforce superinjunctions.
2012-04-01: What if carpenters had forums like camera geeks?
2012-04-01: Landlord turns tables on anti-abortion harassment.
2012-03-31: Too Smart to Fail: Notes on an Age of Folly.
2012-03-31: Copyright stagnation.
2012-03-30: Phonetic hashes for fuzzy matching names.
2012-03-30: More evidence that pesticides are killing bees.
2012-03-30: More on the EU criminalisation of hacking tools.
2012-03-30: "Servo" next generation browser layout engine design.
2012-03-30: Roy Fielding's "Waka" proposal for HTTP/2.0.
2012-03-30: Comments on Microsoft's SPDY proposal.
2012-03-30: Train wreck: the privatization of British Rail.
2012-03-30: People, Power, Area: how the laws of physics constrain our sustainable energy options. (TEDx vid)
2012-03-30: Mitigating DNS denial of service attacks.
2012-03-29: A Woman's Story.
2012-03-29: EU plans to criminalize security research.
2012-03-29: A new television series of Yes, Prime Minister.
2012-03-29: Copenhagen's bicycle account says cycling is a net gain to society and driving is a net loss.
2012-03-29: Kiva Systems order fulfillment robots. (YouTube)
2012-03-29: EU To criminalise hacking tools.
2012-03-29: DNSSEC deployment in .nl
2012-03-29: The case for fair trade porn.
2012-03-29: IETF hotel WiFi re-engineering.
2012-03-29: Patents keep assistive communication technology clunky and expensive.
2012-03-29: Change of glibc maintainers.
2012-03-28: Wikipedia is rejecting about half of the good contributions by new editors.
2012-03-28: Comparison of graph layout algorithms.
2012-03-28: pandoc2rfc: low-markup IETF document tool.
2012-03-28: Elephant plays with a smartphone. (YouTube)
2012-03-28: UK speech crime: What can't you say on Twitter?
2012-03-28: Finding IPv6 hosts by efficiently mapping ip6.arpa.
2012-03-28: 8-bit PC can run Ubuntu… takes about 6 hours to boot.
2012-03-28: A fan site about the ATS programming language.
2012-03-28: Hacker News discusses BitC, Rust, and Go.
2012-03-28: Optimizing for V8.
2012-03-28: A profile of the mathematical genius Amalie Noether.
2012-03-28: The (LEGO) Duel. (YouTube)
2012-03-28: Ursula Le Guin on the supposed death of the book.
2012-03-28: Headblade: razors for scalps.
2012-03-28: Touring DNS open houses for trends and configurations.
2012-03-28: Put more entropy at the start of your key names for better Amazon S3 performance.
2012-03-28: Death of a data haven: cypherpunks, WikiLeaks, and Sealand, the world's smallest nation.
2012-03-28: Bespoke fitted hat making with a conformateur and a formillon.
2012-03-28: The best birth control in the world is for men.
2012-03-27: Erasure coding makes files more fragile, not less.
2012-03-27: Twitter's pull-to-refresh patent.
2012-03-27: A linguistic history of cocks, dicks, and nuts.
2012-03-27: Android or condom?
2012-03-27: Geek identity, mainstreaming, authenticity, and adulthood.
2012-03-27: News Corporation promoted piracy of pay TV rivals in Australia and other countries.
2012-03-27: After major First Amendment ruling, Boston police settle cellphone recording wrongful arrest lawsuit.
2012-03-27: Why power generators are terrified of solar PV.
2012-03-27: SGI has turned into a patent troll.
2012-03-27: Akamai will offer IPv6 to its customers starting April 2012.
2012-03-27: Pirate Party now a significant political force in Germany.
2012-03-27: A blow for speculative copyright invoicing.
2012-03-27: Linux 3.3: finally a little good news about bufferbloat.
2012-03-27: One drug to shrink all tumours?
2012-03-27: Rainbow: small syntax highlighting library for Javascript.
2012-03-27: Time to renegotiate the European Arrest Warrant.
2012-03-27: CPS makes errors of analysis and judgment in 7% of prosecution cases.
2012-03-27: The tweet police: illiberal courts don't believe in common sense or decency.
2012-03-27: Ontario legalizes brothels on safety grounds.
2012-03-27: Documentation style: declarative or imperative?
2012-03-27: Teratogenic effects of pure evil in ursus teddius domesticus.
2012-03-27: Scalability lessons from YouTube.
2012-03-27: Redis persistence demystified.
2012-03-27: femtolisp: a lightweight robust lisp interpreter built on reusable C libraries.
2012-03-26: A config library for JVM languages.
2012-03-26: Safe elegant configuration files with Scala.
2012-03-26: Explore the fourth dimension on your iPad or iPhone.
2012-03-26: 16-year-old makes working scientific graphing calculator in Minecraft.
2012-03-26: Bike Butterfly.
2012-03-26: A News Corporation company gave money and trade secrets to a hacker site to kill Sky rival ITV Digital with piracy.
2012-03-26: How the TSA handles a plane full of soldiers.
2012-03-26: The cultural clout of young female readers.
2012-03-26: cmonster: a Python wrapper for the Clang C++ parser.
2012-03-26: Racist Hunger Games fans are very disappointed.
2012-03-26: A total disaster for homoeopathy.
2012-03-26: Language-independent sandboxing (in NaCl) of just-in-time compilation and self-modifying code.
2012-03-26: Work-efficient higher-order vectorization.
2012-03-26: Debtris.
2012-03-26: How the Daily Mail conquered Britain.
2012-03-26: The USA must stop wanting good government in the middle east more than the Arabs do.
2012-03-26: How a language can be faster than C.
2012-03-25: Why to prefer gzip not deflate compression for HTTP.
2012-03-25: Retrospective thoughts on BitC.
2012-03-25: The six stages of debugging.
2012-03-25: Legit: git for humans.
2012-03-25: LaTeX for logicians.
2012-03-25: This is what the end of Moore's law looks like: NVidia grumbles about TSMC.
2012-03-24: Governments spending millions for zero-day exploits, keeping them secret from software vendors.
2012-03-24: Google Service Accounts: OAuth 2 certificate-based app authentication.
2012-03-24: Lessons from the Iraq war.
2012-03-24: An efficient scholarly journal.
2012-03-24: A collection of web development cheat sheets.
2012-03-24: The wheels come off Toronto's experiment in Tea Party politics.
2012-03-24: US federal agencies still struggling to deploy mandatory DNSSEC.
2012-03-24: Summit Entertainment claims to own the date November 20, 2009.
2012-03-24: Antibiotic over-use means the end of safe medicine.
2012-03-24: ISO lobbies against open standards, but doesn't know what they are.
2012-03-24: Statistical laws governing fluctuations in word use from word birth to word death.
2012-03-24: Perverse incentives and pizza delivery.
2012-03-24: Frustro: the impossible typeface, based on Penrose triangles.
2012-03-23: NFC phones can pull details from contactless cards through wallets and clothes.
2012-03-23: The injustice of minimum alcohol pricing.
2012-03-23: Using a laser and an ultrafast camera to see around corners.
2012-03-23: Optimized strings for Java. (One allocation for header and data, like Lua.)
2012-03-23: m0n0wall: a firewall package based on an embedded unix with init scripts written in PHP and configured with XML.
2012-03-23: Florian Weimer's passive DNS replication software.
2012-03-23: The art of always being right.
2012-03-23: The US Department of Defense computer networks have been completely compromised by foreign spies.
2012-03-23: ISC passive DNS architecture.
2012-03-23: Nine open problems for conjunctive and Boolean grammars.
2012-03-23: Parsing: the solved problem that isn't.
2012-03-23: The proof is trivial!
2012-03-22: Ten million DNS resolvers on the Internet.
2012-03-22: The debunking handbook: a guide to correcting misinformation.
2012-03-22: How not to provide a mobile optimised website AND how not to use QR codes.
2012-03-22: Comcast and Time Warner cable rolling out IPv6 this year.
2012-03-21: Hierarchies of ebook design.
2012-03-21: Perl secret operators and constants.
2012-03-21: 85% of SPF hard fail messages are legit.
2012-03-21: Petition to put Alan Turing on the next £10 note.
2012-03-21: The Millcroft Campanile: a ten bell mini-ring at Willingham in Cambridgeshire.
2012-03-21: Version control timeline.
2012-03-21: Geocities-izer.
2012-03-21: The digital detective: Mikko Hypponen's war on malware is escalating.
2012-03-20: Clay: a language for generic programming.
2012-03-20: Big flaws in web apps that rely on cloud single sign-on.
2012-03-20: Dave Crocker on the history of email.
2012-03-20: The history of email.
2012-03-20: "That's what she really said." Fighting sexist jokes the geeky way!
2012-03-20: An idea for fluid window controls.
2012-03-20: Libya regime change bombing campaign made UN missions to protect civilians less likely.
2012-03-19: Why bcrypt is somewhat better than PBKDF2.
2012-03-19: A brief bit about near misses by asteroid 2012 DA14.
2012-03-19: D is for Digital, by Brian Kernighan.
2012-03-19: Stumped by a problem? This technique unsticks you.
2012-03-19: How to hang a picture using n nails so that removing any k nails makes the picture fall.
2012-03-19: Dance the digital/physical flip-flop: a pattern for art.
2012-03-19: Judge chooses Pi Day to reject lawsuit over attempt to copyright pi as a tune.
2012-03-19: The growth of the Elsevier boycott for open access to scientific journals.
2012-03-19: "Feminism" is making a roaring comeback, thanks to the Republican War On Women: misogyny on steroids.
2012-03-19: Chirpclock: who is mentioning the current time on Twitter.
2012-03-19: Writing with word processors: a research overview.
2012-03-19: Growth in DNS resolvers with IPv6 connectivity.
2012-03-19: UK digital economy dwarfs the creative sector.
2012-03-19: The evolution of character codes, 1874-1968.
2012-03-19: Free Universal Construction Kit: interoperability between construction toys.
2012-03-19: Bilingualism makes you smarter.
2012-03-19: How UK ENUM abuses the DNS.
2012-03-19: Metropolitan Police pay compensation to student who was wrongly arrested for filming buildings.
2012-03-19: The left in the UK is divided between labourism and liberalism.
2012-03-19: About those vector icons.
2012-03-19: Speaking to a technical conference.
2012-03-19: How good is JavaScript?
2012-03-19: Divided We Stand: the polarization of American politics.
2012-03-19: Bank of America: too crooked to fail.
2012-03-18: The future for cash in the UK.
2012-03-18: In Sweden, cash is king no more.
2012-03-18: In protest, Democrats zero in on men's reproductive health.
2012-03-18: Megaupload seizure order "null and void" says NZ High Court.
2012-03-18: How to explain your game to an asshole.
2012-03-18: How one man escaped from a North Korean prison camp.
2012-03-18: Very large RSA public exponents and DNSSEC validator CPU usage.
2012-03-18: When Ulysses S. Grant expelled the Jews.
2012-03-18: What ails the Linux desktop? The wrong kind of freedom.
2012-03-18: 0800Buster: 0800 to geographical number translation.
2012-03-18: Radical biplane design might fly supersonic without the boom.
2012-03-17: World's most annoying business (direct marketing) complains about privacy regulations.
2012-03-17: This might seem silly: "git pull" in Swedish.
2012-03-17: Catholic bishop to hospitals: let women die, that's an order.
2012-03-17: Ranto: learn NOT to speak Esperanto.
2012-03-17: MPAA ratings and the film "Bully".
2012-03-17: The end of Pax Papyra and the fall of Big Paper.
2012-03-17: RSA public exponent size, performance, and DNSSEC.
2012-03-17: Why they didn't use a bloom filter.
2012-03-17: The new iPad's screen under the microscope.
2012-03-17: Single page web apps with Backbone.js.
2012-03-16: Church encodings and the U and Y combinators in JavaScript.
2012-03-16: Diagnosing weird problems: a debugging case study.
2012-03-16: Regulatory Catch 22: distillery regulations in Tennessee.
2012-03-16: Terry Winograd: Thinking machines: Can there be? Are we?
2012-03-16: For every network service, there's an equal and opposite disservice.
2012-03-16: The NSA is building a huge communications interception data centre in Utah.
2012-03-16: Texas loses Medicaid funding owing to anti-contraception lunacy.
2012-03-16: Why software patents are evil.
2012-03-16: How not to attract tourists.
2012-03-16: European Parliament blocks orphan works copyright reform with 113% turnout.
2012-03-16: Correlation between white rice consumption and risk of diabetes.
2012-03-16: MPs should sever links with the Christian charity CARE which co-sponsored 'gay cure' event.
2012-03-16: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and _why: The disappearance of one of the world's most beloved computer programmers.
2012-03-16: Make Commodity Beautiful.
2012-03-15: Copyright math. (TED talk)
2012-03-15: Decades of research proves that shorter work hours raise productivity and profits, and overtime destroys them.
2012-03-15: What's really wrong with Goldman Sachs.
2012-03-15: The first press article about the first webcam: the Trojan Room coffee pot camera.
2012-03-15: International domain takedowns for copyright infringement: ICANN to cooperate with global law enforcement.
2012-03-15: What to say to the government in the equal marriage consultation.
2012-03-15: An estimate of the size of Amazon AWS.
2012-03-15: Linear Scan register allocator for the OCaml native code compiler.
2012-03-15: The Microsoft Azure outage: time is a SPOF, leap day doubly so.
2012-03-15: Number misuse, telecommunications regulations, the Internet, and WCIT.
2012-03-14: Cyberwar is still more hype than reality.
2012-03-14: Dave Gorman takes on Flickr's quick permanent deletion DMCA takedown policy.
2012-03-14: Unknown tech company defies FBI national security letter in secret surveillance case.
2012-03-14: Judge orders failed copyright troll Righthaven to forfeit all its copyrights to pay off its debts.
2012-03-14: Why Greg Smith is leaving Goldman Sachs.
2012-03-14: Wrecking crew orchestra. (YouTube)
2012-03-14: Twitter's tales of sexism.
2012-03-14: Carrier-grade NAT address space: 100.64.0.0/10.
2012-03-14: ICANN 43 DNSSEC workshop slides.
2012-03-14: European GDP per region.
2012-03-14: Machine pareidolia: applying a face detection algorithm to antropomorphic objects.
2012-03-14: Yahoo-Facebook patent fight: more than meets the eye.
2012-03-14: A homeless person costs $40,000 a year or more; providing housing is much cheaper.
2012-03-14: A reason insurers won't cover people with pre-existing conditions.
2012-03-14: Stop innovating, please: Kaleidescape loses DVD jukebox case.
2012-03-14: Miles of rail line could be re-opened.
2012-03-14: The possible physics of Angry Birds in Space.
2012-03-14: Encyclopedia Britannica halts print publication after 244 years.
2012-03-14: Why James Whittaker left Google.
2012-03-13: The Fall of the House of Murdoch.
2012-03-13: India uses a compulsory patent licence to reduce cost of anti-cancer drug.
2012-03-13: Going DNSSEC with Unbound and PowerDNS.
2012-03-13: Fukushima was no disaster, no matter how you spin it.
2012-03-13: Olympics 2012: you had better not upset anyone in lockdown London.
2012-03-13: "Influencers" are not the key to viral success: fans are.
2012-03-13: Catholic Church uses US courts to attack paedo priest victim support organization.
2012-03-13: Fake Unicode Consortium
2012-03-12: Train stations are no place for armed police.
2012-03-12: Technology and morality: Apple vs freedom.
2012-03-12: Metaprogramming custom control structures with the C preprocessor.
2012-03-12: UX design tips for iPad apps for small children.
2012-03-12: An alternative to pharmaceutical patents.
2012-03-12: How patent monopolies work in the real world, not the fairyland of the lone inventor.
2012-03-12: Why Monsanto could not believe weeds would develop resistance to herbicide.
2012-03-12: Spanish and German national libraries release bibliographic databases under CC0.
2012-03-12: Edgar Rice Burroughs copyright zombie uses trademark law to prevent derivative use of public domain works.
2012-03-12: Dangerous assumptions and unconscious discrimination.
2012-03-12: The 01:58 rail replacement service from Stevenage, when the clocks go forwards (daylight saving time starts).
2012-03-12: How Labour and Conservative politicians invited News International into government.
2012-03-12: Why is C++ iostreams so amazingly slow?
2012-03-12: time.is: display your time and place.
2012-03-12: Plead "not guilty" and demand a trial, to crash the justice system.
2012-03-12: British banks failed owing to simply lending too much: no CDOs or derivatives to blame.
2012-03-11: Apple launch events usually break live blogging platforms.
2012-03-11: Using an iPad effectively in the classroom: feedback support / overviews with attitude.
2012-03-11: Annotated NHS bill letter from Lib Dem leadership.
2012-03-10: Department of Health still trying to keep reform risk assessment secret.
2012-03-10: What privatised out-of-hours GP service has been like in Cornwall.
2012-03-10: Summary of Windows Azure service disruption on Feb 29th, 2012.
2012-03-10: The not-so-sweet smell of odious sovereign debt.
2012-03-10: £153 to get a licence to hold an Easter egg hunt.
2012-03-10: What free speech really means.
2012-03-10: Consequences of increased resistance in corn rootworm to GM plants.
2012-03-10: Apple causes nice problems for OpenStreetMap.
2012-03-10: Examples of Lisp code typography.
2012-03-09: Chisel: Fossil SCM hosting.
2012-03-09: SPCDNS: a DNS library with Lua binding.
2012-03-09: Boozy Britain, or not: what the media don't tell you.
2012-03-09: Predicting Internet telephony call setup delay.
2012-03-09: The personal analytics of Stephen Wolfram's life.
2012-03-09: The fatal mistake of programming language research is to create a new language.
2012-03-08: load81: a Lua programming environment for children.
2012-03-08: The quest to replace passwords: a framework for comparative evaluation of Web authentication schemes.
2012-03-08: Apple is using OpenStreetMap in iPhoto.
2012-03-08: If you don't feel that International Women's Day is for you …
2012-03-08: Open source military helicopters to fight proprietary lock-in.
2012-03-08: George Dyson's continued downplaying of British computing efforts is tiresome.
2012-03-08: Where is it safe to register a domain name? Which TLDs are independent from the US government.
2012-03-08: SSL and browsers: the pillars of broken security.
2012-03-07: How to get anything past a TSA nude body scanner.
2012-03-07: When full disclosure meets SCADA PLCs.
2012-03-07: History of free birth control in the UK.
2012-03-07: The practical reality of contraception in the USA.
2012-03-07: Five years ago the House of Commons voted for an elected House of Lords.
2012-03-07: Who would have thought that a web taxi firm would have it easier in France than in the US?
2012-03-07: TfL advised engineers to ignore cyclists at killer Kings Cross junction, despite cyclists being 20% of casualties.
2012-03-07: Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: a stealth attempt to undermine democracy.
2012-03-07: Why Hayek would have hated software patents.
2012-03-07: Reddit v Hacker News v Twitter.
2012-03-07: A self-organising news site?
2012-03-06: EFF argues in court that Warner Bros bogus DMCA takedowns stifle free speech.
2012-03-06: This time is different: A panoramic view of eight centuries of financial crises.
2012-03-06: Intro to DNS for developers.
2012-03-06: Weapons of mass assignment: Ruby on Rails PHP-style vulnerability. (May 2011)
2012-03-06: The new networked feminism and Limbaugh's spectacular social media defeat.
2012-03-05: Ayn Rand's libertarianism is the ugliest philosophy since the second world war.
2012-03-05: Japanese writing, design and typography.
2012-03-05: Paul Krugmsn on economics in the crisis.
2012-03-05: US government agencies will be required to validate DNSSEC signatures.
2012-03-05: Web site bandwidth. Twitter uses a 4MB framework to transmit a 140 character tweet.
2012-03-05: The human rights statistician.
2012-03-05: Invisible Mercedes. (YouTube)
2012-03-04: Got Mead?
2012-03-04: Agriculture: the worst mistake ever.
2012-03-04: Why an MRI costs $1,080 in America and $280 in France.
2012-03-04: Food marketing is a big lie.
2012-03-04: NHS fairness tsar received £799,000 payment from US private health giant.
2012-03-04: The Raspberry Pi can help schools get with the program.
2012-03-04: Artist and hacktivists sabotage Spanish anti-piracy law.
2012-03-04: Is there still research to be done in programming languages?
2012-03-04: "Forget Your Past": Buzludzha, Bulgaria.
2012-03-04: Why is nobody using X.509 client certificates?
2012-03-04: 60 metre asteroid 2012 DA14 to approach within geosynchronous orbit and may collide.
2012-03-04: A few thoughts on Bell Labs and innovation.
2012-03-04: Nobody wants to learn how to program: teaching how to make computers do new things.
2012-03-04: Police help construction firms to blacklist troublesome workers.
2012-03-04: Cult information centre under attack.
2012-03-04: Mari0: Super Mario Brothers clone with Portal mashup.
2012-03-03: The NY Times explains Londoners.
2012-03-03: Misunderstanding higher education: eight "category mistakes".
2012-03-03: Why the F5 BIG-IP iRules are based on Tcl.
2012-03-03: Fault tolerance in NetFlix's high volume distributed system.
2012-03-03: Spotlight on movie profitability: an excellent data visualisation.
2012-03-02: Copyright lawyers sue patent lawyers for using academic papers to prepare patents.
2012-03-02: Vortex radio modulation could boost wireless capacity "infinitely".
2012-03-02: The impact of Raspberry Pi on the RS website.
2012-03-02: Harmony explained: progress towards a scientific theory of music.
2012-03-02: How the giant patent troll Intellectual Ventures operates.
2012-03-02: "Sorry mate, I didn't see you." The excuse of the dangerous driver.
2012-03-02: UK police to be privatised.
2012-03-02: Fantasy shipping forecast.
2012-03-02: The Washington Post gets taught a lesson about credulous press release churnalism and the need for fact-checking.
2012-03-02: Every car in France must carry a breathalyzer from July 1st.
2012-03-02: ICANN's dodgy ccTLD redelegations in 2005. (The Register)
2012-03-02: How not to sell software in 2012.
2012-03-01: Microsoft Windows Azure cloud service hit by 8 hour downtime due to leap day bug.
2012-03-01: How Red Hat killed its core product to became a billion dollar business.
2012-03-01: Too big to fail: the first 5000 years.
2012-03-01: The 50% tax rate, and tax breaks for entrepreneurs.
2012-03-01: East African internet resilience.
2012-03-01: New speech-jamming gun hints at dystopian future.
2012-03-01: SSL/TLS deployment best practices.
2012-03-01: Programs as proofs: models and types in the lambda calculus.
2012-02-29: Large exponent overflows in Google Go's RSA library, causing godns DNSSEC interop problems.
2012-02-29: US authorities require Verisign to seize Canadian .com subdomain registered via foreign registrar.
2012-02-29: Disputes about bogus automated YouTube DMCA takedowns are judged by the accuser.
2012-02-29: Faster Javascript through category theory.
2012-02-29: Ned Freed describes a few problems in X.400.
2012-02-29: Six real people with mind-blowing mutant superpowers.
2012-02-29: Frank King and the Paternoster Square sundial.
2012-02-29: No right to parody in the UK / the video Olympics Authorities want banned.
2012-02-29: What Raspberry Pi is for: encouraging children to write software.
2012-02-29: News of the World interfered with a murder inquiry.
2012-02-29: Key SOPA/PIPA article censored by bogus DMCA takedown notice.
2012-02-29: Cotton Candy: $200 powerful thumb-sized ARM Linux machine.
2012-02-29: An attempt to gag parliament with a super-injunction covering 7/7 allegations.
2012-02-29: Young women are, like, way ahead of the linguistic curve?
2012-02-28: Profile of a failed Anonymous attack.
2012-02-28: Richer people are less ethical.
2012-02-28: Carmen Sandiego: latina rôle model.
2012-02-28: vsResolver: a validating stub DNSSEC resolver written in Python.
2012-02-28: Principles and objectives for safer cycling in Britain.
2012-02-28: The corrupt relationship between News International and the Met Police becomes clearer.
2012-02-28: How to build a naive Bayes classifier.
2012-02-28: The hue and cry over buying and selling tickets for live music.
2012-02-28: A whole /8 legacy class A block of IP addresses for sale.
2012-02-27: The intelligent argument for legalizing cannabis in California.
2012-02-27: Coerced citations and manipulated impact factors: the dirty tricks of academic journals.
2012-02-27: FCC fires FUD at the idea of a UN-controlled Internet.
2012-02-27: NPR will now avoid "he said, she said" false-balance reporting.
2012-02-27: Regenemies: a regex matching game.
2012-02-27: Petition to stop the beer duty escalator.
2012-02-27: Boycotts and access to back issues of scholarly journals.
2012-02-27: goluago: an implementation of Lua written in Go.
2012-02-27: Why HDDs have a higher failure rate when operated at altitude.
2012-02-27: LuaDNS: scriptable bulk DNS hosting managed with git.
2012-02-27: Imaging the charge distribution within a single molecule using Kelvin probe force microscopy.
2012-02-27: Economists cling to beliefs that no longer apply in an overconnected world.
2012-02-27: The case of the $517 chest x-ray.
2012-02-27: The business of bookmarking: pinboard.in.
2012-02-27: Cities fit for people, on foot as well as on bike.
2012-02-27: Increasing TCP's initial window as standard.
2012-02-27: Google and Microsoft have large TCP initial windows.
2012-02-27: Innovation at Bell Labs.
2012-02-27: The social mobility problem: poor children do badly in most of England's schools.
2012-02-27: Conversation, Twitter, and Susan Greenfield.
2012-02-26: If you want reproducible science, the software needs to be open source.
2012-02-26: The Bechdel Test and the 2012 Oscars. (YouTube)
2012-02-26: Simon Beck makes huge geometric patterns by walking in snow.
2012-02-26: Testing a steam locomotive on the London Underground.
2012-02-26: Feminism.
2012-02-26: Beeb@30: celebrating the 30th birthday of the BBC Micro.
2012-02-26: How to make pseudoephedrine from meth.
2012-02-26: Attacking the Washington DC Internet voting system.
2012-02-26: What happens to the cocaine from making Coca-Cola?
2012-02-26: The sun is setting on Rails-style MVC frameworks.
2012-02-26: Bitcoin & Gresham's Law: the economic inevitability of collapse.
2012-02-25: Why the super-rich love the UK.
2012-02-25: Safecracking for the computer scientist.
2012-02-25: Anti-authoritarianism is deemed a mental health problem.
2012-02-25: Twitter as a vector for disinformation.
2012-02-25: The UN/ITU threat to Internet freedom.
2012-02-25: Teller reveals his magical secrets.
2012-02-25: Designing geared twisty 3D puzzles.
2012-02-25: Can economic growth last? The limits on thermodynamic efficiency.
2012-02-25: A history of multitouch.
2012-02-24: iBooks DRM has been cracked.
2012-02-24: How Olivetti stitched up Acorn.
2012-02-23: How credit card payment processing works, from the online merchant point of view.
2012-02-23: PHP 0+2=4.
2012-02-23: Amazon pulls thousands of ebooks from sale after publisher refuses to reduce prices.
2012-02-23: EFF press release on the failed Astrolabe TZ copyright claim.
2012-02-23: Astrolabe Inc. drop their copyright claims against Olson and Eggert for the TZ database.
2012-02-23: SO_REUSEPORT: scaling multicore servers with high connection rates.
2012-02-23: Cecil/Diesel/Vortex programming languages.
2012-02-23: How bots seized control of a pricing strategy.
2012-02-23: Why do we need academic journals in the first place?
2012-02-23: 333 donations from private healthcare sources totalling £8.3 million given to the Tories.
2012-02-23: Australian National Health and Research Council CEO supports open access and the Elsevier boycott.
2012-02-22: Butter improves brain function?
2012-02-22: Registrars that support end user DNSSEC + DS record management.
2012-02-22: The 4+4 hour sleeping pattern.
2012-02-22: The case for publishing the source code of research software.
2012-02-22: The US music industry is stealing from people who post videos on YouTube.
2012-02-22: According to Fox News, Iran is always a year away from having nukes.
2012-02-22: All dead Mormons are now gay.
2012-02-22: The RIAA is collapsing; the rest of the music industry is thriving.
2012-02-22: The future is not evenly distributed per gender.
2012-02-22: How to brick an electric car.
2012-02-22: Britain fails the maths test.
2012-02-22: How Mailinator compresses email by 90%.
2012-02-22: A better way to teach science than lecturing.
2012-02-21: DNSChef: a highly configurable response-forging DNS proxy.
2012-02-21: Luerl: a version of Lua written in Erlang.
2012-02-21: Valerie Aurora has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.
2012-02-21: IE cookie loophole reported in 2010.
2012-02-21: Google bypassing user privacy settings in IE too.
2012-02-21: The problems with hashbangs.
2012-02-21: Twitter to get rid of hashbangs.
2012-02-20: On removing call/cc from Scheme R7RS.
2012-02-20: Sauerkraut Station.
2012-02-20: Mountain Lion safety guide.
2012-02-20: Two Canadian universities to monitor internal email for copyright infringement, which includes sending hyperlinks.
2012-02-20: Infinite copyright: a modest proposal.
2012-02-20: How a papermaker helps preserve civilization.
2012-02-20: Elsevier is doing an unbelievably shitty job of accomplishing its ONE AND ONLY PURPOSE.
2012-02-20: How Forbes stole a New York Times article and got all the traffic.
2012-02-20: Our unrealistic views of death: "aggressive medical treatment can become sanctioned torture."
2012-02-19: How Gordon Moore invented the talent economy on which Silicon Valley is based.
2012-02-19: John Nash's 1955 letter to the NSA on cryptography and computational complexity.
2012-02-19: AMD: what went wrong?
2012-02-19: Examples of misuse of Census 2001 data on religion.
2012-02-19: The Citizens United catastrophe: replacing American democracy with plutocracy.
2012-02-19: PLOT: Programming Language for Old Timers.
2012-02-19: Why we created Julia - a fresh approach to technical computing.
2012-02-19: Origami micro-drones laser-cut from a sheet.
2012-02-19: The Julia programming language.
2012-02-19: Cameron's hospital visit covered up after all the staff treat him like scum.
2012-02-19: Time in the 10,000 year clock.
2012-02-19: Michael Gove says anti-discrimination law does not apply to school curriculum.
2012-02-19: The Mu USB adapter. (Folding UK plug, 1A output.)
2012-02-19: Brilliant UK folding plug finally goes on sale - as a USB wall wart.
2012-02-19: The politicians who will profit from wrecking the NHS.
2012-02-18: Stop paying your jQuery tax.
2012-02-18: Sloppy reporting on the self-driving car.
2012-02-18: Inside the amazing and embarrassing French postnatal "perineal re-education" class.
2012-02-18: How category theory relates to programming language theory.
2012-02-18: Labour broke the state in its manic attempt to set markets free and then prop them up when they inevitably failed.
2012-02-18: Martin Amis's guide to classic video games: 100-proof WTF.
2012-02-18: Another reason for boycotting GoDaddy.
2012-02-18: Labour: an illiberal elitist capitalist party with no taste for democracy and a misplaced paternalism towards the masses.
2012-02-18: Cops spend weeks to seduce 18-year-olds into selling pot, pointlessly ruining their lives.
2012-02-18: The piracy threshold: when honesty becomes too difficult.
2012-02-18: Who is, and is not, invited to Cameron's emergency NHSbill summit?
2012-02-18: SSD performance and reliability drops as feature sizes shrink.
2012-02-18: LSM B-tree: log-structured merge tree storage engine in Erlang.
2012-02-17: Does your smartphone speak your language?
2012-02-17: How to save money on FOI without changing the law.
2012-02-17: Fatigué? Pensif? Triste?
2012-02-17: How Target figured out a teenager was pregnant before her father did.
2012-02-17: First peal by members of the Regent House of the University of Cambridge.
2012-02-17: Nimrod: logfile-based metrics server written in Clojure.
2012-02-17: How Etsy developers manage their test suite.
2012-02-17: Google stealthily exploits bug in Safari to violate users' privacy settings.
2012-02-17: Autometrics: self-service metrics collection at LinkedIn.
2012-02-17: MapReduce patterns, algorithms, and use cases.
2012-02-16: Who can name the biggest number?
2012-02-16: iOS apps and the address book: who has your data, and how they're getting it.
2012-02-16: Why philosophers should care about computational complexity.
2012-02-16: Why all this new stuff was needed in Linux: dynamic change.
2012-02-16: The destructive desktop: Linux in trouble?
2012-02-16: The original (?) greylisting whitepaper.
2012-02-16: Where the Lua programming language is used.
2012-02-16: Britain is neither a religious country nor a secular one, but an interesting mix of both.
2012-02-16: European hosting providers cannot be required to scan their users data for copyright infringement.
2012-02-16: Google Public DNS "no longer experimental" despite lack of DNSSEC support.
2012-02-16: The Sun's journalists change their minds about the Human Rights Act when it might help them protect their informants.
2012-02-16: SSL traffic analysis finds the location you view by sniffing Google Maps tile image sizes.
2012-02-16: Canada bans masked protest; penalty up to 5 years in prison.
2012-02-15: The "undue weight" of truth on Wikipedia.
2012-02-15: A comparison between Misultin, Mochiweb, Cowboy (all Erlang), node.js, and Tornadoweb (Python).
2012-02-15: Department of Health fails to cover up senior staff tax avoidance scheme after lying to Parliament.
2012-02-15: David Cameron knows the drug laws aren't working; his failure to change them is simple cowardice.
2012-02-15: Vintage London.
2012-02-15: Mobile devices to exceed human population this year: about two devices per IPv4 address.
2012-02-15: The cost of knowledge.
2012-02-15: Elsevier boycott grows to 5000+ academics.
2012-02-15: Successful Lisp: how to understand and use Common Lisp.
2012-02-15: Movie lawyers destroy a student project for no Reason.
2012-02-15: When you find something scary in your genome...
2012-02-15: Orange UK blocks access to free speech advocacy site La Quadrature Du Net.
2012-02-15: The Guardian on the Heartland Institute climate denial leak.
2012-02-15: Heartland Institute exposed: internal documents reveal backers and strategy of the climate denial machine.
2012-02-15: Bret Victor: inventing on principle. (Vimeo)
2012-02-15: At last the FCC ditches the LightSquared GPS-jamming cellphone system.
2012-02-15: Tumblr's architecture.
2012-02-15: Lasagna.
2012-02-15: Where to wait for an elevator.
2012-02-15: The golden rule of web site performance.
2012-02-15: Vintage LP stereo banners.
2012-02-14: Popular British insults.
2012-02-14: "Shitstorm" is best German Anglicism of the year.
2012-02-14: Is there sufficient historical evidence to establish the resurrection of Jesus? No.
2012-02-14: A squalid brutal Scientology child labourcamp in Australia.
2012-02-14: The Department for Culture Media and Sport vs. the Intellectual Property Office: good vs. bad policy-making.
2012-02-14: Dutch government planning to relax copyright to allow creative remixes.
2012-02-14: Whitehall accidentally devolved power over British Antarctic territory to Scotland.
2012-02-14: Implementing a DANE DNSSEC-for-TLS validator.
2012-02-14: UK govt has six days to release "extraordiary rendition" prisoner or face war crimes investigation.
2012-02-14: Avoiding and exploiting JavaScript's warts.
2012-02-14: Many "Christian" Brits do not believe in God, or that Jesus was his son, or in the resurrection.
2012-02-14: Why concatenative programming matters.
2012-02-14: The Sun learns a hard lesson about human rights and due process.
2012-02-14: How to spot bad books.
2012-02-14: The late Tony Sale and Colossus, the world's first electronic programmable computer.
2012-02-14: Public-access policies that make research more open result in accelerated progress in science and faster economic growth.
2012-02-14: AT&T expects $100bn real estate windfall from VOIP's smaller space requirements.
2012-02-14: Learning magic in the age of the Internet.
2012-02-14: The mystery of the exploding pig shit.
2012-02-14: Piracy does not affect box office takings in US, but does in countries with delayed releases.
2012-02-12: Beware the CDPATH environment variable.
2012-02-12: Why understanding Chris Lightfoot matters.
2012-02-12: McKinsey and Company: the firm that hijacked the NHS.
2012-02-11: Fuck your Noguchi coffee table.
2012-02-11: Clean up your web app access permissions.
2012-02-10: JITs for free with RPython and PyPy.
2012-02-10: Alan Moore on Guy Fawkes, V for Vendetta, and Anonymous.
2012-02-10: Anatomy of a LEGO minifig.
2012-02-10: NLnet Labs DNSSEC workshop presentation and exercise materials.
2012-02-10: Lower than reprinted press releases and simply making shit up, is the Daily Mail.
2012-02-10: Two cheers for the Eolas patent troll victory.
2012-02-10: Bideford town council prayers ruled unlawful.
2012-02-10: The Economist on the growing Elsevier boycott.
2012-02-10: Proponents of US critical infrastructure security bills worried about being seen to regulate the Internet.
2012-02-10: Patent troll Eolas loses claim to own the interactive web.
2012-02-10: Powers of Ten: the scale of the universe. (Flash)
2012-02-10: The federal research public access act.
2012-02-09: Kiwi helmet law cut cyclist numbers by half.
2012-02-09: The Land of the Free and the Elements of Style: everything in Strunk and White is wrong.
2012-02-09: Homemade collapsible TARDIS.
2012-02-08: London street map distorted to match the Tube map.
2012-02-08: Clarifying TLD syntax requirements, wrt dotted-quad IP addresses and internationalized domain names.
2012-02-08: Enough, already: US copyright law is strict enough, and secret treaties export it worldwide.
2012-02-08: Vixie's attempt to address the "ghost domain" problem. (2010)
2012-02-08: How parking shapes urban form.
2012-02-08: A look back at single-threaded CPU performance.
2012-02-08: Twitter Joke Trial made law look silly.
2012-02-08: United States v Shipp: rape, lynching, habeas corpus, and contempt of the Supreme Court.
2012-02-08: File sharing after the death of MegaUpload.
2012-02-08: Ghost domain names: revoked yet still resolvable.
2012-02-07: Bullet: adventures in a minimally delimited Lisp.
2012-02-07: San Francisco's 19th century telegraphic public fire alarm system.
2012-02-07: Federal appeals court rules California's gay marriage ban is unconstitutional.
2012-02-07: You can't copyright porn, argues BitTorrent defendant.
2012-02-07: Judge Dredd: the Bod TV special.
2012-02-06: Seeing the patriarchy.
2012-02-06: LLBMC, the low-level bounded model checker: a tool for finding bugs in C programs.
2012-02-06: On system rollback and totalised fields: an algebraic approach to system change.
2012-02-06: Will Self thinks the Olympics suck dogshit through a straw.
2012-02-06: How hangovers work.
2012-02-06: Satphone encryption cracked: another failure of secret crypto.
2012-02-06: Many boardroom videoconferencing systems are open to unauthorized remote access.
2012-02-06: FBI / Scotland Yard conference call hacked by Anonymous.
2012-02-06: Encyclopaedia Morningtonia.
2012-02-06: GSL Shell: LuaJIT + GNU Scientific Library.
2012-02-06: Yieldable LPEG: for parsing a dynamic buffer fed from a socket.
2012-02-06: Tim Montgomerie of ConservativeHome supports equal marriage rights.
2012-02-06: Melton: A static memory leak detector for C programs based on the clang static analyser.
2012-02-06: Fail-Safe C: a memory-safe implementation of the full ANSI C language.
2012-02-06: Regressive tax in the US, state-by-state.
2012-02-06: The Tesla valve: one way flow without moving parts.
2012-02-06: The sociology of drunkenness.
2012-02-05: You will never kill piracy, and piracy will never kill you.
2012-02-05: UK Police hired out to work for private companies.
2012-02-05: The US kills people with drones and fires on the rescuers who arrive at the scene, then goes after mourners at the funeral.
2012-02-05: The decline of the amateur expert.
2012-02-05: Don't store that in a float.
2012-02-05: Four touchscreen-compatible gloves reviewed.
2012-02-05: Can your smartphone stand the cold?
2012-02-05: Maillardet's writing automaton.
2012-02-05: DNSSHIM: hidden master DNSSEC signer. (Java)
2012-02-05: Why did PledgeBank fail when GroupOn and Kickstarter flew?
2012-02-05: Google's horrible January.
2012-02-05: From sand to silicon: the making of a chip.
2012-02-04: Justice Department says prison rape accounted for majority of rapes committed in US in 2008.
2012-02-04: Atheism in America.
2012-02-04: Journals boost their impact factor by asking academics to pad their citations.
2012-02-04: On the ethics, pragmatics, and politics of cryptographic application design.
2012-02-04: Three things Twitter has not got right yet.
2012-02-04: Genetic IP reduces innovation and product development by 20-30%.
2012-02-03: Why Mark Jaquith is an atheist.
2012-02-03: The 64-bit counter-revolution.
2012-02-03: Darkness. (Wonderful 24 hour comic.)
2012-02-03: Why oh why do those nutheads use vi?
2012-02-03: The Prince vs Cariou copyright case has a chilling effect on appropriated images in art.
2012-02-03: Opposition to intellectual property laws is starting to look like a political winner for the Republican party.
2012-02-02: DMARC anti-spam protocol leads to private information leakage.
2012-02-02: On Temple Island Collections v New English Teas, the Westminster bus photograph copyright case.
2012-02-02: It is time for the rebirth of the university press.
2012-02-01: No, that's not snow: pesticides coat California's central valley.
2012-02-01: Some of the world's most beautiful book shops.
2012-02-01: Lua vs Javascript for MediaWiki.
2012-02-01: The Jackdaw database package. (1974) (The current version of Jackdaw is Oracle on Solaris.)
2012-02-01: Lua to be Wikipedia's template scripting language.
2012-02-01: The sky is rising! The growth of the entertainment industry in the Internet age.
2012-02-01: Why Lua?
2012-02-01: The founder of PLoS on the research works act and publishing failed experiments.
2012-02-01: Reducing the retrieval time of scatter storage techniques: Brent's variation on hash tables.
2012-02-01: People are spouting nonsense about Chinese manufacturing.
2012-02-01: Transgender people are completely banned from boarding airplanes in Canada.
2012-02-01: The trouble with popularity: repetitive fun memes crowd out meaningful content.
2012-02-01: Piracy is the new radio: it's how music gets around.
2012-02-01: Linotype: The Film.
2012-01-31: Apache httpOnly cookie disclosure vulnerability.
2012-01-31: Environmental protection rules may be headed for government shredder.
2012-01-31: CuBox: small computer built around Marvell Armada 510 SoC.
2012-01-31: The caffeine curve.
2012-01-31: Sublime threats and ridiculous consequences as the works of 3 great English writers enter the global public domain.
2012-01-31: Tiny Core Linux 4.2 is a complete operating system in 64MB or less.
2012-01-31: GSM tracking: obvious in the UK. (para 46 et seq.)
2012-01-31: How to learn effectively.
2012-01-31: Python pbs: run commands as if they were Python functions.
2012-01-31: Desirability and density of urban design.
2012-01-31: Australia: the confusing country.
2012-01-30: Avoidable failures of peer review.
2012-01-30: A police state for benefits claimants.
2012-01-30: What is a "private-sector research work"?
2012-01-30: How the puffer fish gets you high, zombifies you, and kills you.
2012-01-30: Helmet cam secures conviction of motorist who assaulted cycling QC, despite police attempts to drop case.
2012-01-30: Windows Azure Storage: tackling the CAP theorem head-on.
2012-01-30: How should British vacancies in the European parliament be filled?
2012-01-30: What financial regulators can learn from nuclear reactors.
2012-01-30: Broderick? Broderick?
2012-01-30: Baby clothes without the pink-or-blue.
2012-01-30: The Führer speaks out on Downfall parodies.
2012-01-30: Format string vulnerability in sudo.
2012-01-30: 20th birthday of alt.fan.pratchett.
2012-01-30: The complexity of font sizes.
2012-01-30: American youth becoming even more godless.
2012-01-30: A serious flaw emerges in quantum cryptography.
2012-01-30: DNSSEC libraries for application developers.
2012-01-30: Wall Street Joirnal rejects climate essay from 255 National Academy of Science scientists; accepts anti-climate essay from 16 others.
2012-01-30: Why your network should go IPv6 only.
2012-01-30: The strong principle of charity.
2012-01-30: Really, Google is evil now? How about Apple?
2012-01-29: What is wrong with electronic academic journals?
2012-01-29: The P-versus-NP page.
2012-01-29: The Lancet: the Research Works Act is a damaging threat to science.
2012-01-29: A cold war missile silo converted to a private home in the Adirondacks.
2012-01-29: Google+ nymwar is not a matter of behaviour, it's a matter of aesthetic appearance of names.
2012-01-29: Why Twitter's new policy is helpful for free-speech advocates.
2012-01-29: Single-block collision attack on MD5.
2012-01-29: How the badly maimed BBC can stand up to parasitic Sky.
2012-01-29: Twitter's censorship is a gray box of shame for governments that impose it, not for Twitter.
2012-01-29: Wind electricity to be competitive with cheap natural gas by 2016.
2012-01-29: Inder's kitchen.
2012-01-29: The BBC's science problem.
2012-01-29: Hollywood edition: if computers were as user-friendly as movies.
2012-01-29: What have academic publishers ever done for us? And do we need them?
2012-01-29: IcedCoffeeScript: just add "await" and "defer" keywords.
2012-01-28: The why of WAT.
2012-01-28: Which computers star in which films.
2012-01-28: Our courtrooms make a mockery of "beyond reasonable doubt".
2012-01-28: Megaupload: a lot less guilty than you think.
2012-01-28: Why eating fat doesn't make you fat.
2012-01-28: Discussing the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split.
2012-01-28: The BBC pays Sky to broadcast their channels.
2012-01-28: Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split.
2012-01-28: Why does that QR code take me to justinsomnia.org?
2012-01-28: Universal Music abuses YouTube takedown process preventing independent band from posting their own song.
2012-01-28: Three faces of feminism: Louise Mensch, Laurie Penny, and Jodie Marsh.
2012-01-28: The soaring cost of gritting roads is forcing local authorities to gamble on weather derivatives.
2012-01-27: 1960s password hacks on MIT's CTSS.
2012-01-27: Identity slippage: when sensitive personal data goes to the wrong email address.
2012-01-27: Red bus photo copyright case spells trouble for reverse engineering.
2012-01-27: Let the robot drive: the autonomous car of the future is here.
2012-01-27: Vancouver cuts sexual assaults by targeting anti-rape ads at men.
2012-01-27: iPoo.
2012-01-27: European parliament rapporteur quits and denounces the "masquerade" behind ACTA.
2012-01-27: Smartphone-powered Lego robot beats human Rubik cube record.
2012-01-27: On the computational complexity of video games.
2012-01-27: What can the IETF do when an open spec is ambushed by a patent?
2012-01-27: A small bill in the US, a giant impact for research worldwide.
2012-01-27: ACTA: signed, not yet sealed - now it's up to us.
2012-01-26: Bueller? Bueller?
2012-01-26: Regarding regulation, we are all Internet exceptionalists now.
2012-01-26: The origin of the "Write Only Memory".
2012-01-26: Cars kill cities.
2012-01-26: Building memory-efficient Java applications.
2012-01-26: Copyright encounters of the third kind: physical goods. (2009)
2012-01-26: Beetles dressed as characters from Jurassic Park.
2012-01-25: Initial algebras and terminal coalgebras.
2012-01-25: A self-rendering digital image encoding.
2012-01-25: Photographers who compose a picture in a similar way to an existing image risk losing a copyright infringement lawsuit.
2012-01-25: Tinker Tailor: a guide to the perplexed.
2012-01-25: O2 fix their phone number exposure bug.
2012-01-25: O2 changing web content on the fly, inlining CSS @import.
2012-01-25: Striking a pose like women on fantasy covers.
2012-01-25: Dear Merriam-Webster, your dictionary is RUINING YOUNG MINDS!
2012-01-25: USA .gov DNSSEC deployment status.
2012-01-25: Gibson enquiry into complicity in torture cancelled in favour of a Met Police investigation. The Met say there is no such thing.
2012-01-25: Privacy leaks in mobile phone Internet access.
2012-01-25: How the Glock became America's weapon of choice.
2012-01-25: Large validating ISPs (eg. Comcast) make DNSSEC cockups (eg. NASA) visible and embarrassing.
2012-01-25: O2 send your phone number to every site you visit using their mobile data network.
2012-01-25: Are expensive batteries worth the extra cost?
2012-01-25: Quote Investigator: "The future has arrived — it's just not evenly distributed yet."
2012-01-24: USDA approves Monsanto's utterly useless GM maize - no more drought-tolerant than existing varieties.
2012-01-24: Measuring the speed of light using a microwave oven and cheese. (YouTube)
2012-01-24: Some devops rules.
2012-01-24: Jenga pistol.
2012-01-24: Norwegian Data Inspectorate rules corporate Google Apps breaches data protection law.
2012-01-24: It is landlords, not tenants, getting rich off benefit payments.
2012-01-24: Barack Obama, the post-partisan president, meets Washington gridlock.
2012-01-24: Stringly typed.
2012-01-24: Open source is like improv, so say "Yes, and...".
2012-01-24: SOPA stopped, so back to the ACTA arrête campaign.
2012-01-24: Form letter template for acquired startups.
2012-01-24: A review of the Simtec entropy key: random numbers for crypto.
2012-01-24: Tarantool: a high performance key/value storage server.
2012-01-24: Americans can be forced to decrypt self-incriminating data.
2012-01-24: How parents normalize teen password sharing.
2012-01-24: Patent inflation.
2012-01-24: Google's work to make TCP faster.
2012-01-23: Supply chains, Apple, and the American economy.
2012-01-23: It is time to end the failed war on some drugs.
2012-01-23: £35,000 on the speaking clock is quite reasonable.
2012-01-23: The SCOTUS warrantless GPS tracking decision is a near-optimal result.
2012-01-23: Cambridge is Britain's top city.
2012-01-23: What Google search results would look like if more relevant social network results took the place of Google+.
2012-01-23: The cost of knowledge: researchers taking a stand against Elsevier.
2012-01-23: SCOTUS rule that a warrant is required for GPS tracking of suspects' cars.
2012-01-23: Public speaking for normal people.
2012-01-23: Megaupload could spawn caselaw more destructive than SOPA.
2012-01-23: Another US Internet bill requires ISPs to keep detailed activity logs for 18 months.
2012-01-23: Is Ladies Learning Code awesome and feminist, or just awesome?
2012-01-23: US Customs ban on importing subversive or immoral goods.
2012-01-23: iTerm2 and tmux integration.
2012-01-23: The links between contraception, abortion, and maternal mortality.
2012-01-23: Harbin international ice and snow festival.
2012-01-23: HTML5 please: which parts of the spec are ready for use.
2012-01-23: Oovium: novel multi-touch calculator / spreadsheet for iOS.
2012-01-23: Better living without ads.
2012-01-23: Linux local privilege escalation via writing to /proc/pid/mem of setuid process.
2012-01-22: Security vulnerability in Oracle with deeper architectural implications.
2012-01-22: Old confused man tortured to death by Florida police.
2012-01-22: Copyright and Internet regulation, and the economics of sharing.
2012-01-22: Japanese multiplication. (video)
2012-01-22: Exercise and longevity: understanding the link.
2012-01-22: The copyright industry is putting its faith in god.
2012-01-22: Red flags of quackery.
2012-01-22: The Megaupload indictment, with a crash course in the DMCA and why they're totally fucked.
2012-01-22: The sad death of tactile feedback in car controls.
2012-01-22: "Alien" as told by the cat.
2012-01-22: Foolish attempt to block new nuclear power plants using competition regulation.
2012-01-22: The rise and fall of personal computing.
2012-01-22: Building instructions from LEGO.
2012-01-22: Mighttpd: a high performance web server in Haskell.
2012-01-22: Cartel-like behaviour can emerge naturally without collusion between sellers.
2012-01-22: The secret document that transformed China.
2012-01-22: strcpycat
2012-01-21: International governments using ITU to reduce US (and NGO?) control of the Internet.
2012-01-21: Why iPhones are not made in America.
2012-01-21: HTML5 codec popularity: Theora > WebM > H.264.
2012-01-21: "Publishers are in Amazon's sights and they're going to kill us."
2012-01-21: Rob Pike says rm should remove directories.
2012-01-21: Tim Gowers shuns evil Elsevier.
2012-01-21: Rape is R but consensual sex is NC-17.
2012-01-21: Clarks sexist shoes.
2012-01-21: The SOPA and PIPA demonstrations were a first rough beta test of the power to impact policy online.
2012-01-21: Any musicians noticed that since they shut down MegaUpload, the money has been POURING in?
2012-01-21: They wouldn't demand a longer jail term for streaming a Michael Jackson video than Jackson's own doctor got for killing actual Michael Jackson? Would they?
2012-01-21: A series of articles on Lords reform.
2012-01-21: Keyboard shortcut to break out of screen lockers on recent Xorg.
2012-01-21: Vim for iOS.
2012-01-20: The next SOPA.
2012-01-20: With MegaUpload down, who's next? RapidShare? SoundCloud? DropBox? - TechCrunch
2012-01-20: The non-infringing uses of Megaupload.
2012-01-20: Wat: Ruby and JavaScript misfeatures. (video)
2012-01-20: UK CET bill runs out of time in Commons.
2012-01-20: Live music red tape to be relaxed.
2012-01-20: Revisiting network I/O APIs: the netmap framework.
2012-01-20: Amazon DynamoDB: a fast and scalable NoSQL database service designed for Internet scale applications.
2012-01-20: ITU press release on the decision to revisit the leap second question at the next Radiocommunication Assembly in 2015.
2012-01-20: LEGO instruction booklet scans.
2012-01-20: US statement on leap seconds and the future of UTC.
2012-01-20: Top income tax rate: how does 83% sound?
2012-01-20: Are there fundamental laws of cooking?
2012-01-20: Making system configuration more declarative.
2012-01-20: Anti-employee control fraud: mistreatment of workers at Apple's suppliers.
2012-01-19: Leap second decision postponed to 2015.
2012-01-19: Russ Cox releases key parts of Google Code Search as open source.
2012-01-19: Will 2012 be the dawn of widespread DNSSEC deployment?
2012-01-19: A second here a second there may just be a waste of time. (NY Times front page story on leap seconds.)
2012-01-19: .nz DNSKEY RSA exponent encoding anomaly.
2012-01-19: McAfee Endpoint Protection Suite includes an open proxy.
2012-01-19: 1967 flying clock experiment.
2012-01-19: Rush to sign up for Free Mobile accounts overwhelms French number portability systems.
2012-01-19: World-wide time synchronization, 1966.
2012-01-19: Correlating time from Europe to Asia with flying clocks. (1us precision in 1965.)
2012-01-19: A new performance of the "flying clock" experiment. (Precise time transfer in 1964.)
2012-01-19: Time for decision on removing leap seconds.
2012-01-19: Leap seconds may have only hours to live!
2012-01-19: The murderous insanity of the War on Drugs.
2012-01-19: The ins and outs of gradual type inference for ActionScript.
2012-01-19: Performance of JavaScript vs type inference and ActionScript.
2012-01-19: Internet blackout in 1996 for the Communications Decency Act.
2012-01-19: PIPA supporters violate copyright laws, too.
2012-01-19: Pointer Analysis: haven't we solved this problem yet?
2012-01-19: Wanted: epitaphs for hot topics & retrospectives of academic fads.
2012-01-19: Inside Apple's secretive corporate culture.
2012-01-18: What happens when pirates have a better experience of your product than paying customers.
2012-01-18: Nature Publishing Group does not support the ban on open access to federally funded science.
2012-01-18: The politics (and lies) of the apostrophe.
2012-01-18: NASA blocks release of first sf movie made in space.
2012-01-18: Faster Fourier transforms.
2012-01-18: Marine biologist prosecuted for filming killer whales feeding.
2012-01-18: Notes on reducing Firefox's memory consumption.
2012-01-18: Jacob Rees-Mogg MP proposes to return Somerset to local mean solar time.
2012-01-18: Litigating time in America at the turn of the 20th century. (Describes Curtis v. March.)
2012-01-18: Building the next generation file system for Windows: ReFS.
2012-01-18: ZEVO: ZFS for Mac OS X.
2012-01-18: The tragedy of the Smurfs.
2012-01-18: Why UEFI secure boot is difficult for Linux.
2012-01-18: Copyright King: you have to pay for "I have a dream".
2012-01-18: Elsevier = Evil: more on the Research Works Act.
2012-01-17: Should evidence determine policy?
2012-01-17: The authoritarian cause will be defeated by its own cognitive dissonance.
2012-01-17: The captain of the Costa Concordia is totally screwed.
2012-01-17: Effective ways to improve school performance.
2012-01-17: Movie posters from another universe.
2012-01-17: Peacock's Tearoom, Ely.
2012-01-17: Delegates at the ITU are expected to vote on the abolition of leap seconds on Thursday or Friday.
2012-01-17: Mistruths and insults from the copyright lobby over the proposal to ban open access publication of federally funded research.
2012-01-17: Is it still possible to extend TCP despite interfering middleboxes?
2012-01-17: Review of Android's Roboto typeface.
2012-01-17: Submarine cable map.
2012-01-17: The first lawsuit to challenge the Payment Card Industry regulations and fines imposed on merchants.
2012-01-17: Quickly! Create this silly Tumblr before anyone else does!
2012-01-17: How the Hammersmith Flyover was cleverly constructed and why it currently has problems.
2012-01-17: Typing at 255 WPM shouldn't cost $4000: Plover, the open source steno system.
2012-01-16: Spacewalk: Red Hat system provisioning, monitoring, and updating.
2012-01-16: Defining "creepy treehouse".
2012-01-16: Why e-safety isn't part of digital literacy.
2012-01-16: Academic publishers have become the enemies of science.
2012-01-16: Regarding the 5th amendment, is a password something you know or something you have?
2012-01-16: Blue Monday: a depressing day of pseudoscience and humiliation.
2012-01-16: ITU-R WRC-12 news report on UTC.
2012-01-16: Networking needs a VMware: part 1: address virtualization.
2012-01-16: Graph of latency of four million DNS queries.
2012-01-15: Cait Reilly on her campaign for a judicial review of unpaid work for unemployed people.
2012-01-15: Why the US is no longer the land of the free.
2012-01-15: The rise of the new groupthink.
2012-01-13: Name of the Year.
2012-01-13: Node.js/V8 postmortem debugging.
2012-01-13: Advanced DTrace tips, tricks, and gotchas.
2012-01-13: FreeBSD 9.0 release notes.
2012-01-13: Google apologise to Mocality for scamming their customers.
2012-01-13: PayPal feature doesn't exist and no-one knows how it works, says PayPal.
2012-01-13: Royal Society report on computing in schools.
2012-01-13: Google makes fraudulent phone calls to steal business from a Kenya business directory service.
2012-01-13: JNLua: Java <-> Lua bridge.
2012-01-13: China Daily on the abolition of leap seconds.
2012-01-13: EFF demands withdrawal of bogus time zone database lawsuit, Astrolabe v. Olson & Eggert.
2012-01-13: Analysis of DNS setups of Internet2.edu members.
2012-01-13: Microsoft confirms that UEFI secure boot will lock down ARM Windows devices.
2012-01-13: The Economist on the possible abolition of leap seconds.
2012-01-13: Android as we know it will die in the next two years.
2012-01-13: Libtask: a coroutine library for C and Unix.
2012-01-13: Copy elision, the return value optimisation, and passing by value in C++.
2012-01-13: Defining declarative programming.
2012-01-13: Only the Good Die Twice: the only man who can stop Bond ... is Bond.
2012-01-12: BSD-style Sedgewick 2-3 left-leaning red-black tree macros.
2012-01-12: Obituary of Ronald Searle by Nigel Molesworth in the Economist.
2012-01-12: Lua/Linux icons.
2012-01-12: Lualubit: bitwise operator patch for Lua.
2012-01-12: Museum volunteer forced to work unpaid at Poundland instead, in order to keep her job seeker's allowance.
2012-01-12: WhatDoTheyKnow.com: four years and 100,000 FOI requests.
2012-01-12: Why JavaScript will not get coroutines.
2012-01-12: Popular programming languages converge on CLispScript.
2012-01-12: JavaScript needs blocks.
2012-01-12: Good bye, Google Maps… hello OpenStreetMap.
2012-01-11: Intel gets serious about the fight with ARM for the mobile market.
2012-01-11: Guantánamo was a hole into which suspects would for all practical purposes disappear, never to be heard from again.
2012-01-11: Behind the scenes of the Cambridge undergraduate admissions process.
2012-01-11: The complexity of a change is closely correlated to the indentation of the code in the diff.
2012-01-11: Darknet Rising: private, secure and anonmyous meshnets are emerging.
2012-01-11: Out with ICT and in with a British computing renaissance.
2012-01-11: Police anti-protest technology: after the kettle, the cordon.
2012-01-11: Homemade synth: "Kitchen Music" by Stephen J Anderson. (YouTube)
2012-01-11: The iPad has great potential as a tool for teaching programming, if Apple would allow it.
2012-01-11: Congress proposing to ban open access to federally funded research.
2012-01-11: Why Raspberry Pi is not being assembled in the UK.
2012-01-11: Campaign of assassination of Iranian nuclear engineers.
2012-01-11: Rebooting computer science in schools.
2012-01-11: Free.fr disrupts the French mobile market.
2012-01-11: The anatomy of an American hospital bill.
2012-01-11: Android's broken openness promise and its failure to tackle the mobile network operators.
2012-01-11: Your body wasn't built to last: the Gompertz Law of human mortality.
2012-01-11: Rhombus Tech working on faster cheaper ARM board with Chinese SOC manufacturer and open source.
2012-01-11: Map of C++.
2012-01-11: TRESOR runs AES on x86 securely without RAM.
2012-01-11: Gridlines are the most important feature of Excel, not calculation.
2012-01-10: the.pm: This is teh, best module evar!
2012-01-10: Common coding mistakes with wide character arrays.
2012-01-10: Comcast completes its DNSSEC deployment.
2012-01-10: An innocent German kidnapped and imprisoned by the US government in Guantánamo.
2012-01-10: An innocent Bosnian kidnapped and imprisoned by the US government in Guantánamo.
2012-01-10: Hedge fund managers take 84% of profits leaving 16% for their clients.
2012-01-10: Stockholm library interior architectural concept.
2012-01-09: The true complexity of Scala.
2012-01-09: Bifferboard: tiny £35 two-board 486SX computer (no graphics or floating-point).
2012-01-09: How Facebook will decline after its IPO.
2012-01-09: Report web sites incorrectly censored by mobile Internet providers.
2012-01-09: Comprehensive experimental analyses of automotive attack surfaces.
2012-01-09: A disturbing Trend: MAPS has lost its way. (We gave up on the RBL+ 2.5 years ago.)
2012-01-09: A warning to ducks.
2012-01-08: Diomidis Spinellis on his Greek Ministry of Finance mind map.
2012-01-08: Dara O'Briain on the Gilette Fusion Power Stealth. (YouTube)
2012-01-08: How Diomidis Spinellis tried and failed to fix Greek tax collection with software.
2012-01-08: A Moore's law for razor blades?
2012-01-08: Shaving product parodies.
2012-01-08: Bigger Than Cheeses on the razor size wars.
2012-01-08: The Onion predicts the Gillette Fusion.
2012-01-08: The restart page: simulated rebooting on vintage operating systems.
2012-01-08: Damn Cool Algorithms: Fountain Codes.
2012-01-08: Cello Wars. (YouTube)
2012-01-08: Video and description of pyroclastic flow on Mount Etna a few days ago.
2012-01-08: Obscenity law in doubt after jury acquits distributor of gay pornography.
2012-01-07: Lots of free programming eBooks.
2012-01-06: Solving the Sudoku minimum number of clues problem (=17).
2012-01-06: Sad Etsy kids.
2012-01-06: How SOPA can be used to wreck scholarly publication.
2012-01-06: Minimum viable SEO.
2012-01-06: UK national grid status.
2012-01-06: Punching through the Great Firewall of T-Mobile. (They need to read RFC 5068.)
2012-01-06: Investigating disk erasure using household chemicals.
2012-01-06: The USA is not the "land of opportunity": it is the least socially mobile rich country.
2012-01-06: The obscene publications act has become an anachronism.
2012-01-06: Evolutionary and Monte Carlo AI game design: the Shibumi challenge.
2012-01-06: Which of these drinks will dissolve a mouse fastest?
2012-01-06: Obscenity trial ends with "not guilty" verdict.
2012-01-06: It is time to stop pretending to endorse the copyright monopoly.
2012-01-06: Virtualizing storage for scale, resiliency, and efficiency of Windows 8.
2012-01-06: Google+, Tumblr, and the importance of proper attribution.
2012-01-06: Google+ is going to mess up the Internet, says someone who really hates Google+.
2012-01-06: How Rick Santorum's official web site is worse than spreadingsantorum.com.
2012-01-06: The decline of the public good in America.
2012-01-06: Why you might like to read Foreign Affairs magazine this month…
2012-01-05: Le klaxophone. (YouTube)
2012-01-05: Why US cars have poor milage despite advances in fuel economy.
2012-01-05: Mogees: interactive realtime audio mosaicing by gesture recognition using contact microphones on any surface.
2012-01-05: A gross miscarriage of justice in computer chess.
2012-01-05: The depressing state of statelessness: Microsoft's war against thin clients.
2012-01-05: Esther Dyson on the ideals and reality of TLD expansion.
2012-01-05: SOPA protest effect on GoDaddy.
2012-01-05: Google+ is going to mess up the Internet.
2012-01-05: Why do we pay sales commissions?
2012-01-04: Dear Customer, who stuck up for his little brother ...
2012-01-04: Berlin's Pirate Party has "pony time" in their rules of order.
2012-01-04: Benedict Cumberbatch's violin coach for Sherlock.
2012-01-04: Error handling patterns
2012-01-04: Virtual values for extending JavaScript. (Just like Lua userdata metamethods?)
2012-01-04: A nice Apple-style monitor stand and USB hub.
2012-01-04: Live maps of North American power grid frequency and phase variation.
2012-01-04: Encrypted Ubuntu on a MacBook Air.
2012-01-04: Dallol: the world's weirdest volcanic crater.
2012-01-04: Why you should never fly into Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
2012-01-04: Why time is difficult. (video)
2012-01-04: Paypal hates violins.
2012-01-04: Ronald Searle & the St Trinian's cartoons.
2012-01-03: Renationalise the railway.
2012-01-03: In Our Time: The Written World - every day this week.
2012-01-03: FaceTime for apes: Orangutans use iPads to video chat with friends in other zoos.
2012-01-03: What we would like to know about the railways over the last 30 years.
2012-01-03: The US presidential primary process is a meaningless sideshow.
2012-01-03: Best of Ronald Searle? the rake's progress.
2012-01-03: TVs are all awful: the horrors of overscan.
2012-01-03: End of the pro-democracy pretense.
2012-01-03: Copyright extension: good for Cliff and the Beatles, bad for the little guys.
2012-01-03: Violinists can't tell the difference between Stradivarius violins and new ones.
2012-01-03: The tactical advantage of the retreat against riot police.
2012-01-03: META: pragmatic parsing in Common Lisp.
2012-01-03: Physicists seek to lose the lecture as a teaching tool.
2012-01-03: Type inference and optimisation for an impure world.
2012-01-03: Obscenity trial will clarify what porn is illegal to publish and posess.
2012-01-03: How not to use symmetric encryption.
2012-01-03: 10% of .se domain names now signed using PowerDNSSEC.
2012-01-03: Microsoft's holodeck research project.
2012-01-02: The Linuxification of software development: platforms shifting to rapid update.
2012-01-02: SF gives us a vocabulary for speaking about the future.
2012-01-02: Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett write Crowley and Aziraphale's New Year's resolutions.
2012-01-02: A top ten list of top ten lists of top ten lists.
2012-01-02: Lightweight static resources: sexy types for embedded and systems programming.
2012-01-01: Deca: a higher-level assembly language.
2012-01-01: Hungarian quick sort folk dance.
2012-01-01: De-duplicating streams with reservoir sampling and Bloom filters.
2012-01-01: Lego's various attempts to appeal more to girls.
2012-01-01: Why Obama was forced to sign the NDAA.
2012-01-01: Banks rejecting American customers because of the foreign account tax compliance act.
2012-01-01: Authors entering the Public Domain on 2012-01-01.
2012-01-01: A full-colour homemade laser projector.
2011-12-31: Audiofools and the need to feel special.
2011-12-31: Raiders of the lost archives. (YouTube)
2011-12-31: The dangerous effects of reading.
2011-12-31: A proposal to stress-test implementations of C++11 concurrency.
2011-12-30: Just ordered a ladle from Amazon ...
2011-12-30: The myth of Japan's lost decades.
2011-12-30: Bruce Lee plays pingpong and lights matches with nunchuks.
2011-12-30: What's the deal with RC4?
2011-12-30: Visualizing Reddit ranking with a bumps chart.
2011-12-30: Mob response - think before you weigh in.
2011-12-30: RED in a different light: Van Jacobson on active queue management.
2011-12-30: Take your DNSSEC with a pinch of salt: how authenticated denial of existence works.
2011-12-30: Why movie revenue is dropping.
2011-12-30: Brute forcing Wi-Fi Protected Setup.
2011-12-30: The coming war on general-purpose computation.
2011-12-30: High quality education in Finland.
2011-12-30: Can you explain why ++[[]][+[]]+[+[]] = 10 in JavaScript?
2011-12-30: The development of a storm surge barrier control system - revisiting the seven myths of formal methods.
2011-12-30: Fair use vs appropriation in contemporary art.
2011-12-30: Augmented reality with Processing: a tutorial.
2011-12-30: The incredible true story of the collar bomb heist.
2011-12-30: Some particularly stupid patents.
2011-12-30: The web browser platform should be radically refactored.
2011-12-30: California's equal marriage ban leads to constitutional challenge on tax raising restrictions.
2011-12-30: Digital fireplace.
2011-12-30: Remake: photographic reconstructions of classic art.
2011-12-30: What hackers learn that the rest of us don't: notes on a hacker curriculum.
2011-12-30: Occupy Babel explain LANGSEC in a few slogans.
2011-12-29: Dot-dash-diss: The gentleman hacker's 1903 lulz.
2011-12-29: Radical honesty.
2011-12-28: Unofficial LEGO advanced building techniques guide.
2011-12-28: Maize rootworm evolves to resist Monsanto Bt corn.
2011-12-28: Google+ fingering profile pictures.
2011-12-28: "Blue hour" twilight photography.
2011-12-27: Lessons from suppressing research.
2011-12-27: The coming retail apocalypse.
2011-12-27: Launching the Kindle Fire in its current state was a mistake.
2011-12-27: The dumbest idea in the world: maximizing shareholder value.
2011-12-27: Why (and how) we've switched from Google Maps to Open Street Map.
2011-12-27: The amazing power of deflationary economics for startups.
2011-12-27: HTTP status dogs.
2011-12-26: GoDaddy breaks ICANN rules by delaying domain transfers.
2011-12-26: GoDaddy: A glimpse of the Internet under SOPA.
2011-12-26: ByeDaddy: find out if a domain is registered with GoDaddy.
2011-12-26: The status of Cambridge and the Lucasian Chair of mathematics when Newton was appointed.
2011-12-25: James Bond: you know the rules, and so does he.
2011-12-25: Why didn't Thorium molten salt reactors happen?
2011-12-24: John Carmac on the value of static code analysis.
2011-12-23: Yossi Kreinin's history with Forth and stack machines.
2011-12-23: One teachers approach to preventing gender bullying in a classroom.
2011-12-23: Five things Roger Ebert taught me about criticizing programming languages.
2011-12-23: Forty things about writing.
2011-12-23: A Christmas message from America's rich.
2011-12-23: Programming with technological ritual and alchemy.
2011-12-22: Step-by-step guide to transferring your domains away from GoDaddy.
2011-12-22: Folding cup eliminates need for plastic lids.
2011-12-22: Multiple sclerosis is a metabolic disorder, not an autoimmune disease.
2011-12-22: Convicted for words not deeds.
2011-12-22: Why not to expose your VM bytecode.
2011-12-22: Why do humans menstruate when most mammals do not?
2011-12-22: Smoke screening: how airport security accomplishes nothing, at enormous cost.
2011-12-22: Police militarization and the war on drugs.
2011-12-22: Thatcher state funeral should be privatised.
2011-12-22: JavaScript as a first language.
2011-12-22: How Harvey Mudd College increased female compsci enrolment to 40%.
2011-12-22: 20 JavaScript showcase sites of 2011.
2011-12-22: Jurors in New York need to know they can say no.
2011-12-22: Dropping a magnet through a copper pipe.
2011-12-21: Mozilla secures continued funding from Google search revenue.
2011-12-21: Stories from North Korea by Kim Jong Il's Russian tutor.
2011-12-21: Unfortunate Python features to avoid.
2011-12-21: There is no formal legal means in Texas to confess to a crime for which someone else has been convicted.
2011-12-21: Zombie Borders.
2011-12-21: Interview with ARM co-founder John Biggs.
2011-12-21: Five reasons why Trey Ratcliff doesn't care if his photos are pirated.
2011-12-21: A secret that Big Shaving has kept from you.
2011-12-21: Worst (and some best) Xmas happenings.
2011-12-20: An Indian inventor disrupts the period industry.
2011-12-19: Roller derby breastfeeding.
2011-12-19: A case for using CoffeeScript.
2011-12-19: Visualizing device utilization.
2011-12-19: Aeropress-gang.
2011-12-19: Lego is for girls - or should be.
2011-12-19: Federated account management using SAML and Shibboleth.
2011-12-19: Republic Lost: how government centralization and expansion puts democracy in the service of special interests.
2011-12-19: Prof David Nutt: science and non-science in drug policy. (23 Jan @ Churchill Coll)
2011-12-19: The changing face of the Lego minifigure.
2011-12-19: Collection of light: an LED taxonomy like an insect collection.
2011-12-19: Bradshaw's descriptive railway handbook: an 1860s tourist guide.
2011-12-19: Britain's ghost trains.
2011-12-19: CoffeeScript is not a language worth knowing.
2011-12-19: Progress with the HTTP cookie opt-in consent regulations.
2011-12-19: The node.js aesthetic.
2011-12-19: Why CloudKick switched from Twisted Python to node.js.
2011-12-19: The orbit of the Moon around the Sun is convex!
2011-12-19: The recording industry likes to make its supporters look like assholes.
2011-12-18: Lord of the Buns: Tim Hayward and why saving Fitzbillies matters.
2011-12-18: PHP's problem: "no design and no plan".
2011-12-18: Goodbye World! The perils of relying on output streams in C. (video)
2011-12-17: Institutional memory, engineering archaeology, and reverse corporate espionage.
2011-12-17: GNU/Linux distribution timeline.
2011-12-17: POSIX close(2) is broken.
2011-12-17: A history of source code control in ten innovations.
2011-12-16: lua_udunits2
2011-12-16: UDUNITS: a library for manipulation of units of measurement.
2011-12-16: Anagram tube map.
2011-12-16: The surprise exam, and more surprises.
2011-12-16: GPU-accelerated RSA.
2011-12-16: A review of "Unjustifiable Risk? The Story of British Climbing".
2011-12-16: Why programmers work at night.
2011-12-16: Sun Java JDK evicted from Ubuntu following security vulnerability and withdrawal of licence by Oracle.
2011-12-16: Lego has lost its gender-neutral creativity.
2011-12-16: Fantasy armour and lady bits.
2011-12-15: Bug prediction at Google.
2011-12-15: CarrierIQ: the real story.
2011-12-15: Elevator algorithms.
2011-12-15: Best YA GLBTQ books of the year.
2011-12-15: A review of MoonScript, CoffeeScript-style syntactic sugar for Lua.
2011-12-15: Quel est le sexe des RFC ?
2011-12-14: GlobalSign web server compromise incident report.
2011-12-14: Long-form journalism highlights of the year.
2011-12-14: Cheap PID-controlled espresso machine. (Kickstarter)
2011-12-14: Louis C.K. on the production costs and profitability of his DRM-free comedy video.
2011-12-14: Some iOS apps for children.
2011-12-14: HTTP status cats.
2011-12-13: IBM CMS "Hartmann" pipelines.
2011-12-13: The Fox News approach to charting unemployment.
2011-12-13: As expected, retreat of arctic ice leads to extensive methane plumes.
2011-12-13: NOtES: nano-scale biomimicry for secure optical effects on cash.
2011-12-13: Using augmented reality to show what it is like to have anomalous colour vision.
2011-12-13: Statistical analysis of widespread Russian electoral fraud.
2011-12-13: Vim: revisited.
2011-12-12: Megaupload to sue Universal Music for false DMCA takedown.
2011-12-12: The growth of the NYC commuter cycling indicator.
2011-12-12: STFU about what women want.
2011-12-12: Do not go rioting with remaining eye.
2011-12-12: A skyscraper without windows: the AT&T long lines building at 33 Thomas St in Manhattan.
2011-12-12: EU bans export of thiopental for use in executions.
2011-12-12: DNSSEC validating stub resolver NSS plugin for glibc.
2011-12-12: Kindle Touch jailbreak via JavaScript in an ID3 tag.
2011-12-12: Why Spotify can never be profitable: the secret demands of record labels.
2011-12-11: Tanenbaum's law vs. SETI.
2011-12-10: Come bellringing in Cambridge on BBC Four.
2011-12-10: The moment that David Cameron lost his argument at the EU summit.
2011-12-10: René Carmille: founder of the French national statistics service, hero of the résistance, and hacker of IBM punched cards.
2011-12-10: How to dispel your illusions: Freeman Dyson reviews "thinking, fast and slow" by Daniel Kahneman.
2011-12-10: A BBC Micro for the 21st Century?
2011-12-10: The deepening Fermi paradox.
2011-12-10: Getting value for money from cloud computing.
2011-12-10: RIAA musicians promote "rogue site" Megaupload. (Plus interesting business plan.)
2011-12-09: Australian exceptionalism.
2011-12-09: Painting the Forth Bridge now finished.
2011-12-09: Producing documents by programming in Postscript.
2011-12-09: The Crunchpad is proof that the iPad design is obvious.
2011-12-09: Cory Doctorow reviews "how to fix copyright" by William Patry.
2011-12-09: WebOS goes open source.
2011-12-09: Apple using patents to undermine open web standards again.
2011-12-09: New ice cream flavour: cookies and e. coli.
2011-12-09: An infographic describing the criminal enterprise of counterfeit drug spam.
2011-12-09: Popular xmas songs by decade of recording - UK version of today's XKCD.
2011-12-09: Deutsch Bahn ICE channel tunnel service delayed until 2015 owing to late arrival of trains.
2011-12-09: Buffer bloat: what's wrong with the Internet? - ACM Queue
2011-12-09: US immigration and customs enforceme unjust domain name seizure processes.
2011-12-09: An end to UK student loan phishing spam?
2011-12-09: Results of UK publicly funded research will be open access.
2011-12-08: DNSSEC deployment status at Comcast.
2011-12-08: Understanding prototypes in Javascript.
2011-12-08: Dutch government X.509 CA KPN Gemnet hacked via PHP MyAdmin.
2011-12-08: Some pictures of the St Pancras Lego christmas tree.
2011-12-08: Lads' mags use the same misogynist language as rapists to describe women.
2011-12-08: Cambridge Noir.
2011-12-07: Mandelbrot beats economics at modelling markets.
2011-12-07: Corruption and dumbing down in exam boards.
2011-12-07: Truly open data.
2011-12-07: Who looked at /etc/motd on ubuntu and thought, HEY, I KNOW WHAT THIS NEEDS – SHELL SCRIPTS!?
2011-12-07: Exploiting holes in deeper security layers of Intel CPUs.
2011-12-07: git gets easier once you get the basic idea that branches are homeomorphic endofunctors mapping submanifolds of a Hilbert space.
2011-12-07: Is your logo design phallic?
2011-12-07: "I like to urge designers to always ask themselves, does this logo look like a penis?"
2011-12-07: More news: C|Net download.com bundles adware trojans with free software.
2011-12-07: Google has raised the bar for intelligence gathering.
2011-12-06: Piumarta's cola: combined object/lambda architecture.
2011-12-06: The Kernel programming language: first class fexprs.
2011-12-06: Bringing a Norwich Pharmacal order as a litigant-in-person to identify a nasty online troll.
2011-12-06: The curious case of 128.0.0.0/16.
2011-12-06: C|Net download.com bundles trojan adware with free software downloads.
2011-12-06: PayPal says Christmas is for sick cats not poor people.
2011-12-06: Busway car traps are the new rising bollards.
2011-12-06: The Eurozone's terrible mistake: to guarantee banks' foolish lending.
2011-12-05: What do you do when an entire system of laws is flouted and unenforced?
2011-12-05: How integers should work in systems programming languages.
2011-12-05: American Christmas devil is coming!
2011-12-05: The discovery of dolphin language.
2011-12-05: Botnets in the UK: spam and hi-tech crime.
2011-12-05: Bulls Dairies - a preserved sign in Cambridge.
2011-12-05: Anti-Grain Geometry - accurate text rasterization.
2011-12-05: Animated Bézier curves in SVG.
2011-12-05: Cubic spline & bezier curves library.
2011-12-05: Hermite curve interpolation.
2011-12-05: Bezier curves - a primer.
2011-12-05: What powers Instagram.
2011-12-04: British public life is 78% male or worse.
2011-12-04: On the feasibility of maglev monorails.
2011-12-04: How Rachel Aaron went from writing 2000 to 10,000 words a day.
2011-12-04: A programming language for DNA-based computing.
2011-12-04: A review of "don't take no for an answer" on the Yes to AV campaign.
2011-12-04: Moving from SVN to Git in 1,000 easy steps!
2011-12-04: Has Mozilla lost its Google search revenue?
2011-12-04: Damn you autocorrect: top 25 of the year.
2011-12-04: The medical loss ratio: the bomb buried In Obamacare explodes today, Hallelujah!
2011-12-04: Beall's list of predatory "open-access" vanity publishers.
2011-12-03: The great Ivy League nude posture photo scandal.
2011-12-03: How Google killed the long tail of search ad keywords.
2011-12-03: This site's domain name has been stolen.
2011-12-03: Doug McIlroy's guide to Research Unix.
2011-12-02: The strange birth and long life of Unix.
2011-12-02: Dutch anti-piracy campaign and collection agency caught in big copyright infringement and corruption scandal.
2011-12-02: Skeuomorphism in iOS: the opiate of the people.
2011-12-02: Microsoft Windows Server 2003 lack-of support for DNAME.
2011-12-02: Eleven charts on inequality in America.
2011-12-02: How Republicans are being taught to talk about Occupy Wall Street.
2011-12-02: Email problems at UC Berkeley.
2011-12-02: Will Abellio, Dutch operator of East Anglian rail franchise, improve cycle parking at Cambridge?
2011-12-01: Carrier IQ usage tracking on iPhones, and how to turn it off.
2011-12-01: A Lua DLZ back end for BIND.
2011-12-01: DNSSEC: how to deploy it, and why you should bother.
2011-12-01: How cleaning up the DNSChanger malware highlights the law's control over the IP address registries.
2011-12-01: Learning modern 3D graphics programming.
2011-12-01: Do data caps punish the wrong users?
2011-11-30: Software in the Public Interest associated projects.
2011-11-30: Frink: a programming language that knows about units of measurement.
2011-11-30: Ben Collins-Sussman on the ASF/git debate: "your community is not your tools".
2011-11-30: Amazing glass staircase wrapped around a huge cylindrical aquarium.
2011-11-30: Royal Flying Corps trainee Graham Donald tries a new manoeuvre with his Sopwith Camel.
2011-11-30: Norman Matloff's R programming language page.
2011-11-30: Making sure your site can be read by a screen reader just got a whole lot more important, wouldn’t you say?
2011-11-30: Amusing bug: can't type lowercase e on Amazon EC2 Linux server.
2011-11-30: Mary Beard on the Oxbridge interview.
2011-11-30: RFC 6441: time to remove /8 bogon filters.
2011-11-30: "My head teacher won't let me teach computing."
2011-11-30: Wikipedia on the Intercity Express Programme for new trains and electrified lines.
2011-11-30: Cambridge to get faster trains, up from 160 to 200 km/h.
2011-11-30: Monadic region-based resource management.
2011-11-30: Why one company is switching back from Scala to Java.
2011-11-30: Reddit discusses "simple made easy".
2011-11-29: Rich Hickey: simple made easy.
2011-11-29: Hank Paulson's inside jobs.
2011-11-29: There should never, ever be even a trace of the supernatural in the world of Scooby-Doo.
2011-11-29: ACLs in SQL for Geeklog2.
2011-11-29: How to build role-based access control in SQL.
2011-11-29: HTTP Strict-Transport-Security: protection against TLS stripping attacks.
2011-11-29: Certificate transparency: public audit logs for TLS.
2011-11-29: GitHub is the shape of things to come, but the Apache Software Foundation still has a role.
2011-11-29: Node.js is the most popular repo on GitHub.
2011-11-29: DNS DNAME is almost useless.
2011-11-29: A standard is open when it has an active open source implementation.
2011-11-29: Thinking of impact as re-use could be key to uniting funders and researchers behind open research.
2011-11-29: The real climategate.
2011-11-29: Idiomatic Python: code like a Pythonista.
2011-11-29: A basic tutorial on the pragmatics of Python.
2011-11-29: Some equations computer scientists should (at least pretend to) know.
2011-11-29: NPR interviews biographer of Hedy Lamarr, inventor of spread spectrum radio.
2011-11-29: Matrix multiplication is O(n^2.373).
2011-11-29: John Bercow's arms have an LGBT motto.
2011-11-28: Publishers are cutting their own throats by requiring DRM on ebooks.
2011-11-28: The death of Flash was eight years in the making.
2011-11-28: Cumbria police killed a man by repeated tasering.
2011-11-28: What a lender of last resort looks like: the Federal Reserve and Morgan Stanley.
2011-11-28: "The Dick Night" featuring Frank Miller.
2011-11-28: US Senate voting whether to allow indefinite military detention of US citizens without charge or trial.
2011-11-28: The rise and fall of Bitcoin.
2011-11-28: Male comic-book superheroes drawn like female ones.
2011-11-28: The King James bible, still in copyright in the UK after 400 years.
2011-11-28: libfaketime: a preload library that reports fake time to programs without having to change the system-wide time.
2011-11-28: Toy advertising and gender stereotypes.
2011-11-28: Burzynski clinic "cancer cure" quacks learn about the Streisand Effect from a school boy.
2011-11-28: A century of reactionary deceit fromt he copyright industry.
2011-11-28: Companies that ban Facebook are 30% more likely to have IT security breaches.
2011-11-28: LLVM 3.0 type system rewrite.
2011-11-28: Roll over, Frank Miller: or, why Occupy Wall Street is better than the Spartans.
2011-11-28: Alan Moore: meet the man behind the protest mask.
2011-11-27: How Spotify works.
2011-11-27: Pre-fabricated energy-saving homes from Hanse-Haus.
2011-11-27: Modern houses in Cambridgeshire.
2011-11-26: This stupid new housing policy takes us back to the glory days of Northern Rock.
2011-11-26: Mirth helps correct cognitive errors.
2011-11-26: HDCP cracked using leaked master key and cheap FPGA.
2011-11-26: Your moons are rubbish, astronomer tells Christmas card artists.
2011-11-26: Ten things to know about the King James bible.
2011-11-25: Daily Mail trying to force Leveson enquiry to reveal who is criticising the tabloids.
2011-11-25: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the CDC: a long, tangled tale.
2011-11-25: Evangelical churches in UK killing people with HIV by convincing them to stop taking medicine.
2011-11-25: Peter Losher from the ISC talks about running root DNS servers.
2011-11-25: Cory Doctorow on cold-brewed coffee.
2011-11-25: The Times and the Daily Mail attack a support group for victims of press intrusion.
2011-11-25: Three dying platforms: Flash, Silverlight, Win32.
2011-11-25: Good footage of American football is an NFL trade secret.
2011-11-24: What's wrong with OKCupid's matching algorithm.
2011-11-24: A more detailed summary of the ECJ decision against court orders that require indiscriminate filtering by ISPs.
2011-11-24: Air Traffic Control marches into the 1990s with new X.400 deployments!
2011-11-24: Prevalence of swearing in the Guardian, 1999-2009.
2011-11-24: European Court of Justice decision limits ability of member states to turn ISPs into copyright police.
2011-11-23: World's tallest Lego Christmas tree at St Pancras: 12 metres, 3 tonnes.
2011-11-23: Apache Software Foundation considered harmful.
2011-11-23: Google TLS services now support forward secrecy for Firefox and Chrome users.
2011-11-23: Porting TeX to the iPad.
2011-11-23: After this experiment we reckon the vodka tampon is an urban myth.
2011-11-23: Transactional memory in gcc 4.7+.
2011-11-23: New York reporters meet the fists of the law.
2011-11-23: Open source (almost) everything.
2011-11-23: The Atlantic's online ad revenue surpasses print.
2011-11-22: Is SpaceX changing the rocket equation?
2011-11-22: Leave the history curriculum alone but teach it for longer.
2011-11-22: What's wrong with #firstworldproblems.
2011-11-22: Hospital patients forced to watch continuous message from Andrew Lansley, or pay £5 a day to a private company.
2011-11-22: Monopolistic tendencies in the domain name system.
2011-11-22: David Frum asks, when did Republicans lose touch with reality?
2011-11-22: How the automatic gearbox nearly killed off the sperm whale.
2011-11-22: Full disk encryption is too good, complain digital CSI teams, demanding more research to make it stronger.
2011-11-21: What is pepper spray and what harm does it do?
2011-11-21: Café threatened for unauthorized use of hobbit.
2011-11-21: Neelie Kroes, EU commission VP for the digital agenda: "trying to enforce copyright has not stemmed piracy".
2011-11-21: Iceland let the creditors of its banks hang. Ireland did not. Good for Iceland!
2011-11-21: Sovereign Keys: a proposal to make TLS more secure.
2011-11-20: Journals are the dinosaurs of academia.
2011-11-20: How the police treat abuse of women and minorities online.
2011-11-20: Improve diversity by making recruitment more objectively meritocratic.
2011-11-20: How the San Francisco Ruby meetup grew from 2% to 18% women.
2011-11-20: Militarized police treat prisoners better than students in California.
2011-11-20: Cleggmania round two?
2011-11-20: Cassandra's curse: how "The Limits to Growth" was demonized.
2011-11-20: Seven misunderstandings about classical architecture.
2011-11-20: Most laser printers add a tracking watermark to every page they print.
2011-11-20: eWAVE: the world atlas of varieties of English - online.
2011-11-19: Demonstrating should not be not a crime.
2011-11-19: One third of Americans are below the poverty line or just scraping by.
2011-11-19: Occupy HOPE.
2011-11-19: Clayton Christensen: how pursuit of profits kills innovation and the U.S. economy.
2011-11-19: Phonological change in English: the trap-bath split.
2011-11-19: Modest dressing.
2011-11-19: Declassified 7000 sq.m. nuclear bunker 65m under Moscow.
2011-11-19: How tabloids treat your family if you speak against their evil acts.
2011-11-19: Thoughts and ideas about teaching computing in school.
2011-11-19: How to fix copyright, by William Patry of Google.
2011-11-19: A review of the Kindle Fire.
2011-11-19: The systemd journal: a syslog replacement for Fedora.
2011-11-18: The Hotel Silken Puerta América in Madrid - different design and architecture on each floor.
2011-11-18: An experiment in extreme schooling at the Moscow New Humanitarian.
2011-11-18: The top ten supercomputers, illustrated.
2011-11-18: The United States Supreme Court has another chance to reverse the mission creep in patent law - Prometheus vs Mayo.
2011-11-18: In praise of clutter and paper.
2011-11-18: Are you reading too much? (Am I?!)
2011-11-18: "The police tried to provoke people to react violently [...] but we all supported one another and prevented the police from causing a riot."
2011-11-18: poll() vs select()
2011-11-18: On the Google WiFi mapping opt-out.
2011-11-18: The NTP nanokernel.
2011-11-18: Martian Time FAQ.
2011-11-17: Optimization tricks used by the lockless allocator.
2011-11-17: NeverWet coatings are superhydrophobic surfaces.
2011-11-17: Graphene improves lithium-ion battery capacity and recharge rate ten times.
2011-11-17: The mouse trap: the dangers of using one lab animal to study every disease.
2011-11-17: Teaching good sex.
2011-11-17: Windows 8 secure boot is not secure.
2011-11-17: nixio: Lua networking + crypto + filesystem functions.
2011-11-17: WinKexec: a Linux bootloader implemented as a device driver for Windows.
2011-11-17: The fall of America's r-less class.
2011-11-16: Miss World and Mary Beard.
2011-11-16: The 3-D printing free-for-all. (Not for long!)
2011-11-16: What exactly is HMRC paying Capgemini billions for?
2011-11-16: Javascript minitel emulator.
2011-11-16: SPDY is not hard. Securing the Internet is.
2011-11-16: Zoho mail sends messages with a Status: header marking them as already seen.
2011-11-16: Men-only policy debates must stop.
2011-11-16: Oh dear, another BIND crash bug.
2011-11-15: "Verbatim" mode stops Google search from trying to be clever.
2011-11-15: Cracking Siri: how an iPhone 4S talks to the speech recognition engine hosted at Apple.
2011-11-15: PDP-10/X: a reimplementation of a PDP-10 on an FPGA, running ITS.
2011-11-15: sortu: sort | uniq in one.
2011-11-15: "My ICT teacher can't mark my homework" - a problem for children who can code.
2011-11-15: DNSSEC reality and utility.
2011-11-15: Lua-CodeGen: a template engine based on Terence Parr's ideas.
2011-11-15: Condorcet internet voting service.
2011-11-14: Observations of two "happy eyeballs" quick IPv6 / IPv4 connect implementations.
2011-11-14: Remembrance Sunday and Germans.
2011-11-14: The handling of sex offenders in the USA makes the problem worse.
2011-11-14: 101 - national non-emergency number for contacting the police.
2011-11-14: Google's smeared leap seconds vs. Markus Kuhn's smoothed leap seconds.
2011-11-13: Cheap drugs reduce violent crime.
2011-11-13: A memory of sexist abuse.
2011-11-13: The nocebo effect.
2011-11-13: In America some women who lose babies face murder charges.
2011-11-13: Grammatical variation in Irish English.
2011-11-12: Luma Labs discontinues their camera sling products to avoid patent litigation.
2011-11-12: Finally, a judge stands up to Wall Street.
2011-11-12: Planning for the post euro Irish economy.
2011-11-12: The Riot's catcaller form.
2011-11-12: "How I stopped worrying and learned to love OWS."
2011-11-11: The slow approach of the bananapocalypse.
2011-11-11: Bright: a C-like Lua derivative.
2011-11-11: How Fitzbillies was saved.
2011-11-11: Wittgenstein on fog-like sensations and road signs.
2011-11-11: 80 mph speed limit does not look so clever now.
2011-11-11: "The Eurozone countries most under threat aren't the ones with generous welfare states or effective social contracts."
2011-11-10: Confident code.
2011-11-10: Everson Mono font.
2011-11-10: Google+ does not understand its users.
2011-11-10: Online abuse: what about the men?
2011-11-10: OFCOM study on the state of DNSSEC deployment in the UK and internationally.
2011-11-10: Engineering the ten thousand year clock.
2011-11-10: Computer programming for children, minus cryptic syntax.
2011-11-10: Campaign against the "keep calm and carry on" trademark.
2011-11-10: Celebrating 50 years of human-powered flight.
2011-11-10: 60th birthday of the Lyons Electronic Office, the first business computer, based on EDSAC.
2011-11-10: More water rocket construction tutorials.
2011-11-10: NASA water rocket launcher build instructions.
2011-11-10: High-power paper rocket launcher.
2011-11-10: NASA water rocket build instructions.
2011-11-10: NASA project X-51: water rockets for kids.
2011-11-10: DTrace and Erlang.
2011-11-09: Comcast IPv6 deployment.
2011-11-09: Authenticated denial of existence in DNSSEC.
2011-11-09: xv6: 6th Edition Unix and Lions' commentary ported to ANSI C and x86 for teaching.
2011-11-09: A brief rant on the future of interaction design.
2011-11-09: HMG says open source is as secure as proprietary software, and should not be ruled out of the procurement process.
2011-11-09: The social graph is neither.
2011-11-08: 32 questions for sysadmins.
2011-11-08: Berp: a Python 3 to Haskell translator.
2011-11-08: Michael Lewis on Daniel Kahneman, "the king of human error".
2011-11-08: Non-errors in English usage.
2011-11-08: La Brea allows you to insert Lua scripts into a program without recompiling.
2011-11-08: The big sexy problem with superheroines and their "liberated sexuality".
2011-11-08: Nature reports on the Royal Society leap second meeting.
2011-11-08: Burj Khalifa has no sewers, so relies on trucking out the poo instead.
2011-11-08: libfiu: fault injection in userspace.
2011-11-08: Sir Paul Nurse on the Fracis Crick institute.
2011-11-08: Francis Crick institute building. (Should have used the plot to keep more books on site at the library.)
2011-11-08: The saggar maker's bottom knocker.
2011-11-08: Morality and the markets.
2011-11-08: Robert Fisk on remembrance poppies.
2011-11-08: Version numbers in Perl are not boring enough.
2011-11-08: Demystifying the chinese hacking industry.
2011-11-08: ACPO and UCAS now count as public bodies for freedom of information purposes.
2011-11-08: "All right, fine. I'll add a disclaimer to my emails."
2011-11-08: NY Times obituary of Norman Ramsey, whose work led to atomic clocks and nuclear magnetic resonance.
2011-11-08: Bayes' theorem not banned from British courts.
2011-11-08: What lies behind online misogyny?
2011-11-08: All Wired staff photos released under CC-BY-NC.
2011-11-08: The project to build Babbage's Analytical Engine.
2011-11-08: Ruby crypto key generation bug.
2011-11-07: What should we do about sexist abuse online?
2011-11-07: BozoCrack: depressingly effective MD5 password hash cracker.
2011-11-07: Automated content: the future of sports journalism?
2011-11-07: Artificial intelligence is putting people out of work.
2011-11-07: The most amazing room in Queens.
2011-11-07: Chaitin's incompleteness theorem and the surprisingly small complexity barrier.
2011-11-07: IKEA's convoluted ownership and accounting.
2011-11-07: Google's tax dodge.
2011-11-07: "I think dead children should be used as a unit of currency. I know this sounds controversial, but hear me out."
2011-11-07: 1TB hard drive prices up 180% in a month due to floods in Tailand.
2011-11-07: Glass-Steagall Act: the senators and economists who got it right.
2011-11-07: Goldman Sachs is forcing up the price of aluminium.
2011-11-06: The origins of Scala.
2011-11-06: Eclipse Xtend: syntactic sugar for Java programmers.
2011-11-05: Is abuse really a necessary occupational hazard of blogging?
2011-11-05: The only way to have a successful revolution in any field of human activity.
2011-11-05: Words on plot and treason.
2011-11-05: DNSSEC-trigger on Mac OS X.
2011-11-05: L'énergie tirée des forêts polluerait plus que le charbon.
2011-11-05: When centralised purchasing wastes money.
2011-11-05: Capitalism can't just be about money.
2011-11-05: The thing about bullying.
2011-11-05: haveged: an entropy gathering daemon based on variable execution timing.
2011-11-05: Proportional Rate Reduction for TCP: another improved flow control algorithm.
2011-11-05: FileVault 2 and Find My Mac foil thieves.
2011-11-05: A woman's opinion is the mini-skirt of the Internet.
2011-11-04: Universal Music sued again for not paying licensing royalties to musicians.
2011-11-04: KON Getronics suspends CA operations after finding DDOS tool on web server.
2011-11-04: Patently absurd: copyright law provides enough protection for software.
2011-11-04: The BBC on the leap second debate.
2011-11-04: Gaslighting: belittling women and dismissing their legitimate emotions as unreasonable.
2011-11-04: Future of UTC meeting presentations.
2011-11-04: Women in finance.
2011-11-04: Apple's supply chain expertise.
2011-11-04: Not One-Off Britishisms: UK expressions that have taken hold in the US.
2011-11-04: Four ways men stunt women's careers.
2011-11-04: Gas mask, $20, ideal for occupying Oakland or Wall St.
2011-11-04: A senior police officer says brothels should be legal.
2011-11-03: An RFC 4819 secure shell public key subsystem implementation for OpenSSH.
2011-11-03: Mozilla revokes trust in a Malaysian intermediate CA, DigiCert Sdn. Bhd.
2011-11-03: Australian weather calendar 2012.
2011-11-03: How iAds support WebGL, and how developers can use WebGL on iOS.
2011-11-03: The Mac app sandbox is restrictive.
2011-11-03: Knot authoritative DNS server from nic.cz. (RIPE63)
2011-11-03: Yadifa: beyond BIND and NSD. (RIPE63)
2011-11-03: "Google release something, and I no longer have any faith that it’s going to be any good."
2011-11-03: The flat world of BGP: AS and prefix counts growing, but not update rate. (RIPE63)
2011-11-03: IPv6 day: what did we learn? (RIPE63)
2011-11-03: DNSCCM: an implementation of the nameserver control protocol. (RIPE63).
2011-11-03: DNSSEC-trigger: mobile Unbound validator autoconfiguration. (RIPE63)
2011-11-03: The sheer volume of sexist abuse thrown at female bloggers is the Internet's festering sore.
2011-11-03: The Daily Mail and Hugh Grant: how tabloids intimidate privacy campaigners.
2011-11-03: Documentation about the ITO map.
2011-11-03: ITO Map: view hidden layers of Open Street Map.
2011-11-03: Copyright policy is Internet policy.
2011-11-03: Almost all BT Newzbin2 users are bypassing the court-ordered block.
2011-11-03: Yadifa: a full-featured DNS server in development at EURID.
2011-11-03: Knot DNS: full featured high performance authoritative DNS server from nic.cz.
2011-11-03: A beautiful ring counter clock.
2011-11-03: Don't give your users shit work: manually categorizing contacts is a waste of time.
2011-11-03: Studded bicycle tires.
2011-11-02: In-place modification/assignment patch for Lua.
2011-11-02: East Bergholt.
2011-11-02: Germany's difficulties caused by phasing out nuclear power.
2011-11-02: Inside the mind of the octopus.
2011-11-02: So you think Linux's capability model is bad? What about the web's?
2011-11-02: Did accounting help sink Corzine's MF Global?
2011-11-02: Ex Google Reader PM on the redesign.
2011-11-02: Chemistry and early hominid diets.
2011-11-01: Jamie Zawinsky discusses RSS feed readers.
2011-11-01: Ten years of ZFS.
2011-11-01: Notes d'EuroBSDcon 2011 en Français.
2011-11-01: Status of the ITU-R study of UTC.
2011-11-01: Key escrow from a safe distance: looking back at the Clipper chip.
2011-11-01: Telescript programming guide.
2011-11-01: Telescript language reference.
2011-11-01: Protesters decide they actually like wind turbines now they have been built.
2011-11-01: Three RSS feed readers.
2011-10-31: The mediaeval plutocracy at the heart of London.
2011-10-31: Android has swallowed the UK smartphone market in the last 18 months.
2011-10-31: Siri ported to jailbroken iPhone 4.
2011-10-31: Averia: an average font made using generative typography.
2011-10-31: jgrep: a grep for JSON written in Ruby.
2011-10-31: The OTCA metapixel: running Life inside Life, 4 million times bigger and 35 thousand times slower.
2011-10-31: The Dish celebrates its 50th birthday.
2011-10-31: A senior civil servant on the unavoidable truths about government IT.
2011-10-31: State schools are not properly guiding pupils through university applications; UCAS planning to move process after A-levels.
2011-10-31: The Guardian on the Janet 6 network upgrade project. (Wot no "super"?)
2011-10-31: Acoustic cryptanalysis: nosy people and noisy machines.
2011-10-31: Tachyon: a meta-circular optimizing JavaScript virtual machine.
2011-10-31: TLS out-of-band public key validation: divorcing TLS from X.509.
2011-10-31: TACK: Tethered Assertions for Certificate Keys. Convergence widens its TLS protection.
2011-10-31: The war on lemonade stands.
2011-10-31: Giving Haskell a promotion: kind polymorphism and typed type-level programming.
2011-10-31: All Chinese maps are subtly obfuscated.
2011-10-31: Brian Kernighan talks about Dennis Ritchie.
2011-10-31: Extensible programming with first-class cases - a solution to Wadler's expression problem.
2011-10-31: The evolution of RISC technology at IBM.
2011-10-31: A Smalltalker reviews Google Dart.
2011-10-31: Freedom and crutches in programming language design.
2011-10-30: Open Access to scientific publications: a short summary.
2011-10-30: Wall Street isn't winning, it's cheating.
2011-10-29: kramdown-rfc2629: an xml2rfc back end for a ruby markdown processor.
2011-10-29: Markdown -> pandoc -> docbook -> xslt -> xml2rfc -> Internet draft.
2011-10-29: The EFF on SOPA: "Hollywood finally gets a chance to break the Internet."
2011-10-29: Why everything R2D2 says is bleeped out.
2011-10-29: DNSCCM: DNS Configuration, Control and Monitoring.
2011-10-29: Freshmeat renamed FreeCode.
2011-10-29: Publicly funded science should be published and practised in the open.
2011-10-29: Dr. Walter Bortz on his patient and friend, John McCarthy.
2011-10-29: Google Apps admins have unrestricted access to all their users' Google+ data.
2011-10-29: RSS vs social media.
2011-10-29: Copyright troll loses case for not owning rights; must pay nearly $120k costs.
2011-10-29: StackExchange's battles with the .NET garbage collector.
2011-10-28: Google staff being put on probation or sacked for arguing against the real names policy.
2011-10-28: Legal aid: the new poor law.
2011-10-28: Sexist reactions to feminism in open source.
2011-10-28: How Occupy Wall Street cost Caitlin Curran her job.
2011-10-28: Girls often driven away from STEM by their teachers.
2011-10-28: USPTO grants patent on obvious application of scientific method.
2011-10-28: If Google don't like your name they will delete the contacts from your Android phone.
2011-10-28: Why Dave Winer needs to learn about RFC 2136 DNS updates.
2011-10-28: Broadway: a JavaScript H.264 decoder.
2011-10-28: lolcat(1)
2011-10-28: Apple gift catalogue 1983.
2011-10-28: Codify: game and simulation development with Lua on iPad.
2011-10-27: An experimental evaluation of rate-adaptation algorithms for streaming over HTTP.
2011-10-27: Google nymwars, redux.
2011-10-27: Norman Davies on Europe's vanished states.
2011-10-27: EPO grants patent on broccoli.
2011-10-27: Brian Cox is wrong: blogging your research is not a recipe for disaster.
2011-10-27: PLoS Won: the success of open access journals.
2011-10-27: Playing the probabilities: blackjack, shuffles, and residual correlations.
2011-10-27: The EFF on the security of and attacks on TLS.
2011-10-27: Australian helmet cam study reveals motorists to blame in vast majority of cycling crashes.
2011-10-27: Android orphans: visualizing a sad lack of supported software updates.
2011-10-27: Valve: "The easiest way to stop piracy is to give people a service that's better than what they get from pirates."
2011-10-27: Paraglider survives encounter with thunderstorm.
2011-10-27: Parachuting through a cumulonimbus.
2011-10-27: Two amusing side channel attacks.
2011-10-27: Higher-Order Perl.
2011-10-27: Modern Perl.
2011-10-27: Perl tutorials suck (and cause serious damage).
2011-10-27: The making of Arduino.
2011-10-26: Sealand, HavenCo, and the rule of law.
2011-10-26: It has to work: the essential ingredient of successful software.
2011-10-26: French government "banning vegetarianism" in school canteens.
2011-10-26: The road to better web authorization.
2011-10-26: Cutting the Gordian knot of web identity.
2011-10-26: The forbidden story of Argentina's post-default economic success.
2011-10-26: Reminiscing about The Princess Bride.
2011-10-26: How the Joy of Sex was illustrated.
2011-10-26: The St Paul's protesters are taking health and safety more seriously, with more professional responsibility, than the Dean and Chapter.
2011-10-25: Visa and MasterCard want to use credit card activity to target web ads.
2011-10-25: Radiation and Reason: the impact of science on a culture of fear.
2011-10-25: The Register's obituary of John McCarthy.
2011-10-25: UN special rapporteur on health as a human right says all states must provide safe abortion and contraception.
2011-10-25: A randomly generated language is as easy as Perl for novice programmers.
2011-10-25: On parliamentary sovereignty.
2011-10-25: Software patents come to the UK.
2011-10-25: How to handle versioning in web APIs.
2011-10-25: Jamie Zawinsky's tribute to John McCarthy.
2011-10-25: Wired obituary of John McCarthy, father of AI and Lisp.
2011-10-24: Empirical software engineering.
2011-10-24: Who else was hit by the RSA attackers?
2011-10-24: How to break XML encryption.
2011-10-23: Tim O'Reilly on running a business, and the pursuit of passion rather than profit.
2011-10-23: "Cookie Monster" explains Occupy Wall Street.
2011-10-23: Congress warned in 1999 that deregulation would lead to cascade failures and make banks too big to fail.
2011-10-23: Space Alert's genius is in combining its madness-inducing ten minute time limit with a spectacular demand for player co-ordination.
2011-10-23: Holy Flying Circus: brilliant funny dramatization of the controversy over "Life of Brian".
2011-10-23: Find out why the onions are in there before changing the recipe.
2011-10-23: The Goertzel tone detection algorithm.
2011-10-23: 1e13 digits of pi.
2011-10-21: Susan Greenfield should write up her techno-scare stories for scientific review.
2011-10-21: How a tabloid ruins someone's life for no good reason.
2011-10-21: The Economist's obituary of Dennis Ritchie.
2011-10-21: Centralized shared HR and finance services for the research councils fails to save money.
2011-10-21: The stilted grammar of telemarketing.
2011-10-21: Quasiquotation in Lisp.
2011-10-21: Labscam: Penn & Teller at Bell Labs, as told by Dennis Ritchie.
2011-10-20: Design mistakes in mixed C / C++ and Lua projects.
2011-10-20: A list of AJAX webmail software.
2011-10-20: The case for copyright piracy.
2011-10-20: Why did the BBC compare sex education to paedophilia? Cowardly uninformative journalism.
2011-10-20: Buying second-hand goods for cash is illegal in Louisiana.
2011-10-20: Network effects in share ownership: the concentration of economic power in 147 companies.
2011-10-20: Cambridgeshire county councillors give themselves a 25% pay increase in violation of the council constitution.
2011-10-20: On the ethical conduct of News International's solicitors Farrers.
2011-10-20: EFF declares premature victory in the Google+ nymwars.
2011-10-20: The challenges of turning the Photoshop deblur prototype into a product.
2011-10-19: Using an iPhone accelerometer to decode what is typed on a nearby keyboard.
2011-10-19: How to create a fictional language in a day.
2011-10-19: Programming languages of the last five years.
2011-10-19: The guild of Silicon Valley.
2011-10-19: In defence of Objective-C.
2011-10-19: The digital replacement of film in cinema.
2011-10-19: Drawbridge: user mode NT for application sandboxing.
2011-10-19: Inserting synthetic 3D objects into 2D photographs.
2011-10-19: Hacker News recommends programming blogs.
2011-10-19: Bundled, Buried & Behind Closed Doors - about an Internet hub, 60 Hudson St.
2011-10-19: In memoriam Dennis Ritchie.
2011-10-18: The great tech war of 2012.
2011-10-18: A*: reweighting a graph for faster shortest paths.
2011-10-18: A review of the Guardian's iPad app.
2011-10-18: The Devenish-Phibbs memorial gallery.
2011-10-18: Mitigating the BEAST attack on TLS.
2011-10-17: A plaque on both your houses.
2011-10-17: Skyscraper builders get in trouble for re-creating photo safely.
2011-10-17: Lunch atop a skyscraper in London.
2011-10-17: OpenResty web app server basedon nginx + Lua.
2011-10-17: Why Stephen Bond is no longer a skeptic.
2011-10-17: WeatherSpark: beautiful weather graphs and maps.
2011-10-17: Amazon is now becoming a publisher in its own right.
2011-10-17: Summary of the judicial review of the charitable status of independent schools.
2011-10-17: Accessibility does not require reduced security. (Alec Muffett on Steve Yegge's Amazon / Google rant.)
2011-10-17: DNSSEC-Trigger updates your Unbound validating resolver configuration as your connectivity changes.
2011-10-17: Programming for children.
2011-10-17: Siri's favourite colour is octarine?
2011-10-17: The Cambridge Tab on the election of the Chancellor.
2011-10-17: Metaphor to maturity: typography, the web, and ebooks.
2011-10-17: IANA Time Zone Database.
2011-10-17: Athene Donald on the election of the Chancellor.
2011-10-17: Mary Beard on the election of the Chancellor.
2011-10-17: There seems to be only one cloud icon in the entire universe.
2011-10-17: The Shen programming language.
2011-10-17: How much do Apple's factories cost?
2011-10-16: Fibonacci flim-flam.
2011-10-16: Document history of plan to pass TZ database to IANA.
2011-10-16: ICANN officially takes responsibility for TZ database.
2011-10-16: York University to get the Brian Blessed Centre for Quiet Study.
2011-10-16: Official result of the election of the Chancellor.
2011-10-16: The consequences of missing sex education.
2011-10-16: High-viz, women's clothing, and blaming the victim.
2011-10-16: Lord Sainsbury elected Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.
2011-10-16: The Keaton music typewriter.
2011-10-15: How to reform copyright.
2011-10-15: More C programming tricks
2011-10-15: What is your favourite C programming trick?
2011-10-15: The LMAX architecture.
2011-10-15: Shit that Siri says.
2011-10-15: The Cambridge Science Centre initiative.
2011-10-15: The Department for Transport now allows "Except Cycles" to be added to "No Entry" signs.
2011-10-15: Amazon Kindle source code.
2011-10-15: Cambridge University official map switching to Open Street Map.
2011-10-15: Google Labs and Code Search killed.
2011-10-15: Google+ support staff will cancel your account if your name is too foreign.
2011-10-14: How to beat the CAP theorem.
2011-10-14: Lights: pretty WebGL demo.
2011-10-14: Speed up bloaty web apps with nginx microcaching.
2011-10-14: Rob Pike on Dennis Ritchie.
2011-10-14: Throwable 360˚ panoramic ball camera.
2011-10-14: How Siri works.
2011-10-14: Why extended display identification data (EDID) is untrustworthy for DPI.
2011-10-14: The developer's guide to browser adoption rates.
2011-10-14: More news on the Astrolabe / Olson + Eggert TZ database lawsuit.
2011-10-14: Some funky new features in iOS 5.
2011-10-14: Do anything interesting in the tech world, and you will get sued for patent infringement.
2011-10-14: How to hide the iOS5 Newsstand icon in a folder.
2011-10-14: Parsing expressions by recursive descent.
2011-10-14: Top-down parsing of expressions.
2011-10-14: Ars Technica obituary of Dennis Ritchie.
2011-10-14: Wired obituary of Dennis Ritchie.
2011-10-14: NY Times obituary of Dennis Ritchie.
2011-10-14: Guardian obituary of Dennis Ritchie.
2011-10-14: K&R and you.
2011-10-13: A profile of Dennis Ritchie in the Economist, 2004.
2011-10-13: The BLISS programming language: a history.
2011-10-13: Herb Sutter on Dennis Ritchie and C.
2011-10-13: Geoff Huston's progress report on IPv4 address exhaustion.
2011-10-13: Who uses RFC 2136 dynamic DNS updates.
2011-10-13: Smalltalk 80: the language and its implementation.
2011-10-13: Why a RIM outage affects users on a corporate Blackberry Enterprise Server.
2011-10-13: What our culture teaches about alcohol is all wrong.
2011-10-13: Siri says some weird things.
2011-10-12: Large scale pcap data analysis using Hadoop.
2011-10-12: My Blackberry isn't working.
2011-10-12: On blogging, death threats, and silence.
2011-10-12: Benford's Law and the decreasing reliability of accounting data for US firms.
2011-10-12: How Wall St salaries compare to the rest of New York.
2011-10-12: Crash-only software.
2011-10-12: Steve Yegge's Amazon vs Google platform rant.
2011-10-12: Why isn't everyone hacked every day?
2011-10-12: MDB: a memory-mapped database and backend for OpenLDAP.
2011-10-12: The disfunction of Google's Wave project.
2011-10-12: The search for a more perfect kilogramme.
2011-10-11: Photoshop "unblur" / blind deconvolution.
2011-10-11: Why your new programming language will not work.
2011-10-11: The vicious trademark battle over "keep calm and carry on".
2011-10-11: Why believe in Keynesian economics?
2011-10-11: Why Caitlin Moran and Grace Dent are never on panel shows... but should be.
2011-10-11: Dart has a feeble type system.
2011-10-11: That's not online! Library collections, archives and other information that aren't accessible online, and how to find them.
2011-10-11: The LONG and windy ROAD - a timeline of IPng and IPv6, 1991 - 1996.
2011-10-11: UK ISP porn filter plans have been blown out of all proportion.
2011-10-11: Radio 4 Long Wave's days are numbered - what will happen to Economy 7 radio teleswitching?
2011-10-11: Ignition! An informal history of liquid rocket propellants.
2011-10-11: What good is Wall Street?
2011-10-11: List of languages that compile to JavaScript.
2011-10-11: A first impression of Dart
2011-10-10: Type inference for first-class messages with match functions.
2011-10-10: Simple types are anti-modular.
2011-10-10: Netflix realises that the Quikster split was a stupid idea.
2011-10-10: Ben Pierce: "Types considered..."
2011-10-10: Defending against spear phishing with Exim's embedded Perl feature.
2011-10-10: Lambda The Ultimate discusses Dart.
2011-10-10: The Dart programming language: Google updates Javascript for programming in the large.
2011-10-10: Microtouch: AVR devel board with touch screen.
2011-10-10: "Electronic communications privacy act" lets US law enforcement secretly search email logs.
2011-10-10: The great American bubble machine.
2011-10-10: HP plans to release first memristor memory alternative to flash in 18 months.
2011-10-09: Vehicle and operator services agency: smoky vehicle report form.
2011-10-09: How beer saved the world.
2011-10-09: Edwin Land, the man who inspired Steve Jobs.
2011-10-09: Steven Pinker's history of violence.
2011-10-08: Margaret Dayhoff, pioneer of bioinformatics.
2011-10-08: TCP-clouds, UDP-clouds, "design for fail" and AWS.
2011-10-07: Understanding integer overflow in C and C++.
2011-10-07: Microsoft ISA server is incompatible with CIDR.
2011-10-07: LLVM IR is a compiler IR not a general-purpose bytecode.
2011-10-07: ZBar bar code reader.
2011-10-07: Infringement damages increased after CEO complains about patent system.
2011-10-07: Swedish copyright policy is dictated by the USA.
2011-10-07: Jason Kottke remembering Steve Jobs.
2011-10-07: TZ database lawsuit the result of an argument between astrological software companies?
2011-10-07: Answers to the IERS's UTC questionnaire.
2011-10-07: IANA TZ Mailman list info page, including archives back to 1986.
2011-10-07: F*: secure distributed programming with value-dependent types.
2011-10-07: TZ mailing list makes early move to IANA.
2011-10-06: Steve Jobs succumbs to alternative medicine.
2011-10-06: A portrait of Steve Jobs.
2011-10-06: Thanks, Steve.
2011-10-06: Astrolabe Inc. vs. Arthur David Olson and Paul Eggert: complaint.
2011-10-06: Astrolabe, Inc. vs. Arthur David Olson and Paul Eggert.
2011-10-06: Law suit shuts down Olson TZ database servers.
2011-10-06: Exploiting Apache httpd reverse proxy rewrite rules.
2011-10-06: Luca Cardelli: an accidental Simula user.
2011-10-06: Affirmative design / critical design / programming language design.
2011-10-06: Practical file system design with the Be file system.
2011-10-06: ICANN security and stability advisory committee preliminary report on DNS response modification.
2011-10-05: Organic farming outperforms industrial farming on every measure.
2011-10-05: Bluetooth 4 vs near-field RFID.
2011-10-05: Diplomatic blowback in the UN following the NATO action to enforce an "immediate ceasefire" in Lybia.
2011-10-05: Middleboxes in cellular networks.
2011-10-05: Patently misguided.
2011-10-05: Broadcom's pet patent troll is suing hotels and cafés that offer WiFi.
2011-10-05: Gaming security by obscurity.
2011-10-05: Apple Knowledge Navigator 1987 concept video, vs iPhone 4S.
2011-10-04: Cache directory tagging standard.
2011-10-04: Amon Tobin ISAM visualisation.
2011-10-04: Sampling and mixing by cutting and pasting vinyl records.
2011-10-04: A homemade receiver for GPS & GLONASS satellites.
2011-10-04: Homemade GPS receiver.
2011-10-04: Facebook promotes rape and violence against women.
2011-10-04: When archbishops propagate tabloid lies about the BBC's lack of editorial policy on dates.
2011-10-04: Domain name case law in the US.
2011-10-04: Nissan Computer vs. Nissan Motor domain name dispute.
2011-10-04: AC: composable asynchronous IO for conventional languages.
2011-10-03: MIT Technology Review special science fiction edition.
2011-10-03: Bitbucket now supports Git as well as Mercurial.
2011-10-03: Beloit College mindset list for this year's freshers.
2011-10-03: Algorithmic symphonies from one line of code.
2011-10-03: DNSMON view of the F-root Beijing node IPv6 route leak.
2011-10-03: BGPmon on the F-root Beijing node IPv6 route leak.
2011-10-03: Fanfic refugees get to grips with Pinboard, as it were.
2011-10-03: Pinboard gets to grips with the fanfic refugees from Delicious.
2011-10-03: Microsoft blacklists email from Oxford University.
2011-10-03: HTC Android phones log private data and expose it to unprivileged apps.
2011-10-03: Cameron wants to scrap the Human Rights Act but Clegg prevents him.
2011-10-03: Judge rules mathematical analysis of statistics and probability may not be used in court.
2011-10-03: Cambridge Geek Night 13 featuring Bill Thompson and Simon Peyton Jones.
2011-10-02: Innovation Starvation - Neal Stephenson.
2011-10-02: How the US FRA is regulating passenger rail out of existence.
2011-09-30: Browser speed tests: Opera wins, Chrome loses.
2011-09-30: Chrome to pass Firefox in popularity by the end of the year.
2011-09-30: Will Amazon buy Palm from HP?
2011-09-30: LuaNode: asynchronous I/O based on Boost.Asio.
2011-09-30: Whatever happened to the iPad rivals of 2010?
2011-09-30: A Lua binding for libuv.
2011-09-30: Cliff Stanford to appeal email interception conviction.
2011-09-30: Spam feedback loop n-gram analyzer.
2011-09-29: DJB's NaCl ECC-based cryptography library. No algorithm agility?
2011-09-29: C#-style async/await support for node.js.
2011-09-29: DJB vs. the IEEE on public domain papers and copyright assignment.
2011-09-29: Academics should stop giving free peer review services to closed journals.
2011-09-29: The BMJ on the Liberal Democrat drugs policy.
2011-09-29: Organize your cables with toilet paper rolls.
2011-09-29: ROBLOX FAQ for parents.
2011-09-29: Video promo for ROBLOX: lego-ish kids' game engine scripted with Lua.
2011-09-28: Tizen: Meego rides again.
2011-09-28: On the proportion of women on comedy panel shows.
2011-09-28: Luvit = node.lua = libuv + LuaJIT = node.js with Lua instead of JavaScript.
2011-09-28: UK ICO guidance on freedom of information legislation and research information.
2011-09-28: Can failure really be a spur to success?
2011-09-28: Princeton bans academics from handing copyright to journals.
2011-09-28: How journalists willingly get stitched up by the Daily Mail.
2011-09-28: ThunderLOLcats.
2011-09-27: John Dee's calendar and God's longitude.
2011-09-27: libeatmydata
2011-09-26: The (political) science of salt.
2011-09-26: The engineers could [telnet into] the engine management system of a 747 [and] re-tune the engine in air.
2011-09-26: It's time to end the war on salt.
2011-09-26: Towards network reputation: analyzing the makeup of DNSBLs.
2011-09-26: D-Link calls typosquatting and unreliability "Advanced DNS Service".
2011-09-26: Identifying and characterizing anycast in the domain name system.
2011-09-26: Einar Stefferud, 1930-2011.
2011-09-26: Timelapse video of new bridge installation at Cambridge Station.
2011-09-26: We buy any cat!
2011-09-26: The simhash algorithm.
2011-09-26: A program written by Charles Babbage.
2011-09-26: Internal economic borders of the United States derived from tracking dollar bills.
2011-09-26: Subdivision of the world into rectangles containing equal numbers of geotagged tweets.
2011-09-26: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, reformatted for Kindle.
2011-09-26: ITU-R recommendation TF.460-6: standard-frequency and time-signal emissions.
2011-09-26: Lessons from PostgreSQL's Git transition.
2011-09-25: Why you should not go to medical school.
2011-09-24: Apple Thunderbolt display teardown.
2011-09-24: QR code clock.
2011-09-24: Security impact of the Rizzo/Duong CBC "BEAST" attack.
2011-09-24: Chrome and the BEAST.
2011-09-23: The Internet is secure enough.
2011-09-23: "Knot" authoritative DNS server from nic.cz.
2011-09-23: Bunnie Huang on Moore's Law and the future of open hardware.
2011-09-23: Squeak Smalltalk.
2011-09-23: Pharo open source SmallTalk.
2011-09-23: Mozilla's Rust programming language.
2011-09-23: One million concurrent TCP connections with FreeBSD and Erlang.
2011-09-23: Why SPDY is better than HTTP.
2011-09-23: The BEAST attack on TLS 1.0.
2011-09-23: Swedish Film Institute is accused of piracy based on BitTorrent IP address logging.
2011-09-22: Pipe organ desk.
2011-09-22: TOFU POP MONK: trust on first use, persistence of pseudonym, mesh overlay network keysigning.
2011-09-22: Perspectives: public "notary" servers monitor certificates used by websites to detect man-in-the-middle attacks without certificate authorities.
2011-09-22: Convergence: an agile distributed secure strategy for replacing certificate authorities.
2011-09-22: How to write unmaintainable code.
2011-09-22: University of Cambridge lecture list web site.
2011-09-21: Bankers: an anthropological study.
2011-09-21: Every time you make a PowerPoint, Edward Tufte kills a kitten.
2011-09-21: Simhash: hash-based similarity detection.
2011-09-21: Police attempted to make Guardian reveal phone hacking whistleblowers, but were prevented by the Human Rights Act.
2011-09-21: Google Chrome "stable" version now supports DNSSEC-chained TLS certificates.
2011-09-20: Patent trolls caused half a trillion dollars of lost wealth in the last 20 years.
2011-09-20: DigiNotar files for bankruptcy after being comprehensively hacked.
2011-09-20: Mining massive datasets.
2011-09-19: A toolkit for spotting prejudice.
2011-09-19: "He said, she said" binary journalism fails to inform the public.
2011-09-19: Tenzing: Google's implementation of SQL on top of MapReduce.
2011-09-19: The plot against the NHS.
2011-09-18: The MIT guide to lockpicking.
2011-09-17: Opening plain text files is not safe on Windows.
2011-09-16: Adaptve cruise control on 20% of cars greatly reduces traffic jams.
2011-09-16: Google Plus developer site and API documentation.
2011-09-16: Cory Doctorow on the Lib Dem IT policy paper.
2011-09-16: Google deploys Markus Kuhn's smoothed leap seconds to avoid having to audit code for leap second bugs.
2011-09-15: Most of you have no idea of what Martin Luther King actually did.
2011-09-15: You are all Johann Hari.
2011-09-15: An interview with David Graeber.
2011-09-15: David Graeber vs the Austrian shool of economics.
2011-09-15: Metalimericks.
2011-09-15: Eben Upton of Raspberry Pi answers some questions.
2011-09-15: The Internet's not-very-secret back door: government certificate authorities support man-in-the-middle attacks.
2011-09-15: Shock news: good ISPs and effective CERT teams lead to lower malware infection rates.
2011-09-15: Evidence is scarce that expensive classroom IT improves results.
2011-09-15: How money developed from debt accounting.
2011-09-15: Why we should teach our kids to code.
2011-09-14: Wonderful book sculptures anonymously left around Edinburgh "in support of libraries, books, words, ideas".
2011-09-14: Convergent encryption reconsidered.
2011-09-14: On the railways being a rich man's toy.
2011-09-14: Tubular Fells: a topological map of the Lake District.
2011-09-14: Are there any examples of good pie charts?
2011-09-14: The BSD pf firewall on Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.
2011-09-14: The HDCP magic inside Bunnie's NeTV.
2011-09-13: Hotfile sues Warner Bros. for copyright fraud and abuse.
2011-09-13: Dead Reckonings: a blog on nomograms and advanced mental arithmetic.
2011-09-13: COMAP: Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications: instructional resources for innovative educators.
2011-09-13: The lost art of nomography.
2011-09-13: Scratch: create and share your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art.
2011-09-13: Royal Society education research and policy project on computing in schools.
2011-09-13: Computer science for fun.
2011-09-13: Alice: teaching programming in a 3D environment.
2011-09-13: Programming is the new literacy.
2011-09-13: Computing at school: a BCS / grass roots support + lobbying initiative.
2011-09-13: Things we should teach in school. (Read the comments!)
2011-09-13: Projet Gutenberg, son fondateur Michael Hart, et un objet mythique par excellence du monde geek: le plain-texte.
2011-09-13: Intel gives $2.5 million a year to several universities, provided they open source their work with no patents.
2011-09-13: Golomb-coded sets: smaller than Bloom filters.
2011-09-13: Ferguson Ariva 120 Combo digital TV receiver review.
2011-09-12: Global navigation space systems: reliance and vulnerabilities.
2011-09-12: Nerdy day trips.
2011-09-12: Copyright: you'd better swatch what you say.
2011-09-12: European copyright term extension is a cultural disaster.
2011-09-12: List of musical works with unusual time signatures.
2011-09-12: Big Trak. "Retro and cool."
2011-09-12: Programming doesn't fit into the primary school curriculum.
2011-09-12: Teach our children to code.
2011-09-12: Lua metatables are "hard".
2011-09-11: Some ways in which the film industry is evil.
2011-09-11: The fall and fall of Scottish Conservatism.
2011-09-11: The great prosperity, 1947-1970 / the great regression, 1970-now.
2011-09-10: Some papers every programmer should read.
2011-09-10: Fundamental concepts in programming languages. (Christopher Strachey, 1967)
2011-09-09: Helpful uranium-munching bacteria breath it through conducting nanowires.
2011-09-08: Why are black boxes so hard to re-use? Towards a new model of abstraction in software engineering.
2011-09-08: Which TLDs are most abused to support online criminal activity.
2011-09-08: Git is simpler than you think.
2011-09-08: How Google App Engine price changes are affecting the architecture of the hosted apps.
2011-09-08: JSTOR now provides free access to old out-of-copyright papers.
2011-09-08: Old papers from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society liberated from the paywall.
2011-09-08: Über die Stabilität von Oszillatoren und Frequenznormalen.
2011-09-08: Some similarities between Go and Lua.
2011-09-08: Digital archeology with drive-independent data recovery: recovering Cray 1 software from a big old drive infested with wasps.
2011-09-08: What is the bandwidth of the IETF document publication process, in millibits/second?
2011-09-08: From sundials to atomic clocks.
2011-09-07: Shake to undo, for Mac OS X.
2011-09-07: Why can't PC manufacturers compete with the MacBook Air?
2011-09-07: What happens to your patent litigation after you shaft the inventors.
2011-09-06: The future of light is the LED.
2011-09-06: Please fix the dire cycle parking shortage at Cambridge Station.
2011-09-06: Jari Arkko's home network.
2011-09-05: Plan to revive the only UK built and launched satellite for its 40th birthday.
2011-09-05: The Great Bank Robbery - Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Mark Spitznagel.
2011-09-05: Small memory software: patterns for systems with limited storage.
2011-09-05: Stupid in America.
2011-09-05: A first look at the literacy of America's adults in the 21st century.
2011-09-05: Mobile Web: Taiwan, Opera and WebOS.
2011-09-05: Lessons learned from giving bug bounties.
2011-09-05: Karl Marx may have been wrong about communism but he was right about much of capitalism.
2011-09-05: Publish or perish: peer review and the corruption of science.
2011-09-05: Achron: Starcraft with time travel.
2011-09-05: Professor Moriarty elected Drapers Professor of French in the University of Cambridge with effect from 1 September 2011.
2011-09-05: Open Science, Freedom of Information, and the big journal monopoly.
2011-09-05: GOVCERT.nl factsheet on DigiNotar X.509 CA disaster.
2011-09-05: The Pearl: erotica printed for the Society of Vice, 1880.
2011-09-05: Feature branches vs. continuous integration.
2011-09-05: Torvalds puts his Linux tree on GitHub to work around the kernel.org downtime.
2011-09-05: The costs of open source development in isolation and collaboration.
2011-09-04: Stop using unsafe keyed hashes: use HMAC.
2011-09-04: More on the extent of the damage done by the DigiNotar X.509 CA.
2011-09-04: A cultural perspective on gender diversity in computing.
2011-09-04: Seriously: stop with the booth babes!
2011-09-04: The true cost of 9/11.
2011-09-04: Reflections of a Republican Party operative who left the cult.
2011-09-04: BBC Radio 4: fighting the power of pink.
2011-09-04: How Western Governors University is disrupting education.
2011-09-03: What happens when disabled people ask for accessible web sites.
2011-09-03: Rob Pike: the good, the bad, and the ugly, of 1e9 seconds of Unix.
2011-09-03: No-one trusts DigiNotar now.
2011-09-02: Protothreads: a minor improvement to Simon Tatham's C coroutine trick.
2011-09-02: CS unplugged: computer science without a computer.
2011-09-02: Average speed of Cambridgeshire guided bus is 12mph.
2011-09-02: Intel's new "Bull Mountain" hardware random number generator.
2011-09-02: Our children are mostly getting training in Microsoft Office rather than ICT education.
2011-09-02: Doorstep "charity" clothes collection bags are a scam.
2011-09-01: Unofficial Lua FAQ.
2011-09-01: No, git does not magically make the kernel.org compromise harmless.
2011-09-01: Sodastream kicked out of Swedish Co-op shops owing to factory in occupied West Bank.
2011-09-01: Skeptics in the Pub: contacts, links and resources.
2011-09-01: Low-overhead breakpoints for Lua.
2011-09-01: Using git to work on the FreeBSD source code.
2011-09-01: DigiNotar breach: the story so far.
2011-09-01: The Carlton Arms new website.
2011-09-01: Well, that about wraps it up for SCO.
2011-09-01: Charlie Stross reinvents zombies.
2011-08-31: Adrian Cockcroft of NetFlix is looking for AWS competitors, and OpenStack isn't up to it.
2011-08-31: "We have to monetize more of what ordinary people do, or we make them into wards of the state" - Jaron Lanier.
2011-08-31: What shapes do dice have?
2011-08-31: With 95% probability, the Higgs boson does not exist within the energies the LHC has explored.
2011-08-31: Bit-squatting: DNS hijacking using random bit-flip errors.
2011-08-31: It is not clear that IPv6 will secure sufficient following to attain market viability. (John Curran, 1994)
2011-08-31: Intel's plans to keep Moore's law going.
2011-08-31: Flickr: automatic privacy settings based on photo locations.
2011-08-31: That coloured road surface isn't a bike lane, it's a door zone.
2011-08-31: Britain should be proud of the Human Rights Act – and protect it.
2011-08-31: To kill a mocking name.
2011-08-30: Facebook improves privacy controls.
2011-08-30: FixMyTransport: report, view, and resolve public transport problems.
2011-08-30: IETF very strongly urges Google and OpenDNS to follow the EDNS0 option code allocation procedure.
2011-08-30: UK government supports copyright term extension despite the recommendation of the Hargreaves report.
2011-08-30: The world time system.
2011-08-30: Tony Sale, computer conservationist at Bletchley Park, has died.
2011-08-30: OpenDNS and Google public DNS deploy workaround to fix CDN geo-IP pessimization.
2011-08-30: Vasco press release on the hacking of their subsidiary X.509 CA DigiNotar.
2011-08-30: "Cat women of the moon": Radio 4 programme on science fiction and relationships between the sexes.
2011-08-30: Academic publishers make Murdoch look like a socialist.
2011-08-30: DigiNotar X.509 CA portal hacked by Iranians years ago?
2011-08-30: Mr.Hermes: simple Python debug/test SMTP server.
2011-08-30: "High Table, Lower Orders": Cambridge comedy murder mystery currently on Radio 4 Extra.
2011-08-30: Data mining the Science Museum catalogue: "inordinately fond of bottles".
2011-08-30: Google and Mozilla revoke trust in a CA that issued a GMail man-in-the-middle cert.
2011-08-30: Not Tetris 2 - Tetris with physics.
2011-08-30: Microsoft fails at data-driven UI design.
2011-08-30: The case for a free market in IPv4 addresses.
2011-08-30: Trading IPv4 addresses will end in tears.
2011-08-29: The Daily Mail's repeated deliberate photo copyright infringement.
2011-08-27: Pacific Northwest superquake and megatsunami.
2011-08-27: Schiehallion experiment to measure the density of the Earth.
2011-08-27: From System F to typed assembly language.
2011-08-27: ichbins: a self-hosting Lisp-to-C compiler in 6 pages of code.
2011-08-27: Bootstrapping a metacircular PEG-to-JavaScript parser generator.
2011-08-27: An incremental approach to compiler construction.
2011-08-27: Stories about the B5000 and the people who were there.
2011-08-27: Want to write a compiler? Just read these two papers.
2011-08-26: Ellen Ripley saved my life.
2011-08-26: How media clearly reflects the sexism and the racism we cannot see in ourselves.
2011-08-26: UK's atomic clock is world's most accurate.
2011-08-26: Corrections and clarifications on Iceland.
2011-08-26: Why Iceland should be in the news, but is not.
2011-08-26: Hints for computer system design from Butler Lampson.
2011-08-26: Papers every computer scientist should read.
2011-08-26: Tomasulo's algorithm for out-of-order instruction scheduling.
2011-08-26: Out of the tar pit: minimizing complexity.
2011-08-26: What would it be like walking around on a cube-shaped planet?
2011-08-26: The Annotated Turing by Charles Petzold.
2011-08-26: "Climategate" was a fake scandal.
2011-08-26: Peter Norvig on Christopher Strachey's checkers program from Scientific American, Sept. 1966.
2011-08-26: King's Cross Station redevelopment.
2011-08-26: Paddington Station refurbishment.
2011-08-25: Capanography helps emergency services know when not to give up CPR, even after 96 minutes.
2011-08-25: Students don't know how to find information in libraries or online.
2011-08-25: List of scientific equations named after people.
2011-08-25: Google+: too much unnecessary drama.
2011-08-25: NewsBlur online feed reader.
2011-08-25: It's easy to steal PINs from cash machines using a thermal camera.
2011-08-25: Where is Physics Barbie?
2011-08-25: Free version of ISO 32000-1 PDF specification from Adobe, with the official ISO boilerplate filed off.
2011-08-24: Intel product rosetta stone.
2011-08-24: The financial industry has become a threat to the global economy again.
2011-08-24: The 1922 New York straw hat riot.
2011-08-24: Paul Krugman on Google+, or not.
2011-08-24: The amazing disappearing BSD licence!
2011-08-24: Org mode: an Emacs extension for notes, project planning, and authoring.
2011-08-24: TiddlyWiki: a serverless wiki.
2011-08-24: Operating system popularity statistics on Windows XP's tenth birthday.
2011-08-24: List of enclaves and exclaves.
2011-08-23: "OK Go and the Muppets? That sounds pretty exciting!" "Nah, let's watch cat videos."
2011-08-23: Rob Pike says "don't write lexers and parsers with regular expressions".
2011-08-23: Bretton Woods and the gold standard vs. floating exchange rates and paper money.
2011-08-23: How to transport 211 tonnes of gold from London to Caracas?
2011-08-23: The Register on BlueGene/Q.
2011-08-23: BlueGene/Q includes hardware support for transactional memory.
2011-08-23: Sales of non-iPad tablets vs. obscure game consoles.
2011-08-23: Chinese military reveals a cyber-warfare tool on TV.
2011-08-23: Ericsson's Computer Science lab: the first ten years.
2011-08-23: luatrace: tracing, profiling and coverage for Lua.
2011-08-23: Charlie Stross is not on Google Plus.
2011-08-22: Reflections on diglossia.
2011-08-22: The discovery of an underlying disease process for all types of ALS.
2011-08-22: BHyVe: KVM-style hypervisor for FreeBSD.
2011-08-22: European unitary patents could bring unlimited software patents over here.
2011-08-22: Software patents: foolish business (says the Guardian).
2011-08-22: Cherry Box Pizza: interesting toppings in Cambridge.
2011-08-22: Vodka nation.
2011-08-22: Peudonymity, privacy and responsibility on Google+.
2011-08-22: Met Office building in Exeter - spot the supercomputer hall.
2011-08-22: Smileua: an alternative syntax for Lua inspired by MoonScript.
2011-08-22: Arabic language history.
2011-08-22: Arabic is terrific.
2011-08-20: Threads without locks - the Plan 9 / Go approach to concurrency.
2011-08-20: DNSSEC and trust agility. (Doesn't realise that hierarchial trust protects against foreign bad actors.)
2011-08-20: $1 billion that nobody wants.
2011-08-20: 66 metre sundial / cable stay bridge in Redding, California.
2011-08-20: Google+ must stop this identity theatre.
2011-08-20: 13yo designs solar panel mount using the Fibonacci sequence in trees.
2011-08-20: Jamie Zawinsky on the nym wars.
2011-08-19: A ban on programming language module imports.
2011-08-19: How personal names differ around the world.
2011-08-19: London Tube map with distance grid.
2011-08-19: A more geographical version of the London Tube map.
2011-08-19: Apple doesn't do concept products.
2011-08-18: David May, creator of the transputer.
2011-08-18: Writing a macro processor for Erlang.
2011-08-18: How web browsers work.
2011-08-18: $80 Huawei Android phone sells like hotcakes in Kenya.
2011-08-18: Pigeons are better at the Monty Hall problem than people.
2011-08-17: Redefining the SI units based on fixed values of fundamental constants.
2011-08-17: An extended comparative study of language support for generic programming.
2011-08-17: Termination combinators forever.
2011-08-17: The Kitchen Sink DNS resource record type.
2011-08-17: Judge Andrew Gilbart QC sentencing remarks on the Manchester riots.
2011-08-17: A comparison of C++ "concepts" and Haskell type classes.
2011-08-17: AKS primality test.
2011-08-17: SpaceX to fly to ISS in November.
2011-08-17: Vinay Deolalikar's claimed proof of P!=NP, one year later.
2011-08-16: Secure dynamic DNS update howto.
2011-08-16: Standard-ish secure dynamic DNS updates with Mac OS X, wide-area Bonjour and DNS service discovery.
2011-08-16: Experiences porting KVM to SmartOS.
2011-08-16: Joyent SmartOS.
2011-08-16: Pandoc: a universal document converter.
2011-08-16: Goodbye, cruel Word.
2011-08-16: IBM pulls the plug on high performance computer systems research.
2011-08-16: False confessions are easy to extract.
2011-08-16: Building with Legos: immutable virtual servers.
2011-08-16: Dark matter may be an illusion caused by gravitational polarization of the quantum vacuum.
2011-08-16: How the head of Fox News is making Americans more right-wing, ignorant, and terrified.
2011-08-15: The Black Blood of the Earth - triple cold-extraction coffee.
2011-08-15: Design Patterns in Dynamic Languages.
2011-08-15: The sunny side of smut.
2011-08-15: How to create a sparsebundle without relying on Time Machine.
2011-08-15: Time Machine - backing up to a locally-connected sparsebundle.
2011-08-15: Apple's sleek new Fifth Avenue glass cube.
2011-08-15: Evil traffic interception by US ISPs.
2011-08-15: I'm sorry, but were you actually trying to remember your passwords?
2011-08-15: The ethics of artificial intelligence.
2011-08-15: Automated testing on iOS and Android.
2011-08-15: Perlis languages.
2011-08-14: The shapes of CSS.
2011-08-13: Google finds 80 Flash exploit in four weeks using large scale fuzzing.
2011-08-13: How to create an account on a Mac when you don't know its passwords.
2011-08-13: AeroFS: file sync without servers.
2011-08-13: How to put your logo into a QR code.
2011-08-12: Research is in crisis and young scientists are suffering.
2011-08-12: Independent police monitor beaten up in back of police van, while monitoring policing of riots.
2011-08-12: Petition for no homeopathy on the NHS.
2011-08-12: Design patterns are a sign of missing language features.
2011-08-12: Armed Response Technologies, home of the DeathStation 9000.
2011-08-12: An enlightened social contract is not built on subsidies or "handouts" — whether to the impoverished or to bankers.
2011-08-12: What if Bertie Wooster, rather than being a mere layabout, was also Batman?
2011-08-12: DragonFly Mail Agent - a small and secure MTA for edge systems.
2011-08-12: Mac OS X Lion recovery disk assistant.
2011-08-12: Death to the ‘noreply' mailbox.
2011-08-12: Hooking up a VT220 to a Mac.
2011-08-12: LSI launches MegaRAID CacheCade Pro 2.0 SSD caching software.
2011-08-12: Do not leave concentrated nitric acid unattended.
2011-08-12: Charging and convicting rioters is not a simple matter.
2011-08-12: Riot against moral relativism.
2011-08-12: Patent-infringement lawsuit against Fark settled for zero dollars, sans NDA.
2011-08-11: The patent system is broken, not us.
2011-08-11: How terrorism laws brought back 1980s riots.
2011-08-11: How BlackBerry BBM fed the riots.
2011-08-11: How nice it is to change someone's mind on the Internet :-)
2011-08-11: Deep structural problems lie beneath the London riots.
2011-08-11: Reducing redundant RETURN opcodes in Lua.
2011-08-11: Some fun C tricks and tips.
2011-08-11: Graphs of rent prices in Cambridge used to set the Local Housing Allowance.
2011-08-11: The eyesore on I-4.
2011-08-11: The economic consequences of Gordon Brown.
2011-08-11: Weapons of Lua.
2011-08-11: Moonscript: an alternate syntax for Lua inspired by CoffeeScript.
2011-08-11: The strange propaganda of the now-famous riot cleanup broom bic.
2011-08-11: CAPTCHAs to keep idiots out of comment threads.
2011-08-10: The GOES time code service, 1974–2004.
2011-08-10: Metrologia special issue on modern applications of timescales.
2011-08-10: What happens to the 13 to 20% of kids who walk away from school with no qualifications?
2011-08-10: Google's list of bad words.
2011-08-10: Index of multiple deprivation / riots map mashup.
2011-08-10: "Self-pitying scumbags" - Tony Parsons on the rioters.
2011-08-10: How have Europeans grown so tall?
2011-08-09: Philips LED bulb tear-down.
2011-08-09: How bad is News Corporation?!
2011-08-09: Gamification is marketing bullshit.
2011-08-09: Mac OS X Lion for unix hackers.
2011-08-09: RetroBSD is a port of 2.11BSD Unix to Microchip PIC32 embedded MIPS systems.
2011-08-09: An experiment with the Google+ profile abuse handling process.
2011-08-09: Google employees whose G+ names violate their policy.
2011-08-09: Policing riots: stand and watch or get stuck in?
2011-08-08: The obfuscated vote counting competition.
2011-08-08: Chuck out that tough Aussie bloke stereotype and bring back the laid-back Aussies.
2011-08-08: Warren's Abstract Machine for Prolog: a tutorial reconstruction.
2011-08-07: Enthusiasm to learn and marking school work.
2011-08-07: Dan Carlin podcast on the death throes of the Roman Republic.
2011-08-07: An explanation of Microsoft's anti-Google patent FUD.
2011-08-07: "My name is me: your freedom to choose the name you use online.
2011-08-06: The Economist on the moon - ultimate headline winnage.
2011-08-06: In search of stupidity.
2011-08-06: Realize that fold is nothing but replacing each n-ary constructor of an algebraic data type with an n-ary function.
2011-08-06: Real name policies are an authoritarian assertion of power over vulnerable people.
2011-08-06: Google IPv6 adoption statistics.
2011-08-06: Lion, IPv6, happy eyeballs.
2011-08-06: You can steal my ideas but I'm still the best person to carry them out.
2011-08-06: Vince Cable anti-Murdoch leakers were bribed by News International.
2011-08-05: "Phlebomania Hancocksia": prevalence of a previously undescribed psychomotor disturbance.
2011-08-05: Google+ names policy explained.
2011-08-05: Craig Murray was right about the UK's pro-torture policy.
2011-08-05: Coalition cock-up or conspiracy?
2011-08-05: This is an article about a statistic.
2011-08-05: cython-ifdef: basic preprocessor support for cython using unifdef.
2011-08-05: In love with Sheffield's architecture.
2011-08-04: Another big miscarriage of justice.
2011-08-04: What interests Google associates with your ads cookie.
2011-08-03: When patents attack Android.
2011-08-03: Charles' Rules of Argument.
2011-08-03: Student journalists try producing a paper using 1980s tech.
2011-08-03: The US legislation that could kill Internet privacy.
2011-08-03: The mother of all interview questions.
2011-08-03: The C2I2 hypothesis: customers vs. collaborators; implementations vs. inventions.
2011-08-03: ViTunes: control iTunes from vim.
2011-08-03: Standard LEDs can make a 800Mbps wireless network.
2011-08-03: The myth of the sole inventor.
2011-08-03: The Exonomist says America's intellectual-property system is a travesty which threatens the wealth and welfare of the whole world.
2011-08-02: Efficient and practical distributed currency.
2011-08-02: Liberty / Justice femslash.
2011-08-02: Beware of Greeks bearing bonds.
2011-08-02: The little manual of API design.
2011-08-02: They could have had the moon but instead they got Afghanistan.
2011-08-02: Your shoes make you walk wrong.
2011-08-02: Moore's law hits a snag with power budgets.
2011-08-02: Venture capital has stopped funding the future.
2011-08-02: How fake money saved Brazil.
2011-08-02: Oslo: Reflections on U.S. and Norwegian reactions.
2011-08-01: Playgrounds can be too safe.
2011-08-01: The Left might actually be right.
2011-08-01: Everyone plays Monopoly wrong.
2011-08-01: How Bush and Obama have affected US debt.
2011-08-01: Time does not exist.
2011-08-01: How not to do conference wifi.
2011-08-01: Skud's survey of suspended Google+ accounts.
2011-08-01: Freedom of the press implies that if you don't own the press, you don't get the freedom.
2011-08-01: Test your vocabulary.
2011-08-01: False Witnesses 2.
2011-08-01: False witnesses, malicious liars.
2011-08-01: God hates German words.
2011-07-31: American patent reform may strengthen patent trolls.
2011-07-31: Forbes says the US Supreme Court should invalidate software patents.
2011-07-30: The secret ingredient flavouring your orange juice.
2011-07-30: IPv6 brokenness problems are being fixed.
2011-07-28: Moom: grid-based window positioning for Mac OS.
2011-07-25: More people caught out by proliferation of US federal offenses.
2011-07-22: Enable TRIM support for all SSDs in OS X Lion by editing a kext binary.
2011-07-22: PowerDNS authoritative server 3.0 released - now with DNSSEC support.
2011-07-22: ClojureScript is a dialect of Clojure that targets JavaScript as a deployment platform.
2011-07-21: Nokia takes a nosedive. "Osborne Effect" henceforth known as "Elop Effect".
2011-07-21: The Columbia Journalism Review summarizes the criminal activities of News Corporation.
2011-07-21: Aaron Swartz’s reckless open access activism.
2011-07-21: Nominet DNSSEC signing service.
2011-07-21: Open Cambridge - see inside places that are usually closed - Sep. 9-11.
2011-07-19: Mork keeps on giving: When the database worms eat into your murder trial.
2011-07-19: The reasoning behind changing daylight saving time in North America in 2007.
2011-07-18: Connie Willis may be the worst writer in existence.
2011-07-18: Fox News claims the News of the World was a VICTIM of phone hacking.
2011-07-18: Paul Krugman on the insanity of the Republican Party.
2011-07-18: How the Guardian broke the Murdoch scandal.
2011-07-18: Why aren't the earliest sunset and latest sunrise on the same day as the winter solstice?
2011-07-18: Higher-order Venn diagrams.
2011-07-17: A literary appreciation of the Olson TZ database.
2011-07-16: How Ethernet grew from 3Mbps to 100Gbps.
2011-07-16: How Stuxnet was revealed to be a sophisticated cyberweapon.
2011-07-16: The algebra of data, and the calculus of mutation.
2011-07-16: Is there anything good about men?
2011-07-15: The rise and fall of the independent software developer.
2011-07-15: Small businesses sued after MacroSolve gets a patent covering HTML forms.
2011-07-13: For the first time ever, the government publishes its consolidated accounts.
2011-07-13: "Rupert Murdoch has done more to harm journalism in America and Britain than any other person." - Roger Ebert.
2011-07-13: Floppy disks: it's too late.
2011-07-13: A major improvement to BIND 9 startup performance with lots of zones.
2011-07-13: TIME's Lev Grossman on fan fiction culture.
2011-07-13: How the Metropolitan Police tries to cover up their mistakes with lies and corruption.
2011-07-13: How New Corporation blackmailed a Fox Sports anchorman over his health.
2011-07-13: Csmith is a compiler testing tool that generates random C programs which conform to the standard.
2011-07-13: Rapid DHCP: Or, how do Macs get on the network so fast?
2011-07-13: The fanless spinning heatsink: more efficient and immune to dust.
2011-07-12: How News Corporation gets massive tax refunds from the US government.
2011-07-12: Edward Tufte's slopegraphs.
2011-07-12: Women in national parliaments.
2011-07-12: Garbage collection is fast, but a stack is faster.
2011-07-12: A library of high-level control operators based on continuations.
2011-07-12: A retrospective on region-based memory management.
2011-07-11: A reply to criticisms of the Knight and Leveson N-version programming experiment.
2011-07-11: NSA SIGINT style guide.
2011-07-11: This scandal goes to the heart of the way this country has been run, under both parties, for decades.
2011-07-11: Analysis of increased query load on root name servers.
2011-07-11: NY Times on the corruption and criminality of News International.
2011-07-11: Royal Society event discussing UTC for the 21st century.
2011-07-11: The Mine! project: open source online data and relationships logistics.
2011-07-08: IERS surveys opinion on the possible redefinition of UTC.
2011-07-08: Advanced Lawnmower Simulator. (almost as good as the Sinclair version)
2011-07-08: Research on innovation by James Bessen et al.
2011-07-08: A generation of software patents.
2011-07-08: SURFnet on deploying DNSSEC validation on recursive nameservers.
2011-07-08: Code in academic papers.
2011-07-08: Nature: why scientific programming does not compute.
2011-07-08: Microsoft's Android shakedown.
2011-07-07: How mobile phone voicemail hacking worked.
2011-07-07: IRA vs. al Qaeda.
2011-07-07: The machine to build the machines. (NeXT promo video from 20 years ago.)
2011-07-07: Revolution, hacktivism, lulz, and memes.
2011-07-06: Brewing gluten-free strawberry beer with animated GIFs.
2011-07-06: Dear photograph.
2011-07-06: Google to retire Blogger and Picasa in favour of Google+.
2011-07-05: Have cities in the developed world reached peak car use?
2011-07-05: The (Deutsch)-Schorr-Waite graph marking algorithm, developed with style.
2011-07-05: Police bail in the dock.
2011-07-05: Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's COO.
2011-07-05: High speed rail in China.
2011-07-05: Who holds Greek debt.
2011-07-05: Once Greece goes…
2011-07-05: A funny little calculus textbook.
2011-07-05: Babbage - the language of the future.
2011-07-05: Fukushima cover-up unravels.
2011-07-04: Dutch beer glass sundial.
2011-07-04: A beer glass with a built-in sundial.
2011-07-04: Homophobic primary school stops community opera at last minute.
2011-07-02: Decentralised currencies are probably impossible, but let's at least make them efficient.
2011-07-01: How to safely store a password.
2011-07-01: fexl: function expression language based on combinators.
2011-07-01: Why do game developers prefer Windows? Direct3D vs OpenGL.
2011-07-01: Hacker News discusses broadband competition.
2011-06-30: Why Europe has fast cheap broadband, but America has arguments about net neutrality.
2011-06-30: I like the buttery biscuit bass.
2011-06-30: Jellyfish: networking data centres randomly.
2011-06-30: Norvig vs. Chomsky and the fight for the future of AI.
2011-06-30: No-nose bicycle saddles are better for you.
2011-06-30: The technology inside Apple's $50 Thunderbolt cable.
2011-06-30: Chip-scale atomic clock GPS-disciplined oscillator.
2011-06-30: dotjs - Google Chrome plugin for easily adding your own JavaScript to web pages.
2011-06-30: Programming in Clojure for beginners.
2011-06-29: Root DNS server load up by factor of four in last 24 hours.
2011-06-29: Why Programming Languages?
2011-06-28: Designing GitHub for Mac.
2011-06-28: How a code editor can indicate nesting level without indentation.
2011-06-28: Cambridge's Richardson Candle street lights have been listed for preservation.
2011-06-28: TCP Hybla: a transmission scheme for long RTT wireless networks.
2011-06-28: Petition to ignore the EDL march in Cambridge.
2011-06-28: How to make a clock run for 10,000 years.
2011-06-28: Using Yubikey with Fastmail.
2011-06-28: Inexpensive OATH OTP tokens.
2011-06-28: Duo Security: two factor authentication made easy.
2011-06-28: TCP over 2.5G and 3G wireless networks.
2011-06-28: Why mobile networking sucks: bufferbloat and TCP over 3G.
2011-06-28: American Scientist article on the future of UTC by pro-leap-second astronomers.
2011-06-28: Update on revised spec for UTC and leap seconds.
2011-06-27: JavaScript is dead. Long live JavaScript!
2011-06-26: 10,000 year clock.
2011-06-26: The road to gay marriage in New York.
2011-06-26: Lua 5.2 reference manual, annotated with changes from 5.1.
2011-06-25: Cross-browser non-ASCII download file names.
2011-06-24: Institute for the Future predicts effects of IT in 1982: right effects, wrong tech.
2011-06-24: Kind of Screwed: fair use in action.
2011-06-24: Top 10 most sinister PSYOPS mission patches.
2011-06-23: Lytro light-field camera will take photos that can be refocussed during post-processing.
2011-06-23: Graphics programming black book, by Michael Abrash.
2011-06-23: Rateless codes and big downloads: a peer-to-peer system based on linear-time rateless erasure codes.
2011-06-23: Digital fountain codes for forward error correction.
2011-06-23: GitX (L): a fork of GitX.
2011-06-23: GitX: a git GUI for Mac OS X.
2011-06-23: Offline GitHub for Mac.
2011-06-23: Leap-of-faith trust aka TOFU/POP for https.
2011-06-23: Health and safety has little to do with timid risk aversion.
2011-06-23: Tube Map in German.
2011-06-23: Georgia's new anti-immigration law causes a farm labour crisis.
2011-06-22: Fighting for the public domain in front of the Supreme Court of the United States.
2011-06-22: Yahoo!s list of things to do to speed up your web site.
2011-06-21: How Google notifies you of "search customization".
2011-06-21: Escape your search engine Filter Bubble!
2011-06-21: Broken Koans and other Zen debris.
2011-06-21: Zen Koans.
2011-06-21: Facing up to insolvent infrastructure and debt-ridden services.
2011-06-18: jsmad: pure JavaScript mp3 decoder.
2011-06-17: DNSSEC authenticated HTTPS in Google Chrome.
2011-06-17: How magnets work.
2011-06-17: Why you might say to MySQL, "I am a dummy."
2011-06-17: DNSvis diagram of DNSSEC trust and delegation chains for dotat.at.
2011-06-16: ORM is an anti-pattern.
2011-06-16: Designing good multiple-choice questions.
2011-06-15: The sleepsort algorithm: an O(n) sort implemented in bash.
2011-06-15: Samuel L Jackson reads a bedtime story: "go the fuck to sleep".
2011-06-15: An abridged history of the Internet.
2011-06-15: Are auto-login links in email a good idea?
2011-06-14: The Gosu programming l.anguage
2011-06-14: Scala: static checking that feels dynamic.
2011-06-14: Matt Groening's promo cartoons for Apple.
2011-06-14: Reverse DNS considerations for IPv6.
2011-06-14: Common scenarios in which Exchange may lose or confuse calendar data.
2011-06-14: Python idioms and efficiency.
2011-06-14: How to write a spelling corrector.
2011-06-13: Andy Baio interviews the creator of telehack.
2011-06-13: How to increase procurement costs: use economies of scale rather than competition.
2011-06-13: What is "loatheware"?
2011-06-13: Terry Pratchett starts the process to take his own life.
2011-06-13: Pink stinks: a campaign to challenge the culture of pink which invades every aspect of girls' lives.
2011-06-13: 6rd: IPv6 rapid deployment.
2011-06-13: Cisco on their success with IPv6 in France.
2011-06-13: From dust to edge: making a blade starting from ore.
2011-06-13: The Reduceron: high-level symbolic computing on an FPGA.
2011-06-10: A Haskell combinator library for the design of full-size railway track layouts.
2011-06-10: Patients are not consumers.
2011-06-10: 90 gaffes from Prince Philip in the Mirror.
2011-06-10: 90 gaffes from Prince Philip in the Independent.
2011-06-10: Internet access in th USA is a disaster.
2011-06-10: Normalize CSS: an alternative to CSS resets.
2011-06-09: Wait, what does your startup do?
2011-06-09: Bacon Ipsum.
2011-06-08: DENIC says .de has the most 2LDs signed with DNSSEC.
2011-06-08: Two stage filtering for email over IPv6.
2011-06-08: The Radio 4 Today Programme's fighty interviews are boring and poisonous.
2011-06-08: Oxford Electric Bell: a scientific instrument running for 170 years.
2011-06-07: Ten physical gestures that have been patented.
2011-06-07: How the Tube Map affects journey planning decisions.
2011-06-07: Alan Kay asks about significant new inventions in computing since 1980.
2011-06-07: Sample of DNS server IPv4 and IPv6 addresses querying maps.vix.com.
2011-06-07: Microsoft AD DNS fails to keep SOA serial numbers in sync, which breaks zone transfers to slaves.
2011-06-07: Cambridge Geek Night 11: Monday 13th June, 19:00 at the Union.
2011-06-07: Lua enters TIOBE programming language top ten.
2011-06-07: Library of the future: box up the books in shipping containers and lend out their contents over the web.
2011-06-07: Dark silicon and the end of multicore scaling.
2011-06-07: Telehack: huge interactive retrocomputing archive.
2011-06-06: National Heritage map of England.
2011-06-06: Experimental observations of dual-stack IPv4+IPv6 services.
2011-06-06: Spamhaus IPv6 block list strategy.
2011-06-06: The Energy Limit Model: Industrialism is no longer able to outrun energy costs.
2011-06-06: Translations of common mathematical understatements.
2011-06-06: The Economist's Johnson blog with more on cultural misunderstandings.
2011-06-06: Languagelog on European understanding of British understatement.
2011-06-05: A collection of programming and management laws.
2011-06-05: How I failed, failed, and finally succeeded at learning how to program computers.
2011-06-04: A benchmarking case study of C++, Java, Scala, and Go.
2011-06-03: netmap: memory mapping of network devices to drive 10gigE at line rate with FreeBSD.
2011-06-03: Microsoft's unenthusiastic support for IPv6 day.
2011-06-03: Sony gets massively hacked a dozen times.
2011-06-02: IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy votes to reject the IEEE copyright policy and adopt the USENIX policy instead.
2011-06-02: The Santa Barbara county courthouse tower clock website (including a disturbance from Japan's earthquake in March).
2011-06-02: Skype reverse engineered.
2011-06-02: Requirements for handling leap seconds in NASA's common data format for space physics.
2011-06-02: The case against the em dash.
2011-06-02: Dissecting gzip and deflate.
2011-06-01: The Phoenix compiler framework: Microsoft's answer to LLVM.
2011-06-01: No, she went of her own accord.
2011-05-31: Depixellating pixel art.
2011-05-31: Convert between miles and kilometers using only addition.
2011-05-31: Bypass Cisco RA Guard by fragmenting your spoofed router advertisements.
2011-05-31: CBBC "Horrible Histories" spoofs Apple excellently.
2011-05-31: Limits to Growth.
2011-05-31: Rock star programmers.
2011-05-31: Linux 3.0rc1 - at last a bit of sanity in version numbering.
2011-05-30: Twenty reasons why revolution is kicking off everywhere.
2011-05-30: Thermoacoustic hot air engine.
2011-05-30: A refrigerator that runs without artificial energy input.
2011-05-29: "Peak Civilization": the fall of the Roman Empire.
2011-05-28: P.G. Wodehouse's American Psycho.
2011-05-28: The GFDL is possibly one of the worst licenses ever.
2011-05-27: Things in PHP which make you sad.
2011-05-27: Phonotactic reconstruction of encrypted VOIP conversations - amazing traffic analysis exploit.
2011-05-27: Polygonal map generation.
2011-05-27: Haynes manual for the 60163 "Tornado" Peppercorn class A1 Pacific steam locomotive.
2011-05-27: Roger Ebert on dim Sony 3D projectors.
2011-05-27: Stop sign.
2011-05-26: What papers should every computer scientist read?
2011-05-26: Floating point formats.
2011-05-26: route53d: gateway between standard DNS UPDATE / IXFR messages and Amazon's HTTP-based protocol.
2011-05-25: Peak oil, Hubbert curves, thermodynamics, and limits to economic growth.
2011-05-25: Branch descriptions in git.
2011-05-25: IPv6 eye chart: which websites can you see?
2011-05-25: Paul Francis's networking publications.
2011-05-24: A treatise on font rasterisation.
2011-05-24: The Ryan Giggs affair would have remained private if he had not taken out the injunction.
2011-05-24: Never mind naming Ryan Giggs, the RBS and FSA are the real secrecy scandal.
2011-05-24: How to deconstruct almost anything.
2011-05-24: An algorithms textbook by Dasgupta & Papadimitriou & Vazirani.
2011-05-24: ShaperProbe: a tool to detect traffic shaping by ISPs.
2011-05-24: Lactase persistence, quasi-pastoralism, and the agricultural and industrial revolutions.
2011-05-24: Should apples be regulated?
2011-05-24: EU IPR policy is crippling the digital economy.
2011-05-24: DENIC currently rolling out DNSSEC for the .de zone.
2011-05-24: Mouse + VOIP phone. Try using your computer and phone at the same time...
2011-05-24: The HTML keygen element generates a cryptographic key pair and submits the public key as part of an HTML form.
2011-05-23: Semantic versioning: a sensible software release numbering scheme.
2011-05-23: Linux version numbering to change to 2.8.x.y or 3.x.y?
2011-05-23: Loopsofzen: a little puzzle game for IPv6 users only.
2011-05-23: OMG IPv6 day! (the tl;dr version)
2011-05-23: Test your IPv6 connectivity.
2011-05-23: Richmond golf club temporary rules, 1940.
2011-05-23: A thoughtful piece about privacy law vs. global media.
2011-05-23: How the No to AV campaign won.
2011-05-23: Yes to AV post-mortem self-flagellation.
2011-05-23: RIBA pylon design competition.
2011-05-23: A Toronto couple are trying to raise a genderless child.
2011-05-23: MessagePack: like JSON but fast small and binary.
2011-05-23: Repairing corrupted ZIP files by brute force scanning.
2011-05-23: Scottish newspaper claims immunity from English superinjunction. Hilarity ensues.
2011-05-22: It is not a crime for investment banks to stiff their clients.
2011-05-22: Fighting the lower Mississippi river. (1987)
2011-05-21: How a Schillings superinjunction ensures everyone will hear your secret.
2011-05-21: Lambda the Ultimate discussion of proper tail call optimization.
2011-05-21: Why object-oriented languages need proper tail call optimization.
2011-05-20: Why we resist the idea that carbs are worse for you than fat.
2011-05-20: Unix system programming in Objective Caml.
2011-05-20: Run jslinux on node.js.
2011-05-20: Kirkus Reviews gives a star to Rule 34 by Charlie Stross.
2011-05-19: Wadler's criticism of SICP.
2011-05-19: A criticism of SICP and a rationale for HtDP.
2011-05-19: Amazon now selling more Kindle books than dead tree books.
2011-05-19: Carlton Arms to re-open towards the end of July.
2011-05-19: Decentralized Internet resource discovery revisited.
2011-05-18: Nominet completes rollout of DNSSEC for its .uk 2LDs.
2011-05-18: The influence of the embedding/extending API on the design of Lua.
2011-05-18: The recursive internet architecture.
2011-05-18: Assessing the security of the RINA clean-slate internet architecture.
2011-05-18: The definitive Tube map.
2011-05-18: Changes to the Internet architecture affect privacy.
2011-05-18: The periodic table of biscuit urban legends.
2011-05-17: Heaven: a fool's paradise.
2011-05-17: "Tubular Bells" played on an awesome collection of classic synths. (YouTube)
2011-05-17: Lost Type - pay what you like for fonts.
2011-05-17: Urban vs online spaces, cosmopolitan vs parochial, and designing for serendipity and flâneur.
2011-05-17: Serendipity: How the vogue word became vague.
2011-05-17: The untold story of the search business model.
2011-05-17: Dutch is essentially ...
2011-05-17: A another brief bio of Fabrice Bellard.
2011-05-17: Chief reviwer of NHS reforms says they are unworkable and will destroy essential services.
2011-05-17: The state of Unicode fonts in 1998.
2011-05-17: A somewhat fluffy bio of Fabrice Bellard.
2011-05-17: The L programming language and system.
2011-05-17: DNSSEC monitoring tools.
2011-05-17: Unintentional goatse.
2011-05-17: Programming language popularity.
2011-05-17: JavaScript madness.
2011-05-17: This PC emulator is written in Javascript. (Another stunning hack by Fabrice Bellard.)
2011-05-17: Fair Trade revealed as a feel-good hoax.
2011-05-16: Why Kate Griffin does not write about customer service.
2011-05-16: Physics lolcats.
2011-05-16: MISC: an experimental LISP-like language based on maps.
2011-05-16: What the Spitfire can teach us about nurturing innovation and radical ideas.
2011-05-16: Vint Cerf wants YOU to use IPv6.
2011-05-16: How the secretary of state for health proposes to abolish the NHS in England.
2011-05-16: validns - DNSSEC-aware zone file validator.
2011-05-16: Scientific evidence and government dietary guidelines.
2011-05-15: The worst algorithm in the world, or, how to calculate Fibonacci numbers.
2011-05-15: Web comments need to be reinvented.
2011-05-15: The dark side of C++.
2011-05-15: Imagine a (virtual) world without guns.
2011-05-15: Core totally demolished at Fukushima Daiichi No. 1.
2011-05-15: How to make WiFi work at tech conferences.
2011-05-15: A guide to undefined behaviour in C and C++.
2011-05-15: Anti-competitive licensing requirements in the USA.
2011-05-15: The "as-if infinitely ranged" integer model for avoiding overflow bugs.
2011-05-15: What every C programmer should know about undefined behavior.
2011-05-15: JSON is not a subset of JavaScript - lol Unicode.
2011-05-15: Markov generators and reservoir sampling.
2011-05-15: The suprising security model for NFC payments.
2011-05-14: DNSSEC, and trusting Internet names.
2011-05-13: Lexadecimal: meaningful colour numbers.
2011-05-13: UK higher education policy should not look towards the Ivy League.
2011-05-13: Symmetricom chip-scale atomic clock now for sale.
2011-05-12: Anglo-EU translation guide.
2011-05-12: The humiliation of the Yes to AV campaign.
2011-05-12: What happens to Asian-American overachievers after graduation?
2011-05-11: Realism in user interface design.
2011-05-11: An electoral reform post mortem.
2011-05-11: Build your own probability monads.
2011-05-11: Home-made core memory for the Arduino.
2011-05-11: The "Country Life" magazine list of 39 basic life skills.
2011-05-10: The war on access to information.
2011-05-10: Creative Commons and the enemies of creators' rights.
2011-05-10: EU "cookies" directive: interactive guide to 25th May and what it means for you.
2011-05-10: Exploit for Google Chrome (sandbox/ASLR/DEP bypass) - would Capsicum stop it?
2011-05-09: Cool but obscure unix tools.
2011-05-09: Oxford vs. Yale.
2011-05-09: There's more to HTML escaping than &, <, >, and "
2011-05-09: Irish jobs minister says current copyright law is bad for the economy.
2011-05-09: Samoa to switch from East to West of the Date Line.
2011-05-08: The CALM principle: distributed consistency as logical monotonicity.
2011-05-06: An alternative vote, Cambridge fashion.
2011-05-05: The Economist on the Fukushima nuclear reactor problems.
2011-05-05: Blunkett admits No campaign lied about costs. #yes2av
2011-05-05: Nominet announces that me.uk and co.uk are now signed with DNSSEC.
2011-05-05: Intel's 22nm tri-gate transistors.
2011-05-05: Results from Gravity Probe B confirm that Earth's spin twists space-time as predicted.
2011-05-05: Motivated almost exclusively by rage.
2011-05-04: A history of copy-on-write memory management.
2011-05-03: A celebration of Joanna Russ, 1937-2011.
2011-05-03: Antihydrogen trapped for 1000 seconds.
2011-05-02: Reasons in favour of lazy evaluation.
2011-05-02: LuaMacro2 - a lexical preprocessor for Lua.
2011-05-02: The file(1) / libmagic home page.
2011-05-02: BFI list of the 50 films you should see by the age of 14.
2011-05-02: What Colour are your bits? "Paranoia" and Intellectual Property.
2011-05-02: Measuring C compiler standards conformance in the early 1990s.
2011-05-01: Atomic22 infiniti3D secure bike component fasteners.
2011-05-01: TiGr: titanium ribbon bike lock.
2011-05-01: Another patent used to kill innovation.
2011-04-30: Summary of the Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS outage.
2011-04-30: Teletext 1970-2012: the life and death of a medium.
2011-04-28: Is your cat confused about the referendum for fairer votes? (YouTube)
2011-04-28: Power on/off symbology explained.
2011-04-28: Redis and scripting (with Lua).
2011-04-28: Hens say "yes!" to fairer votes.
2011-04-28: Jim: a small implementation of Tcl.
2011-04-28: Vote "yes" to fairer votes (and beer!)
2011-04-28: Why you should extend Python rather than embedding it.
2011-04-28: Yahoo! sells del.icio.us to YouTube founders.
2011-04-28: That's What She Said: automatic double entendre identification.
2011-04-28: The grim threat to British universities.
2011-04-27: A perfectly crazy voting system.
2011-04-27: Koninklijk Eise Eisinga Planetarium - the oldest planetarium.
2011-04-27: The Chancellor's wife is in town today.
2011-04-26: Why I just spent three days changing my passwords on over 300 web sites.
2011-04-26: Digital policy in the coalition government.
2011-04-26: Corruption, tax fraud, torture, and murder by Russian officials.
2011-04-26: Anatomy of bloat in Mozilla's SVG code.
2011-04-26: Fitzbillies to re-open under new management.
2011-04-26: SecSpider: the DNSSEC monitoring project.
2011-04-25: Dutch postal privatization.
2011-04-25: Everyone is to blame for this continued expectation that magic distributed storage is possible.
2011-04-25: An elegant computer desk.
2011-04-24: Algorithmic pricing on the Amazon marketplace.
2011-04-23: Immix garbage collection: fast collection, space efficiency, and mutator locality.
2011-04-23: Smalltalk 80: bits of history, words of advice.
2011-04-23: Google and Linux infringe linked list patent.
2011-04-23: The bouncing torpedo.
2011-04-23: The Black Team finds a bug in a tape driver.
2011-04-23: Everything popular is wrong: making it in electronic music, despite democratization.
2011-04-22: 1D glasses.
2011-04-22: 2D glasses.
2011-04-22: We should have got AV 93 years ago.
2011-04-21: PCH DNS service architecture.
2011-04-21: "Fun" with PHP arrays.
2011-04-21: Apple's location data collection is mentioned in the terms of use you didn't read.
2011-04-21: A better way to teach maths.
2011-04-21: TCP/IP illustrated, volume 1: the protocols (2nd edition). By Richard Stevens and Kevin Fall.
2011-04-20: Ugly memoization with unsafePerformIO.
2011-04-20: Elegant memoization with functional memo tries.
2011-04-20: An amazing surreptitious tour of London's disused underground mail railway.
2011-04-20: Is the ACS:Law case the beginning of the end for "three strikes" copyright laws?
2011-04-20: BT and TalkTalk lose their legal challenge to the Digital Economy Act anti-filesharing provisions.
2011-04-20: How the Erlang generic server works.
2011-04-20: Parallelism is not concurrency.
2011-04-20: A monad for deterministic parallelism.
2011-04-20: What is the status of multicore programming in Haskell?
2011-04-20: Education as a commodity.
2011-04-19: The Taxpayers' Alliance has bought yes2av.org and redirected it to no2av.org. Classy.
2011-04-19: Mozilla should add Honest Achmed's root CA certificate.
2011-04-19: Size of Google's and similar map tiles at different scales.
2011-04-19: The science of why deniers refuse to believe science.
2011-04-19: Trade IPv4.
2011-04-19: Haskell for the cloud: Erlang-style distributed concurrency.
2011-04-19: ARIN seems to agree that Nortel can treat its old IP space as property.
2011-04-19: Intel agrees with Oracle that Itanium is obsolete.
2011-04-18: 10 best tricks to fool yourself to work.
2011-04-18: In favour of juries being allowed to throw out bad patents.
2011-04-18: What's at the back of your web page?
2011-04-18: AV and dog shit.
2011-04-18: LuaJIT performance on an ARM (interpreter only, no JIT yet).
2011-04-18: Artificial almost-intelligence will trigger the spam apocalypse.
2011-04-18: Woo! Cold fusion!
2011-04-18: Extruding Conway's Game of Life.
2011-04-17: Examples of robberies from data centres.
2011-04-17: Photo tour of Facebook's new datacenter.
2011-04-17: I2P anonymous network.
2011-04-17: The Lisp curse.
2011-04-16: CIEL: a universal execution engine for distributed data-flow computing.
2011-04-16: TCP incast congestion collapse.
2011-04-15: A stable bicycle without gyros or trail.
2011-04-15: Cisco PIX firewall SMTP content filtering evasion vulnerability.
2011-04-15: Data Protection and Cambridge University's Google Calendar service.
2011-04-15: A closer look at the Level 3 + Global Crossing merger.
2011-04-15: Sugar: the bitter truth. (YouTube)
2011-04-15: Is sugar toxic?
2011-04-15: Matt Sergeant has written a new SMTP server using node.js.
2011-04-14: Asia/Pacific IPv4 exhaustion approaches.
2011-04-14: Teaching binary arithmetic using the Socratic method.
2011-04-14: UK Political Studies Association media briefing paper on the Alternative Vote.
2011-04-14: "Kettling" of peaceful protestors by Metropolitan Police ruled illegal.
2011-04-14: Electricity around the world.
2011-04-13: Zooko's tetrahedron.
2011-04-13: Zooko's triangle: names can be two of decentralized, secure, meaningful.
2011-04-13: Hugh Grant, phone hacking, paparazzi, secret recordings, and the News of the World scandal.
2011-04-13: Gazelle: a system for building fast reusable parsers.
2011-04-13: Mac OS X hidden features and nice tips & tricks.
2011-04-13: User-friendliness and fascism.
2011-04-12: Justice is impossible if we cannot trust police forces to tell the truth.
2011-04-12: Solaris has a MACHINE_THAT_GOES_PING.
2011-04-12: LISP network element deployment considerations.
2011-04-12: LISP (locator/Identifier separation protocol) beta network site status.
2011-04-12: In praise of eggs.
2011-04-12: The Olson timezone database (tzdata and tzcode). (New homepage since twinsun is down.)
2011-04-12: AMSS: the AM radio data signalling system.
2011-04-12: Specification of BBC phase-modulated data transmissions on Radio 4 long wave.
2011-04-12: ShairPort: an open source AirTunes server with a copy of the necessary private key.
2011-04-12: Hormel sues for "SPAM" trademark infringement.
2011-04-12: Toddler app user interface guidelines.
2011-04-12: Binary vs. UTF-8, and why it need not matter.
2011-04-11: Programming in Standard ML by Robert Harper.
2011-04-11: Circular "roundabout" observation bridge at Hiyoshi Springs.
2011-04-11: Castle in the sky: the story of the Royal Greenwich Observatory at Herstmonceux.
2011-04-11: The rise and fall of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
2011-04-10: Classification of the principal programming paradigms.
2011-04-10: Programming paradigms for dummies: what every programmer should know.
2011-04-10: lorempixum - categorized placeholder images.
2011-04-10: Optimizing cache performance on a rapidly growing site.
2011-04-10: An encyclopaedia of programming languages.
2011-04-10: Relaxed memory models must be rigorous.
2011-04-09: A watch with a gnomon.
2011-04-09: Facebook's Open Compute Project server.
2011-04-09: A collection of articles about game physics.
2011-04-09: A unified framework for rigid body dynamics.
2011-04-09: Physics engines for dummies.
2011-04-09: Using coprime overlays to make non-repeating backgrounds.
2011-04-09: Brian May use prime numbers in the sound design for "We Will Rock You".
2011-04-09: In praise of "The C Programming Language".
2011-04-08: Rob Pike's C style guide.
2011-04-08: C Craft - waking from a programming nightmare.
2011-04-08: PHK on leap seconds in ACM Queue.
2011-04-08: Security problem excuse bingo.
2011-04-07: When Harry Met Sally 2, starring Billy Crystal & Helen Mirren.
2011-04-07: 75-year-old copper thief finds a single point of failure in Armenia's Internet connectivity.
2011-04-06: OpenSSL memory usage in node.js and Twisted Python.
2011-04-06: Testing prime numbers using pcre.
2011-04-05: Heap Layers: C++ templates for building high-performance allocators such as Hoard.
2011-04-05: Guardian.co.uk is switching from Java to Scala.
2011-04-05: "Yes to AV" bikes.
2011-04-04: Dan Kaminsky on DJB and secure DNS.
2011-04-04: A discussion about DES between Stanford CS researchers, NBS, and NSA, in 1976.
2011-04-04: gTLD DNSSEC at Verisign. (March 2011)
2011-04-04: Minority Report user interface available for real world use.
2011-04-04: "Predator" algorithm for tracking unknown objects in unconstrained video streams.
2011-04-04: Be prepared to accept security vulnerability reports.
2011-04-04: Rules for readable web sites.
2011-04-04: The continuing saga of the breast cancer gene patent case.
2011-04-02: Zenburn colour scheme for vim.
2011-04-02: Solarized - colour scheme for terminal programs.
2011-04-02: Product design at GitHub.
2011-04-01: Graph showing number of DNSSEC domains with secure delegations in .com, .net, and .edu.
2011-04-01: Quantum random bit generator service (with mathematical CAPTCHA).
2011-03-31: Linux distros move /var/run to /run to support programs starting early in bootup.
2011-03-31: RSA Inc. was hacked by the Chinese?
2011-03-31: Wired magazine interview with Paul Baran.
2011-03-30: How to insult a computer scientist.
2011-03-30: C++ member function pointers and fast delegates.
2011-03-30: Canada's broad anti-poly law.
2011-03-30: La Meridiana: a house built around a sundial. (stupid Flash photo gallery)
2011-03-29: Hacker releases private key of fraudulent Comodo X.509 certificate.
2011-03-29: A ballroom under a lake near Godalming...
2011-03-29: Juggling quadrocopters. (YouTube)
2011-03-29: INWG and the conception of the Internet: an eyewitness account.
2011-03-29: DJB's CurveCP: a monolithic replacement for TCP+TLS, plus discussion of transport protocol design.
2011-03-29: Mozilla follow-up on the Comodo X.509 certificate authority security breach.
2011-03-29: Rima: a mathematical modelling toolset using Lua.
2011-03-29: Twin babies have a conversation. Cute! (YouTube)
2011-03-28: Niall Ferguson on military overstretch, fiscal deficit, and the collapse of empires.
2011-03-27: National Executive Committee for space-based positioning, navigation, and timing on LightSquared and GPS.
2011-03-27: Unladen Swallow (Python JIT) retrospective.
2011-03-27: Bulletproof Node.js coding.
2011-03-27: Cornell library rejects NDAs and will reveal journal prices.
2011-03-26: f8 Facebook conference badges / booklets.
2011-03-26: Field vs. Google: robots.txt and copyright.
2011-03-26: Left-leaning red-black trees.
2011-03-26: Hopscotch hash table.
2011-03-25: The tale of a 15-year-old T/TCP bug in FreeBSD.
2011-03-25: Symmetricom's chip-scale atomic clock.
2011-03-25: Autotools Mythbuster.
2011-03-25: Autotools Tutorial.
2011-03-25: Why Fukushima made me stop worrying and love nuclear power.
2011-03-25: Das Leben ist zu kurz für den falschen Job.
2011-03-25: Ross Anderson asks, can we fix the security economics of federated authentication?
2011-03-24: Bankrupt Nortel sells its IPv4 addresses to Microsoft for $7.5 million.
2011-03-23: How glow.mozilla.org visualizes Firefox 4 downloads.
2011-03-23: How to sync an iPhone with multiple computers.
2011-03-23: Oracle ditches support for Itanium.
2011-03-23: Peter Gutmann: "A mighty fortress is our PKI"
2011-03-23: Japan Registry Service DNS server user-side evaluation.
2011-03-23: Jacob Appelbaum detects Certificate Authority compromises and web browser collusion.
2011-03-23: X.509 certificate revocation doesn't work.
2011-03-23: Google snappy: a fast compressor/decompressor.
2011-03-22: What is the bandwidth of a human ejaculation?
2011-03-22: What Johann Hari has in common with Jamie Oliver's kids.
2011-03-22: Over-provisioning an Intel X25-M SSD for greater performance and durability.
2011-03-22: IPv6 consumer edge router interoperability.
2011-03-22: How many times has a URL has been shared on various social networks.
2011-03-21: How to fill in your census form without Lockheed Martin profiting.
2011-03-21: John Hemming MP on secrecy orders made by the courts. Utterly scandalous.
2011-03-21: Hyper-injunctions can stop you from talking to your MP.
2011-03-21: Brian Krebs on the Rustock botnet takedown.
2011-03-19: Subsurface liquefaction on reclaimed land in Tokyo caused by the Sendai earthquake.
2011-03-19: Life and times of J root.
2011-03-19: Analysis of anycast anomalies on the J root DNS server.
2011-03-18: Query storm affecting .cl TLD.
2011-03-18: Integer hash functions.
2011-03-18: Non-cryptographic hash function zoo.
2011-03-18: How Backblaze build cheap cloud storage.
2011-03-18: A plea for baked weblogs.
2011-03-18: Paul Vixie on blocking DNS - but when will an RPZ service be announced?
2011-03-17: Fantastic Japanese "Jurassic Chocolate".
2011-03-17: Safety of different energy sources measured in deaths per TWh.
2011-03-17: MOD conducts regular GPS jamming exercises in the UK.
2011-03-17: Abusing switch() to delay a loop test in C.
2011-03-16: Are you protected by DNSSEC?
2011-03-16: What is the definition of a "blue moon"?
2011-03-16: Parsing: the solved problem that isn't.
2011-03-16: Why is TeX still used? What are some good, modern alternatives?
2011-03-15: List of exclamations used by Captain Haddock, before it was deleted by morons.
2011-03-15: The case of the flat panel TV scream.
2011-03-15: CV Dazzle: camouflage to hide from face detection software.
2011-03-15: Print 1 to 1000 without loop or conditional statements.
2011-03-15: Police ruin seized evidence after CPS drops charges.
2011-03-14: A mind-blowing history of science fiction.
2011-03-14: CERT C programming language secure coding standard.
2011-03-14: C99 + TC1 + TC2 + TC3
2011-03-14: Datum Inc. handbook of time code formats.
2011-03-14: Hidden warning message found inside Samsung Galaxy tablet.
2011-03-14: iPad 2 introduces new headphone jack.
2011-03-14: DRM is so bad it isn't even wrong.
2011-03-13: Toxic MP3s can 0wn your car.
2011-03-13: Coalition to save our GPS from LightSquared.
2011-03-13: Sundial buyer's guide.
2011-03-13: nowjs creates a magic namespace "now" accessible by both server (node.js) and client.
2011-03-13: The food bubble: How Wall Street starved millions and got away with it.
2011-03-13: Why oil is so expensive today (it's not Libya).
2011-03-12: iPad + ZAGGmate w/keyboard = the return of the Psion Netbook?
2011-03-12: Japan quake caused day to get a wee bit shorter.
2011-03-11: Washington Advanced Systems for Programming: Cecil, Vortex, etc.
2011-03-11: Clozure Common Lisp.
2011-03-11: Why Livejournal moved each user to a separate subdomain.
2011-03-11: DNS prefetching on discussion sites with per-user subdomains.
2011-03-10: Broadcom NIC remote code execution vulnerability.
2011-03-10: Muppets alignment chart.
2011-03-10: Will the MIT Media Lab's brilliant algorithmic logo lead to algorithmic trademarks?
2011-03-10: TeX vs. GUI word processors.
2011-03-09: Jim Reekes on "sosumi" and the other Mac OS system sounds.
2011-03-09: You are not a Jedi.
2011-03-08: HP BladeSystem VirtualConnect broken by the allocation of IP block 49.48.46.0/24.
2011-03-08: MS Exchange 2010 skips every 50th message in a mailbox with more than 2046 messages.
2011-03-08: Adobe Wallaby: convert Flash to HTML5.
2011-03-08: Performance and evaluation of Lisp systems.
2011-03-08: d3.js: amazing dynamic data-driven documents.
2011-03-08: The solid facts on Christchurch liquefaction. (huge 1-page PDF)
2011-03-08: SCOTUS to make a decision on copyright and the public domain.
2011-03-07: Pictures of a Russian nuclear power plant.
2011-03-07: Why Austalia's major cities are in decay.
2011-03-07: Engaging a multi-generational workforce: practical advice for managers.
2011-03-06: Agora: the Scheme of object-orientation.
2011-03-05: Ecdysis: open-source nat64.
2011-03-05: Anti-vaxxers use libel to suppress the truth about their evil acts.
2011-03-04: The best magazine articles ever.
2011-03-04: Linux's inconsistent system call credential checking.
2011-03-04: Show me kittens.
2011-03-04: Cambridge analogue television switch-off dates.
2011-03-04: A list of radio positioning and surveying systems.
2011-03-04: The crypto gardening guide and planting tips.
2011-03-04: The blind man who taught himself to see.
2011-03-04: Microsoft and Google jointly sue patent troll GeoTag Inc.
2011-03-04: The Wikipedia FAQK.
2011-03-04: The case against drop-down identities.
2011-03-04: Why gender is a text field on Diaspora.
2011-03-04: What you need to know about mobile Internet censorship.
2011-03-03: Ingredients of the Arabian revolutions. (NY Times)
2011-03-03: Draft C1X standard, with diff marks relative to C99.
2011-03-03: O2 and Vodaphone are arbitrarily blocking "adult" web sites.
2011-03-03: Cleaning up alkali metals with superheated steam.
2011-03-03: Memory models: a case for rethinking parallel languages and hardware.
2011-03-02: Knuth on academic publishing.
2011-03-02: The ACM and the IEEE are shaking down computer science.
2011-03-02: Why sodium produces a bigger bang than more reactive alkali metals.
2011-03-02: The bipolar Lisp programmer.
2011-03-02: Great books for programmers.
2011-03-01: Pictures of Nyiragongo volcano.
2011-03-01: CloudFlare anycast geoIP reverse proxy web accelerator service.
2011-03-01: Pictures of kittens to use as placeholders in your web site designs.
2011-03-01: Weightings for the 2014 Research Excellence Framework.
2011-03-01: Playstation 3 imports seized for violating LG's BluRay patents.
2011-03-01: Interesting photos from Google Street View.
2011-03-01: Anyone want to buy the domain os.com?
2011-03-01: Microsoft Windows development process.
2011-03-01: The very rich indie writer.
2011-02-28: "I don't want to be a teacher any more."
2011-02-28: Every revolution is different: 1848 vs. 2011.
2011-02-28: Geekhack forum for discerning keyboard users.
2011-02-28: US DoC National Telecoms and Info. Administration notice of inquiry re. IANA and ICANN.
2011-02-28: First come first served source address validation for locally-assigned IPv6 addresses.
2011-02-28: A real-world MAC address spoofing incident.
2011-02-28: mcpp: a portable C preprocessor with validation suite.
2011-02-27: The flocking algorithm.
2011-02-25: How to write a script that is understood by both the shell and by Lua.
2011-02-25: Intel BIOS implementation test suite.
2011-02-25: Alan Turing's papers saved for the nation.
2011-02-24: Inside the mind of a police dog.
2011-02-24: What Islamist terrorist threat?
2011-02-24: FBI counterintelligence techniques for detecting liars.
2011-02-24: Intel Thunderbolt (aka Light Peak) technology brief.
2011-02-24: A list of bugs in qmail.
2011-02-23: Understanding XCP equilibrium and fairness.
2011-02-23: GPS and the legal traceability of time.
2011-02-23: Precise time and frequency for military systems.
2011-02-23: How to choose chart types.
2011-02-22: TCP congestion control with a misbehaving receiver.
2011-02-22: P99 - preprocessor macros and functions for C99.
2011-02-22: How to detect an empty argument list given to a C99 variadic macro.
2011-02-22: How to count the number of arguments given to a C99 variadic macro.
2011-02-22: Money won't buy Yanks health insurance.
2011-02-22: A critical review of "end-to-end arguments in system design".
2011-02-22: Why flow completion time is the right metric for congestion control.
2011-02-21: UK census office says you can call yourself a Jedi if you like.
2011-02-21: AFNIC report on problems caused by DNSSEC bug in BIND.
2011-02-21: C/Invoke connects high-level code to C libraries at runtime.
2011-02-20: Using space-filling curves for multi-dimensional indexing.
2011-02-20: Spatial indexing with quadtrees and Hilbert curves.
2011-02-20: Visualizing genomic data with the Hilbert curve.
2011-02-20: Mapping 3D RGB space to a plane using Hilbert curves.
2011-02-20: Using space-filling curves to sort colour dictionaries.
2011-02-20: Using space-filling curves to find good travelling salesman tours quickly.
2011-02-18: JANET: the first 25 years.
2011-02-18: Experience with Grapevine: the growth of a distributed system. (Xerox PARC, 1984)
2011-02-18: Grapevine: an exercise in distributed computing. (Xerox PARC, 1982)
2011-02-18: Unfriendly user interfaces are more efficient.
2011-02-17: OK Go: This too shall pass (awesome Rube Goldberg version).
2011-02-17: Bufferbloat.net.
2011-02-17: Van Jacobson rants about queues.
2011-02-17: So long, and no thanks for the externalities: the rational rejection of security advice by users.
2011-02-17: Gyro-stabilized electric unicycle.
2011-02-17: The Last Ringbearer: Middle Earth from Mordor's point of view.
2011-02-16: Homeland Security shuts down 84,000 websites ‘by mistake'.
2011-02-16: Clay: a language for generic programming.
2011-02-16: Save the Lion Yard loos!
2011-02-16: Monosodium glutamate.
2011-02-16: CCTF notes on UTC.
2011-02-16: CCTF 18th meeting discusses redefinition of UTC (see section 8).
2011-02-15: Time and frequency dissemination in the UK.
2011-02-15: Research into interpreters by Anton Ertl and David Gregg.
2011-02-15: Mike Pall on the difficulty of compiling interpreters.
2011-02-15: Dirty secrets of search engine optimization.
2011-02-15: Chat bots and Turing tests.
2011-02-15: Nine traits of a veteran unix admin.
2011-02-15: Map of global alcohol consumption.
2011-02-15: Nokia Plan X.
2011-02-14: Great oscilloscope display hacks.
2011-02-14: Keep your government hands off my medicare!
2011-02-14: Darwinian valentines.
2011-02-14: XML <-> Unix text processing tools.
2011-02-14: The British Government's continuing evil treatment of the Chagos islanders.
2011-02-14: ZFS-Linux (from KQ Infotech).
2011-02-14: ZFS on Linux (from LLNL).
2011-02-13: Banning drugs does not reduce their availability.
2011-02-13: QuickLZ: fast compression library for C, C# and Java.
2011-02-13: New substring search algorithm.
2011-02-12: Optimizing an Erlang Git daemon.
2011-02-11: What to know before debating type systems.
2011-02-11: Staying alive in cold water.
2011-02-11: JavaScript obfuscated coercion rules.
2011-02-11: Egypt changed its clocks four times in 2010!
2011-02-11: Lawyers celebrate MPs' vote to deny prisoners their democratic rights.
2011-02-11: Remnants of a disappearing user interface.
2011-02-11: IBM Watson to play against human Jeopardy winners on TV.
2011-02-11: How the FCC plans to let LightSquared wreck the GPS.
2011-02-10: Special vs. general relativistic time dilation on the earth's surface.
2011-02-10: An automated bot uploads pages to Deletionpedia as they are deleted from Wikipedia.
2011-02-10: Why liquor store clerks often win the lotto.
2011-02-10: Bach's Toccata and Fugue for floppy disk drives.
2011-02-09: Loops in PKIX certificate chains.
2011-02-09: Spotify is the second larges single source of revenue for record labels in Europe.
2011-02-09: Breaking the Web with hash-bangs.
2011-02-09: Links to large email service postmaster and feedback loop pages.
2011-02-09: Prebake: an efficient build system.
2011-02-09: Build system benchmarks.
2011-02-09: Your version control and build systems don't scale.
2011-02-08: I bike San Francisco.
2011-02-08: The Manchester Egg.
2011-02-08: Problems caused by unsigned int in C-like languages. (Google Groups)
2011-02-08: BBC to delete historical content from their website.
2011-02-08: BBC will develop a permanent online archive.
2011-02-08: UTF-16 bad, UTF-8 good.
2011-02-08: A guide to terrestrial coordinate systems in Great Britain.
2011-02-08: Fitzbillies gone bust.
2011-02-07: The new kilogramme is approaching.
2011-02-07: The BBC does not like "electoral reform".
2011-02-07: The United Kingdom explained with a Venn diagram.
2011-02-07: ISC announcement about BIND's new DS record DNSSEC validation bug.
2011-02-07: Open research issues in Internet congestion control.
2011-02-06: Manifesto for half-arsed agile software development.
2011-02-06: Understanding Git conceptually.
2011-02-06: Git from the bottom up.
2011-02-06: Photographs along the Regent's Canal.
2011-02-06: The lost rivers of London.
2011-02-06: J for C programmers.
2011-02-06: J interpreter.
2011-02-05: Unlicense yourself: set your code free.
2011-02-04: ECJ to rule that sports broadcasting must be a single market?
2011-02-04: Why rockets were an inevitable technological development.
2011-02-04: The MIME guys: how two Internet gurus changed email forever.
2011-02-04: Shipping forecast glossary.
2011-02-04: Official USA time zone map.
2011-02-04: Timezone boundaries in multi-zone countries.
2011-02-04: Administrative divisions of countries.
2011-02-04: Geographical boundaries of the timezones of the world.
2011-02-03: All Icelandic literature to go online?
2011-02-03: Pump-and-dump share spammer charged with fraud.
2011-02-03: The natural colour system.
2011-02-03: How colour vision actually works.
2011-02-03: Spam is now Verified by Visa.
2011-02-03: Immigration officer put wife on no-fly list.
2011-02-03: Australian government becomes more friendly to open source.
2011-02-02: Data-dense analysis of cycling habits in Dublin and four other cities.
2011-02-02: Oneybike: funky folding recumbent penny-farthing.
2011-02-02: Michael "Liar's Poker" Lewis on Ireland's economic crisis.
2011-02-02: Problems with SERVFAILs from BIND after .net was signed by DNSSEC.
2011-02-02: Gold rush for the last IPv4 addresses.
2011-02-02: Egypt Internet connectivity graphs.
2011-02-02: Awesome world record Rubik's cube solution, in slo-mo. (youtube)
2011-02-02: Mailman does not parse RFC 822 headers correctly.
2011-02-02: Homeland Security siezes domain name of Spanish business that had been declared legal in court.
2011-02-02: A statistician cracks a scratch-card lottery.
2011-02-02: Bikes of San Francisco.
2011-02-02: Unixy JSON record stream manipulation tools.
2011-02-02: Probable RIR IPv4 exhaustion dates.
2011-02-01: Cisco's preliminary plans for DNSSEC validation in all their products.
2011-02-01: Last five /8 blocks to be allocated on Thursday 2011-02-03.
2011-02-01: Java hangs when converting 2.2250738585072012e-308.
2011-02-01: Securing BGP routing with RPKI and ROAs.
2011-02-01: T-mobile stealing other networks' addresses to use for their access networks.
2011-02-01: Interesting graph of RIR IPv4 burn rate.
2011-02-01: Comcast activates first users with IPv6 native dual stack over DOCSIS.
2011-02-01: IPv4 exhausted: two /8s allocated to APNIC from IANA.
2011-02-01: ATM skimmers that never touch the ATM.
2011-01-31: Louis Essen writes about time scales. (Metrologia, 1968)
2011-01-31: Recent developments regarding the future of leap seconds.
2011-01-31: Best of Hacker News.
2011-01-31: Pretty froggy stained glass sundial.
2011-01-31: Free programming eBooks.
2011-01-30: A collection of famous bugs and glitches.
2011-01-30: Linear logic and permutation stacks: the Forth shall be first.
2011-01-30: How organized crime is taking control of Google's search results.
2011-01-29: Peter Naur's Anti-Philosophical Dictionary.
2011-01-28: Why Python pickles are insecure.
2011-01-28: Lambda the ultimate political party.
2011-01-28: Ben Goldacre on what makes a newspaper worth paying for.
2011-01-25: Professionals lament the demise of the 4:3 laptop.
2011-01-25: Jettons or reckoning counters.
2011-01-25: ACM considered harmful.
2011-01-25: How to avoid long timeouts when connecting to a server over IPv4 + IPv6.
2011-01-25: Cathode: vintage terminal emulator.
2011-01-25: Why 3D doesn't work and never will.
2011-01-24: The BBC and "the astrology controversy that has raged in science for literally almost none of the last couple of centuries".
2011-01-24: Expect a PR splash when the last IPv4 /8s are allocated to the RIRs.
2011-01-24: How Nigerian fraud harms Nigerians.
2011-01-23: Commercially available chip-scale atomic clock.
2011-01-23: IPv6 doom: the rogue RA bug.
2011-01-23: The secret invention of public-key cryptography at GCHQ.
2011-01-20: The truth wears off: is there something wrong with the scientific method?
2011-01-20: Nicely modernized Dutch bike.
2011-01-20: The Italian Hours / Babylonian Hours sundial at Selwyn College.
2011-01-20: Nautical time and civil date: change the date at 180°? at midday or midnight?
2011-01-19: Opportunity knocks; management fails to answer.
2011-01-19: How the Berkeley Overmind won the 2010 StarCraft AI competition.
2011-01-19: Eek! A Man!
2011-01-18: What not to do when Spamhaus tells you your network is infested with criminals.
2011-01-18: They call it "design patterns", don't they?
2011-01-18: Stuxnet is way behind the virus state of the art.
2011-01-18: VX Heavens - huge computer virus site.
2011-01-17: DNSSEC comes to ac.uk starting on Wednesday 2011-01-19.
2011-01-17: What it is like for a woman to pass as a man.
2011-01-17: Glasgow Haskell compiler development moving from darcs to git.
2011-01-17: A book printed with a chain of four desktop printers with different colors and technologies dated from 1880 to 1976.
2011-01-17: Chomsky on postmodernism.
2011-01-17: Major record labels pay $45m compensation for pirating music.
2011-01-17: Networking in UK Academia in the early 1980s.
2011-01-17: "I should have pushed Haskell 10% towards Fortran instead of pushing Fortran 90% towards Haskell" - Guy Steele on Fortress.
2011-01-17: Hacker News discusses djb redo.
2011-01-15: Luma - Lua macros inspired by Scheme and using LPEG and Cosmo.
2011-01-15: Dogs don't understand basic concepts like moving house.
2011-01-15: "Why wasn't I consulted?" - how websites become popular.
2011-01-15: Why you should never ever put two spaces after a full stop.
2011-01-14: Frequently made mistakes about the origin of Internet email.
2011-01-14: Can Belgium win the world record for the time taken to form a government?
2011-01-14: From punched cards to flat screens: a technical autobiography by Philip Hazel.
2011-01-13: Iolaus: experimental darcs-alike git porcelain.
2011-01-13: Best of reddit 2010.
2011-01-13: A localization horror story - it could happen to you!
2011-01-13: Ice formations from diurnal freeze-thaw cycles.
2011-01-12: The MMR scare started with a money-making scam.
2011-01-12: A review of hardware security modules.
2011-01-11: Akin's laws of spacecraft design.
2011-01-11: Canada only allows brown soft drinks to contain caffeine.
2011-01-10: The Chinese eco-disaster, or, where not to build a dam.
2011-01-10: What not to do with a US electronic communications subpoena.
2011-01-10: Yahoo!locaust.
2011-01-10: Uncomfortable lessons from the reaction to WikiLeaks.
2011-01-10: Home Office suppressed embarrassing ID card report.
2011-01-10: Epidemiology and public health significance of Norovirus.
2011-01-10: The way the world works, and the god that sucks.
2011-01-10: How economics works in the real world.
2011-01-09: Semicolon wars! The proliferation of programming languages.
2011-01-07: The decline of Google search quality.
2011-01-07: Detailed comparison of syntax across several programming languages.
2011-01-07: One year in one image.
2011-01-06: PowerDNS now with DNSSEC.
2011-01-06: Wakefield's anti-MMR paper was even more fraudulent than previously reported.
2011-01-06: Justice Scalia says the 14th Amendment does not give women equal protection under the law.
2011-01-06: What does it mean for Americans to support terrorists?
2011-01-06: First Past the Post: a damning report on a system that 'fails the fairness test'.
2011-01-05: Objects have failed: notes for a debate.
2011-01-05: Firefox overtakes Internet Explorer in Europe.
2011-01-04: PHP hangs on numeric value 2.2250738585072011e-308.
2011-01-04: What if the FCC had regulated the Internet?
2011-01-04: Straight men kissing more as homophobia disappears amongst young people.
2011-01-04: jemalloc() improvements at Facebook.
2011-01-03: How the oldest surviving sundial works.
2011-01-03: Chinese military multi-tool.
2011-01-01: Inside LuaJIT 1.
2010-12-31: On good URL design.
2010-12-31: Multi-line comments considered harmful.
2010-12-31: Cassandra vs MongoDB vs CouchDB vs Redis vs Riak vs HBase.
2010-12-30: Why do Americans say (or cry) uncle?
2010-12-30: Touching your junk: an ontological complaint.
2010-12-28: New papers about specialized databases at Google.
2010-12-27: Is Erlang overhyped or underestimated?
2010-12-25: Ask Ross Anderson to hush up banking insecurity? Priceless!
2010-12-25: Inside the 1kb Javascript 3D Christmas tree.
2010-12-25: How Ray Kurzweil says his predictions are faring.
2010-12-25: What would you describe as a "Gloucesterfuck"?
2010-12-25: It's the latency, stupid.
2010-12-24: JavaScript antipatterns in Google Closure.
2010-12-24: Homeland Security seized domains of sites providing official free song downloads.
2010-12-22: The fees policy is more about universities than students.
2010-12-22: More detailed analysis of race in Oxford's admissions process.
2010-12-22: Students of England, the NUS has failed you.
2010-12-22: Comic Sans criminal.
2010-12-21: Slow start and congestion control for a snowbound Eurostar.
2010-12-21: Breaking SSL on embedded devices with promiscuous private keys.
2010-12-21: Jeff Varasano's NY pizza recipe.
2010-12-21: Azul's pauseless garbage collector.
2010-12-19: XSS vulnerability in Amazon "search inside".
2010-12-19: Cash Cow Disease: the cognitive decline of Microsoft and Google.
2010-12-17: DNS-operations mailing list thread containing a Who's Who in DNS.
2010-12-17: Plan 28: building Babbage's analytical engine.
2010-12-17: "Post hoax, ergo propter hoax" - a review of Sokal's book.
2010-12-16: Insert coin ... be amazed. (youtube)
2010-12-16: Patents do not protect small businesses because they cannot be enforced.
2010-12-16: Git explained by analogy with higher-dimensional manifolds :-)
2010-12-16: Former drugs minister calls for an end to prohibition, a bit late.
2010-12-16: Dan Kaminsky explains his colourblindness app.
2010-12-16: A better code of urban design for America.
2010-12-16: Make snow chains for your bicycle from cable ties.
2010-12-15: fabricate - a Python build tool with automatic dependency discovery.
2010-12-15: Dan Kaminsky's anomalous colour vision fixer app for iPhones.
2010-12-15: Why John Cage's 4'33" is no laughing matter.
2010-12-15: The only build system that might someday replace make... ?
2010-12-15: Bytecode verifier for Lua-5.2
2010-12-15: Allegations that the FBI backdoored OpenBSD IPSEC.
2010-12-15: Lua / C++ binding generators compared.
2010-12-14: <input type=password> needs to grow up.
2010-12-14: BSD For Linux Users.
2010-12-14: Status of FreeBSD on Amazon EC2.
2010-12-13: An Amazon Web Services news roundup, including a link to yours truly.
2010-12-13: Visualizing sorting algorithms.
2010-12-13: Original Tron is losing DVD sales while stuck in the Disney Vault.
2010-12-13: Open Research Computation: An ordinary journal with extraordinary aims.
2010-12-12: The day MAME saved my company.
2010-12-11: Filming the LEGO Antikythera mechanism.
2010-12-11: A LEGO version of the Antikythera mechanism.
2010-12-11: Why apparently banal revelations can have very important political consequences.
2010-12-10: The utter balls people write about Oxbridge.
2010-12-09: Comcast's protocol-agnostic congestion management system.
2010-12-09: The Royal Statistical Society Magazine on race and Oxbridge.
2010-12-09: Clay Shirky on Wikileaks.
2010-12-09: A free press [has] the duty to prevent…government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die.
2010-12-08: There is no such thing as a non-obvious invention.
2010-12-08: The Wikileaks publications are caused by a failure to compartmentalize.
2010-12-07: One ambassador's embarrassment is a tragedy; 15 000 civilian deaths is a statistic.
2010-12-07: VeriSign launches cloud-based DNSSEC signing service. (Where are the docs?)
2010-12-07: Making all data races manifest themselves.
2010-12-06: Autonomous sycamore-seed single-blade mini helicopters.
2010-12-06: Mary Beard visits the Cambridge University Library tower.
2010-12-06: On the duality of operating system structures - events vs. threads.
2010-12-06: Yacc is not dead.
2010-12-06: Continuation-passing C: automatically rewriting thraded C into event-passing C.
2010-12-06: The intellectual propeerty implications of low-cost 3D printing.
2010-12-05: Ghosts of Unix Past: a historical search for design patterns.
2010-12-05: When seekdir() didn't seek to the right position.
2010-12-05: What the attacks on WikiLeaks tell us.
2010-12-04: Explaining the Comcast / Level3 peering dispute.
2010-12-04: Jim Gettys on buffer bloat. (TCP Vegas is the answer!)
2010-12-03: The Fossil distributed software management system - version control + wiki + bug tracker.
2010-12-03: The TH scripting language.
2010-12-03: Git and Mercurial users should gang up against Subversion.
2010-12-03: Unbelievably easy mince pie recipe.
2010-12-03: Medical researcher rediscovers integration and gets 75 citations.
2010-12-03: Understanding pac-man ghost behaviour.
2010-12-03: Why Google Maps's city labels are more readable than the others'.
2010-12-02: French libel law abuse: professor of public health sued for saying that cigarettes kill.
2010-12-01: Obituary of Maurice Wilkes in the Guardian.
2010-12-01: Obituary of Maurice Wilkes in the Independent.
2010-12-01: Obituary of Maurice Wilkes in the Telegraph.
2010-12-01: dpkg vs. ext4fs - safety vs performance.
2010-12-01: Canon "original data" security kit is thoroughly cracked.
2010-11-30: BBC obituary of Maurice Wilkes.
2010-11-30: NetReg - CMU's network registration system.
2010-11-30: Obituary of Benoît Mandelbrot in the Independent.
2010-11-30: Obituary of Benoît Mandelbrot in the Telegraph.
2010-11-30: Obituary of Benoît Mandelbrot in the Guardian.
2010-11-30: Programmer competency matrix.
2010-11-30: Carne Ross on Wikileaks / cablegate.
2010-11-29: The Crash at Crush - the staged train wreck of 1896.
2010-11-29: Pure and declarative syntax definition: paradise lost and regained.
2010-11-29: Progress with libgit2.
2010-11-29: Sir Maurice Wilkes, DFBCS FREng FRS, 1913 - 2010.
2010-11-29: Copyright lawyers sue lawyer who helped copyright defendants.
2010-11-29: Regular-expression derivatives re-examined.
2010-11-29: Yacc is dead - parsing with derivatives.
2010-11-29: 24 ways - web design and development articles and tutorials for advent.
2010-11-28: Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr: "plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose".
2010-11-28: Lua interpreter compiled from C to JavaScript using Emscripten.
2010-11-28: x86 optimization resources.
2010-11-28: Land of Lisp / insect nation.
2010-11-28: The art of the interpreter.
2010-11-28: Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!
2010-11-28: Die unerträgliche Lameness des Web 2.0 (English version).
2010-11-28: How DST caused severe database performance problems.
2010-11-28: Statistical fingertrees - Haskell code to dynamically combine and split means and variances.
2010-11-28: Earliest known uses of some of the words of mathematics.
2010-11-28: The triumph of types: Principia Mathematica's impact on computer science.
2010-11-27: A 15-minute writing exercise closes the gender gap in physics at university.
2010-11-27: FreeBSD network performance tuning.
2010-11-27: US Immigration and Cusoms Enforcement siezes domain names involved in copyright infringement.
2010-11-27: Review: How equal temperament ruined harmony.
2010-11-27: High quality motion deblurring from a single image.
2010-11-27: Why blurring sensitive text is a bad idea.
2010-11-27: How to understand your hot and cold water system.
2010-11-26: A GSM hacking blog.
2010-11-26: 0wnz0red by Cory Doctorow.
2010-11-26: Steal this presentation.
2010-11-26: You suck at PowerPoint!
2010-11-26: How Objective C method dispatch works.
2010-11-26: No, you can't have Matt Blaze's slides.
2010-11-26: Having children abroad? Your country might not accept them as citizens.
2010-11-26: A typographic anatomy lesson.
2010-11-26: Police to get power to sieze UK domain names.
2010-11-26: AeroPress coffee maker.
2010-11-25: What things did scientists long believe which turned out to be wrong?
2010-11-23: Give money to Bletchley Park to buy Alan Turing's papers for the nation.
2010-11-23: Benchmarking the native Linux ZFS module.
2010-11-23: That Alternative Vote ballot paper in full.
2010-11-23: Are you holding back something that seems too obvious to share?
2010-11-23: How complete is the RIPE routing registry.
2010-11-22: Bicycles & tricycles: an elementary treatise on their design and construction. (1896)
2010-11-22: Novell sold to Attachmate (who?)
2010-11-22: Why π does not equal 4.
2010-11-22: A collection of .gitignore templates.
2010-11-22: LaTeX coffee stains.
2010-11-21: Goodbye Ireland, it was nice knowing you.
2010-11-21: IKEA hacker.
2010-11-20: The government's badger culling policy encourages the spread of bovine TB.
2010-11-19: WebKit security bug caused by unchecked NaN tagging.
2010-11-19: NaN tagging in Mozilla JaegerMonkey.
2010-11-19: Security and NaN tagging.
2010-11-19: Alejandro Caro invented NaN tagging for Parallel Haskell in 1997.
2010-11-19: Understanding the strict aliasing rule in C.
2010-11-19: Keyboard buddy iPhone 4 case.
2010-11-19: Periodic and chaotic iteration and the structure of the Mandelbrot set.
2010-11-19: Renesys on China's 18 minute Internet traffic interception.
2010-11-18: Constructive Eating - children's cutlery.
2010-11-18: Bladon Jets: micro gas turbines.
2010-11-18: Jaguar C-X75 concept hybrid electric / gas turbine car.
2010-11-18: NaN tagged objects used by SuperCollider in 2002.
2010-11-16: John Hubbard gives a tour of the Mandelbrot set.
2010-11-15: David Madore's Mandelbrot movies and images.
2010-11-13: An asymmetric umbrella that turns into the wind, not inside-out.
2010-11-13: Schizophrenia seems to be caused by an endogenous retrovirus.
2010-11-12: Evan Harris on #twitterjoketrial and #stoningcase.
2010-11-12: Does the law treat killing a cyclist seriously enough?
2010-11-12: Are we fast yet? Javascript benchmark graphs.
2010-11-11: The Economist on the true size of Africa.
2010-11-11: How to clean a decanter.
2010-11-11: Slides for Dan Kaminsky's talk about his Phreebird easy DNSSEC software.
2010-11-11: Dan Kaminsky to release easy DNSSEC-ifying proxy for authoritative servers.
2010-11-11: Calculating base 2 logarithms quickly using floating point hardware.
2010-11-10: Lost Book Sales.
2010-11-10: Suggestions for short trips to abandoned bits of Britain.
2010-11-10: Seven cycling mistakes and how to correct them.
2010-11-09: The Times' paywall and newsletter economics.
2010-11-09: Sailing downwind three times faster than the wind.
2010-11-09: Feynman on magnets and ice and why? (Youtube)
2010-11-09: Boeing 7*7 in a line for the first time.
2010-11-08: Think of it as a graduate tax, not as tuition fees.
2010-11-08: Graphs of the distribution of RIPE's IP address allocations over the last 20 years.
2010-11-08: Why McDonald's hamburgers do not decay.
2010-11-08: Common errors in English usage.
2010-11-07: How to use the Ames lettering guide.
2010-11-07: Raising the Internet MTU.
2010-11-06: Moving beyond TCP/IP.
2010-11-05: Life beyond distributed transactions: an apostate's opinion.
2010-11-05: S4: a distributed stream computing platform from Yahoo! Labs.
2010-11-05: Sudoku as a constraint problem - how to grade the difficulty of a puzzle.
2010-11-04: Sinclair Research X-1 electric vehicle - the return of the C5!
2010-11-04: Uninstall Flash to extend your battery life.
2010-11-04: A stick-figure guide to AES.
2010-11-04: Collection of spoof musical notation and silly scores.
2010-11-03: Comparing DNS resolvers in the wild: Google vs. OpenDNS vs. your ISP.
2010-11-03: The Earth considered as an oscillator and frequency standard.
2010-11-02: Kidnapping, theft, and rape by cyber criminals.
2010-11-02: Dreck in the halls - unseasonal clichés.
2010-11-02: mdocml: a man-only replacement for groff.
2010-11-02: Bell System Technical Journal: every edition 1922 - 1983 online.
2010-11-02: Customizing the Mac OS X Cocoa Text system (brief overview).
2010-11-02: Customizing the Mac OS X Cocoa Text system.
2010-11-02: Higher-level keyboard rebinding for Cocoa apps on Mac OS X.
2010-11-02: Installable keyboard layouts on Mac OS X.
2010-11-02: Solar calendar leap rules.
2010-10-31: The opening up of GSM.
2010-10-29: DNSSEC deployment schedule for the .net and .com zones.
2010-10-29: Daylight saving, electricity demand, and emissions - CE(S)T would reduce it by 0.27%.
2010-10-29: RoSPA lobbying to move Britain to CE(S)T.
2010-10-29: iPhone serial port hack.
2010-10-29: CMPH - C Minimal Perfect Hashing Library.
2010-10-28: Slot machines vs. voting machines.
2010-10-28: Sharing desktops one window at a time, using VNC over XMPP.
2010-10-28: Your desk job is slowly killing you.
2010-10-28: Millimetres matter in an insect pie fight.
2010-10-27: Dimensional analysis using C++ templates.
2010-10-27: Spam, hacking, corruption, blackmail, kidnap, and rape.
2010-10-27: How to make a hemispherum sundial.
2010-10-26: DNSSEC or not?
2010-10-26: The security of password expiration: a fast cracking algorithm and empirical analysis.
2010-10-26: Characteristics of toxic organizations.
2010-10-26: Explaining the coalition to Scandinavians.
2010-10-26: An elementary proof of the undecidability of the halting problem - in verse.
2010-10-26: Computer systems: a programmer's perspective (not a builder's).
2010-10-25: Recommendation for a new Internet routing architecture.
2010-10-25: Design goals for scalable Internet routing.
2010-10-25: On the scalability of Internet routing.
2010-10-23: Smoothly colouring the complement of the Mandelbrot set.
2010-10-22: Qubes OS: security by isolation.
2010-10-22: The NYT mag on language: "truthiness".
2010-10-21: Making something hard to read means it is more likely to be remembered.
2010-10-21: A new home for the Olson TZ database at IANA?
2010-10-21: How Facebook decides whether to show your updates to your friends.
2010-10-21: Head of Metropolitan Police Central e-Crime unit lied under oath.
2010-10-21: Unsafe unfused plugs coming into the UK.
2010-10-20: HTML mail: cute idea or abomination?
2010-10-20: Create a paper sundial customized to a location you mark on Google Maps.
2010-10-20: Australian school leaving exam grades are given as the percentile rank of the candidate's results.
2010-10-20: Charlie Stross on credentialism and higher education restructuring.
2010-10-19: When Dilbert came to Nokia.
2010-10-19: Comcast rolls out DNSSEC.
2010-10-18: Amazing Mandelbrot set tattoo.
2010-10-18: xapply - another concurrent xargs replacement.
2010-10-18: GNU Parallel - replacement for xargs with concurrent subprocesses.
2010-10-18: The "ladies' night" strategy in two-sided markets.
2010-10-18: Interesting privilege escalation vulnerability running setuid binaries with the glibc dynamic linker.
2010-10-18: Cultural heritage of astronomical observatories.
2010-10-18: Advice on composing a .sig from the NYT.
2010-10-18: Emergency Navigation: improvised and no-instrument methods for the prudent mariner.
2010-10-18: Solar warm air heating system using glass roof tiles.
2010-10-18: What is wrong with extending the DOM.
2010-10-17: MCE OptiBay - replace Mac DVD SuperDrive with a hard disk drive.
2010-10-17: BlindType - clever touch phone typing autocorrection.
2010-10-16: Homeopathetic Order Logic.
2010-10-14: A brief history of ARM.
2010-10-14: Tube Map Central.
2010-10-14: The Axis of Awesome - Four Chord Song. (youtube) :-)
2010-10-14: The Aten heliochronometer.
2010-10-14: McDonalds say dried-out food doesn't get mouldy.
2010-10-14: History of the Super Soaker.
2010-10-14: Super Soaker inventor has designed a new kind of solar generator.
2010-10-14: What a 12-year-old McDonalds hamburger looks like.
2010-10-14: Blosc: loss-less compression faster than memcpy().
2010-10-14: The Well Grounded Java Developer, covering Java 7.
2010-10-14: Design principles behind Smalltalk.
2010-10-14: Rubik's Sundial Cube.
2010-10-13: ThinPlug - folding UK plug (unearthed).
2010-10-12: Peter's Principle confirmed: meritocratic hierarchial organizations are built to fail.
2010-10-12: Protocol Politics: a book about IPv6 deployment.
2010-10-12: High speed logarithmic arithmetic processor.
2010-10-08: OpenDNSSEC monitoring tools.
2010-10-08: DNSSEC monitoring tools used by the .se TLD.
2010-10-07: Eloquent JavaScript: a modern introduction to programming.
2010-10-06: Irish government discovers that 7000 unused voting machines costing €50m are now worthless.
2010-10-06: Top level domain DNSSEC deployment report.
2010-10-06: Domain registrations under the .ly Libya TLD should be considered unsafe.
2010-10-06: Comet: a distributed key-value store for active objects scripted in Lua.
2010-10-06: Man fined $1B for sending Facebook spam.
2010-10-05: Cyclist found not guilty of assault after being strangled by a taxi driver and stitched up by the police.
2010-10-05: Cleverly scratched glasses give perfect vision for any eyesight.
2010-10-05: Cross-site scripting by putting JavaScript in DNS records.
2010-10-01: TTYtter: Perl command-line and interactive terminal-based Twitter client.
2010-09-30: HDCP encryption/decryption code.
2010-09-30: The world's longest disused guided busway.
2010-09-30: How to configure Thunderbird to avoid Exchange's inability to handle Content-Disposition: inline.
2010-09-30: Google's use of Haskell for virtual machine cluster load balancing.
2010-09-30: Linux's "swap insanity" problem and the effects of the NUMA architecture.
2010-09-29: FDA bureacratic interference seriously discourages the development of new antibiotics.
2010-09-29: Five reasons to stop praising your child.
2010-09-29: MathJax: beautiful maths in all browsers.
2010-09-29: Russ Allbery's coding style notes (including docs and build system).
2010-09-28: Quicksort is faster with two pivots.
2010-09-28: Internet Failures: an emergent sea of complex systems and critical design errors?
2010-09-27: ILNP - Identifier/Locator Network Protocol - another attempt to fix IPv6's scalability.
2010-09-27: Lego Tower Bridge.
2010-09-26: Is Gideon Levy the most hated man in Israel or just the most heroic?
2010-09-26: Margaret Stanier's memorial unequal-hours sundial at Newnham.
2010-09-26: The Spamhaus Whitelist.
2010-09-25: Bonfire of the quangos - find out what they know before they shred everything!
2010-09-24: Most software patents do not survive a lawsuit.
2010-09-24: Incident report for the .uk DNSSEC screwup of 11 Sep.
2010-09-24: ltwitter: Lua Twitter client.
2010-09-24: iOS programming with Lua.
2010-09-24: A digital media primer for geeks. (30 min. video)
2010-09-24: Endlich: das xphone. (youtube) :-)
2010-09-24: makespace - Cambridge "inventing shed" / hackspace.
2010-09-23: Pinion P-1: a bottom-bracket bike gearbox.
2010-09-23: BookBook: a MacBook case that looks like an old hardback.
2010-09-23: evercookie - virtually irrevocable persistent cookies.
2010-09-22: A path-finding algorithm for loop-free routing.
2010-09-22: libconfig - configuration file library for C and C++.
2010-09-22: Etch-a-sketch iPad case.
2010-09-21: AppTamer: Mac OS X GUI for SIGSTOP and renice.
2010-09-21: Unibody MacBook chopping board.
2010-09-21: Copilot: a Haskell DSL for writing embedded hard real time avionics code.
2010-09-21: Perian: universal codec for QuickTime.
2010-09-21: A Linux feature to get more info about dying processes. (/proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern)
2010-09-20: Using an Apple Aluminium keyboard with Linux.
2010-09-20: Using the Apple Bluetooth keyboard with the Nokia N800.
2010-09-20: On-line tools to test your DNS setup.
2010-09-20: The Twitter Joke trial - mindless authoritatianism in modern Britain.
2010-09-20: iPhones for the blind.
2010-09-19: Gene for short-sightedness discovered.
2010-09-19: How to stifle the British press.
2010-09-19: Visual transistor-level simulation of the 6502 microprocessor.
2010-09-19: ICSI Netalyzr - connectivity debugging.
2010-09-19: Network Performance Knowledge Base - Issues for Bulk Data Transfer over a WAN.
2010-09-17: Machine learning spam filter based on the Google Prediction API.
2010-09-17: A small fraction of selfish referees can drastically reduce the quality of published science.
2010-09-17: What's cooking for FreeBSD 9?
2010-09-17: Steve Jobs ninja stars revealed to be iPod prototypes.
2010-09-17: Police sabotage News of the World investigation by intimidating whistle-blowers.
2010-09-17: Using colour in information display graphics.
2010-09-16: How to get SMS delivery reports on an iPhone.
2010-09-16: SCSI debug driver for Linux - configurable block size and error generation.
2010-09-16: Solomon Linda and "The Lion Sleeps Tonight".
2010-09-16: John's Phone is the world's simplest cell phone.
2010-09-16: earPod - iPhone earbud case.
2010-09-16: miniWINDER - iPhone earbud case.
2010-09-16: earBuddy - iPhone earbud case.
2010-09-16: BudCase 2 - iPhone ear bud case.
2010-09-15: Paedophile priests still supported by UK Catholic church.
2010-09-15: Popular usernames and passwords. (word clouds)
2010-09-15: Brilliant 3D light painting stop motion animation with iPads. (vimeo)
2010-09-14: Musicians make more money in file-sharing age than before.
2010-09-14: HDCP master key leaked?
2010-09-14: Musopen - copyright-free classical music recordings.
2010-09-14: Mac OS X hidden features and useful tricks.
2010-09-14: "Thinking meat! You're asking me to believe in thinking meat!"
2010-09-14: Experimental JIT-compiled version of LPEG.
2010-09-14: Calm networking.
2010-09-13: Official response from the USA to the ITU-R on the abolition of leap seconds. (docx)
2010-09-13: AppleScript code to avoid top-posted replies in Mail.app.
2010-09-13: Professor Brindley's famous lecture about the first effective remedy for erectile disfunction.
2010-09-13: Alec Muffett thinks remote wipe is OK. (I think he is too sanguine.)
2010-09-13: MS Exchange server admins can remotely wipe client devices!!
2010-09-12: The man who makes your iPhone.
2010-09-11: How iPhones detect wifi captive portals.
2010-09-11: Fortifying Scheme macros.
2010-09-11: Court upholds EULAs, threatening digital resale.
2010-09-11: Topology-independent flat addressing makes sub-linear routing table sizes impossible.
2010-09-10: Reverse traceroute.
2010-09-10: Why parents can't do primary school maths any more.
2010-09-10: Network Heretics on timezone identifiers.
2010-09-10: MobilityFirst future internet architecture.
2010-09-10: XIA: the expressive internet architecture.
2010-09-09: Test your internet connection speed. Is your provider throttling certain apps?
2010-09-09: Apple relaxes restrictions on development tools used to create iOS apps, provided the apps do not download any code.
2010-09-09: Urs Hölzle: Brawny cores still beat wimpy cores, most of the time.
2010-09-09: Why blue collar Americans switched from the Democrats to the Republicans.
2010-09-09: Longyearbyen: the most northerly sundial.
2010-09-09: On packet switches with infinite storage.
2010-09-08: The annual workshop on duplicating, deconstructing, and debunking research in computer architecture.
2010-09-08: Why we don't need more women in tech ... yet.
2010-09-08: A retrospective on software transactional memory (wrt C#).
2010-09-07: A classically-trained singing instructor reviews five metal singers.
2010-09-07: Great microprocessors of the past and present.
2010-09-07: Mediaeval helpdesk. (youtube)
2010-09-07: Subtleties of search-and-replace in Emacs.
2010-09-07: The "premature optimization is evil" myth.
2010-09-07: Pictures of a morris dancing event in London.
2010-09-06: SURFnet (Dutch academic network) DNSSEC survey.
2010-09-06: Alan Turing and reaction-diffusion.
2010-09-06: More parkour in Cambridge.
2010-09-06: Parkour in Cambridge.
2010-09-06: University of Cambridge corporate typography and design guidelines.
2010-09-06: Rethinking the service model: scaling ethernet to a million nodes.
2010-09-06: The Bernhardt precision sundial.
2010-09-06: Dangermouse's esoteric programming languages and algorithms.
2010-09-04: syslogintr: a syslog daemon configured with Lua.
2010-09-04: Stephen Hawking denies God.
2010-09-04: A nifty new jet engine design promises to improve combustion efficiency.
2010-09-04: Most of the environmental impact of an electric car comes from its operation not from battery manufacture.
2010-09-04: Cool tech drives the strong demand for Java skills.
2010-09-04: Paul Allen's patent are not worth single penny - execution counts, not lawsuits.
2010-09-03: Why is everyone always writing off Netflix?
2010-09-03: Thomas Edison's plot to patent the movie industry to death.
2010-09-03: SSL Certificate Authorities: the Internet's cryptography back door.
2010-09-03: Edwina Currie was right about salmonella.
2010-09-03: U.S. rejected chicken salmonella vaccination despite British success.
2010-09-02: The third-world squat.
2010-09-02: How defecation posture affects your health.
2010-09-02: Why can you turn clothing inside-out?
2010-09-02: How to lose data.
2010-09-02: Productivity tips for academics.
2010-09-02: Five myths about the female brain.
2010-09-02: Netflix lets its staff take as much holiday as they want, whenever they want - and it works.
2010-09-02: How Twitter does OAuth wrong, and how to compromise it.
2010-09-02: Problems with ACID and scalability, and how to fix them without going NoSQL.
2010-09-02: Fast cache for your text: accelerating exact pattern matching with feed-forward Bloom filters.
2010-09-02: CPU clock rates stopped growing in 2003. (article text 2005; graph updated 2009)
2010-09-02: Represent sets using products of primes.
2010-09-02: A complete history of the Soviet Union from the point of view of the workers - or is it Tetris?.
2010-09-02: Strength training for parkour.
2010-09-02: Impressive parkour in Cambridge.
2010-09-02: Ten easy ways to fail a PhD.
2010-09-02: Ubercab aims to disrupt the taxi business.
2010-09-02: The New York Times on the News of the World hacking voicemail for celebrity gossip.
2010-09-01: UK Youth Parliament report on sex education.
2010-09-01: Google Summer of Code project: dynamic NetBSD kernel extensions written in Lua.
2010-09-01: Mail abuse reporting format spec finally published as RFC 5965.
2010-09-01: Lord Tanlaw summarizes the UTC vs. GMT argument in UK law.
2010-09-01: Charles Darwin terraformed Ascension Island.
2010-09-01: The fake telephone tech support scam - supportonclick, systemrecure and logmein123.com.
2010-09-01: Compile Haskell to synthesizable VHDL.
2010-09-01: Who would gain from copyright restrictions on fashion?
2010-09-01: Make Time Machine aware of your Mac's location.
2010-08-31: Wrongfully accused of copyright infringement? File for harassment.
2010-08-31: Shameful news industry sacrifices Wikileaks to get shield law.
2010-08-31: Commercialization of IP in Canadian universities is barely better than break-even.
2010-08-31: Man blows himself up trying to kill a spider.
2010-08-31: Google's acquisition appetite.
2010-08-31: On the typography and character set encoding of the apostrophe and quotation mark.
2010-08-31: Magnetic coasters on a table inlaid with compasses.
2010-08-31: Paul Allen becomes another ex-Microsoft patent troll.
2010-08-30: Live Irish electricity consumption graph.
2010-08-30: Computational necromancy: homebrew Cray-1A.
2010-08-28: Subliminal advertising of Apple logo makes viewers more creative than IBM logo.
2010-08-27: Touch application design for toddlers.
2010-08-27: A fast Bresenham-type algorithm for drawing ellipses.
2010-08-25: The war on children's playgrounds.
2010-08-25: Swimming and freedom: can liberals and libertarians agree on regulations they both hate?
2010-08-25: How Mono's new generational garbage collector rocks.
2010-08-25: Notes on retooling libraries: "The coolest thing to do with your data will be thought of by someone else."
2010-08-25: British Library makes catalogue data available for free to non-commercial users.
2010-08-25: We don't need a github for data.
2010-08-25: Is there anything good about men?
2010-08-25: The story of the king and the calligrapher.
2010-08-25: The strange case of solar flares and radioactive elements.
2010-08-25: Introduction to parallel & distributed algorithms.
2010-08-25: How anycast routing works for the ISC's F root DNS server.
2010-08-24: Support for TCP is now a REQUIRED part of a full DNS protocol implementation.
2010-08-24: The high cost of copyright - brilliant jazz recordings that cannot be sold.
2010-08-24: The great university con: why giving degrees out willy-nilly doesn't actually help the economy.
2010-08-24: PacketShader: a GPU-accelerated software router.
2010-08-24: Tamale: Erlang-style pattern matching for Lua.
2010-08-24: Why GNU grep is fast.
2010-08-24: Gnu grep's treacherous optimization.
2010-08-24: The self-tuning Boyer-Moore string search algorithm.
2010-08-23: How one driver can eliminate stop-go traffic.
2010-08-23: Looking back on the "free range kids" media storm.
2010-08-22: The Internet transit market ant the gravitational pull to $0/Mbps.
2010-08-22: Indian researcher arrested over anonymous source of voting machine.
2010-08-21: Why 3G is a worthless marketing buzzword.
2010-08-21: Lithium: robust distributed storage for virtual machines.
2010-08-20: Center for automotive embedded systems security.
2010-08-20: Jobs was right: Flash is bad on Android.
2010-08-19: Incorrect perceptions of energy consumption and saving.
2010-08-18: Fast incremental regular expression matching with monoids.
2010-08-18: C programming language reference manual. (1975)
2010-08-18: A Unix system implementation for the IBM S/370. (1984)
2010-08-18: Porting Unix to a 36-bit ones complement machine.
2010-08-18: Portability of C programs and the Unix system. (1978)
2010-08-18: C programming language reference manual. (1974)
2010-08-16: Inside Android's stripped-down libc.
2010-08-16: Companies should not be able to sue (or threaten to sue) for libel.
2010-08-16: Infants die of whooping cough while media stoke fear of vaccines.
2010-08-16: Schengen attracts tourists to the continent; fiddly visas repel them from Britain.
2010-08-16: Poor record keeping and pension fraud inflated number of Japanese centenarians.
2010-08-16: Detailed and systematic comparison of system configuration management tools.
2010-08-16: Five reasons why this is the only online SEO marketing blog entry you will ever need to read.
2010-08-16: Jef Poskanzer's oauth_sign software.
2010-08-16: The Ark Booktower at the Victoria & Albert museum.
2010-08-15: Strangest programming language features.
2010-08-13: The Swedish Chef makes pöpcørn :-)
2010-08-13: Andrew Odlyzko on bubbles and gullibility.
2010-08-13: HMRC throws a spanner in the wheels of the Cycle to Work scheme.
2010-08-13: How to get Apple Mail to work well with GMail's weird IMAP implementation.
2010-08-13: Nice profile of Hans Monderman and his shared streets.
2010-08-12: Old Spice Man vs. Feminist Hulk.
2010-08-12: Venting your anger does NOT reduce stress and prevent lashing out at friends and family.
2010-08-12: Collisions in PDF digital signatures.
2010-08-11: Why the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (Ofquack) cannot succeed.
2010-08-11: Adobe fails at handling case-sensitive filesystems.
2010-08-11: Political arguments over the Islamic calendar and the start of Ramadan.
2010-08-11: A clearinghouse for news and analysis of Vinay Deolalikar's P != NP preprint.
2010-08-11: Soundmatters foxL v2 portable speaker.
2010-08-11: Jake Adelstein plays, reviews, and fact-checks "Yakuza 3" with real yakuza.
2010-08-11: The first English dictionary of slang (1699) republished from a copy found in the Bodleian.
2010-08-11: An infographic about infographics.
2010-08-10: Apple: Link different.
2010-08-10: Monsanto's soybean herbicide resistance patent cannot prevent EU sales of processed soybeans.
2010-08-10: A decade of debate over UTC and the abolition of leap seconds.
2010-08-09: Southampton FC bans unofficial photos to make money, so newspaper uses cartoons instead.
2010-08-09: David Tennant fails at Scottish fashion.
2010-08-09: Cambridge city centre speed limit reduced to 20mph.
2010-08-09: Antonio Porreca rounds up informed opinion on Vinay Deolalikar's claimed proof of P ≠ NP.
2010-08-09: Rubik's cube can be solved in 20 moves or fewer.
2010-08-09: Hacker News on Vinay Deolalikar's draft proof of P ≠ NP.
2010-08-09: P ≠ NP
2010-08-08: The evolution of the double-edge safety razor blade.
2010-08-08: The Moss shaving scuttle.
2010-08-08: Deprecating the observer pattern in favour of reactive programming.
2010-08-08: Monkeysphere - SSH and SSL authentication using the PGP web of trust.
2010-08-07: The early history of HTML: 1990 to 1992.
2010-08-06: Calculus made easy.
2010-08-06: How to read mathematics.
2010-08-06: What everyone should know about poo.
2010-08-05: YAZVS - yet another zone validation script with DNSSEC support.
2010-08-05: Type classes as objects and implicits (or, how to write Haskell in Scala).
2010-08-05: Evan Harris on Mephedrone and making policy by moral panic.
2010-08-05: A retrospective on SEDA (staged event-driven architecture).
2010-08-05: Fred Brooks explains how to design anything.
2010-08-05: Margin kerning and hanging punctuation in LaTeX.
2010-08-05: The beauty of LaTeX.
2010-08-05: Cheer yourself up with a happy password.
2010-08-05: Improving the look of papers written in Microsoft Word.
2010-08-05: Understanding and applying Operational Transformation.
2010-08-05: Rubber handles all tasks related to the compilation of LaTeX documents.
2010-08-05: Operational transformation - consistency maintenance and concurrency control for distributed groupware.
2010-08-03: Oniguruma multi-encoding regex library.
2010-08-03: Worst photo of Julian Huppert ever? (good interview, though)
2010-08-03: Corning discovers display screen bonanza in super-strong glass invented in 1962.
2010-08-02: Ultimate physical limits to computation.
2010-07-30: ISC creates DNS blacklists for recursive DNS servers.
2010-07-30: The longest photographic exposures ever.
2010-07-30: Top 20 countries on the Internet - Nigeria is 10th!
2010-07-30: Custom keyboard shortcuts do not work in Firefox on Mac OS X.
2010-07-29: Node, scaling in the small vs in the large, events vs threads.
2010-07-28: Frink: a programming language that understands units of measure.
2010-07-28: Lua program analysis, in particular for editors.
2010-07-28: How to meet interesting people in Cambridge.
2010-07-28: SAS vs World Programming: landmark UK case about copyright law and cloned software.
2010-07-28: The Guardian on Paul Kane being a root zone recovery key share holder.
2010-07-28: Bookshelf porn.
2010-07-28: "Metro" on Paul Kane being a root zone recovery key share holder.
2010-07-28: Bath University's press release on Paul Kane being a root zone recovery key share holder.
2010-07-28: CommunityDNS's press release on their CEO Paul Kane being a root zone recovery key share holder.
2010-07-27: BlueSniff: Eve meets Alice and Bluetooth.
2010-07-27: How secure is a Bluetooth keyboard against password sniffing?
2010-07-27: The Times loses 90% of its readers after putting up its paywall.
2010-07-27: Vulnerability found in WPA2.
2010-07-27: HyperMac - external batteries for Apple gear.
2010-07-27: Where should a new TLD get its registry and DNS services from?
2010-07-27: The .uk TLD is 25 years old.
2010-07-27: A study on the status of women faculty in science at MIT.
2010-07-27: Great informative rant about women in technology.
2010-07-27: Homemade scanning tunnelling electron microscope.
2010-07-26: The New Yorker on WikiLeaks and the war.
2010-07-26: Threaded blocking IO vs. async event-driven IO in Java.
2010-07-26: Managing data storage at the south pole.
2010-07-26: Celera's human genome trade secrets reduced research on affected genes by 30% despite their subsequent public domain release.
2010-07-26: The Gimli Glider - what happens when a Boeing 767 runs out of fuel in mid-flight.
2010-07-26: Autojump: a cd command that learns.
2010-07-26: Tips and tricks for the Mac OS X command line.
2010-07-25: "Open smartphone" is a lie.
2010-07-25: George Monbiot on the CPS's decision not to prosecute for the death of Ian Tomlinson.
2010-07-25: Jack of Kent on the CPS's decision not to prosecute for the death of Ian Tomlinson.
2010-07-25: Whitehall still trying to cover up Labour government's misdeeds.
2010-07-25: Cannabis and tobacco smoke are not equally carcinogenic.
2010-07-24: Tangent Labs discovers that threatening to sue is the best way to make a name for shit web design.
2010-07-24: The language we use affects the way we think.
2010-07-24: You have no free will but you are responsible for your actions.
2010-07-24: 437 people harmed by homeopathy.
2010-07-23: Objective measurements of the behaviour of drivers overtaking bicycles.
2010-07-23: Cambridge Geek Night 4 - Tue 3rd Aug, 19:00 at the Union.
2010-07-23: Speed cameras and accident statistics.
2010-07-23: Wayward Alzheimer's patients foiled by fake bus stop.
2010-07-23: Lesser-known but cool data structures.
2010-07-23: Character amnesia - the increasing romanization of Chinese.
2010-07-23: sshuttle - transparent proxy / vpn over ssh.
2010-07-23: NY Times "opinionator" blog on the Dunning-Kruger effect - "incompetent and unaware of it".
2010-07-22: World's first molten salt concentrating solar power plant.
2010-07-22: A second look at SCons performance.
2010-07-22: Low vaccination rates lead to deaths from whooping cough in California.
2010-07-22: Israeli police torture Palestinians to improve their management stats.
2010-07-21: Examining the structure of TCP/IP headers with Lego.
2010-07-21: Abolishing university fees in Ireland did not improve access by students from poorer backgrounds.
2010-07-21: Firefox 4 tabs-on-top fails to save vertical space. Why couldn't they copy the Safari 4 beta properly?
2010-07-21: Columbus discovered the Americas and venereal syphilis.
2010-07-21: The growing number of prosecutions in the USA for videoing the police.
2010-07-21: A Newport state of mind. (hilarious!)
2010-07-20: Will it Metablend? Recursively?
2010-07-20: A Java implementation of the Lua Language.
2010-07-20: Treventus ScanRobot automatic book scanner.
2010-07-20: Source code for MacPaint and QuickDraw (1984) - Computer History Museum.
2010-07-20: Three scripts to check your technical writing style.
2010-07-19: Pure-food worshippers put their health at risk - especially when they drink unpasteurized milk.
2010-07-19: Periodic table of visualization methods. (love the popups)
2010-07-19: How the iPhone broke AT&T's network.
2010-07-19: Stéphane Bortzmeyer on root DNSSEC, auto-translated from French (including a link to YT).
2010-07-19: BookLiberator: a set of free software and hardware to digitize books.
2010-07-19: Sexism hurts men too.
2010-07-19: Periodic table of irrational nonsense.
2010-07-19: Your Facebook friends had better be real friends or you may lose access to your account.
2010-07-19: Iljitsch van Beijnum on DNSSEC in Ars Technica (including a link to YT).
2010-07-18: Kimbolton Fireworks.
2010-07-18: Gamma correction failure in picture scaling.
2010-07-18: CoffeeScript - alternate syntax for JavaScript.
2010-07-18: Vibration-powered generator - an internal recharger for remote controls.
2010-07-17: Amazing automated underground car park in Budapest.
2010-07-16: Jakob Schlyter's DNSSEC trust anchor tool.
2010-07-16: anchors2keys - convert IANA XML trust anchors to BIND trusted-keys format.
2010-07-16: DNSSEC validator add-on for Firefox.
2010-07-16: DNSviz: a DNS visualization tool.
2010-07-16: .SE's DNS checker (also with DNSSEC support).
2010-07-16: Verisign's DNSSEC debugger.
2010-07-16: Root zone DNSSEC trust anchors.
2010-07-16: The Daily Mail moral underground map.
2010-07-15: Vince Cable's speech on higher education.
2010-07-15: Dumbster: a simple fake SMTP server for testing applications that send email.
2010-07-15: Hidden features of Python.
2010-07-14: Gender imbalance in various university subjects.
2010-07-14: Basic mailing list management guidelines for preventing abuse. (Nov 2000)
2010-07-14: Classic papers in OOP, including "Typestate: a programming language concept for enhancing software reliability."
2010-07-14: Fifteen more creative staircases.
2010-07-14: Nine creative staircases.
2010-07-14: An alternative to the war on drugs.
2010-07-14: The cache behaviour of large lazy functional programs on stock hardware.
2010-07-14: Glasgow Haskell Compiler performance variation with differing gc tuning parameters.
2010-07-14: Despair at the state of the art in build systems.
2010-07-14: Hacker News Daily - the top ten stories each day.
2010-07-14: Godbusters - "Don't cross the beams!"
2010-07-13: 'We Need Roots' - Englishness and the new folk revival.
2010-07-13: Brazil forbids the use of DRM where that hinders fair use.
2010-07-13: The Liberal Moment, by Nick Clegg. "The time has come for a new alignment of progressive politics..."
2010-07-13: Typography for visually-impaired people.
2010-07-13: Typefaces for dyslexia.
2010-07-12: What happens when Twitter gets consumed by the Great Old Ones?
2010-07-12: This week the root zone will switch to full DNSSEC production deployment.
2010-07-12: Accurate garbage collection in an uncooperative environment.
2010-07-12: Bitcoin: peer-to-peer electronic cash without a trusted third party.
2010-07-12: The Liberal Democrat journey to a Lib-Con coalition - and where next? by Richard Grayson.
2010-07-12: Artifactory, "the world's most advanced repository manager".
2010-07-11: Are teenagers hooked on porn?
2010-07-10: Why we hate HR.
2010-07-10: George Hart's rapid prototyping models.
2010-07-09: RedLaser barcode scanner for iPhone.
2010-07-09: How to control web browser quirks/standards modes.
2010-07-09: Jack of Kent on Hackney Council's bizarre treatment of the Conservative mayoral candidate.
2010-07-09: Graydon Hoare - the Rust programming language.
2010-07-08: UK urban exploration forums.
2010-07-08: The proton is 3x10^-17 metres smaller than previously thought.
2010-07-08: Petition to save the Silver Star unit.
2010-07-08: The "Silver Star" maternal medicine unit at the John Radcliffe hospital in Oxford.
2010-07-08: BT and TalkTalk challenge Digital Economy Act.
2010-07-07: Drowning does not look like drowning.
2010-07-07: Pro Git - complete book on line.
2010-07-07: How can a website cost £35m? Easily.
2010-07-07: The "num-utils" are a set of programs for dealing with numbers from the Unix command line.
2010-07-07: "moreutils" is a growing collection of the unix tools that nobody thought to write long ago when unix was young.
2010-07-07: Middle-aged men taking Viagra & Cialis three times more likely to have an STD than those not taking the drugs.
2010-07-07: 1&1 disables SpinProfiles lobbying watch web site for no good reason.
2010-07-07: Counter-terrorism chief says government policy promotes terrorism.
2010-07-07: Home birth scaremongering.
2010-07-06: The length of the year is complicated.
2010-07-06: How can you improve upon Debian's packaging system?
2010-07-06: LBW: run unmodified Linux applications on Windows.
2010-07-06: How could abundance be convincingly portrayed in the world of atoms as well as bits?
2010-07-05: Extracts from "iPhone Four" by George Orwell.
2010-07-05: Hackney Council threatens local paper with legal action over embarrassing recording.
2010-07-05: A relational version of the zoneinfo database.
2010-07-05: The Tea Party and the new right-wing Christian feminism.
2010-07-05: Apple's app store is filled with "App farms" being used to steal.
2010-07-04: Overclocking SSL.
2010-07-03: The state of open source text rendering.
2010-07-03: Andy Grove gripes about offshored tech jobs.
2010-07-03: Genetic test predicts who will have a long life.
2010-07-03: Speculators might not have caused commodity price rises.
2010-07-03: The Better String Library.
2010-07-03: Peer-to-peer edge caches should be free - the economics of content delivery.
2010-07-02: How Goldman Sachs caused starvation by creating the 2006-2008 food price bubble.
2010-07-02: Ratzinger failed to act as Roman Catholic abuse scandal grew.
2010-07-02: Pirate Party to run The Pirate Bay from inside the Swedish parliament and get immunity from prosecution.
2010-07-02: Christian science textbook says "Electricity is a mystery."
2010-07-02: The local government open spending data that isn't.
2010-07-02: UK government attitude to the morality of torture.
2010-07-01: I never knew an AT-AT could be so cute. (YouTube)
2010-07-01: Better food improves a school's results.
2010-07-01: Deputy Prime Minister crowdsources the great repeal bill.
2010-06-30: Self-administered eye test using a mobile phone app and a lens.
2010-06-30: ECHR confirms that section 44 stop-and-search powers are illegal.
2010-06-30: ECJ rules on reconciling data protection with freedom of information.
2010-06-30: Web sites that ban deep links: YOU ARE ALL CLOWNS!
2010-06-30: The mathematics of pathological tennis.
2010-06-30: New US banknotes are almost colourful!
2010-06-30: There are 99 infected legit websites for each infected porn site.
2010-06-30: How Google promotes its internal Mac OS training sessions.
2010-06-30: The continuing decline in UK energy production.
2010-06-30: Companies can't reject complainants who ticked a box saying they agreed to an unfair contract.
2010-06-29: SURFnet DNSSEC blog.
2010-06-29: Google IPv6 Implementors Conference - agenda and slide decks.
2010-06-29: "Print" on your Mac to send a document to iBooks on your iOS4 device.
2010-06-29: The presence of giant billion dollar companies suggests a market inefficiency of some sort.
2010-06-29: Sort vs Hash: Fast join implementations on multicore CPUs.
2010-06-29: Children could be put at greater risk by ContactPoint, not protected by it.
2010-06-29: An antenna + RF engineer on the iPhone 4 reception problems.
2010-06-28: Why τ = 2π is a better circle constant.
2010-06-26: Cutting through the confusion about Israel vs Palestine.
2010-06-25: PathScale aims to beat CUDA and OpenCL with their reverse engineered GPU compiler.
2010-06-24: Authoritarian politics in the USA.
2010-06-24: Replies to legal claims mis-addressed to Railtrack Ltd (not Railtrack PLC). (heh)
2010-06-22: Cambridge University Library API.
2010-06-22: 1 bit symphony.
2010-06-22: Science fiction air show.
2010-06-22: Your computer system almost certainly handles names incorrectly.
2010-06-21: Saharan solar power will be imported to the EU in 5 years' time.
2010-06-21: Information technology's environmental benefits vastly outweigh the environmental cost of its electricity usage.
2010-06-21: Reverse-engineering the ZX Spectrum.
2010-06-21: yagg - grammar-driven string generator / reverse parser.
2010-06-21: Thinkgeek fools the National Pork Board (and offers a tasty discount to celebrate).
2010-06-21: A cartoon guide to legal immigration to the USA.
2010-06-21: A theory of typed hygienic macros.
2010-06-21: How the fashion industry has managed to survive without copyright.
2010-06-20: Live map of trains on the London Underground.
2010-06-18: Deaths caused by unreasonable dedication to homeopathy.
2010-06-18: Estonia gets approval to join the Eurozone.
2010-06-18: "Numerous deaths have occurred after chiropractic manipulations. The risks by far outweigh its benefit."
2010-06-18: Why the AT&T iPad ICCID + email address exposure is worse than it seems at first.
2010-06-18: Facebook's 512 bit DKIM RSA key should be crackable.
2010-06-18: Hints on programming language design. (C.A.R. Hoare, 1973)
2010-06-18: "Significant Objects" - good stories make insignificant trinkets more valuable.
2010-06-18: Google Chrome obsoletes Adobe's PDF reader plugin.
2010-06-17: A review of administrative tools for DNSSEC (spring 2010 version).
2010-06-17: Students flood Sidney Sussex College so that they can punt at their May Ball.
2010-06-17: MEPs not welcome in the House of Commons but are in the House of Lords. (!)
2010-06-17: Stop the avalanche of low-quality research? (interesting comments)
2010-06-17: Why Peter Bregman returned his iPad - "being bored is a precious thing".
2010-06-16: Will Apple be crippled because Objective C is too low-level?
2010-06-16: Rebooting the computer science academic publication process.
2010-06-16: What to desire from the scientific publisher of the future?
2010-06-16: How to measure the speed of light using your microwave oven.
2010-06-16: USB mass storage business card.
2010-06-16: Thousands of patents declared state secrets in UK and USA.
2010-06-15: What makes a "rock star" sysadmin?
2010-06-15: The Economist's "Johnson" blog on the use and abuse of language.
2010-06-15: A discussion about the unpopularity of parallel languages.
2010-06-14: FOI request gets an answer where a parliamentary question does not!
2010-06-14: twttr sketch, July 2006.
2010-06-14: Academic publishers sue universities to control digital fair use.
2010-06-14: PHK on how you are getting server performance wrong.
2010-06-14: A report on the economics of copyright and digitization from the UK strategic advisory board for intellectual property policy.
2010-06-14: File sharing only hurts bad or mediocre films.
2010-06-14: Political judgments and the pre-budget economic forecast.
2010-06-14: Open source licences are all very well, but you should also run your project in an open manner.
2010-06-14: Peer review was designed to cope with scarcity; it has been obsoleted by abundance, so drop it.
2010-06-14: Ars Technica on Ofcom's survey of attitudes to bad language on television.
2010-06-14: Seq no more: better evaluation strategies for parallel Haskell.
2010-06-14: Scalable event handling for the Glasgow Haskell Compiler run-time system.
2010-06-14: The myth of radio spectrum scarcity.
2010-06-14: Increasingly practical computation on encrypted data without decryption.
2010-06-14: Differing meanings of "spastic" in UK and US.
2010-06-14: Online dictionary of playground slang.
2010-06-14: Submarine cable map.
2010-06-14: The behind-the-scenes logistics of Kenya’s mobile phone banking miracle.
2010-06-14: Once upon a time in Afghanistan...
2010-06-14: They Might Be Giants gig in the Babbage Lecture Theatre (of all places).
2010-06-14: Patients are less likely to die of planned vascular surgery in bigger hospitals.
2010-06-13: Bot-in-the-middle social engineering on IRC.
2010-06-12: Graphic novels are literature too.
2010-06-12: UK smoking ban reduces heart attacks by 100 per month.
2010-06-12: Puntcon, 25 July 2010.
2010-06-11: Sport journalism is simple enough that computers can do it.
2010-06-11: Capsicum: practical capabilities for Unix.
2010-06-11: Inside iPhone 4 "FaceTime" video conferencing.
2010-06-11: Apple iOS developer agreement updated to permit embedded interpreters such as Lua.
2010-06-11: The media are suffering from the change from scarcity to surfeit.
2010-06-10: Pornography does not encourage sex crimes.
2010-06-10: True Knowledge - the Internet answer engine.
2010-06-10: Risk management failures and the earthquake game.
2010-06-10: The Jedi census phenomenon.
2010-06-10: The copyright wars come to "Glee".
2010-06-10: Information Commissioner rules that Freedom of Information trumps copyright.
2010-06-09: Five hundred Wi-Fi networks in one room?!
2010-06-08: Raj Persaud on the psychology of the suicidal killing spree.
2010-06-08: What drives Israel?
2010-06-08: A classification of computer science research.
2010-06-07: Google's thoughts about how to save the news business.
2010-06-07: Economic consequences of British copyright and German freedom in publishing around 1800.
2010-06-07: PLT Scheme is changing its name to "Racket".
2010-06-07: Transport for London poster about CCTV has totalitarian style as well as substance.
2010-06-07: Travelling downwind faster than the wind in a purely wind-powered vehicle.
2010-06-06: Keeping ID cards by the back door?
2010-06-06: How to make perfect thin and crispy french fries.
2010-06-05: Justice Stevens' decisions for free expression on the net eroded by p2p fight.
2010-06-04: Government web sites to use open source software whenever possible.
2010-06-04: Grazing on Midsummer Common.
2010-06-04: Welcome to bug 323, where all x87 floating point errors in gcc come to die!
2010-06-04: Lago Fucino looks like a massive rendering error in Google Maps.
2010-06-04: The pitfalls of verifying floating point computations.
2010-06-04: The $3000 shirt.
2010-06-04: The Dalvik VM JIT compiler.
2010-06-04: I'm done explaining to people why fanfic is okay.
2010-06-03: Mississippi improves healthcare by copying Iran.
2010-06-03: Some esoteric but useful Linux commands.
2010-06-03: A New Yorker profile of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks.
2010-06-03: Government advice for publishing itemised local authority expenditure.
2010-06-03: This is the age of political conflict between the generations.
2010-06-02: Australia's CSIRO hopes to get $1bn from its WiFi patents.
2010-06-02: The saga of the Euston puddle.
2010-06-02: Flotillas and wars of public opinion.
2010-06-02: bup - git-based incremental backup software.
2010-06-02: Almost 80% support propotional representation and almost 75% want a majority government.
2010-06-02: Stopped by the police? Here's what to do...
2010-06-02: Keeping calm in the face of technical problems.
2010-06-02: Wikileaks was launched with documents intercepted from Tor.
2010-06-01: get_iplayer - perl script for downloading BBC programmes.
2010-05-31: David Cameron's letter to government departments on opening up data.
2010-05-31: China bans the use of evidence obtained under torture. (America and Britain should too.)
2010-05-31: How long is the optimal copyright term?
2010-05-31: How big would the public domain be without copyright term extensions?
2010-05-31: Francis Maude outlines the coalition's plans for government data publication.
2010-05-31: Summary of development plans for Ubuntu 10.10.
2010-05-31: Big media has trouble collecting Pirate Bay fines.
2010-05-31: Microsoft quietly patches some security vulnerabilities without identifying them.
2010-05-31: PortLand source code released - a data centre networking protocol.
2010-05-31: The resurgence of parallel computing research after a quarter century of neglect.
2010-05-31: Stimulus surprise: companies retrench when government spends.
2010-05-31: The Innovator's Dilemma: insights from the hard disk drive industry.
2010-05-27: Track the progress of the libel reform bill here.
2010-05-27: Caroline Lucas uses her maiden speech to attack Trafigura.
2010-05-27: The Independent loves Caroline Lucas.
2010-05-27: The royal appetite for secrecy can only invite scandal.
2010-05-27: The only weapons we have [in programming] are simplicity and convention.
2010-05-27: Documentation and code for manipulating Microsoft Outlook .pst files.
2010-05-27: Trafigura goes on trial next week in Amsterdam – will the UK media dare to report it?
2010-05-27: Compilers and Compiler Generators, by P.D. Terry.
2010-05-27: Compiler Construction, by Niklaus Wirth.
2010-05-27: Julian Huppert's Early Day Motion on repeal of the nasty bits of the Digital Economy Act.
2010-05-27: Julian Huppert's maiden speech.
2010-05-26: Head and neck injury risks in heavy metal. (BMJ)
2010-05-26: Dyson Air Multiplier fans and balloons. (YouTube)
2010-05-26: Johann Hari on Heavy Metal Muslims and Country and Western lefties.
2010-05-25: The Real Time Club - the oldest IT dining club.
2010-05-25: UNIX Tips for Mac OS X.
2010-05-25: DJB on DNSSEC.
2010-05-25: A programmers' wedding cake.
2010-05-25: Google will not be able to index stories behind The Times' paywall.
2010-05-25: Announcing the iPad XL - the power to run flash!
2010-05-24: Patent claim halts stem cell research into childhood brain diseases.
2010-05-24: 4K sector drives and Linux.
2010-05-24: Apple will soon be worth more than Microsoft.
2010-05-24: Julian Todd complains about funding for open democracy in the UK.
2010-05-24: Busting frame busting: a study of clickjacking vulnerabilities at popular sites.
2010-05-24: Daily Mail shows no respect for copyright in pictures.
2010-05-24: Michael Geist's fair copyright proposals for Canada.
2010-05-24: Anthony Lester QC, architect of the Human Rights Act, introduces libel reform bill in the House of Lords.
2010-05-24: Practical examples of siphons at work.
2010-05-24: How bells are rung in Bologna.
2010-05-24: Graphs of DNS RFC relationships.
2010-05-24: English judge complains at length about bad ECJ trademark ruling.
2010-05-23: Iteratees step-by-step.
2010-05-23: Brian Deer on the end of the Wakefield MMR enquiry.
2010-05-23: giffgaff - The people-powered PAYG mobile phone network.
2010-05-22: Why Verisign is leaving the X.509 business.
2010-05-22: Rumours of safety arguments between BP and Schlumberger on the Deepwater Horizon.
2010-05-22: Why to use the term "preferential voting" when campaigning for electoral reform.
2010-05-22: Bottom-up innovation will save us says Matt Ridley. (Unless IP squashes it?)
2010-05-22: