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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 Golang 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 Golang.
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: Golang 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: 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 Golang 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 Golang.
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: 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 Golang.
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 Golang'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 Golang.
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.

Tony Finch is <dot@dotat.at>