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• 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.