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<< 2012-05 >>

• 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.