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<< 2012-07 >>

• 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.