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<< 2012-09 >>

• 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.