January 2008
Culinary Seductions: Cooking For Men Who Want To... →
New TSA requirement: all electronics out of your... →
Jangl Powering Anonymous Phone Sex On PlentyOfFish →
Open access for all: prime 700MHz Block C hits... →
“After 17 rounds, the 700MHz spectrum auction has finally hit its one of its most closely watched targets: bidding on Block C has surpassed the Federal Communications Commission’s mandated $4.638 billion reserve, meaning that the FCC’s mandated open access rules will come into play. Bids on the block of spectrum totaled $4.744 billion after Round 17.”
Google releases open source Google Toolbox for Mac →
Amazon Strengthens Its Digital Hand With $300... →
“Amazon is betting big on digital media. This morning it announced the $300 million acquisition of Audible (a 7 percent premium to Audible’s $280 million market cap at the time of this writing). Audible is the leading provider of audio books in digital form, with a library of 80,000 titles. As Amazon begins to generate a greater share of its revenues from digital media, owning a digital...
The Great Microkernel Debate Continues →
ficken writes “The great micro vs. monolithic kernel is still alive and well. Andy Tanenbaum weighs in with another article about the virtues of microkernels. From the article: ‘Over the years there have been endless postings on forums such as Slashdot about how microkernels are slow, how microkernels are hard to program, how they aren’t in use commercially, and a lot of other...
MacBook Air box: Way smaller than other Apple... →
Consumer Spending Falls Off →
Consumer Spending Falls Off →
How Do You Use Dashboard Web Clips? [Ask The... →
Cryptanalytic Attacks on Pseudorandom Number... →
ABSTRACT: In this paper we discuss PRNGs: the mechanisms used by real-world secure systems to generate cryptographic keys, initialization vectors, “random” nonces, and other values assumed to be random. We argue that PRNGs are their own unique type of cryptographic primitive, and should be analyzed as such. We propose a model for PRNGs, discuss possible attacks against this model,...
The Great Microkernel Debate Continues →
Evidence for New MacBook Pros →
Acer gobbles up 75% of Packard Bell →
Canadian economy grew 0.1 per cent in November →
A color toolbox →
WatchOnion news:
New bill against Gang Members
Loonie loses more than a cent →
RIM's BlackBerry Remote Stereo Gateway to offer... →
10.5: Send messages to offline contacts in iChat →
To Boldly Moan: Star Trek Orgasms (NSFW) →
Four Indicted in Pirate Bay Case →
Google releases open source Google Toolbox for Mac →
iPhonesque makes Growl look like the iPhone →
In the Era of Systematic Reviews, Does the Size of... →
Star Trek gadgets IRL →
Slashdot hates on Digg’s ‘tyrannical’ user-driven... →
Hitting It Off, Thanks to Algorithms of Love →
Silly Questions →
Further proof that T. Porter must accept my claim... →
We Must All Do Our Part To Preserve This Climate... →
Ian Hickson: ‘Mistakes, Sadness, Regret’ →
Blasts shake east-central Alberta town →
Why Google only tells you what you already know →
“What I want to share today is a new study that supports my thesis. Researchers at the University of New South Wales in Australia set out to determine whether common cognitive biases affect people who are searching on the Web. The chief such bias is what they call theanchoring effect — the idea that our prior beliefs affect how we process new information.When you’re searching...
"An Epistemic Case for Legal Moralism" →
“Ignorance of the law is no excuse, or so we are told. But why on earth not? The statute books run to hundreds of volumes. How can an ordinary citizen know what all is in them? The best way might be for law (at least in its wide-scope duty-conferring aspects) to track broad moral principles that ordinary citizens can know and apply for themselves. In contrast to more high-minded and deeply...
Why are bank security questions so monstrously... →
“Financial institutions have long used questions to authenticate customers. If you lost your credit card in the 1980s, American Express might have asked for your mother’s maiden name before issuing you another one. But such questions have become ubiquitous online only in the last 18 months. In 2005, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council wrotestricter security...
Panic's Coda Developer Zone →
New and exciting! If you use Coda for makin’ them webpages, this might provide a good overview of Coda’s features.
Rumor: Do new Rogers cellular plans pave the way... →
Never. Going. To. Happen.
TELECOS are evil, and will not wrinkle their outrageous pricing plans, even for the (what would be) lucrative iPhone.
Digg Joins DataPortability Working Group (Plus... →
“Digg made a post to the company’s blog this morning announcing that they are officially joining the DataPortability.org Working Group. Digg follows Facebook, Google, Microsoft and many other companies in getting on board to discuss protocols that will make it easier for users to move their data from one site to another while still protecting their privacy.”
expressive processing: an experiment in blog-based... →
“The challenge technically was to integrate CommentPress into an existing blog template, applying its functionalityselectively — in other words, to make it work for a specific group of posts rather than for all content in the site. We could have made a standalone web site dedicated to the book, but the idea was to literally weave sections of the manuscript into the daily traffic of the blog....
All because of you: U2 manager says ISPs are... →
Spectrum Auctions: Billion Dollar Leapfrog →
Give a Presentation like Steve Jobs [Speaking] →
What the MPAA Still Isn't Telling Us →