July 2010
43 posts
Mike Belshe: The Era of TLS Everywhere →
Andrea Bittau, Michael Hamburg, Mark Handley,... →
Shreyas Srivatsan, Maritza Johnson, Steven M.... →
The Register: Fusion-io's flash memory OS plug-in →
Real World Technologies: Parallelism at HotPar... →
Ars Technica: Overkill as art: the Cyborg R.A.T. 7 →
Sergey Melnik, Andrey Gubarev, Jing Jing Long,... →
Lucas Adamski: Contextual Identity →
More excuses why Firefox doesn’t support OpenID yet.
Ars Technica: Long-neglected Mac Pro, Cinema... →
The Mac Pro is still RAM-crippled and the new Cinema Display is worse than the old one (although remarkably cheaper than the Dell U2711). Sad.
“Apparently, an online dater’s imagination is the best performing mutual...”
– OkCupid
Peter F. Hamilton: Fallen Dragon →
I’m not sure why this story required 800 pages, but it’s pretty satisfying if you’re willing to see it through.
Steven M. Bellovin: Comments on the National... →
“The fundamental premise of the proposed strategy is that our serious Internet security problems are due to lack of sufficient authentication. That is demonstrably false. The biggest problem was and is buggy code. All the authentication in the world won’t stop a bad guy who goes around the authentication system, etc. … I fear that people are looking under the lamppost for their...
“I’ve learned that there are two types of people in the world: those that...”
– slmbrhrt
CrunchGear: I have seen Antennagate, and it is us →
New Amazon EC2 Instance Type - The Cluster Compute... →
EC2 is finally migrating away from paravirtualization.
Dan Weinreb: VoltDB versus NoSQL →
“As a food service worker, I am seriously dreading my first encounter with a...”
– Nasicournus
Jessica Wood: The Darknet: A Digital Copyright... →
The opposite position. Wood argues that Google and Facebook will pay artists to release work for free and make back the money on ads, analytics, and ancillary goods or services.
The Atlantic: Closing the Digital Frontier →
After 15 years, the calls to “just find a new business model” start to sound like digital Lysenkoism. As Jaron Lanier says, at some point you have to call an end to the experiment.
James Urquhart: Amazon APIs as cloud standards?... →
“EC2 is actually a strictly defined server and network architecture that leaves little room for innovation in distributed application architectures and infrastructure configuration.” Uh oh. A cloud fanboy hit squad has already been dispatched to your location.
CloudSigma: IaaS: The S stands for Service not... →
“Pure IaaS should give the user full control of the software layer, allowing them to run any operating system and software that they desire.”
Stop The Cap: Open access won't solve broadband... →
Graydon Hoare: The Rust programming language →
NewTeeVee: Rumor: New Apple TV Will Push 99 Cent... →
Yes please. It always bothered me that a song costs 99c but a TV show that I’ll watch once costs $1.99 or more. It would be even better if the studios allow Sony to use this business model too.
Scripting News: People hosting their own servers →
I should just leave this alone, but I can’t. Amazon is 3x the price of pretty much all other hosting providers for this use case.
“The purpose of ICANN is not to exercise control, it is to prevent the emergence...”
– Phillip Hallam-Baker
(But isn’t there some cheaper way of doing nothing?)
Carrypad: Intel finally squeezed Atom into a phone →
“If you have only ever programmed in C/C++/Java and Lisp and scripting languages,...”
– Frank Atanassow offers a typically LtU viewpoint
The Tech Report: Today's solid-state drives: The... →
Great data analysis. (I don’t think most hardware sites even know how to make a scatter plot.) The 10x range in power efficiency is also worth noting.
Oliver Drobnik: Understanding iOS 4 Backgrounding... →
Finally the truth peeks out from behind the NDA curtain: any app can run in the background with a single plist setting. There is no “VoIP API” or “background audio API” and the rules preventing useful multitasking are arbitrary and harmful.
Darryl Gove: The solution is multicore →
A controversial argument, but if it turns out that all software either doesn’t need to be parallel, has already been parallelized, or is so important that geniuses can hand-parallelize it, there’s really no multicore problem.
The Register: NetApp shakes fist at Coraid over... →
Stephen O'Grady: Open Core is the New Dual... →
“Release the Kraken! And by “Kraken” I mean anything that will...”
– Marbles is ready to cut the cord
Adam Langley, Nagendra Modadugu, and Wan-Teh... →
It’s amazing how much fat we’ve been living with for years. It’s also notable that only Google appears to be interested in fixing these things.
Distributed Social Illuminati Summit 2010... →
Diaspora: One Month In →
“Look on my friends, ye mighty, and despair!”
– Fake Mark Zuckerberg
United States Unified Community Anchor Network →
A new non-profit Internet backbone based on the Internet2 philosophy intended to connect schools, libraries, hospitals, etc.
IETF Journal: The Peer-to-Peer Invasion →
Nicholas Weaver: P2P Edge Caches Should be Free →
“HTTP is like the old testament. Wanna kill your brother? Probably find something...”
– Zed Shaw
Rational Survivability: On the Bullshit That is... →
MeeGo Handset Project Day 1 is Here →
Sigh, the UI looks completely different from Maemo.
TechFlash: Microsoft Kin is dead →
“Microsoft has neither confirmed nor denied reports that only 500 of the Kins were sold since the launch last month.” Ouch.
“The result of my experiment is that no, the Boehm GC does not win for a server....”
– Zed Shaw
June 2010
60 posts
Cisco Home Energy Management →
The overkill.. the overkill…
Introducing Hulu Plus →
Most discussion has focused on the larger catalog and whether it’s worth the money, but I think the real point here is that for $10/month you can watch Hulu where you want to.
Engadget: Hacked N900 blazes through Froyo →