This is a temporary refuge until I can rebuild Hack the Planet with alien technology. —Wes Felter The postings on this site are my own and don’t necessarily represent IBM’s positions, strategies or opinions. var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-11784924-1"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}Tumblr (3.0; @hack-the-planet)http://blog.felter.org/<a href="http://www.belshe.com/2010/07/21/fixing-a-hole-where-the-rain-gets-in-the-era-of-tls-everywhere/">Mike Belshe: The Era of TLS Everywhere</a>http://blog.felter.org/post/877323793http://blog.felter.org/post/877323793Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:21:02 -0500<a href="http://people.csail.mit.edu/costan/readings/usenix_papers/Bittau.pdf">Andrea Bittau, Michael Hamburg, Mark Handley, David Mazières, Dan Boneh: The Case for Ubiquitous Transport-Level Encryption</a>http://blog.felter.org/post/877323018http://blog.felter.org/post/877323018Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:20:48 -0500<a href="http://mice.cs.columbia.edu/getTechreport.php?techreportID=1433">Shreyas Srivatsan, Maritza Johnson, Steven M. Bellovin: Simple-VPN: Simple IPsec Configuration</a>http://blog.felter.org/post/877317697http://blog.felter.org/post/877317697Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:19:15 -0500<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/22/fusion_io_vsl/">The Register: Fusion-io's flash memory OS plug-in</a>http://blog.felter.org/post/872714840http://blog.felter.org/post/872714840Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:45:20 -0500<a href="http://www.realworldtech.com/page.cfm?ArticleID=RWT072610001641">Real World Technologies: Parallelism at HotPar 2010</a>http://blog.felter.org/post/872713359http://blog.felter.org/post/872713359Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:44:56 -0500<a href="http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/reviews/2010/07/overkill-as-art-ars-reviews-the-cyborg-rat-7.ars">Ars Technica: Overkill as art: the Cyborg R.A.T. 7</a>http://blog.felter.org/post/872712363http://blog.felter.org/post/872712363Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:44:42 -0500<a href="http://www.google.com/buzz/goog.research.buzz/WsARqxc7d7R/Dremel-Interactive-Analysis-of-Web-Scale-Datasets">Sergey Melnik, Andrey Gubarev, Jing Jing Long, Geoffrey Romer, Shiva Shivakumar, Matt Tolton, Theo Vassilakis: Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets</a>http://blog.felter.org/post/868117013http://blog.felter.org/post/868117013Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:48:55 -0500<a href="http://blog.mozilla.com/ladamski/2010/07/contextual-identity/">Lucas Adamski: Contextual Identity</a>: <p>More excuses why Firefox doesn’t support OpenID yet.</p>http://blog.felter.org/post/868092507http://blog.felter.org/post/868092507Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:42:07 -0500<a href="http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/07/long-neglected-mac-pro-cinema-display-finally-updated.ars">Ars Technica: Long-neglected Mac Pro, Cinema Display finally updated</a>: <p>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.</p>http://blog.felter.org/post/868086649http://blog.felter.org/post/868086649Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:40:29 -0500“Apparently, an online dater’s imagination is the best performing mutual fund of the last 10 years.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/2010/07/07/the-biggest-lies-in-online-dating/">OkCupid</a></em>http://blog.felter.org/post/868084223http://blog.felter.org/post/868084223Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:39:51 -0500<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=2B9fOIo0qW4C">Peter F. Hamilton: Fallen Dragon</a>: <p>I’m not sure why this story required 800 pages, but it’s pretty satisfying if you’re willing to see it through.</p>http://blog.felter.org/post/864263434http://blog.felter.org/post/864263434Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:39:06 -0500<a href="http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2010-07/2010-07-11.html">Steven M. Bellovin: Comments on the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace</a>: <p>“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 keys. While there are certainly some challenges to doing authentication at such scale, it is a much simpler problem than buggy code.”</p>http://blog.felter.org/post/864253067http://blog.felter.org/post/864253067Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:36:39 -0500“I’ve learned that there are two types of people in the world: those that can extrapolate information from incomplete data,”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1542074">slmbrhrt</a></em>http://blog.felter.org/post/864249830http://blog.felter.org/post/864249830Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:35:54 -0500<a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/07/16/antennagate-is-us/">CrunchGear: I have seen Antennagate, and it is us </a>http://blog.felter.org/post/821389871http://blog.felter.org/post/821389871Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:19:07 -0500<a href="http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2010/07/the-new-amazon-ec2-instance-type-the-cluster-compute-instance.html">New Amazon EC2 Instance Type - The Cluster Compute Instance</a>: <p>EC2 is finally migrating away from paravirtualization.</p>http://blog.felter.org/post/808418112http://blog.felter.org/post/808418112Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:31:47 -0500<a href="http://danweinreb.org/blog/voltdb-versus-nosql">Dan Weinreb: VoltDB versus NoSQL</a>http://blog.felter.org/post/808389672http://blog.felter.org/post/808389672Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:24:21 -0500“As a food service worker, I am seriously dreading my first encounter with a carbon conscious vegan with food allergies.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2010/07/12/just-look-at-the-car.html#comment-832267">Nasicournus</a></em>http://blog.felter.org/post/808389191http://blog.felter.org/post/808389191Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:24:13 -0500<a href="http://jolt.richmond.edu/v16i4/article14.pdf">Jessica Wood: The Darknet: A Digital Copyright Revolution</a>: <p>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.</p>http://blog.felter.org/post/804577684http://blog.felter.org/post/804577684Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:36:22 -0500<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2010/07/closing-the-digital-frontier/8131/">The Atlantic: Closing the Digital Frontier</a>: <p>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.</p>http://blog.felter.org/post/804534493http://blog.felter.org/post/804534493Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:24:47 -0500<a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-19413_3-20010072-240.html">James Urquhart: Amazon APIs as cloud standards? Not so fast</a>: <p>“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.</p>http://blog.felter.org/post/803983388http://blog.felter.org/post/803983388Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:47:37 -0500