Technology
- HDCP Master Key Cracking
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It’s managed to stay out of the general press, mostly — probably because it’s geeky, it’s hard to explain what it really means, and it’s not likely to affect anything any time soon — but the tech press has been covering the cracking of the HDCP master key ...
Article - Barry Leiba - Sep 27 2010 - 11:56am
- Notes On Optimizing Home Networks
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I have a few notes on home networks, which notes come from recent experience with some network setup issues. Encryption: How to secure one’s network — or whether not to — continues to be a point of debate. I favour some of the arguments for being a “good ...
Article - Barry Leiba - Sep 28 2010 - 1:34pm
- Video Game Playing Improves Cortical Network (In Men)
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It may seem like a waste of time that young people play video games for hours on end but, at least for some, it may help them in surgery one day. A new study says reorganization of the brain's cortical network in young men with significant experien ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 24 2010 - 12:49pm
- Forbes Jumps Into The Blogging Network Business
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In the wake of the Pepsigate scandal at Scienceblogs.com and the departure of some two dozen bloggers, a variety of companies decided to capitalize on the disarray and start their own blogging networks- PLoS started a blog network for outside contributors, ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 28 2010 - 12:12pm
- Internet wiretapping
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A story about impending U.S. legislation has hit the news in the last few days: Senator Patrick Leahy, along with ten co-sponsors that include Dianne Feinstein and my own senator, Chuck Schumer), has introduced S. 3804, the Combating Online Infringement a ...
Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Oct 1 2010 - 6:00am
- A couple of things about Stuxnet
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There’s a relatively newly discovered (within the last few months) computer worm called Stuxnet, which exploits several Windows vulnerabilities (some of which were patched some time ago) as it installs itself on people’s computers. It largely replicates t ...
Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Oct 5 2010 - 6:02am
- History Of A War Against Software Complexity
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In 1995 the physicist HvL was employee of an internal software house of a large electronics company. His speciality was the creation of scientific software. Then he got the invitation from a software strategist HdV to join the semiconductor department in o ...
Article - Hans van Leunen - Oct 4 2010 - 3:15pm
- A More Rational Way To Program Storage And Communication Of Objects
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Software uses many kinds of data. Sometimes it concerns worksheet data and sometimes it is data that is retrieved or generated in some way or it are results of actions. Often these data are interrelated. In that case the ensemble forms a complex object. Wh ...
Article - Hans van Leunen - Oct 5 2010 - 2:37pm
- Science Friday On NPR Faces A Funding Crisis
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NPR, National Public Radio, is in a tough spot- they are constantly accused of liberal bias (and, let's be honest, they have never done a story on how taxes hurt poor people or how much better the environment is than 40 years ago, so there is somethin ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 17 2017 - 3:14pm
- Poo Power
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When I was a lad (a little bit later than when Sarahsaurus was around), there was a common misunderstanding among schoolboys that methane was responsible for the foul smell of flatulence. A story was told of a boy who used to set fire to his farts with a ...
Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Oct 6 2010 - 1:27pm
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