Time for some random links
I’ve accumulated a bunch of “to-read” links in the last couple months, things that I skimmed but wanted to give more time and thought to.
It’s been building up, though … and I realized that I’m becoming a link packrat. So I’m purging them. And you get to see! haha!
I’ve written about some of these before. I’ve considered writing about most of them. Lately I’m just sort of preoccupied with other stuff though, so … not really feelin’ it.
Anyway, if you want to see this link-dump, read the rest of this post. I’m not going to elaborate on any of them, ’cause … well … it’s like 66 links. (and if I hadn’t started using vim and making good use of the search-and-replace regex support, I wouldn’t even have bothered :p)
DailyTech – Google Continues Fight Against US Government
Soft Surveillance: The Growth of Mandatory Volunteerism in Collecting Personal Information
Slashdot | NPR Story on the Future of Nuclear Power
InformationWeek | IT Jobs | Business Technology: Competitiveness, Truth, And Today’s Universities | October 3, 2005
NewsForge | The problem with random number generators
UK.gov pioneers secure Linux to contain breaches | The Register
Schneier on Security: Air Force One Security Leak
Junk Food and Junk Schools?
Child Obesity and Car Seats (Canada)
ABC News: ‘A Day Without Immigrants’ — Alliance or Alienation?
Higher ed on high alert over wiretapping rules – Network World
NewsForge | La-Z-Boy revamps with Linux
Nigga Know Technology
DailyTech – FCC Confirms Deadline for Broadband Wiretapping Backdoors
Slashdot | DRM Protest in Hazmat Suits
Slashdot | PostgreSQL 8.1.4 Released to Plug Injection Hole
ABC News: Detention for a High School Blog Entry?
WSJ’s Take on Net Neutrality
Slashdot | Ethernet The Occasional Outsider
Technology and the Megaslums
Slashdot | Lotus vs. SharePoint
Slashdot | Why Buggy Software Gets Shipped
Schneier on Security: The Problems with Data Mining
NewsForge | PostgreSQL addresses SQL injection vulnerabilities
Slashdot | The Cost of a Tiered Internet
Eco-Responsibility as the new black
ABC News: Hastert: Letter Just a Coincidence
Slashdot | Intern? Bloggers Need Not Apply
Opinion: Why NSA spying puts the U.S. in danger
Schneier on Security: The Ultimate Net Monitoring Tool
Schneier on Security: Cheating on Tests
On Creativity, Computers and Copyright | The Register
Can single sign-on be simple sign-on? | The Register
Wired 14.06: Don’t Try This at Home
O’Reilly Radar > Web 2.0 Service Mark Controversy (Tim responding this time)
Sorry Tim – at Tom Faftery’s I.T. views
Experimental Theology: The Psychology of Belief, Part 4: Infrahumanization
Schneier on Security: Assassins Don’t Do Movie Plots, Either
The Monkey Chow Diaries
NewsForge | Libranet’s last goodbye
Grand Theft Auto settles with the Feds | The Register
NewsForge | Reducing IT risk aversion
Howto: Performance Benchmarks a Web server | nixCraft
Retain or restrain access logs?
ABC News: Rat Study Shows Dirty Better Than Clean
Discovery Channel :: News – Human :: Serious Study: Immaturity Levels Rising
Lonely? You aren’t "alone" in that
ABC News: Chinese, English Speakers Vary at Math
Standards in desktop firewall policies
Ajax security basics
Slashdot | Why Aren’t Powergrids Underground?
Code Quality | The Register
NewsForge | "Worst copyright law in Europe" passed in France
YoLinux: List of Linux Security and Hacker Software Tools
ABC News: The Note: Eye on the Right Ball
ABC News: Blogger in France Sues After Being Fired
ABC News: Cop Censured for Moonlighting as a Hooker
ABC News: Letter Rs Stolen From Ind. Signs Returned
UK webmaster faces extradition on terror-support charges | The Register
ACM Queue – Discipline and Focus – Transcript – Transcript of interview with Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.
ABC News: Inside the Mind of the World’s Most Powerful Liberal Blogger
Introduction to Unicode – using Unicode in Linux
Slashdot | Modern Humans Far More Robust Than Ancestors
E-mail privacy in the workplace
Astrophysicist speeds up radioactive decay | The Register
New Scientist Tech – Premium- Unnatural selection in the cyber world – Features
And thus, the cache is cleared. Hoor-j! Most of them are probably worth at least a skimming, if you’ve got nothing else to do and want to look at the sort of stuff I’ve been reading for the last 4ish months.