“…security works best when the entity that is in the best position to mitigate the risk is responsible for that risk.”
–Bruce Schneier
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2005/10/69076
April 16, 2010
4/16
April 7, 2010
4/7 #2
http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/2010/02/05_lessig.html Article from Lessig on Google, copyright, and our future.
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” –Peter Drucker
April 5, 2010
4/5
Engineering Math, by Stroud From /. A refresher on math designed for self-study, poster used it as a prep for classes requiring Calc 3 as a prereq.
“I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.” Thomas Jefferson. Interesting quote.
April 2, 2010
March 24, 2010
3/24
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/03/24/1214239/Full-ACTA-Leak-Online Full text of ACTA.
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/yhoE4n4Idxs/Drunk-Histoy-Presents-Nikola-Tesla-NSFW Looks interesting. Worth checking out sometime.
“Speak not injurious Words neither in Jest nor Earnest. Scoff at none although they give Occasion.” — The Papers of George Washington, Rules of Civility & Decent Behaviour Something to work on.
http://idle.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1596654&cid=31626326 Superb.
http://www.orc.soton.ac.uk/61.html How Fibre Lasers Work, includes a layman’s explanation of excited electron decay.
March 19, 2010
3/19
http://www.predictioneersgame.com/ Cool. I was just thinking about something like this this morning, modeling real-world events on game theory to see where they might lead. Very interesting.