[aotsukisho]

http://www.newscient...-1903-lulz.html
one of the first hackers?

http://www.pcworld.c...censorship.html
private satellites for freedom of speech?

[aotsukisho]

http://arstechnica.c...till-online.ars
Facebook really sucks at deleting photos that are supposed to be gone...

http://blogs.msdn.co...3/10263262.aspx
Microsoft's C++ compiler makes 20 years old this year

http://www.nytimes.c...st-hackers.html
as mobile phones become more and more like mini computers, the risk of hacking increases

http://modernerd.com...who-print-shoes
teehee, Pirate Bay

http://www.mondaynot...ital-ecosystem/
Piracy being not a bad thing necessarily, it will probably instead help shape how executives think about what people want

http://prog21.dadgum.com/68.html
this is an article about something that's been bothering me for awhile now, the general responsiveness of the devices we use. Sure, a computer is an excellent multitasker, but why oh why does my phone have such crappy responsiveness when being a phone is all it's designed to do? I don't want my input to be shown to be recognized half a second later, I want a keypress or stroke to be done in realtime as far as the phone's GUI is concerned.

[aotsukisho]

http://technologizer...e-against-thin/
why is thin better? perhaps we should look into other things when we list desirable traits for our electronics, so perhaps they could have more battery life.

http://www.mcsweeney...conquering-hero
lol, Beowulf fixes a router.

http://www.antoniori...eet-as-a-proxy/
Google Docs as a proxy server

[aotsukisho]

http://www.theverge....m-two-years-ago
Windows 7 was running on ARM before the ipad was announced

http://www.gerrymcgo...13-Why-ugly.htm
perhaps ugly is the way to go?

http://www.dansdata.com/gz125.htm
despite advances in very nearly all other aspects of computing, file extensions are still a necessity.

http://www.dodgycode...developers.html
tricks that game programmers do...

http://www.component...raction-junkie/
distraction bad!

[aotsukisho]

http://swreflections...-it-really.html
Programming in debt?

http://www.johndcook...arp-batch-file/
running C# as an interpreted language?

http://lea.verou.me/...early-superior/
lol, someone's rant on why you should use tab spacing and not spaces

http://eric.themorit...hould-read.html
important books to read for computer scientists

http://news.cnet.com...last-mainframe/
NASA shuts down their last mainframe computer

http://techland.time...finition-of-pc/
seriously, what is a 'PC' nowadays?

http://www.wired.com...ers-lee-patent/
Tim BL takes a stand against those who try to patent web technologies

http://www.gamasutra...ame_bottom_.php
a very down to earth blog post from an indie game developer.

http://arstechnica.c...les-for-ipo.ars
investing in Facebook?

http://mywiki.wooledge.org/FtpMustDie
why FTP must die

http://channel9.msdn...s-SDK-v1-is-out
kind of an old post, but Microsoft released an SDK for Kinect

http://windowsteambl...ndows-logo.aspx
the new, redesigned logo for Windows as of Windows 8

http://erratasec.blo...ns-servers.html
Anonymous can't take down the internet by attacking DNS servers, unlike they say...

[aotsukisho]

http://blogs.msdn.co...y-settings.aspx
http://www.theatlant...the-web/253758/
http://lifehacker.co...ow-to-stop-them
various sites are finding ways to circumvent the stoppage of tracking cookies. here's what you can do to make sure your privacy is safe.

http://www.pcpro.co....er-a-pc-company
Dell moves away from the consumer PC market and instead will focus on enterprise computing instead.

http://cdixon.org/20...arn-to-program/
really, who should learn programming?

http://al3x.net/2012...re-in-2012.html
how (not) to sell software in the modern environment

http://www.knowyourm..._the_world.html
Mozilla's mobile OS based on HTML5 and other open technologies

http://www.wired.com...2/03/antivirus/
do you really need antivirus? I don't.

[Joshua Pack]

Really liked the how not to sell article

[aotsukisho]

^ lol it's a good one huh?

http://chronicle.com...l-Media/131300/
new 'facebook' allows you to add enemies!

http://www.buzzfeed....veryones-flippi
Homeless Hotspots? I think it's brilliant.

http://www.technolog...imssbits/27663/
running a startup company? you'd be surprised at the statistical necessity of having women on your team

http://jclaes.blogsp...wnload-and.html
browser cache management not as good as we'd like to think?

http://www.joshondes...are-dead-to-me/
lol, iframe

http://www.extremete...eath-of-firefox
is Firefox dead? (and is it really a bad thing?)

http://www.technolog...og/arxiv/27642/
is the Cloud no more stable than our economy?

http://simpleprogram...-cancel-button/
the importance (and how to implement) a good cancel button. seriously, read this article.

[aotsukisho]

http://www.extremete...-supercomputers
quite an amazing look at the supercomputers of past and present

http://techland.time...iconic-product/
35th anniversary of the Apple II

http://37signals.com...ng-like-the-tsa
you are probably testing your programs too much...

http://pksunkara.github.com/semicolon/
a programming language based on semicolons. dafuq?

http://www.nytimes.c...=2&pagewanted=1
an article about the seemingly explosive addiction to 'stupid' games with an AMAZING stupid game on the page itself

http://everythingsys...-rebooting.html
fear of rebooting justified

http://www.softwareq...or-a-rock-star/
you don't have to be a prodigiously good programmer to contribute to open source projects

http://www.whattofix...-programmer.php
bringing up a good point: what happens when a programmer dies? where does their digital legacy go, and how is it best handled?

http://arstechnica.c...ng-yourself.ars
how to properly erase hard drives before selling, etc.

http://www.dailymail...ly-days-PC.html
lol, vintage ads for computing related products

[aotsukisho]

http://arstechnica.c...-under-assault/
passwords keep getting worse and worse, while password cracking techniques are accelerating

http://www.newfangle...p_is_your_fault
how to put the hammer down and prevent scope creep

http://www.inc.com/r...laint-call.html
quite a nice inspirational story to better yourself and your tolerance

https://community.qu...kedin-passwords
more stuff on bad password ethics

http://www.osnews.co...cy_in_UI_design
a personal peeve of mine is that there is no standardization whatsoever in GUI

[aotsukisho]

http://www.neowin.ne...orld-os-problem
first world problems: my OS boots too fast

http://www.infoworld...193065?page=0,0
keeping yourself safe on mobile Android devices

http://www.scriptol....ming/quotes.php
funny quotes about programming languages

[aotsukisho]

http://www.nytimes.c...gewanted=1&_r=0
I don't think people understand what it means to run a data center. sure, it must waste a lot of energy when the servers are not stressed to capacity, but it's very little $$ in the way of an insurance policy. Companies are willing to pay for that in order for their website to have as much uptime/scalability/reliability as possible.

http://techblog.rose...yptography.html
very informative article on cryptography. worth reading if you're interested in security at all.

http://www.olsenhome.com/gif/
how is the "GIF" file format suffix pronounced?

http://uxmovement.co...aster-to-users/
interesting psych article about how to make users feel as though your program is loading/installing faster (even when it isn't)

http://www.datagenet...2012/index.html
analyzing passwords. more specifically, analyzing PIN choice patterns.

http://blog.cloudfla...ddos-no-problem
65 Gbps DDOS?!

http://www.mentalflo...archives/142550
did blowing on the NES cartridges actually do anything?

http://arstechnica.c...urceforge-site/
phpmyadmin mirror on SourceForge was found to have a malicious backdoor inserted in

[aotsukisho]

http://www.pcworld.c...-in-secret.html
why you should be wary about internet privacy

http://arstechnica.c...-in-your-inbox/
tracking YOU through your email

http://yuzhikov.com/...estoration1.htm
a particularly interesting deblurring program, and it really works. not as clear as CSI fiction but enough to be legible.

http://www.theregist...firefox_legacy/
what Firefox has taught everyone

http://www.creativeb...-website-912823
things to keep in mind when designing a mobile-compatible website

http://net.tutsplus....-for-beginners/
coding pitfalls 'for dummies'

http://windows95tips.tumblr.com/
LOL

http://www.technewsd...ead-faster.html
high contrast reading surfaces, ie. backlit screens, improves WPM

http://buildnewgames...-to-javascript/
compiling a program...to Javascript?

http://arstechnica.c...it-the-new-ie6/
Webkit engine the new IE6 scourge?

http://windowswave.c...ation-for-free/
free Windows 8 lol

http://techblog.bozho.net/?p=1021
autonomously generated music!

[aotsukisho]

http://arstechnica.c...-not-suspended/
Mozilla says no plans for 64-bit Windows Firefox, which is bad

http://chrismdp.com/...of-good-naming/
the importance of naming your variables, something to keep in mind next time you're prototyping

http://semiaccurate....pcs-go-with-it/
Intel seems to be killing off the socketed processor model.

http://www.wired.co....-mouse-tracking
IE vulnerability allows one to track a user's mouse movements around the entire screen, and even if the webpage isn't in focus!

http://research.micr.../kopf/pixelart/
smoothing algorithm for pixel art (ie. 8-bit Nintendo)

[aotsukisho]

http://phys.org/news...er-barrier.html
million core supercomputer used for fluid dynamics (jet engine research)

http://arstechnica.c...nline-retail/2/
Newegg is victorious in a lawsuit with a company claiming to have patents on online shopping cart technology

http://hal2020.com/2...ow-we-got-here/
the story of crapware, and why it's not going anywhere anytime soon

http://net.tutsplus....he-year-of-php/
2013 is gonna be nice to PHP?

http://css.dzone.com...s-web-designers
font tools for webdevs

http://arstechnica.c...abytes-of-data/
sigh

http://jakevdp.githu...os-with-python/
this guy wrote a Python script to directly access the Super Mario Bros game sprites from the ROM and generate animations

http://blog.theincre...o-we-read-code/
somewhat unsurprisingly, we read code like how a computer would execute it

http://theindustry.c...rends-for-2013/
GUI trends for the new year

http://www.cemetech..../item.php?id=42
TI calculator emulator online

http://damienkatz.ne...eness_of_c.html
why people are tsundere to C

http://www.pcworld.c...ndd-secret.html
Microsoft is probably the most powerful R&D company out there

http://creativejs.co...amiga-emulator/
an Amiga emulator written in HTML5

[aotsukisho]

http://arstechnica.c...bytes-per-gram/
data encoded onto DNA

http://arstechnica.c...ics-on-malware/
an article on malware, but I think the real gem in this page is the 'promoted user comment' on the bottom. I never understood it either.

http://news.harvard....nged-the-world/
Markov Chains are 100 years old

http://blog.ninlabs....er-interrupted/
do not ever interrupt a programmer in progress

http://scienceblogs....re-time-travel/
Reddit upvotes make posts time travel

http://news.national...-personal-data/
stupidity in the form of university administration

http://royal.pingdom...012-in-numbers/
an article I found last month, here are some statistics for 2012

[aotsukisho]

http://www.nytimes.c...ewanted=1&_r=3
hmm...China seems to have a US-targeted hacker group located in a building

http://www.techhive....of-gaming-.html
I admit that when I first started gaming I thought consoles were the way to go, but as I got into PC gaming I can honestly say that I was stupid. Technology comes out so quickly that we really can't expect 5-year-old hardware to support the latest and greatest games. Sure PC gaming is a lot more expensive hardware-wise but the modularity gives us freedom to customize, and sometimes you don't have to upgrade but just do a bit of overclocking.

http://cacm.acm.org/...amming/fulltext
this is how you teach real world programming

http://www.kalzumeus...f-a-programmer/
awesome tech career advice

http://www.russellbe...its-the-browser
shitty Android browsers... :\

http://www.technolog...and-yesterdays/
an algorithm for predicting the future based on the news today

http://www.aaronstan...-Developer.aspx
get up to your potential as a software developer.

http://www.osnews.co...VII_game_engine
FFVII game engine

http://www.troyhunt....rity-is-us.html
we are the biggest web security flaw

[aotsukisho]

http://limi.net/checkboxes-that-kill
should software have options out in the open that can potentially cripple software for non-power users?

http://curleybraces....ence-Matters/11
what is Computer Science?

http://www.bbc.co.uk...onment-21831916
Tim BL and other internet pioneers win engineering prize

http://bilaw.al/2013...characters.html
using Javascript to do phishing in which the hover address check appears normal

http://jlongster.com...mes-with-Canvas
make sprite games with Canvas

http://www.wired.com...62&viewall=true
wonderful photo-gallery-cum-article on restored computers from various points in history.

http://www.xbitlabs...._This_Year.html
Seagate is stopping production of 7200rpm 2.5" drives. This is good news, since that means SSD prices are dropping close enough to the "premium" drive price.

http://hackaday.com/...-foot-switches/
Arduino foot switch

http://www.theverge....uered-the-world
short history of emoji

http://spin.atomicob...05/why-haskell/
maybe I'll learn Haskell over the summer

http://www.geekwire....s-startup-hype/
should you really join a startup right out of school?

http://blog.samuelle...ng-reasons.html
funny article about how PHP is usually referred to as such a crappy language, yet the ones making these accusations have a flawed idea on what PHP is really for.

http://www.sfgate.co...ism-4342160.php
"Innovation" is a buzzword, yet...what is done that is innovative?

http://www.campaul.n...ack-to-firefox/
I've never used Chrome extensively due to my distrust of Google but I'm glad that Firefox is still a contender in the Browser Wars.

http://nostarch.com/xboxfree
"Hacking the Xbox" is a book written by Andrew Huang, who was the first one to hack into the Xbox console back when he was a student at MIT. It's now available as an ebook for free in honor of Aaron Swartz.

http://www.nytimes.c...reach.html?_r=0
speaking of Google distrust

http://www.theverge....es-movies-games
Pixar studio mathematics

http://blog.microfoc...e-browser/2271/
if you don't believe Dijkstra, you can write some COBOL in your web browser

[aotsukisho]

http://www.not-imple...-not-computers/
an article basically saying that since DNS can parse URLs regardless of how they look, why are modern URLs sometimes so ugly?

https://medium.com/m...ng/2b5ef79482cb
are Bitcoins in a bubble?

http://ferd.ca/don-t...umentation.html
how to write good documentation

http://techland.time...le-april-fools/
an article I've been meaning to post for awhile. Google's greatest "April Fool's" ever turned out to be real

http://www.extremete...-modern-browser
URE3 ported to work in your browser!

http://carywalkin.wo...-xlsm-released/
an RPG that's built in an Excel worksheet

http://www.mycplus.c...ming-languages/
a cool list of Hello World programs in a huge amount of languages

http://hal2020.com/2.../08/touch-hate/
sort of why I don't agree with Win8 (yet?). They focus so hard on making it touch-friendly that they kind of forget that a lot of us don't have touch capable hardware. Well....that, and I fucking hate it when there are fingerprints on my screen.

[aotsukisho]

http://msdn.microsof...e/dn166934.aspx
lol code

http://arstechnica.c...r-ad-for-hs-ok/
an ISP injecting ads into popular websites for its subscribers

http://readwrite.com...ed-by-employers
the 15 best programming languages for a career?

[aotsukisho]

http://blog.bufferap...s-facebook-blue
the importance of color in web design

http://www.greenhear...ause-of-piracy/
quite humorous article about the apparent double standard that software pirates have

http://madebyevan.co...e-cpp-features/
cool features in C++ you probably don't know about

http://www.darkreadi...-fast/240153399
DDoS attacks now break 10Gbps speeds o_o

http://arstechnica.c...ck-it-to-intel/
article about AMD's rise and fall over the years, with a second article to follow it up.

http://www.pcworld.c...day.html?page=0
antique hardware still in use today

http://arstechnica.c...ssword-cracker/
cracking passwords are easier than you think

http://management.fo...?iid=SF_F_River
being smarter doesn't necessarily make you a better contributor or worker

[aotsukisho]

http://blog.hoctor.c...e-been-written/
maybe developers shouldn't be focused on making the next 'killer app' but instead focus on improving existing solutions

http://www.mjt.me.uk...bout-addresses/
interesting address facts to give devs a headache lol

http://arstechnica.c...your-passwords/
it's easier than you think to break into your accounts

http://www.catswhoco...ns-and-snippets
php is awesome, here's some clever ways to do things

http://happybearsoft...yptography.html
related to passwords, this is how to properly hash things

http://www.aeonmagaz...eveloper-money/
are webdevs really all that glamorous?

http://gigaom.com/20...and-so-can-you/
Wikipedia now has an API

http://www.theinquir...years-old-today
a bit late, but Ethernet is now 40 years old

http://tidbits.com/article/13788
social acceptibility of wearable computing, ie. google glass

http://peter.gillard...nitor-dont-log/
how to make a good logfile

https://www.eff.org/...nt-dnt-proposal
do-not-track is currently by the honor system...

http://wekeroad.com/...ake-you-smarter
I kind of noticed this with 'real' languages, so it makes sense. you don't truly understand a language until you learn another one and find out what your language does wrong

http://www.poweradmi...in-should-know/
roxor ur windoes boxor

[aotsukisho]

http://christianheil...age-technology/
for those of us who do some public speaking, here's some tips from the tech side of things

http://theconversati...-on-a-dvd-15306
upping the bit density on optical media

[aotsukisho]

http://www.bbc.co.uk...onment-23576143
The first artificially grown burger is eaten. This experiment was brought about by the fear of food shortage in the near future. In typical British fashion, the people opposed to this breakthrough say 'eating less meat is an easier solution'.

http://www.theverge....grizzly-updated
another first, this time it's the world's first 3D printed rifle being fired. Very cool stuff.

[aotsukisho]

http://www.theverge....rs-in-documents
Xerox copies may not actually be verbatim

http://blog.sucuri.n...if-headers.html
hiding malware inside of JPEG headers

[aotsukisho]

http://www.moserware...o-advanced.html
comic to understanding the basics of Rijndael encryption

http://mashable.com/...amming-pirates/
Smart, Netflix uses the top-pirated lists to decide what to provide

[aotsukisho]

http://www.businessi...sinesses-2014-1
anything connected to your home network, including appliances, has the potential to be compromised and added to a botnet

http://www.computerw..._in_clear_text_
Starbucks is the latest company to be revealed to have no data security

http://recode.net/20...betes-patients/
Google's latest publicized endeavor is a contact lens containing a glucose sensor for diabetics to wear

http://mashable.com/...cycling-emails/
Hmm.....Hotmail/Outlook email addresses being reused? Isn't this kind of a big security issue?

http://www.theverge....les-in-your-web
self explanatory

http://readwrite.com...avor-of-mariadb
MySQL isn't owned by Sun anymore, and Oracle hasn't made it clear whether or not MySQL will remain free. As such, Google decided to pull the plug sooner rather than later which is what I would do since changing things at your leisure is much less stressful than doing it because it's necessary.

http://readwrite.com...16/oracle-mysql
On the other half of the MySQL coin, there's no certainty that it will become proprietary at all, and it's actually grown quite a bit under Oracle's development

http://blogs.compute...-password-world
Google probably stores every single wifi password in the world

http://arstechnica.c...could-be-fixed/
The pain of updating Windows XP can be relieved now that there will soon be no more available patches for it

http://www.theverge....u-even-buy-them
Amazon has gotten a new patent for 'anticipatory shipping', or in other words, shipping things to people before they even buy them.

[aotsukisho]

http://www.zdnet.com...ear-7000025215/
Microsoft is providing security updates to WinXP for another year

http://www.wired.com...014/01/mozilla/
Mozilla calls on the world to help protect its browser from the NSA. In the case that the NSA issues both a mandate that browsers insert a snooping backdoor and a gag order on said feature...the open source community can find it, correct it, and because of the licensing, release their own version without it being an official Mozilla product and thus not bound by the same rules.

http://www.zdnet.com...ves-7000025375/
mass hard drive reliability data.

http://betanews.com/...d-out-its-poor/
shitty passwords from last year

http://www.theverge....-atms-worldwide
apparently, 95% of ATMs run some form of Windows XP

[aotsukisho]

http://www.slate.com...sychopathy.html
Personality study shows that people who like trolling people on the internet tend to have some sort of mental health issues

http://sdt.bz/conten...ID=68654&page=1
'Honey encryption' is a new type of encription that is more difficult for hackers to work around, as the application will return data regardless of the credentials entered. The data will always look real, which makes it difficult for brute force attacks as the hacker will have to come up with some way to parse the data.

http://www.theverge....bing-experiment
There is a possibility that there will be a free Windows 8.1 available, bundled with a whole bunch of apps

[Joshua Pack]

Shonen, on 14 March 2014 - 07:05 PM, said:

http://www.slate.com...sychopathy.html
Personality study shows that people who like trolling people on the internet tend to have some sort of mental health issues

I knew it!!!! Actually this makes me a bit happy, because I seem to attract trolls, and they annoy me so much, but now, I can just post that link!