Study guide for test2 - 2 views
It was in color and much nicer...bummer :p
The officers were unanimous in advising me to take a break from Twitter, assuming, as many people do, that Twitter is at best a time-wasting narcotic.
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The White House Is Now Taking Steps To Fight DDoS Attacks - 0 views
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sojtwo on 02 Feb 15Last month, attackers took down the PlayStation Network for several days, embarrassing Sony and leaving tons and tons of gamers unable to feed their Destiny addictions for almost a week. This is all thanks to what's called a Distributed Denial of Service attack, where a person or a group of people send an inflated amount of traffic to a network in hopes of overloading and crippling the servers.
Louis Pouzin, father of the datagram: Clever Gallic packets | The Economist - 0 views
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Louis Pouzin, one of the founding fathers of the internet. Inventor of the datagram.
Race to gigabit Internet service takes off - 0 views
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With the "irrational exuberance" of the early Internet economy, speculators spent billions laying thousands of miles of fiber optic cable for backhaul, expecting Internet use would continue growing at the unprecedented rates of the late 1990s. As part of the great dot com bust of 2000, however, most of the speculators went bust, leaving so-called "dark fiber" to wait for demand to catch up.
Judge tells Megaupload, other groups to work out server maintenance - 1 views
Lawyers for Megaupload, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Web hosting provider Carpathia Hosting and other groups fighting over who should maintain 1,100 servers formerly used by Megaupload sho...
Today's Apps Are Turning Us Into Sociopaths | Opinion | WIRED - 0 views
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We're observing the emergence of tech that doesn't just augment our intellect and lives, but is now beginning to automate and outsource our humanity. I talked to the makers of BroApp, which sends automated daily text messages to your significant other ("seamless relationship outsourcing"). Shared here is their rationale, which I believe goes beyond just this one app -- and captures widely held convictions in the tech community we need to pay attention to.
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We're observing the emergence of tech that doesn't just augment our intellect and lives, but is now beginning to automate and outsource our humanity. I talked to the makers of BroApp, which sends automated daily text messages to your significant other ("seamless relationship outsourcing"). Shared here is their rationale, which I believe goes beyond just this one app -- and captures widely held convictions in the tech community we need to pay attention to.
Top 10 Ways to Boost Your Home Wi-Fi - 1 views
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Wi-Fi is one of the most useful and important parts of using a computer, and yet it's also one of the most frustrating. If you're plagued by slow speeds, bad reception, and other Wi-Fi issues, here are 10 ways you can power up the Wi-Fi in your home.
Graphene sees your optical fibre network and makes it 100x faster - 0 views
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Summary: Researchers at the Centre of Graphene Science at the Universities of Bath and Exeter have demonstrated a 100x improvement in optical-fibre broadband speeds. Researchers at the Centre of Graphene Science at the Universities of Bath and Exeter have demonstrated a drastic improvement in optical-fibre broadband speeds via the use of the miracle material: graphene.
Disorder by design to improve material properties of sodium-ion batteries - ANSTO - 2 views
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In collaboration with the Institute of Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, ANSTO researchers have manipulated the electrochemical properties of a material that could improve the capacity and life of sodium-ion batteries.
Fake Cell Towers Allow the NSA and Police to Keep Track of You - 0 views
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The Internet is abuzz with reports of mysterious devices sprinkled across America-many of them on military bases-that connect to your phone by mimicking cell phone towers and sucking up your data. There is little public information about these devices, but they are the new favorite toy of government agencies of all stripes; everyone from the National Security Agency to local police forces are using them.
Women aren't welcome on the Internet - 0 views
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Pew found that from 2000 to 2005, the percentage of Internet users who participate in online chats and discussion groups dropped from 28 percent to 17 percent, “entirely because of women’s fall off in participation.
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Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman draws a distinction between “tourists” and “vagabonds” in the modern economy
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An eye opening essay on the challenges of being a woman online
How To Get IP Of Your Choice To Bypass Country Specific Censorship | Megaleecher.Net - 1 views
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What TOR can be used for.
LG patches data theft bug affecting millions of Android phones - 1 views
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LG has patched a security flaw in an application preinstalled on millions of its Android G3 smartphones that researchers found could be used to steal a variety of data. The application, called Smart Notice, is a kind of multifunctional widget, managing contacts, notifications, and weather and traffic alerts.
Alcator C-Mod tokamak nuclear fusion reactor sets world record on final day of operation. - 2 views
The MIT Tokamak is a high energy physics project designed to research the fundamental properties of the forth state of matter, that of plasma. This research has produced a good source of clean rene...
Growth of devices, applications changing IT support: Citrix ( - Internet - Ne... - 0 views
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wth of devices, applications changing IT
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Growth of devices, applications changing IT support: Citrix
'Compact & durable': Scientists encode, retrieve 10,000 gigabytes stored on DNA molecul... - 1 views
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"Researchers at the University of Washington and Microsoft are developing one of the first complete storage systems to house digital data in DNA."
What is network? - 1 views
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1. A network is a collection of computers, servers, mainframes, network devices, peripherals, or other devices connected to one another to allow the sharing of data. A excellent example of a network is the Internet, which connects millions of people all over the world.
CISPA Monitoring Bill: Just the Facts - 1 views
Internet activists are sounding the alarms on the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, a bill that's headed for a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives. CISPA would give pri...
Anonymous: Operation Defense Phase II [CISPA] - 1 views
Plans for protest of the latest threat to the free internet. Demonstrate and Boycott supporters of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA). Make your voice known to such ebtities ...