Shared Items – March 2, 2010
Wash. man electrocuted by urinating on power line March 2, 2010 – Possibly the most gruesome way to go that I can imagine.
Shared Items – February 26, 2010
Vancouver Now – Emergency shipment of condoms headed to Olympic athletes – Post Sports February 26, 2010 – Canada is awesome!
Shared Items – February 19, 2010
Ex-Goldman programmer indicted over HFT code theft | Reuters February 18, 2010 – Who wants to bet that this case never goes to trial? There will be a settlement involving the perpetrator agreeing to never describe what this code actually…
Shared Items – February 18, 2010
School used student laptop webcams to spy on them at school and home Boing Boing February 18, 2010 – This is pretty creepy and fits in to my “hypothetical attacks we talked about in Grad school are very real” theme.…
Shared Items – February 17, 2010
Mozilla Debates Whether to Trust Chinese CA | Freedom to Tinker February 17, 2010 – It’s amazing when these esoteric technical issues we talked about in grad school turn out to be real-life issues. What if the certificate authority is…
Shared Items – February 10, 2010
BBC News – Warner retreats from free music streaming February 10, 2010 – Surprise, Surprise. Just as streaming music sites like Pandora look to be turning the corner, here come the music labels to move the goal posts. Again. In…
Shared Items – February 8, 2010
How Facebook uses Erlang for real-time chat – Off the Grid!! February 8, 2010 – This is a somewhat old blog post from a Facebook engineer describing how they engineered the chat system in Erlang. It’s notable because it contains…
Shared Items – February 7, 2010
On College Campuses, a Shortage of Men – NYTimes.com February 6, 2010 – Hmm, not what I remember…
Shared Items – February 6, 2010
Backing out of a term sheet cdixon.org – chris dixon's blog February 5, 2010 – Chris Dixon flexes some muscle. Hardcore.
Shared Items – February 5, 2010
The disrupted of Davos « BuzzMachine February 5, 2010 – Very interesting view of the WEF