“Psychology and Security Resource Page”
Food for thought.
Archive of entries posted by Head Geek
“Capstone projects and time management”
Joel On Software, on one of the few similarities between student projects and professional ones: It’s taken me a while, but I finally learned that long-term deadlines (or no deadlines at all) just don’t work with professional programmers, either: you need a schedule of regular, frequent deliverables to be productive over the long term. That …
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“The Status of the P Versus NP Problem”
“It’s one of the fundamental mathematical problems of our time, and its importance grows with the rise of powerful computers.”
“Privacy”
Scott Adams, of Dilbert fame, has a unique perspective on the world’s ever-decreasing personal privacy. (Hint: it’s not all bad.)
“Terrorists Strike U.S. Infrastructure”
We just can’t seem to stop those darn terrorists.
“A Language of Smiles”
Musings on how the muscles used to enunciate a language might affect the mood of the culture that speaks it. I find this stuff fascinating. (For what it’s worth, I lean toward the “classical conditioning” hypothesis, though the “intrinsic properties” idea could also have merit.)
“Boffins ‘write directly to memory’ of living brains”
Happy Hallowe’en! Here‘s a vaguely Hallowe’en-themed article I stumbled across last week. It’s exciting, but the scary part is what an amoral dictator could do with it once it’s perfected.
“Six diseases you never knew you could catch”
More fascinating research.
VMware Fusion 3
The guys at VMware have really improved VMware Fusion. Most of the claimed improvements were apparently made for Windows 7, which I’m not running yet, but it’s a major improvement even without that. With version 2 (at least on this MacBook Pro), hard drive accesses from the VMs were extremely slow, though the virtual machines …
“Comcast pop-ups alert customers to PC infections”
I don’t know why ISPs didn’t start doing this ten years ago. It was easily possible then, and there was certainly a need for it at that point too. I hope more of them pick it up in the future.