“Believing You Can Be Smarter Actually Makes You Smarter”
I’ve long maintained that anyone with a normally-working brain can learn to be smart. This article lends weight to that opinion.
Archive of posts filed under the Interests category.
Topics on my particular interests.
“The Internet is about to get a lot safer”
In brief: those who control the domain name server system are going to roll out DNSSEC on it this year. Excellent news, from a security perspective.
“Fundie denounces sf for atheism, nudism”
From the beginning of the Boing Boing article: Writing on the loony fundamentalist site “Way of Life,” David Cloud presents the startling intelligence that science fiction is rife with humanism, atheism, and is written by polyamorous nudists like Robert A Heinlein […] <sarcasm>How horrible!</sarcasm> The title of the post is “Beware of Science Fiction,” and …
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IPv4, Your Days Are Numbered
The title might seem rather yawn-inspiring to anyone who knows about the issue, but I’m not talking metaphorically. They are literally numbered: there was an estimated 625 days of them left on January 7th, representing 10.2% of the possible numbers. Just twelve days later, on the 19th, a second report said that was down to …
“Five-and-Dime of the Gods”
If you’ve ever read (or even just heard about) an Erich von Daniken book, this will sound awfully familiar. 😉
Desktop vs. Laptop: Still an Open Question
It appears that, despite the hype, laptops have not fully taken over yet. Good, that means I won’t be obliged to feel embarrassed if I ever decide I need to fix my old desktop machine, which I’m pretty sure just needs a new power supply. Strangely enough, I’ve been considering doing just that recently. It …
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“Plant Security Countermeasures”
An interesting glimpse into the many and varied defenses of the plant kingdom.
Secure FTP Headaches
I like the hosting company that we use for Oak Circle (and this blog). I’ve been a customer for about ten years, with various websites, and in that time, they’ve consistently improved what they offer, without raising their prices. But with my yearly renewal coming up next month, it was time to decide whether I …
“Outrageous new means of megastar demise spotted”
As “antimatter-driven hypernovae.” Quite interesting, in a science-geek kind of way, but when I first clicked on that title, I was expecting to read something about Prince or Cher dying in a novel manner. 😉
“Minnesota levies world’s first carbon tariff…against North Dakota”
It’ll be interesting to see how this fight turns out. And important as well. If North Dakota wins, it’ll put a damper on any attempts to use carbon tariffs. (Yes, it does “unfairly” give renewable energy an advantage over coal powered energy — that’s the whole point to it. But if I read the law …
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