“Google mystery server runs 13% of active websites”
Google is taking over the ‘net — in more ways than one. Apparently advertising pays a lot more than we thought.
Archive of posts filed under the Science and Technology category.
Topics pertaining to science and technology, current or future.
“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 …
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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“Body Cavity Scanners”
I guess this beats having a sadistic guard do a body cavity search on you every time you need to fly somewhere — which is where things have been headed for the last decade or so.
“Why I Believe Printers Were Sent From Hell to Make Us Miserable”
Very timely, since GoddessJ and I helped her mother set up her new printer over the weekend. She replaced a semi-expensive Canon inkjet printer from around the turn of the century, which never worked particularly well and was extremely slow on top of that, with a really cheap (less than $150) Brother black-and-white laser printer/scanner/copier. …
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“How to Teach Physics to Your Dog”
At least a dog is likely to listen, or look like he’s listening. Cats, children, and non-scientist adults (unless you’re paying them) aren’t likely to even pretend interest.
“How Non-Latin Domain Names Could Be Used to Steal Your Money”
This does look like a problem. Here’s an idea for an easy solution, though. In the address bar, the browser could display both the address (as it does now) and the script name. Unicode is split up into different well-defined sections for different language scripts, so this shouldn’t be very difficult to implement. In the …
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