John von Neumann (December 28, 1903 – February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian American mathematician who made major contributions to a vast range of fields,[1] including set theory, functional analysis, quantum mechanics, ergodic theory, continuous geometry, economics and game theory, computer science, numerical analysis, hydrodynamics (of explosions), and statistics, as well as many other mathematical [...]
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A better note system for iPhone – evernote
As happens to everybody eventually, we had the family crisis/drama event hit around Christmas. One of the things I learned quickly was that I was going to need a way to take and save lots of notes. I fired up the iphone notes application and went to town.
Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos augmented-reality maps | Video on TED.com
Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos augmented-reality maps | Video on TED.com.
You can try this for yourself at: http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/
Paypal API breaks security tokens?
A while ago I purchased the PayPal security token, and had really been liking it. The card is nice and small – about the size of a normal credit card, and it generates a key for you with each push of the button, so there’s no waiting for a minute for the next code to [...]
E-Mail Surveillance Renews Concerns in Congress – NYTimes.com
The National Security Agency is facing renewed scrutiny over the extent of its domestic surveillance program, with critics in Congress saying its recent intercepts of the private telephone calls and e-mail messages of Americans are broader than previously acknowledged, current and former officials said.
via E-Mail Surveillance Renews Concerns in Congress – NYTimes.com.
NANOG: NANOG46 Presentation Abstracts and Speaker Biographies
Much has been written about prefix hijacking but almost nothing has been presented and documented about best practices for preparing for a hijacking, detecting one, and responding when one happens.
This presentation attempts a first pass to cover those areas as well as presenting a novel approach (with some data analysis to determine it’s effectiveness) for [...]
NANOG: NANOG46 Presentation Abstracts and Speaker Biographies
The internet has made many things easier in human society, especially including crime. For the last decade the good guys keep losing and the bad guys keep getting rich — why? Drawing from contemporary examples including the 2008/2009 “conficker worm”, from the rise of drug-resistant microbes, and from Sun Tzu’s 2,500-year-old “The Art of War”, [...]
6 Surprising Facts about IPv6 — BreakingPoint
When you get an IPv4 address from your ISP, that’s all you get – an address. Maybe if you run a business, you get 3 or 4. With IPv6, your ISP gives you at least 264 addresses; that is 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 for those counting. IPv6 simplifies routing by making all sites /48, and all subnets /64. [...]
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