LibreSSL: More Than 30 Days Later. Ted Unangst tedu@openbsd.org LibreSSL was officially announced to the world just about exactly five months ago.
Bob spoke at BSDCan about the first 30 days. For those who weren't there, I'll quickly rehash some of that material. History, Travel, Arts, Science, People, Places. WAUeajg.jpg (JPEG Image, 754 × 502 pixels) Everything You Need to Know About the Simpsons-Family Guy Crossover. Hong Kong has entered a state of mass civil disobedience - Quartz. Tens of thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators are surging through the streets of Hong Kong to protest against Beijing’s influence over how the semi-autonomous territory elects its top officials.
Police used several rounds of tear gas to scatter the mostly peaceful crowds that had blocked one of Hong Kong’s main thoroughfares in the early evening, but crowds did not disperse. Earlier today, pro-democracy group Occupy Central announced the beginning of a civil disobedience campaign intended to disrupt Asia’s largest financial center until its demands for free elections are met. The campaign, originally planned for October, is riding a wave of momentum following a sit-in over the weekend where televised clashes between police and students, some of whom were pepper sprayed, prompted city residents to rally in support of the students.
Organizers say that around 60,000 demonstrators (paywall) were on the streets today, but police have not given an estimate. Emotions are raw indeed. Now I Know: Star Fortress. If you're interested in board games (and, as a litmus test, have played the game Settlers of Catan), I highly recommend the product shoehorned into the "related" section today.
I've played it many times and it's really a fantastic game. -- DanStar Fortress For centuries, the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Turks were at war. Italy's present-day Fruili region -- in the country's northeast -- was a particular hotspot, often finding itself the theater of battles between these two nation-states. In the late 1500s, the Venetians came up with a new form of defense: a star-shaped fortress, one with significant advantages over its square-shaped predecessors. History, Travel, Arts, Science, People, Places. Does a five-year-old need to learn how to code? 25 September 2014Last updated at 19:34 ET By Jane Wakefield Technology reporter Will your child grow up to be a programmer?
Here's a scary thought for any parent whose child has just started primary school. The new national curriculum for Key Stage 1 - ages five to seven (Years 1-2) - requires pupils in all local authority schools in England to "understand what algorithms are; how they are implemented on digital devices, that programs execute by following precise and unambiguous instructions; create and debug simple programme". And there were you thinking they were just going to be doing a bit of colouring.
The rather daunting-sounding plan is part of a push to get computer coding taught in school from an early age as a way of helping to find programmers for a jobs market that is increasingly reliant on such skills. When Everything Works Like Your Cell Phone. When a thing connects to the Internet, three things happen: it becomes smart, it becomes hackable, and it's no longer something you own.
Johan Larsson/Flickr Everyone understands what it means to own a plunger. Go to a store, buy the tool, take the physical object home, use it. No contract is required. After Consumer Reports flex test, new iPhones “not as bendy as believed” After reports began to surface that the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus are far more bendable than their predecessors, Consumer Reports promised it would put the new handsets to the test.
As of Friday evening, the results are in: "Our tests show that both iPhones seem tougher than the Internet fracas implies. " How exactly did the magazine come to that conclusion? Using an Instron compression test machine, the researchers applied a "three-point flexural test... in which the phone is supported at two points on either end, then force is applied at a third point on the top. " Terror laws clear Senate, enabling entire Australian web to be monitored and whistleblowers to be jailed. Terror laws enabling internet monitoring clear Senate Australia's spy agency could soon have the power to monitor the entire Australian internet after new anti-terrorism laws passed the Senate on Thursday night.
The new bill (PDF) Australian spies will soon have the power to monitor the entire Australian internet with just one warrant, and journalists and whistleblowers will face up to 10 years' jail for disclosing classified information. The government's first tranche of tougher anti-terrorism bills, which will beef up the powers of the domestic spy agency ASIO, passed the Senate by 44 votes to 12 on Thursday night with bipartisan support from Labor. How does SQLite work? Part 1: pages! This evening the fantastic Kamal and I sat down to learn a little more about databases than we did before.
I wanted to hack on SQLite, because I’ve used it before, it requires no configuration or separate server process, I’d been told that its source code is well-written and approachable, and all the data is stored in one file. Perfect! Human trials of artificial artery. An artificial artery is set to be tested in human trials early this year.
London's Royal Free Hospital used nanotechnology to develop the small bypass graft from a polymer material. The material enables the graft to mimic the natural pulsing of human blood vessels, which enables them to deliver nutrients to the body's tissues. The ultimate aim is to use the graft in coronary artery and lower-limb arterial surgery, which doctors say could reduce amputations and heart attacks.
Small Farmer Explains What It Takes To Stay In Business - Business Insider. The secret to raising well behaved teens? Maximise their Zzzzz’s! Printer friendly version Share 26 September 2014 Taylor & Francis While American paediatricians warn sleep deprivation can stack the deck against teenagers, a new study from Taylor & Francis reveals youth’s irritability and laziness aren’t down to attitude problems but lack of sleep.
Recently published in the journal of Learning, Media and Technology, this interesting paper exposes the negative consequences of sleep deprivation caused by early school bells, and shows that altering education times not only perks up teens’ mood, but also enhances learning and health. It is no secret that human biology and education measure time in different ways; however, ‘our ability to function optimally [and learn], varies with biological time rather than conventional social times’, explain the team leading the research.
A Potentially Cheap Way to Store Solar. If solar power is to become a primary source of electricity around the world, we’ll need cheap ways to store energy from the sun when it isn’t shining. A paper published in the journal Science this week reports a major step toward such a system. Researchers have developed a device that cheaply and efficiently converts the energy in sunlight into hydrogen, which can be used as a fuel and is easily stored. Michael Graetzel, who directs the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces at the Ecole Polytechnique in Lausanne, Switzerland, along with colleagues in Korea and Singapore, built a device that uses electricity and catalyst materials to make hydrogen and oxygen from water. Tim Berners-Lee calls for internet bill of rights to ensure greater privacy.
The inventor of the world wide web has warned that the freedom of the internet is under threat by governments and corporations interested in controlling the web. Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist who invented the web 25 years ago, called on Saturday for a bill of rights that would guarantee the independence of the internet and ensure users’ privacy. “If a company can control your access to the internet, if they can control which websites they go to, then they have tremendous control over your life,” Berners-Lee said at the Web We Want festival on the future of the internet in London. “If a government can block you going to, for example, the opposition’s political pages, then they can give you a blinkered view of reality to keep themselves in power.” “Suddenly the power to abuse the open internet has become so tempting both for government and big companies.”
Rooftop solar panels could soon cut utility profits by 15% or more. Rooftop solar panel installations could cut utility profits by 15% or more over the next eight years, according to a federally funded report (download PDF) that studied two prototypical U.S. utilities -- one in the Southwest and the other in the Northeast. The study predicts that rooftop solar panel installations will grow from 0.2% market penetration today to 10% by 2022. Using that scenario, the analysis found that shareholder earnings fell by 8% for the Southwest utility and by 15% for the Northeast utility using the 10% photovoltaic (PV) rooftop panel market penetration assumption. However, earnings fell by as much as 13% and 41%, respectively, under certain other conditions. The 50 Year Argument: Martin Scorsese's Documentary About The New York Review of Books.
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