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| Racing principles' role in cutting emissions | A renowned racing car designer has said that car manufacturers should be looking at making cars lighter to improve efficiency, rather than adding complex drive trains. In this article on the BBC News website, Professor Gordon Murray explains that a weight saving of 10% in a normal car would make more difference than switching to a hybrid engine and motor combination. |
| "Buy American" is UN-American | According to a recent poll, 80% of Americans think it their patriotic duty to give preference to American-made products. But "Buy American" is wholly un-American in both its economics and its philosophy. |
| A Tale of Four Kernels | The FreeBSD, GNU/Linux, Solaris, and Windows operating systems have kernels that provide comparable facilities. Interestingly, their code bases share almost no common parts, while their development processes vary dramatically. We analyze the source code of the four systems by collecting metrics in the areas of file organization, code structure, code style, the use of the C preprocessor, and data organization. The aggregate results indicate that across various areas and many different metrics, four systems developed using wildly different processes score comparably. This allows us to posit that the structure and internal quality attributes of a working, non-trivial software artifact will represent first and foremost the engineering requirements of its construction, with the influence of process being marginal, if any. |
| addiction-based game design | Everyone knows that World of Warcraft, its sinister older cousin EverQuest and similar games are addicting. But what is the exact quality they possess that makes them that way? Is there a specific property they possess that we can extract, distill and pour into other games? And, if we do this, are we using our powers for evil? |
| After Socialism | Virtually every American knows that Nazi Germany brought death to six million Jews and perhaps six million other victims. But how many know that communism is responsible for seven to eight times as many deaths? Until the West has thoroughly confronted this horrific slaughter, writes Alan Kors, communism cannot belong to the past. |
| Altruism and Capitalism | An article on altruism and capitalism by David Kelley of the Objectivist Center. An excellent article I'd recommend to anyone who supports the welfare state. |
| Anti-globalism and Nihilism | The recent surge of anti-globalism protests are examples of nihilism in practice. Indeed, it is the essence of freedom to be economically free: to be allowed the choice to take or leave the products available in the marketplace and the ideas on offer in the intellectual arena. But the protestors don't want to be free. Instead, they are free people begging for chains. |
| Arabian Fables | Josef Goebbels, the infamous propaganda minister of the Nazis, had it right. Just tell people big lies often enough and they will believe them. The Arabs have learned that lesson well. They have swayed world opinion by endlessly repeating myths and lies that have no basis in fact. |
| Are you living in a computer simulation? | ABSTRACT. This paper argues that at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a 'posthuman' stage; (2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof); (3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation. It follows that the belief that there is a significant chance that we will one day become posthumans who run ancestor-simulations is false, unless we are currently living in a simulation. A number of other consequences of this result are also discussed. |
| ARP Poisoning HowTo | A technical article about how switch CAM tables work, port stealing and other arp kungfu. |
| Assault Weapons | Since the 1994 assault weapons ban is now expired. I figured this would be the perfect time to post an analysis of this useless and stupid bill. Weapons were banned strictly based on cosmetic features rather then actual functionality. |
| Authentication Schemes for Wireless | In this paper we will discuss and evaluate the various methods for authentication on a wireless hotspot. This paper will focus specifically on enterprise scale authentication. We will cover a wide variety of common and not so common methods of authentication such as WEP, WPA, WPA2, PPPOE, PPTP, SSH, IPSEC, MAC Filtering. Also the different attack vectors will be illustrated such as MITM, MAC Spoofing and WEP/TKIP/LEAP cracking. |
| bin Laden's 'letter to America' | Online document: the full text of Osama bin Laden's "letter to the American people". The letter first appeared on the internet in Arabic and has since been translated and circulated by Islamists in Britain. Some of his anti Americanisms sound remarkably like what the left says, other attacks sound remarkably like what conversatives say about society. |
| Blocking p2p with a PIX firewall | This document demonstrates how to (attempt to) block the most common peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing programs with the PIX Firewall. If the application cannot effectively be blocked with the PIX, Cisco IOS® Network-Based Application Recognition (NBAR) configurations are included that can be configured on any Cisco router between the source host and the Internet. |
| Blogger under attack by anti-captcha | Websense Security Labs ThreatSeeker™ technology has discovered that spammers, in their recent tactics, have targeted Google’s well-known blog publishing system “Blogger” aka “Blogspot”, following the streamlined Microsoft’s Live Mail Anti-CAPTCHA, Google’s Gmail Anti-CAPTCHA and Microsoft’s Live Hotmail Anti-CAPTCHA operations. |
| Last Modified : May 29, 2009 |
