Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts
Sunday, July 23, 2017

A 1995 Dystopian Vision of the Web

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This article , presenting a dystopian vision of the Web, was written by astronomer Clifford Stoll in 1995. A recent article discusses Stol...
Saturday, October 22, 2016

Download Speeds and Reviewing NSF Proposals

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The NSF has a helpful estimate of the download time for any proposal reviewers who might be connecting to the internet using a 28K modem. :)...
Wednesday, July 29, 2015

The Internet of Stuff

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In honor of George Carlin , the Internet of Things really ought be called the "Internet of Shit" (or possibly the "Internet ...
Thursday, January 16, 2014

1981 News Report on The Internet

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Long before the internet was for porn , the "two to three thousand" residents of San Francisco who owned home computers had the ch...
Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Soap makes you clean. SOPA makes you dirty. :)

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And if anybody else came up with this, be it known that I arrived at it independently. (As if I would have any other stance on this ...) ...
Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Community Structure, Web Cams, and Online Privacy

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Here is an interesting new article about how network analysis can help invade privacy. And you know what the biggest cited culprit is? Th...
Friday, June 26, 2009

Internet Traffic and Michael Jackson

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When I wrote my blog entry yesterday, I found myself unable to access Michael Jackson's wikipedia entry. Here is an interesting CNN.com...
Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Quote of the Day

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Today's quote comes from my father: "The internet is amazing." By itself, this quote wouldn't be very interesting, but let...
Sunday, February 10, 2008

Nilpotent

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Excuse the math pun in the title. There was a power outage yesterday and I found out one of the unfortunate side effects of having my offic...
Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Debate over inclusion into baseball writers' association

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There's quite a spat going on about the inclusion of internet journalists in the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA). B...
Tuesday, October 16, 2007

A show with everything but Gary Coleman

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Back when I was still living in the United States --- you know, a few weeks ago --- I finally got a chance to see the musical Avenue Q , whi...
Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Class Warfare as seen using Social Networking Sites

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Courtesy Arcane Gazebo , here is an article on class warfare as seen using the social networking sites Facebook and MySpace. I am a member...
Saturday, June 16, 2007

Pleasure e-mails

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This week has been a busy week. I set up several SURF students, worked on finishing up a paper (which we should submit very soon -- maybe as...
Friday, January 26, 2007

Six Degrees of Wikipedia

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First of all, I am stealing this idea from Gazebo . One of the things I study is real-world networks, and one of the major issues is how the...
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