http://www.bradmurray.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Brad's feed generator 1.0 Some idiot 2/9/2012 1:32:18 AM -0500 120 http://aws.amazon.com/message/65648/ Amazon did a post mortem on the recent EBS-based outage 2/9/2012 1:32:18 AM -0500 amazon security cloud http://www.infostor.com/backup-and_recovery/cloud-storage/2010/f5-arx-appliances-integrate-with-cloud-storage.html F5 Networks announced additions to its ARX line of file virtualization appliances today, including integration with cloud storage platforms and the introduction of the iControl file services API. F5 also previewed a virtual appliance\u2013 dubbed ARX Virtual Edition that will be delivered in the next quarter 2/9/2012 1:32:18 AM -0500 storage datacenter cloud http://archives.igda.org/articles/erobinson_crunch.php There's a bottom-line reason most industries gave up crunch mode over 75 years ago: It's the single most expensive way there is to get the work done. 2/9/2012 1:32:18 AM -0500 productivity management business http://googlevoiceblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/port-your-existing-mobile-number-to.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+GoogleVoiceBlog+(Google+Voice+Blog) Finally Google makes it so you can port an exiting number to google voice. \u00a0It costs $20 to do the port. 2/9/2012 1:32:18 AM -0500 google voice phone http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/01/introducing-the-amazon-simple-email-service.html Amazon releases sendmail service which was seriously needed. \u00a0Unfortunately there is no basic SMTP interface so integration is not that simple. 2/9/2012 1:32:18 AM -0500 amazon aws email http://blog.restbackup.com/how-to-use-amazon-ec2-as-your-desktop Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud is a service allowing you to rent servers in Amazon datacenters by the hour. Using EC2 for your desktop makes sense if you need a powerful machine with a great Internet connection, colocated with your production servers. 2/9/2012 1:32:18 AM -0500 ec2 amazon cloud aws http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2010/12/15-phone-3-minutes-all-thats-needed-to-eavesdrop-on-gsm-call.ars Speaking at the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) Congress in Berlin on Tuesday, a pair of researchers demonstrated a start-to-finish means of eavesdropping on encrypted GSM cellphone calls and text messages, using only four sub-$15 telephones as network \u201csniffers,\u201d a laptop computer, and a variety of open source software. 2/9/2012 1:32:18 AM -0500 cellular phone security http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/12/22/chinese.researchers.store.data.in.bacteria 2/9/2012 1:32:18 AM -0500 science data-storage http://www.patrick-wied.at/static/nudejs/ nude.js is a JavaScript implementation of a nudity scanner based on approaches from research papers. HTMLCanvas makes it possible to analyse image data and afterwards decide whether it should be displayed or not. The detection algorithm runs at the client, therefore it's possible (with user interaction) to display the image even if it's identified as nude (false positive) 2/9/2012 1:32:18 AM -0500 algorithms javascript programming http://blog.wekeroad.com/thoughts/open-id-is-a-party-that-happened I've always been a major proponent of Open ID. I love the idea and the intention - it's a great solution to a long-standing problem and solves a lot of issues for developers. Unfortunately it creates a ton more for business owners. 2/9/2012 1:32:18 AM -0500 security business http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a3986a1c-f28c-11df-a2f3-00144feab49a.html#axzz15bFJq1KH Please use the link to reference this article. Do not copy & paste articles which is a breach of FT.com's Ts&Cs (www.ft.com\/servicestools\/help\/terms) and is copyright infringement. Send a link for free or email ftsales.support@ft.com to purchase rights. http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/a3986a1c-f28c-11df-a2f3-00144feab49a.html#ixzz15bG28Soo\n\nThe number of people subscribing to US cable television services has suffered its biggest decline in 30 years as younger, tech-savvy viewers lead an exodus to web-based operations, such as Hulu and Netflix. 2/9/2012 1:32:18 AM -0500 tv iptv http://www.cnbc.com/id/39594637 The car is a project of Google, which has been working in secret but in plain view on vehicles that can drive themselves, using artificial-intelligence software that can sense anything near the car and mimic the decisions made by a human driver. 2/9/2012 1:32:18 AM -0500 google innovation technology automotive http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9191460/Researchers_one_step_closer_to_bootless_computer_ Physicists at UC Riverside have made a breakthrough in developing a spin computer which would combine logic with nonvolatile memory, bypassing the need for computers to boot up. 2/9/2012 1:32:18 AM -0500 computer hardware research technology http://www.bnet.com/blog/technology-business/patent-office-admits-the-truth-things-are-a-disaster/5419 The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, under its new director, David Kappos, has finally begun to seriously address transparency of information with a new data visualization dashboard. The big lesson? As a number of people who watch the organization have thought, for years \u2014 years \u2014 the USPTO has blown smoke and lived in a world of denial and obfuscation. 2/9/2012 1:32:18 AM -0500 legal patent tech http://blog.boxee.tv/2010/06/11/boxee-box-by-d-link-release-set-for-november-in-north-america/ Boxee has now delayed their oddly-shaped box until November. I don't seem them surviving this delay as many people (evidenced in the comments) are jumping ship. 2/9/2012 1:32:18 AM -0500 hardware tv http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jun/01/digital-economy-act-will-fail Disconnecting downloaders will alienate the entertainment industry's most loyal customers 2/9/2012 1:32:18 AM -0500 copyright internet http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2010/05/new-amazon-s3-reduced-redundancy-storage-rrs.html The new REDUCED_REDUNDANCY storage class activates a new feature known as Reduced Redundancy Storage, or RRS. Objects stored using RRS have a durability of 99.99%, or four 9's. If you store 10,000 objects with us, on average we may lose one of them every year. RRS is designed to sustain the loss of data in a single facility. 2/9/2012 1:32:18 AM -0500 amazon aws cloud storage http://code.google.com/p/regexml/ Regular expressions are great at parsing portions of text out of a string or determining whether text matches a specific pattern. However, this power comes at a cost. Regular expressions can be very complex to write and difficult to document. Many regular expression libraries don't support in-line comments at all. And even when they are supported, comments can seem to blend in with the rest of the expression (see example below). Additionally, there are numerous special characters to remember that must be escaped in order to use them literally. The purpose of this project is to simplify the process of creating and maintaining complex regular expressions by allowing them to be defined in a more verbose XML vocabulary. 2/9/2012 1:32:18 AM -0500 opensource xml regexp http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/196017994/diaspora-the-personally-controlled-do-it-all-distr Enter your Diaspora seed, a personal web server that stores all of your information and shares it with your friends. Diaspora knows how to securely share your pictures, videos, and more. When you have a Diaspora seed of your own, you own your social graph, you have access to your information however you want, whenever you want, and you have full control of your online identity. Once we have built a solid foundation, we will make Diaspora easy to extend to facilitate any type of communication, and the possibilities will be endless. 2/9/2012 1:32:18 AM -0500 distributed p2p opensource socialnetworking privacy http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/05/everything-is-illuminated/8015 It looks like a vintage cell phone and weighs about 13 ounces. Held against a bag of white powder, it emits a beam of laser light that (in 20 seconds) can tell the officers at a crime scene whether the bag contains crack cocaine, methamphetamine, or baby powder. The device is programmed to recognize 100 narcotics. 2/9/2012 1:32:18 AM -0500 science tech http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=flying-blind-in-policy-reforms Health care, climate change and other complex topics demand more expert and public debate 2/9/2012 1:32:18 AM -0500 politics healthcare http://www.origin.popularmechanics.com/science/air_space/4344036.html You're six miles up, alone and falling without a parachute. Though the odds are long, a small number of people have found themselves in similar situations\u2014and lived to tell the tale. Here's Popular Mechanics's 120-mph, 35,000-ft, 3-minutes-to-impact survival guide. 2/9/2012 1:32:18 AM -0500 science flying survival http://www.cultofmac.com/ces-apple-fellow-alan-kay-explains-all-human-thinking-at-ces/25533 It was too early for most hungover CES attendees, but the brilliant computer scientist and former Apple Fellow Alan Kay explained the basis of all knowledge at a 9AM keynote speech here. All human knowledge can be explained by the simple logical expression NOT BOTH, Kay said. \u201cIt\u2019s a logical expression that explains all thinking,\u201d he said in the middle of his speech, which was about the failures of computers in modern education. 2/9/2012 1:32:18 AM -0500 theory apple http://www.hypershop.com/HyperMac-External-MacBook-Battery-and-Car-Charger-s/91.htm Nice battery add-on for MacBook - also has USB port to add juice to other devices. 2/9/2012 1:32:18 AM -0500 hardware power batteries http://markginnebaugh.com/blog/?p=1325 Fusion-io is a producer of enterprise-class SSDs. Their silicon-based storage architecture known as ioMemory applies flash memory to large-scale enterprise storage products like Storage Area Networks. 2/9/2012 1:32:18 AM -0500 hardware storage solidstate http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/12/how-to-make-your-kindle-into-an-automatic-instapaper/ Kindle + Instapaper + Mac = semi-automatic news to go 2/9/2012 1:32:18 AM -0500 kindle ebook news http://www.techcrunchit.com/2009/11/08/the-top-10-most-common-api-pitfalls/ A robust application programming interface (API) has become essential for today\u2019s successful SaaS independent software vendors (ISVs). As a SaaS vendor, you should expect that a majority of your customers are going to require interoperability with other SaaS applications, web services, and legacy systems. As demonstrated by internet pioneers Google, Amazon, and Facebook, an open application strategy facilitates deeper customer usage and enables new revenue streams. Integration is critical for SaaS vendors, and developing a reliable API strategy is the first step toward achieving that goal. 2/9/2012 1:32:18 AM -0500 architecture api recommendations http://www.codeproject.com/KB/ajax/ajaxproxy.aspx Continuously deliver data from across domains. Free source code and programming help 2/9/2012 1:32:18 AM -0500 programming asp.net streaming performance http://cnnsi.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=As+the+gates+swing+open+upon+another+October%2C+baseball+-+10.05.09+-+SI+Vault&expire=&urlID=411628557&fb=Y&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsportsillustrated.cnn.com%2Fvault%2Farticle%2Fmagazine%2FMAG1160757%2F2%2Findex.htm&partnerID=289881 As the gates swing open upon another October, baseball will once again attempt to divine one of the game's great mysteries: how a man, closing fast on 40 and armed with but a single pitch, continues to dominate in the clutch like no other player. 2/9/2012 1:32:18 AM -0500 baseball http://www.adobe.com/devnet/logged_in/abansod_iphone.html Adobe now makes it possible to create applications for the Apple iPhone using the Adobe Flash Platform. You heard right: We're really excited to bring this new capability to Flash designers and developers\u2014the ability to target the iPhone with ActionScript 3 projects. You will be able to test this functionality in the forthcoming beta release of Adobe Flash Professional CS5 on Adobe Labs. 2/9/2012 1:32:18 AM -0500 programming apple adobe iphone http://www.google.com/mobile/products/sync.html#p=default Push gmail is released. It doesn't seem to be actually pushing my mail yet, but we'll see. We'll also see how well the battery lasts with this on. 2/9/2012 1:32:18 AM -0500 iphone google mobile sync http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/09_28/b4139054352321.htm Panama's quality health care, low costs, and proximity to the states are attracting American professionals as a retirement haven 2/9/2012 1:32:18 AM -0500 economy http://www.iphonehacks.com/2009/09/excellent-diy-iphone-dock-using-card-paper.html#comment-6a00d83534e7f169e20120a5797d4d970b If you\u2019re looking for an iPhone dock but don't want to shell out $49 for it then you should checkout this do-it-yourself iPhone dock designed by folks at French design site Dessine moi un objet (translated as 'Draw me something'). 2/9/2012 1:32:18 AM -0500 iphone diy hack hardware http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/09/monotouch-drops-net-into-apples-walled-app-garden.ars Novell has launched a new SDK for the iPhone that will allow developers to build native iPhone applications with .NET. It uses ahead-of-time compilation to avoid Apple's rules against embedded runtimes. 2/9/2012 1:32:18 AM -0500 programming .net iphone c# dev http://www.efksoft.com/products/us_iphone/ This is a great iPhone spotlight search improvement that is currently only available on jailbroken phones for $4.99. It allows spotlight to access mobile search sites to give location-based results. 2/9/2012 1:32:18 AM -0500 iphone software http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/bionics/augmented-reality-in-a-contact-lens/0 A new generation of contact lenses built with very small circuits and LEDs promises bionic eyesight 2/9/2012 1:32:18 AM -0500 hardware technology future biotech http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=new-solar-cell-efficiency-record-se-2009-08-27 Yesterday, Spectrolab announced that its newest triple-junction solar cells had achieved the world record in efficiency, converting 41.6 percent of specially concentrated sunlight into electricity. All told, a tiny cell just 0.3174 square centimeters turned the sunlight equivalent of nearly 364 suns into 4.805 watts. 2/9/2012 1:32:18 AM -0500 power energy solar http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=336178343967257 Health care in France is often held up as a model the U.S. might follow. Yet the French have their own problems that show there's no such thing as a free lunch or a free doctor's visit. 2/9/2012 1:32:18 AM -0500 economics politics healthcare http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/25/tech/main5264503.shtml Researchers at Stanford University found that multitaskers are more easily distracted and less able to ignore irrelevant information than people who do less multitasking. 2/9/2012 1:32:18 AM -0500 research multitasking http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/21/opinion/21krugman.html?ref=opinion&pagewanted=print According to news reports, the Obama administration \u2014 which seemed, over the weekend, to be backing away from the \u201cpublic option\u201d for health insurance \u2014 is shocked and surprised at the furious reaction from progressives. 2/9/2012 1:32:18 AM -0500 economy politics obama