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Category Archives: Science and Engineering
Verisign breaks the Internet
This news is a few days old but still important. Verisign, which owns Network Solutions, has added a wildcard record to the .COM and .NET top level domain DNS zones. What this means is that fighting spam is harder, e-mail … Continue reading
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The hard road towards semantic purity
There were two articles on Web today that inspired a long story in me. One was about the implications of semantic Web design and the other was about Web accessibility and standards. For me, the tone of the articles was … Continue reading
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The opposite of solipsism
A solipsist, to oversimplify, is the ultimate skeptic. To a solipsist, empiricism is bogus. An independent reality cannot be logically proved to exist, and even the past could be an illusion that merely accounts for the present state of mind … Continue reading
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Search engines reveal secrets
Search engines reveal yet another reason why Word and Acrobat formats are not appropriate for the Web. Documents on the Web really should just be ASCII text, HTML or XHTML.
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Smaller than a suitcase nuke
Very disturbing news in weapons research yesterday–something that could blur the line between conventional and nuclear weapons–nuclear isomer weapons.
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A CSS technique, sadly, to be avoided
Many of the beautiful designs at the CSS Zen Garden rely on a trick that’s been dubbed Farhner Image Replacement. In the best of worlds, this trick would actually enhance accessibility, but the reality is that at least one screen … Continue reading
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Adding a stylesheet-switcher to my site
In the best of worlds, ECMAscript-driven stylesheet-switchers wouldn’t be necessary; browsers would load and parse all linked stylesheets and then give the user the option to choose one that suits. In the real world this isn’t true, so I gotta … Continue reading
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Personal E-mail Security: The Definitive Guide
Many of my friends have been on Internet for years and years. They have the knowing of the Way of the Machine. And they know what to do when it comes to keeping their mail accounts free of spam, worms, … Continue reading
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Turning garbage into petroleum
Using a process called thermal depolymerization, a pilot project in Philadelphia turns garbage (Ground up computers, old tires, animal carcasses and sewage.) into oil. The company that built the plant has managed to recreate and greatly accelerate the natural processes … Continue reading
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Robots will always be cheaper
Found an interesting thread on Slash today about human versus robotic space exploration. As I have mentioned, I’ve always favored robots. It’s simple economics: Robots give you far more science for far less money. This will always be true.
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