Control Structure

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Death Boulder Bones by Grandendroit — Kickstarter

Aaron Swartz Prosecutors Weighed 'Guerilla' Manifesto, Justice Official Tells Congressional Committee

IE10 for Windows 7 Globally Available for Consumers and Businesses - IEBlog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

Firefox will block third-party cookies in a future version | Ars Technica

White House Required to Respond to Unlocking Phone Petition

Sony Announces PlayStation 4

Sony Pirates KDE Artwork

Sony patent application measures load times to detect pirated games | Ars Technica

Ctrl+Alt+Del - Take that, piracy (2011-02-09)

What Games Are: Consoles Are Sinking. Get To The Lifeboats! | TechCrunch

Getting more out of psql (The PostgreSQL CLI) - Craig Kerstiens

Download LINQPad

No more remote work at Yahoo by David of 37signals

Java’s latest security problems: New flaw identified, old one attacked | Ars Technica

What Are The Social Implications Of Google Glass? - Statspotting!

Why are there no true cross-platform filesystems? - touch /dev/null

You're just another carriage return line feed in the wall - Scott Hanselman

Why a one-room West Virginia library runs a $20,000 Cisco router | Ars Technica

The Pirate Bay leaves Sweden for friendlier waters | Ars Technica

Music piracy down as labels show first revenue growth since 1999 | Ars Technica

How to stop TWC ISPs sucking at Youtube | Mitch's Space

Why Is Everyone Having YouTube Streaming Issues? - Problems Persist Despite Faster Broadband | DSLReports.com, ISP Information

Teenage Scientists Working on Turning Mosquitos Into 'Flying Syringes' to Deliver Vaccines | Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building

Some lesser-known truths about programming

The Hello World Collection

God as Computer Programmer

jtnimoy - Tron Legacy (2010)

Why Americans Are the Weirdest People in the World

GlassFish - Open Source Application Server — Java.net

If a programming language was a boat… | CompSci.ca/blog

The StarCraft path-finding hack - Code Of Honor

Music:

Younnat - Radar - His Name is Radar

instrumentals | tryad

Younnat - Old Movies Not Terrible by younnat on SoundCloud - Hear the world’s sounds

instrumentals | tryad

Chris has had enough, and Andrew talks about meteors blowing up, RASPBERRY!, DELL!, the taliban of open source, DRM, Sim City, social engineering, and some stats.

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Music

This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #51: CS #14 — What The Hell Did I Just Read?!

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Russia Rocked by Meteor Explosion! HD 15/02/2013 - YouTube

Russian meteor explosion: Spectacular dash cam video of meteorite fireball falling in Urals - YouTube

Meteorite - Meteor Crashes In Russia "EPIC FOOTAGE" - "WARNING VERY LOUD BOOM" - YouTube

Compilation Of Russia's Craziest Drivers! 2012 - YouTube

Star Citizen | Roberts Space Industries

The Nexus: Technological Convergence

Supreme Court to Hear Monsanto Seed Patent Case - NYTimes.com

There Came an Echo by Iridium Studios — Kickstarter

Raspberry Pi Micro-USB On / Off Power Switch Circuit by MausBerry Circuits — Kickstarter

Haavard - 300 million users strong, Opera moves to WebKit

Browser Wars, the game « Fink @ Mozilla

Opera’s WebKit switch saw it lose 90 employees, many developers | Ars Technica

Why Mozilla Matters | Brendan Eich

Anti-Piracy Group Rips Off Pirate Bay Website, Faces Lawsuit | TorrentFreak

The Pirate Bay: We will sue copycat site for copyright infringement | Ars Technica

Computer History Museum | @CHM : Adobe Photoshop Source Code

Carney: Amazon joins Walmart in push for online sales tax | WashingtonExaminer.com

FCC 2013 Measuring Broadband America February Report

Flat Pixels: The Battle Between Flat Design And Skeuomorphism

How Samsung is out-innovating Apple - CNN.com

Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder | Technology | guardian.co.uk

BBC Attacks the Open Web, GNU/Linux in Danger - Open Enterprise

Dell’s Linux Ultrabook gets more pixels, European availability | Ars Technica

Gamasutra: Mike Rose's Blog - Using SimCity to diagnose my home town's traffic problem

Nvidia Unleashes the Titan | Maximum PC

LinuxChanges - Linux Kernel Newbies

Bill Gates not satisfied with Microsoft innovation - CBS News

Ctrl+Alt+Del - Taking it slow (2013-01-14)

Burger King Twitter Hacked, Turned Into McDonald's

Chasing an active Social Engineering Fraud at Amazon Kindle - Scott Hanselman

Unusually detailed report links Chinese military to hacks against US | Ars Technica

FOSDEM 2013 - LibreOffice: cleaning and re-factoring a giant code-base

Music

Younnat - Radar - His Name is Radar

Anitek - Windmills

Younnat - Magician’s Weekend

dma-sc - Pre-Midnight Pizza*

Anitek - Lamb of Who?

*used with permission

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Random Banter: New Monitor

Box | Simple Online Collaboration: Online File Storage, FTP Replacement, Team Workspaces

Video Projector Aimed at Blizzard’s Falling Snow, Results Photographed

Wait, did Curiosity just spot a hunk of metal on Mars? | Crave - CNET

NASA's response

USPS Loses $1.3 Billion, Plans to Cut Saturday Mail Delivery | WebProNews

Moonbot Studios' Next Game: The Golem by Moonbot Studios — Kickstarter

Minecraft: Pi Edition is available for download!

Robocalls are annoying, so this man is using Raspberry Pi to stop them | Ars Technica

Podcasting Community Faces Patent Troll Threat; EFF Wants to Help | Electronic Frontier Foundation

O hai, Twitter now has LOLcat language opshun, kthxbai

LibreOffice 4 is here!

id_aa_carmack comments on John Carmack asks why Wine isn't good enough

[Phoronix] Microsoft Looking At Office For Linux In 2014

I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. AMA : IAmA

LoadingReadyRun - The LHC

Stop Misusing Select Menus - UX Movement

Adobe issues emergency update for Flash | Security & Privacy - CNET News

iOS 6.x Jailbreak Evasi0n Hits Seven Million Installs in Four Days - Mac Rumors

How a security ninja cracked the password guarding his most valued assets | Ars Technica

IBM’s supercomputer: Jeopardy was too easy, time to cure cancer | Ars Technica

How to use a million-core supercomputer—without it blowing up in your face | Ars Technica

The Web Robots Pages

Explicitly.me robots.txt

Yours vs. Mine | Dustin Curtis

LoadingReadyRun - commodoreHUSTLE 06 - Viral

Infographic: An Amazing, Invisible Truth About Wikipedia | Co.Design: business + innovation + design

Apple iWatch rumours put Dick Tracy fans on alert - Your Community

Coding Horror: Civilized Discourse Construction Kit

CSS 3D Clouds

TPB AFK

Steal This Film (Full) HD - YouTube

Steal This Film II - YouTube

Everything just doesn't work and nobody cares - Dear Apple

Everything's broken and nobody's upset - Scott Hanselman

How to add 5.5 petabytes and get banned from Costco during a hard drive crisis — Tech News and Analysis

Gelsinger and Meyer: Two CPU Designers Who Changed the World

LoadingReadyRun - Installation Anxiety

Music:

Younnat - Radar - His Name is Radar

Henrik José - Make Amends

dma-sc - 1st Sidsound (used with permission)

lukhash - Bonus track - WOKEN UP @ 3AM (V2)

Andrew and Chris eventually get on topic and talk about Dell being bought out, interoperability with Google and Mozilla, Amazon, BtrFS, drive prices, hacks, too big to fail, Javascript, and listener questions, among other things.

var falsevar=false;

var temp=falsevar.toString();

var test=new Boolean(temp);

alert("test is "+test);

This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #43: CS #12 — Base Lupine Nature!

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The Escapist : Video Galleries : Escapist Podcast : 078: Electronic Arts, Dead Space 3, and Puppies!

EVE Online's Battle of Asakai: who was involved, the stakes, and the aftermath | News | PC Gamer

Corrupted Blood incident - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dell in $24 Billion Deal to Go Private - NYTimes.com

Dell goes private in $24.4 billion deal, including $2 billion loan from Microsoft | The Verge

Dell CEO And Others Take Company Private In $24 Billion Deal : NPR

Chromium Blog: Hello Firefox, this is Chrome calling!

Hello Chrome, it’s Firefox calling! ✩ Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog

Google's Project Glass Glimpsed In FCC Documents - Development -

Amazon.com Suffers an Outage - Datamation

xkcd: Devotion to Duty

Image: sysadmin shirt

Twitter Hacked: Data for 250,000 Users May Be Stolen - NYTimes.com

No, I'm not going to download your bullshit app

A Brilliant Parody of DRM - Forbes

Submarine Cable Map 2013

scene.org - news

Why you should use WebGL - Codeflow

The Future According To Google's Eric Schmidt: 7 Points - Corporate Intelligence - WSJ

Microsoft has 'no plans for future versions' of XNA software, will not phase out DirectX | Polygon

IGN Parent Company Changes - IGN

GFW Radio - Podcasts (The Brodeo)

Geeks are the New Guardians of Our Civil Liberties | MIT Technology Review

Fixing ‘too-big-to-fail’ | The Great Debate

Labels in input fields aren’t such a good idea | Laura Kalbag

Amazon Media Room: Press Releases

Microsoft Points phased out in favor of cash in Windows 8 | The Verge

RAID 5/6 code merged into Btrfs [LWN.net]

1% of CMS-Powered Sites Expose Their Database Passwords » Feross.org

Android Terminal Emulator - Android Apps on Google Play

Javascript code:

var falsevar=false;

var temp=falsevar.toString();

var test=new Boolean(temp);

alert("test is "+test);

Music:

Younnat - Radar - His Name is Radar

Younnat - Magician’s Weekend

Tryad - this (instrumental)

dma-sc - Visitors From Dreams

Andrew and Chris talk about what you should buy and sell, things that are about to and have gone away, Ubuntu, phones, XBMC, Libreoffice, Raspberry Pi, codecs, tech policies, SQL communities, listener mail, and so oh oh much more.

This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #41: CS #11 — Is it like Jamie King’s .p()?!

Listen to more at The Nexus and follow us on Twitter and Google+ for our latest episodes and news.

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WarGame 2

New-ish Hardware | the Andrew Bailey

How Newegg crushed the “shopping cart” patent and saved online retail | Ars Technica

Apple’s Profits Are Flat, and Stock Drops - NYTimes.com

Apple IPhone 5 Misses Estimates as 5 Million Units Sold - Bloomberg

Why I'm glad my iPhone broke

Ubuntu considers “huge” change that would end traditional release cycle | Ars Technica

Ubuntu phones to come with a terminal—prepare your command line skills | Ars Technica

Next-Gen Video Format H.265 Is Approved, Paving The Way For High-Quality Video On Low-Bandwidth Networks | TechCrunch

Year 2038 problem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

THQ Dissolved, Saints Row, Company of Heroes Devs Acquired - IGN

Toy Headquarters (THQ), 1990-2013 | the Andrew Bailey

CBS reportedly refuses to budge on no-reviews policy, sending morale at CNET 'plummeting' | The Verge

BitTorrent Reveals Sync, a New File Synchronization Tool

Lessig Blog, v2

The EU-funded plan to stick a “flag this as terrorism” button in your browser | Ars Technica

Make Unlocking Cell Phones Legal. | We the People: Your Voice in Our Government

Mozilla Recognized as Most Trusted Internet Company for Privacy | The Mozilla Blog

Brython

The Browser You Loved To Hate, You grew up. So did we. Reconnect with the new...

How did the duck hunt gun work?

The PlayStation 4 Has A New Controller, Fancy User Accounts And Impressive Specs (So Far)

LoadingReadyRun - Launch Day - YouTube

Java’s new “very high” security mode can’t protect you from malware | Ars Technica

LibreOffice 4.0: The big changes will be under the hood | ZDNet

Readme Driven Development

XBMC 12.0 – Frodo | XBMC

SQLSaturday Home

PASS - The Professional Association for SQL Server > Home

Google Donates 15,000 Raspberry Pis to UK Schools to Get Kids Coding

Wolfram|Alpha: Computational Knowledge Engine

x86-64 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Have a good one

Music:

Younnat - Radar - His Name is Radar

Kyle Gabler - Little Inferno Titles*

Kyle Gabler - Years of Work*

Anitek - Fumboo

Jeremy Williams - Blues Heaven

Anitek - Windmills

* used with Kyle Gabler's permission

Links:

Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm's opening cinematic released | News, Videos | PC Gamer

The Elder Scrolls Online Alliance Cinematic Trailer - YouTube

What If We ______ Like We Hire Programmers – What Questions Are Appropriate? | job tips for geeks

High Scalability - High Scalability - What if Cars Were Rented Like We Hire Programmers?

Magical Maths « How Japanese Kids Learn To Multiply – Amazing, No Need to Learn Japanese

Ahmed Al-Khabaz expelled from Dawson College after finding security flaw | Canada | News | National Post

Nokia: Yes, we decrypt your HTTPS data, but don’t worry about it — Tech News and Analysis

Make Patent Trolls Pay All Costs Associated With Their Frivolous Lawsuits If They Lose | We the People: Your Voice in Our Government

AFP: Orange 'forces Google' to pay for mobile traffic

France considers tax on data collection in broader effort to capture revenue from web giants | The Verge

Shedding some realistic light on Imagination’s real-time ray tracing card | Ars Technica

Wikimedia sites to move to primary data center in Ashburn, Virginia — Wikimedia blog

Ironic Sans: So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica? Quiz

Embedded in Academia : C and C++ Aren’t Future Proof

Google's Larry Page on Why Moon Shots Matter | Wired Business | Wired.com

Slant (Python as first programming language)

No Water, No Moon - 21 Insightful (and often hilarious) Lessons from CEO of Evernote

The Next Microsoft — Minimally Minimal

MSFT — Minimally Minimal

World Exclusive: Durango unveiled - VG Leaks

NES – notenoughshaders.com – The Rise of Costs, the Fall of Gaming

Microsoft May Invest $1-$3 Billion in Dell Buyout

Gym's smart floor uses LED lights for changeable boundary lines | Digital Trends

Solar Roadways: The Prototype - YouTube

Wildlife in Chernobyl: Debate over mutations and populations of plants and animals in the radioactive fallout exclusion zone. - Slate Magazine

Waterfox - The fastest 64-bit variant of Firefox on the web

Music:

Younnat - Radar - His Name is Radar

Anitek - Chess

Anitek - Lamb of Who?

Chris and Andrew talk about Aaron Swartz: his life, accomplishments, and legacy. Followed by copyright and patent reform, jQuery, traveling, a gravity powered light, backups, and data recovery.

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