Control Structure

Andrew Bailey and Matthew Petschl discuss the UN taking over the Internet, people dropping off it, copyright gone amok, Microsoft's woes, Apple's woes, data URIs, Fourier Transforms, and more.

This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #16: CS #3!

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Things:

Crovitz: The U.N.'s Internet Sneak Attack - WSJ.com

EU set to fight Internet tax and spying at global summit| Reuters

Why is ITU Governance of the Internet a Bad Idea? | The Mozilla Blog

Official Google Blog: Keep the Internet free and open

How Syria Turned Off the Internet - CloudFlare blog

Syrian Internet appears to be largely restored | PCWorld

The 61 Countries a Mad Despot Could Instantly Unplug From the Internet | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com

Opinion: Is Ad blocking the next legal battleground? | Computerworld New Zealand

BBC News - Kickstarter sued over 3D Systems' printer patent

TorrentFreak Trolls a Copyright Troll | TorrentFreak

Police Raid 9-Year-Old Pirate Bay Girl, Confiscate Winnie The Pooh Laptop | TorrentFreak

Raided 9-Year-Old Pirate Bay Girl Came To Save Us All | TorrentFreak

Movie Studios Ask Google To Censor Their Own Films, Facebook and Wikipedia | TorrentFreak

Daily Report: First Step in Overhaul of E-Mail Privacy Law - NYTimes.com

HTTP/2.0 Draft IETF SPDY Protocol

Why HTTP/2.0 does not seem interesting — Varnish version trunk documentation

Julian Assange: A Call to Cryptographic Arms

ongoing by Tim Bray · Private By Default

pipress.vo3.net | Wordpress running on Raspberry Pi server

NAND flash gets baked, lives longer | Ars Technica

Editorial: How piracy changed my life

Valve: Piracy is not related to price | VG247

News - Xsolla And Valve Announce Cash Payments to Steam in Russia

Charles Fishman - The Insourcing Boom - The Atlantic

LEGO Finds Spare Discontinued Set So Boy Who Saved Up For 2 Years Wouldn’t Be Disappointed – The Consumerist

The Autism Advantage - NYTimes.com

#AltDevBlogADay » Understanding the Fourier transform

lloyd.io - lloyd's blog.

How the Tumblr worm spread so quickly | Naked Security

Data URI scheme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Answers and Questions » Blog Archive » Shumway: a SWF interpreter entirely in JavaScript

Technology giants at war: Another game of thrones | The Economist

Steve Ballmer's Nightmare Is Coming True - Yahoo! Finance

Windows XP Drops Below 40% Market Share, Windows 8 Passes 1%

IE10 Grabs 0.51%, Firefox Above 20% Again, Chrome Loses More Users

The Browser You Loved To Hate

Intel's Tiny NUC "Next Unit of Computing" PC - HotHardware

Why C++ is back. - devbug

Why C++ Is Not “Back” « Making the Complex Simple

D Programming Language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

AMD Committed to Upgradeable CPUs / APUs - Legit Reviews

Intel Says Company Committed to Sockets | Maximum PC

Guardians of Middle-Earth balance updates are cloud-based to avoid PSN & XBLA certification | VG247

Portal’s physics engine rebuilt in 25KB—on a graphing calculator | Ars Technica

The n Bells: Apple - Think Twice.

Taking the new iMac out of its weird-shaped box | Ars Technica

New Scientist TV: Invisible Wi-Fi signals caught on camera

Dirt cake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Music:

Younnat - Radar - His Name is Radar

Younnat - Welcome to the Land of Cookies!

Jeremy Williams - Game Theory

Younnat - The Day After Tomorrow

In this episode, Andrew talks about security, wars, file transfers, web servers, Raspberry Pis, and blog themes.

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Links:

When It Comes to Security, We're Back to Feudalism | Wired Opinion | Wired.com

Windows XP: 500 Days Left

Bitcoin Block Reward Halving Successful - Coding In My Sleep

BBC News - WWII pigeon message stumps GCHQ decoders

Despite Ceasefire, Israel-Gaza War Continues Online | Danger Room | Wired.com

Woz: Microsoft might be more creative than Apple | Technically Incorrect - CNET News

A Few New Things Coming To JavaScript

Asher Langton - Google+ - I bought a digital video download today that required a...

Ars asks: Help us max out Google Fiber | Ars Technica

Official Gmail Blog: Gmail and Drive - a new way to send files

How to set up a safe and secure Web server | Ars Technica

Tutorial: How to Set Up a Raspberry Pi Web Server - Jeremy Morgan

Does it run Minecraft? Well, since you ask… | Raspberry Pi

.net - If i = 0, why is i += i++ 0 in C#? - Stack Overflow

id-Software/DOOM-3-BFG - GitHub

NASA - 3D Models

Intel kills off the desktop, PCs go with it

NVIDIA denies rumors of faulty chips, mass GPU failures

Scientist Envisions Self-Filling Water Bottle

Give And Take: How The Rule Of Reciprocation Binds Us : Shots - Health News : NPR

Person:

http://theandrewbailey.com/

linkedin.com/in/theandrewbailey

Music:

Younnat - Radar - His Name is Radar

Younnat - Magician’s Weekend

Matthew Tyas -  Intellectuel

Dma-sc - Hail to Sunny Days

Andrew Bailey and guest Ryan Rampersad discuss hard computer science topics like discrete cosine transforms and mapping real things to 3d models, along with backups, Bitcoin, bad things, old things, fiber optics, open source, and more.

This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #11: CS #1!

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

Topics:

Neumont University - Neumont University

WebGL

The Computer Backup Rule of Three - Scott Hanselman

Coding Horror: International Backup Awareness Day

Microsoft SkyDrive users: claim your free 25GB | ZDNet

Google Fiber is live in Kansas City, real-world speeds at 700Mbps | Ars Technica

Into the vault: the operation to rescue Manhattan's drowned internet | The Verge

Single-mode Fiber Solution - Corning ClearCurve - YouTube

Actually, the GIF is dying – Quartz

JPEG Discrete Cosine Transformations

Interview: Linus Torvalds - I don't read code any more - The H Open: News and Features

Why Linus Torvalds would rather code than make money | News | TechRadar

“Your criticisms are completely wrong”: Stallman on software patents, 20 years in | Ars Technica

Intel's 50-Core Xeon Phi: The New Era of Inexpensive Supercomputing | Dr Dobb's

Facebook Could Slow Down A Tiny Bit As It Starts Switching All Users To Secure HTTPS Connections | TechCrunch

Facebook Asks Users If It Can Abolish Their Right To Vote On Future Site Governance Changes | TechCrunch

CodeWars

The Ten Year Decline of Sony

Microsoft Has Failed

FizzBuzz Still Works — Global Nerdy

Coding Horror: Why Can't Programmers.. Program?

Pay Another Way: Bitcoin — Blog — WordPress.com

Miner problem: big changes are coming for Bitcoin's working class | The Verge

A minor Bitcoin miner injury? | ZDNet

Report: Police Confuse Bitcoin Miner’s Power Use for Growing Weed | TIME.com

Netflix on Ubuntu Is Here | iheartubuntu

PPA for Netflix Desktop App | iheartubuntu

How Nintendo DRM trapped $400 of downloaded games on my failing Wii (updated) | Ars Technica

A Tale of Two Lock-ins - Open Enterprise

Crowding out OpenBSD [LWN.net]

Official Gmail Blog: ᎭᎴᎾ ᏗᏓᏴᎳᏛᏍᎩ ᎬᏗ Gmail ᏣᎳᎩ (Get started with Gmail in Cherokee)

Microsoft begs Web devs not to make WebKit the new IE6 | Ars Technica

Internet Explorer 10 finally comes to Windows 7 | Ars Technica

BBC News - Two-tonne Witch computer gets a reboot

The fastest web server in the world? » Seravo

Faceshift uses Kinect to animate faces in real time | Polygon

Software Release (and a little surprise) - YouTube

People:

http://theandrewbailey.com/

linkedin.com/in/theandrewbailey

http://ryanrampersad.com/

http://twitter.com/ryanmr

Music:

Younnat - Radar - His Name is Radar

Jeremy Williams - Game Theory

Younnat - Magician’s Weekend

tryad - this (instrumental)

Frozen Silence - Christmas Carols (several)

Jennifer Avalon - Snows Of December

On the premier episode, Andrew and Ian talk about Firefox, WebGL, page load times, regex, Java, C++, hardware failures, and more.

Links

People

Music

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Links

Firefox turns 8

Wired has a series about fixing software patents (and patents in general)

Microsoft patents head counting software for kinect, and charge more for more people in the room

WebGL podcast starts

Andrew's blog post about WebGL

Ransomware is an effective scam, it is on the rise

The biggest 2000 websites are slower this year than last;top 100 are slower than the rest

Foxconn is looking for a source of cheap labor. Where do they find it? USA

 Is this a post peak apple world?

Qt Creator 2.6 released

Three SOPA supporters were not reelected

Intel “Itanic” keeps going; Itanium and Xeon will share chipsets, motherboards, sockets

best. regex. ever. [ -~]

The 99% bails themselves (AKA ourselves) out. The ultimate in paying it forward.

C++ got updated, take a look. It actually resembles syntax of newer languages.

MS updates their C++ compiler

People

the Andrew Bailey

Andrew's LinkedIn

Ian Buck

Ian on Google Plus

Music

Younnat - Radar - His Name is Radar

dma-sc - clean closet

paniq - Randomness Decides

dma-sc - pooz the lab