{"id":13383,"date":"2010-11-06T10:26:50","date_gmt":"2010-11-06T17:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2010\/11\/06\/13383.html"},"modified":"2010-11-06T10:26:50","modified_gmt":"2010-11-06T17:26:50","slug":"links-tech-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2010\/11\/06\/links-tech-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Links: tech stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some technical and vaguely tech-related items, mostly from a couple months back:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>IBM discovers the <a href=\"http:\/\/writingfordigital.com\/2010\/07\/04\/a-fourth-of-july-lesson-in-the-value-of-editors\/\">business value of editors<\/a>.<\/li>\n  <li>OkCupid discusses numerical\/technical aspects of <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.okcupid.com\/index.php\/dont-be-ugly-by-accident\/\">taking an attractive photo of a person<\/a>.<\/li>\n  <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sensible.com\/chapter.html\">How we <em>really<\/em> use the Web<\/a>: a good overview of people's scanning, guessing, and muddling-through habits for navigating the web.<\/li>\n  <li>&ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/acephalous.typepad.com\/acephalous\/2007\/05\/irtnog_by_eb_wh.html\">IRTNOG<\/a>,&rdquo; a satirical short-short by E. B. White (written in 1938) about the trend toward condensation of reading material.<\/li>\n  <li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-1009_3-20012019-83.html\">Security researcher demonstrates ATM hacking<\/a>. \"[He found that the] PC motherboard that dispenses cash from the vault was protected only by a standard (not unique) key that could be purchased over the Internet for about $10.\"<\/li>\n  <li>A couple months ago, there was an attempt to <a href=\"http:\/\/scientopia.org\/blogs\/goodmath\/2010\/08\/09\/holy-freaking-cow-p-np\/\">prove that P&nbsp;&ne;&nbsp;NP<\/a>. That entry explains the background for non-CS people. Later, there were claims of <a href=\"http:\/\/rjlipton.wordpress.com\/2010\/08\/12\/fatal-flaws-in-deolalikars-proof\/\">flaws in the proof<\/a>, but last I heard (mid-September) the <a href=\"http:\/\/rjlipton.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/15\/an-update-on-vinay-deolalikars-proof\/\">flaws were being fixed<\/a>. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out. Unless it's already been resolved and I've missed the resolution?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I'll close with one last link that has nothing to do with technical stuff, but I didn't have anything else to group it with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.movies.com\/movie-reviews\/piranha-3d-review\/dave-white\/m62813\"><cite>Piranha 3D<\/cite> review<\/a>: \"The <cite>Citizen Kane<\/cite> of killer piranha movies.\"<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some technical and vaguely tech-related items, mostly from a couple months back: IBM discovers the business value of editors. OkCupid&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,54,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-science","category-technology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}