Four short links: 11 March 2013

Adventures in the Ransom Trade — between insurance, protection, and ransoms, Sean Gourley describes it as “one of the more interesting grey markets.” (via Sean Gourley) About High School Computer Science Teachers (Selena Deckelmann) — Selena gets an education in … View full post on O’Reilly News and Commentary For…

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Four short links: February 21 2013

Administration Strategy on Mitigating the Theft of US Trade Secrets (Whitehouse, PDF) — the Chinese attacks on Facebook, NYT, and other large organisations are provoking policy responses. WSJ covers it nicely. What is this starting? (via Alex Howard) BodyMedia FitLink … View full post on O’Reilly News and Commentary For…

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Four short links: 12 February 2013

Your USB Sticks Are Made With Chopsticks (Bunnie Huang) — behind-the-scenes on how USB sticks are made. mutetab — find and kill the Chrome tab making all the damn noise! (via Nelson Minar) Visualization, Modeling, and Surprises (John D Cook) … View full post on O’Reilly News and Commentary For…

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Four short links: 24 December 2012

Creating The Next Big Thing (Wired) — excellent piece showing Tim’s thinking. Apple. They’re clearly on the wrong path. They file patent suits that claim that nobody else can make a device with multitouch. But they didn’t invent multitouch. They … View full post on O’Reilly News and Commentary For…

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