notes.husk.org. scribblings by Paul Mison.

2012-03-12

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quote 21:28:05
“ The demands are such that the 220 or so milliseconds it takes to reach Tokyo from London by maritime routes is now too long for some. Cloud computing, gaming, Skype, and financial trading are badly affected by “latency”, or delays in transmission. Demand for ultra-low latency connections is helping to drive a surge in construction. Four routes have recently opened up across the Asian continent and companies are selling links that will get your data packet to Tokyo in just 194 milliseconds. ”
Frank Pope, in 20,000 terabytes under the sea, which somehow I got at through a gap in The Times paywall. (via)

2012-03-08

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quote 19:03:06
“ The OSM data that Apple is using is rather old (start of April 2010) so don’t expect to see your latest and greatest updates on there. It’s also missing the necessary credit to OpenStreetMap’s contributors; we look forward to working with Apple to get that on there. ”

2012-02-22

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quote 06:24:05
“ If we want all this digital stuff to be something more than an ephemeral performance, a dance that’s beautiful and glorious and something to be left behind as we keep pushing forward, we’re doing okay. If we want history to be something that doesn’t just trail off suddenly at the start of the twenty-first century, we need to be smarter, and think in a holistic, comprehensive way. ”
Joe Belknap Wall in a comment at Metafilter on a story about the worries about preserving (cinema) film, now that’s largely digital. (via)

2012-02-08

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quote 21:16:50
“ We believe you should have control when it comes to sharing your personal information. We also believe that actions speak louder than words. So, as a clear signal of our commitment to your privacy, we’ve deleted the entire collection of user uploaded contact information from our servers. ”

Dave Morin: Path: We are sorry.

Well, that’s not a bad response.

2012-02-02

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photo 21:38:00
Neil Freeman: All of the active three-letter airport codes in alphabetical order:

Part of A series of Flight Postcards, a set of postcards curated by Leah Beeferman and published by Projectile Press.

Neil FreemanAll of the active three-letter airport codes in alphabetical order:

Part of A series of Flight Postcards, a set of postcards curated by Leah Beeferman and published by Projectile Press.

2012-02-01

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photo 21:21:00
wreckandsalvage:

This will tell you something about my day job.  I now recognize “ums” in waveform.  I don’t need to hear it, I only need to see this shape.  This is the shape of an “um” or an “uh”.
I want to remove it from every ones speech patterns, including mine.

(via notational)

wreckandsalvage:

This will tell you something about my day job.  I now recognize “ums” in waveform.  I don’t need to hear it, I only need to see this shape.  This is the shape of an “um” or an “uh”.

I want to remove it from every ones speech patterns, including mine.

(via notational)

2012-01-27

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quote 21:52:45
“ Twitter made an important announcement this week regarding their ability to filter content across jurisdictions. The ensuing conspiracy theories and hand-wringing in certain corners of the internet were depressingly predictable, and as I tweeted this morning:
If you’re upset by twitter’s per-country filtering announcement, you know much less about doing business online than you think you do.
But posting such a thing without laying out “things you should know about doing business online” is, frankly, smug and irritating. So, here goes. ”

Simon Batistoni: What you need to know about Twitter’s new filters.

Well worth a read, because he knows what he’s talking about.

2012-01-06

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quote 19:23:00
“ About 35 percent of Finns also use mobile laptop modems and dongles, or modems in a USB stick; one operator, Elisa, offers unlimited data plans for as little as 5 euros, or $6.40, a month. ”
Kevin J. O’Brien in the New York Times: Top 1% Of Mobile Users Consume Half Of World’s Bandwidth, and Gap Is Growing (via Chris, who notes there may be a loss of subtle T&Cs; nonetheless, interesting)

2011-09-22

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quote 06:46:01
“ Some locals called for fees for non-resident vehicles, while others demanded that satnav companies omit the neighbourhood from their systems. ”
Hollywood sign neighbours voice anger as tourism grows by Andrew Gumbel in The Guardian.

2011-09-14

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JSON payload sniffing and surveillance photographs of cars, from Troy Hunt’s post about Bondi Westfield’s iPhone “find my car” app and its privacy failings:

That URL for the service endpoint we looked at earlier contains a number of parameters – filters, if you like – and removing these readily provides the current status of all 2,550 sensors. This includes the number plate of any car currently occupying a space and as you can see, it’s available by design to anyone.

(via Tom Carden)

JSON payload sniffing and surveillance photographs of cars, from Troy Hunt’s post about Bondi Westfield’s iPhone “find my car” app and its privacy failings:

That URL for the service endpoint we looked at earlier contains a number of parameters – filters, if you like – and removing these readily provides the current status of all 2,550 sensors. This includes the number plate of any car currently occupying a space and as you can see, it’s available by design to anyone.

(via Tom Carden)

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