Daily Links From Glimpse From a Height
- Google’s API Victory over Oracle In Danger
A federal appeals court looks as though it may overturn last year’s ruling allowing Google to copy the structure of Oracle’s API, while writing different underlying code to solve the problems. Circuit Judge Kathleen O’Malley said the fact that Java is freely available and widely used by programmers doesn’t mean the code can’t get copyright […]
- Exploding Exotic Cars
With a cool, how-he-does-it video:
- Nanotechnology – Time To Productize
That’s the claim of a new paper, which also argues that the hold-up is manufacturing processes. Producing nanostructures is hard; you can either whittle away larger blocks of material, or build them up atom-by-atom, or molecule-by-molecule. Productizing the technology is going to require manufacturing processes that scale.
- Federal Agency Still Uses Floppy Disks
Yes, you read that right: Floppy disks, whose use peaked when MTV still played music videos, are no longer featured in any of today’s (or yesterday’s, or last week’s) computer hardware. But still, the Government Printing Office, which runs the Federal Register, accepts documents on CD-ROMs and floppy disks, but not flash drives, SD cards, […]
- Someone’s Been Siphoning Data Through a Huge Security Hole in the Internet
A hole that had been explained five years ago, no less: The traffic hijack, they showed, could be done in such a way that no one would notice because the attackers could simply re-route the traffic to a router they controlled, then forward it to its intended destination once they were done with it, leaving no one […]
