Control Structure #3: An Oreo Cream Cheese Suspension

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.

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

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

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